Archive for: August, 2004

Israeli Hospitals Declared Off-limits to Hunger Strikers

Palestine Media Center – PMC President Yaser Arafat said that what is happening to some four thousand Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli jails is a real crime in violation of all international legal and human laws, as Israel on Tuesday declared its hospitals off-limits to the hunger-strikers.

Boycotting the Israeli Academy

Dr. Lisa Taraki, The Palestine Chronicle Calls for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions have generated a great deal of controversy in some quarters, notably among Israeli academics and their supporters in Europe and the United States. The Palestinian voice, the voice of the Palestinian academy and of Palestinian public intellectuals, has not been heard [...]

Israel Escales Military Offensive against Palestine as Iraqi Resistance Grows

Genevieve Cora Fraser. Ramallah Online Columnmist Armed to the teeth by the American Congress, Israel once again has escalated the occupation into a full-scale military offensive against the Palestinian population. Not to be outdone by America in it’s all out war against Iraq; Israel has upped the ante in an attempt to destroy the farmlands, [...]

Drought in Texas

Avnery, Ramallah Online Columnist Once upon a time, an assistant to Levy Eshkol, our late Prime Minister, rushed up to him and cried: “Levy, a disaster! A drought has set in!” “Where?” the Prime Minister asked anxiously, “in Texas?”

Palestinian Uprising Enduring Most Critical Phase

Ramzy Baroud, The Palestine Chronicle In an oversimplified gesture of a defused crisis, Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat and his Prime Minister, Ahmed Korei kissed, hugged and raised victory signs. Not too far away, Israeli army Special Forces snooped using their US supplied binoculars as Arafat concluded his heated declarations to a crowd of reporters [...]

Israel in Need of Heart Replacement Operation

Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online Columnist Heart surgery Would have saved her A Palestinian woman denied Entry into the land Of the Pharaohs Egypt By Israel the land of Death Decrees issued summarily As a god among themselves

Israel Wipes Palestinian Farming Community off the Face of the Map

Israel Wipes a Palestinian Farming Community off the Face of the Map (In Self-Defense, Of Course) Genevieve Cora Fraser, RamallahOnline Columnist The news from Rafah Today (http://rafahtoday.org) an on-line photo and essay journal is bleak. As Haaretz.com polls the world Jewry community on whether or not the bonds to Israel are breaking, Beit Hanoun City [...]

A way forward?

Ghassan Khatib, BitterLemons.org It is perhaps an irony that the party in this conflict with, relatively speaking, weak law and order enforcement structure is very much dependent on and hopeful of international law, while the party so proud of its internal legal and judiciary structure consistently undermines and disregards international legality.

The Myth of Palestinian Development

Sam Bahour, Ramallah Online Book Review The issue of Palestinian development has been in the limelight for sometime now. For over a decade, billions of taxpayer dollars from countries around the globe have been flooding into one of the smallest yet-to-be countries, the Palestinian Authority (PA). In year 2004, the Palestinian people have become the [...]

America’s Exceptional Treatment of the Palestinians

Ahmed Amr, editor of NileMedia.com A quick and incomplete survey of United States adventures and interventions since World War II is not something most Americans should be proud of. The War in Vietnam – The slaughter in Indonesia – Engineering the coup in Chile – The invasion of Cambodia – Arming the Contras – Training [...]

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