Palestinians honour dead from 1976 clashes with Israeli army By Jonathan Cook in Arrabeh Palestinians across the Middle East were due to commemorate Land Day today, marking the anniversary of clashes in 1976 in which six unarmed Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army as it tried to break up a general [...]
Uri Avnery – Israel Is this the government of Biberman (Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman) or perhaps of Bibarak (Bibi and Ehud Barak)? Neither. It is the government of Bibiyahu. Binyamin Netanyahu has proven that he is a consummate politician. He has realized the dream of every politician (and theatergoer): a good place in the [...]
Jewish Peace News Rose Mishaan was a member of the National Lawyer’s Guild delegation to Gaza shortly after the ceasefire. Her devastating report is a must-read. Go to Mondoweiss, which originally posted it, to see pictures as well: http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/us-eyewitness-in-gaza-as-a-world-we-utterly-failed-the-palestinians-of-gaza-we-stood-and-watched-the.html –rebecca vilkomerson US Eyewitness in Gaza: ‘The reality of a very real bloodbath set in…’ By [...]
The Wages Of Force: Expansion, Not Peace A review of Zeev Maoz’s Defending The Holy Land: A Critical Analysis Of Israel’s Security & Foreign Policy (University of Michigan Press: 2006). March 21, 2009 By Ellen Cantarow [Footnote added March 22. 2009] In 1997 Hamas offered Israel a 30-year truce. Jordan’s King Hussein delivered the offer: [...]
Palestine Monitor 25 March 2009 The city of Hebron is one of the most aggressive cities in the West Bank in terms of the relationship between the Palestinians and the Israeli settlers living there. The settlers along with the Israeli military have taken over the Old City—and this has had a very big impact on [...]
Statement, various undersigned Responding to the Call of Palestinian civil society to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, we are an Australian campaign focused specifically on a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, as delineated by PACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel): In light of [...]
Khaled Amayreh plots the ever more aggressive tactics Israel is adopting in its efforts to Judaise occupied East Jerusalem In its increasingly rabid efforts to consolidate control of traditionally Arab-East Jerusalem, Israel this week moved to suppress Palestinian cultural activities associated with the city being declared the capital of Arab culture for 2009. On 19 [...]
By Neve Gordon – Israel Thanks to Binyamin Netanyahu’s overweening ambition, Israel is to be saddled with a foreign minister who is a national disgrace Imagine a country that appoints someone who has been found guilty of striking a 12-year-old boy to be its foreign minister. The person in question is also under investigation for [...]
By Ramzy Baroud It seems that the Palestinian-Israeli peace process is in serious jeopardy. This is the immediate impression one gleans from media reports from Israel. Unlike Israel’s Kadima and Labour party “moderates” prime minister-designate Benyamin Netanyahu is widely seen as an obstacle to negotiations aimed at facilitating a two-state solution. The media stories, however, [...]
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee ADC Files Complaints with Treasury Department against US Tax Exempt Organizations Raising Funds for West Bank Settlements Washington, D.C. | March 27, 2009 | www.adc.org | Today, the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed multiple administrative complaints with the US Department of the Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), requesting [...]
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