Palestine Monitor 30 July 2009 Due to the apparent insistence by the US that Israel halt all settlement growth and Israel’s open refusal to do so, the issue of settlement freezing has taken on far more importance than it deserves. What should be looked upon as Israel’s willingness to abide by international law and their [...]
Palestine Monitor 28 July 2009 While George Mitchell was meeting with Ehud Barak in Egypt, another story was unfolding in East Jerusalem. The Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem continued on Sunday as settlers – protected by Israeli police and soldiers – arrived to take over the home of Darwish Hijazi in the [...]
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 2008 Annual Report – by Stephen Lendman Established in 1995, PCHR functions independently in Gaza and enjoys “Consultative Status” with the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It’s also an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists-Geneva, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in Paris, the Euro-Mediterranean [...]
Arab pupils expected to learn Zionist song By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth A leading Arab educator in Israel has denounced the decision of Gideon Saar, the education minister, to require schools to study the Israeli national anthem. Officials announced last week that they were sending out special “national anthem kits” to 8,000 schools, including those in the separate [...]
Uri Avnery First, an honest disclosure: I loved the Shepherd hotel very much. In the first years after the Six-Day War, I was a frequent guest there. My work in the Knesset demanded that I stay in Jerusalem at least two nights every week, and after the war I switched from the hotels of West [...]
Sami Jamil Jadallah There is something very wrong with people who claim to be smart, intelligent, educated, hard working, honest, nationalists, and decent to accept such a stupid, corrupt, incompetent, reckless, useless leadership and organization for the last 45 year that failed at every thing it set out to do turning the PLO to a [...]
Ramzy Baroud Who killed Yasser Arafat? When the Palestinian leader was declared dead in a French hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, there was no way of knowing how questions related to his death should be phrased. Was he killed or did he die from old age? If he was killed, then who killed him [...]
Stephen Lendman – Chicago “Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects anonymous testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifada.” They recount experiences that deeply affected them, including abusing Palestinians, looting, destroying property, and other practices “excused as military necessities, or explained as extreme and [...]
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza The young farm worker wasn’t oblivious to the danger: working in the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone” is no task for the faint-hearted. But, like so many, he either needed the paid labour, or his family depends on the land. The farmers had returned two days after their land was again ravaged [...]
by Hannah Mermelstein July 20, 2009 “The war is with the Arabs.” I saw this sign as I was entering Nablus last week, again on my way to Ramallah, and again near Bethlehem. The phrase is printed in Hebrew, presumably by Israeli settlers, on huge signs throughout the West Bank. Israeli racism rarely shocks me [...]
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