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Rachel was bulldozed to death, but her words are a spur to action

Posted on: October 8, 2005
Rachel was bulldozed to death, but her words are a spur to action

by Cindy and Craig Corrie
Originally published in The Guardian

When our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza strip on March 16 2003, an immediate impulse was to get her words out to the world. She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organisation, the International Solidarity Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells. Her emails home had had a powerful impact on our family, making us think about the situation in the Middle East in ways we … Continue reading


Updated on October 8, 2005
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El muro: Viaje a Bilín

Posted on: October 5, 2005

by MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
Originally published in El Pais

El muro que está construyendo el Gobierno de Israel alegando razones de seguridad centra la atención de Mario Vargas Llosa. En esta nueva entrega el escritor describe el impacto que provoca el gran bloque de cemento en la vida cotidiana de los palestinos y las protestas que genera entre los pacifistas israelíes.

Fui al parque Liberty Bell Garden de Jerusalén a las once de la mañana y ya estaba allí el ómnibus que llevaría a los pacifistas israelíes a la aldea de Bilín a manifestar, junto con los palestinos del lugar, contra el … Continue reading


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The battle for justice is not over

Posted on: October 3, 2005

Originally published in the Hampstead & Highgate Express

Sitting in her living room nearly two and a half years after the shooting of her son Tom, Jocelyn Hurndall remains defiant.

The sentencing of a soldier in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) to eight years in prison for the manslaughter of Mr Hurndall may have seemed to be the closing chapter of her family’s struggle.

But there has been no let-up in the fight for justice she has been leading since her son was shot in the head while he tried to carry Palestinian children from gunfire in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.

Now … Continue reading


Updated on October 3, 2005
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International Pacifists Pick Palestinian Olive behind Apartheid Wall

Posted on: October 2, 2005

Originally published by the Palestine News Agency
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4208

RAMALLAH, October 2, 2005, (WAFA)- Tens of Foreign and Israeli pacifists joined Palestinian peasants in picking olive behind the Apartheid Wall in the village of Bil’in, near Ramallah.

The pacifists and Palestinian farmers reached the Palestinian orchards, seized by Israelis, and helped the Palestinians in picking up olive harvest.

Israeli pacifist, Neta Golan, told WAFA reporter that at least fifty foreign pacifists joined the Palestinian farmers to protect them from the Israeli occupation soldiers and to help them in picking olive.

She added that the pacifists initiated to help the farmers because they face several troubles … Continue reading


Updated on October 2, 2005
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CNI Public Hearing: “Dual Occupations, Dual Jeopardy”

Posted on: September 29, 2005
CNI Public Hearing: “Dual Occupations, Dual Jeopardy”

Press Release, Council for the National Interest

A REPORT ON THE CNI PUBLIC HEARING ON CAPITOL HILL

The links between the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights were emphasized in a September 26th public hearing sponsored by the Council for the National Interest at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington DC. The speakers were Kevin Zeese, Director of Democracy Rising and a candidate for U.S Senate in Maryland; Phyllis Bennis, a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement.

Bennis addressed the question … Continue reading


Updated on September 29, 2005
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Where’s the restraint in Bil’in?

Posted on: September 6, 2005

By Haaretz Editorial

After proving their sensitivity and intelligence in dispersing the demonstrations in Gush Katif, the Israel Defense Forces and police could have been expected to apply the same policy in handling the demonstrators against the separation fence in the village of Bil’in.

The IDF and police did not fire at the protesters on the roof in Kfar Darom, even when the latter threw dangerous substances at them, and they refrained from using force even against violent protesters. Similarly, it could have been hoped that the soldiers would hold their fire when facing left-wing and Palestinian protesters.

Instead, outrageous images are published … Continue reading


Updated on September 6, 2005
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Is this a real move to peace?

Posted on: August 31, 2005

by K. Flo Razowsky
Originally in The Minneapolis Star Tribune

According to the international media, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip is an unprecedented move toward peace. The situation on the ground demands further inspection.

Daily, new settlements are under construction in the West Bank, existing ones are being expanded and Israel’s Wall is being built. The village of Bil’in, in the western Ramallah region, is losing more than 52 percent of its land to this type of new construction. This style of settlement growth directly contradicts President Bush’s road map. Similarly, during the Oslo period, Israel expanded … Continue reading


Updated on August 31, 2005
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Bil’in: A Struggle in Pictures

Posted on: August 28, 2005
Bil’in: A Struggle in Pictures

Jon Elmer, a photojournalist with the The New Standard, put together a photo essay from the August 12 demonstration against Israel’s annexation wall in Bil’in. You can view it and read the accompanying article here.


Updated on January 13, 2009
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Bil’in, a test field for new Israeli weapons

Posted on: August 12, 2005

Saed Bannoura
IMEMC & Agencies
Tuesday, 09 August 2005

Israeli and international leftist peace activists accused the Israeli army of using demonstrations against the Separation Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in as a “test field” for its new weapons for dispersing protests.

The Israeli military industries have lately been testing new “non-lethal weapons,” apparently in preparation for their use against Israeli right-wing activists who appose the disengagement plan. The activists charge that these weapons have been tested on Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists who protest against the Wall in Bil’in.

“This is unbelievable,” a German peace activist said. “They are trying … Continue reading


Updated on August 12, 2005
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Border Police `lie about violence at fence protests’

Posted on: July 29, 2005

By Jonathan Lis
Ha’aretz Daily

For more than six months, dozens of Israelis and hundreds of Palestinians have been demonstrating every weekend against the construction of the separation fence near the West Bank village of Bil’in. These demonstrations, defined by participants as peaceful, frequently turn into violent clashes with the Border Police’s Company 22, assigned to disperse the demonstrations.

An investigation by Haaretz has found that policemen from that company have made false accusations against demonstrators and even made arrests on the basis of those accusations. Palestinians thus detained can be held for eight days before being brought before a judge.

In other cases, … Continue reading


Updated on July 29, 2005
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