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International movements breaking the siege on Gaza

Posted on: July 30, 2009

Suzanne Morrison | Common Dreams

28 July 2009

Since June 2007 the Israeli government has imposed almost complete closure over the Gaza Strip. The siege prevents nearly all movement of people or goods to and from the coastal region with only minimal amounts of humanitarian provisions inconsistently allowed in. With the exception of a small amount of carnations allowed out earlier this year, there has been a virtual ban on all exports from Gaza since 2007. A quick socio-economic glimpse of Gaza includes agricultural losses totaling US $30 million and more than 40,000 jobs for the 2007/2008 season, … Continue reading


Updated on July 30, 2009
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Palestinian, you are on your own!

Posted on: March 26, 2009

Natalie Abou Shakra | Gaza 08

He said, “Your wife is beautiful, I want to sleep with her.” During the interrogation, they would hit us extensively. They prevent us from sleeping, urinating, drinking and eating. During my friend’s interrogation, they brought in his wife. They touched her breasts, her sensitive areas in front of him. They wanted him to admit to their accusations. Imprisonment by the occupation forces is the attempting to murder a resistant spirit… all that we have against their state-of-the-art weaponry .

Gilad Shalit “who turned 22 in captivity, will have been a hostage of Hamas for about … Continue reading


Updated on March 26, 2009
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Disengagement and the Frontiers of Zionism

Posted on: March 2, 2008

By: Darryl Li

For the original article, click here.

February 16, 2008

In mid-January, when Israel further tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip, it hurriedly assured the world that a “humanitarian crisis” would not be allowed to occur. Case in point: Days after the intensified siege prompted Hamas to breach the Gaza-Egypt border and Palestinians to pour into Egypt in search of supplies, Israel announced plans to send in thousands of animal vaccines to prevent possible outbreaks of avian flu and other epidemics due to livestock and birds entering Gaza from Egypt. Medicines for human beings, on the other hand, are … Continue reading


Updated on March 2, 2008
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Demonstration against Apartheid Roads

Posted on: November 4, 2007
Demonstration against Apartheid Roads

On Sunday, November 3, 2007 , Palestinians delivered a message to Condoleezza Rice on the Israeli-only 443 highway: The segregation that Condoleezza’s parents suffered from and struggled against did not die in Alabama, but lives today in Palestine. The demonstration took place on the side of road 443, above the bridge near Beit Ur that runs above the Palestinian only tunnel that runs underneath the highway.

“We aren’t allowed on the front or the backs of busses, we aren’t even allowed on the roads of our own country.” explained Ahmed … Continue reading


Updated on November 4, 2007
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ZNet: Formalizing Apartheid Masked as a Peace Initiative

Posted on: October 14, 2007

by Neta Golan and Mohammed Khatib

October 13, 2007

Next month the US plans to host a regional meeting to discuss peace in the Middle East, or at least peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The maneuvering, deal making and negotiating about what will be on the table has been going on for some time. But the details of the agreement being discussed have been a well guarded secret but for the steady flow of leaks and trial balloons. Deciphering this information combined with facts on the ground, one can put together a clear outline of Israel’s “next generous offer.”

Political maneuvers can … Continue reading


Updated on October 14, 2007
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Jerusalem Post: ‘I didn’t suggest we kill Palestinians’

Posted on: October 12, 2007

By Ruthie Blum, Oct. 10, 2007

Arnon Soffer arrives at our meeting armed with a stack of books and papers. Among them is a copy of an interview I conducted with him three and a half years ago (“It’s the demography, stupid,” May 21, 2004), and print-outs of angry responses the geostrategist from the University of Haifa says he continues to receive “from leftists in Israel and anti-Semites abroad, who took my words out of context.”

The passage that aroused the most ire was as follows: “When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a … Continue reading


Updated on October 12, 2007
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Palestine Center: A Barrier to Peace

Posted on: October 2, 2007

By Samar Assad

October 1st, 2007

As Palestinians and the international community exert effort in order to guarantee a successful mid-November peace meeting, Israel has focused its attention on another matter. Ahead of the planned high-level talks, Israel has published maps that reveal a change in the route of its Separation Wall. The new maps, published on Israel’s Ministry of Defense website, show a significant increase in the length of the Wall to allow the annexation of large tracts of Palestinian land. According to a recent assessment report by the PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department, the new route will annex 12 percent of … Continue reading


Updated on October 2, 2007
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Counterpunch: “An Interview With Tanya Reinhart: The Roadmap to Nowhere”

Posted on: October 3, 2006

by Eric Hazan, Counterpunch, October 2nd

Your new book, Roadmap to Nowhere, covers the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the last three years, a period dominated by Ariel Sharon’s leadership. You argue that during this period it became evident that in Israel, decisions are taken by the military, rather than the political echelons. Can you elaborate?

Israeli military and political systems have always been closely intertwined, with generals moving from the army straight to the government, but the army’s political status was further solidified during Sharon’s ascendancy. Senior military officers brief the press (they capture at least … Continue reading


Updated on October 3, 2006
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Border Police enter home And beat Palestinians and 75 year old Australian volunteer

Posted on: March 27, 2006
Border Police enter home And beat Palestinians and 75 year old Australian volunteer

By Jane

Baruch Marzel’s Mug shot

Living in the settlement building just up the road a few hundred yards from the violent episode described below is Baruch Marzel, extreme right winger, well known for his hatred of Arabs and support for transferring all Palestinians to Jordan. His wife and son are among the worst for attacking the Palestinian inhabitants of Tel Rumeida. He is standing as a candidate in Tuesday’s Israeli elections

On Sunday 26th March, 25 soldiers and Border Police entered a Palestinian home And beat two Palestinians and 75 year old international … Continue reading


Updated on March 27, 2006
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The Land Grab Continues in West Bank

Posted on: September 13, 2005
The Land Grab Continues in West Bank


Mohamed, 13, runs with the Palestinian flag on a beach near the former Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim, 12 September 2005. Mohamed said this was the first time he had been to the beach since he was born. Thousands of residents of the Southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis came to the coast which is just some 3 km (2 miles) away. (Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

From Ya’acov Mano, Gush Shalom

Request for letter campaign
Repression of Human Rights and Land Grab at the Village of Bil’in

The State of Israel is erecting the … Continue reading


Updated on January 13, 2009
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