Author: ISM Media Group
-
YNet: Guards shoot at journalists in Artas
Five reporters covering anti-fence demonstration near West Bank settlement fired at with live ammunition by Defense Ministry security guards by Ali Waked, 21 May 2007 Guard shooting at journalists (Photo: AFP) Four separation fence security guards fired at a group of five journalists who tried to approach people demonstrating against the fence near the West…
-
(VIDEO) The future of the human family
“Nonviolence: The Future of the Human Family,” Delivered by Mairead Corrigan Maguire on April 18, 2007 Posted by Kathy, Quaker Services Part 1 Maguire is Northern Irish social worker who, with Betty Williams, founded the Community of Peace People, also known as the Peace People Organization, a grassroots movement of both Roman Catholic and Protestant…
-
40 Children Without a Roof
Demolition of Palestinian homes in Attir by Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev, 21 May 2007 Today, Monday, May 21, 2007, again the government of Israel again demolished homes of its citizens. This time in the village of Attir, north of the town of Hura. The government demolished four homes.…
-
A kind of military coup
By Haaretz Editorial, 21 May 2007 Does Israel still uphold that proper state of affairs in which the elected government sets policy and civil servants carry it out? According to an article published in Haaretz yesterday (“The spirit of the commander prevails” by Meron Rapoport), it seems that with regard to the army, the answer…
-
In the belly of the wailing “democracy” called Israel
In this story, Hope may just be the name of someone I served coffee to in Pennsylvania by Jesus Martinez, 21 May 2007 We start this tale on Friday, May 18th in Bethlehem, and end up back in Bethlehem on Sunday May 2o. Jesus would have been devastated seeing what I have seen in his…