Author: ISM Media Group

  • Israel 2007: Worse than Apartheid

    by Ronnie Kasrils | Mail & Guardian Travelling into Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency. It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints – more than 500 in the West Bank. They are controlled by heavily armed soldiers,…

  • Commemorating the Nakba in Ramallah

    from Kim and Anjelka, IWPS, 17 May 2007 Al Nakba, which means “the catastrophe” in Arabic, is the name given by the Palestinians to the 1948 UN partition of British Mandate Palestine, establishment of the state of Israel and the resulting ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population from major parts of the territory. Between April…

  • YNet: Who’s normal here?

    IDF violence and lying politicians have become the norm in Israel by Aviad Kleinberg, 19 May 2007 The IDF was quick to investigate the incident where IDF soldiers recently attacked protestors on Mount Hebron. Apparently, the incident where our fine soldiers mercilessly beat up protestors who didn’t endanger anyone was a “professional mishap” or a…

  • Family’s trees uprooted in Artas, Palestinian Information Minister attacked by Israeli soldiers

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 May 2007 UPDATE 21 May 2007, Three Palestinians were arrested this afternoon as they continued to non-violently resist the destruction of their land. Mohammad Abu Swai and two others from the village of Artas are being charged with “Assault,” and a currently being held. Gaby Lasky, their lawyer, stated that those…

  • NY Times: Red Cross Report Says Israel Disregards Humanitarian Law

    By STEVEN ERLANGER, 15 May 2007 JERUSALEM, May 14 — The International Committee of the Red Cross, in a confidential report about East Jerusalem and its surrounding areas, accuses Israel of a “general disregard” for “its obligations under international humanitarian law — and the law of occupation in particular.” The committee, which does not accept…