Author: swing

  • EU eyes exports from Israeli settlements

    Ralf Beste and Christoph Schult | BusinessWeek 14 July 2009 The Israeli settlement known as Maale Adumim sits fortress-like atop a red stone plateau. In the Bible, the road to the plateau was known as the “steep red road.” As the largest Israeli settlement in the Palestinian-administered areas of the West Bank, Maale Adumim is…

  • Bil’in under fire: peaceful resistance meets assailment

    Jennifer Urgilez | MIFTAH 15 July 2009 The systematic arrest of Bil’in activists begins with the covert intrusion of Israeli soldiers into Bil’in at the stroke of midnight. From the west, soldiers cross the Separation Wall in military vehicles concealed under a blanket of darkness, each entering one by one in 10 minute intervals dropping…

  • Palestinians organize a picnic protest near Susiya outpost

    11 July 2009 On Saturday the 11th of July, solidarity activists of Ta’ayush and inhabitants of Susiya (South Hebron Hills) organized a picnic of resistance next to the outpost of the settlement of Susiya. Activists from the ISM, Tayyoush and Palestinian residents gathered to non-violently protest the illegal outpost. The action was planned for 8am,…

  • Israeli forces arrest 6 solidarity activists in Beit Ommar

    Palestine Solidarity Project 7 July 2009 On July 7, 2009 at approximately 5pm, an Israeli military official called the mayor of Beit Ommar/ Saffa, Nasri Sabarneh, and informed him that settlers had set fire to some trees in the Abu Jabber Soleiby land in Saffa, just under the illegal Bat ‘Ayn settlement. A group of…

  • The blue velvet hills of my youth have been destroyed

    Raja Shehadeh | The Guardian 5 July 2009 I can remember the appearance of the hills around Ramallah in 1979, before any Jewish settlement came to be established there. In the spring of that year I walked north from Ramallah, where I live, to the nearby village of A’yn Qenya and up the pine-forested hill.…