Category: Journals
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59 Years Ago: Deir Yassin
Remembering Deir Yassin by Anna Baltzer, 1 May 2007 Um El Fahim town in present-day Israel, home to 48,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel, mostly internal refugees denied services equal to Jews or the right to return to their homes. 59 years ago this month, the militant Zionist Irgun and Stern Gang systematically murdered more than…
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To Azmi Beshara:
To Azmi Beshara by Juliano Mer Khamis, 29 April 2007 Azmi, My Brother, You had the good sense to see what was coming – the security forces in cooperation with the judicial system of Israel decided to take steps against, what they call the “strategic threat”, of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, and to do…
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Prelude to the Third Intifada?
Prelude to the Third Intifada? by Anna Baltzer, 30 April 2007 Atara Checkpoint in early April: Passover—the Jewish holiday celebrating freedom from oppression—is accompanied by tightening restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank, resulting in checkpoint waits of many hours. Photo by Anna It’s been more than three weeks since I last wrote. The reason…
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Taking the piss out of war games in Hebron
by: Yifat Appelbaum Israeli soldiers in Hebron sometimes do exercises to practice for combat situations. Ok, I can accept that. They need to always be on their toes in case there is a terrorist, right? *wink wink nudge nudge* But when they do it around Palestinian homes it is just a form of harassment, the…
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The city in two pieces
by: -bat. There are no other events in this account which are violent and dramatic in the way Bil’in was, but in the days since I have been back I have had some bad dreams about the trip, and it hasn’t been that which comes back to haunt me. Violence is shocking, but for something…