Play based on diaries of peace activist killed in Gaza is moved from New York to the West End By Anthony Barnes – from the Independent Rachel Corrie’s proud parents will walk into a West End theatre today, past their ...
Read More »Bil’in demonstration in the press
1. “Australian injured in West Bank protest” From the Australian 2. “Sydney man shot in Israel during protest” From The Age 3. “Hamas Supporters Help Palestinian Gov’t” From The Guardian 4. “Bil’in protest wounds 2 border police” From the Jerusalem ...
Read More »Yent: “Settlers Torch Cars, Beat Residents”
From Ynet By Ali Waked Car torched in Tel Rumeida. ‘This is not a life,’ residents say (Photo: ISM) Residents of Hebron neighborhood claim settlers set fire to three Palestinian vehicles, beat several residents; ‘this was not a one-time incident,’ ...
Read More »Palestinian Pain, One Kid at a Time
From CommonDreams.org By Fareed Taamallah Every day, world leaders think of new ways to punish the Palestinians for electing Hamas. But the people who suffer most are children like my daughter, Lina. Lina was less than 1 year old when ...
Read More »Jerusalem Post: “Getting carried away”
Larry Derfner, Jerusalem Post, 4th May 2006 The violence typically begins as hundreds of protesters advance on lines of badly outmanned troops trying to block the way to the village’s land, which lies on the other side of the fence. ...
Read More »Al Nakba Remembered
By Joharah Baker | MIFTAH On May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. Although it is not unprecedented in history that countries gain their independence through war, either by conquest or by flinging off the yoke of colonization, there are ...
Read More »The London Times: “West ‘has to prevent collapse’ of PA”
From Stephen Farrell in Jerusalem JAMES WOLFENSOHN, the international envoy to the Middle East, has resigned and issued a warning of the dangers ahead if the West cuts everything but humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. Mr Wolfensohn, a former head ...
Read More »Jerusalem Post: “Volunteers: Settler violence on the rise”
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, Jerusalem Post, 27 April, 2006 [To view a video of events click here] Her gray hair and slim size did not stop Israeli children waiting at a Hebron bus stop from tossing a palm size rock in ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: “Police probe building of West Bank settlement neighborhood”
By Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz Correspondent The Israel Police’s National Fraud Squad has opened a criminal investigation into the illegal construction of hundreds of housing units in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Modi’in Ilit ultra-Orthodox settlement. A statement to this ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: “Sweden boycotts air force drills due to Israel’s participation”
By Ha’aretz Service Sweden called off its participation in international air force exercises to take place in Italy next month because of the involvement of the Israel Air Forces in the drills. Sweden was supposed to send nine aircraft to ...
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