By The Associated Press GENEVA – The World Council of Churches denounced on Wednesday two attacks on Christian volunteers in Hebron, and called on Israeli authorities to punish the Jewish settlers responsible. In both cases, the attacks occurred as the ...
Read More »Yedioth Aharonot: “Outside The Fence”
By Asafa Peled – Yedioth Aharonot 14/4/2006 Translation: Adam Keller The Separation Fence is closing in upon more and more Palestinian villages. Their inhabitants are cut off from sources of livelihood. Some Israelis are not willing to remain silent. Matan ...
Read More »Excerpts from a review of Letters from Young Activists
http://www.lettersfromyoungactivists.org by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field From Monthly Review For the complete review see http://www.monthlyreview.org/0406wrigley-field.htm …We may not have learned the lessons of the past, but among those are the lessons of defeat; the radicals among us still believe we can change ...
Read More »Stanford Daily: “Activists describe West Bank violence”
Israeli soldiers at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint threaten Palestinian schoolgirls By Katherine Cox Tuesday, April 18, 2006 from The Stanford Daily Two young human rights activists spoke last night about the Palestinian population of Tel Rumeida, Hebron, a West Bank ...
Read More »Robert Novak: Palestinian Christians Threatened In Aboud
“Palestinian Christians suffer, too” April 17, 2006 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST ABOUD, West Bank — On Good Friday, I stood atop the remnant of the Santa Barbara shrine, destroyed by the Israeli army, and observed the picturesque village of ...
Read More »ISM Interview on Pacifica Radio Flashpoints
Interview by ISM Volunteer Haley Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Today on Flashpoints: We hear from one voice among thousands of Iraqis now fleeing the violence in their US-occupied homeland; Israel expands its bloody occupation against Palestine, we’ll have an on-the-ground ...
Read More »The party line: ‘Palestinians attack, Israelis respond’
By Asa In an attempt to disguise the current Israeli military operations in Nablus as a response to the suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, the Israeli media are either directly lying that the military entered Nablus “in response to the ...
Read More »Independent: “Parents of British campaigner killed by Israeli sniper seek justice against a murderous ethos”
from The Independent In the stifling, barren confines of the small military court room in Ashkelon, Jocelyn and Anthony Hurndall strained to hear above the noisy air conditioning as their son’s killer boasted about his accuracy as an army marksman. ...
Read More »Palestinian Youth Shot by Israeli Troops
From The Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank – Israeli soldiers holed up in a home in this West Bank city on Monday opened fire on stone-throwing protesters outside the building, wounding two people, including a 13-year-old boy, Palestinian officials and ...
Read More »The Lobby and the Bulldozer: Mearsheimer, Walt and Corrie
Published on Thursday, April 13, 2006 by CommonDreams.org by Norman Solomon Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled “The Israel Lobby,” the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. A Los Angeles ...
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