Category: In the Media

  • Haaretz: Palestinian shepherds have water tank, tractor confiscated

    Original Article Link. By Amira Hass The Civil Administration confiscated a tractor and a water tank belonging to Palestinian shepherds living in the northern Jordan Valley. This was the only readily available water source for the approximately 60 members of the Basharat and Bani-Oudeh families and their 1,500 heads of sheep and goats. The Civil…

  • AFP: Israel settlement builder in dire straits

    Published August 3, 2007 By AFP Heftsiba, one of Israel’s largest firms building settlements in the occupied West Bank, is in danger of closing, according to media reports Friday. The company, which specializes in constructing inexpensive accommodation for ultra-Orthodox families, is in debt to the tune of $200 million, the reports said. Heftsiba has now…

  • From Haaretz: Settlers attack UN personnel near southern Hebron Hills

    Original Article Link By Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent Two residents of an illegal settlement outpost near Hebron attacked United Nations workers on Thursday. The UN personnel were driving in the South Hebron Hills area when one of the settlers jumped on the car and smashed the windshield, sending shards of glass into the driver’s eye.…

  • Solidarity With Rachel Corrie

    By Greta Berlin published in the Washington Post Saturday, July 28, 2007; Page A17 Jane Horwitz’s article on “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” could have been an example of reporting on the best aspects of the play [” ‘Corrie’ Fears Unrealized; Controversial Play Opens Without Incident in W.Va.,” Style, July 18]. Instead she gave space…

  • Is This Ben Gurion Or Hell?

    Is This Ben Gurion Or Hell? Original Article Link. By Remi Kanazi 18 July, 2007 Countercurrents.org Anyone who has traveled through Ben Gurion airport in Israel knows that it is a unique experience. For most Israeli Jews, the experience is comforting, a quick and accommodating entry into a nation created and developed for the Jewish…