Category: In the Media

  • IMEMC: Nonviolent resistance manages to stop bulldozers in Artas

    by George Rishmawi , 24 May 2007 Photo, ISM The bulldozing of the land in Artas village near Bethlehem has temporary stopped after an Israeli court ruled a preemptive halt of work in the village on Wednesday and Thursday. The court ruling was made after the villagers filed a complaint against the Israeli company which…

  • Haaretz: And now, a fetus

    By Gideon Levy, 20 May 2007 Memorial posters decorate the walls of the Rafidiya government hospital in Nablus, covering earlier posters of countless young people who have been killed. But this poster is like nothing we have seen before: a fetus covered in its own blood, its tiny head blown up by the bullet that…

  • Occupation and the Mind

    Exposing the damage done to the emotional health of Palestinians by the Israeli occupation by Dr Samah Jabr, The New Internationalist, May 2007 In Palestine the kind of war being waged needs to be understood in order to appreciate the psychological impact on this long-occupied population. The war is chronic and continuous, over the lifetime…

  • YNet: Guards shoot at journalists in Artas

    Five reporters covering anti-fence demonstration near West Bank settlement fired at with live ammunition by Defense Ministry security guards by Ali Waked, 21 May 2007 Guard shooting at journalists (Photo: AFP) Four separation fence security guards fired at a group of five journalists who tried to approach people demonstrating against the fence near the West…

  • A kind of military coup

    By Haaretz Editorial, 21 May 2007 Does Israel still uphold that proper state of affairs in which the elected government sets policy and civil servants carry it out? According to an article published in Haaretz yesterday (“The spirit of the commander prevails” by Meron Rapoport), it seems that with regard to the army, the answer…