Category: In the Media

  • MENA: Israeli fire kills unborn child in West Bank clashes

    Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Ramallah, 10 May: Israeli occupation troops opened fire at a pregnant woman seriously injuring her in her belly and killing her unborn child during fierce clashes with Palestinian resistance elements inside Baytal-Maa camp in west Nablus at dawn Thursday [10 May]. Palestinian medial sources in…

  • ACRI Successfully Challenges Movement Restriction in Jordan Valley

    Association for Civil Rights in Israel Successfully Challenges Movement Restriction in Jordan Valley by Association for Civil Rights in Israel, 2 May 2007 In response to ACRI`s appeal to the Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, in December 2006, demanding the cancellation of the directives banning all Palestinian residents of the West Bank from entering the area…

  • LA Times: Why Israel is after me

    Why Israel is after me by Azmi Bishara, 3 May 2007 Amman, Jordan — I AM A PALESTINIAN from Nazareth, a citizen of Israel and was, until last month, a member of the Israeli parliament. But now, in an ironic twist reminiscent of France’s Dreyfus affair — in which a French Jew was accused of…

  • Mideast Youth: Silencing mainstream media on Palestine

    The very un-noble silence of the mainstream American/Western media on Palestine by Ray Hanania, 29 April 2007 Imagine if Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor and author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism and genocide, had been attacked and shot by Palestinians. Imagine…

  • The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project

    Ei: Bringing the discussion home: The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project Andrew Ford Lyons, 1 May 2007 Possibly noteworthy was that more than 300 people attended the standing-room only public hearing on the project. People waited outside the building to get in to comment and observe. Forty-eight people spoke in support, 24 people expressed opposition. Hundreds…