Category: In the Media

  • “Every week we bear witness to yet another violent attack by the security forces at the village of Bil’in,”

    by, Yoav Stern Haaretz Correspondent See the story online at: www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/603111.html Five people were lightly hurt and five others were detained for questioning during a a demonstration against the West Bank security fence in the village of Bil’in, adjacent to Ramallah, on Friday. Hundreds of Israeli, Palestinian and foreign protestors took part in the demonstration.…

  • Beyond the wall

    Something is astir in Bilin — mass Palestinian demonstrations based on non-violence and Israeli participation. Graham Usher reports from the West Bank village weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/re1.htm Sheikh Taysir Al-Tammimi, one of the leading Islamic clerics in the West Bank, gently pulls away the barbed wire that has been laid before him. He then spreads out his prayer…

  • Help us stop Israel’s wall peacefully

    International Herald Tribune www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/11/opinion/edkhatib.php BILIN, West Bank: While the international media has been focusing on Israel’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, in my village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, we are living an equally important but overlooked story. Though Israeli forces plan to withdraw from Gaza, they are simultaneously expanding…

  • The disengagement as smoke screen

    By Jonathan Pollak Originally published in Ha’aretz Exactly one year ago the International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled that the fence that Israel is building in the territories is illegal. However, one hardly needs to mention that the construction has been affected only cosmetically. During the past two years we – Israelis, Palestinians…

  • Ha’aretz: He simply had a mom and dad

    By Yossi Sarid www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/596844.html By its very nature, an army is not designed to issue justice. As we know, an army marches on its stomach, and a stomach is capable of digesting injustice as well; it is not necessarily guided by justice. Every army, especially during a bloody conflict, has other urgent problems. Justice waits…