Category: In the Media

  • AFP: Legendary Israel PM’s grandson is barrier protester

    from Agence France Presse JERUSALEM (AFP) – A grandson of Israel’s legendary right-wing prime minister Menachem Begin is a regular protester against the country’s controversial West Bank separation barrier, media reported on Thursday. The tabloid-style Maariv newspaper published a photograph of 32-year-old Avinadav Begin and a young Palestinian facing off with Israeli soldiers in riot…

  • 1967: Abandoned and rejected

    By Ahmad Shaheen | Guardian: Comment Is Free I was born in a tent and I’m living in a tent, but I hope I won’t die in a tent. I’m a middle-aged journalist and a human rights advocate. My children are grown up and college educated – three of them married with children. I’m far…

  • The world will understand us more

    from The Guardian Unlimited, 6 June 2007 A Palestinian boy blows up a balloon in front of Israeli border police during a non-violent protest against the construction of Israel’s West Bank barrier. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP Audio can be found HERE In the fields around the village of Ma’asara, south of Bethlehem, between the rows of…