Category: Reports
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(Part 2 of 2): A Hospitality Which Won’t Quit… Nor Submit to the Occupation
Reportback from Daniel Part 2: the North: Agriculture, Theatre, a Cough to Kill for I took a 3 day, 2 night trip through the northern West Bank that started by going to Qalqilya, a fairly large Palestinian city that is almost completely surrounded by The Wall. The only way in and out is through a…
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(Part 1 of 2): A Hospitality Which Won’t Quit… Nor Submit to the Occupation
Reportback from Daniel Part 1: Checkpoints, and Violence Against Nonviolent Demos I’m back from my whirlwind trip to Palestine. The trip was hectic and crazy and shocking. I think I accomplished my goal of seeing first-hand some aspects of the all-encompassing system of Israeli apartheid. Among other things, my trip included participation in 2 very…
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Democracy for Bedouins postponed
By Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev , 5 June 2007 Yesterday, June 4th 2007, the Internal Affairs Committee agreed: The first municipal elections in the Regional Council of Abu-Basma for the Bedouin villages is postponed a year – because of insufficient effort by the government officials. The Regional Council…