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The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage
11 November 2010 | Seumas Milne, The Guardian In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in to stake their claim to the front part of the building, shouting abuse in Hebrew and broken Arabic: “Arab animals”, “shut…
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Israeli Army raids Bil’in for the fourth time in three days
10 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Today, the 10th of November, Israeli forces again raided the village of Bi’lin. The Army entered at around 8 pm for the second time that day. This morning around 3.00 am, they entered the village with five jeeps and searched Ashraf al-Khatibs home. Soldiers broke down the door of the neighbor’s house and went in. They were not able to find who they were looking for in either house.…
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For family of slain activist, no end in sight for case
7 November 2010 | Ethan Bronner, New York Times HAIFA, Israel — Seven years after an American student, Rachel Corrie, was killed in Gaza by an Israeli military bulldozer she tried to block, becoming a global symbol of the Palestinian struggle, her parents and her older sister sit in an Israeli court in this northern city with two hopes: to confront the men who ran over her and to prove that the army investigation into her death…
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