• 40 Children Without a Roof

    Demolition of Palestinian homes in Attir by Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev, 21 May 2007 Today, Monday, May 21, 2007, again the government of Israel again demolished homes of its citizens. This time in the village of Attir, north of the town of Hura. The government demolished four homes.…

  • A kind of military coup

    By Haaretz Editorial, 21 May 2007 Does Israel still uphold that proper state of affairs in which the elected government sets policy and civil servants carry it out? According to an article published in Haaretz yesterday (“The spirit of the commander prevails” by Meron Rapoport), it seems that with regard to the army, the answer…

  • In the belly of the wailing “democracy” called Israel

    In this story, Hope may just be the name of someone I served coffee to in Pennsylvania by Jesus Martinez, 21 May 2007 We start this tale on Friday, May 18th in Bethlehem, and end up back in Bethlehem on Sunday May 2o. Jesus would have been devastated seeing what I have seen in his…

  • Israel 2007: Worse than Apartheid

    by Ronnie Kasrils | Mail & Guardian Travelling into Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency. It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints – more than 500 in the West Bank. They are controlled by heavily armed soldiers,…

  • Commemorating the Nakba in Ramallah

    from Kim and Anjelka, IWPS, 17 May 2007 Al Nakba, which means “the catastrophe” in Arabic, is the name given by the Palestinians to the 1948 UN partition of British Mandate Palestine, establishment of the state of Israel and the resulting ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population from major parts of the territory. Between April…