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Haaretz: “Israeli group urges sanctions on B.A. program for Shin Bet”
By Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz Correspondent An Israeli group is planning to brief the British teachers’ association on a new Hebrew University program, approved last week, to grant undergraduate degrees to Shin Bet security services personnel. The Israeli initiative favors imposing sanctions on Israeli organizations that cooperate with the occupation in the territories. The British National…
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IHT: “At the checkpoint, waiting for Palestine”
By Fareed Taamallah International Herald Tribune QIRA, West Bank As the line behind me grew, I read a novel. The drivers behind me leaned on their horns. I advanced a few meters and returned to reading “Memory in the Flesh,” by the Algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi, thinking of her presentation of the ravages of colonialism…
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Bil’in Calls for Palestinian National Unity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow after the midday prayer, the villagers of Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, will be joined by international and Israeli supporters for their weekly demonstration against the illegal annexation barrier the Israeli state is building on their land. At tomorrow’s demonstration, they will be calling for national unity and to protest against…
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Clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians in Ramallah
by Sousan Hammad, I’m sitting in the ISC office in Ramallah. I get a phone call from one of the workers of the organization. I really could not understand what he was saying. He was yelling, “Don’t go outside, they are closing off the streets and the Israeli army are coming, whatever you do, don’t…
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USA Today op-ed: “Israel’s new plan: A land grab”
by Jimmy Carter New Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that Israel will take unilateral steps to establish its own geographical boundaries during the next four years of his administration. His plan, as described during the recent Israeli election and the formation of a new governing coalition, would take about half of the Palestinian West…
