• Open letter to Haruki Murakami: don’t legitimize apartheid

    The following letter was issued by the Palestine Forum Japan on 29 January 2009: Dear Mr. Haruki Murakami: We ask you to withdraw from the Jerusalem Book Fair and receipt of the “Jerusalem Prize.” We have heard the news that you are going to participate in the 24th Jerusalem International Book Fair from 15 to 20 February, and will be awarded the “Jerusalem Prize.” We are terribly shocked. We ask you to seriously reconsider the social…

  • All we’ve got left of him

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 2 February 2009 Abdul Rahman Ghraben’s mother carried in a yellow plastic bag.  “This is his pant leg, and tiny pieces of him,”  she said, holding the knotted bag at the handles. Her husband had been explaining how fourteen year old Abed was killed on January 11. “The Israeli forces had been bombing hard so we’d evacuated the house, gone to Fakoura (UN school which had been bombed with white phosphorous).…

  • To the sound of F16s

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell I’m told the bursts of noise that are currently shaking the net cafe a little are probably F16 sonic booms and not rockets, so that’s nice! Last night’s attacks involved seven rockets on the tunnel/border area of Rafah and a strike on an empty police station in Gaza city. The military said Sunday’s attacks were the beginning of a new wave of raids over Gaza, but did not elaborate… Ehud…

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