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The language that absolves Israel
Saree Makdisi | The Los Angeles Times 19 June 2009 On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the quest for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.…
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Brick by brick
Free Gaza Movement 18 June 2009 On June 25th, the Free Gaza movement will set sail on its eighth mission to break Israel’s horrific siege and collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza strip. “The Israelis violated international law by ramming the boat I was on which was carrying medical supplies to Gaza.…
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Help Israeli human rights activist Ezra Nawi
Without international intervention Israeli human rights activist Ezra Nawi will most likely be sent to jail. Ezra Nawi has been active for years in the area known as South Mt. Hebron. The Palestinians in this small desolate area in the very south of the West Bank have been under Israeli occupation for almost 42 years;…
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PCHR: 2 more fishermen abducted by the Israeli Navy
ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 16 June 2009 At approximately 06:00, IOF gunboats opened fire at a fishing boat in al-Waha area in the northern Gaza Strip. They then moved towards the boat and arrested two fishers: Hadi Sobhi Sa’dallah, 19; and his brother Ashraf, 26. They took the two fisherso Ashdod Harbor in…
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Rotting in the ‘buffer zone’
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 18 June 2009 Ahmed Abu Hashish, a Bedouin teenager of 18 years from a rural community in the northern Gaza Strip had been missing for 54 days. A shepherd then noticed a murder of crows on a patch of land from which there was also a foul stench emanating,…
