Tag: Ramallah
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Witness To The Israeli Military – Is Adam Shapiro A Traitor?
by Laura Flanders Originally published by TomPaine.com For days they’ve been calling one of my fellow New Yorkers “traitor.” For city dwellers who’ve been encouraged to feel pretty darn protective of one another, such dangerous talk comes as a shock. It began when Adam Shapiro from Brooklyn talked to the international media from inside Yasser…
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Adam Shapiro Ranks As a Mideast Hero
by Sheryl McCarthy Originally published in Newsday Wherever Stuart Shapiro may be, he gets my vote for father of the year. His son, Adam, is a Jewish child of Brooklyn who in the last few years has been living in the Mideast and advocating for the rights of Palestinians. Last week, he spent a night…
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CNN: Interview with Adam Shapiro
PHILLIPS: Well, we’re about to get an eyewitness account now of the Israeli siege of Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah. Adam Shapiro is an American living in Israel. He volunteered to help attend to wounded Arafat guards inside the compound. He joins us now live from Ramallah. Hello, Adam. ADAM SHAPIRO, VOLUNTEER RESCUE WORKER, INTERNATIONAL…
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Over 100 Internationals Deploy to Allow Palestinians Safe Passage
[Surda, Palestine] Over one hundred foreign civilians served as an “international protection force” for Palestinians today and deployed at the Surda military checkpoint (on the road from Ramallah to Birzeit University) to allow Palestinians safe passage to and from work and school. The Israeli military checkpoint set up at Surda is illegal according to UN…