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Ever notice whenever some desperate Palestinian commits a suicide bombing newspapers all over the country have these front page stories about the "terrorism" Israelis are up against? But when Israel commits brutal acts of terrorism against Palestinians, it is called a "retaliatory attack" or "self-defense."...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 2:40pm PST
This is a weekly summary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 18 jan 2006. 2mins, english...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:43am PST
By AMIRA HASS...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:53am PST
Mahmoud Abbas says he is ready to hold peace talks with Israel, but is warning that he might resign his post if the Palestinian parliament, to be elected on 25 January, opposes his platform....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:45am PST
Jerusalem police on Wednesday arrested a parliamentary candidate from the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while he was holding a press conference in a hotel in East Jerusalem....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:31am PST
Paradise Now won the Best Foreign Language Flm category in today's 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards. The film was directed by Palestinian Hany Abu-Assad from a screenplay he cowrote with Bero Beyer, the film's Dutch producer, both of whom ascended to the podium to collect the award. Paradise Now chronicles the 48 hours before two best friends in Nablus are sent on a suicide mission to Israel. The New York Times said it “accomplishes the tricky feat of humanising the suicide bombers depicted in...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:29am PST
No matter how Ariel Sharon responds to medical treatment in the coming days, his political life ended on January 4 when he suffered a massive stroke. It is therefore appropriate to make a political assessment of his career....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:03pm PST
The green Hamas flags were fluttering from the rooftops against a cold grey sky when they brought the body of the militant Thabet Ayyadeh home yesterday. As the mourners began making their way towards the cemetery they could hear repeated bursts of Israeli gunfire - directed into the air as a warning - to deter the teenagers throwing stones at the waiting police jeeps....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 9:15pm PST
The Palestinian envoy to the United States has called on the international community, especially Europe, to step up its role in Middle East peace negotiations, which have stalled under the leadership of the "quartet" powers....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 9:14pm PST
Israeli troops have killed a senior Palestinian fighter during an exchange of fire in the occupied West Bank....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:37am PST
1. IOF: 0, Goth Girl:1
2. Three Consecutive Days of Attacks In Tel Rumeida; Baruch Marzel
Beats Palestinian Woman
3. An Invitation for Barak Obama
4. Let The Global Boycott of Israel Begin
5. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
6. Scottish ISM-activist Forcefully Deported From Israel After 7 Weeks
in Prison
7. Round Up Of Recent Events In Tel Rumeida, Hebron; Settler Violence
and IDF Abuse...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 10:04pm PST
The United States has warned the Palestinians that inclusion of the resistance group Hamas in any new government could affect US-backed efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 8:58am PST
Israeli government attempts to project continuity mask only the uncertainty that has followed Ariel Sharon's political demise, writes Graham Usher in Jerusalem...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 10:19pm PST
Nora Barrows-Friedman writing from Bethlehem, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 14 January 2006...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 11:15am PST
Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 14 January 2006...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 11:14am PST
CAIRO, January15 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas, expected to make major inroads in the Palestinian parliament in the January 25 polls, is open for negotiations with Israel....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 11:11am PST
Israel has given its approval for Arab residents of east Jerusalem to vote in this month's Palestinian election but made it clear it will not tolerate campaigning by the resistance group Hamas....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 11:01am PST
The Palestinian president has said legislative elections would be held as scheduled on 25 January if Israel did not prevent the vote in East Jerusalem, and that Hamas could only participate in any future government if it recognised the Oslo peace accords....
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 12:01pm PST
Interview with Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 6:40am PST
Prisoners in Their Own Land
By AMIRA HASS...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:05pm PST