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Hamas Meets with EU Diplomats
Beirut, Jun 16 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian resistance faction Hamas said on Thursday that European Union diplomats met some of its newly elected mayors, marking an apparent move in the EU"s position towards the group.
Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri"s comments on Thursday coincided with an Israeli newspaper report that the EU had given some low-level diplomats permission to meet representatives of the group"s political wing....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 9:40am PDT
Activists to protest Caterpillar in NYC on June 14th
Press Release, NYC Activists, The Electronic Intifada, 13 June 2005...
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 12:40pm PDT
You have to imagine what it feels like
Professor David Shulman writing from Al Bustan, Silwan, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 11 June 2005...
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 12:39pm PDT
38th anniversary of the conquest of East Jerusalem
Last week Israelis celebrated the 38th anniversary of the conquest of East Jerusalem. Palestinians saw their future in the past...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 12:33am PDT
Israel's Grip Tightens Around the West Bank
The Great Wall of Palestine marches on. It is generating direct non-violent resistance and civil disobedience on a scale unprecedented in the struggle against the Ihtilal (literally the ‘Suffocation’, the Palestinian term for the ‘Occupation’). For many months, the International Solidarity Movement and the new Israeli group Anarchists Against the Wall among others have been protesting in solidarity with local Palestinian villagers, attempting by non-violent direct action to block further cons...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:53pm PDT
israeli War Crimes (audio/mpeg 5.8MB)
This is a summary of israeli War Crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 8 June 2005. 6mins (english)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:09am PDT
ON-AIR DEBATE WED 6/8: JEFFREY BLANKFORT: The Role of the Pro-Israel Lobby in US Politics
Anti-Zionist Jewish-American veteran photo-journalist, radio journalist, political essayist, and anti-war and human rights activist, JEFFREY BLANKFORT will debate University of San Francisco (USF) Prof. Stephen Zunes TONIGHT, Wed, 7:pm PT, on KPFA-FM (94.1 or listen at kpfa.org), in Berkeley, CA, regarding the role of the pro-Israel lobby in U.S. politics and related issues....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 3:12pm PDT
Israel resumes assassination of Palestinians
Report, PCHR, 7 June 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 9:47am PDT
Sharon vows Jerusalem will remain in Israeli hands
Clashes erupted in East Jerusalem as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon marked the 38th anniversary of Israel's capture of the entire holy city by pledging it would remain in Jewish hands for eternity. "Jerusalem is ours for eternity and will never pass into foreign hands," Sharon told a ceremony on Ammunition Hill, a one-time bastion of the Jordanian Army which was captured by Israeli paratroopers during the 1967 war....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 8:14am PDT
Israel warplanes violate Lebanon airspace
Israeli warplanes on Tuesday morning again violated the Lebanese airspace and sovereignty over the western Bekaa and the south. According to the Lebanese National Information Agency, Israeli aircrafts flew over the western Bekaa area and down to the mountain....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 8:10am PDT
Israeli army kills Islamic Jihad leader
Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers, including a top Islamic Jihad fighter, during an incursion into the northern West Bank town of Qabaty....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 8:05am PDT
Portraits of Dheisheh
Nora Barrows-Friedman writing from Dheisheh, The Electronic Intifada, 4 June 2005...
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 12:12pm PDT
MK Lapid: Jerusalem should have a Palestinian deputy-mayor
Opposition head Yosef Lapid (Shinui) proposed on Monday a new plan to resolve tensions between Jerusalem's Palestinian population and municipal authorities in the city. According to Lapid's plan Jerusalem's mayor will remain Jewish but the deputy-mayor will be Palestinian and will be in charge over its areas that are populated by Palestinians....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 12:09pm PDT
Abbas blames Israel for unrest on Temple Mount
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of bearing responsibility for violent clashes between police and Arab worshippers on the Temple Mount on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 12:08pm PDT
No Suicide, Islam Link
WASHINGTON -- A surge in suicide attacks in Iraq and elsewhere around the world is a response to territorial occupation and has no direct link with Islamic fundamentalism, according to the author of a new book who has created a database of such bombings over the past 25 years....
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 7:28pm PDT
Palestinian Jewish settlers?
A group of Jewish colonists from the illegal West Bank settlement of Kadim are planning to ask Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas for political asylum and keep their houses despite Israel's planned disengagement....
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 12:52pm PDT
The Naksa - 38 Years Later
1. Naksa Day Demonstration in Bil’in
2. Israeli solders and the culture of revenge
3. Palestinian Flags on a Settler Road!
4. Israeli signs get activist makeover
5. Silwan ICAHD (Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions) report and call for
action
6. Demonstration in Beit Surik - June 5, 2005...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 1:31am PDT
Freedom and the AUT Boycott
Yet another discussion of virulent racism in the academic and civil society of Israel....
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 11:40pm PDT
Israel plan for new settler homes
Israel has announced plans to build 22 more homes in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank....
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 9:48pm PDT