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Hamas, Fatah resume dialogue; Hamas ”insulted” by Bush comments
Following meetings mediated by a senior Egyptian security delegation in Gaza Strip, Hamas and Fatah movements issued a joint statement announcing their adherence to national unity and adopting dialogue as means of conflict resolution....
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 11:49pm PDT
A Peek inside the Apartheid Regime
A small sampling of the Apartheid Regime's laws and regulations dispelling any notion whatsoever of the existence of "democracy" in Israel....
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 9:19pm PDT
Nancy Pelosi Gives a Pep Talk to AIPAC
The Democratic leader in her own words...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 7:09pm PDT
Isaeli Apartheid and Boycotts
The current defeat of the puny attempt to boycott Israel academics is a victory for the boycott movement. English academia was a weak link in the anti-South Africa apartheid movement as well and the recent effort was seen by many as a mere token effort bound to fail.
In the meantime, the anti-Israel boycott/sanction effort is fully supported by the United Nations: The UN itself has declared that Zionism is Racism. In the meantime, the boycott/sanction movement continues to spread throug...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 4:14pm PDT
The need for Israel Divestment
Discusses the need for Israel divestment; makes the case general for Israeli apartheid as much worse than that in South Africa...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 3:58pm PDT
No man's land: Government mistreatment of Palestinian asylum seekers
Jeff Handmaker and Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 26 May 2005...
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 10:53pm PDT
Mahmoud Abbas: Desperately seeking Bush
Much will rest on Mahmoud Abbas's meeting with George Bush on Thursday -- almost certainly too much, writes Graham Usher in Jerusalem...
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 10:46pm PDT
PA: Israel fabricating stories on "child bombers"
he Palestinian Authority on Wednesday accused Israel of fabricating stories about Palestinian boys carrying explosive belts on their way to carry out attacks against Israeli targets....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 12:33am PDT
Israeli troops face murder accusations
The Israeli human rights organisation B'tselem has accused the Israeli army of carrying out extra-judicial executions in the occupied Palestinian territories....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:40pm PDT
Amnesty Int'l accuses IDF of war crimes, crimes against humanity
Amnesty International accused the Israel Defense Forces of war crimes and crimes against humanity in an annual report published Wednesday morning, Israel Radio said....
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2005 8:01pm PDT
Israeli convicted for aiding assassin
An Israeli man has been convicted of aiding an attempt to kill an Israeli Arab lawmaker and carrying out eight other bomb attacks against Arab targets in the port city of Haifa....
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2005 7:57pm PDT
Bearing Witness: War Correspondent Janine di Giovanni On Reporting From the Battleground
"In the 1990s, a series of violent wars kept coming, like wave after brutal wave," says di Giovanni. "I was part of an elite, tight band of international reporters – a tribe, really – who roamed the earth, working from front lines or cities under siege. In those days, we rarely wore flak jackets. But we believed in the stories we were reporting, in the importance of bearing witnesses to evil regimes, to ethnic cleansing, to genocide and systematic rape. After Israel came Bosnia...
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 9:09pm PDT
Define Ceasefire (ISM reports)
1. One British and 32 Israeli peace activists arrested on Saturday,
21st of May in Hebron whilst attempting to visit Palestinian
families in Tel Rumaida.
2.Illegal demolition of 4 Houses in South Hebron Hill: the poorest
zone of the West Bank. Written by Operation Dove
3.Define Your Ceasefire, written by ISM Nablus
4.The lamps in the prison of Ariel are still glowing in the
corridors. Written by Gustav Fridolin...
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 10:15am PDT
Court clears Vanunu of travel breach
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu did not violate a government-imposed ban on foreign travel by entering Palestinian Authority territory, an Israeli court has ruled....
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 6:43am PDT
MYTH AND REALITY: THE JEWISH ROLE IN US MIDEAST POLICY
In his talk about the Jewish community and America's policies regarding Israel and the Palestinians, Plitnick will explore the role anti-Semitism plays in public perceptions of Jewish power, as well as ways the charge of anti-Semitism is used to stifle criticism of Israel....
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 12:11am PDT
Mother of shot activist accuses Israeli army of cover-up
The mother of a young British activist shot in the Gaza strip has accused the Israeli military of scapegoating a soldier charged over her son's killing, and army commanders of a cover-up, as a yearlong trial drew to an end yesterday....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 10:55pm PDT
Palestine: Who's afraid of independence?
The renewed mortar and Qassam fire from Gaza into Israeli settlements, reports yesterday said, "have raised questions" in the Israel Defense Forces about the usefulness of the attempts to coordinate the disengagement with the Palestinian security forces. Attorney Dov Weissglas, the prime minister's advisor, who has already left for Washington ahead of President Bush's meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, will no doubt exploit these incidents "to raise que...
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 7:14pm PDT
Palestinian Ban on Hate Sermons
The Palestinian Authority has moved to ban anti-Semitic sermons from state television after a cleric described Jews as a "virus resembling Aids"....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 11:11am PDT
Hamas agrees to hold talks with US, UK
The Hamas Movement agreed Sunday to hold talks with any international party, including the US and Britain, in addition to forging relations with all except Israel, Hamas spokesman, Musheir Al-Masri said....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 10:18am PDT
Laura Bush jeered in Jerusalem
Protesters heckled Laura Bush during her visit to religious sites in Jerusalem, part of a Mideast tour meant to defuse growing anti-American sentiment in the region....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 9:29am PDT