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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
Jerusalem residents scramble to fight wall
Ahmad Sub Laban, Palestine Report, 22 May 2005...
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 9:23am PDT
PA official: Militants agree to halt attacks in Gaza Strip
Palestinian militants have agreed to halt a spate of mortar and rocket attacks on Israeli targets in and around the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian Authority official said on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 6:41am PDT
Abbas says Sharon meeting planned
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon....
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 6:38am PDT
"Key of Return", a Marriage Gift in Gaza
Sami Abu Salem writing from Gaza, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 15 May 2005...
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 6:34am PDT
Israel's silent nuclear attack revealed
It was just a matter of time before the world would find out about Israel's nuclear activities in the Naqab desert. In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician at Demona nuclear plant, reported to The London Sunday Times what everybody already knew. Israel has secret nuclear weapons programs to protect itself from its neighbouring enemy countries....
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 6:32am PDT
Hamas claims responsibility for attack
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it carried out an attack on an illegal Jewish settlement in Gaza in which a fighter was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces....
Posted: Fri, May 20, 2005 8:41am PDT
The Palestinian Elections: Heeding the storm
The Palestinian parliament should this week clear the way for new elections in July. If it doesn't, every Palestinian will know why, writes Graham Usher in Ramallah...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 8:21pm PDT