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Palestinian freedom fighter Farouk Abdel-Muhti, died Wednesday, apparently of a heart attack, after giving a speech in Philadelphia. He was 57 years old. His death comes just three months after he was released from jail where he was detained for two years without charge. We hear a recording of his last words as well as an address he gave on the night he was released from prison and we speak with his son Tariq and his fiancee and longtime friend Sharin Chiorazzo who was with him when he died....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:29am PDT
When I first came to the USA for college, you would not believe my shock upon making my first Spring Break drive to Florida, some 24 hours, and realizing no one stopped us to ask for ID or inquire where we're going. In the West Bank, during the 10-mile drive from Ramallah to Jerusalem, travelers today get stopped twice at Israeli checkpoints. Now I have seen checkpoints before, but on this last trip, the procedures at those two checkpoints were just surreal....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:27am PDT
GENEVA, PARIS -– The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint program of FIDH and OMCT, welcomes the decision by the Military Parole Committee on July 14, 2004 to reduce the sentences of Haggai Matar, Matan Kaminer, Shimri Zameret, Adam Naor and Noam Bahat, conscientious objectors to the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Initially scheduled to be released in January 2005, they will now be released September 15, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:24am PDT
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, under growing pressure, has agreed to grant his prime minister full authority over the security forces, a Palestinian lawmaker said Thursday after meeting with Arafat....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:20am PDT
As the conflict on the Israel-Lebanon border escalates, the Israeli military has issued a blunt warning that it may launch a direct attack against Syria....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 8:19pm PDT
UK report reveals fears for future of Palestinians...
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 8:02pm PDT
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution demanding that Israel comply with a world court ruling to dismantle its West Bank barrier....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 7:59pm PDT
The Israeli army has embarked on a flurry of house demolitions at a northern West Bank village in an activity apparently related to the continued construction of the separation wall....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 8:09am PDT
United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaking Monday evening in New York, urged Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to listen to his prime minister and other governmental colleagues and implement security reforms....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 8:05am PDT
Backing down in the face of widespread protests, Yasir Arafat has replaced his cousin as Palestinian security chief and asked the former chief to return to his job...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 7:57am PDT
Israeli and international human rights organisations have labelled as racial discrimination a government extension of a law barring Palestinians married to Israelis from obtaining their spouse's citizenship....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 7:01pm PDT
The new Palestinian security chief has taken command, vowing to face down fierce protests against his nomination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 11:13am PDT
Brooke Atherton is a Bay Area activist dedicated to fighting Israel’s repression of Palestine. On June 24, six days after Brooke was deported from Israel, Fault Lines talked to her via e-mail. Writing from Beirut, Brooke wanted to stress that this situation is not about her; it is about the movement for a free Palestine…...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:48am PDT
Last week, Mohamad ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), paid a visit to Israel. The visit was prompted mostly by the charge of duplicity that is often levied against the agency by the indigenous people of the Middle East, who perceive the IAEA as one among many instruments in the US-Israeli (USraeli) arsenal of colonial domination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:31am PDT
GAZA, July 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has issued a presidential decree that stipulates the merge of the Palestinian security apparatuses into three, his top aide Nabil Abu Rudeineh stated on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:13am PDT
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya has told legislators that he has submitted his resignation to President Yasir Arafat....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:03am PDT
One can say the same to both Israel and the U.S. when they complain of terrorism and a lack of security. It’s the occupation, stupid!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 11:28am PDT
In my judgment as a journalist and Middle East specialist, the broadcasters' language favours the occupying soldiers over the occupied Arabs, depicting the latter, essentially, as alien tribes threatening the survival of Israel, rather than vice versa. The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is shown, most especially on mainstream bulletins, as a battle between two 'forces', possessed equally of right and wrong and responsibility. It is the tyranny of spurious equivalence.
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Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:35pm PDT
THE response of Israel and its chief ally - the United States - to last week's ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was very predictable. True to form, Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Ariel Sharon boasted that his country would continue building the West Bank separation barrier despite the ICJ's ruling that the wall is illegal and must be brought down....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:35am PDT