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Single minds, double standards, and plural societies: One month on in Lebanon 
Laurie King-Irani, The Electronic Intifada, 13 March 2005...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 8:31pm PST
Israel: Settlements still expanding Construction on illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank continues unabated even as the Israeli cabinet has committed itself to their evacuation, the Israeli press reported....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 1:18pm PST
Israeli wall to engulf Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved the final route of the illegal barrier around Jerusalem that will include Jewish settlements in parts of the West Bank, officials said....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:34am PST
Report: Abbas to offer giving up Right of Return Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will tell Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo Tuesday that the right of return of refugees should be looked upon "realistically," and that not all exiled Palestinians will be able to return to former homes in Israel and the Palestinian territories, the London-based Asharq al Awsat newspaper reported Monday....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:32am PST
Sharon says truce not enough, demands to disarm Palestinian groups Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held an indirect exchange of views Sunday night, starting with Abbas telling Israel's Channel 1 that, after the anticipated announcement this week of a formal cease-fire by all the Palestinian factions, he would be ready for full-scale diplomatic talks....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 12:08am PST
Fatah, Hamas supporters clash Supporters of Palestinian Islamic resistance group Hamas and the ruling Fatah movement have clashed at a university in Hebron in a brawl over student council elections....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 12:06am PST
Report highlights costs of occupation for Israeli society A new report from the Tel Aviv-based Adva Centre has detailed Israel’s massive expenditures on the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Successive governments have spent billions of dollars on the expansion of settlements in West Bank and Gaza, and on the suppression of Palestinian resistance. These costs have been placed squarely on the backs of the Israeli working class, which has seen a sustained assault on its wages, conditions and social benefits....
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 7:54am PST
Hamas to contest legislative elections The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has decided to participate in legislative elections in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip this summer....
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 7:45am PST
Budrus tears down the Wall! 1. Budrus tears down the Wall!
2. PalestineCalendar.org Honors Rachel Corrie...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 2:14pm PST
Beating Israel's activist deportation system, this time 
K. Flo Razowsky, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2005...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:08am PST
The Vision of a Blind Woman 
Sami Abu Salem writing from Occupied Gaza, Live from Palestine, 7 March 2005...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:06am PST
Defusing Israel's "demographic bomb" Israel has long lived in fear of the so-called "demographic bomb" -- the fact that the Palestinian population in Israel and the occupied territories is increasing much faster than the Israeli Jewish population. While Israeli Jews thought the day they would become a minority was perhaps still twenty years away, the evidence is increasing that the bomb has already exploded and Palestinians are already a majority in historic Palestine, as they were until Israel was created....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:05am PST
Cracks within Fatah Pressured by the quiet growth of Hamas, the movement behind Abbas may soon be ripe to fall, writes Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:04am PST
Apartheid targets Palestinian home-owners inside Israel 
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2005...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 10:55am PST
BTL:Peace Process Bound to Fail if Israel Expands West Bank Settlements Interview with Dr. Jeff Halper, coordinating director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 5:17am PST
Iran: US pressure on Syria in order to serve Israel interests Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmad Azizi said on Wednesday that Washington has put pressure on Syria and other regional states in a bid to settle the Middle East issue in favor of Israel. According to Irna, he made the remark during a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad....
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 3:49am PST
Mass resignations in Fatah Some 250 Fatah members in Gaza City have quit in protest against the "internal chaos" within the Palestinian resistance group....
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 5:40pm PST
Jericho pullback talks break down A planned Israeli army pullback from cities in the occupied West Bank has stalled, with talks to turn over Jericho to Palestinian control breaking down, Aljazeera reported....
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 5:40pm PST
Sharon criticised over settlements Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, could face a criminal investigation after an inquiry today found government funds had secretly been used to set up illegal West Bank settlements....
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 5:33pm PST
Hamas ties truce to Israel's conduct Armed Palestinian group Hamas has ruled out any formal halt to resistance operations, putting the onus on Israel....
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 6:26am PST
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