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KATHLEEN CHRISTISON: The Problem with Neutrality Between Palestinians and Israel ...when in history have decent people seriously accepted balance and neutrality as a proper response in moral conflicts or national conflicts that pit one very powerful party against a powerless party...Neutrality in any conflict in which there is a gross imbalance of power is probably an impossibility and certainly immoral. Treading a middle path between one utterly powerless party and another party with total power, effectively removes all restraints on behavior by the powerful party. Yet t...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 11:03am PDT
Arab nations want UN to pressure Israel on barrier UNITED NATIONS - Arab states on Monday called for an emergency session of the UN General Assembly to demand that Israel comply with a World Court ruling that the West Bank separation fence is illegal and must be dismantled....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:38am PDT
Detainees in Israel statement of support for hunger strikers Jamie Spector and 2 others currently detained by the Israeli authorities have made this statement in support of the hunger strike in A-Ram against the new wall....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 4:38pm PDT
Statement from parents of Jewish-American activist Jamie Spector Statement from Annette and Stephen Spector, parents of Jamie Spector, a Jewish-American social worker and activist from SF who is being threatened with deportation from Israel....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 4:28pm PDT
Ann Petter Hearing; Bay Area Peace Activist Detained in Israel The hearing date for Ann Robinson-Petter at the Israeli High Court has been set for
Thursday, July 15 at 9:00AM; Jamie Spector, a social worker from San Francisco has been detained at Tel Aviv's
Ben Gurion Airport yesterday and is facing deportation......
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 9:04am PDT
Elderly man crushed to death after IDF demolishes Gaza home Body of 70-year-old wheelchair-bound man was found in the wreckage of his Khan Yunis house; IDF arrests 4 wanted Palestinians in W. Bank....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:18am PDT
Tel Aviv Bomb Kills One, Israel Assassinates 4 Palestinians "An anonymous spokesman for the group said it was carried out to avenge 'crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces' in the West Bank town of Nablus.."...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 3:20pm PDT
Impoverished and unloved: Poverty Among Arabs and Ultra-Orthodox In Israel There are two groups in Israel that seem to be quite different from one another but in fact are quite similar. The beginning of the resemblance - even the identity - between them is statistical, as emerges from figures that the Bank of Israel published last week: 47 percent of the ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are poor; 47.6 of the Arabs ("the non-Jews") are poor. There are no other groups in Israel in which the percentage of poor people is as high as in these two groups - not the i...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 3:07pm PDT
Jewish Activist From San Francisco Denied Entry Into Israel JERUSALEM - A Jewish American was denied entry to Israel because she belongs to a pro-Palestinian group, her lawyer said Sunday — a rare case of a Jew banned from the Jewish state....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 2:52pm PDT
The Court has spoken: What's Next? Azem Bishara, The Electronic Intifada, 11 July 2004...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:55am PDT
Nablus: When does it stop? Arjan El Fassed writing from Nablus, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 10 July 2004...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:54am PDT
Sharon orders work on fence to continue, rejects ICJ ruling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered construction work on the West Bank separation fence to continue on Sunday, thus rejecting Friday's ruling by the International Court of Justice at The Hague that parts of the barrier are illegal....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:53am PDT
Arafat hints Israel planted Tel Aviv bomb Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has condemned Sunday's deadly bomb attack in Tel Aviv but suggested that it was an act of provocation carried out by the Israelis....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:51am PDT
ISM Activist to be Deported from Palestine Anne Robinson-Peter, who has been held in a cell at Ben-Gurion Airport for two weeks, could be deported for her activities with the International Solidarity Movement....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 4:12pm PDT
World Court to Israel: Tear Down This Wall The International Court of Justice is set to rule today that Israel has violated international law by building a 425-mile wall through the West Bank. According to Ha'aretz, the U.S. representative is the only judge on the 15-person panel backing Israel. We go to outside the court in the Hague to speak with Mustafa Barghouti, secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:51am PDT
ICJ says it has jurisdiction to rule on wall The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected Israel's contention that it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the legality of the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:43am PDT
New settler outpost belies Sharon's pledge Jewish settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, have erected a new illegal outpost in the West Bank city of Hebron, grabbing an additional 150 square kilometres of Palestinian land in the process....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:41am PDT
Int'l Court rules Israel must pull down 'illegal' W. Bank fence, compensate Palestinians The International Court of Justice will rule on Friday that the separation fence contravenes international law, that it must be dismantled, and that compensation must be paid to the Palestinian owners of property confiscated for its construction, according to documents obtained by Haaretz....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 11:01pm PDT
Protesting Israel's Apartheid Wall: A Letter from the Hunger Strikers' Tent ...at least 17 people have joined in on the hunger strike protesting Israel's apartheid wall..."Israel's wall = Apartheid - Wrong in South Africa, wrong in Palestine" and "Israel's wall (does not equal) security; Israel's wall = land theft, racial discrimination and Palestinian dispossession"....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 5:34pm PDT
Scholars attacked for comparing Zionism to Nazism "... [Prof.] Armitage also reportedly accused the benignly named American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC, Israel’s official but unregistered lobby) of funding opponents of the lobby’s critics, adding, “and believe me, they have money to spare...He also accused AIPAC of “buying our elections, which pisses me off … Israel has a hammerlock on America...."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 2:24pm PDT
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