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Elders Block Bulldozers in Salfit, Gassed by Israeli Army On Thursday, June 17, older men lay down in front of moving bulldozers to stop the destruction of their olive groves for the Apartheid Wall in Salfit, West Bank. The army responded by shooting tear gas and sound bombs at close range, and later threatened youth with live fire. Video 5:40....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 6:11pm PDT
An Interview With Arafat Arafat is ready to sign an agreement that would give Palestinians 97 per cent of the West Bank and Gaza - with the rest in a land swap, and the right of return of not all, but at least some refugees. In a free-ranging interview with Haaretz, conducted in the carefully preserved ruins of the Muqata, the PA Chairman also spoke of the historical family bonds between the two peoples.
"Definitely," says Yasser Arafat, waving his arm for emphasis. He definitely understands and accep...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 5:39pm PDT
Hip Hop Artist Michael Franti Reports From Rafah Franti continues his fact-finding trip through the Middle East. We last spoke with him in Baghdad, he is now in Rafah where Israel recently demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 10:20am PDT
Israel deports 20 US Citizens Israel deports 20 US Citizens who enrolled in an Arabic language course being offered by Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem. Two resisting deportation!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 3:45pm PDT
Moat will turn Gaza into 'big prison' Israel on Thursday set in motion a plan to build a moat along the Gaza-Egypt border, inviting contractors to bid on the project aimed at putting and end to alleged weapons smuggling....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 2:21pm PDT
17June - Update on Brooke Atherton resisting deportation from Israel ...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 12:59pm PDT
Background / Israel's new peace groups - a field guide "One more historic victory like this," goes the mordant Hebrew expression, "and we are lost."
It was only last month that the settlement movement, along with allies in the right and far-right, scored perhaps its most dramatic political triumph on record. In a come-from-behind landslide, Likud members responded to an all-out settler campaign and repudiated Ariel Sharon's withdrawal proposal in a referendum the prime minister had vowed to honor....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:28am PDT
B'Tselem: "Permit System to Cross Separation Barrier is Racist" 
Since October 2003, Israel has implemented a new permit system in the enclaves it created between the separation barrier and the Green Line. As a result, Palestinians without a permit are denied the right to work their lands to the west of the barrier....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:04am PDT
The address for protest is Labor's headquarters How can we explain the conjurer's trick by which Sharon has turned into the darling of the Israeli peace camp?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:01am PDT
We need a Zionist halakha The non-Jewish wave of immigration has brought the issue of relations between religion and state - chiefly regarding marriage and conversion - to a moment of truth. Even those who favor continued Orthodox monopoly on marriage will not be able to accept a situation in which hundreds of thousands of immigrants are unable to marry in Israel. This is what led former chief rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron to propose a sweeping annulment of the monopoly....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:59am PDT
Former head of Israeli prime minister's bureau accused of incitement Yahad MK Avshalom Vilan and the Peace Now movement petitioned Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Thursday to investigate Uri Elitzur, former head of the prime minister's bureau during the Benjamin Netanyahu administration, on allegations of incitement....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:56am PDT
Israel issues tender for moat on Philadelphi Route in Gaza The Defense Ministry announced Thursday morning that it is issuing a tender for the construction of a moat along the Philadelphi Route on the Egypt-Gaza border, aimed at deterring the smuggling of weapons over the frontier into Palestinian areas....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:54am PDT
P10K Founder Beaten in Israeli Jail Irish Political Activist Ken O'Keefe suffered concussion and bruising at the hands of an Israeli prison guard Monday evening, five days into his hunger strike against detention and possible deportation. He was arrested last Thursday for attempting to enter Gaza to discuss the P10K plan with representatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 6:12pm PDT
Israeli undercover forces raid Jenin Israeli occupation forces have shot dead a Palestinian, wounded a second and arrested several others in the West Bank city of Jenin....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 7:59am PDT
Turk PM blames Israel for rising anti-Semitism ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, increasingly critical of regional ally Israel over its treatment of Palestinians, yesterday blamed the Israeli government for rising anti-Semitism in the world....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 8:38pm PDT
Israel plans new West Bank settlements Israel is considering building thousands more homes in West Bank settlements, in line with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to keep large chunks of the territory but give up Gaza....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 8:34pm PDT
US bulldozer firm in Mid-East row A leading UN official has warned US manufacturer Caterpillar that it may be complicit in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza....
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2004 11:07am PDT
Knesset defeats three no-confidence motions The Knesset rejected three no-confidence motions on Monday afternoon, including one filed by the National Union over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan....
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2004 9:59am PDT
Who will get rid of Feiglin? "Kahane? He was right. Baruch Goldstein? An amazingly kind man. Hitler? A genius. And the Arabs? Their future is somewhere else. The leftists? They're disturbed." That is how, in large print alongside a huge picture, Yedioth Ahronoth lured its readers to partake of Feiglin's doctrine. Yes, I read it, of course I read it. There is something fascinating about exposed pus. Unsurprisingly enough, the headlines did not take his words out of context. Once upon a time, when the public disc...
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2004 9:57am PDT
Activist on Hunger Strike in Israeli Jail - attempting "peace" talks with Hamas Irish American political activist Ken O'Keefe is on hunger strike in an Israeli jail whilst fighting deportation after being arrested for attempting to enter Gaza on Thursday. Last year, the former US Marine and Gulf War veteran returned to Iraq with more than 500 Human Shields. After entering Gaza via a settlement, he was detained by 10 Israeli soldiers whilst walking along the beach into the Palestinian area....
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2004 3:20am PDT
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