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Palestinian, Rhabab Abduladhi, Professor at NY University of Sociology & Israeli, Simona Shironi of Evergreen College, Washington...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 4:17pm PDT
Each week Kristen Ess files reports and gives voice to Palestinians, providing a necessary forum for understanding and ending the human rights disaster in Occupied Palestine....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 3:22pm PDT
On the 16th of every month, there will be a demonstration to protest US support of apartheid Israel. We will continue to demonstrate until Israel is transformed into a true democracy with equal rights for all regardless of religion, race or sex, and including all the Palestinian refugees who must be allowed their inalienable right to return to their ancestral homeland of Palestine-Israel....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 7:05am PDT
IF YOU want to measure the extent to which the standards of American journalism have sunk, your best barometer is no doubt the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There you will find not only the usual lack of investigative backbone that now prevails across the American journalism landscape, or the remarkable self-censorship with which the American media go about “covering the news,” but, at times, also encounter what can only be described as an astonishing and breathtaking open refusal to live up ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2003 1:25pm PDT
In honor of Rachel Corrie's martyrdom by an as of yet un-named Israeli soldier, we are staging demonstrantions on the 16th of every month in front of a politician's office, until the US stops support of racist, apartheid Israel. This month we will hold a demonstration in front of Congressman Lanto's office....
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2003 12:53pm PDT
Israel could deport or arrest Palestinian President Yasser Arafat if he holds up his prime minister's efforts to implement a U.S.-backed "road map" to Middle East peace, Israeli diplomatic sources said Saturday....
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2003 12:25am PDT
SHAME-SHAME:Questions and Answers About the Palestinian Prisoners
July 2003
Avigdor Lieberman as Israel’s Transport Minister on Israeli Radio July 7,
2003, was heard to offer to bus Palestinian political prisoners to the Dead
Sea to be drowned, “It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that’s the lowest point in the world.”...
Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2003 10:35pm PDT
Yasser Arafat continues to tell Palestinian children to be fearless and attack Israeli soldiers, rather than telling them to stop attacking and stay in school....
Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2003 7:10pm PDT
On the 16th of every month, concerned American citizens are protesting U.S. support of apartheid Israel with two huge banners with the image of Rachel Corrie in front of the bulldozer that kill ed her. The still unnamed, unpunished Israeli soldier murdered her deliberately while she tried to protect another Palestinian home from being demolished....
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2003 2:08pm PDT
You must know what is happening to many foreign workers right now in Israel. Some had worked in Israel for many years before being roughly arrested. This is a letter to my friend Liam in Australia whom I worked with at An-Najah University in Nablus, Palestine. Liam was captured and deported some time ago and he has an interesting story of his own....
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2003 12:00pm PDT
Ariel Sharon has barred the BBC from his meeting with the British press during a visit to London next week amid accusations that the corporation made false allegations against Israel in a report on weapons of mass destruction....
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2003 12:17am PDT
Newly declassified transcripts back up Israel's claim that its attack on a U.S. spy ship during the 1967 Middle East war was an accident, a Florida judge who has been investigating the case for 16 years said Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2003 11:07pm PDT
Some Jewish immigrants to Israel are being given loans of $7,000 to $18,000, offered by a privately funded organization called Nefesh B'Nefesh. The loans become grants if the immigrants remain in Israel for at least three years. About 2,040 North American Jews moved to Israel last year, and the numbers are up more than 20 percent this year, according to the Jewish Agency, an Israeli quasi-governmental agency that helps the immigration process....
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2003 3:34am PDT
Beit Hanoun, in the aftermath of the two-month long Israeli re-occupation -is now a disaster zone:...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 10:49pm PDT
The Los Angeles Times' equates Palestinian terrorists with Israeli schoolchildren....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 5:07pm PDT
But he added: "Those who hate Israel, who hate Jews, and
those who believe in conspiracy will not be convinced by anything."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 3:58pm PDT
Portland is just better at these sorts of discussions. Although sf is important for all it's Israel/Palestine work, among other things....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 12:53pm PDT
Wondering whether some of these pro-Israeli pictures depicting Palestinian babies and children with guns are real? These two articles document a racist assault against a Palestinian-American child (he was born in California!) whom Israeli soldiers forced to dress as a militiant. The US State Department and media, of course, declined to investigate....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 11:09am PDT
The link at the bottom of the article has all sorts of information on it like aid totals given to Israel and loans which are almost always forgiven, therefore they are actually outright grants even though they are normally not considered part of the 4-6 Billion dollars Israel gets annually....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 10:06am PDT
The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University issued the results of their latest survey of Israeli and Palestinian public opinion, with a two-state solution and the Road Map drawing strong support....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 8:30am PDT