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YOUR PRESENCE IS NEEDED FOR THE OLIVE HARVEST IN PALESTINE Resisting the Occupation by Insisting on Life...

Sunday, August 18: Stephen Zunes: "The Israeli Palestinian Conflict" Public Event / Live Webcast Tuesday, August 27: Roxanne-Dunbar Ortiz & Max Elbaum on 1960s Movements...

How the Israeli authorities try to keep Palestinians supporting Hamas......

The Israeli press uses racist terms against Arabs including outright calls for genocide, but this is completely ignored by the Western press....

KPFA Flashpoints Radio -August 7: stories of Palestinian political prisoners.. Vieques update.. human rights in America's prisons.. -August 6: about the psychological damage of increasing violence and resistance on Palestinian families.. Israel faces an environmental crisis.. VP-select Cheney comes to SF ----- full story and audio links at http://flashpoints.ne...

The murderous rampage of the Zionist army in Palestine is generating very negative responses against all Jews around the world. Synagogues have been set ablaze in France, firebombs thrown at Jewish property in Belgium and Jews have been attacked on the streets of Buenos Aires, Berlin, London, and Mexico City. Many countries now fear that the raging violence in the Middle East is threatening their own peace and security....

The boycott of Israel and Israeli goods, as well as some American goods, combined with the declining economy, is working....

Yet the extremism about which I speak isn't actually extreme, at least not in the customary definition of the word. The man who wishes all Palestinians would die is better embraced by American analysts than those who argue in favor of international law (i.e., against Israel's occupation and in support of the right to return). With minor variations, decorated commentators George Will, Charles Krauthammer, William Safire, and scores of others say the same thing. They are, in short, odious...

Twenty thousand Palestinians and Lebanese died, 25,000 were wounded and 400,000 were made homeless during the first months of the 1982 Israeli invasion. The tonnages dropped on Beirut alone surpassed those of the atomic bomb which devastated Hiroshima. Schools and hospitals were particularly targeted. The citrus and olive production of Lebanon south of Beirut was destroyed. The Lebanese economy, whose exports had competed with Israel’s, became moribund. The south of Lebanon became an Israe...

The Israeli army yesterday found traces of the explosives that blew up the Hebrew University cafeteria during a raid on hidden weapons labs in Nablus....