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World Council of Churches concerned about Israeli actions in Jerusalem Report, WCC, 31 March 2005...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 5:55pm PST
Palestine: Conflict, Occupation and Patriarchy - Women carry the burden
Women carry the bu Women have faced increased demands as care-givers and providers while at the same time their freedom of movement and action has been curtailed, and they have borne the brunt of the anger and frustration of male relatives who feel humiliated because they cannot fulfill their traditional role as providers. The escalation of violence and the deterioration of the situation in recent years have occurred in the context of Israel’s 38-year military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which h...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 5:48pm PST
israeli War Crimes (audio/mpeg 6.0MB) This is a summary of israeli War Crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 30 March 2005. 6mins (english)...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 12:30pm PST
Doom in Hebron 
Lydia Gall writing from Hebron, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 28 March 2005...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 11:33pm PST
Hamas ready to join PLO Resistance group Hamas has reiterated its readiness to join the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which groups together all the major Palestinian factions....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 11:31pm PST
Who's in favor of a Hamas victory In the spring of 1996, not long before Benjamin Netanyahu sent prime minister Shimon Peres back to the opposition, the head of Military Intelligence dropped an assessment bomb that shook the very foundations of the political corridors. At a well-attended press conference, he said he had information indicating that an increased Iranian effort to hit Israeli targets by means of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah. He added that "their assumption is that a change of regime in Israel will lea...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 10:22am PST
Jerusalem patriarch must go, says Palestinian Authority diplomat ATHENS - Jerusalem’s Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos I must resign under the weight of accusations that the patriarchate ceded sensitive Old City lands to Jewish investors, a Palestinian diplomat said on Monday.
“Calm must be restored, and this is not possible as long as Irineos remains in power, because his presence creates continuous tension,” the Palestinian Authority’s charge d’affaires in Athens Ismat Sabri told AFP....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:28am PST
Fatah's Revolutionary Council Meets in Gaza for Elections GAZA, Palestine, March28, 2005 (IPC+WAFA)--The revolutionary council of the largest Palestinian faction, Fatah, opened Sunday its twenty-sixth session in the presence of President Mahmoud Abbas in the latter's Gaza-based headquarters, Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:27am PST
Malaysian PM calls for more active role in Palestinian issue KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Monday urged global civil society to play more important role in searching for peace in Palestine....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:25am PST
Quraya: Colonies threaten future state No workable Palestinian state can be established as long as Israel keeps its settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurayahas says....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:10am PST
Britain: government refuses to release information on Israeli killing of UN worker The Blair government has turned down a request from the British Broadcasting Corporation to release official information on the death of Iain Hook.
A British United Nations worker, Hook was shot and killed by the Israeli military on November 22, 2002. No one has been held accountable for his murder, which was one of a series of attacks on aid workers, peace activists and journalists by the Israeli army at the time.
The BBC reports that the government rejected its application for the cla...
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 8:46am PST
Israeli War Crimes (audio/mpeg 6.6MB) This is a summary of israeli war crimes in Palestine for the week ending 24 March 2005. 8mins (english)...
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 8:24am PST
Hamas gets a helping hand - from Israel In trying to make sense of Israel's actions since the election of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Sharm summit, it may be useful to dust off Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Yaari's book on the first intifada, "Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising," (Simon and Schuster, 1990). Written more than 15 years ago, the book documents a premeditated policy by elements within the Israeli establishment to weaken the secular nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization by strengthening the Islami...
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2005 10:53am PST
US will accept Israel settlements The US ambassador to Israel says that Washington expects Israel to retain control over large Jewish settlements in the West Bank....
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2005 7:39am PST
Amnesty: Time to act on removal of unlawful Israeli settlements 
Report, Amnesty International, 24 March 2005...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 9:16pm PST
Al-Ahram On The Arab Summit And Cairo Declaration The calm before the storm?
The Cairo Declaration was more a victory for Hamas than Abu Mazen, writes Graham Usher in Jerusalem...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 7:12pm PST
Know When To Say "No": A Call For Divestment From The Israeli Occupation Shamai Leibowitz, The Electronic Intifada, 24 March 2005...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 6:34pm PST
Haiti and Palestine: The Struggle for Freedom (audio/mpeg 25.2MB) This is a program about the struggle for freedom and self-determination in Haita and Palestine. Interviews, Music and Analysis. 55mins (english/spanish...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 1:51pm PST
Israeli, Palestinian performers to sing for peace An initiative by Israeli singer David Broza and Palestinian singer Wisam Murad to have their song played on Israel and Palestinian radio stations simultaneously has encountered problems in winning approval from Israel public broadcast officials....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 9:38am PST
Algeria summit ends: Arab leaders revive peace plan, back Syria Arab leaders on Wednesday concluded a two-day summit with a decision to better promote a 2002 peace plan for Israel by sending a committee to explain it to Europe, the United States and other nations....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 8:38am PST
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