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Israeli army warns of strike against Syria As the conflict on the Israel-Lebanon border escalates, the Israeli military has issued a blunt warning that it may launch a direct attack against Syria....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 8:19pm PDT
Alarm at US drift over Middle East UK report reveals fears for future of Palestinians...
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 8:02pm PDT
UN demands Israel scrap barrier The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution demanding that Israel comply with a world court ruling to dismantle its West Bank barrier....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 7:59pm PDT
More Palestinians made homeless The Israeli army has embarked on a flurry of house demolitions at a northern West Bank village in an activity apparently related to the continued construction of the separation wall....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 8:09am PDT
Annan: Arafat must listen to his prime minister United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaking Monday evening in New York, urged Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to listen to his prime minister and other governmental colleagues and implement security reforms....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 8:05am PDT
Arafat reverses decision on security chief Backing down in the face of widespread protests, Yasir Arafat has replaced his cousin as Palestinian security chief and asked the former chief to return to his job...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 7:57am PDT
Rights groups slam Israel's citizenship law Israeli and international human rights organisations have labelled as racial discrimination a government extension of a law barring Palestinians married to Israelis from obtaining their spouse's citizenship....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 7:01pm PDT
Gaza storm over new security boss The new Palestinian security chief has taken command, vowing to face down fierce protests against his nomination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 11:13am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: Deported, but not Demoralized Brooke Atherton is a Bay Area activist dedicated to fighting Israel’s repression of Palestine. On June 24, six days after Brooke was deported from Israel, Fault Lines talked to her via e-mail. Writing from Beirut, Brooke wanted to stress that this situation is not about her; it is about the movement for a free Palestine…...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:48am PDT
Israel, Iran and the IAEA: Nuclear Ambiguity or Hypocrisy? Last week, Mohamad ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), paid a visit to Israel. The visit was prompted mostly by the charge of duplicity that is often levied against the agency by the indigenous people of the Middle East, who perceive the IAEA as one among many instruments in the US-Israeli (USraeli) arsenal of colonial domination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:31am PDT
Arafat issues decree merging security apparatuses into three GAZA, July 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has issued a presidential decree that stipulates the merge of the Palestinian security apparatuses into three, his top aide Nabil Abu Rudeineh stated on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:13am PDT
Quraya tenders resignation to Arafat Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya has told legislators that he has submitted his resignation to President Yasir Arafat....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:03am PDT
It’s the Occupation, Stupid! One can say the same to both Israel and the U.S. when they complain of terrorism and a lack of security. It’s the occupation, stupid!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 11:28am PDT
Senior Middle East Correspondent for BBC discusses medias' bias in favor of Israel In my judgment as a journalist and Middle East specialist, the broadcasters' language favours the occupying soldiers over the occupied Arabs, depicting the latter, essentially, as alien tribes threatening the survival of Israel, rather than vice versa. The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is shown, most especially on mainstream bulletins, as a battle between two 'forces', possessed equally of right and wrong and responsibility. It is the tyranny of spurious equivalence.
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Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:35pm PDT
The Selective Justice of America And Its Allies THE response of Israel and its chief ally - the United States - to last week's ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was very predictable. True to form, Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Ariel Sharon boasted that his country would continue building the West Bank separation barrier despite the ICJ's ruling that the wall is illegal and must be brought down....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:35am PDT
UNRWA: Israelis fired on food convoy An UNRWA convoy delivering food to a besieged Palestinian town has come under Israeli fire in the occupied Gaza Strip, according to UN officials....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:56am PDT
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
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