The ethnic cleansing of Palestine: Ilan Pappe, Oct 2006

Troops invade Balata refugee camp in Nablus
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - Friday, 06 October 2006
On Friday at dawn Israeli soldiers invaded Balata refugee camp in Nablus city, north of the West Bank, and bulldozed one of the main streets of the camp causing extensive damage to the street as well as damaging doors and walls of shops there.

Israeli settlers take over Hebron mosque under armed protection of Israeli soldiers
Sa'ed Al Shouhki, Palestine News Network (PNN) - Friday, 06 October 2006
Today in the southern West Bank's Hebron District a heavily armed group of Israeli settlers broke into the Halhoul Village Mosque and began performing Jewish religious services. Official Palestinian sources in the town told PNN on Thursday that the Israeli settlers carried machine guns and other weapons while overtaking the mosque for a half hour of Jewish prayer. Israeli soldiers occupying the area guarded the northern Hebron's mosque on behalf of the settlers.

Nigel Parry's Hebron Diary, 1995 onwards

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Not an internal Palestinian matter
Amira Hass, Haaretz, 04/10/2006
The experiment was a success: The Palestinians are killing each other. They are behaving as expected at the end of the extended experiment called "what happens when you imprison 1.3 million human beings in an enclosed space like battery hens."

Brinkmanship Tactics or Coup D'Etat?
Nicola Nasser, October 5, 2006

Squaring the circle
Al-Ahram, October 2006
Helmi Moussa traces the fault lines that threaten to tear Palestinian society apart.

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Information Brief: The Gaza Economy
Sara Roy, Palestine Center, 2 October 2006

Freshwater shortage leads to health problems in Gaza Strip
Report, IRIN, 2 October 2006

The International Community Must End the Collective Punishment of the Palestinian People
Press Release, Various, 3 October 2006
It must be recognised that the current crisis stems from the almost 40-year-long Israeli occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, and the fact that both and the international community have repeatedly failed to meet their obligations under international law with regard to the OPT.

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The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe, October 03, 2006
The book tries to show that in 1948, the Zionist movement waged a war against the Palestinain people in order to implement its long term plans of ethnic cleansing (whereas Israeli historians, including 'new historians', claimed that the war was waged by the Arab world against the state of Israel in order to eliminate it and it resulted in expulsions of Palestinians). The Arab world tried to prevent this cleansing, but was too fragmented, self-centered and ineffective to stop the uprooting of half of Palestine's native population, the destruction of half of its villages and towns and the killing of thousands of its people.

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TUC passes Palestine resolution
The Trades Union Congress has just passed a wide-ranging motion on Palestine, calling for the right of refugees to return, the ending of the occupation and the removal of the apartheid wall.

This is a significant step forward in British trade union policy on Palestine.

The full text is here:
(Scroll down to C16, Palestine at the bottom of the page).

Goldsmiths UCU deals double blow to Engage
Mark Elf - Thursday, October 05, 2006
The zionist movement's academic wing suffered a double blow yesterday when a motion proposed by Dr David Hirsh and a Josh Cohen, seeking to keep a boycott of off the union agenda in perpetuity, was defeated by 25 votes to 8 with 2 or 3 abstentions.

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Marwahin, 15 July 2006: The anatomy of a massacre
A special report
Robert Fisk, 30 September 2006

Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong
George Monbiot, The Guardian, Tuesday August 8, 2006

An Encounter with a Fighter
Assaf Kfoury, October 2, 2006

Encounter with a fighter
Eqbal Ahmad, August 1998

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Birthright Unplugged news!
Hannah Mermelstein, September 29, 2006
We've recently finished another successful season of Unplugged and Re-Plugged trips, with record numbers and more variety of participant than ever before. At the same time, the context for our work – the situation in Palestine – gets progressively worse, and this summer was particularly difficult for everyone in the region.

Not Everyone Gets a Birthright
Ma'ariv, June 6th, 2006
A young American woman was denied enrty in the Zionist Birthright-Israel project, after she requested a tour of refugee camps and villages in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

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Israeli academic speaks out about Palestinian conflict
PM - Friday, 6 October , 2006

Phillip Adams interviews Tanya Reinhart
5 October 2006