Death and Tears in Nablus : Eliza Ernshire, Sep 2006

Condemned to desolation
On the brink of starvation, Gazans wonder if the world is blind as well as deaf.
Erica Silverman, 14 - 20 September 2006
Hundreds of desperate parents swarmed lists of coupon numbers tacked to the walls of the UNRWA relief centre in the Beach Refugee Camp of Gaza City Sunday, nervously trying to locate their assigned lot to collect emergency food packages only being offered to families with at least 11 members.

Gaza: The children killed in a war the world doesn't want to know about
Donald Macintyre In Rafah, September 19, 2006
Nayef Abu Snaima says his 14-year-old cousin Jihad had been sitting on the edge of an olive grove talking animatedly to him about what he would do when he grew up when he was killed instantly by an Israeli shell.

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The Boy who was Buried Twice
Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz - September 14, 2006

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Death and Tears in Nablus
Eliza Ernshire, September 16 / 17, 2006
While war raged in Lebanon throughout the month of July and death was a daily occurrence in Gaza, other regions in this war-torn part of the world also experienced weeks of torment and torture at the hands of the Israeli Military. Among these regions is Nablus.

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Kill Arabs, Cry Anti-Semitism
Norman Finkelstein on the UK's Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry Into Antisemitism - September 2006
A central thesis of my book Beyond Chutzpah is that whenever Israel faces a public relations debacle its apologists sound the alarm that a "new anti-Semitism" is upon us.

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Irish academics call on EU to stop funding Israeli academic institutions
IRELAND PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
PRESS RELEASE September 16, 2006
In a letter published in the Irish Times today, 61 Irish academics from a wide variety of disciplines call for a moratorium on EU support of Israeli academic institutions until Israel abides by UN resolutions and ends the occupation of Palestinian territories.

British Trade Unions: "Tear down the Apartheid Wall"
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
September 17th, 2006
Britain's largest trade union body, the TUC, has passed a motion calling on Israel to tear down its 'apartheid wall'.

The Israel Veolia "Connexxion"
Adri Nieuwhof, September 13, 2006

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Two killed in the West Bank one of them a pregnant woman
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - Tuesday, 19 September 2006
Two West Bank residents were killed by the Israeli army on Tuesday morning, one of them a pregnant woman who was delayed at an army checkpoint.

An Israeli's short cut, a Palestinian's occupation
Ben Sharpton writing from occupied West Bank, 18 September 2006
Today, on my way to Jordan and my flight home, I did something no Palestinian from the West Bank can do. I woke up in Ramallah (in the West Bank), went to Jerusalem (already impossible!), got on a bus and rode eastward and then northward THROUGH the West Bank's Jordan river valley and into northern Israel without having to stop at any checkpoint or show my ID to anyone. How did I do this amazing thing? Answer: I was travelling as an "Israeli."

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Lebanese Fields Sown with Israeli Cluster Bombs
Patrick Cockburn, September 19, 2006
The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon and wound many more.

US may ban sale of cluster bombs to Israel
Patrick Cockburn in Nabatiyeh, south Lebanon, September 20, 2006

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Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and Honorary President of Peace People, Northern Ireland visits Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu
September 16 /17, 2006

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Dissecting Israel's freeze on visas
Rima Merriman, September 13, 2006

'Israelis want Palestinian ethnic cleansing'
Motasem A Dalloul in Gaza, August 30, 2006