Monday, 18 December 2006
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine: Ilan Pappe, Oct 2006
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
Sunday, 17 December 2006
Israeli academia deserves to be boycotted: Ilan Pappe, Oct 2006
Report, PCHR, October 1, 2006
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Paralysis of the Palestinian 'Authority': What's to be done?
Rima Merriman, The Electronic Intifada, October 2, 2006
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Missing the government of thieves
Amira Hass, Haaretz, September 28, 2006
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Israel's visa changes force people out of West Bank and Gaza
Thursday, 28 September, 2006
2 faces of Israel on the Jewish New Year
Sam Bahour, Sunday, September 24, 2006
The first by Shulamit Aloni shows signs of an Israeli awakening to reality.
Waiting to return to where "the air is different"
Mayssoun Sukarieh writing from Amman, Jordan, September 30, 2006
The situation of Laura and Ibrahim Ganim is just one of many created by the latest Israeli policy to cleanse Palestine of Palestinians. As their lawyers told them,"The Israeli government wants the least number of Palestinians in the Palestinian territories."
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PSC, BIG Call for Day of Action to Boycott Israel
London, September 29, 2006
Israeli academia deserves to be boycotted
Ilan Pappe, The Irish Times, October 3, 2006
I am a regular visitor to the sites where on a daily basis the Israeli security apparatus abuses and tortures thousands of Palestinians. I can count on one hand the number of Israeli academics I have met in these locations.
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Tulkarem Refugees Call for Israel Boycott in Trade Fair
September 24, 2006
The Small Battles
Daniela, Ramallah, Tuesday, 26 September 2006
This weekend I attended a small rally in Tulkarem, where Palestinian NGOs were calling for a boycott of Israeli goods. Although the group was small, they were organized and seemed intent to follow through with this goal.
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Education or mind infection?
Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Speech given at Connecticut College, New London, CT - 09/27/06
IDF to look at teens' motivation
Hanan Greenberg, 29/08/2006
Kid, why don't you want to perform combat service? A new comprehensive plan formulated by officials at the Education and Defense Ministries will see high school students fill out questionnaires in an effort to examine their motivation to serve in the army, Ynet has learned. The surveys, to be handed out to grade 10-12 students,will look into teenagers' views on military service and their preferences regarding the types of service. The plan's objective is to identify hesitant students in an effort to boost the motivation to serve among such teens.
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Bad faith and the destruction of Palestine
Jonathan Cook, September 29, 2006
A mistake too often made by those examining Israel's behaviour in the occupied territories - or when analysing its treatment of Arabs in general, or interpreting its view of Iran - is to assume that Israel is acting in good faith. Even its most trenchant critics can fall into this trap.
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Six years of Israeli aggression and war crimes in the OPT
Report, PCHR, September 28, 2006
Intervention to Member States of the United Nations on the
Sixth Anniversary of the Second Intifada
Report, Al-Haq, September 29, 2006
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Lie Less in Gaza
Arthur Neslen, October 2, 2006
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Echoes of Ireland in Palestine: a review of Ken Loach's new film
Ali Abunimah, September 29, 2006
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An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
The Roadmap to Nowhere
Eric Hazan, October 2, 2006
Why Israel will never truly let go of Gaza: Tanya Reinhart, Sep 2006
Maan News, September 23, 2006
The morning prayer in Gaza, and the first day of Ramadan fasting, were accompanied by flights of Israeli helicopters. It seems that the absence of salaries has deprived Gaza of the possibility of carrying out suitable preparations for this religious month.
In 9 hours in Gaza, IDF kills 5, including 3 children, and injures 7
Press Release, PCHR, September 21, 2006
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Why Israel Will Never Truly Let Go of Gaza
Tanya Reinhart in The Independent Weekly, Adelaide
September 2006
Whatever the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army's war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman reported, the army was preparing for an attack months earlier and was constantly pushing for it, with the goal of destroying the Hamas infrastructure and its government. The army initiated an escalation on June 8 when it assassinated Abu Samhadana, a senior appointee of the Hamas Government, and intensified its shelling of civilians in the Gaza Strip.
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Meron Benvenisti on the Lebanon War and the Palestinian Conflict
No war is compelled by circumstances. In this case, the response and its scale were not at all compulsory. But our response is always the same response, which we then make justify itself, calling it a war for existence. And someone like me, after seventy years of sitting in this country, is quite fed up.
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In the name of security, but not for its sake
Amira Hass, Haaretz, 20/09/2006
"...the Israeli security services are careful to act within the framework of a clear political paradigm: maximum weakening, in every possible way, of the Palestinian national collective, so that it will not be able to realize its goal and establish a state worthy of the name, in accordance with international resolutions."
Detainee Paralyzed During Torture in Israeli Prison
Mustafa Sabri - PNN;
translated by Saed Bannoura, September 20, 2006
Every Palestinian detainee has his own story of the horrors of being held in Israeli detention facilities, but in the case of detainee Luay Al Ashqar, 28, from Saida village, near Tulkarem (in the northern part of the West Bank), the result and the outcome are clearly apparent on his body, which has been paralyzed due to Israeli torture.
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COSATU Congress Adopts Middle East Resolution
September 22, 2006
The 1.8 million strong Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) ended its 9th Congress in Johannesburg yesterday (21st September). A resolution on the Middle East sponsored by the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA), the Witwatersrand and Eastern Cape regions was unanimously adopted.
Student conference calls for Palestine actions
Simon Cunich, Sydney, GLW, 20/09/06
The September 15 Students for Peace and Justice conference, attended by 50 anti-war activists from universities across Sydney and from Wollongong University, called for a week of campus solidarity actions with the Palestinian people on October 9-13.
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Jewish writer's answer to Israel's question
My Israel Question by Antony Loewenstein
reviewed by Kim Bullimore, Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Network, GLW, 20/09/06.
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The Next Palestinian Struggle
Ramzy Baroud, September 22, 2006
If any peace settlement fails to adhere to the democratic concept, according to which Palestinians wish to govern themselves, then Palestinians should ready themselves for another Oslo-style agreement, imposed from the top and rubber stamped by the PLO's Executive Committee, long-devoid of its democratic principles and dominated by the elitist few.
Ramzy Baroud teaches mass communication at Curtin University of Technology.
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I went to Nablus
Sonja Karkar writing from Nablus, September 20, 2006
I only found out many hours later when we had returned to Jerusalem that Nablus had been closed that night and no one could leave or enter. This was the beginning of some of the most invasive sieges by Israel's military to implement ethnic cleansing. I have since learned that public records have been totally destroyed, ground into the dust by bulldozers, leaving thousands of Palestinians without any evidence of births and deaths or the precious travel documents that allow them to go outside and study or visit relatives. Old records documenting the history of generations of Palestinians from Nablus are gone too. All this to make them non-people, sub-human - without a past or present and certainly no future. How much more must the Palestinians endure in their caged existence before the world says this is enough and tells Israel to stop their relentless torture of a whole people?
Sonja Karkar is an activist with Women for Palestine of Melbourne, Australia.
Death and Tears in Nablus : Eliza Ernshire, Sep 2006
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
"Gaza has been reoccupied" : Gideon Levy, September 2006
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz, September 5, 2006
Gaza has been reoccupied. The world must know this and Israelis must know it, too. It is in its worst condition, ever. Since the abduction of Gilad Shalit, and more so since the outbreak of the Lebanon war, the Israel Defense Forces has been rampaging through Gaza - there's no other word to describe it - killing and demolishing, bombing and shelling, indiscriminately.
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'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now'
Patrick Cockburn in Gaza, September 8, 2006
Many people are being killed by Israeli incursions that occur every day by land and air. A total of 262 people have been killed and 1,200 wounded, of whom 60 had arms or legs amputated, since 25 June, says Dr Juma al-Saqa, the director of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which is fast running out of medicine. Of these, 64 were children and 26 women. This bloody conflict in Gaza has so far received only a fraction of the attention given by the international media to the war in Lebanon.
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Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps
Patrick Cockburn in Jerusalem, September 9, 2006
"Women in Gaza tell me they are eating only one meal a day, bread with tomatoes or cheap vegetables," said Kirstie Campbell of the UN's World Food Programme, which is feeding 235,000 people. She added that in June, since when the crisis has worsened, some 70 per cent of people in Gaza could not meet their family's food needs. "People are raiding garbage dumps," she said.
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Army invades Khazza'a town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip
IMEMC & Agencies - Saturday, 09 September 2006
Israeli army tanks and bulldozers invaded the eastern part of Khazza'a village east of Khan Younis south of the Gaza strip on Saturday morning. Tanks opened random fire at residents houses causing damage, no injuries were reported. Soldiers were also operating in the town on Wednesday and Thursday after invading it, two residents were killed and seven were injured. Farmlands and hothouses were bulldozed and destroyed by the army.
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Israel continues banning Gazans from studying in West Bank
Amos Harel, Ha'aretz Correspondent, 08/09/2006
Army prevents 23 internationals on a Peace Tour from entering West Bank
George Rishmawi-IMEMC - September 7, 2006
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How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon
Jonathan Cook, September 7, 2006
How Israel failed its Arab citizens before, during and after the Lebanon war
Report, I'lam, September 7, 2006
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Soldiers severely abuse young Palestinian and take a picture of themselves on his cell phone
Report, B'Tselem, 6 September 2006
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Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story?
Jonathan Cook in Nazareth, September 5, 2006
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Roni Ben Efrat, Challenge magazine, September 4, 2006
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Tenders issued for hundreds of homes in [illegal] West Bank settlements
Nadav Shragai, Yoav Stern and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz, 04/09/2006
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Forced Migration Review 26: Palestinian displacement:a case apart?
The September 2006 issue includes a major feature on Palestinian displacement.Twenty-eight articles by UN, Palestinian and international human rights organisations, Palestinian scholars in the diaspora and Jewish and Israeli activist groups examine the root causes of the displacement of Palestinians, the consequences of the failure to apply international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Palestinian entitlement to protection and compensation.
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What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza StripA Warning from Israel - July 15, 2005
URI DAVIS, ILAN PAPPE, and TAMAR YARON
We believe that one primary, unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees.
Saturday, 16 December 2006
Deception as a Way of Life: Israeli Myths - Jonathan Cook
Wednesday, 30 August 2006
During the last 72 hours before the cease-fire, Israel flooded Lebanon with cluster bombs, intended to stay there for months and even years to maim and kill people.
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Ilan Pappe, September 2, 2006
Nothing apart from pressure in the form of sanctions, boycott and divestment will stop the murdering of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip. There is nothing we here in Israel can do against it. Brave pilots refused to partake in the operations, two journalists - out of 150 - do not cease to write about it, but this is it. In the name of the holocaust memory let us hope the world would not allow the genocide of Gaza to continue.
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The silent transfer: Israel says I've lived with my family long enough
Sam Bahour writing from Al-Bireh, occupied West Bank, September 2, 2006
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Deception as a Way of Life: Israeli Myths
Jonathan Cook, August 31, 2006
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Israel formally annexes 14% of northern Bethlehem
Palestine News Network, Saturday September 2, 2006
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Hurtling toward the Next Intifada: An Interview with Jonathan Cook
Andrea Bistrich, 1 September 2006
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Electricity in Gaza: Another Victim of Israeli 'Summer Rains'
Rami Almeghari writing from Occupied Gaza Strip, 31 August 2006
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Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism
August 31, 2006
Statement, Patriarch and local heads of churches in Jerusalem.
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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations
in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Report
PCHR 31 August 2006
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"You don't see, you don't feel, and you don't look"
An Israeli Combat Soldier Breaks the Silence
Daniel Sturm, The Walruss (Youngstown, Ohio) August 30, 2006
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Murder on Rucarb Street
Eliza Ernshire in Ramallah, West Bank, August 29, 2006
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Not only stones - lives, dreams and memories
Mira A.B. Nabulsi, Monday, August 28, 2006
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Irish tramline forced to cancel deal with its illegal Israeli counterpart
Filmmaker Ken Loach Joins the Cultural Boycott of Israel: August 24, 2006
Rima Merriman, August 25, 2006
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Filmmaker Ken Loach Joins the Cultural Boycott of Israel
Press Release, PACBI, August 24, 2006
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Israeli rocket hits Reuters car
BBC, Sunday, 27 August 2006
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Accidental emigrant / A policy of no-return
Amira Hass, Ha’aretz, 28/08/2006
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Payback time
Jonathan Cook, Nazareth, August 17-23, 2006
After a month of military failure, dark clouds are gathering over Israel's political leaders.
Caught in a Net of Delusion
Jonathan Cook, August 21, 2006
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Settlers on Israel's eastern frontier
Gadi Algazi, August 2006
Offshoring to the West Bank
Gadi Algazi, August 2006
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Palestine Articles
John Pilger