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When $ is not an issue and taxpayers are in coma
Last update - 22:22 01/07/2006 U.S. to pay $48 million to cover damages to Gaza power station By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service United States officials said they expect that U.S. funds will be used to pay for the damages...
Superimposing a Solution
Dear friends, As the sky falls in on the Palestinians, AGAIN, below is a refreshing, out-of-the-box analysis from a good friend of mine, Mathias. He is well connected in both Israeli and US networks, so I hope his words will be seriously considered. ...
Confront the colluders in Israel’s academy
Confront the colluders in Israel's academy Lisa Taraki The Times Higher Education Supplement June 23, 2006 Although Menahem Milson's career path and mine have been on a collision course, we have never met. In 1976, I joined Birzeit University in the occupied...
Palestinians dance for peace in USA
Dear friends, My nephew, Yanal Hamodah, is part of the Al-Raja Debkha Dance Group. Their schedule may be found at: http://www.holyland-lutherans.org/news.htm . Do try to attend one of their performances. You will not be let down. They are...
Masked perpetrators harass Palestinians / The war on children / Humanitarian Monitor
Dear friends, The occupation spares nothing: land, trees, homes, children and donkeys. See the first news item below, then ask: What if it were Palestinians harassing Israeli children on their way to school? Then it would be a leading CNN story and...
Israeli Law and Order
June 14, 2006 For Arabs Only Israeli Law and Order By JONATHAN COOK Imagine the following scenario. A Palestinian gunman boards a bus inside Israel and rides it to the city of Netanya. Close to the end of the line, he walks over to the driver, levels his...
BAHOUR: Israel Spinning Out of Control (link)
Israel Spinning Out of Control Sam Bahour, The Electronic Intifada, 13 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4801.shtml ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything about this list:...
Birmingham News: Divestment a stand for equality in Israel
Dear friends, This excellent article comes by way of The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), which is doing excellent work with US media outlets, trying to get a realistic picture of Palestinians and our struggle in the mainstream media. If you wish...
The Nation: A Thirst for West Bank Water
The Nation A Thirst for West Bank Water by FAREED TAAMALLAH [posted online on June 9, 2006] During Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent visit to Washington, President Bush declared Olmert's "convergence" plan "bold."...
BAHOUR: Begging for a Response
Begging for a Response Israel’s ongoing air strikes on Gaza are politically motivated By Sam Bahour The Israelis are a stiff necked people. They refuse to accept anything less than full acquiescence by anyone involved in their plans, no matter...
The Israeli Boycott of Palestinian Education
Counterpunch.org June 7, 2006 Can the Anti-Boycotters Please Stand Up? The Israeli Boycott of Palestinian Education By LAURA RIBEIRO In the flurry of letters and comments against the boycott of Israeli academics who, according to Natfhe, are complicit through their...
Reversing ethnic cleansing: The Right to Return Home (A MUST READ)
June 5, 2006 Reversing ethnic cleansing: The Right to Return Home By: Salman Abu Sitta* In the spring of 1948, some Jewish mukhtars (headmen) of Jewish colonies in Palestinian went over to the Arab Palestinian mukhtars in the...
LEVY: With a little help from the outside
w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 11:22 04/06/2006 With a little help from the outside By Gideon Levy The laugh of fate: The state waging a broad international campaign for a boycott is simultaneously waging a parallel campaign, no less...
Major General Eiland: Gaza pullout was missed chance of historic proportions
w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 09:44 04/06/2006 Eiland: Gaza pullout was missed chance of historic proportions By Ari Shavit, Haaretz Correspondent In an interview to Haaretz, the outgoing head of the National Security Council (NSC), Major General Giora...
‘Gaza is like Dakar’
w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 09:18 30/05/2006 'Gaza is like Dakar' By Akiva Eldar When officials of the various aid organizations hear Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, claiming that talk of a humanitarian...
What did Bush signal? / crucible of trouble / Surrender vs. the Right to Exist
A few worthwhile readings...and an attached cartoon that speaks volumes... --------------------------------------------------- What did Bush signal? - George Bisharat Monday, May 29, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle Did President Bush give Israeli Prime...
World Council of Churches: The time is ripe to do what is right
World Council of Churches (WCC) The WCC is a fellowship of churches, now 347 in more than 120 countries in all continents from virtually all christian traditions Executive committee statement on Israel/Palestine: The time is ripe to do what is right With...
Jeff Halper: COUNTDOWN TO APARTHEID…Olmert’s speech in context…
COUNTDOWN TO APARTHEID By Jeff Halper Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address to both houses of Congress was perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since George Orwell invented the term in his novel 1984. (He had help: author and Nobel Peace...
Sharon’s Legacy (A MUST READ) / NYT: Viable Palestinian State / The misbegotten labeling… / Reposts
Dear friends, Yesterday's victims were: Milad Abu-Aris, Jaafer Khaled, Aysar Kasam and Ra'ad Rabakh. As I write, I can hear heavy and loud gunfire coming from the Al-Amari Refugee Camp next to our home. It is the funeral for one of the 4 Palestinians that were...
Financial Times: Why Israel cannot always rely on America’s helping hand
Dear friends, For those that were not able to open the file attached to my previous post, please find the article here: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4738.shtml The below article from the Financial Times is a clear analysis of the larger picture,...
A Palestinian Prodigy at UC Berkeley
Visit the online article and see the video: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4196230 Berkeley Undergrad Sets Up Mini-Clinics KGO By Carolyn Johnson May 22 - KGO - The commencement speaker for hundreds of students in the College of...
UN-OCHA: Territorial Fragmentation of the West Bank / Humanitarian Briefing Notes
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Territorial Fragmentation of the West Bank Movement restrictions for Palestinians has worsened in the past six month. Increasingly the West Bank is being divided into smaller areas with movement between...
BAHOUR & DAHAN: A Will, a Way and a Partner
A Will, a Way and a Partner The U.S. must not entertain ideas of unilateral action regarding Palestine By Sam Bahour and Michael Dahan (news) Ohmynews Published on 2006-05-23 10:52 (KST) Every newly elected Israeli Prime...
AMIRA HASS: Palestinians Are Being Robbed by Israel
Palestinians Are Being Robbed by Israel by Amira Hass Los Angeles Times 21 February 2006 It is evidently difficult to scrub off the sticker that is glued onto the front window. That's why when a new car from Germany or South Korea or the United States rolls onto the...
Marriage Ban Closes the Gates to Palestinians
Dear friends, As you read this important article below, keep in mind a much simpler case - that of my wife and I. I, by virtue of being born in the US, am American. My wife is Palestinian. Our two girls, one born in Ohio and another in El-Bireh, both carry...
The West Bank Partition – Towards the Third Intifada
The West Bank Partition – Towards the Third Intifada Fred Schlomka – 20th May, 2006, Tel Aviv How can Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stand up in from of Israel’s Parliament as he did in early May, pronounce himself ready...
Right from the horse’s mouth…(rather revealing)
"We do not permit the system to operate..." w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 09:36 14/05/2006 Out of uniform and into the conflict By Akiva Eldar Just a few weeks ago, after 28 years of military service, seven years of which were spent handling...
Jimmy CARTER: Israel’s New Plan, A Land Grab
Israel's new plan: A land grab USA Today Posted 5/15/2006 8:48 PM ET By Jimmy Carter New Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that Israel will take unilateral steps to establish its own geographical boundaries during the next four years of his...
Introducing the Institute for Middle East Understanding (Links Corrected)
Dear Friends, I wanted to make you aware of the Institute for Middle East Understanding at http://www.imeu.net/. The IMEU works with journalists on their stories about Palestine and the Palestinians. In the short time the IMEU has been around, they've placed...
Introducing the Institute for Middle East Understanding
Dear Friends, I wanted to make you aware of the Institute for Middle East Understanding at https://imeu.org/. The IMEU works with journalists on their stories about Palestine and the Palestinians. In the short time the IMEU has been...
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