15, April 2003
ISM Rejects Israeli
Investigation into
Death of US Peace Activist
The army report claimed Corrie was struck as she
stood behind a mound of earth that was created by an engineering vehicle
operating in the area and she was hidden from the view .
13, April 2003
Common Images Of
Brutality
By Jonathan Cook
2,000 men aged between 15 and 40 rounded up by
the Israeli army a week ago in the refugee camp of Tulkarm, in the northern
West Bank, for questioning.
'You Just Can't
Imagine It'
By Rachel Corrie
I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one
hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. Excerpts
of an e-mail message sent by Rachel Corrie, the American woman killed
by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, to her parents.
Palestinians Fear the
Worst After Sharons Re-Election
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) said the Palestinian people feared
the worst after Ariel Sharons Likud party easily won Israels
general elections Tuesday, with right-wing parties scoring a clear majority.
The Tel Aviv Suicide
Bombings and Foreign Workers
By Jaggi Singh
The immediate Israeli government response to the
situation of foreign workers as suicide attack victims belies the day-to-day
treatment of foreign workers here, when they're not sympathetic "Palestinian
terror" victims like other Israelis, but just cheap labor.
Hunger in Palestine
By Peter Hansen
Hidden in the anaemic blood of children or lost
in the statistics of stunted growth, a dreadful, silent malnutrition
is stalking the Palestinians.After two years of Intifada, Over 50 per
cent are now unemployed and more than 60 per cent are living below the
poverty line.
A view from the
ruins
By Joseph Algazy
A watchtower manned by snipers, long lines of residents
waiting at a roadblock, bulldozed homes and empty hotels - life in the
Gaza Strip
Palestinian Children
in the Night
By Sam Bahour, writing from Ramallah
Report of a rare cultural evening Ramallah
Israeli Apartheid
System in Occupied Territory
Israel's intention to divide the West Bank into
eight separate and isolated Bantustants, prohibiting Palestinian civilians
from moving from one of these isolated area to another unless they are
issued special movement permits poses a new threat to the freedom of
palestinians
What have I done!
- A Hundred Soldiers
treated for Intifada Syndrome
by Ethan Rabin
A special "rehabilitation village" has
been set up to take care of former Israeli combat soldiers who suffer
from a deep mental crisis, a hundred of whom are at present undergoing
treatment. Some suffer from nightmares, and are unable to face up to
operational failures and having harmed civilians.
Vowing to Collectively
Punish all Palestinians,
IOF Re-occupy Hebron
17/11/2002
Israeli Occupation Forces, (IOF) backed by some
thirty tanks and armored vehicles, invaded the southern West bank City
of Hebron Saturday evening and imposed a curfew on the citys residents
Why Do They Kill Children?
by Uri Avnery
An enquiry into the psyche of a Palestine suicide
bomber
Settlers target the olive
pickers in the battle for land
by Justin Huggler in Yanun, West Bank
Palestinian villagers are being attacked by Jewish
settlers almost daily every time they try to harvest their olives.
Ramadan in Gaza
by Kristen Ess
A peronal account of the first day of Ramadan
in Palestine
60% of Palestinians
Living in Poverty,
Says PA Minster of Labor
In Palestine unemployment has risen to 80 percent
in some areas, approximately 70% of the population is living on less
than $2 per person per day.
The Environmental
Impact of the Israeli Occupation
Isreali occupation of Palestinian is destroying
the olive orchards
Settlers and Trash
by Walid Hamad
As the world is pre-consumed with seemingly more
important affairs, the Israeli Occupation Authorities are land gabbing
at an unprecedented rate in full synchronization with the illegal Israeli
settlers.
Palestine Activism Spammed
by Abby Aguirre
In boxes of Paletine activists and supporters
are spammed with pro israeli and racially repuslive mails
Prospects for Peace in
the Middle East
by Noam Chomsky
(Presented at the First Annual Maryse Mikhail Lecture
"No peace without justice; no justice without truth" The University
of Toledo, March 4, 2001)
A New Intifada is
Born
by Daoud Kuttab
With Israeli blockade of the head quarters of Yassar
Arafat in Ramallah on september 20 we are witnessing the beginning of
the third intifada which is becoming increasingly nonviolent in character.
Bush's Speech - An
Interim Insult
by Arsalan Tariq Iftikhar
President George Bush's speech to the nation exhorting
the people of Palestine to remove Yassar Arafat from their leadership
is an insult to the Palestinians