28 May, 2004
Bush And Sharon - The Oil Connection
By Conn HallinanThe Americans can ill afford another war in the Middle East, but the Israelis might be persuaded to take the field. Is giving Sharon a free hand in the West Bank a quid pro quo for an eventual American-supported Israeli attack on the last two countries in the region with any semblance of independence?
26 May, 2004
They Must Pay The Price
By Gideon LevyOn a day when bodies of children were being stuffed into a big refrigerator used to store potatoes, and when thousands of homeless people were fleeing for their lives (some of them refugees rendered homeless for the second or third time), life in Israel went on as usual, as though what was happening in Rafah was not being done in the name of the country's citizens
25 May, 2004
Sharon's Method
By Uri AvneryThe directive for the onslaught on Rafah came from the political leadership, in order to gratify the primitive emotions of a part of the public. Simply put: they hurt us, so we hurt them tenfold. Ten eyes for an eye, ten teeth for a tooth. That's how votes are won
Why I Burned My Israeli Military Papers
By Josh RuebnerBy burning my military papers, I stand in solidarity with more than 1,300 Israelis who have stated openly, at the risk of jail time, that they refuse to serve Israel's occupation of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem and commit war crimes and flagrant breaches of international law
24 May, 2004
Palestinians Still Unable To Bury Rafah Dead
By Cynthia JohnstonOn a blood-stained floor in a makeshift morgue in Rafah, the bodies of 16 Palestinians killed in Israel's bloodiest Gaza Strip raid in years lie in white shrouds, waiting to be buried
Death Of Rawan Abu Zaed
By MohammadRawan Abu Zaed went to buy some sweets from the grocer's. She didn’t know that going to the grocer's would cost her her life. Two bullets:one in her neck and the other right through her head
21 May, 2004
One Step Ahead Of The Bulldozer
By Amira HassHow Wa'il Mansur's home was demolished by the IDF on Thursday morning in Rafah
Who Really Smuggled Weapons To Rafah?
By Arjan El FassedIsrael's ongoing assault on human lives and property, killing civilians and demolishing homes is, according to Israeli spokespersons, "aimed at preventing a huge shipment of arms from being smuggled". What no one asks, however, is the question who supplies Israel's military occupation of Gaza
20 May, 2004
Children And Youth Massacred In Rafah
By Amira Hass and Arnon RegularEight Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded yesterday afternoon when IDF tanks fired shells at a crowd of protesters in Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Four of those killed were children under 14
'140,000 People, 40 Beds And A War'
By Chris McGrealA visit to Rafah's only one makeshift hospital
Genocide By Public Policy
By Sam Bahour and Michael DahanWhat is happening in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip today is dangerously close to genocide, close enough that photographs of terrified Palestinians in Rafah loading their meager belongings onto carts and fleeing their homes are all too reminiscent of another time, another place another people
The Nowhere People
By Nick PretzlikIsraelis are proud to announce that their country is the only democracy in the Middle East. But the 150,000 strong Bedouin community of Israel has no democratic rights
19 May, 2004
Homes Wrecked, Lives Destroyed
By Donald MacintyreIsrael was accused by Amnesty International of committing a war crime by its destruction of more than 3,000 Palestinian homes in Israel and the occupied territories since the intifada began three and a half years ago
Gazans Pile Up Their Belongings And Flee
By Amira HassThe streets of Rafah were filled yesterday evening with horse-drawn carts, trucks and pick-ups, all laden to the brim with any and every item that the town's residents could remove from their homes
18 May, 2004
12 Palestinians Killed In
Rafah IncursionTwelve Palestinians were killed today as the Israeli army made one of its most sweeping incursions yet into the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza
Death And Destruction In Gaza
By Tamer ZiaraFrantic Rafah residents are running away from their homes as Israel is reigning on them death and destruction, with hundreds of home demolished and the threat of more demolition
Israeli Troops Bury Family Alive
Under Demolished House
By Palestine Media CenterIsraeli Occupation Forces buried a husband, his wife and her sister alive in a refugee camp on Friday when they refused to evacuate their home before the occupation troops demolished it together with at least 39 houses in the southern Gaza Strip
Israel's Revenge In Zaytoun, Gaza
By Eoin MurrayThe past few nights have been sleepless. The Israeli forces have attacked from land, sea and air. The centre of Gaza the people of Zaytoun (which means 'olive') have been imprisoned in the scene of some of the most intense fighting since the Intifada began
17 May, 2004
Gaza: Horror Beyond Belief
By Ghada AgeelSince Tuesday, May 11, thousands of people have been denied the simple right to return to their homes; this includes infants, children, students, employees, women, and men of all ages. Ghada Ageel recounts the humiliating experience she and her family experienced at a Gaza check point
12 May, 2004
More Land Grab For The Wall
By Nick Pretzlik in the West BankTwo weeks ago 176 dunums of land (176,000 square meters) were stolen from the beautiful hilltop village of Beit Jalla. Five thousand olive trees, together with orchards of apricots and apples, have been confiscated
08 May, 2004
A Guiding Light Falls On Ramallah
By Sam BahourTonight the deafening silence of Ramallah was broken, not by the frequent Israeli tanks and jeeps that now enter and exit the city at will, but rather by the music of the distinguished Daniel Barenboim, one of the great musicians of our time
06 May, 2004
Biddu: The Struggle Against The Wall
By Yediot AharonotA unique struggle is going on the Palestinian village of Biddu. Israelis and Palestinians jointly protest against the building of the separation wall dividing the village
04 May, 2004
Living In A Bubble
By Uri AvneryPalestine and Israel each live sealed in its closed bubble, cut off from the other, and, indeed, from the world at large. Inside its bubble, each people cultivates their grievances, the conviction of being the ultimate victim, the memory of the injustices done to them, the anger at the other, cruel, murderous and detestable people
24 April, 2004
Next Target Arafat
By Conal UrquhartAriel Sharon issued an ominous warning that Yasser Arafat could be the next Palestinian leader to be in Israel's line of fire
21 April, 2004
'Living In A Grave'
By Mordechai VanunuToday, after spending 18 years in prison for exposing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons programme, the whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu will finally walk free. For much of his time in jail he corresponded with the actor Susannah York, a member of the campaign to release him. Here, in a selection of his letters, he talks about censorship, solitary confinement and the struggle to maintain his sanity
19 April, 2004
Birth Of A New Resistance In Gaza
By Conal UrquhartAs the whole of Palestine gather to bury the Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi we may be witnessing the birth of a new resistance
Sharon's Skin And Bush's Spots
By Uri AvnerySharon is prepared to evacuate the 7,000 Jewish settlers who are living in Gaza strip, in return for the consolidation of the West Bank settlements, where 250,000 Jewish settlers live
18 April, 2004
Another Hamas Leader assassinated
By Donald MacintyreIsrael assassinated the Hamas leader, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, in a missile attack on his car only three weeks after killing the man he replaced as the leader of the militant faction in Gaza, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
16 April, 2004
Bush Backs Sharon’s West Bank Land Grab
By Bill Van AukenWith his endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” plan Wednesday, President George W. Bush broke with nearly four decades of official US diplomacy, dropping even the pretense that Washington is committed to a negotiated settlement of the Middle East conflict
08 April, 2004
The Third World War Is Now
By Prince El Hassan bin TalalFrom Palestine to Iraq, the Region is Aflame with Conflict yet the Need for Dialogue is Ignored
03 April, 2004
As in Tiennamen Square
By Tanya ReinhartAn extensive discussion has already taken place in Israel regarding the cost-benefit ratio of Yassin's assassination. But the question of justice has hardly been raised