29 November, 2003
"I Punched An Arab In The Face"
By Gideon LevyAn Israeli soldier's testimony
28 November, 2003
No More Ideas, We Need Implementation
By Rifat Odeh KassisOne wonders why the Geneva Accord has not created any serious debate inside the Palestinian community, despite the fact that the ink in which the Road Map was written had dried already
The Metamorphosis Of Palestine
By Ahdaf SoueifThree years ago, the acclaimed Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif travelled through the West Bank to write a special report for G2. This month, she returned for the first time
27 November, 2003
How Occupation Corrupts The Occupiers Absolutely
By Mustapha KarkoutiDecades have elapsed since Israel first occupied Arab territories in 1967. The Jewish state seems to be reaping what it sowed: ordinary Israeli kids join the army and become sadistic monsters, just by complying with its rules
25 November, 2003
Hurtling Toward The Abyss
By Hanan Ashrawi and Jon ElmerJon Elmer interviews Hanan Ashrawi - "there will be an awakening, as we are witnessing, among Israeli public opinion. And ultimately Israel will be treated like any other state: not above the law, and not with preferential treatment."
23 November, 2003
11,400 Palestinians Need Permits
To Live In Their Homes
B'TselemAccording to the new directives, all Palestinians over the age of twelve who live in the seam area will be required to obtain a "permanent resident permit" from the Civil Administration to enable them to continue to live in the their homes
20 November, 2003
Facility 1391- Israel's Guantanamo
By Jonathan CookDespite government attempts to impose a news blackout, information about more than a decade of horrific events at Facility 1391 are beginning to leak out. As a newspaper described it, Facility 1391 is "Israel's Guantanamo"
Zionism As A Racist Ideology
By Kathleen And Bill ChristisonWhat Israel is doing to the Palestinians is not genocide, it is not a holocaust, but it is, unmistakably, ethnicide. It is, unmistakably, racism
18 November, 2003
Living In The Shadow Of The Wall
By Ida AudehWhen completed,Israel's apartheid wall is expected to be at least four times as long and in many places twice as high as the Berlin Wall. Its impact on Palestinian economy and society is going to be enormous. Ida Audeh conducts detailed interviews with people in the districts affected by the completion of the first phase of the wall
12 November, 2003
Apartheid Wall Will Harm One In
Three Palestinians
By Justin HugglerThe "separation fence" Israel is building in the West Bank will have "severe humanitarian consequences" for almost 700,000 Palestinians
Love And Marriage In Israel
By Suraya DadooIsrael is touted as the only "democracy" in the world that does not offer its citizens the option of civil marriage
06 November, 2003
Shadow Of Home
By Toine van TeeffelenA Palestinian home or home town is often a prison and is also often divided in parts closed off to each other
04 November, 2003
The Wall: Building To Destroy
By Anwar DarkazallyThe Sharon government has decided that the Palestinians will remain stateless and cut off from each other and imprisoned in their own houses
29 October, 2003
A Disastrous Dead End:The Geneva Accord
By Ali AbunimahIts creators have tried to sell the Geneva Accord as some sort of breakthrough, it is nothing of the sort. The document recycles the unworkable arrangements that Israel and the United States tried to impose at Camp David in July 2000
28 October, 2003
Death Of Rafah
By Chris McGrealWith ruthless efficiency, the Israeli army has been crushing and rocketing the Palestinian refugee town of Rafah in a manner which rivals the destruction of Jenin last year
23 October, 2003
Turning Holy City Into A fortress
By Chris McGrealDespite the UN's vote of condemnation, Sharon remains intent on redrawing Jerusalem's borders
One State: Threat Or Promise Of Peace?
By Hasan Abu-NimahIt is fairly right to assume that Israel would oppose the one-state option at any cost, because it would mean the end of the Jewish character of the state; the PNA would oppose it because it would end its monopoly on power; and the US would oppose it because Israel does. Why, then, should it be an option?
17 October, 2003
One State, Two People
By Ali AbunimahPeace in Palestine through territorial partition is a doomed fantasy and the time has come to discard it. It is time to declare the era of partition over and commit to a moral, just and realisable vision in which Israelis and Palestinians build a future as partners in a single state which guarantees freedom, equality and cultural self-determination to all its citizens
16 October, 2003
US, Israel Destroying The UN System
By Hasan Abu NimahThe Arab group at the UN has three times in less than a month requested Council action to deal with ongoing Israeli aggression in the region. In no case was the Council able to properly discharge its essential duties or offer any meaningful help
15 October, 2003
Sharon Stirs Up Conflict In Pursuit Of
Greater Israel Policy
By Jean ShaoulIsrael has taken an unprecedented series of measures aimed at heightening tensions with its neighbours, Syria and Lebanon, provoking a conflict that can be used as a pretext to launch a supposedly defensive campaign as a cover for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s expansionist policy
Witnessing The Rafah Atrocity
By Laura GordonEyewitness account of the invasion of Rafah
14 October, 2003
Rafah: New Nakba, More Refugees
Nine Palestinians were killed, including two children and two teenagers, and about 80 injured, leaving 2000 homeless during the Israeli raid on Rafah refugee camp that began on Thursday night, October 9
Human Shield
By Uri AvneryA personal account from Gush Shalom activist Uri Avnery who is in the courtyard of Arafat's Mukat'ah (compound) in Ramallah as a human shield
12 October, 2003
Why Women Turn To Suicide Bombing
By Kevin ToolisAs the honour codes that bound Palestinian familes unravel, Islamic Jihad has stepped up its recruitment of women. A report on the cycle of slaughter that drove an ambitious female lawyer to become a human bomb
09 October, 2003
Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing
By Uri Avnery"But there are other ways to implement ethnic cleansing: not dramatically, but slowly, daily, even routinely. Like, for example, what's happening now in Bethlehem."
Israel's Date With A Runaway Freight Train
By Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali AbunimahThe Haifa attacker was a young woman training to become a lawyer. Why would a person who ought to have had everything to live for choose, instead, to end her life in such a cruel and devastating manner? As we learned about her victims, we also learned that she too was a victim
08 October, 2003
Al-Sayafa: A Case Study In Dispossession
By Jacob PaceAl-Sayafa was home to a successful agricultural development project during the Egyptian occupation of Gaza from 1948-1967. The land now is dry and bare and a fence cut across the land
02 October, 2003
The Wall Grows
By Justin HugglerThe Israeli Cabinet voted yesterday to go ahead with a particularly controversial section of its "security fence", which Palestinians call Israel's Berlin Wall. The Cabinet approved a new stretch of the fence east of the Jewish settlements of Ariel and Kedumim deep inside the West Bank
Defending Palestinian Homes:
Tears Amid The Rubble
By Kathy and Bill ChristisonEye witness account of a house demolition in the Jerusalem suburb of Shuafat