Date: May 12th 2008

Palestine : Journalists in Danger:

WEST BANK JOURNALISTS DETAINED BY PA INTELLIGENCE
Report, PCHR, 12 May 2008

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly
condemns the distention of three Palestinian journalists
and a columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence
Service in Bethlehem and Qalqilya towns in the West Bank
on Thursday, 8 May 2008. PCHR believes that such arrests
constitute an attack on press freedoms and the right to
freedom of expression, which are ensured by the
Palestinian Basic Law and international human rights
instruments.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9532.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

PHOTOSTORY: TOTAL OCCUPATION, A JOURNEY AROUND HEBRON
By Eddie Vassallo, Live from Palestine, 12 May 2008

With 400 hard-line religious settlers packed tightly
amidst more than 160,000 Palestinians in the center of
Hebron's Old City, violence is not a probability, it is a
given. Add to that the nearly 2,000 Israeli troops
assigned to "protect" the settlers and you can begin to
understand how peace is a little more than a word in this
part of the West Bank. Eddie Vassallo's pictures tell a
story of occupied Hebron.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9531.shtml

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Lebanon : Diaries: Live from Lebanon:

THE TIME ZONES OF LEBANON
By Rami Zurayk, Electronic Lebanon, 11 May 2008

This is what I have to say about the latest series of
political speeches in Lebanon: Hizballah leader Hassan
Nasrallah speaks as if there is no future, but March 14
government coalition leaders Walid Jumblat, Saad Hariri
and Fouad Siniora speak as if there is no past. For
Nasrallah, the past performance and actions of the
Loyalists is the only reference point. Rami Zurayk writes
from Beirut.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9530.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

REPORT: ETHNIC CLEANSING CONTINUES IN JAFFA
Report, Arab Associatoin for Human Rights, 11 May 2008

A new report from Arab Association for Human Rights
documents the danger of eviction facing the Palestinian
residents of the Ajami neighborhood in Jaffa and reveals
the true motives behind this process. For these residents,
ethnic cleansing did not end in 1948. It continues to this
day, albeit by different means. The process being
implemented in Jaffa (and in other locations in Israel)
amounts to the "quiet transfer" of the Palestinian
residents.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9529.shtml

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Lebanon : Opinion/Editorial:

LEBANON IN CRISIS: AN INTERVIEW WITH EDITOR SAMAH IDRISS
By Stefan Christoff, Electronic Lebanon, 10 May 2008

Lebanon is currently facing a major political crisis, as
armed battles have erupted in multiple districts of Beirut
between pro-government and opposition forces forces led
the Lebanese resistance movement Hizballah. Hizballah-led
opposition forces took control of West Beirut, and handed
certain areas over to the Lebanese army as the political
standoff in the country continues. Stefan Christoff speaks
with editor Samah Idriss in Beirut about the tense
situation in Lebanon.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9527.shtml

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