Date: July 22nd 2008

Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

SEEING THE DOME OF THE ROCK
By Najwa Sheikh, Live from Palestine, 22 July 2008

Some might think that I am overreacting about the short
trip out of Gaza to a place only two hours away. But I
would say to them that for me and so many other
Palestinians in Gaza, it is not just a short trip, but
rather a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The trip was a
window that opened suddenly to allow in the fresh air and
joy of life, and one that I may never experience again.
Najwa Sheikh writes from occupied Jerusalem.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9703.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

THE PALESTINIAN BAR MITZVAH
By Bassam Aramin, Live from Palestine, 21 July 2008

My son Arab is 14, just past the age that his Jewish
Israeli peers are celebrating their Bar Mitzvahs. This
ceremony in Jewish culture is a rite of passage that marks
a boy's entrance into the realities and responsibilities
of adulthood. And last week, my son experienced something
akin to the Palestinian Bar Mitzvah. Bassam Aramin writes
from occupied Jerusalem.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9701.shtml

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Palestine : Art, Music & Culture:

TAKING YOU HOME: "PALESTINIAN WALKS"
By Lora Gordon, The Electronic Intifada, 21 July 2008

Accounts by Western travelers coming to the "Holy Land,"
later used by Zionists to justify their colonization, also
compelled Raja Shehadeh to provide a counter-narrative, in
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape. "The
accounts I have read do not describe a land familiar to
me," Shehadeh writes, "but rather a land of these
travelers' imaginations. Palestine has been constantly
reinvented, with devastating consequences to its original
inhabitants." Lora Gordon reviews for The Electronic
Intifada.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9700.shtml

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Palestine : Activism News:

CELEBRATED LATIN DIVA URGED TO CANCEL TEL AVIV CONCERT
Open letter, PACBI, 21 July 2008

The following is an open letter to Latin musician Mercedes
Sosa sent on 21 July 2008 by the Palestinian Campaign for
the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: How can
Mercedes Sosa, the quintessentially progressive diva of
freedom songs in Latin America, sing in Israel, a colonial
and apartheid state whose war crimes have reached new
lows, systematically and deliberately destroying
Palestinian society and engendering a process of slow
ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Palestine?

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9702.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

ISRAELI SOLDIER SHOOTS RESTRAINED PALESTINIAN AT CLOSE RANGE
Report, B'Tselem, 20 July 2008

Today, B'Tselem is publishing a video clip documenting a
soldier firing a rubber coated steel bullet, from
extremely close range, at a cuffed and blindfolded
Palestinian detainee. The shooting took place in the
presence of a lieutenant colonel, who was holing the
Palestinian's arm when the shot was fired.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9704.shtml

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