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Gaza to Jerusalem | Palestinian Bar Mitzvah | "Palestinian Walks" | And more ...

2008-07-22T08:49:15Z

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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Culture of survival | Expulsion threat | No shortcuts | And more ...

2008-07-18T09:59:28Z

Palestine : Multimedia:

PHOTOSTORY: A CULTURE OF SURVIVAL AMIDST A RAVAGED GEOGRAPHY
By Umayyah Cable, The Electronic Intifada, 18 July 2008

For most Americans, Palestine does not exist. Yet it is
present enough to be seen as a faceless enemy. A dangerous
and unwelcoming land, a breeding ground for fundamentalist
Islam, teeming with angry anti-American Jihadists,
Palestine is, in the American imagination, a ravaged
landscape devoid of culture and joy. Growing up
half-Palestinian in the United States, I have been
fighting to disprove these assumptions my entire life.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9690.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

ISRAEL THREATENS WEST BANK VILLAGE WITH EXPULSION
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 17 July 2008

Testimonies given to B'Tselem indicate that the Civil
Administration recently informed residents of the
Palestinian village 'Arab a-Ramadin al-Janubi that they
will be demanded to vacate their village and move to
another site, in contradiction of Israel's explicit
undertaking to the High Court of Justice. The village is
an enclave situated west of the separation barrier, near
the site on which the Alfe Menashe settlement was
established.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9699.shtml

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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:

NO MEDITERRANEAN UNION SHORTCUT AROUND ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
By Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 16 July 2008

Escaping into ambitious political fantasy like that behind
the Mediterranean Union is not the right approach to
urgent political questions. It is no more than a waste of
time. If Europe is truly concerned, there is a due need
for a principled, bold, decisive and compatible with
international law policy towards the resolution of the
Arab-Israeli conflict. EI contributor Hasan Abu Nimah
comments.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9696.shtml

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Lebanon : Opinion/Editorial:

MEET THE LEBANESE PRESS: FREE AT LAST!
By Hicham Safieddine, Electronic Lebanon, 16 July 2008

The petty politics of forming a national "unity"
government in Lebanon will be overshadowed this week by a
development with local and regional implications. All
Lebanese political prisoners still held in Israeli jails
will return home. Five in total, including Samir Kuntar,
the dean of Arab detainees, who has spent close to three
decades of his life in captivity. With the return of
prisoners, another chapter of Hizballah's struggle against
Israel has closed.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9695.shtml

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Palestine : Activism News:

CELEBRITIES URGED TO CUT TIES TO SETTLEMENT FINANCIER
By Omid Memarian, The Electronic Intifada, 15 July 2008

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Having successfully lobbied the UN
Children's Agency UNICEF to stop accepting donations from
Israeli billionaire Lev Avnerovich Leviev, activists are
urging celebrities who have made public appearances with
Leviev to cut all ties with him. Leviev is the chairman of
Africa Israel Investments, a global conglomerate that has
been criticized by a variety of non-governmental
organizations for its involvement in building settlements
in the occupied West Bank.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9694.shtml

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The Israel-Hizballah prisoner deal

2008-07-16T11:31:58Z

The Israel-Hizballah prisoner deal
By Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, Electronic Lebanon, 16 July 2008

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9697.shtml

The Israeli cabinet's decision to strike a
prisoner-exchange deal with the Hizballah movement in
Lebanon -- on the eve of the anniversary of the war
between the two sides of 12 July-14 August 2006 -- will
not be remembered as one of Israel's most glorious
moments. Even its chief architect, Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert, has referred to the deal in terms of "sadness" and
"humiliation" while it has been staunchly opposed by the
heads of Israel's internal-security agency (Shin Bet) and
foreign-intelligence agency (Mossad), as well as by a
number of Israeli politicians across the political
spectrum. Indeed, the exchange of captives itself (or in
the case of two Israeli soldiers whose seizure
precipitated the 2006 war, their remains), which is
planned to occur by 16-17 July 2008 at latest, can be
described as a replay of what Israel's own investigative
commission into that war regarded as a historic defeat.

True, Israel has made similar deals in the past -- some
involving the release of much larger numbers of prisoners
than the five Lebanese to be freed this time. But the very
nature of the current exchange, as well as its strategic
implications, renders it a zero-sum game in which Israel
loses and Hizballah again emerges triumphant. In
implementing it, Israel will effectively fulfill Hizballah
leader Hassan Nasrallah's "truthful promise" to secure the
release of Lebanese prisoners held by Israel (the original
aim of the operation Hizballah carried out on 12 July 2006
when it abducted two Israeli soldiers on the
Israel-Lebanon border) and reconfirm his oft-repeated
slogan: "just as I always used to promise you victory, now
I promise you victory once again." The overall impact will
be to give these popular catchphrases the appearance of
strategic foresights.

The balance of advantage

In substance, the deal is both quantitatively and
qualitatively lopsided to Hizballah's advantage. For in
addition to the release of four Lebanese fighters captured
during the 2006 war, Hizballah has wrung from Israel the
emancipation of Lebanon's longest-serving Israeli
prisoner, Samir Kuntar, who has been in jail since 1979
for his role in killing an Israeli man, his four-year-old
daughter and a policeman. The symbolic value of Kuntar's
release for Hizballah -- which has described him as "chief
of the Arab and Lebanese prisoners" -- cannot be
overstated; his status as cause celebre among many
Lebanese was secured in 2004 when Israel described him as
a human "bargaining-chip" who could be released in return
for information about the fate of Israel's missing airman,
Ron Arad.

In the event, the detailed report Hizballah submitted on
13 July 2008 about what happened to Arad is confined to
its own investigations into his disappearance -- and
reportedly has declared him dead without locating the
whereabouts of his remains (see Amos Harel and Yossi
Melman, "Israel transfers report on Arad," Haaretz, 13
July 2008). Moreover, the way the Israeli media has been
depicting the issue suggests that the quid pro quo for the
Arad report is an Israeli report on the fate of the four
Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped (and presumably
murdered) during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

The real trade-off regarding Samir Kuntar seems now to be
with the two Israeli soldiers abducted on 12 July 2006,
Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev -- thus granting the two a
clear precedence over the once iconic Arad. The widespread
assumption that the two soldiers are dead would mean that
Israel will soon be receiving "dead soldiers" in exchange
for "live terrorists" -- a severe blow to Israel's
national pride. But whether its soldiers prove to be dead
or alive on 16-17 July, the release of Samir Kuntar will
mean that Israel will have broken with its longstanding
policy of refusing to free prisoners with "Israeli blood
on their hands."

This policy reversal has emboldened Hamas, whose former
foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar calls on the movement to
exploit the Kuntar decision in negotiations with Israel
over the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier
seized by Hamas on 25 June 2006. Shin Bet's decision in
June 2008 to approve the release of Palestinian prisoners
in exchange for Shalit -- provided they are no longer seen
as posing a security risk -- reveals Israel's growing
vulnerability in the face of movements like Hizballah and
Hamas.

Another indication of Israel's decreased bargaining power
vis-a-vis the two groups is its reluctant approval to the
freeing of an as yet unspecified number of Palestinian
prisoners as part of the Hizballah deal. If this will
contravene the Kadima party minister Yaakov Edri's vow
that "there is no way we will release Palestinians," there
is no reason to doubt Nasrallah's description of this
aspect of the negotiations as being "the most difficult."

The precise number of Palestinian prisoners to be released
may still be in doubt (though if either Goldwasser or
Regev is alive, it can safely be assumed that Hizballah
will exact an even higher price in this respect); but in
any event this concession is especially damaging to
Israel. Such a capitulation serves both to consecrate
Hizballah's image in the Arab world as the standard-bearer
of Palestinian rights, and to raise Hamas's price for
Shalit's release from 450 to 1,450 Palestinian prisoners
-- especially given that the IDF soldier is certifiably
alive.

The ingredients of failure

If the deal's substance is hard enough for Israel, its
strategic implications are also a major cause of concern,
on four grounds. First, the prisoner-exchange constitutes
a tacit admission of Israel's responsibility for the
July-August 2006 war, which wreaked mass destruction on
Lebanon and resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200
(mainly civilian) Lebanese. Israel had rationalized its
war as a response to Hizballah's abductions, while
Nasrallah had insisted all along that his movement sought
nothing more than a prisoner-exchange with Israel.

Israel's agreement to such a swap now, after resolutely
refusing it for so long, has exposed its use of the
abductions as a pretext to launch a premeditated war
against Hizballah in an attempt to dismantle its military
infrastructure. Second, the exchange deal -- as well as
establishing Israel's responsibility for the 2006 war --
confirms the Winograd commission's assessment of Israel's
defeat in it. Its formidable military machine failed then
both to eliminate Hizballah's military capacity and to win
the unconditional release of its two prisoners. Nasrallah
had accurately predicted as much on the very day of the
abductions, when he famously told a press conference:
"These prisoners that we hold will never go home except in
one way: indirect negotiations and exchange," not even if
"the entire world" attempted to rescue them. At the time,
Olmert dismissed Nasrallah's warning and scoffed at his
exchange proposal, declaring that Israel "will not be
blackmailed and will not negotiate the lives of our
soldiers with terrorist organizations."

That same week, Olmert reinforced the point with a
similarly forceful and seemingly irrevocable pledge
regarding Gilad Shalit: "I don't negotiate with Hamas, I
did not negotiate with Hamas and I will not negotiate with
Hamas." Nasrallah who prides himself in understanding the
Israeli politico-military psyche, anticipated such bombast
on 12 July 2006: "At first [the Israelis] say no, but then
they accept. This may take place after a week, a month or
a year, but finally the will let us negotiate."

Third, in agreeing to the deal Israel cannot seek solace
in the fact that it is submitting to the will of the
international community or the diktat of international
law. The prisoner-exchange will be conducted under the
auspices of the United Nations; but it bears recalling
that UN Security Council Resolution 1701 (which ended the
war on 14 August 2006) -- while appealing for an "urgent
settling" of the issue of the Lebanese prisoners --
adopted Israel's idiom by stipulating the "unconditional
release of the abducted Israeli soldiers" (rather than
calling for a swap). In this manner, Hizballah appears to
have succeeded in defying not only Israel, but the will of
the international community as well.

Fourth, by recognizing Hizbollah rather than the Lebanese
government as its negotiating partner, Israel has
inadvertently undermined the latter and thus further
exacerbated its own position. Hizballah's own response to
criticism within Lebanon of its priority in this respect
(such as from the politician Amin Gemayel) has always been
that no Lebanese government has ever sought the release of
Lebanese prisoners through diplomatic means; a case in
point is the current government of Fouad Siniora, which
has not used the diplomatic leverage it enjoys with the US
and Europe to resolve the prisoner issue. The result is
that Hizballah emerges as the force in Lebanon that can
deliver, thereby perpetuating an important political
dynamic -- of the non-state actor which functions as the
de facto state versus the state non-actor which merely
enjoys the status of de jure state.

This distinction in part answers the question raised by a
leading member of Lebanon's governing March 14 faction,
the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt: "How is it that some of
us [in Lebanon] have the right to conduct negotiations for
the return of prisoners, to conduct negotiations with
Israel," while the state -- if it engages in similar
negotiations -- is "accused of collaborating with the
enemy"? The key point is that the Lebanese de jure state,
without a defensive strategy or policy, lacks the power
(vis-a-vis its enemies) and the moral authority (over a
significant segment of Lebanon's population) to negotiate
deals of this kind, least of all with a foe as militarily
superior and popularly anathematized as Israel. If the
Lebanese state, in its current capacity, were to negotiate
directly or indirectly with Israel, it would be the result
of US-Israeli pressure to do so; whereas groups like
Hizballah and Hamas are engaged in such negotiations
because they have forced Israel to submit to them.

The logic of force

Indeed, a wider outcome of the current prisoner exchanges
with Hizballah and Hamas is confirmation of the truism
that Israel "only understands the logic of force."
Hizballah has repeatedly made this argument in attributing
the liberation of Lebanese and Palestinian territory to
resistance activity, while decrying the futility of
diplomacy with Israel in retrieving prisoners or land. A
senior official of the Palestinian Authority echoed it
recently in reproaching Israel for "showing that force is
the only language you understand every time. Hizballah
fights you, kidnaps soldiers [sic] and then has all its
demands met. Nasrallah brings Israel to its knees every
time, and how do you respond? You bring [Palestinian
Authority president] Abu Mazen to his knees."

Israel's surrender to this logic is fraught with risk. By
establishing anew the links between abductions and
prisoner-exchange, between armed struggle and liberation
of occupied territory, Israel sets itself up for renewed
confrontation with its enemies. Against continued
predictions that the closure of Hizballah's "liberation
file" (after prisoner releases, and the recovery by
Lebanon of the disputed Shebaa farms territory) will strip
Hizballah of any pretext to retain its arms, the
prisoner-exchange serves rather to vindicate the group's
rationale for its armed status.

Hizballah clearly sees itself as continuing to play an
indispensable role in what Hassan Nasrallah calls an
effective "national defense strategy." The party's former
energy minister Mohammad Fneish echoes the point with
reference to the group's achievement in securing the
current deal: "when assessing future dangers we must agree
that the resistance fulfills a necessity in its readiness,
the experience of its fighters and commanders."

Hizballah has sought to make the prisoner deal serve as a
politically unifying factor by hailing it as a victory for
the entire Lebanese nation. Nasrallah reached out to the
party's erstwhile political rivals to this effect in a
speech on 2 July 2008. At the time of writing, the leading
figures of the March 14 pro-government camp have pledged
to attend the welcoming ceremony of the Lebanese
prisoners; prime minister Fouad Siniora has vowed to make
the day a national holiday.

Moreover, Nasrallah's presentation of the deal as making
Lebanon "the first Arab country involved in the
Arab-Israeli dispute" to resolve issues of prisoners,
fighters' remains and the missing-in-action also
reverberates in the wider Arab world. This also enables
Hizballah to engage in some much needed damage-control
after its involvement in the inter-sectarian clashes of
May 2008. The fact that Kuntar is not a member of
Hizballah but belongs to the Druze community, which is
commonly identified with the March 14 camp, will if
anything facilitate this process.

The cost of weakness

A significant aspect of the upcoming prisoner-swap is
Hizballah's ability to appropriate for itself the moral
standard (which Israel has long proclaimed when making
asymmetrical prisoner exchanges with Arab resistance
groups) of acting in accordance with "human value and
dignity." Nasrallah alluded to this in his 2 July speech
when he defended the movement's image as "civilized and
humanitarian" owing to its "respect for man and for man's
value and dignity," and scorned the British government's
portrayal of the resistance a "terrorist" organization. As
professed by Fneish: "We have returned respect for the
value of humanity -- a respect stripped away by the formal
Arab order."

The party's memorialization of its dead fighters, the
longstanding campaigns it has waged to retrieve its
prisoners and the military actions and diplomatic
initiatives it has taken to retrieve them, have
underscored how valuable its living and dead fighters are
to it -- and begun to pay real political dividends. In
this too, Hizballah has seized the initiative from Israel,
whose last military operation to retrieve its prisoners
was as long ago as 1994, when it abducted Mustafa Dirani
in exchange for information on Ron Arad. Nasrallah's
allegation that Israel did not even raise the issue of the
remains of its ten soldiers killed in the 2006 war until
Hizbollah offered to hand them over only reinforces this
view. In the past, Israel's readiness to engage in
lopsided prisoner-exchanges was once perceived as stemming
from a religious-moral commitment that both rendered it
vulnerable yet earned it the image of cultural and moral
superiority vis-a-vis Arabs whose "price" was far lower;
today, however, that same willingness is now construed as
strategic weakness.

The most likely reason for Israel's decision to sign on to
a prisoner-deal with such dire strategic implications is
that it is eager to avoid another confrontation with
Hizballah and to prevent future abductions of its troops.
Israel's defeat in the war of July-August 2006, and its
admission that Hizballah has grown even stronger than it
was in the past, reflects a diminishing deterrence
capability and its reduction of military status (one that
casts doubt on its capacity to launch military offensives
at this time, including against Iran). The biggest flaw of
all is in the area of strategic planning: if Israel had
agreed to a prisoner-exchange on or soon after 12 July
2006, it would have avoided further Hizballah provocations
and spared itself the humiliation of losing a war, thus
exposing its weakness to the world and forcing it to make
one painful concession after another.

--
Amal Saad-Ghorayeb is a Lebanese political scientist,
scholar and analyst, and author of book Hizbullah:
Politics and Religion. This essay was originally published
by Open Democracy and is republished with the author's
permission.

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Bil'in interview & lawsuit | Elusive prisoner swap | And more ...

2008-07-15T09:12:35Z

Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

"I DO NOT STRUGGLE ALONE"
By Dina Awad and Hazem Jamjoum, Live from Palestine, 15 July 2008

Ibrahim Bornat, 25, from the village of Bil'in in the
occupied West Bank, was shot three times in the left thigh
with dum-dum bullets by the Israeli occupation forces
on 13 June 2008. Like he does every week, Ibrahim
was protesting against the construction of the separation
wall in his village, which will effectively result in the
annexation of 58 percent of the lands by Israel. Dina Awad
and Hazem Jamjoum write from occupied Ramallah.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9687.shtml

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Palestine : Development:

HAMAS-ISRAEL PRISONER SWAP REMAINS ELUSIVE
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, The Electronic Intifada, 15 July 2008

CAIRO (IPS) - Despite intensive mediation efforts by
Egyptian officials, a delegation from Palestinian
resistance faction Hamas departed Cairo Saturday without
securing a prisoner exchange deal with Israel. According
to local analysts, fresh swap proposals -- featuring the
release of long-time Israeli captive Gilad Shalit --
continue to run up against Israeli obduracy.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9692.shtml

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Palestine : Activism News:

TEL AVIV CONFERENCE ORGANIZES AROUND THE RIGHT OF RETURN
By Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 14 July 2008

Late last month a conference on the Implementation of the
Palestinian right of return was organized by the Israeli
human rights organization Zochrot (Hebrew for "The
Remembering"). Zochrot is an anti-Zionist, pro-justice
group that works diligently to raise awareness within
Israeli Jewish society about the Palestinian Nakba,
"ground zero of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict." Nora
Barrows-Friedman reports from Tel Aviv.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9686.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

PHOTOSTORY: BREAKING THE SILENCE'S TOUR DISRUPTED
By Anne Paq, Live from Palestine, 14 July 2008

On 27 June, I took part in one of the regular tours of the
West Bank city of Hebron and its settlements organized by
the organization Breaking the Silence. Breaking the
Silence is a group of Israeli army soldiers and veterans
who work to expose the injustice of the Israeli occupation
of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Once more, the tour was
disrupted because of the settlers. Anne Paq reports from
Hebron.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9671.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

US BILLIONAIRE OWNS CORPORATIONS SUED BY PALESTINIAN VILLAGERS
Press release, Adalah-NY, 10 July 2008

Evidence gathered by Adalah-NY indicates that
Brooklyn-based billionaire Shaya Boymelgreen owns the two
little-known Canadian companies sued Wednesday for war
crimes in Canada by the West Bank Palestinian village of
Bil'in. Three Hebrew language Israeli media reports from
2005-2006 report that Boymelgreen owns the Green Park
companies that are now being sued for $2 million in Quebec
Superior Court.

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Village sues over settlements | Torture | Student in administrative detention

2008-07-11T07:39:07Z

Palestine : Human Rights:

WEST BANK VILLAGE SUES CORPORATIONS OVER SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION
Press release, Al-Haq, 10 July 2008

In a continuation of their struggle for justice in the
face of unlawful appropriation of their land, the people
of Bil'in village yesterday commenced legal proceedings
before the Superior Court of Quebec against Green Park
International Inc. and Green Mount International Inc. The
defendants are Canadian corporations involved in
constructing, marketing and selling residential units in
the illegal settlements built on the land of Bil'in.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9682.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

DO NO HARM: A TORTURE VICTIM REMEMBERS
By Naji Ali, Live from Palestine, 10 July 2008

I wasn't really surprised by the watchdog group Physicians
for Human Rights-Israel's (PHR-I) latest intervention to
Israel's health ministry, in which they accused Israeli
doctors of complicity in the torture of Palestinian
detainees in Israeli interrogation centers. Indeed, it
sounded all too familiar to what I experienced during 550
days of incarceration in a South African prison from 1990
through 1992. Naji Ali writes for EI.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9675.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

ISRAELI SOLDIERS TORTURE 10-YEAR-OLD IN HIS HOME
Report, Defence for Children International-Palestine Section, 10 July 2008

A 10-year-old boy was subjected to physical abuse
amounting to torture for 2.5 hours by Israeli soldiers who
stormed his family's shop on 11 June, seeking information
on the location of a handgun. The boy was repeatedly
beaten, slapped and punched in the head and stomach,
forced to hold a stress position for half and hour, and
threatened. He was deeply shocked and lost two molar teeth
as a result of the assault.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9683.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY STUDENT HELD IN ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION
Release, Right to Education Campaign, 9 July 2008

In the middle of the night of 27 March 2008, at around
3am, Hanna Qassis was woken up by a loud thump at the
door. When he went into the living room he saw seven
soldiers standing in his house. His mom had opened the
door. A soldier who appeared to be the commander and spoke
in broken Arabic, asked who else lives in the house.
Hanna, the eldest in the family after his father passed
away, said his brother also lives there. He was told to go
and wake him up.

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Gaza's injured | Ni'lin besieged | Nablus orgs. raided | And more ...

2008-07-09T10:39:09Z

Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

PUTTING A NAME TO GAZA'S INJURED
By Eva Bartlett, Live from Palestine, 9 July 2008

Bedridden but painfully conscious, nearly paralyzed with
no feeling from the waist down, 16-year-old Abdul Rahman
is one of the hundreds who were injured by intense Israeli
shelling and firing on Gaza between 27 February - 3 March
2008, during an operation dubbed "Hot Winter" by the
Israeli army. Eva Bartlett reports on this aspect of
Israel's siege on Gaza.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9669.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

PALESTINIAN VILLAGE TAKES ON ISRAELI MILITARY
By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 8 July 2008

RAMALLAH (IPS) - Ambulances were again prevented Monday
from entering the central West Bank village of Ni'ilin,
near Ramallah, to evacuate the ill and the wounded.
Supplies of medicines were running low, as confrontations
continued with youths defying a four-day-old curfew
imposed by the Israeli military.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9678.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

ISRAELI ARMY RANSACKS, SHUTS DOWN NABLUS ORGANIZATIONS
Report, PCHR, 8 July 2008

PCHR strongly condemns Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) for
closing several charities and humanitarian organizations
in Nablus over the past two days. The Centre calls upon
the international community to intervene to put an end to
these measures.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9679.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

SHADES OF CHECKPOINT CHARLIE AT RAFAH CROSSING
By Haidar Eid, Live from Palestine, 8 July 2008

On Monday 30 June, Gaza was abuzz with the sudden
announcement that Egypt would open Rafah Crossing -- the
only gateway for 1.5 million Palestinians who have been
imprisoned here for almost two years -- for three short
days. Haider Eid writes of his attempt to break out of the
prison called Gaza.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9677.shtml

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Palestine : Art, Music & Culture:

HIP-HOP FOR PALESTINE REPRESENTS IN NEW ORLEANS
By Mai Bader, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2008

On 14 June 2008, a wide coalition of grassroots
organizations held a historic event called "Liberation
Hip-Hop," which commemorated the 60th year of the Nakba,
the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Speakers and
audience members from around the US and across the world
got together to link the Palestine and New Orleans
struggles and build an alliance against the injustice they
all face. Mai Bader reports.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9676.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

A CONSTANT NAKBA FOR PALESTINE'S BEDOUIN
By Ida Audeh, Live from Palestine, 7 July 2008

"We [Bedouin] are the [Native Americans] of Palestine," is
how 60-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Abu Dahook introduced the
author and a colleague to Beit Iksa, located on land
targeted by Israel for expanding Ma'ale Adumim settlement.
Abu Dahook is one of the approximately 50,000 Bedouin
whose traditions and lifestyle have been nearly destroyed
by Israeli colonization. Ida Audeh reports from Beit Iksa.

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Gaza and the truce | My new birthday | Extra-judicial executions | Sami al-Arian

2008-07-07T11:20:47Z

Palestine : Development:

GAZA LOCKED IN DESPITE TRUCE
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2008

CAIRO (IPS) - Despite a torrent of mutual recriminations,
the fragile truce between Israel and Palestinian
resistance faction Hamas survived into its third week.
Israel, however, has been slow to fulfill its pledge -- as
laid down in an Egypt-brokered ceasefire agreement -- to
allow desperately-needed humanitarian supplies into the
outdoor prison that is the Gaza Strip. "Repeated closures
of the border crossings [by Israel] ... are indicative of
Israel's lack of seriousness regarding the Egyptian
ceasefire agreement," Ismail Haniyeh told reporters Friday
on 4 July.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9674.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

MY NEW BIRTHDAY
By Areej Ja'fari, Live from Palestine, 5 July 2008

I am a third generation of the Palestinian Nakba, the
forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland by
Zionist forces. I now feel that I am a very lucky person.
I never felt lucky before my new birthday: the day I
visited my destroyed original village of Deir Rafat, where
my grandfather and his family lived before they were
forced out in 1948. Areej Ja'fari writes from Deheisheh
refugee camp.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9662.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

REPORT: 348 PALESTINIANS EXTRA-JUDICIALLY EXECUTED SINCE SEPT. 2000
Report, PCHR, 4 July 2008

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published a new
report entitled "Extra-judicial executions ... Official,
Declared Israeli Policy" covering Israeli extra-judicial
executions against Palestinians during the period from 1
August 2006 till 30 June 2008. The report is the ninth of
its kind in a special series.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9673.shtml

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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:

UNITE TO NEGOTIATE A REAL TRUCE
By Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj, The Electronic Intifada, 4 July 2008

Five days into the long awaited Gaza ceasefire, Israel
allowed the entry of tissues and sanitary napkins into
Gaza as a form of "good will." Simultaneously, it carried
out an early morning raid against a student hostel in
Nablus, killing two Palestinians in their beds. Dr. Eyad
al-Sarraj comments on what it will take for a permanent
lifting of the siege and resisting of Israeli colonial
designs.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9672.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

CRITICS SEE VENDETTA IN AL-ARIAN'S LEGAL LIMBO
By Ali Gharib, The Electronic Intifada, 3 July 2008

WASHINGTON (IPS) - Palestinian activist and former
university professor Sami al-Arian was arraigned Monday in
US federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for
his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a
Northern Virginia Muslim think-tank. The indictment is the
latest episode of a long, Kafka-esque process that has
violated nearly every tenet of al-Arian's plea agreement
following the end of his first trial in 2005, and kept
al-Arian in prison for over five years.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9670.shtml

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Shooting the messenger | Iran-Israel analysis | Month in pictures | Gaza diary

2008-07-03T11:16:36Z

Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:

WHEN YOU SHOOT THE MESSENGER
By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 3 July 2008

GAZA CITY (IPS) - The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent
Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a
lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very
good job of it. Omer was abused and assaulted by Israeli
security personnel at the Allenby border crossing into
Israel from Jordan as he tried to return to his home last
week in the Gaza Strip. Omer was returning from Europe
where he had addressed European parliamentarians on the
situation on the ground in Gaza.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9668.shtml

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Palestine : Multimedia:

CROSSING THE LINE FOCUSES ON A POSSIBLE ISRAELI STRIKE ON IRAN
Podcast, Crossing the Line, 2 July 2008

This week on Crossing The Line: The Israeli Air Force
recently conducted long-range exercises over the
Mediterranean Sea, a move that US intelligence officials
say might be a prelude to a strike on Iran. Is Israel
being used as a proxy by the US to attack Iran? Or is
Israel, which has struck sites it alleged to be nuclear in
Iraq and Syria in the past, planning to strike Iran on its
own? Bill Christison, a former CIA intelligence officer,
will join host Naji Ali to discuss a possible Israeli
strike on Iran.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9663.shtml

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Palestine : Multimedia:

PHOTOSTORY: THE MONTH IN PICTURES, JUNE 2008
Slideshow, The Electronic Intifada, 2 July 2008

The following slideshow is a selection of images from the
month of June 2008. The month in pictures is an ongoing
feature of The Electronic Intifada. If you have images
documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and
culture, or of solidarity with Palestine, please email
images and captions to photos A T electronicintifada D O T
net.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9661.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

NOT ONLY PALESTINIANS SUFFER
By Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 1 July 2008

There are roughly 5,000 Russian women in Gaza. Many, like
Jamila, have been living in Gaza for many years. For
Jamila, having two children and running a married life has
proven difficult with the situation in Gaza, where
conditions are totally different from those of her own
homeland or maybe any other country in the world. "Prior
to the outbreak of the intifada, I used to feel more
comfortable. But since 2000 and particularly the last
year, things have become much worse. There is no gas,
there is no fuel, there is nothing," she explained. Rami
Almeghari writes from Gaza.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9658.shtml

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Palestine : Israel Lobby Watch:

US HAWKS BELIE IRAN'S "EXISTENTIAL THREAT" TO ISRAEL
By Gareth Porter, The Electronic Intifada, 1 July 2008

WASHINGTON (IPS) - New arguments by analysts close to
Israeli thinking in favor of US strikes against Iran cite
evidence of Iranian military weakness in relation to the
US and Israel and even raise doubts that Iran is rushing
to obtain such weapons at all. The new arguments
contradict Israel's official argument that it faces an
"existential threat" from an Islamic extremist Iranian
regime determined to get nuclear weapons.

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Nakba film | Journalist assaulted | S. Africa tactics | Zionism's dead end

2008-06-30T10:05:15Z

Palestine : Art, Music & Culture:

FILM REVIEW: PALESTINE 1948 NAKBA
By Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 30 June 2008

Shortly after he moved to Kibbutz Dalia in central Israel
in 1967, photographer Ryuichi Hirokawa stumbled upon some
"white stones scattered in rubble." He asked the residents
of the kibbutz about the origins of the stones, but he
never received a satisfactory answer. Through Hirokawa's
quest to unearth the origins of those white stones he
learned the story of Palestine, and it is this lifelong
journey that he presents in his documentary Palestine 1948
Nakba, reviewed for The Electronic Intifada by Maureen
Clare Murphy.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9655.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

ISRAELIS ASSAULT AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST
By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 29 June 2008

GAZA CITY (IPS) - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of
IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize
for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted
and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby
border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on
Thursday as he tried to return home to Gaza. Omer, a
resident of Rafah in the south of Gaza, was returning from
London where he had just collected his Gellhorn Prize.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9654.shtml

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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:

TACTICS THAT ENDED APARTHEID IN S. AFRICA CAN END IT IN ISRAEL
By Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Electronic Intifada, 29 June 2008

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict often inspires a sense of
powerlessness. What can average Americans do to bring an
end to this decades-old conflict when our leaders have
failed so miserably? And what good is speaking out about
Israel's occupation of Palestinian land as the primary
obstacle to peace when even former President Jimmy Carter
and Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu are condemned
for their criticism of Israeli policies? Bill Fletcher,
Jr. comments.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9652.shtml

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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:

ZIONISM'S DEAD END
By Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 27 June 2008

The following is adapted from a talk by Jonathan Cook
delivered at the Conference for the Right of Return and
the Secular Democratic State, held in Haifa on 21 June
2008: In 1895 Theodor Herzl, Zionism's chief prophet,
confided in his diary that he did not favor sharing
Palestine with the natives. Better, he wrote, to "try to
spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across the
border by denying it any employment in our own country ...
Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the
poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."

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Bureaucratic occupation | Palestine is illegal | And more ...

2008-06-26T07:16:10Z

Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:

OCCUPATION BY BUREAUCRACY
By Saree Makdisi, The Electronic Intifada, 26 June 2008

A ceasefire went into effect in Gaza last week, offering
some respite from the violence that has killed hundreds of
Palestinians and five Israelis in recent months. It will
do nothing, however, to address the underlying cause of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Intermittent spectacular
violence may draw the world's attention to the occupied
Palestinian territories, but our obsession with violence
actually distracts us from the real nature of Israel's
occupation, which is its smothering bureaucratic control
of everyday Palestinian life. Saree Makdisi comments.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9650.shtml

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Palestine : Art, Music & Culture:

NONIE DARWISH AND THE AL-BUREIJ MASSACRE
By Jim Holstun, The Electronic Intifada, 26 June 2008

StandWithUs is a Zionist advocacy group in Los Angeles. It
concentrates on US colleges and universities, offering
fellowships, book donations, lectures, training and
hands-on activism. EI contributor Jim Holstun analyzes the
problematic writing one of StandWithUs' most energetic
speakers, Nonie Darwish, billed as "a Muslim Shahid's
Daughter."

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9646.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

PALESTINE IS ILLEGAL
By Sumia Ibrahim, Live from Palestine, 26 June 2008

The young, dark-haired woman behind the glass stamped the
American passport in front of her. "Welcome to Israel,"
she said cheerily. The line in front of me receded quickly
as passport after passport was stamped, and traveler after
traveler admitted entry. I made my way to the desk and
slid my passport under the glass. Sumia Ibrahim writes
from Palestine.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9648.shtml

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Lebanon : Human Rights/Development:

UNRWA'S NAHR AL-BARED APPEAL LEAVES OUT PALESTINIAN PARTICIPATION
Report, Electronic Lebanon, 25 June 2008

BEIRUT (IRIN) - As the UN's agency for Palestine refugees
UNRWA appeals for US$445 million for three years of
reconstruction and recovery in and around Lebanon's Nahr
al-Bared refugee camp, a mixed picture of aid agency
coordination has emerged from interviews with key players.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9647.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

ISRAEL, EU AND THE US DISREGARD INTERNATIONAL LAW
By Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 26 June 2008

After the announcement of the Israeli government to put
out new tenders for construction in illegal settlements in
East Jerusalem, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a
statement expressing his deep concern, stating that "the
government of Israel's continued construction in
settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is
contrary to international law and to its commitments under
the Road Map and the Annapolis process."

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9641.shtml

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