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

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:49:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9703.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9703.shtml</a> -------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9701.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9701.shtml</a> -------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9700.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9700.shtml</a> -------------------------------------------------------- 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? <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9702.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9702.shtml</a> -------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9704.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9704.shtml</a> -------------------------------------------------------- -- ABOUT US: The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at <a href="http://electronicIntifada.net">http://electronicIntifada.net</a>, publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective. EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. 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Culture of survival | Expulsion threat | No shortcuts | And more ...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:59:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9690.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9690.shtml</a> ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9699.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9699.shtml</a> ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9696.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9696.shtml</a> ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9695.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9695.shtml</a> ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9694.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9694.shtml</a> ----------------------------------------------------------- -- ABOUT US: The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at <a href="http://electronicIntifada.net">http://electronicIntifada.net</a>, publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective. EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. 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The Israel-Hizballah prisoner deal

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:31:00 GMT

The Israel-Hizballah prisoner deal By Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, Electronic Lebanon, 16 July 2008 <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9697.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9697.shtml</a> 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. -- ABOUT US: The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at <a href="http://electronicIntifada.net">http://electronicIntifada.net</a>, publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective. EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. More information about our work can be found at <a href="http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/aboutEI.shtml">http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/aboutEI.shtml</a> To find out about other EI/eIraq lists available, see: <a href="http://lists.electronicintifada.net/mail.cgi">http://lists.electronicintifada.net/mail.cgi</a> SUPPORT OUR PROJECT: Our work needs funding. We accept donations via credit card and cheque. U.S. donations are tax deductible. 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Bil'in interview & lawsuit | Elusive prisoner swap | And more ...

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:12:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9687.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9687.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9692.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9692.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9686.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9686.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9671.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9671.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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Village sues over settlements | Torture | Student in administrative detention

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:39:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9682.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9682.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9675.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9675.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9683.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9683.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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Gaza's injured | Ni'lin besieged | Nablus orgs. raided | And more ...

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:39:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9669.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9669.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9678.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9678.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9679.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9679.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9677.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9677.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9676.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9676.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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Gaza and the truce | My new birthday | Extra-judicial executions | Sami al-Arian

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:20:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9674.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9674.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9662.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9662.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9673.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9673.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9672.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9672.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9670.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9670.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- -- ABOUT US: The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at <a href="http://electronicIntifada.net">http://electronicIntifada.net</a>, publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective. EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. 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Shooting the messenger | Iran-Israel analysis | Month in pictures | Gaza diary

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:16:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9668.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9668.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9663.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9663.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9661.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9661.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9658.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9658.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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Nakba film | Journalist assaulted | S. Africa tactics | Zionism's dead end

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:05:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9655.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9655.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9654.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9654.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9652.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9652.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- 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." <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9653.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9653.shtml</a> ---------------------------------------------------------- -- ABOUT US: The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at <a href="http://electronicIntifada.net">http://electronicIntifada.net</a>, publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective. EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. 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Bureaucratic occupation | Palestine is illegal | And more ...

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:16:00 GMT

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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9650.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9650.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- 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." <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9646.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9646.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9648.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9648.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- 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. <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9647.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9647.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- 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." <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9641.shtml">http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9641.shtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------- -- ABOUT US: The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at <a href="http://electronicIntifada.net">http://electronicIntifada.net</a>, publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective. 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