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St GermainsPalestinian Bassam Abu Sharif, the right-hand man of Yasser Arafat, was called the “face of terror” by Time Magazine, and was known as one of the most notorious and dangerous men in the 1960s and 70s. Here he speaks with Riz Khan on “One on One” and describes his feelings about Israel’s oppression of his [...]
Dear friends,
I have just returned home from my trip abroad after having accompanied the Palestine Youth Orchestra for two weeks in Beiteddine and Amman, an unforgettable experience in every sense of the word. Seventy instrumentalists and forty singers came together to celebrate Jerusalem , the Capital of the Arab Culture and to pay tribute to [...]
The Sydney Morning Herald: “A lull, then cycle of violence continues” by Jason Koutsoukis, 31 August 2009
The report “A lull, then cycle of violence resumes” (31/8) by Jason Koutsoukis shows just how “balanced” reporting operates to leave out the
context of a 42 year long occupation, which has been used to deliberately colonise and dispossess the [...]
The Age: “West Bank farmers beset by faceless menace” by Jason Koutsoukis, 31 August 2009
Jason Koutsoukis only tells half the story in “West Bank farmers beset by a faceless menace” (Aug 31). Every single illegal settlement in the West Bank began as an illegal outpost that was later “legalised” and consolidated by state supported infrastructure. [...]
by Ethan Bronner - New York Times - 27 August 2009
BILIN, West Bank — Every Friday for the past four and a half years, several hundred demonstrators — Palestinian villagers, foreign volunteers and Israeli activists — have walked in unison to the Israeli barrier separating this tiny village from the burgeoning settlement of Modiin Illit, [...]
The Sydney Morning Herald: “A lull, then cycle of violence continues” by Jason Koutsoukis
Jason Koutsoukis’ coverage of the illegal settlements in the Palestinian Territories showed the daily hardships faced by average Palestinians to military occupation. It would be good to hear in future about Richard Branson, Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu’s historic visit of ‘the [...]
by Kim Petersen - Dissident Voice - 29 August 2009
Prejudice does not always come with an ugly face. The same holds for Zionism and racism. It is entirely possible for well-intentioned people to hold a prejudice and, even worse, act on held prejudices.
Uri Avnery opposes the brutality inflicted on Palestinians. He campaigns for peace with [...]
Palestine News Network (PNN)
29 August 2009
Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), will visit the Middle East from Sunday, 30 August to Wednesday, 2 September 2009.
He will be taking meetings with Palestinian, Syrian, Israeli and Lebanese officials.
The takes place in the context of the major push by the international [...]
Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies
30 August 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday played down reports of progress toward a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
“We are not facing a breakthrough tomorrow of the day after,” Netanyahu told his cabinet at the opening of their weekly meeting.
Regarding reported progress, he was quoted by Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper as [...]
Gaza – Ma’an
30 August 2009
Israeli jets bombed a northern Gaza Strip building on Sunday morning.
No casualties were immediately reported.
The overnight airstrike “was in response to a Qassam rocket fired from Gaza into Israeli territory on Saturday morning,” the country’s military said in a statement to Ma’an.
Israel claimed the building had housed the entrance to an [...]
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