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Adalah: JNF lands come from state, not Jewish contributors
Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Thursday refuted Jewish National Fund claims, saying that most JNF land was not purchased with Jewish people contributions but was given to it by the state during the first years after the War of Independence....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:02pm PST
Bay Area Activist Arrested in Bil'in
Kate Bender-Raphael was arrested Tuesday December 14 while filming a demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil'in against the construction of the apartheid wall. She is being held pending deportation...
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 8:24pm PST
Vanunu is elected rector
The nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been elected rector of Glasgow University. His supporters hope that will help his campaign to be allowed to leave Israel, where he is still forbidden from talking to foreigners....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 5:12pm PST
Students Make up for Israel-destroyed Traffic Lights
NABLUS , West bank, December 16 (IslamOnline.net) – “Yes, I might be still very young but I'm very proud of the service I do to my city and my colleagues,” Shaimaa Ghassan Zoqan, a11 -year-old Palestinian schoolgirl, said of her voluntary work as a traffic officer....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 5:10pm PST
With the ISM in Balata refugee camp
Tom Feakins writing from Balata refugee camp, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 15 December 2004...
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:40pm PST
Zionists to Rally in Berkeley on Sunday
"There will be a rally against terrorism Sunday, January noon til 3:00 16th in Berkeley, CA at Martin Luther King Memorial Park (Allston & MLK). The rally will mark the anniversary of the suicide bombing of Jerusalem bus #19. The actual bus remains will be there on display."...
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 3:22pm PST
Israel’s "Jews-only" Law Under Fire
CAIRO, December 14 (IslamOnline.net) - Israeli critics have warned that the proposed law, allowing Jews to bar Arabs from buying homes in their communities, could expose Israel to a fresh wave of condemnation and could further deepen Israel’s image as an aparthied state....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 8:13pm PST
Abbas asks Palestinians to drop arms
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said his people should drop their weapons in the struggle for a state, marking out a clear change of strategy for peace with Israel after Yasir Arafat's death last month....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 4:06pm PST
Syria: Bomb shows Israel does not want peace
DAMASCUS: Syrian Information Minister Mehdi Dakhlallah said Tuesday that the bombing of a car belonging to a member of the Palestinian movement Hamas in Damascus showed Israel continued to reject peace....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 3:54pm PST
Hariri: Oslo has led to a dead end
Dubai: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has criticized international attempts to solve the Arab Israeli conflict.
Speaking on the second day of the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai, Hariri said Western peace proposals, including the current U.S.-backed "road map," are "all based on the premise that the Palestinian people should prove that they deserve a separate state....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 3:53pm PST
Israel's nuclear weapons and Iran's and the Arabs' call for a nuclear free zone
Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Iran has repeatedly called for a nuclear-free Middle East. Guess who opposes that idea? The United States. Guess why? Israel is the only country in the Middle East that really does have nuclear weapons. Israel has also refused to sign the non-proliferation treaty and refuses to allow international inspections. And it is Israel that views Iran as a threat.
But in the perverted world of Washington, a Muslim country that has signed the n...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 11:42am PST
Israeli forces shell Palestinian school in Khan Yunis
PCHR strongly condemns the latest attack committed by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) this morning, when they fired an artillery shell at a school in Khan Yunis, wounding 7 Palestinian schoolchildren under the age of 9. PCHR is increasingly concerned for attacks by IOF on educational institutions, threatening the lives and safety of children, even in places where full protection is supposed to be offered to them in all circumstances....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 6:46pm PST
The Slow Creep of Israel’s annexation of Palestine
First they were told that they were building a wall between the two populations for the protection of both.
….. Then they were told them that the wall on their land was necessary for the protection of Israel.
Then they told the Palestinian farmers on whose land the wall rests that they would have unlimited access to their lands……after which gates were erected along the wall – gates which would be opened only three times a day.
…. Then the Palestinian farmers were told that if they wa...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 4:14pm PST
Israel attempts to kill Hamas member in Damascus using car bomb?
A member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas escaped unhurt on Monday when a bomb blew up his car in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Palestinian source said....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 9:43am PST
Israelis shoot and kill another Palestinian girl
Israeli troops shot dead a 7-year-old Palestinian girl in a Gaza refugee camp on Friday......
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 8:07am PST
Hamas Considers Joining PLO
"Hamas spokesman said that Hamas sees the PLO as 'one of the great achievements by the Palestinian people that must be preserved'.."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 2:15pm PST
Noam Chomsky: Reshaping History
"Since the issue of Palestinian national rights in a Palestinian state reached the agenda of diplomacy in the mid-1970s, 'the prime obstacle to its realization', unambiguously, has been the United States government, with the Times staking a claim to be second on the list.."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 2:14pm PST
Barguthi quits Palestine presidential race
Jailed intifada leader Marwan al-Barghuti has called off his campaign to become Palestinian president and has thrown his support behind PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas....
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 12:43pm PST
12/13 SF&Oakland Protest Anti-Palestinian Celebration
On December 13, 2004, the pro-Israel AIPAC will be fundraising in San Francisco and Oakland, with lots of Democratic Party politicians invited to participate. Please protest this genocidal front for US imperialism by telling all the Democrats & Republicans in your phone book to stop supporting Israel, and they all do by definition. Also, attend the demonstrations....
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 7:17pm PST
12/13 SF&Oakland Protest US Friends of Israel
On December 13, 2004, the pro-Israel AIPAC will be fundraising in San Francisco and Oakland, with lots of Democratic Party politicians invited to participate. Please protest this genocidal front for US imperialism by telling all the Democrats & Republicans in your phone book to stop supporting Israel, and they all do by definition. Also, attend the demonstrations....
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 3:04pm PST