Israeli Military Occupation is not a Bar to EU Partnership By David Morrison, 11/09/08 …On 28 November 1995, the EU allowed Israel to become a partner, under Euro-Mediterranean Partnership arrangements with states bordering on the Mediterranean. At the time, Israeli troops were occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (the West…
Mofaz: Israel should reinstitute Sharon’s assassination policies Date: 12 / 09 / 2008 Ma’an Ibrahim An-Najjar, a leader of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, warned Friday morning that the transportation minister’s comments are evidence of an upcoming “wave of assassinations and aggression” against Palestinians. “Israeli leaders are competing for our blood and all Palestinian…
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Saturday 29 November 2008 Augustine United Church, Edinburgh Dayschool – All day eventFull details and schedule to be publicised soon. Speakers include: Colm Bryce, one of the Raytheon 9 aquitted by a Belfast jury for their action in decommissioning the Raytheon offices in Derry in August 2006. Palestine solidarity activist involved…
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East Jerusalem’s education crisis t was not just that the school was a barely converted storage centre for goats, with stinking, broken waste pipes, and rooms that had chairs but no tables for the children. It was that the fumes from the huge metals factory at the back of the school were giving the children…
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Israeli army fire on Gazan fishermen and international activists ISM, September 4th, 2008 On the 1st September 2008, the first day of Ramadan, several volunteers with the Free Gaza Movement and the International Solidarity Movement accompanied a small fleet of seven fishing vessels from Gaza City port. The fishermen exercised their right to fish in…
Israeli army targets family over brutality film Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent September 01. 2008 The window through which Salam Amira, 16, filmed the moment when an Israeli soldier shot from close range a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee has a large hole at its centre with cracks running in every direction. “Since my video was…