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Mario Vargas Llosa: How Arabs have been driven out of Hebron Hebron is the image of desolation and pain. I’m talking of the H-2 sector, the oldest part of this ancient city, which is under Israeli military control and where some 500 colonos – settlers – live in four settlements. It is one of the…

Gaza operation possible after Bush visit – by Herb Keinon There is a heightened sense in the security establishment that a broad-scale ground incursion inside the Gaza Strip is necessary this summer to deal a severe blow to Hamas’s infrastructure, sources in Jerusalem said Wednesday, following the death of three soldiers in a Gaza ambush.…

15-year-old Hamad was tortured, murdered and mutilated by Israeli settlers At 3pm on Wednesday, 16th April, the mutilated body of 15 year old Hammad Nidar Khadatbh was found in lands of the illegal Israeli settlement of Al-Hamra by his father, who was out searching for his missing son. Hammad’s body was naked, bloated, and tortured.…

In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem Saturday, 19 April 2008 The dark-haired 22-year-old in black T-shirt, blue jeans and red Crocs is understandably hesitant as he sits at a picnic table in the incongruous setting of a…

Sixty-five years ago, the courageous Jews of the Warsaw ghetto rose in defense of their people. We Gazans, living in the world’s largest open-air prison, can do no less.  No Peace without Hamas By Mahmoud al-Zahar of Hamas, writing in Washington Post, Thursday, April 17, 2008 GAZA — President Jimmy Carter’s sensible plan to visit…

Carter greeted warmly by Hamas official in Ramallah, lays wreath on Arafat’s grave Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday warmly embraced a leading Hamas figure in the West Bank and laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, further antagonizing Israel as he pushed forward with his latest Mideast peace mission. Full report…