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Crosses, flags, and murdered children by Dianne Roe Most people in Hebron have TVs. The last few days the images on the screen have been unbearable. At one home I saw a mother try to distract her eight-year old son but she was too late. He had already seen the carnage of the boys playing…

Truce or bloodbath  by Azzam Tamimi in The Guardian A recent poll published in the Israeli daily Ha`aretz suggested that 64% of Israelis favoured a negotiated truce with Hamas. But in the past few days, a military onslaught that has so far claimed more than a hundred Palestinian lives, mostly women and children, has made it…

Shame on the Arabs, Shame on the Muslims, Shame on Humanity March 3, 2008 Khalid Amayreh from the West Bank. As Israel is fulfilling its threat to inflict a “greater holocaust” (greater than the German Holocaust) on the Palestinian people, the vast bulk of Arabs and Muslims, as well as the rest of the world,…

A single rifle bullet, another victim – but no hope of a doctor Rory McCarthy in Jabalia The Guardian, Monday March 3 2008  First came an explosion in the street outside. Then the sound of a single rifle bullet… Abu Saif hurried upstairs and found, lying on the floor of the front room, Safa, aged…

Oppression Begets Violence: Listen to the Shunned  –  Joharah Baker Report by UN investigator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the UN Human Rights Council, John Dugard slams Israel  Draws parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa. (Dugard is South African) Palestinian violence committed in the course of a war of national liberation against colonialism, apartheid…

Something bad is happening to us Haaretz Editorial Feb 25, 2008 “We have become accustomed to treating the Palestinians as inferior people. … “This time, it was regular soldiers in the Kfir Brigade. They exposed their backsides and sexual organs to Palestinians, pressed an electric heater to the face of a young boy, beat young…