Bethlehem – Ma’an – About 500 Palestinian demonstrators, joined by a handful of Israeli and international supporters, marched towards the construction site of Israel’s separation wall in the village of Al-Khadr on Friday, in what organizers say is one of the largest weekly demonstrations in the West Bank. At least 30 heavily armed Israeli…
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The strongly anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews has attacked Ashkennazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger as a “very well paid Zionist stooge” and a “a wicked emissary of evil” who should be expelled from Israel, following Metzger’s reported comments proposing that poor Gazans be moved to a Palestinian state established in the Sinai. The…
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Mick Napier11 February 2008 Enforcers of illegal occupation are training Scottish police Israeli operatives market ‘anti-terrorism’ expertise as tested on Palestinians”[360 Defence’s chief trainer is] a graduate of Israeli forces notorious for their human rights violations, including murder, massacre, torture, kidnapping, and even bank robbery. Israeli death squads are openly admitted by the Israeli military…
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Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies 30 January 2008 The breaching of the Israeli-built wall dividing the Gaza Strip from Egypt allowed critical access to a population of 1.5 million Palestinians whom Israel had kept locked into a kind of prison since January 2006. That lock-down had been tightened in June 2007, and by early…
Ghada Karmi Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian who, having been forced out of Palestine with her family in 1948, was brought up in the UK, where she became a Doctor, author, academic, and renowned commentator on the Israel-Palestine issue. Filmed at a Day School on Palestine, Edinburgh 26 Jan 2008. 1/7 Ghada Karmi -…
Israel bars aid convoy to Gaza By Rachel Shabi at the Erez crossing, Gaza-Israel border Press release http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=546 http://www.end-gaza-siege.ps/IndexEn.htm The policy of force has failed, prison walls broken End the blockade – completely ! Ceasefire now – for the sake of Sderot and of Gaza! Saturday 26.1.08: A countrywide relief convoy and Israeli demonstration…