An Israeli human rights group says the overwhelming majority of Israeli troops suspected of criminal offences against Palestinians are never indicted. Full report at BBC Dec 18, 2007 Yesh Din’s report said offences included “illegal shooting causing the death and injury of civilians, violence and abuse, intentional damage to property, looting, taking bribes”. Between 2000…
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Thirty years after late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel, Egyptian diplomatic relations with the Hebrew state remain cordial. On a popular level, however, the relationship — buttressed by the 1979 Camp David peace agreement — still represents a major source of contention. The Electronic Intifada, 21 December 2007 “The so-called peace between…
Live from Palestine, 20 December 2007 A 500-meter-long street in the heart of Gaza City is empty of cars and vehicles, but full of men, women and children. Omar al-Mokhtar Street is considered the largest commercial area in Gaza where people from all over the coastal region have always come to shop, especially during the…
NOW Magazine, Dec. 21, 2007 Grass stains on Canada’s hands – Why are feds subsidizing the refurbishment of a park built on razed Palestinian towns? Ramallah, Palestine – It’s easy to forget, while soaking up the tranquillity along with happy picnickers under the pine trees, that Canada Park is steeped in a disturbing controversy. The…
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By Scott Wilson Washington Post Saturday, December 15, 2007 GAZA CITY — The batteries are the size of a button on a man`s shirt, small silvery dots that power hearing aids for several hundred Palestinian students taught by the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza City. Now the batteries, marketed by Radio Shack, are…
Continue Reading Sealed Off by Israel, Gaza Reduced to Beggary (Washington Post)
Ahmed Khalidi Guardian Dec 13, 2007 “Today, the Palestinian state is largely a punitive construct devised by the Palestinians’ worst historical enemies: Israel and its implacable ally, the US. The intention behind the state today is to constrain Palestinian aspirations territorially, to force them to give up on their moral rights, renege on their history…
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