by Ramzy Baroud; ZNet | Mideast, November 30, 2006 “The term ethnic cleansing refers to various policies of forcibly removing people of another ethnic group. At one end of the spectrum, it is virtually indistinguishable from forced emigration and population transfer, while at the other it merges with deportation and genocide.”According to this definition, and…
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by Ilan Pappe; Electronic Intifada; January 18, 2007 On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. Indeed, the responses I received, including from some leading human rights activists,…
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FEBRUARY 10TH 2007 VALENTINES MASS DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CARMEL-AGREXCO The Valentines Day period is one of Agrexco UK’s busiest times as the company deals with large amounts of fresh flowers from Israel and the settlements. A mass picket of the Carmel-Agrexco depot on the 10th February 2007 has been organised in Middlesex in opposition to the sale…
You are married to a Palestinian but you have a foreign passport. You may even have children born in the Territories. But you are denied residency. Maybe you were born in the Occupied Territories (oPt) yourself but lost your residency because they were working or studying abroad in 1967 or through some other pre1994 Israeli…
International Herald Tribune January 1, 2007 JERUSALEM — Delek Real Estate, an Israeli property company, and its partners have agreed to buy 47 British hotels operated by Marriott International from Royal Bank of Scotland for about $2.1 billion. Delek will purchase a 17 percent stake in the hotels through its Delek- Belron International unit,…
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PACBI Press Release | Ramallah | December 15, 2006www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=415_0_1_0_M25 PACBI is pleased to announce that in a letter that appears in today’s Guardian, the 94, including the renowned author John Berger; UK musicians and song-writers Brian Eno and Leon Rosselson; filmmakers Sophie Fiennes, Elia Suleiman and Haim Bresheeth; documentary maker Jenny Morgan; singer Reem Kelani; writers…