...month, after a Palestinian snuck into the settlement and stabbed a young boy, a mob of dozens of settlers stormed through a neighboring Arab village, smashing windows, firing wildly and injuring six Palestinians. Even Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert condemned the retaliatory rampage as a "pogrom." The uptick in violence is worrying Israel's security services, which have convened anxious strategy...
Hundreds of vehicles to break siege on Gaza Monday via Egyptian border 04.10.08 - 21:36 Bethlehem / PNN...Strip. Egyptian parliamentarian and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamdi Hassan says of Monday’s crossing, “It aims to break the siege imposed on the Strip for nearly two years.” - -MORE--
by Maria Mackay Posted: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 10:46 (BST) Enlarge this picture Palestinians wait to cross a checkpoint on their way to pray for the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Sept. 19,... (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) “We cannot change the whole world but we...
... Link News Middle East Tunnels feed besieged Gaza About 6,000 Palestinians are said to be engaged in smuggling through the tunnels [EPA] Hundreds of tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt are keeping many of the Palestinian territory's...
Shattered dreams The full-blown Zionist project is over. Even Israel's prime minister admits it, writes Abdallah El-Ashaal* At a meeting of the Israeli cabinet on 15 September, Ehud Olmert, the prime...external problems. Even in the US there are signs that US policy in the Middle East, and especially its relations with Israel, are going to be subject to closer scrutiny than in the past. --MORE--
Robert Fisk www.rupeenews.com Posted on October 4, 2008 by Moin Ansari Robert Risk is one of the few independent journalists left in the Western world who can dare to say it like it is. He...lifeline for him GWOT: Map of possible war with Iran Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan Robert Fisk’s World: When it comes to Palestine and Israel, the US simply doesn’t get it --MORE--
...September. (Rami Swidan/MaanImages) The strategic value of international solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, refugees in the Diaspora and Palestinians in Israel raises some fundamental questions. The most immediate and urgent are: what the nature of international solidarity should be and how it can best support the Palestinian struggle for...
MIDEAST: Cherrie Heywood RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 2 (IPS) - An Israeli police commander has called them "provocateurs", "militants", and, "lawbreakers". Earlier in the year the Israeli Defence Forces...in the Palestinian territories in an endeavour to enlighten ordinary Israelis on what happens behind the scenes as their sons and daughters, husbands and wives serve the Jewish state. --MORE--
...by the IDF-issue flannel, the type meant for cleaning guns, and his wrists were about to be bound with plastic handcuffs. We seemed more upset by his sudden arrest than he was. After 41 years, the Palestinians are used to it, that on any ordinary day, on the way to or from work, everything might be abruptly turned upside down. This was a routine year, another year of the occupation of which no...
