1: Al-Ahram Weekly 2: CounterPunch 3: Electronic Intifada 4: Ha'aretz 5: International Press Center - Palestine 6: London Review of Books 7: Media Monitors Network 8: Stop the Wall 9: The Guardian
#7767 South Africa Awaits Tomorrow's Ruling on Israeli Wall
by Thabo Mokgola, 8 July 2004
South Africa hopes the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) ruling on the legality of the wall being built by Israel in Palestine will help both countries find an amicable solution to their conflict.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad sa ...
#8848 ACLU Keynote Speech
by Seymour Hersh, 8 July 2004
We don’t know — I’ll tell you right now, the reason I’m saying all that — is what happened at Abu Ghraib, I can just tell you this, and I have to do the reporting on this and you have to wait for me to do it — but it’s not about an academic debate in ...
#7773 The last book
by Ferial J Ghazoul in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 July 2004
Humanism and Democratic Criticism is the last book Edward Said wrote; it was published posthumously in May 2004 in a series entitled "Themes in Philosophy". The book is introduced by the editor of the series, Akeel Bilgrami, professor of philosophy a ...
#7774 The hands of Israel
by Ibrahim Nafie in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 July 2004
New evidence has come to light of Israeli involvement in Iraq. The sources that revealed this evidence are not Arab but American, and their claims are backed by documentation of the network of relations Israeli security agencies have woven and used t ...
#7775 'Democratic' racism (1)
by Jonathan Cook in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 July 2004
The State of Israel is both "democratic and Jewish", a first-ever Israeli constitution is set to declare. In a two-part article Jonathan Cook lays open a contradiction in terms. ...
#7776 Another generous offer?
by Mustafa Barghouti in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 July 2004
Returning from the failed Camp David summit in 2000, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak first coined the mantra that has become the cornerstone of Ariel Sharon's and other Israeli governments -- "We have no partner for peace." Citing this habit ...
#7777 Besieged and beholden
by Lamis Andoni in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 July 2004
Pressure from the United States and Israel for Jordan to assume a security role in the West Bank has re-fuelled historic fears among Jordanians and Palestinians alike that the so-called "Jordanian Option" -- an Israeli concept that encompasses Jordan ...
#7821 Living with extremists
by Emad Gad in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 July 2004
As for religious extremism, Israeli writers documented renewed assaults by conservative elements on secularists, as described in an article by Jonathan Lis, entitled "Another Wave of Ultra-Orthodox Violence in Jerusalem", which appeared on the Israel ...
#68260 Enter Heikal
by Amira Howeidy in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 July 2004
Millions are expected to tune in to Al-Jazeera tonight as the Arab world's leading commentator makes a comeback, writes Amira Howeidy
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#7771 A Letter from the Hunger Strikers' Tent: Protesting Israel's Apartheid Wall
by Toufic Haddad in CounterPunch, 8 July 2004
»I will try and write continuous updates regarding what goes on here in the tent and the state of the hunger strikers. In the mean time, I am taking this opportunity to make a loud and clear appeal to all those who read this to organize and mob ...
#7770 One Morning in Palestine
by Fadi Abu Sa'da in Electronic Intifada, 8 July 2004
It was 2am Thursday morning, when I went to sleep, After following the news as usual, I was having a very tough migraine. I have experienced these tough migraines for a while because of the stress I have working as a journalist. ...
#7737 What really influences the High Court
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 8 July 2004
»There’s no way to know what really influenced the High Court justices when they decided last week to cancel 30 kilometers of the separation fence route that cuts through Palestinian areas
northwest of Jerusalem. The naked facts presente ...
#7742 'We have problems, too'
by Joseph Algazy in Ha'aretz, 8 July 2004
Homeless residents of Be'er Sheva drove the first stake of their protest tent into the ground almost eleven weeks ago. Ever since, ordinary citizens, from housewives to business people, have been offering sympathy and assistance to the tent dwellers. ...
#7745 Court to rule today on detained ISM activist
by Relly Sa'ar in Ha'aretz, 8 July 2004
An activist in the International Solidarity Movement in support of the Palestinians, Robinson-Peter has been held at Ben-Gurion Airport in the holding cells reserved for people refused entry to the country.
She arrived two weeks ago for a 14-day ...
#7746 Kibbutz plant employs eight Thai workers in subhuman conditions
by Tsahar Rotem in Ha'aretz, 8 July 2004
Members of the Immigration Police who raided the Oren Hacarmel factory on Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh yesterday found eight Thai workers living there in inhumane conditions. Police described conditions provided to the workers as being "not even fit for an ...
#7747 Vanunu's notebooks 'prove intent to harm state security'
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 8 July 2004
An expert has concluded that Mordechai Vanunu's prison notebooks contain previously unpublished information on the Dimona nuclear reactor, the state said in a brief to the High Court of Justice yesterday.
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#7748 Deputy PM Olmert heads for Ankara in effort to mend strained relations
by Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz, 8 July 2004
Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is slated to visit Turkey next week and meet with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in what will be the first high-level visit by an Israeli official since Erdogan began speaking out against Israel's behavior in t ...
#7740 The cruel face of Zionism
by Ari Shavit in Ha'aretz, 8 July 2004
»The heart of the problem is this: The disengagement plan is about to cause a humanitarian catastrophe. Already in the first stage the plan will strike a fatal blow to the human rights of 8,000
women, men and children. At a later stage it will tramp ...
#7835 “We need to alarm the world… to scream - to silently scream”
by Azmi Bishara, Anne Gwynne in International Press Center - Palestine, 8 July 2004
Exclusive Interview with Dr Azmi Bishara, MK, on the Hunger Strike, July 8 2004. Transcribed and edited by Anne Gwynne.
Azmi Bishara (AB) spoke with Johayna Marlow (JM) and John Young (JY).
JY - Good evening, etc… Dr Bishara is currently ...
#7846 We need to alarm the world… to scream - to silently scream
by Azmi Bishara in International Press Center - Palestine, 8 July 2004
JM — Yes, yes of course! Dr Bishara – the crimes against the Palestinian people, under the 37 years of illegal Israeli occupation are uncountable. So, would you tell us why this particular crime, the Apartheid Wall, has moved you so str ...
#15218 In Our Present-Day White Christian Culture: Freud and the rise of Zionism
by Jacqueline Rose in London Review of Books, 8 July 2004
Ever since the fall of Baghdad, when looters went rampaging through the city, a centuries-old assumption about 'the people' has lurked, barely spoken, beneath the ghastly aftermath of the war. It is that the people, meaning 'people en masse', are inc ...
#152383 In Our Present-Day White Christian Culture - on Freud and the rise of Zionism
by Jacqueline Rose in London Review of Books, 8 July 2004
It may have been because of the shock of that transition from hate to hate, because he had felt it running through his own veins, that Freud would remain wary of all collective identifications throughout his life, even when, right at the end, they ca ...
#7824 To speak: perchance to be expelled—ay, there's the rub!
by Greg Felton in Media Monitors Network, 8 July 2004
»To hear university president Lorna Marsden tell it, Freeman-Maloy twice disrupted classes this year by leading two protests and using a megaphone—what she generically called “an unauthorized sound amplification device.” The second one, on Marc ...
#7766 Abu Saher: "A Palestinian in Jerusalem is Chased by the Occupation..."
by PENGON in Stop the Wall, 8 July 2004
If they build the Wall, then they are destroying 90% of the street (the commercial life on the side of the street). As a furniture store owner, I will loose my clients who won’t be able to reach me, except by making huge efforts; the client will have ...
#7736 Islamic cleric defends suicide bombing stance
by Owen Bowcott, Faisal al Yafai in The Guardian, 8 July 2004
»Challenged on his attitude towards suicide bombings, Mr Qaradawi did not disavow his comments on Palestinian tactics. He described them as "the weapons of the weak" and added: "They have no other means to resist occupation and liberate their l ...
#103595 Seven Palestinians killed in Gaza battle
by guardian.co.uk in The Guardian, 8 July 2004
#103596 Suicide bomber's brother and sister face retrial
by Matthew Taylor in The Guardian, 8 July 2004
#103597 Cleric may face prosecution for 'martyrdom' comments
by Guardian contributor in The Guardian, 8 July 2004