Palestine: Information with Provenance
1: Al-Ahram Weekly 2: CounterPunch 3: Ha'aretz 4: The Guardian
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Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction
by Charles Townshend (2), 10 October 2002
Book Description
This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can b ...
#420 Jerusalem.. Israel's capital?
by Mohamed Sid-Ahmed in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
The new US legislation requiring all official American documents to identify the occupied city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has triggered angry reactions throughout the Islamic world. Thousands of demonstrators marched through Gaza, threaten ...
#421 A staring contest
by Azmi Bishara in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, as he prepares for war against Iraq despite overwhelming domestic opposition, has recently felt obliged to call for the speedy creation of a Palestinian state. ...
Yet, before some Palestinians welcome Blair's comments, ...
#423 Selling anti-Semitism
by Jonathan Cook in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
Raanan Rein, a history professor at Tel Aviv University, reveals in his new book "Argentina, Israel and the Jews" (only in Hebrew) that in a private press conference in 1960 Prime Minister David Ben Gurion welcomed the possibility that Israel's kidna ...
#424 Fear and loathing in Gaza
by Graham Usher in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
Israeli assault from without and assassinations from within -- Palestinians in Gaza are living through the "worst kind of warfare". ...
#425 Backdoor deal
by Michael Jansen in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
A bill in Congress, demanding the US Embassy in Israel be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, would effectively grant de facto US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. ...
#426 Setting up Israel's 'fence'
by Annika Hampson in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
Israel's "fence" provides not for security but for the grabbing of even more Palestinian land. ...
#427 Sharon's 'successful' slaughter
by Khalid Amayreh in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
The Israeli army committed another horrific massacre against the Palestinians, this time in Khan Yunis, Gaza, as the world looked on in silence. ...
#428 Israel, Iraq, and the United States
by Edward Said in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
America marches to war as if in a trance. We must do everything in our power to slow down and finally stop the recourse to war that has now become a theory and not just a practice. ...
#422 Islam, Palestine and the world order
by George Giacaman in CounterPunch, 10 October 2002
If Muslims are to play a positive and significant role in the world today, the concrete problems of Muslim societies should be addressed. ...
#430 What Bush Didn't Say to the UN -- The Case Against Israel
by William A. Cook in CounterPunch, 10 October 2002
Despite the fact that Iraq no longer occupies territory owned by another state; despite the fact that its present military is considered to be one third the size and power it maintained in 1991; despite the fact that the UN inspections removed up to ...
#451 Loving 'the homeland'
by Meron Benvenisti in Ha'aretz, 10 October 2002
Nowadays, transfer has won an enthusiastic new supporter, Prof. Benny Morris, who uses his prestige as the "new historian" who exposed "the transfer atrocities of 1948" to preach for a Jewish state without Arabs "from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, ...
#454 Israel leads in ignoring Security Council resolutions
by Shlomo Shamir in Ha'aretz, 10 October 2002
NEW YORK - Israel holds the record for ignoring United Nations Security Council resolutions, according to a study by San Francisco University political science professor Steven Zunes.
On the eve of a possible U.S.-British assault on Iraq, Zunes d ...
#455 The outposts' mission: Guard the land against the Arabs
by Nadav Shragai in Ha'aretz, 10 October 2002
Orchestrating the campaign were Ze'ev Hever, a close associate of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the head of Amana, a settlement movement NPO; Uri Ariel, now an MK, and at the time secretary general of the Yesha Council; and Wallerstein.
They ad ...
#434 In favor of Gandhi's Legacy
by Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz, 10 October 2002
Shadan Abu-Hajla was 50 years old when she died on Friday from an Israeli soldier's bullet as she sat embroidering in Rafadiyeh park in Nablus. Her husband, an elderly, well-known doctor, was wounded in the head, and their son got a bullet ...
#102550 Woman killed in Tel Aviv suicide blast
by guardian.co.uk in The Guardian, 10 October 2002