Palestine: Information with Provenance
1: Al-Ahram Weekly 2: American Jewish Committee (AJC) website 3: BBCi (BBC Online) 4: Dissident Voice 5: Ha'aretz 6: Jerusalem Post 7: New York Review of Books 8: Politis 9: The Daily/Sunday Telegraph 10: The Guardian
#5850 Just another day
by Nick Pretzlik, 12 February 2004
The first day of school? A normal day in Jenin? Or
just one more day? The answer most probably is yes to
all three. Certainly there have been worse days --
many, and some of them much worse. But to think, even
for one moment, that such a day migh ...
#6205
Moshe Dayan
by Martin van Creveld, 12 February 2004
Born in a kibbutz in 1915, Dayan joined the Hagana when he was just fourteen, thus starting early a military career that saw him serve in every war fought in the Middle East from 1948 to 1973. Dayan\Œs private life was far from mundane. The book quo ...
#5840 Another dead end
by Jonathan Cook in Al-Ahram Weekly, 12 February 2004
»The announcement was met first with incredulity. Then, as the magnitude of Sharon’s policy reversal sank in, it was seized on as a breakthrough. Only by the weekend did the Palestinian Authority (PA) sense a trap. A statement issued on F ...
#5841 Unilaterally racist
by Azmi Bishara in Al-Ahram Weekly, 12 February 2004
»Sharon is not going to cede to the Palestinian Authority any land taken in 1948. What he is trying to do is draw the borders while annexing parts of the land occupied in 1967 – this is his idea of “unilateral disengagement”. ...
#5926 American Jewish Committee Launches Transatlantic Institute in Brussels
by American Jewish Committee (AJC) in American Jewish Committee (AJC) website, 12 February 2004
European foreign ministers addressed a gala dinner on Thursday to celebrate the opening of the Transatlantic Institute, the American Jewish Committee's latest initiative in international diplomacy.
"The United States and Europe need each other now ...
#47303 Speech: On the Occasion of the Opening of the Transatlantic Institute
by Javier Solana in American Jewish Committee (AJC) website, 12 February 2004
»Europe's special responsibility - both moral and historical - creates a unique relationship with Israel. We are committed to Israel's right to exist as a Jewish
state, where all Israeli citizens have a right to live in peace, security and ...
#76423 Qurei denies helping build wall
by BBC staff in BBCi (BBC Online), 12 February 2004
Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei has rejected claims that a company owned by his family is supplying cement for Israel's barrier in the West Bank.
Mr Qurei is on a tour of Europe to urging opposition to the controversial wire-and-concrete bar ...
#5846 The BBC and the Quiet Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
by Paul de Rooij in Dissident Voice, 12 February 2004
At present, ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is ongoing and systematic, yet it is difficult to find any reference to this crime against humanity in most news media. The issue is not so much slanted coverage as scant or selective coverage of the miser ...
#5847 Return to Rafah: Journey to a Land Out of Bounds
by Jennifer Loewenstein in Dissident Voice, 12 February 2004
I left for Rafah on 11 January 2004 as part of a three-person pilot delegation to the city.
...
Since the deaths of Rachel Corrie, Thomas Hurndall, and James Miller at the hands of the Israeli military in Rafah last spring, entrance into the G ...
#5851 Far from the television screens, Gazan women mourn their dead
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 12 February 2004
The scene at the home of the Abu Sukheileh family in the Jabalya
refugee camp yesterday evening bore no resemblance to what is normally seen
on television - the pictures of people rejoicing at the death of their
beloved, who has become a shahee ...
#18196 FIFA OKs matches in Israel
by Ofer Ronen-Abels in Jerusalem Post, 12 February 2004
FIFA President Sepp Blatter assured IFA chairman Itche Menahem that Israel would host matches on home soil in the forthcoming World Cup qualifying campaign. Israel has not played an official international match at home in 2 years.
Menahem, who me ...
#5819 'Murder in Karachi': An Exchange
by Bernard-Henri Levy, William Dalrymple in New York Review of Books, 12 February 2004
Levy defends his book against Dalrymple's review.
Dalrymple replies do BHL's defence. ...
#13947 « Les écrivains sont des menteurs », un entretien avec Elias Khoury
by Marion Dumand, Christophe Kantcheff, Elias Khoury (2) in Politis, 12 February 2004
Car, avec du recul, il me semble que la Porte du soleil a comblé un vide. En effet, la Nakba palestinienne n’avait jamais été traitée auparavant dans la littérature arabe ou mondiale. Seules existaient la vision des vainqueurs, les Israéliens, ou des ...
#5978 Murderous tactics echo the IRA's war on Irish police
by John Keegan in The Daily/Sunday Telegraph, 12 February 2004
The Iraqi terrorists seeking to destabilise the Coalition Provisional Authority have now killed 100 applicants to its new security forces in two days - 53 on Tuesday, 47 yesterday - in both cases by suicide bombing.
Direct attack on security force ...
#76424 Palestinian PM's firm 'helps build Israeli wall'
by Toby Harnden in The Daily/Sunday Telegraph, 12 February 2004
The family of the Palestinian prime minister has been supplying concrete for Israel's security barrier, it was claimed yesterday, as legislators launched an investigation into companies profiting from the trade.
"We want to know if this cement was ...
#5835 Why was €1m a month sent to Arafat's wife?
by Jon Henley in The Guardian, 12 February 2004
»French public prosecutors said yesterday they had opened a money-laundering inquiry into suspect transfers totalling some €9m (£6m) into Paris bank accounts held by the wife of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat.
The preliminary inquiry ...
#103358 Troops kill 15 in Gaza
by Chris McGreal in The Guardian, 12 February 2004
#103359 Vanishing solutions
by guardian.co.uk in The Guardian, 12 February 2004
#103360 Australia pays £1.8m to hold single refugee
by David Fickling in The Guardian, 12 February 2004
#103361 A bullet zipped off the porch. When the shooting was over my friend lay dead
by guardian.co.uk in The Guardian, 12 February 2004
#103362 Why was €1m a month sent to Arafat's wife?
by Jon Henley in The Guardian, 12 February 2004
#103363 Israel 'poised to boycott barrier hearings'
by guardian.co.uk in The Guardian, 12 February 2004