Palestine: Information with Provenance
1: Al-Jazeera Online 2: Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) 3: Arabisto.com 4: As Safir 5: Baltimore Sun 6: CounterPunch 7: Electronic Intifada 8: Ha'aretz 9: Indymedia.ie 10: Maan News Agency online 11: Stop the Wall 12: The Guardian 13: The Independent
#51563 Why The Academic Boycott Is Necessary
by Lawrence Davidson, 25 November 2006
»Let me begin by stating that any successful academic boycott imposed upon Israeli institutions of higher education will assuredly have an impact on the academic freedom of Israeli scholars
and teachers, at least in terms of its expression bey ...
#50140 Meshaal warns of 'third intifada'
by Al Jazeera staff in Al-Jazeera Online, 25 November 2006
»The political leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has said Palestinians will begin a third intifada - or uprising - if a political route to a Palestinian state within 1967 borders is not found
within six months. "If our demands are not met, the ...
#50202 An Evening in Jounieh
by Uri Avnery in Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN), 25 November 2006
»TO GIVE some idea of the Lebanese tangle, a few recent examples: in the civil war that broke out in 1975, Pierre Gemayel, the chief of a Maronite family, called upon the Syrians to invade
Lebanon in order to help him against his Sunni neighbo ...
#85787 Academic Freedom Declines Across the United States
by Terri Ginsberg, Rima Abdelkader in Arabisto.com, 25 November 2006
Historian Tony Judt, Professor of European Studies at New York University, was scheduled to speak on the Israeli Lobby and American Foreign Policy at the Polish Consulate in New York City in October. Due to pressure from two Jewish American organiza ...
#51652 The Two Independences: Questions of History and its Lessons
by Fawwaz Traboulsi in As Safir, 25 November 2006
“The Tribes whose members shed the blood of each other due to sectarian differences deserve to submit to rule of a foreign nation on order to protect a faction from the bloodshed of the others.” (Youssif Baik Karam to Prince Abdul Qaddir, the Algeria ...
#50188 Israeli group trains dogs for California's homeland security
by McClatchy-Tribune staff in Baltimore Sun, 25 November 2006
»Dogs have long been used to sniff out things that humans have a hard time smelling, such as drugs, cadavers and bombs. But an Israeli nonprofit believes that it has perfected the art of
training dogs to detect explosives. Those highly trained ...
#50148 Women in the Israeli Army - New Films on the Social Consequences of Military Occupation
by Christiane Passevant, Larry Portis in CounterPunch, 25 November 2006
The refusnik movement is one of the few encouraging developments in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Given the overwhelming support of Western governments to a Jewish fundamentalist state, and especially the billions of dollars in annual financial aid ...
#50262 The Palestinians: Who's their Mandela?
by Economist staff in Electronic Intifada, 25 November 2006
An escape from these prisons, to something other than semi-free statelets, is suggested by Ali Abunimah. But it is an escape to Utopia: a single state of Israel/Palestine where lion and lamb nuzzle down together. Impossible, probably. O ...
#50126 Amos Yaron to head external probe into rapist's escape
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 25 November 2006
Public Security Min. Avi Dichter announces lineup of committee of inquiry into escape of Benny Sela from police; findings to be announced Thursday. ...
#50150 Atlantic Homecare Removes Israeli Stock
by Zoë Lawlor in Indymedia.ie, 25 November 2006
Atlantic Homecare in Limerick today took all its Israeli stock off their shelves and put Out of Stock stickers on produce too big to move in response to a picket outside their store by the Limerick branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaig ...
#50135 Palestinian shot dead near Karni Crossing
by Ma'an News Agency in Maan News Agency online, 25 November 2006
Palestinian medical sources have stated that they found the body of an unidentified Palestinian at around 2am on Saturday morning near the Al-Mintar "Karni" crossing, east of Gaza City.
The general administration of the emergency and ambulances de ...
#50138 Palestinian Call to the UN: Dismantle the Wall not the ICJ decision!
by STW contributor in Stop the Wall, 25 November 2006
The Apartheid Israel´s Ambassador Zvi Hefetz has cancelled his first planned visit to Scotland in the face of planned protests by many who are outraged at Israel's ongoing
murder of hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza and the West bank. ...
#50280 Chile celebrates November as a Month of Action for Palestine!
by STW contributor in Stop the Wall, 25 November 2006
Across the world, grassroots opposition has continued to support the people of Oaxaca and Palestine. In the US and Europe, people have expressed solidarity with Oaxaca and demonstrated in front of Mexican embassies. ...
#50281 Dutch Civil Society challenges investments in the Occupation
by STW contributor in Stop the Wall, 25 November 2006
A solidarity meeting in Havana, Cuba, witnessed the gathering of political organizations from all over Latin America on November 15th. ...
#50127 letters: Moral compass on the occupation
by Dan Judelson in The Guardian, 25 November 2006
What right does Israel have to induce citizens of other countries to break international law (Young British Jews join Israeli army, November 23)? While Lorna Fitzsimons offers apologia that an Israeli government spokesman would be hard-pressed to del ...
#104420 Moral compass on the occupation
by Guardian contributor in The Guardian, 25 November 2006
#50129 A French colonial legacy of despair
by Robert Fisk in The Independent, 25 November 2006
I couldn't help a deep, unhealthy chuckle when I watched the French foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy arrive outside the wooden doors of Saint George's ... ...