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Unite to negotiate a real truce
Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj
4 July 2008
Five days into the long awaited Gaza ceasefire, Israel allowed the entry of tissues and sanitary napkins into Gaza as a form of "good will." Simultaneously, it carried out an early morning raid against a student hostel in Nablus, killing two Palestinians in their beds. Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj comments on what it will take for a permanent lifting of the siege and resisting of Israeli colonial designs. [MORE]
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When you shoot the messenger
Mel Frykberg
3 July 2008
GAZA CITY (IPS) - The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very good job of it. Omer was abused and assaulted by Israeli security personnel at the Allenby border crossing into Israel from Jordan as he tried to return to his home last week in the Gaza Strip. Omer was returning from Europe where he had addressed European parliamentarians on the situation on the ground in Gaza. [MORE]
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My new birthday
Areej Ja'fari
5 July 2008
I am a third generation of the Palestinian Nakba, the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland by Zionist forces. I now feel that I am a very lucky person. I never felt lucky before my new birthday: the day I visited my destroyed original village of Deir Rafat, where my grandfather and his family lived before they were forced out in 1948. Areej Ja'fari writes from Deheisheh refugee camp. [MORE]
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Wall slices off al-Khader's famous vineyards
Adri Nieuwhof
4 July 2008
Since early January the Palestinian village of al-Khader located near Bethlehem in the West Bank has protested against Israel's construction of the Apartheid Wall and Jewish-only settlements built on village land every week. Al-Khader is known in the region for its vineyards which produce excellent-quality grapes. Adri Nieuwhof writes from al-Khader. [MORE]
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Report: 348 Palestinians extra-judicially executed since Sept. 2000
Report
4 July 2008
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published a new report entitled "Extra-judicial executions ... Official, Declared Israeli Policy" covering Israeli extra-judicial executions against Palestinians during the period from 1 August 2006 till 30 June 2008. The report is the ninth of its kind in a special series. [MORE]
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Critics see vendetta in al-Arian's legal limbo
Ali Gharib
3 July 2008
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Palestinian activist and former university professor Sami al-Arian was arraigned Monday in US federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a Northern Virginia Muslim think-tank. The indictment is the latest episode of a long, Kafka-esque process that has violated nearly every tenet of al-Arian's plea agreement following the end of his first trial in 2005, and kept al-Arian in prison for over five years. [MORE]
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US rapper urged to cancel Israel concert
Open letter
30 June 2008
The following is an open letter sent to US rap musician Snoop Dogg on 29 June 2008 by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: We strongly urge you to cancel your plans to perform in Israel until the time comes when Israel ends its illegal occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories and respects the relevant precepts of international law concerning Palestinian rights to freedom, self-determination and equality. [MORE]
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Film review: Palestine 1948 Nakba
Maureen Clare Murphy
30 June 2008
Shortly after he moved to Kibbutz Dalia in central Israel in 1967, photographer Ryuichi Hirokawa stumbled upon some "white stones scattered in rubble." He asked the residents of the kibbutz about the origins of the stones, but he never received a satisfactory answer. Through Hirokawa's quest to unearth the origins of those white stones he learned the story of Palestine, and it is this lifelong journey that he presents in his documentary Palestine 1948 Nakba, reviewed for The Electronic Intifada by Maureen Clare Murphy. [MORE]
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