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Left Turn magazine interviews Nigel Parry about EI 3.0

Rami El-Amine 24 February 2004


The Electronic Intifada (EI) website, has become the place to go on the internet to find out what’s really happening in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A quarter of a million people visit the site a month. In January 2004, the EI team revamped the website and launced Version 3.0. Rami El-Amine from Left Turn spoke to Nigel Parry, one of the founders and designers of the Electronic Intifada, about the new site and its incredible success over the past three years. 

The Wall Is illegal, now we must stop it

Jamal Juma' 24 February 2004


The Apartheid Wall, which began being built in the Occupied West Bank in June 2002, is nearly one third complete. It snakes its way deep inside the West Bank, devouring fertile land into de facto Israeli controlled areas, encircling residential areas, ghettoizing and imprisoning the Palestinian population. The 90,000 people that are already directly affected by the Wall’s 140 km “first phase” are well aware that their entire lives have been shattered, that their incomes, dignity, children’s future, and heritage were uprooted in a matter of weeks or months as bulldozers leveled their lands in order to confiscate and isolate them. Jamal Juma’ comments. 

Even if Palestine wins at The Hague...

Ali Abunimah 24 February 2004


Palestinian UN envoy, Nasser Al-Kidwa, told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that he hopes a ruling that Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank would lead to the same kind of international sanctions that followed after the Court’s 1971 ruling against South Africa’s occupation of Namibia. But if this hope is what Palestinian Authority (PA) strategy is built on, then we are in trouble. EI’s Ali Abunimah says that the Palestinians are not wanting for international legal decisions supporting their rights. What they badly lack is a political strategy to convert these rulings into reality. 

Israelis protest against the wall in front of Sharon's residence

Israeli Coalition Against the Wall 23 February 2004


On the day the International Court in The Hague started its hearing on the Separation Wall, the “Israeli Coalition against the Wall” organised a protest against the wall. About 700 Israeli peace activists took part in the demonstration near the Prime Minsiter’s residence, only some 200 meters from the place where a day before a suicide bomber had blown up a bus. “The Wall will not bring
security, it will only bring more attacks,” said Oren
Medicks, one of ther speakers. 

Over 25 percent of Sheikh Sa'ad residents forced to leave their homes

B'Tselem 23 February 2004


In its new report, B’Tselem describes the isolation of Sheikh Sa’ad from Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the consequences for the residents if the Separation Barrier is built according to current plans. The planned route of the Separation Barrier in the area will block the only road leading to the village with an eight-meter-high wall. The building of the wall will force the residents to choose between living as prisoners in their village or leaving their homes. 

International Court opens oral hearings on the wall

Arjan El Fassed 23 February 2004


Opening the oral hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal consequences of the wall, Palestinian UN representative, Nasser Kidwa, said that the wall will render a two-state solution practically impossible. “The wall is not about security: It is about entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of Palestinian land,” Kidwa said. “This wall, if completed, will leave the Palestinian people with only half of the West Bank within isolated, non-contiguous, walled enclaves. It will render the two-State solution practically impossible,” he told the fifteen judges. 

HRW: "West Bank barrier violates human rights"

Human Rights Watch 23 February 2004


The construction, route and operation of Israel’s separation barrier inside the West Bank violate international human rights and humanitarian law, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. “Israel has a right and duty to protect its civilians from attack, but it must not use means that entail indiscriminate punishment of entire communities,” said a spokesperson. “Israel’s separation barrier seriously impedes Palestinian access to essentials of civilian life.” 

Israeli peace groups continue protests against the wall

Israeli Coalition Against the Wall 22 February 2004


“The terrible attack in Jerusalem today strengthens our opinion that the policy of Occupation and dispossession of the Palestinians, as expressed in the building of the Wall within the Palestinian Territories, does not bring us peace,” say Israeli peace organizations holding protest activities against the Separation Wall. Tomorrow, 23 February at 8.00 p.m., activist organizations participating in the “Israeli Voice against the Wall” will hold a protest demonstration opposite the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem. Activists will built a wall in front of the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem. 

World Council of Churches demands that Israel stops construction of wall

World Council of Churches 20 February 2004


After concluding a meeting in Geneva, the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) issued a statement demanding that Israel stop and reverse the construction of the wall in the occupied Palestinian territories, including in and around East Jerusalem. The WCC welcomed the hearing of the International Court of Justice to provide its advisory opinion on the legal consequences of the wall and draws attention of the world of the immense human costs paid by the Palestinian people and its long-term consequences on peace and reconciliation. 

Palestinian protests against Israel's Apartheid Wall

22 February 2004


With only less than 24 hours left for the scheduled oral hearings at the International Court of Justice concerning the legal consequences of Israel’s construction of the wall in occupied Palestinian territory, Palestinians staged demonstrations in many parts of the West Bank to protest the Israeli construction of the wall, that cuts deep into their lands. Palestinians, internationals and Israeli peace activists demonstrated in Ramallah, Nablus , Mas’ha Village east of Qalqilya and the town of Beit Soreek near Jerusalem.