The press release below is part of the picture. It’s not big enough news for CNN or its friends to report. It’s not big enough news that some unit of Israeli soldiers in Gaza is taking potshots at a sewage repair crew but this kind of incident is endemic in every Palestinian town. Read more about What occupation means: shooting at the sewage repair team 

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, using massacres and other forms of terrorism against civilians, and rumors of more to come, Zionist militias drove 800,000 Palestinians out of 415 Palestinian villages, creating a refugee crisis unresolved to this day. Read more about 55 -- not 35 -- years of occupation 

There is a desperate need to stress that Israel’s claimed “war against terrorism” in Ramallah and elsewhere is actually a war against the Palestinian population. What ‘gains’ Israel may later claim should be fundamentally undermined in the minds of all decent people by Israel’s scattered application of its violence and the endemic collective punishment it employs against all Palestinians to achieve these supposed ‘gains’. Read more about Eyewitnesses of tomorrow's news