12 September 2002
Next week — from Monday through Wednesday — will mark the anniversary of yet other dark days in September. This horrific event occurred 20 years ago in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Read more about Commentary: The other Sept. remembrance
18 September 2002
When the PLO moved its leadership and cadres from exile to the Occupied Territories, they did not come as liberators, but merely to join their people as fellow prisoners of the Israelis. From the first days of the Oslo accords, even Palestinian leaders were subjected to the most humiliating controls by the occupier, except when “VIP” passes were granted as a favor and privilege to be withdrawn at any time. Today, “VIP” stands only for “Very Important Prisoner.” Read more about Arafat & Co. celebrate 'VIP' status
17 September 2002
To forget a massacre is to murder the victims a second time; to forget the dead is to condone the crime and to excuse the killers. And the dead of Sabra and Shatila have been killed many, many times. EI’s Laurie King-Irani writes about the massacre. Read more about Massacres Don't "Just Happen"
10 September 2002
One year later, people in the Arab world are still struggling with the enormity and meaning of the September 11 attacks. Hasan Abu-Nimah provides his perspective from Amman. Read more about This day a year ago
9 September 2002
From Durban and the World Conference Against Racism, a covenant to address the inequities and grievances that nurture terrorism, oppression, and conflict. Jeff Halper, coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions writes from Jerusalem. Read more about 9/11, Terrorism, and the Middle East: The way out
6 September 2002
An Israeli newspaper has revealed the contents of an agreement between PLO Jerusalem spokesman Sari Nusseibeh, and former chief of the Israeli secret police, Ami Ayalon, for a final Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. EI’s Ali Abunimah says that this document is full of deceptive language concealing disasterous concessions which liquidate basic Palestinian human rights. Read more about Palestinian Rights in the Document Shredder: The Nusseibeh-Ayalon Agreement
22 May 2001
The use of flechette rounds in war is not proscribed by the Geneva Convention but their use in internal security operations is more problematic. Read more about Israel's military debates use of flechette round
24 May 2002
The phrase “rubber bullets” was used to describe rubber-coated metal bullets, heavy steel projectiles with a thin coating of rubber, that are regularly used to lethal effect alongside — not instead of — live ammunition. Read more about Misleading terminology: "Rubber" bullets
7 July 2001
On July 3, after an Israeli from the settlement of Susiya in the southern West Bank was found murdered, and without any suspects being identified or arrested, the Israeli army unleashed an unprecedented campaign of revenge and ethnic cleansing against the entire civilian Palestinian population of the area. Read more about The Israeli army's campaign of revenge and ethnic cleansing
Chicago, Illinois 5 July 2001
It ought to be possible to find a way to resolve political conflicts peacefully so that no more Palestinian or Israeli parents are left to grieve. But the callous indifference and irresponsibility of the world’s great powers, the intransigence of Israel’s leaders and the weakness and divisions in the Arab world ensure that the Palestinian struggle — the last great anti-colonial struggle of the twentieth century — will continue well into the twenty-first. Read more about No turning back
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