While reading “Playing Into Sharon’s Hands” (Jan 25th), one should bear in mind that writer Robert Malley was an advisor on this very conflict in an administration described by more than one Israeli official as the ‘most pro-Israeli in history’. For him to be berating Bush for a lack of even handedness and decisive action is high irony. Read more about Response to 'Playing into Sharon's hands' by Robert Malley, The New York Times, 25 January 2002.
Nigel Parry and Ali AbunimahSt. Paul, Chicago7 March 2002
The following material relates to the extrajudicial killing of Palestinian Mahmoud Salah by a Israeli Border Police unit, on Friday 8 March 2002, in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem. Read more about Images of an execution
The Electronic Intifada remains gravely concerned at the ongoing Israeli attacks, which are resulting in the deaths and serious injury of innocent Palestinian civilians, the damage of family homes and property, and the Israeli state intimidation of the Palestinian civilian population with violence. Read more about Overview of the current attacks
We quite rightly call on the peoples of the world to renounce terrorism as a tactic to further their cause while, quite wrongly, we simultaneously undermine other peaceful, legal avenues where these same people can address their grievances. Read more about On the UN's abandonment of the Jenin inquiry
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
I woke up this morning to a slew of reports about the new Israeli offensive against Palestinians in Ramallah. The Israelis have been talking about it for about a week but that didn’t stop CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Andrea Koppel from presenting the military operation as taking place “in response” to suicide bombings that just took place in the last two days. Read more about Waking up in America
A 23 May 2002 alert from Amnesty International (Killing of Israeli civilians) notes that, “since 29 September 2000, 311 Israeli civilians including 53 children have been killed in suicide bomb and other attacks carried out by members of Palestinian armed groups and individuals.” People should respond en masse to this particular Amnesty alert. It is time that Hamas and Islamic Jihad understand that the citizens of the world consider attacks against civilians to be an illegitimate tactic that undermines legitimate Palestinian resistance to Israeli military occupation, which is their right according to international law. Read more about The nettle that must be grasped
