Blood
for Blood: A Meditation on Power
By Jennifer Loewenstein, Palestine Chronicle,
August 13, 2002
GAZA CITY: There is a bouquet of plastic purple
flowers in the center of a cheap wooden table.
It’s easier to stare at it than into the
faces of either of the men speaking. The air is
suffocatingly hot --no breeze passes through the
half-open window. I’m thirsty but won’t
drink the orange soda our host passes around in
paper cups.
American
Support for Israel Isn’t As Solid As We’re
Led to Believe
By Sherri Muzher, Palestine Chronicle, August
13, 2002
It’s been just over a week since my pro-Palestinian
commentary was published in USA Today. I wasn’t
sure what the readership reaction would be. Surely,
the pro-Israeli forces would try to discredit
me. A couple of the letters to the editor did
just that. But the private e-mails and phone calls
from total strangers said otherwise.
The
Effect of Closure on the Palestinian Village of
Iraq Bureen
By International Solidarity Movement (ISM) Member
Ellen O'Grady, Palestine Chronicle, August 14,
2002
On the night of August 6 Hiyam Q's baby died while
she was in labor in her home. It was a late pregnancy,
the baby was very big and could not be delivered
vaginally. Had she had access to a hospital a
caesarean section could have been performed and
most likely the child's life would have been saved:
Since July 26 I have been living in and witnessing
the effects of the Israeli military closure on
the village of Iraq Bureen and its 900 inhabitants.
Iraq Bureen is located three miles outside of
the city of Nablus on top of a terraced mountain
880 meters above sea level.
Letter
From Israel: The UN from Qana to Jenin
By Ran HaCohen, Palestine Chronicle, August 14,
2002
Perhaps We Cannot Know? Yes we can. We know very
well. And the UN knows, or could know, if it bothered
to simply read Israel's most selling daily, Yedioth
Achronot, on 31.5. Not a very clandestine source.
An Israeli D-9 bulldozer driver, one Moshe Nissim
from Jerusalem, described there in detail what
he himself had done in Jenin: (Antiwar.com): Last
week, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan released
a report on Israel's attack on Jenin in April.
A reminder of the highlights: After two weeks
of heavy fighting in Jenin's refugee camp, journalists
and human rights organisations (including Human
Rights Watch and Amnesty International), who visited
Jenin, unearthed numerous accounts of atrocities.
US
Christian Zionists Stage Telethon in Support of
`My People'
By Ami Eden, Palestine Chronicle, August 14, 2002
Do not underestimate the political power of this
unholy alliance the Israeli lobby has achieved
in united with the evangelical Christians in this
country (one of whom is a certain President and
Vice President!) and the neo-conservative crowd
longing to find a new enemy now that the Soviet
threat is dead...
Making
life difficult for the Palestinian peace camp
By Amira Hass, Ha'aretz, August 14, 2002
Some 700 Palestinian demonstrators in Bethlehem
waited in vain on Saturday evening for activists
from Ta'ayush Jewish-Arab Coexistence to arrive
for a planned joint demonstration in the middle
of the occupied city. When it turned out that
the IDF would not allow the two sides to meet,
they decided to use mobile phones and loudspeakers
to show "there is someone to talk to" on both
sides.
