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Bil’in Village, past, present and Future
The Bil'in Friends of Justice and Freedom Society, International Middle East Media Center 9/26/2007
   Bil’in is a small, peaceful village surrounded by hills and valleys, lying halfway between Yaffa and Jerusalem. It is among a number of local villages that fall under the governorate of Ramallah, 16km west of Bil’in.Bil... more..

Disrupting the separation policy
Amira Hass, Ha’aretz 9/26/2007
   A woman chatting idly in Ramallah on Sunday said dismissively: "The High Court of Justice’s decision to move the separation fence in Bil’in proves nothing about the effectiveness of the popular Palestinian-Israeli struggle. Israel needs it... more..

Nonviolent Protest Gains in West Bank
Joshua Mitnick, MIFTAH 9/25/2007
   Al Walajeh, West Bank"All those who love the prophet should lend a hand!" Ten shouting Palestinians were pushing against one boulder, but the primitive Israeli roadblock cutting off the tiny Palestinian village from Bethlehem was not budging. Then, with... more..

Thousands of Israeli settlers ready to evacuate the West Bank, new report reveals
Ma’an News Agency 9/25/2007
   Bethlehem – Ma’an – A report from the Israeli peace association, Gush Shalom revealed on Tuesday that thousands of Israeli settlers are ready to evacuate their settlements in the West Bank as soon as financial reimbursement is available from the... more..

Israel-Palestine: A tragedy without end?
International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, ReliefWeb 9/24/2007
   The years go by, and the situation in the Autonomous and Occupied Palestinian Territories keeps getting worse. Since the Six-Day War in June 1967, open warfare has alternated with periods of calm, but without so much as a glimmer of... more..

Antiquities Authority: Archaeologists unearth quarry used to renovate Second Temple
Nadav Shragai, and Reuters, Ha’aretz 9/24/2007
   The Antiquities Authority announced Sunday that archaeologists have found an ancient quarry where King Herod’s workers may have chiselled the giant stones used to renovate the Second Temple in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. The Authority said Sunday... more..

Against the current
Ariela Bankier, Ha’aretz 9/20/2007
   Her grandfather was an MK and founder of Peace Now. Her mother is Jewish, her father a Palestinian Muslim. Political activist Mai Zeidani is now living in a commune in Germany with her partner, an emigre from Cameroon. Together they... more..

Johnny, a martyr killed near the birthplace of Jesus
Feature Story by; Ismail Al Ghazouz, International Middle East Media Center 9/22/2007
   Here, on the corner of the Church Of Nativity, in a place which is not less holy than the holiness of humanity, and the holiness of the creator, here, where Jesus was born, where light and love were born, here... more..

Non-violent protest near Bethlehem
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 9/21/2007
   On Friday at midday, the residents of Al Walaja village to the north of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by International and Israeli supporters marched against the building of the illegal Israeli wall on village land. Palestinians... more..

Four injured, one kidnapped at weekly Bil’in protest
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 9/21/2007
   On Friday, shortly after midday prayers, the villagers of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, held their weekly protest against the construction of the illegal Israeli wall on village land. The protesters marched to the... more..

Four injured, one detained at Bil’in demonstration against illegal Israeli separation barrier
Ma’an News Agency 9/21/2007
   Ramallah – Ma’an – Four people were treated for injuries and one person was detained at a demonstration against the illegal Israeli separation barrier in the village of Bil’in, near the West Bank city of Ramallah Friday. Dozens... more..

Villagers resist Israeli separation barrier, roadblocks in Al-Walajah
Ma’an News Agency 9/21/2007
   Bethlehem – Ma’an - More than one hundred Palestinian, Israeli, and international demonstrators gathered in the village of Al-Walajah, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem today to protest Israeli limitations on Palestinian freedom of movement on Friday. Using shovels... more..

Israel denies access of worshipper s into aL-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinians reject
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center 9/21/2007
   The Israeli police forces and the border-guard personnel denied on Friday access of thousands of Arab worshippers into the aL-Aqsa mosque in the second Friday prayer of the holy month of Ramadan. The Israeli authorities in the occupied Palestinian city... more..

This Week In Palestine – Week 38 2007
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 9/21/2007
   Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| File 11.9 MB || Time 13m 0s This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for September 15thst through September 21st, 2007. The Israeli government declared... more..

45 minutes from Damascus
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 9/20/2007
   Assad on the wall. Hafez Assad at the entrance to the living room. Bashar Assad on the basement wall. The family photo collection also includes one of the exiled brother, Madhat, shaking hands with the president - the Syrian president, that... more..

Tshuva to build Manhattan’s tallest residential building
Ariel Rosenberg, Globes Online 9/20/2007
   Yitzhak Tshuva’s project will top the 72-story Trump World Tower.Yitzhak Tshuva’s private real estate armElad Properties is planning to build Manhattan’s tallest residential skyscraper, which will be one of the tallest buildings in the world. He is apparently taking... more..

Bil’in will continue to struggle against the wall and settlements
Mohammed Khatib, ZNet 9/20/2007
   On September 4, after nearly three years of nonviolent protests by our village of Bil’in, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Israel’s wall here must be moved further west, returning 250 acres of our farmland. In Bil’in we celebrated, along... more..

A victory for the joint, popular struggle
Basel Mansour, Electronic Intifada 9/19/2007
   The following are selected translated comments from a 7 September speech given by the representative of the Popular Committee of Bil’in, Basel Mansour, to Israelis who participated in the demonstration in the village after the decision by the... more..

Audio: Crossing the Line interviews Huwaida Arraf
Podcast, Crossing the Line, Electronic Intifada 9/19/2007
   This week on Crossing The Line: Host Christopher Brown speaks with attorney and activist Huwaida Arraf. Arraf, cofounder of the International Solidarity Movement, speaks about the victory for the residents of Bil’in village. The Israeli high court on... more..

Feature - Gaza on war footing as Israel declares it "enemy"
Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, Sept 19 - Reuters, ReliefWeb 9/19/2007
   The Hamas-run Gaza Strip is bracing for a major incursion by Israeli forces after the Jewish state labelled the territory an "enemy entity" on Wednesday, a move the Islamist group described as a declaration of war.Wearing brightly coloured headbands, hundreds... more..

Bil’in vows campaign will go on
Colin Bell, International Middle East Media Center 9/19/2007
   Despite their victory in the Israeli High Court, the villagers of Bil’in in the West Bank will continue their campaign against the illegal Segregation Wall. Last week the village celebrated the court’s decision that the Wall... more..

Al Khaldi: Peace conference success depends on Israeli goodwill gestures
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center 9/19/2007
   Majdi Al Khaldi, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Wednesday that there is an Arab and Palestinian consensus that the success of the American peace conference scheduled for this November depends on making solid principles for the conference... more..

Netanyahu says was in on Syrian mission plans
Ronny Sofer, YNetNews 9/19/2007
   In first comment by Israeli official following reports on IDF overflight in Syria, opposition leader claims he was informed about operation ’from the start’. Netanyahu praises Prime Minister Olmert for Syria mission but slams him over willingness to... more..

Uproar over plan to split Jerusalem
Al Jazeera 9/19/2007
   Israel’s deputy prime minister has sparked uproar with a proposal to divide Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians as part of a peace deal.The proposal by Haim Ramon, reported on Wednesday, was made in a letter to a member... more..

Applied Research Institute: 28.5% more land cut off by Wall
Manar Jibrin& agencies, International Middle East Media Center 9/18/2007
   A report issued Thursday by the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ), an NGO based in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, has revealed that more adjustments have been made to the route of the illegal Israeli wall in the... more..

Israeli border police attack and injure two Shepherds near Jerusalem
Mayssa Abu Ghazalah, International Middle East Media Center 9/18/2007
   Israeli border police officers stationed near Beit Hanina town to the north of Jerusalem attacked and injured two Palestinian shepherds on Monday evening. Hussin Ka’inah, 19, one of the injured men, told IMEMC that he asked the officers... more..

Rabbi Yosef mends fences with soldiers after mitzvot uproar
Neta Sela, YNetNews 9/16/2007
   Shas’ spiritual leader meets soldiers in Jerusalem, says remarks that troops who do not observe mitzvot die in war were taken out of context -Having sparked media uproar over remarks that "soldiers die in war because they do not... more..

After 25 years, who remembers?
Franklin Lamb writing from Sabra-Shatila camp, Electronic Intifada 9/13/2007
   Dearest Janet. It’s a very beautiful fall day here in Beirut, 25 years ago this week since the 16-18 September 1982 Massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra-Shatila. Bright blue sky and a fall breeze. It... more..

Police chief: There are dozens of neo-Nazis active in Israel
Jonathan Lis Revital Levy-Stein, Ha’aretz 9/12/2007
   Police Commissioner David Cohen said Monday that he believes there are dozens of people currently involved in neo-Nazi activities in Israel.Cohen added that they apparently operate in small groups or alone, and not in large, organized groups."The police will... more..

The Wall turns Al Ezariyah into a jail
By Maisa Abu Ghazala, International Middle East Media Center 9/11/2007
   In Al Eizaryah the Separation Wall snakes through the town turning this way and that for a length of six kilometers and laying waste to an area of up to a hundred meters in width. Its configuration means that Al... more..

Israeli neo-Nazi ring caught after attacks on synagogues
Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem, The Guardian 9/10/2007
   Police in Israel have uncovered a neo-Nazi ring which was responsible for vandalising synagogues and carrying out attacks on Jews and foreign workers in Israel, a court was told yesterday. The group of eight Russian immigrants aged between 18 and... more..

Bil’in!Bil’in!
Uri Avnery, International Middle East Media Center 9/10/2007
   WHEN MY friends fall prey to despair, I show them a piece of painted concrete, which I bought in Berlin. It is one of the remnants of the Berlin wall, which are on sale in the city. I tell them... more..

Report: Israel plundering the Jordan Valley
Adri Nieuwhof, Electronic Intifada 9/7/2007
   Agrexco has become a target in international campaigns for a boycott of Israeli goods aimed at ending Israel’s breach of international law and human rights. For example the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the United Kingdom protested in the... more..

The barrier is breaking all links between Israelis and Palestinians
The Guardian 9/7/2007
   Many British communities are forging links with Palestinian towns and educational establishments. Reciprocal visits and friendships help us develop our knowledge and understanding of the humanitarian plight of the Palestinians under occupation. (There are links to the many groups organising... -- See also: Twinning network website more..

Legal victory in struggle against wall
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada 9/6/2007
   On Tuesday, the Israeli high court decided in favor of a petition drawn up by the Palestinian villagers of Bil’in in the occupied West Bank to change the current route of the illegal apartheid wall which encircles the... more..

Israeli forces kill 10 in Gaza clashes
Mark Tran and agencies, The Guardian 9/6/2007
   Israeli troops backed by tanks and bulldozers today killed at least 10 Palestinian gunmen in Gaza in the fiercest clashes in months in the Hamas-controlled territory. In the deadliest incident, at least six men died when they approached Israeli soldiers... more..

THEATRE-US: Palestinian Martyrs and Traitors
Lucy Komisar, Inter Press Service 9/3/2007
   NEW YORK, Sep 13(IPS) - In a new play by a Palestinian-American woman, two characters say in unison: "Oppression is like a coin maker. You put in human beings, press the right buttons and watch them get squeezed, shrunk, flattened... more..

New study of effects of the Wall
Mayssa Abu GhazalahI - MEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 9/13/2007
   The Civil Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Palestinians in Jerusalem published a report on Thursday documenting the effects of the illegal Israeli Wall on the lives of Palestinians in and around the city. When complete the Wall... more..

Persuade the People
Danny Rubinstein, MIFTAH 9/1/2007
   Preparations for the regional conference are ostensibly advancing apace - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) are close to agreeing on a joint declaration of principles. But matters on the ground remain enervated as ever... more..

Seven demonstrators injured at weekly non-violent protest at Bil’in
Ma’an News Agency 9/1/2007
   Ramallah – Ma’an – Seven demonstrators were shot by Israeli soldiers and dozens choked on tear gas at the weekly non-violent protest at Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.After Friday prayers the demonstrators began the... more..

DFLP and Fatah fighters carry out reprisal attacks against Israeli targets
Ma’an News Agency 9/1/2007
   Gaza – Ma’an – The military wing of the Fatah movement, the Al Aqsa Brigades, claimed responsibility for launching a homemade projectile at the Israeli Western Negev town of Sderot on Friday evening.The brigades said in a statement that they... more..

LEBANON: Southern Lebanese await compensation to repair damaged homes
Lucy Fielder/IRIN, IRIN - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 9/3/2007
   Many southern Lebanese lost their homes in last summer’s war -GHANDOURIEH, 2 September 2007 (IRIN) - Four walls and a roof bristling with concrete pillars are all that remain of Faten Muslimani’s house on the hill. Israeli... more..

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