|
The
Wall..
Home • News
Articles • Letters
Background • Links
What Can I Do?
Events • Cartoons
Search • Contact
About
Us • Donate
E-Mail
Us
 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Israel's
West Bank barrier 'illegal'
BBC 9/30/2003
A United Nations human rights investigator has denounced a controversial barrier
Israel is building in the West Bank as illegal. John Dugard, a South African law
professor, said the wall was tantamount to an "unlawful act of annexation" which
should......more
Jerusalem
and the wall
Editorial, Baltimore Sun 9/30/2003
THE WALL preoccupying thousands of Jerusalem residents these days is the one under
construction on the edge of the city. These Jerusalemites are Palestinians, and
their concern centers on a future Palestinian state and its capital. They have
reason to......more
Israel
uses excessive force and annexation in Palestinian territories – UN report
United Nations News 9/30/2003
30 September – Israel is using excessive force in the occupied Palestinian territory
(OPT), violating human rights in the name of counter-terrorism, and its building
of a “separation wall” and expansion of settlements bear the hallmarks of annexation
and illegal “conquest......more
Unhappy
New Year - Rosh Hashana at Jbarra
International Solidarity Movement 9/29/2003
Tulkarem - Radhika S. 28 Sep 03 -- As Israeli Jews celebrated Rosh Hashana (Jewish
New Year) just a few kilometers on the other side of the Green Line, villagers
from the Jbarra area south of Tulkarem received orders for a home......more
Another
kind of Road Map: Living on the edge
By Christine Lane, YellowTimes.org
The road carves out its path like a long brown snake, slithering through virgin
mountainsides, turning olive groves into concrete slabs. It's guarded by armed
border police squatting on rocky outposts, positioned every 25 metres along the
route. Bulldozers roar......more
"Controversial”
Section of Wall Near Ariel On Hold
International Middle East Media Center 9/29/2003
The Israeli cabinet will convene on Wednesday to discuss the construction of the
separation wall near the Ariel settlement, an area where the wall is facing strong
American opposition. According to the modified plan, the section will extend east
of......more
Border
Police Officer Forces Palestinian Resident of 'Attil to Commit Sexual Act with
Donkey
B'tselem September 2003
Zeita,Tulkarm District, The West Bank, June 2003 - Testimony of Nazih Salah 'Awad
Damiri, age 24, single, shepherd, resident of 'Attil -- I have been a shepherd
for ten years. The flock belongs to my family, and I graze it in......more
Rice:
Separation Barrier Never Corresponds to Washington’s Peace Vision
International Press Center 9/23/2003
WASHINGTON, September 23, 2003 (IPC+ Agencies)-- US National Security Advisor,
Condoleezza Rice, said Monday Israeli building of the separation wall dose not
correspond to the US’s two-states vision regarding two states(Israel and Palestine)
living side by side in peace......more
Israeli
wall will compound economic woes
Palestine Monitor 9/21/2003
The 360 km long wall being built by Israel would add to the economic woes of millions
of Palestinian people living in the occupied territory of West Bank and Gaza and
could hamper the economy, which is on the path......more
IDB
launches 20-mln-dlr fund to help Palestinians hurt by Israeli barrier
ReliefWeb 9/21/2003
DUBAI, Sept 21 (AFP) - The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) launched on Sunday a
20-million-dollar fund to help Palestinians adversely affected by a barrier Israel
is building around the West Bank. "The human cost of erecting the fence is very......more
Israel
Postpones Decision on Barrier
The Guardian 9/17/2003
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon postponed a decision on the path
of a contested security barrier cutting through the West Bank, a Cabinet minister
said Wednesday, a day after the United States warned Israel might forfeit part
of a......more
Background/Fence
divides Israel and U.S., Israeli and Israeli
Ha'aretz 9/17/2003
The West Bank security fence that was to have kept Palestinian militants from
crossing into Israel has come to delineate - and exacerbate - new divides, distancing
Israel from its closest ally Washington, and dividing Israelis from one another.
So sensitive has......more
Likelihood
grows of separation fence set-off from US loan guarantees
Globes 9/17/2003
The set-off may be the price for US backing over Arafat in the UN. -- Yesterday’s
comments by the White House spokesperson strengthen assessments by Israeli and
pro-Israeli sources in Washington that the Bush Administration will deduct the
cost of Israel’s......more
Sharon
delays decision on security fence
Ha'aretz 9/17/2003
The United States will reduce loan guarantees to Israel over settlement expansion,
the State Department announced yesterday, not long after the White House spokesman
said the administration was examining the issue. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon postoned a meeting slated......more
An
outcome too terrible to imagine
By Yigal Bronner, Ha'aretz 9/17/2003
Ours will be a brutal land of pens stretching between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean that will make South African apartheid pale. The outcome is too
terrible to even imagine. -- The morning after the horrific suicide bombing at
Cafe......more
Don't
abandon us, plead settlers
The Telegraph 9/16/2003
West Bank community fears it will be on the wrong side of Israel's security fence,
reports David Blair in Ariel. In their hilltop home, the Israeli settlers of Ariel
enjoy amenities ranging from swimming pools to electronic learning centres via......more
Israeli
Fence Threatens to Slice Through Palestinian University
Palestine Monitor/Los Angeles Times 9/15/2003
On the verge of completing a law degree, Amjad Abu Asab is now learning a real-life
legal lesson. Every day on the campus of Al Quds University, the college senior
exercises his right to lawful protest, planting himself in a......more
East
Jerusalem's Arabs Find Fence will Literally cut their lives in Half
Palestine Monitor/Haaretz 9/15/2003
The deafening roar of bulldozers working on the Jerusalem separation fence overshadows,
drowns out, everything that happens in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, including the
words of Sheikh Qassem A-Surhi, who lives in the Abu Mrera neighborhood on the
edge......more
People
and Politics / Actually, it's called Spartaheid
Ha'aretz 9/16/2003
The "secondary fence" method, which is turning Palestinian communities into corrals,
has not skipped the "Jerusalem envelope" plan. -- There have been innumerable
stories in recent months about how the separation fence has cut off Palestinian
parents from their children, and......more
The
Separation Wall (Acrobat format)
Office Of The President of the Palestinian Authority August 2003
The Nature of the Wall: The Separation Wall, from the physical point of view,
is a system of means and equipment to serve a double function: to prevent infiltration
and to warn of any attempt of infiltration. The wall consists......more
Small
Town on West Bank Stands as an Epitaph to Dashed Dreams
New York Times 9/14/2003
ABU DIS, West Bank, Sept. 13 — There was a moment, a brief one, when this rutted,
dust-choked hamlet was glimpsed as a beacon for a new Middle East. Abu Dis broke
into the news again this week, a week of......more
Mofaz
to seek cabinet OK for final section of security fence
Ha'aretz 9/12/2003
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz will on Sunday ask the cabinet to approve the finalized
plans for the construction of the southern section of the security fence, from
Elkana to south Har Hebron. The plan that Mofaz will present places Ariel......more
Defense
budget panel postpones vote on funds for security fence
Ha'aretz 9/12/2003
The acting chairman of the Knesset's Joint Committee on the Defense Budget yesterday
postponed a vote on more funding for construction of the separation fence between
Israel and the West Bank. He did so because the complete route of the......more
Police
probed for abusing shepherd
Ha'aretz 9/12/2003
The Justice Ministry's police investigation department is looking into allegations
that two border policemen grossly abused a Palestinian shepherd trying to cross
the West Bank fence to reach his lands on the other side. In testimony to B'Tselem
human rights......more
Occupation
forces kill passerby near segregationist fence
Palestinian Information Center 9/12/2003
Jenin - Zionist occupation soldiers Wednesday night fired and killed the 19 years
old Palestinian young man Ahmed Tahaina and wounded another at the pretext that
they were walking near the segregationist fence. The young man was martyred in
the village......more
In
Keeping Terrorists Out, Security Fences Israelis In
By Shmuel Erlich, Forward 9/11/2003
The declared aim of the security fence being constructed between Israel and the
Palestinian territories in the West Bank is military: to provide better security
for Israel's Jewish population, under continuous attack in the bloody and seemingly
endless intifada. But......more
The
World's Largest Open Air Prison
By Darren Ell, Electronic Intifada 9/11/2003
Jamal Juma' is a busy man. As coordinator of PENGON, the organization spearheading
the campaign to stop the construction of the Israeli Wall rapidly surrounding
the future Palestinian 'state', he is constantly scrambling to reach as many people
as he......more
MKs
slam Sharon for doing nothing to stop attacks
Ha'aretz 9/11/2003
The government's policies came under concerted attack yesterday at a special Knesset
session called to discuss the recent terror attacks. MK Haim Ramon (Labor) said
that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon bore direct responsibility for the deaths of
almost 500 Israelis......more
Netanyahu
orders separation fence construction expedited
Globes 9/10/2003
Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu specified in particular that the separation
fence around Jerusalem should be completed soon. -- Following the terrorist attacks
yesterday, Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu today decided to expedite construction
of the separation fence. He specified in......more
No
master plan
By Amira Hass, Ha'aretz 9/10/2003
In one of the villages beside Qalqilyah and close to the Green Line, in which
the threatening separation fence has already gobbled up chunks of land from most
of the inhabitants and destroyed their water reservoirs, A. and his family......more
Israel,
U.S. divided over security fence's route around Jerusalem
Ha'aretz 9/9/2003
A new dispute has erupted between Israel and the United States regarding the separation
fence, similar to the argument over the fence's route around the settlement of
Ariel. This time the clash is over the fence's northeast route from Jerusalem......more
Amnesty
blasts separation fence as 'disastrous'
Ha'aretz 9/9/2003
The construction of a West Bank security fence between Israel and the West Bank
barrier is deepening the crippling economic impact of its tough travel restrictions
on Palestinians, Amnesty International said Monday. In a new report, "Israel and
the Occupied......more
Jubara
Students Defend Their Right to Education
International Press Center 9/9/2003
Every day the children of Jubara must wait for the soldiers to open the gate in
the Apartheid Wall, then walk in a line past soldiers armed with machine guns,
to go to school. September 1 is the first day......more
Betwixt,
between, bewildered
By Amira Hass, Ha'aretz Week's End 9/5/2003
It used to take five minutes by car for members of the Zawahara family to get
to Beit Sahur. Then it was 15 minutes on foot. And then the electronic fence was
installed. -- It used to be, up until seven......more
Israel's
"Security Wall" to spilt Al-Quds University in two
Miftah 9/3/2003
In its relentless campaign to divide Jerusalem from the West Bank, Israel has
seized Al-Quds University's main campus grounds in Abu Dis to continue construction
of the "security wall" in an increasingly blatant effort to impose an apartheid
system on......more
There's
a wall in the way
By Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz Friday Magazine 9/5/2003
A little girl in her school uniform, her hair carefully combed, was walking to
her first day of school on Monday. Walking to school? Not precisely. There's a
wall in the way. Trying to squeeze between the big cement blocks......more
Advocacy
on the Separation Wall
Churches for Middle East Peace 9/2/2003
During recess, over sixty members of Congress embarked on Aipac-endorsed trips
to Israel and many now view the wall as “necessary” and a “good thing” for Israel’s
security. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who was part of a delegation to Israel......more
Photos:
Mas'ha camp against apartheid wall
Nimrod's photos August 2003
Photos from the protest camp at Mas'ha village where the Israelis are building
the wall between the village and its agricultural lands......more
The
Silent Transfer: The Case of El-Nu'aman Village
Tayuush 7/11/2003
After the 1967 War, Israel annexed some 70 sq. km to the municipal boundaries
of West Jerusalem and imposed Israeli law on this area. These annexed territories
included not only the part of Jerusalem which had been under Jordanian rule......more
Building
and Breaking the Wall, Layer by Layer, Barrier by Barrier
International Middle East Media Center 9/6/2003
After nearly a full year of being separated from their farmland, over 140 villagers
from the northern West Bank village of Faroun successfully opened one of the two
gates in the Israeli wall system that has divided them from their......more
Face-Off
in Faroun
International Solidarity Movement 9/6/2003
Faroun, TULKAREM] Over 140 villagers from the northern West Bank village of Faroun,
accompanied by 15 ISM volunteers (American, British, Canadian, Palestinian and
Spanish) successfully opened one of the two gates in the Israeli Wall cutting
farmers off from their......more
Bad
Fences Make Bad Neighbors - A Report By NAD (PART IV)
Palestine Media Center 9/6/2003
The Israelis made a fence around the settlement, then they put in a small gate
so we could get to our olive trees. They gave us the key and let us come and go
for the first year. Then they......more
Bad
Fences Make Bad Neighbors - A Report By NAD (Part III )
Palestine Media Center 9/4/2003
There is only one thing I can do. I will buy a tent and move with my wife to live
on the other side of the fence among my trees. I don’t know if the Israelis will
let me do......more
In
Pictures: Building a barrier through Abu Dis
BBC 9/3/2003
Israel is building a 225km fence in the West Bank. It says the structure is for
security, but opponents fear it is an attempt to define borders. Terry Boulata,
a Palestinian mother and schoolteacher living in Abu Dis, east Jerusalem......more
Quds University pitches sit-in tent
Palestinian Information Center 9/3/2003
Occupied Jerusalem - The Quds University has pitched a huge sit-in tent to protest Zionist occupation authorities’ confiscation of varsity lands in the Abu Dees village to the east of occupied Jerusalem. Local and foreign solidarity delegations visited that tent pitched......more
Caged
By Chris McGreal, The Guardian 9/3/2003
When finished it will be 370 miles long and 10ft high, encircling almost the entire West Bank population. Israel claims the security fence is needed to protect its citizens from suicide bombers. But for the many thousands of Palestinians cut......more
The foreigners who brave Israeli bullets
Al-Jazeera 9/1/2003
One warm August day, Juliana Fredman, a US citizen from New York, prepared herself to be gassed and shot at by Israeli soldiers. Along with about 60 other international activists and 200 local Palestinians, she joined a brazen daylight attempt......more
"First of All - the Wall must Fall!"
By Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom 8/30/2003
This slogan was born spontaneously, opposite the Wall in Qalqilya, at the place where it becomes a fence and turns east, penetrating deep into Palestinian territory. On the other side of the wall the Palestinians were demonstrating. We were looking......more
Update: The Palestinian Territories
ReliefWeb/Global IDP Project 8/29/2003
Political status quo and the new security barrier worsening the humanitarian situation for Palestinian IDPs -- Since Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in 1967, Israel has ordered the demolition of thousands of homes in the Palestinian Territories......more
High Alert in Bethlehem Over Expected Israeli Invasion
International Middle East Media Center 9/1/2003
Israeli troops declared the northern part of Bethlehem a closed military zone on Sunday, forced Palestinian citizens, including the Isamic Waqf employees, out of the region, and began uprooting trees preparing for the construction of the separation wall. Palestinian national......more
Tulkarem Depressingly Affected by the “Apartheid Wall”
International Press Center 8/30/2003
TULKAREM , August 30,03 (IPC+Agencies)--The Apartheid Wall (also called, the snaky, segregation and the fence-off wall) zigzagging about 30 Km in length, snakes the most fertile lands of Tulkarem city of the West Bank, starting from Qefein in the......more
Jerusalem Christian Leaders Oppose Israel’s Separation Wall
Palestine Media Center 8/30/2003
Christian leaders in the holy land criticized the building of Israel’s Apartheid Segregation Wall (ASW), adding that the Wall is posing an obstacle to the internationally - adopted “roadmap” for peace, which calls for establishment of an independent Palestinian state living......more
A Tale of Two Villages
International Press Center 8/29/2003
QALQILIA, Palestine, August 29, 2003 (IPC + Agencies) - - If you try and visit the villages of Ras Al Tira and Kherbet Al Sabgha, in Qalqilia governorate, you'd be surprised how the situation has changed for those, once prosperous, villages. As you......more
Mas'ha Petition Against the Apartheid Wall
Stop the Apartheid Wall Campaign
We, the undersigned, are shocked and horrified by the Apartheid Wall being constructed by the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and call upon the leaders of the Quartet to use all their influence to Stop this Monstrous......more
Letter: Tear down the Wall
By Miriam Ward, RSM, Brattleboro Reformer 8/8/2003
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down.' So wrote Robert Frost. Not the most famous line of the poem, but Frost says it twice. Whether called a wall or a fence, the 200-mile, 25......more
Facing Down the Wall
By Shareef Omar, AlterNet 8/22/2003
JAYYOUS, West Bank – When Prime Minister Ariel Sharon describes the wall Israel is building, he makes it sound harmless. But President Bush deftly cut through that façade when he noted that "the fence ... kind of meanders around the West Bank......more
The Barrier to Peace
By Baha Abushaqra, Palestine Chronicle 8/22/2003
It is being referred to as apartheid wall, transfer wall, separation wall and security fence. It is the physical barricade Israel began constructing in earnest in June 2002 to separate Jews and Palestinians in the West Bank, creating new "realities......more
Book Review: The Wall in Palestine
PENGON/This Week in Palestine August, 2003
The Wall in Palestine: Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action Edited by The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON) Jerusalem, 2003, 199 pages. -- To date, some 300,000 people are currently affected by the land confiscation, tree uprooting and inaccessibility to......more
Israel and the gates of Mas'ha
By Eric Monse, Yellow Times 8/20/2003
YellowTimes.org) – The Israeli settlements in the West Bank aren't so bad. Or so it would seem, judging by the brightly-colored settlement advertising signs on the Israeli roadside depicting cartoon suburban houses on bright-green hilltops. At the Mas'ha peace camp, Nazeh......more
Mofaz: Decision on fence's route near Ariel within weeks
Ha'aretz 8/20/2003
The route of the separation fence near Ariel will be determined in the coming weeks, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said yesterday during a visit to the first completed stretch of wall from Salam to Elkana. But senior army sources said......more
Up against the Apartheid Wall
By Daniel Jacob Quinn, Electronic Intifada 8/19/2003
Life here on the ground in occupied Palestine is rarely reported in the United States. The brutal impact of Israel's military occupation is hidden behind the rhetoric of pundits and politicians, many of whom have never met a Palestinian. They......more
The Separation Barrier: Phase One Completed - Hundreds of Thousands Palestinians Directly Harmed
B'tselem 8/19/2003
In June 2002, the Israeli government decided to build a separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank that will prevent the uncontrolled entry of Palestinians into Israel. The government's decision calls for construction of a barrier around the entire......more
Map of the Separation Barrier - Acrobat format
B'tselem 8/19/2003
Map of the Separation Barrier (PDF Format......more
Israel’s apartheid project in the West Bank
By Ghassan Khatib, Daily Star 8/19/2003
The wall that Israel has been building in the occupied Palestinian territories under the pretext of security the wall that is being called the “apartheid wall” by the Palestinian side has lately attracted a great deal of high-level attention. From......more
The Wall in Palestine: Security as Pretense for Dispossession
By Jamal Juma', Electronic Intifada 8/18/2003
Here in Palestine we have been watching with great despair the visits of Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to Washington. Amidst the rhetoric of negotiations, over 100 bulldozers are working non-stop, every day, to continue construction......more
How to suffocate a people
By Lynda Wafi and Saud Abu Ramadan, Middle East Times 8/14/2003
Raed Zeid, a six-year-old Palestinian boy from the village of Toura Al Sharqeya, west of the northern West Bank town of Jenin, used to carry his schoolbag and walk to the adjacent village of Nazlet Zeid, where his elementary school......more
Wall places the Palestinians in ghettos, says Arafat
Jerusalem Times 8/14/2003
President Yasser Arafat lashed out at the Israeli government for continuing to build the controversial security barrier- part concrete wall and part fence with razor wire- inside the West Bank. The Palestinians say the fence is no security-motivated initiative as......more
Israeli security fence becomes big barrier for some farmers
Baltimore Sun 8/12/2003
Palestinians complain they've been walled off from their own wells, land -- JAYYOUS, West Bank - The Palestinian farmers living here in a tiny collection of squat homes built on steep, narrow roads of broken asphalt used to be considered wealthy, at......more
FAQ-Unilateral separation bad fences make bad neighbors
By PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, Miftah 8/12/2003
NAD -- Israel has recently announced that it will "isolate" Palestinians from Israelis (both inside Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) by erecting "walls" and "buffer zones" in a plan styled "unilateral separation." 1. What's wrong with Israel's unilateral separation......more
There Is More than One Way to Tear Down a Wall, Mr. Sharon
International Solidarity Movement 8/11/2003
The US congress says they will cut funding to Israel if they continue to build their Apartheid Wall, so "The Educational PAC Group" from AIPAC wined and dined the Democrats last week, trying to convince them that the wall won’t......more
Land Defense: Separation Wall Takes Over 49% of Hebron Land
International Middle East Media Center 8/11/2003
A report prepared by the Hebron Land Defence Committees expert Abed Elhadi Hantash shows that the planned section of the separation wall south of West bank will deprive Hebron county from 49% of its land and leaves more than 60,000......more
ISM: Our Direct Actions WILL Continue
International Solidarity Movement 8/10/2003
In the past two weeks, the Israeli Military has shot directly at us, wounding 14 with rubber bullets. They have shot tear gas at us, arrested us, denied us entrance at their airports. All because ISM internationals bear witness to......more
UNRWA Report Evaluating Completion of First Stage of Apartheid Wall - Acrobat format
Palestine Media Center 8/9/2003
Impact of the first phase of the Security Barrier on the Qalqiliya, Tulkarm and Jenin districts - "..the legal instrument chosen to acvhieve confiscation [of Palestinian lands] is the issuing of 'requisition for military needs' orders, signed by the Military Commander......more
An Israeli Barrier That Could Have Reduced Conflict Is Increasing It
By Ethan Bronner, New York Times 8/8/2003
QALQILYA, West Bank— If you want to understand the dispute over the barrier that Israel is constructing to keep out Palestinian terrorists — a twisting mix of barbed-wire fencing, electronic sensors, guard towers and concrete walls — this economically depressed Palestinian town......more
U.N. Chides Israel Over Separation Wall
Islam Online 8/8/2003
GENEVA, August 8 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – As U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday, August 8, admitted that the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank would hinder the creation of a Palestinian state, a U.N. human rights watchdog warned......more
Update on Mas'ha arrests / Action in Jenin
International Solidarity Movement 8/6/2003
Occupied Palestine] At approximately 2:00 this morning, all but one of the internationals detained yesterday were released from the Ariel settlement police station, after being coerced into signing a document stating that they would not enter the West Bank......more
Behind the barrier
Christian Science Monitor 8/8/2003
Israelis say a new partitioning of the West Bank is critical to security. Palestinians say they'll be prisoners on their own land. -- QALQILYA, WEST BANK – Yusif Josef Ramsi is still farming, if you can call it that. The West Bank......more
Free at Last... Free at Last
International Solidarity Movement 8/7/2003
Occupied Beit Sahour, August 7, 2003 14:55 -- Nazeeh Shalabi, the Palestinian man who had remained in the Ariel prison (in the illegal settlement of Ariel) was released on bail this morning. He was the last person to be released......more
Take action against the Apartheid Wall in Palestine
Electronic Intifada 8/7/2003
Information made available by "The Apartheid Wall Campaign," a Palestinian initiative coordinated by the Palestinian Environment NGO Network (PENGON), a member of Habitat International Coalition (HIC)- Housing & Land Rights Network (HLRN), reports the urgent situation and grave housing rights violations......more
Internationals Released; 21 Israelis Arrested
International Solidarity Movement 8/6/2003
Occupied Palestine] At approximately 2:00 this morning, all but one of the internationals detained yesterday were released from the Ariel settlement police station, after being coerced into signing a document stating that they would not enter the West Bank......more
UN agency launches $18 million appeal for Palestinians affected by Israeli wall
United Nations News 8/6/2003
6 August – The United Nations development agency has called for immediate action to address the needs of Palestinian communities affected by Israel's Separation Wall, launching an appeal for $18 million in emergency assistance to address job needs and improve vital......more
Heated Disputes over Separation Wall Within U.S. ME Circles
International Middle East Media Center 8/6/2003
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a broadcast to Arab countries “A nation is within its rights to put a fence if it sees the need for one, …. In the case of the Israeli fence, we are concerned......more
Palestinian home destroyed; Over 45 Human Rights Activists Detained
International Solidarity Movement 8/5/2003
Occupied West Bank] At approximately 7am this morning, Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights activists were detained while attempting to block the demolition of part of a Palestinian family’s home, near the village of Mas’ha. The building had been slated......more
Israel's fence draws threat of US sanctions
The Guardian 8/6/2003
The Bush administration is threatening to impose hundreds of millions of pounds in financial sanctions on Israel if it persists in pushing its security fence and wall in the West Bank deep into Palestinian territory. It said it would tell......more
Israel detains 47 protesters at West Bank barrier
Sydney Morning Herald 8/6/2003
Israeli troops have detained 47 foreign and Israeli activists, who tried to block the construction of a security barrier through Palestinian land in the West Bank. The pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement said it held a sit-in protest at Masha village......more
Israeli hesitance on 'Road Map', building of separation wall among concerns raised in Palestinian Rights Committee
Electronic Intifada 8/5/2003
Israel's hesitance in implementing the Middle East "Road Map" and insistence on continuing with the building of the "separation wall" were among the concerns raised by the Permanent Observer for Palestine, as he briefed the Committee on the Inalienable Rights......more
Coaching clinic: an alternative kind of peace plan
Daily Star 8/5/2003
NBA vice-president believes sports can mend fences -- Don Casey, the senior vice-president of the National Basketball Coaches Association in the United States, held a productive three-day training session for a group of regional coaches over the weekend....Casey was astonished......more
Israeli Military Detains 41 Peaceful Activists
International Solidarity Movement 8/5/2003
August 5, 2003, 8:10 am, Mas'ha, Occupied Palestine -- As of this writing, 41 internationals and Israelis have been removed from the land they were peacefully protecting. -- First they arrested the people filming their brutality. Then they beat several people......more
ISM: Update on Mas'ha activists detained
International Solidarity Movement 8/5/2003
Action Alert! - Update on Mas'ha activists detained -- ** OVER 45 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DETAINED TODAY, 5/8/03 ** AT LEAST TWO ARRESTED - DETAINEES ARE FROM PALESTINE, ISRAEL, U.S., U.K., ITALY, SWEDEN, FRANCE, DENMARK, JAPAN, IRELAND, GERMANY AND CANADA - [Occupied West Bank......more
The 'wall' and the 'messiah'
By Robert Novak, TownHall.com 8/4/2003
WASHINGTON -- One of Washington's leading private power brokers, with intimate contacts inside the Bush administration, suggested a meaningful line for the president of the United States when he met the prime minister of Israel at the White House last Tuesday......more
Sharon Government's Separation Plan Defines Palestine's Provisional Borders
By Geoffrey Aronson, Foundation for Middle East Peace July - August, 2003
The territorial division of historical Palestine has entered its most decisive stage since Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in June 1967. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon is the prime instigator of this process, against which the......more
Security Fence Goes Further Than Apartheid
By Munir Chafic, Al-Hayat 8/4/2003
A number of Palestinian intellectuals insist on drawing a comparison between the apartheid (racial discrimination) system that prevailed in South Africa and the Jewish Zionist entity in Palestine. In fact, they view the security fence, which the Jewish state is......more
A One-Family Bantustan Must Not Be Allowed
International Solidarity Movement 8/4/2003
Update on Mas'ha activities -- Mas'ha, Occupied Palestine, August 3, 2003 - Today Palestinians, along with 50 internationals and 10 Israeli activists prevented the demolition of Palestinian property and blocked the construction of the Apartheid Wall in front of Hani A'amer's house......more
In the Middle East, Even Words Go to War
New York Times 8/3/2003
ALQILIYA, West Bank — The Israelis have built a barrier that encircles this town as it runs along the northern West Bank for more than 80 miles. But what does one call it? Israel labels it a "security fence" built to......more
Sharon's Wall
By Hazem Saghieh, Al-Hayat 8/2/2003
In the early 1960s, the poorer and less democratic built a wall in the face of the richest and more democratic. This was in Germany. Four decades later, the richest and more democratic is building a wall in the face......more
Wall makes Palestinian farmers refugees on their own land
The Independent 8/2/2003
The Shamasni family are well-to-do farmers, but they are living on their own land in the manner of refugees. They own a comfortable house in the village near by, but they live and sleep under a pitiful tent in the......more
Photo Essay: Needs Assessment for Communities Affected by Colonization Barrier
By PARC, Miftah 8/1/2003
Includes link to large PowerPoint presentation] -- Contrary to worldwide news reports, the Apartheid Wall (also referred to as the "fence" or "security fence"), which Israel is currently building in the northeast of the West Bank, will not mark the 1967......more
Victims of a map
By Chibli Mallat, Daily Star 8/1/2003
The new “facts on the ground” created by the Israeli government by its construction of a separation wall have redrawn the map of the Middle East, eating away at Palestinian territory as it strives to fulfill the Zionist dream. Already......more
Israeli Forces Fire At Pacifists Protesting Separation Wall
Islam Online 8/1/2003
DEIR EL GHOSSOON, West Bank, Aug 1 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas grenades and rubber bullets Friday, August 1, at more than 1,000 Palestinians and foreign peace activists who were demonstrating against the Israeli construction of......more
Is it a Fence? Is it a Wall? No, it's a Separation Barrier
Electronic Intifada 8/1/2003
Includes photos and graphics] Israel's Separation Barrier, dubbed the "Apartheid Wall" or "Berlin Wall" by Palestinians, has increasingly attracted international media attention, largely due to the hard-to-ignore scale of the project. The most obvious historical parallel to the barrier is......more
Anger against Israel grows in Palestinian town walled in by security barrier
San Francisco Chronicle 7/31/2003
07-31) 12:45 PDT QALQILIYA, West Bank (AP) -- Khaled Amer's family tilled their vegetable fields and guava groves for three generations -- until Israel cut their land in half with a security barrier it's building in the West Bank. Amer's......more
Ceasefire is at risk, Sharon told
The Guardian 7/31/2003
The Palestinian government said yesterday that Ariel Sharon had jeopardised last month's ceasefire by rejecting President Bush's plea to stop building his security fence through the West Bank. The information minister, Nabil Amr, said the Israeli prime minister had given......more
Up Against the Wall
Editorial, Arab News 7/31/2003
During his visit to the White House, Ariel Sharon justified Israel’s construction of the 375-mile so-called “security fence” on the grounds that “Good fences make good neighbors.” This was a line used by one of America’s greatest poets, Robert......more
W. Shows his Affection
Editorial, Miftah 7/31/2003
Merely a few days ago President Bush had harshly criticized Israel’s plans to build a “security” fence, more aptly referred to by Palestinians as an apartheid wall, saying, "I think the wall is a problem ... It is very difficult to......more
PM Abbas Slams Israeli Wall as Racist, Title for No Coexistence
Palestine Media Center 7/31/2003
A day after US President George Bush backed off from overt criticism of the Apartheid Wall Israel is building on occupied Palestinian territory, PNA Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas condemned the wall as “racist” and a symbol of the lack of......more
Mr. Sharon, Tear Down That Wall!
By Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com 7/30/2003
That's what Bush should have said. -- The "fence," as the Israelis and their amen corner in the U.S. call it, is actually a wall, about 25 feet high: higher than the Berlin Wall. Like every atrocity carried out by the......more
Israel's Wall Threatens to Wipe Palestinian Village off the Map
Financial Times 7/29/2003
International aid donors said in a recent report that the route of the wall, which brings a number of Jewish settlements on to the Israeli side, will involve the loss of more than 10 per cent of West Bank land......more
Sharon insists on West Bank fence project
Financial Times 7/29/2003
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, said on Tuesday that Israel would continue constructing a security fence across the West Bank in spite of US concerns that the project could damage peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. Mr Sharon said......more
Two Kinds of Prison: Reflections on Leaving Palestine
By Brooke Atherton, Electronic Intifada 7/29/2003
22 July 2003 -- On Thursday, a man in the streets of Qalqilia asked me, "Do they think we are animals? Not even human? They have put us in a cage." Every day that we visited the Qalqilia checkpoint, we watched......more
Pleading for the the right to babble
By Gideon Samet, Ha'aretz 2003-07-30
This round in Washington is going to end nearly like all the previous ones. A summary can be typed ahead of time. A little hint of dispute, and a lot of public understanding between the Israeli and American leaders. There's......more
Israel's Apartheid Wall: Environmental Disaster in Palestine
By John Reese, Miftah 7/29/2003
In 1961, the world was transfixed as the Soviet Union enclosed West Berlin, Germany, in the 96-mile, 12-foot-high Berlin Wall. The social implications of the wall had a profound impact on world politics for nearly 30 years. In......more
Palestinians Losing Land to the Fence
Los Angeles Times 7/28/2003
RAFAT, West Bank — The red signs appeared one morning on the barbed wire. "Mortal danger; military zone," they read. "Any person who passes or damages the fence endangers his life." And just like that, Mohammed Habbas was forbidden to reach......more
Israeli forces opened fire on activists and wounded five protesting Israel's apartheid wall
Electronic Intifada/ISM 7/28/2003
Today activists from the International Solidarity Movement, working with local Palestinians and Israelis succeeded in opening a small but symbolic hole in the Wall of Apartheid in the village of Anin, west of the city of Jenin. The Israeli Occupation......more
NPR: Linda Gradstein and The Thing
By Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada 7/28/2003
To: National Public Radio (wesun@npr.org, ombudsman@npr.org) -- Dear NPR News, I have often complained that as far as your "reporter" Linda Gradstein is concerned, the Middle East is a fact-free zone. By this, I mean that she represents many......more
Sharon's Wall and newsworthiness
By Michael S. Ladah, Jordan Times 7/28/2003
MANY OF the atrocities that are being committed by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza against the Palestinian population have had little coverage by news media around the world. Similar to the cover up that the Israeli government and......more
West Bank Segregation Wall Swallows 48,000 Dunums of Jenin Lands
International Press Center 7/28/2003
JENIN, Palestine, July 28, 2003 (IPC+Agencies)-- Palestinian Local Government Directorate of Jenin City declared Sunday that the segregation fence-off wall, Israeli government continues to construct on Jenin lands is intended to create a new reality on the ground, with......more
Israeli Separation Wall… Judiazing and Annexing Lands under Pretext of Security
International Press Center 7/27/2003
The latest statement by the US President George W. Bush about the Israeli “Segregation Wall” reflected the world's awareness of the threat this wall poses to the peace process. In spite of that, some Israeli officials try to undermine the......more
Mideast: The new symmetry of death
By Arnaud de Borchgrave, Washington Times 7/25/2003
The much-ballyhooed road map to peace in the Middle East omitted to warn drivers about a dead-end. It was hard to miss. Yet the road map's detailed, phased approach to the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005 did not......more
Palestinian Family Isolated Behind The Separation Wall
International Solidarity Movement 7/26/2003
Jayyous, QALQILIYA] On July 28, there will be an action in Jayyous to deliver food to a Palestinian family cut off from the village by the security wall, called the "Apartheid Wall" by Palestinians, that is currently under construction by......more
Tear Down That Wall, Mr. Sharon
International Solidarity Movement 7/26/2003
In 1989 a wall came crashing down in Berlin, destroyed by the powerful desire for peace. Around the world, we felt the injustice of imprisoning a city with a concrete barricade, barbed wire, and guards instructed to shoot to kill......more
Israel Defies Bush, Claims Separation Wall "Necessity"
Islam Online 7/26/2003
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, July 26 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – In clear and immediate defiance of U.S. President George Bush’s criticism of the controversial Israeli separation wall now under construction in the West Bank, an Israeli official claimed Saturday, July 26, it was......more
Bush meets Abbas, calls separation fence 'a problem'
Ha'aretz 7/25/2003
U.S. President George W. Bush said Friday after meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in the White House that the West Bank separation fence "is a problem" and that he would discuss the matter with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon......more
Stop the Wall Immediately
Alternative Information Center 7/24/2003
The Israeli government is currently erecting the Wall of Separation euphemistically called the "Security Fence" that might cause the displacement of 90,000 to 210,000 Palestinians. The signatories of this petition refuse to accept the Wall as inevitable, and decry the......more
"As Jayous Struggles to Live, Jawal Wants to Die"
BostontoPalestine 7/17/2003
Jayous is a northern West Bank agricultural village slowly being choked to death by Israel's "Apartheid Wall or "security fence". The fence, as it is best described in this area, cuts well into the West Bank, wraps in around Jewish......more
Stonewalling the Peace Process
By Patrick Connors, AlterNet 7/23/2003
George Bush's road map for Middle East peace may soon crash straight into a wall, or to be more accurate, a "security fence." Israeli newspapers report that Condoleezza Rice and President Bush recently raised objections with Ariel Sharon over Israel's......more
Pre-empting an Independent and Viable Palestinian State
By Stephanie Khoury and Fuad Hallak, Miftah 7/22/2003
Israel's Apartheid Wall: The Final Act in Pre-empting an Independent and Viable Palestinian State. -- With a total projected length of 650 kilometers - twice the size of the Green Line-Israel's so-called "security" Wall is the final act in pre-empting an independent......more
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Best
viewed with Internet Explorer 5.0+ and Real player
Return
to top of page |
|
|
|
| FAIR USE NOTICE:
This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not
always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are
making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding
of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific,
and social justice issues. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use'
of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of
the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section
107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those
who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information
for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html If
you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes
of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission
from the copyright owner. |
|
