Archive for the ‘Journal’ Category
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
UPDATE: The excellent American Hummus video blog reposted this clip. It's a good job too, since the CNN version seems to no longer be available.
A TV crew from CNN International recently visited our office. Most stuff about this country I've seen on seen on CNN international has been unbelievably pro-Israel. ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Ramallah seems quite tense. The Israelis only left Nablus yesterday, after two days of raids and curfews on the city. And I just heard on al-Jazeera they were back in there today. It's the first time in ages I've heard about them enforcing a curfew. I read they killed one, ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
At about 8.30pm tonight, the Israeli army carried out another incursion here in Ramallah, assassinating Ayman Khateb, a member of the Palestinian intelligence. Initial reports in the Israeli media are claiming that he was also a member of the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, which is possible, but unconfirmed right now. He ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
On the 24th of May the Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Ramallah, my current home. In the middle of the day, undercover Israeli forces performed an "arrest operation" on a Palestinian militant in the centre of Ramallah. When their cover was blown, a large force of Israeli ...
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
The last couple of weeks have been fairly eventful. I've had loads of email back from you all, so thanks for those. It's good to hear from home and from friends all over the world. Sorry if I have not got round to replying to you individually - I'm working ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
In an attempt to disguise the current Israeli military operations in Nablus as a response to the suicide bombing in Tel-Aviv, the Israeli media are either directly lying that the military entered Nablus "in response to the terror attack" (Jerusalem Post) or strongly implying the same by saying the army ...
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
The ISM training was yesterday and today. We had about eight new recruits, so it was a pretty good weekend session. At the end of today, we were planning how to spread ourselves around the regions that ISM covers and it was a really good vibe. We have some good ...
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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Wednesday was a quiet day in which I caught up with sleep lost to jetlag and fixed my email setup. On thursday there was a demo in Beit Sira that we went to. It was Land Day, which commemorates a 1976 uprising of Palestinian citizens of Israel. The idea was ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Well I'm back again!
Got here safely this morning about 4:45 am. No problems at airport, but they took their time searching my bags. Two hours later I was finally on my way to the hostel in Jerusalem. Such warm greetings from Hisham! Got the latest updates about the situation here ...
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Saturday, December 17th, 2005
Until recently the weekly demonstrations in the West Bank village of Bil'in seemed to be the only regular event that was keeping the non-violent intifada against the apartheid wall going (at least from the perspective of international activists in Palestine). This had a cumulative "Friday Intifada" effect - you ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
On Saturday the 22nd of October, an ISM affinity group went into the fields near Salim village to join locals in the olive harvest. A family had contacted us to help them to pick olives in a plot of 100 dunums of land that they had been unable to ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
After my first stint in Hebron over election day, I went back to Jerusalem to gather my thoughts, do some laundry and decide on my next move. After a few days, I decided that I would go back to Hebron for the last week of my trip as the limits ...
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