Archive for the ‘Palestine/Israel’ Category
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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Sunday, December 11th, 2005
Electrontic Iraq has an article by Mark LeVine that is mostly correct.
As calls for the release of the four CPT activists in Iraq (including Harmeet, my friend from ISM in January) continue to come from all quarters, it's worth taking a moment to ask why there are not more people ...
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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
On Friday the 25th of November the village of Aboud held it’s second demonstration in two weeks against the construction of the wall there. Joined by Israeli and international supporters, the village came out in force to show opposition to the construction of the wall on their agricultural land and ...
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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
At 11am on Tuesday the 22nd of November residents of the Tubas area held a dignified demonstration against the Israeli checkpoint near Tayasir village. Around 100 Palestinians were joined by about 25 Israeli and international supporters. The shebab (youth) of the region were mostly in school at the time, so ...
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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
On the morning of Friday 18th November villagers from Aboud, a village in the West Bank, held their first non-violent demonstration against the construction of the illegal Israeli annexation wall. The wall is threatening to steal agricultural land and water resources from the small Muslim/Christian village of 2500 citizens.
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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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Monday, October 24th, 2005
Important article from Chris McGreal, a Guardian journalist in Jerusalem:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1594808,00.html
Unfortunately, it very much reflects what I'm seeing when I travel between Jerusalem and Ramallah. A brand new "terminal" is being built to replace the Qalandia checkpoint, which I'm told is going to be run by civilians.It looks very much like ...
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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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Thursday, January 20th, 2005
The territories occupied by Israel that should constitute a future Palestinian state (the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem) are just that - under military occupation. It is currently the longest military occupation in the world, dating back to 1967. In the run up to this ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
The resistance to the Wall I saw in Jayyous was very encouraging and brave, but what I witnessed in Biddu was nothing less than inspiring. On the 7th of January an olive tree planting action was planned. Several ISM activists came to join in the event which was organised by ...
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Saturday, January 8th, 2005
On Tuesday the 4th of January about 30 ISM activists went up to Jayyus to join a local informational meeting and olive tree planting action against the devastating effects that the Apartheid Wall is having on the people there. Jayyus is a poor rural village of about 3200 Palestinians ...
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