Archive for the ‘Published articles’ Category
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
This article originally appeared as the lead headline on the front page of Palestine Times, March 21.
Tony Blair: 'East Jerusalem is occupied territory'
by Asa Winstanley
RAMALLAH -- In a private letter to Morocco's King Muhammad VI, British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his government "considers East Jerusalem to be occupied territory," ...
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
This news feature was published in Palestine Times on December 18, 2006. I now work for the paper as head copy editor. Since their website was not operational at the time, I'm publishing it here.
Defiant villagers unified in face of violent occupation
by Asa Winstanley
BIL'IN, West Bank -- The demonstration is ...
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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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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
On Friday the 25th of November the village of Aboud held its 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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