Volume [4]
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The Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians
Kalandia and the Meaning of 'Security'
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January 2007The Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians Kalandia and the Meaning of 'Security' |
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The Land of MilkBy Paul Larudee, August, 2006 |
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The name Lebanon literally means “land of milk”. It is one of the names given to a mythical earthly paradise in ancient times, usually located in one’s neighbor’s land, which typically justified the conquest of said neighbor, assumed to be barbarians. |
Of course, such justification
is no longer acceptable |
The Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained PalestiniansBy Katie Miranda and Jonas Moffat, December 2006 |
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| International Solidarity Movement volunteers Katie Miranda and Jonas Moffat recently finished a speaking tour of the San Francisco Bay Area. The purpose of these engagements, “Witnessing Palestine,” was to report back from Occupied Palestine and to raise funds in order to return and continue their work in the West Bank. |
The work of ISM in Hebron is extensive and complex to say the least. The situation is unlike any other place in the West Bank because Palestinians live literallyside by side with Israeli settlers. |
Gaza Since DisengagementBy Henry Norr, December 2006 |
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| Back in August, 2005, when Israel was pulling its 8,000 Jewish settlers out of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians and outside observers were divided about just what the move would mean for the 1.4 million Gazans who would remain.
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Some, looking on the bright side, hoped for at least modest improvements, such as increased freedom of movement for Gazans and perhaps some revival in the area’s long-suffering economy. |
We Overcame Our FearBy Jameela al-Shanti in Beit Hanoun, November 2006 |
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| Yesterday at dawn, the Israeli air force bombed and destroyed my home. I was the target, but instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with eight children in her care. In the same raid Israel’s artillery shelled a residential district in the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza |
Strip, leaving 19 dead and 40 injured, many killed in their beds. One family, the Athamnas, lost 16 members in the massacre: the oldest who died, Fatima, was 70; the youngest, Dima, was one; seven were children. The death toll in Beit Hanoun has passed 90 in one week. |
Kalandia and the Meaning of 'Security'By S. Bloom, March 2006 |
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| Traveling between Ramallah and Jerusalem
used to be a relatively easy trip; things have changed both quickly and
drastically since 2003. What used to be a temporary “flying” checkpoint
near Kalandia Refugee Camp has evolved into a terminal blended seamlessly
with the apartheid wall. Paid for out of the US aid to the Palestinian
Authority, it is truly a triumph of sadism. |
I arrived at the checkpoint to find a large group trying to get past the first gate. From inside the control room, a female Israeli soldier was shouting commands in Hebrew, and controlling how long the revolving metal-bar doors would remain open. People challenged her authority by trying to squeeze through more than one at a time. |
International Volunteers Needed in PalestineBy Mohammad Khatib, December 2006 |
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| For the last two years I have been a leader
in the ‘popular non-violent’ struggle against the wall, the Israeli settlements
and occupation near Bil’in, West Bank.Bil’in is a Palestinian village
that is struggling to exist. |
We are fighting to safeguard our land, our olive trees, our resources and liberty. The ‘Apartheid wall’ separates us from 60 % of our land and our olive trees. For many of us the olive trees are our main source of income and have been in our families for centuries. |
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