News and Comment Articles on Palestine and Israel (and the occasional video)

British media on police excuses regard the botched arrest of General Doron Almog:
• Independent, 19th Feb 2008
• The El Al flight and the Israeli army officerIndependent, 20th Feb 2008
• Police feared 'airport stand-off' BBC, 19th Feb 2008
• Terror police feared gun battle with Israeli generalGuardian, 19th Feb 2008
• Israeli general escaped arrest at Heathrow 'because police feared gunfight' The Times, 20th Feb 2008.
• Something bad is happening to us Ha'aretz, 25th Feb 2008
• People's Power in GazaBaroud on the Ma'an News site, 1st Feb 2008.
• From Prison to Zoo: Israel’s “Humanitarian” Control of Gaza Darryl Li, in the Adalah newsletter vol. 44, Jan 2008.
• "FREE GAZA" demonstration, London, 26th Jan 08. 5,000 people demonstration in support of the relief convoy. On YouTube.
• Palestinians break out from Gaza siege Al Jazeera report, on YouTube 23rd Jan 07
• Egypt cracks down on Gaza protestBBC News, 23rd Jan 2008.
• Never against! European collusion in Israel's slow genocide Omar Barghouti in The Electronic Intifada, 21st Jan 2008
• Non-violent direct action at Bil'in "Tonight settlers attempted to place a caravan outside of Modi'in Illit, on land belonging to the village of Bil'in. The settlers are calling it a synagogue to make it harder for the military to remove it." on YouTube, 1st Jan 2008
• IDF develops tiny bulldozer for combat inside Palestinian cities Ha'aretz, 6th Jan 2008.
• High Court rejects petition against cuts to Gaza Strip fuel supply Ha'aretz, 3rd Jan 2008
• Democracy: an existential threat?Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti put the single-state argument in Comment is Free, 30th Dec 2007.
• Bethlehem Checkpoint, 4 a.m.Short but powerful video on YouTube.
• For Israel's Arab Citizens, Isolation and ExclusionBy Scott Wilson in the Washington Post, 20th Dec 2007.
• "They've cancelled Christmas in Bethlehem"Garth Hewitt's song with accompanying video on YouTube.
• Maniacs with nuclear razors Haim Bresheeth in Al-Ahram Weekly, 13-19 December 2007
• Report: Gov't won't grant rights to Palestinians west of fence Ha'aretz, 16th Dec 2007
• Civil rights group: Israel has reached new heights of racism Ha'aretz, 16th Dec 2007
• Omar Barghouti: "No State Has the Right to Exist as a Racist State" On the Voltairenet site, 7th Dec 2007.
• Dichter cancels UK visit for fear of being arrested Y-Net News, 6th Dec 2007.
  "Former Shin Bet chief cancels trip to UK following British criminal lawsuit against top Israeli security officials involved in assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Salah Shehadeh, which also left 14 Palestinian civilians dead ..."
• The one-state reality Ben White in The Electronic Intifada, 13th Nov 2007
• The one clear solution Azmi Bishara in Al-Ahram Weekly, 16 - 22 August 2007.
• New UK visa rules halt Palestinian youth football tour Independent, 10th August 2007
• Footballers banned from Britain: MPs demand answers from Miliband On Charlie Pottins' blog, 24th August 2007.
• A Segregated Road in an Already Divided Land Steven Erlanger in the New York Times, 11th August 2007.
• Reform Slams Knesset Plan for JNF LandForward, July 24, 2007
• The burial of civil marriageA good account of Israeli apartheid inh Ha'aretz, 30th July 2007
• Anthology of bigotryJonathan Cook in Al-Ahram Weeklym, 26 July - 1st August 2007.
  "The Israeli state is trying desperately to foreclose all exceptions to its unequivocally racist land laws..."
• IDF shoots wounded Palestinian journalist in Gaza.
  This video shows a wounded Palestinian journalist Imad Ghanem, being shot repeatedly by the IDF. He later had both legs amputated and it is not clear whether he survived. The IDF spokesman said that they did not recongise journalists working for the Al-Aqsa channel (Hamas) as bona fide journalists.

  
  YouTube video from Alaqsa
  YouTube video from Aljazeera

• A racist Jewish state Ha'aretz editorial, 20th July 2007.
• Iran's Jews spurn cash lure to emigrate to Israel (Guardian 13th July 2007)
• Hollow Land: Architecture as Military Strategy Ron Jacobs in Counterpunch, 14th July 2007
• Ertas video Shows the Israeli army uprooting Palestinians' olive trees and a non-violent protest against them.
• A Declaration of Independence from Israel Chris Hedges on the Common Dreams site, 2nd July 2007.
• 1967: Our rights have to be recognised Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, on Comment is Free, 6th June 2007.
• Israel urged to leave checkpoints
• The people of Palestine must finally be allowed to determine their own fate Karma Nabulsi on Comment is Free, 18th June, 2007
• Robert Fisk: Welcome to 'Palestine' Nicely sarcastic article in the Independent Online, 16th June 2007
• Laboratory for a Fortressed WorldNaomi Klein on the website of "The Nation", 14th June 2007.
• General who helped redraw the borders of Israel says road map to peace is a lie The Independent, 10th June 2007
• Burg: Defining Israel as a Jewish state is the key to its end Ha'aretz, 7th June 2007
  Leaving the Zionist ghetto - an interview with Avraham Burg, By Ari Shavit in Ha'aretz, 7th June 2007.
• Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing GazaJerusalem Post, 30th May 2007.
  "All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert."
• Osama Saeed on the "Rolled up Trousers" blog, 31st May 2007.
• With all due respect for the 'blue box'
  Meron Benvenisti in Ha'aretz, 29th May 2007
• The divided city
  Richard Kuper on Comment Is Free, 15th May 2007.
• OECD invites five countries to membership talks, offers enhanced engagement to other big players 6th May 2007. One of the five is Israel, of course.
• Why Israel is after me By Azmi Bishara, LA Times, 3rd May, 2007
  Azmi Bishara was a member of the Knesset until his resignation in April.
• Protesters rally in Jaffa against move to evict local Arab families Ha'aretz, 28th April 2007.
• Anti-semitism in Israel - say what?Oread Daily blog, 20th April 2007, citing an article from the JTA.
• MERIP report, 25th March 2007.
• Normalising injustice: Beneath the pretty flowers of Israel's propaganda machine lie some ugly facts on the ground in Jaffa.Arthur Neslen on the Guardian's "Comment is Free" blog, 28th March, 2007
• Israel's right to be racist Joseph Massad in Al-Ahram Weekly, 15 - 21 March 2007.
• Peace Now: 32% of land held for settlements is private Palestinian propertyHa'aretz, 14th March 2007.
• Report: Interim findings of war won't deal with personal failures Ha'aretz, 8th March 2007.
  "Olmert has told the Winograd Commission that his decision to respond to the abduction of soldiers with a broad military operation was made as early as March 2006, four months before last summer's Lebanon war broke out."
• Apartheid Comes to New JerseyThe Columbia Spectator, 5th March 2007
• Arabs say Israel is not just for Jews LA Times, 22nd February 2007
• High Court: Security fence may be built on Palestinian farmland Ha'aretz, 22nd Feb 2007.
• Half of Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza malnourished Independent, 22nd February 2007
• Facing Mecca: Must A Native-American recognize the right of the United States of America to exist? Uri Avnery on the Gush Shalom website, 17th Feb 07
• The Psychosocial causes for the Palestinian Factional War
  Eyad El-Sarraj in Arabic Media Internet Network, 15 February 2007.
• The politics of urban planning: Jerusalem¹s apartheid tramway Philippe Rekacewicz and Dominique Vidal in Le Monde Diplomatique, Feb 2007.
  "Two French companies are involved in the construction and operation of a light rail system from the centre of Jerusalem to a northern terminus. It is promoted as a unifying project: in fact, it will be yet another way to isolate the Palestinians."
• PM to U.K.: Enact law prohibiting IDF officers' arrest in Britain Ha'aretz, 8th Feb 2007.
• Twilight Zone / 'I've lost my heart'
  Gideon Levy quoting the moving words of Bassam Aramin, whose 11-year old daughter Abir was killed by the IDF as she left school in Anata, West Bank.
• The greatest settlerGideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 9th Jan 2007, pointing out that settlements in East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley are as illegal as settlements in the West Bank.
• This Road is for Jews Only - Yes, There is Apartheid in Israel Shulamit Aloni in Counterpunch, 8th Jan, 2007
• Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran Sunday Times, 7th Jan 2007.
• Judge Barak
  Gideon Spiro on the Gush Shalom site, 2nd Jan 2007, reviewing the career of the outgoing President of Israel's Supreme Court.
• 200 new trailers placed in West Bank settlements since June 30th December 2006
• What Makes Sammy Run? Uri Avnery on the Gush Shalom website, 30th December 2006, detailing the Israeli law which prevents Arab citizens of Israel from living with their spouses in the Occupied Territory.
• Woman beaten on Jerusalem bus for refusing to move to rear seat Ha'aretz, 20th December 2006
• Moving on to the next scandal ... Uzi Benziman in Ha'aretz, 20th December 2006, on the burying of the Peace Now report that 40% of the land under the control of West Bank settlements is privately owned by Palestinians.
• In candid TV footage, PM coaches Prodi Jerusalem Post, 14th December 2006
• High Court: Targeted killing permissible Y-Net News, 14th Dec 2006.
• Israel, Palestine, peace and apartheid Jimmy Carter writing in the Guardian about his new book. 12th Dec 2006.
• Sisters, mothers, martyrs Guardian, 5th December 2006.
• Old women step forward as 'martyrs' Observer, 3rd December 2006.
• Would HRW Have Attacked Martin Luther King, Too? Jonathan Cook in Counterpunch, 30th November 2006.
• Ya'alon still in New Zealand despite arrest warrant for war crimes Ha'aretz, 1st December 2006
• 'When it comes to firing the gun, it's a massive shock. It's what you don't see in the movies.' Jeevan Vasagar in The Guardian, 23rd November, 2006, following young British Jews signing up for service in Gaza and the West Bank.
• Israeli Map Says West Bank Posts Sit on Arab Land New York Times, 21st Nov 2006.
• Alice in Erez: The Gaza Crossing Jennifer Loewenstein in Counterpunch, 15th Nov 2006.
• Palestinian soccer team laments Gaza travel ban Ha'aretz, 17th November 2006
• Pinochet in Palestine Joseph Massa in Al-Ahram Weekly, 9-15 Nov 2006.
  An important and frightening piece of analysis, predicting an imminent coup in Palestine by Fateh forces currently being groomed by Israel, the USA and the UK.
• Statement of UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - and calling for military sanctions against Israel. 10th November 2006.
• Let's hear it for the Haiders Ha'aretz, 30th October 2006. Akiva Eldar draws some unflattering comparisons in discussing Avigdor Lieberman.
• Golan Heights Land, Lifestyle Lure Settlers Washington Post, 30th October 2006.
• Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb Robert Fisk in the Independent, 28th October 2006.
• An enigma that only the Israelis can fully explain Independent, 28th October 2006.
• Israel used uranium-based warheads in Lebanon war Ha'aretz, 29th October 2006.
• Israel's scandalous siege of Gaza Patrick Seale in the International Herald Tribune, 27th October 2006.
• Outspoken rightwinger to join Israeli coalition Guardian, 24th October 2006
• Settlements grow on Arab land, despite promises made to U.S. Ha'aretz, 24th October 2006.
• Court Rules Against Israeli Extremists On SFGate.com, 17th October 2006.
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office report 2006
  There's quite a substantial section on Israel and Palestine.
• FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon Guardian, 13th October 2006.
• Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran Jonathan Cook on the Information Clearing House site, 12th October 2006, making mincemeat of the BBC's "documentary" entitled "Will Israel bomb Iran?".
• Italian TV: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza strip Ha'aretz, 12th October 2006.
  The same article can also be found here
• A small Jerusalem is betterBy Moshe Amirav in Ha'aretz, 12th October 2006.
  Abe Hayeem comments: "This article highlights the racist basis of planning in Jerusalem, sadly being carried through by Moshe Safdie, the renowned Israeli/Canadian architect, who is also designing the 'Peace Centre' in Washington D.C."
• Hi-tech firm boycotts Israel over 'war crimes' Y-Net News, 27th September, 2006.
• Israelis 'train Kurdish forces' BBC, 20th Sept 2006.
• Israelis seize Palestinian funds BBC, 20th Sept 2006.
• Embattled TabletsArchaeology, Vol 59 No. 5, September/October 2006
  Cuneiform tablets from the Iranian site of Persepolis risk being seized as compensation for a suicide bombing. You couldn't make it up.
• Study shows growing divide in life expectancy for Jews, Arabs Ha'aretz, 19th September 2006.
• Dutch company involved in construction of the Separation Wall Electronic Intifada, 18th September 2006
• IDF soldiers suspected of beating Palestinian civilians Ha'aretz, 15th September 2006.
• Calamity: Arsenal delays Israel ad campaign - Advertising campaign will be postponed for fear of receiving negative reactions due to war Y-Net News, 12th September 2006.
• IDF Commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon Ha'aretz, 12th September 2006. (also mentions phosphorus)
• Political prisoner support centers latest targets for closure Palestine News Network, 8th September 2006.
• What lies beneathHa'aretz, 7th September 2006
  A very detailed account of the damage done by cluster bombs in Lebanon.
• A New Middle East Robert Malley in the New York Review of Books, 21st September 2006.
• Tenders issued for hundreds of homes in W. Bank settlements Ha'aretz, 4th September 2006
• Gaza's darkness By Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 4th September 2006
• IDF Officers May Face War Crime Charges in Europe Israel National News, 4th September 2006.
• Israel's deceptions as a way of life Jonathan Cook in Counterpunch, 31st August 2006.
• Cluster bombing of Lebanon 'immoral' UN official tells Israel Guardian, 31st August 2006
• Can you really not see? By Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 30th August 2006
• Meen Erhabe (Who's the terrorist?) I don't normally list videos here, but this one is so good you have to see it. By the Palestinian rap group DAM.
• Accidental emigrant Amira Hass in Ha'aretz 29th August, describing how ethnic cleansing is achieved by Israel's policies of dividing Arab families.
• US investigates whether Israel violated deal on cluster bombs Guardian 26th August 2006
• British Director Ken Loach backs Palestinian call for boycott on Israel Ha'aretz, 27th August 2006
• Israel should pack up and go by Nadim Shehadi in Ha'aretz, 24th August 2006
• Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure Amnesty International report on Lebanon, 23rd August 2006.
• "A terrifying record of lies and deceit"
  Chomsky on Dershowitz, on Norman Finkelstein's website, 17th Aug 2006.
  And here's the letter which sparked off this particular episode of the Chomsky vs. Dershowitz row: A Letter from 18 Writers
• The Occupier defines Justice By Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 24th August 2006
• Rabbi leads unofficial peace initiative Al-Jazeera, 22nd Aug 2006.
• Second-class compensation Ha'aretz, 22nd August 2006
• How Washington Goaded Israel Stephen Zunes on FPIF, 21st August 2006
• Nasrallah didn't mean to Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 20th August 2006.
• Fighting in the north leaves behind severe environmental damage Ha'aretz, 17th Aug 2006.
• Proud of Israel? The Chief Rabbi talks rubbish by Mike Marqusee, in The Hindu 20th August 2006.
• The Day After / How we suffered a knockout Reuven Pedatzur in Ha'aretz, 16th Aug 2006.
• Bank Leumi orders internal inquiry over leak of Halutz affair Ha'aretz, 16th Aug 2006.
• U.S. Helped Plan Israeli Attack Seymour Hersh in Democracy Now, 14th August 2006.
• Time to Reopen the Palestine File at the UN? Not Yet! Omar Barghouti on The Electronic Intifada site, 12 August 2006
• George Galloway savages Sky News This video has become a classic. Dates from around 6th August 2006.
• Major Israeli websites hackedY-Net News, 28th June 2006.
• Burning Lebanon: Israel's New Middle East Tanya Reinhart in Counterpunch, 27th July 2006.
• Israel Sex Slavery ThrivesIsrael News, 31st May 2006 (?).
• "You are terrorists, we are virtuous": Yitzhak Laor on the IDF In the London Review of Books, 17th August 2006
• Sad reflections on Jewish morality Haim Bresheeth in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 - 16 August 2006,
• Hariri reportedly assassinated to make way for large US air base in Lebanon By Wayne Madsen, 11th March 2005.
  Note the date! But it seems particularly relevant now.
• Three Israelis evicted from Paradise (Y-Net News, 8th August 2006)
• Israeli Intellectuals Love the WarRon Hacohen on the Antiwar site, 7th August 2006.
• Deported MP attacks 'outrageous' treatment by Israeli officials (Guardian, 31st July 2006)
  The deported MP in question is Lynne Jones, Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak, and she was trying to go to the West Bank as part of a delegation from the Birmingham-Ramallah Twinning Committe.
• Court: Temple Mount Faithful can visit holy site (Y-net news, 1st August 2006)
• Israel's Latest Massacre in Qana: Racist Jewish Fundamentalism a Factor Omar Barghouti in Electronic Lebanon, 30th July 2006.
• Cabinet in open revolt over Blair's Israel policy Observer, 30th July 2006
• Protests grow as more planes land at Prestwick en route to Israel (Sunday Herald, 30th July 2006)
• Days of darkness Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 30th July 2006.
• Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East? Oren Ben-Dor in the Independent, 26th July 2006.
• The two civilians snapped to attention Nehemia Shtrasler in Ha'aretz, 26th July 2006
• Collectively Punishing Lebanon on Dahr Jamail's Weblog, 20th July 2006
  This details exactly which tenets of international law Israel has violated.
• British anger at terror celebration (The Times, 20th July 2006)
  (The "terrorism" in question is the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem that killed 92 people on July 22, 1946).
• "Stop that shit!" Palestine is the key to ending the bloodshed in Lebanon Uri Avnery on the Redress site, 19th July 2006.
• A New Middle East is Born: But not exactly the one Shimon Peres had in mind Omar Barghouti in Electronic Lebanon, 19 July 2006
• The IDF is Hungry for War: What Are They Fighting For? Tanya Reinhart in Counterpunch, 14th July 2006.
• What Does Israel Want? Ilan Pappe in The Electronic Intifada, 14th July 2006
• Covering up Gaza Jonathan Cook in Al-Ahram Weekly, 13-19th July 2006
  An important article which exposes the restrictions placed by the Israelis on journalists trying to report from Gaza.
• Five more women accuse President Katsav of sexual harassment (Ha'aretz, 12th July 2006)
• Entry denied: Deporting witnesses of Israeli occupation and unilateralism The Electronic Intifada, 11 July 2006.
• Author Mario Vargas Llosa: I'm ashamed to be Israel's friend (Ha'aretz, July 2006)
• Look who's been kidnapped!Arik Diamant in Y-Net News, 5th July 2006
• Switzerland says Israel violating international law in Gaza Strip (Ha'aretz, 4th July 2006)
• A black flagGideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 2nd July 2006.
  "A state that takes such steps is no longer distinguishable from a terror organization."
• 7,400 millionaires living in Israel (Y-net News, 20th June 2006)
• Rightist's dog compensated (Y-net News, 22nd June 2006)
• Keeping the international eyewitnesses out (The Electronic Intifada, 15th June 2006)
• Israel jails hundreds of Sudanese refugees AP, 4th June 2006.
• Pentagon denying Israelis security clearances Y-Net News, 17th May 2006.
• The Country that wouldn't grow up Tony Judt in Ha'aretz, 4th May 2006.
• Ingathering
  Ilan Pappe on the Israeli election and the 'demographic problem', in the London Review of Books, 20th April 2006.
• Huge jump in arms sales to Israel (Guardian, 6th April 2006)
• New Christian pro-Israel lobby aims to be stronger than AIPAC (Ha'aretz, 3rd April 2006)
• The Israeli Elections: A Decisive Vote for Apartheid Omar Barghouti in Counterpunch, 3rd April 2006
• Sex slavery rife in Israel (News24, 31st March 2006)
• Israel's defense burden 3 times higher than Western average (Globes online, 30th March 2006)
• When is Killing Arab Civilians Considered a Massacre? Omar Barghouti in Counterpunch, 29th March 2006.
• Gaza poultry farmers refuse to cull possibly infected birds (Globes online, 26th March 2006)
• Hawks plan to drive out Hamas militants (Sunday Times, 26th March 2006)
• Palestinian Economic Dependence on Israel (Washington Institute, 23rd March 2006)
• 41% of Israel's Jews favour segregation (Guardian, 24th March 2006)
• Poll: 68% of Jews would refuse to live in same building as an Arab (Ha'aretz, 22nd March 2006)
• Election candidate urges IDF to assassinate Ury Avnery (Ha'aretz, 21st March 2006)
• Just exactly who or what is anti-Semitic? Amiram Barkat in Ha'aretz, 15th March 2006.
• Colonization of Palestine precludes peace By Jimmy Carter, in Ha'aretz, 17th March 2006
• Museums in legal bind as terror victims sue (Chicago Tribune, 13th March 2006)
• Britain's dirty secret - How Britain helped Israel make the A-bomb in the 1960s. In the New Statesman, 13th March 2006.
• Secret sale of UK plutonium to Israel (BBC, 10th March 2006)
• Palestinians killed, no questions asked (YnetNews, 8th March 2006)
• Israel adviser switches to top FO job (Guardian 7th March 2006)
• Fearing arrest, IDF officer cancels studies in U.K. Ha'aretz, 27th Feb 2006.
• IDF officer cancels UK trip for fear of arrest Y-Net News, 26th Feb 2006
• Palestinians are being robbed by Israel by Amira Hass in the LA Times, 21 Feb 2006.
• They just wanted to go home together Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 23rd Feb 2006. A graphic account of growing Israeli apartheid.
• Traces of poisonSalman Abu-Sitta on the Information Clearing House website.
  How the city of Acre was poisoned by Zionists in 1948 by injecting typhus into the water supply.
• The hypocrisy of tolerance by Meron Benvenisti, in Ha'aretz 9th Feb 2006
• Israel plans to build 'museum of tolerance' on Muslim graves The Independent, 9th Feb 2006.
• Worlds Apart Part I of Chris McGreal's major report in the Guardian comparing Israel to South Africa. (6th February 2006).
  Worlds Apart, part II (7th February 2006)
• UK considers curbing citizens' right to arrest alleged war criminals Guardian, 3rd Feb 2006.
• "God Given Right": Palestine and Native America Robert Robideau in Counterpunch, 1st Feb 2006.
• Undeniable and Uncomfortable Truths (Yours Truly in Al-Ahram Weekly, 28 Jan 2006)
• In denial on the Internet (Yours Truly in The Rundown, 26th Jan 2006)
• Davos Conference founder apologizes for magazine's call to boycott Israel (Ha'aretz, 27th Jan 2006)
  ... and you can read the offending article here.
• Hamas history tied to Israel (United Press 18 June 2002, reprinted on Prison Planet site)
  (This analysis piece dates back to 2002 but is highly topical right now)
• How Israel and the United States Helped to Bolster Hamas (On the Democracy Now website, 27th Jan 2005)
• Christian candidate on Hamas ticket (Al-Jazeera, 25th Jan 2006)
• Telling it Like it isn't Robert Fisk in the LA Times, 27th Dec 2005)
• The Disappointing Trajectory of Amir Peretz by Ilan Pappe (London Review of Books Vol. 27 No. 24, 15 Dec 2005)
• Fatah and breakaway faction meet to discuss uniting slates (Ha'aretz, 17th Dec 2005)
• Bethlehem pastor slams Clinton(on the Presbyterian Church USA website, 8th, Dec. 2005)
  - that's Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by the way, in case you were wondering which one.
• Should Israel give up its nukes?George Bisharat in the LA Times, 9th Dec 2005.
• The Disappointing Trajectory of Amir Peretzby Ilan Pappe in the London Review of Books, Vol. 27 No. 24, 15 December 2005.
• Calls grow for withdrawal of Nobel prize (Guardian, 10th Dec 2005)
• Sharon "sees wall as Israel's new border" (Independent, 2nd Dec 2005)
• Hear Norman Finkelstein on "The new anti-semitism" - head to head with Jeff Barak of the Jewish Chronicle. (BBC Today programme Monday 28th Nov)
• Did UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw help sell out Jerusalem? (Exclusive: Ali Abunimah in the Electronic Intifada, 28 November 2005)
• Sharon's vision of peace is so flawed that the Palestinians can never accept it (Johann Hari in the Independent, 24th Nov 2005)
• Secret British document accuses Israel (Guardian, 25th Nov 2005)
• New Labor Leader Amir Peretz OKs 350 new housing units in West Bank (The Palestine Monitor, 22 November 2005)
• Israeli Officer who Riddled Gaza Schoolgirl with Bullets acquitted of all charges (The Palestine Monitor, 17 November 2005)
• Scores dead in three Amman hotel bombings; Israelis evacuated before attack (Ha'aretz, 10th Nov 2005)
• IDF choppers in service of drug cartel(Ynet News, 9th Nov 2005)
• Israeli nabbed in Trinidad and Tobago (Ynet News, 8th Nov 2005)
• Jenin boy killed by IDF during holidays; Parents donate his organs to Israelis (Palestine Monitor, 7th Nov 2005)
• "A Dubai on the Mediterranean" Sarah Roy on Gaza's future, in the London Review of Books, 3rd Nov 2005.
  (A good source of facts and figures on Gaza.)
• Israel "far worse" than apartheid South Africa
  On Christiaan Briggs' blog for Oct 2005. Gives a positive account of the PSC law conference on 22nd Oct 2005, plus much more.
• Who should be feared, Washington and Israel or Iran? (Aljazeera.com, 31st Oct 2005)
• Undercover Israeli troops provoked stone-throwing (Ha'aretz, 18 October 2005)
• The house that became a war zone (Guardian, 4th Oct 2005)
• Charged Israeli war criminal almost nabbed in London (The Palestine Monitor, 28 Sept 2005)
• Israeli army's shoot to kill policy: Israeli soldiers confirm the policy documented in journal (British Medical Journal, 24th Sept 2005)
• Israel general 'avoids UK arrest' (BBC, 12th Sept 2005)
• Israeli General flees London (Y-Net News, 11th Sept 2005)
• Palestinian assets in US frozen (BBC, 31st August 2005)
• Arabs lose Israeli terror stipend (BBC, 30th August 2005)
• Barenboim's orchestra plays for peace in Ramallah(Guardian, 22nd August 2005)
• The lone warrior (Guardian, 12th August 2005)
  Tali Fahima is a Jewish Israeli woman, currently in "administrative detention" for her association with Zakariya Zubeidi, the Jenin leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade.
• How Israel's nuclear secret just slipped out "A prominent Israeli historian has provided the closest thing to an official admission that Israel had nuclear weapons at least as far back as 1967." In "The Age" (Australia), 23rd July 2005.
• Disengagement in Gaza: what is Israel really after? Toufic Haddad in Socialist Worker, 5th August 2005.
• UK helped Israel get nuclear bomb (BBC, 4th August 2005)
• UK helped Israel in making nuclear bomb (Aljazeera, 4th August 2005 )
• "Israeli terror is worse" (YNet, Yedioth Ahronoth online, 29th July 2005) Israel is a racist state that commits war crimes and resorts to terrorism worse than that employed by the Palestinians, former Education Minister Shulamit Aloni charged in an unusually scathing interview with Nazareth-based Arab-Israeli newspaper Kul al-Arab.
• New Jewish Settlement in Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem Old City near Al Aqsa Mosque could ignite a Third Intifada (The Palestine Monitor, 27th July 2005)
• What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip: A Warning from IsraelBy Uri Davis, Ilan Pappe and Tamar Yaron, in Counterpunch, 15th July 2005.
• Summer Camp Counsellor Bans Arab Children From Speaking Arabic
  Arab Association for Human Rights, 8th July 2005.
• "They always return": illegal Palestinian workers in Israel In "Challenge", magazine of the Workers Advice Center, July-August 2005. Documents the death of one such worker in an Israeli jail.
• Palestine Launches "Together Against Poverty" Campaign (Press Release by the Palestinian National Authority, 5th July 2005)
• Jewish terror - the third generation Ha'aretz, 6th July 2005
• Israel takes part in NATO exerciseon Y-Net News, 17th June 2005.
• Withdrawal is a prelude to annexationAvi Shlaim in the Guardian, June 22, 2005
• Israel to build Gaza sea barrier BBC, 17th June 2005.
• The Workers' Friendfrom "Shots across the bow", Ha'aretz 1st October 2002.
  This is not a new article - it dates from 2002 - but I have only just come across it. It is important because it documents the active collaboration of the Histadrut in police round-ups of foreign workers.
• Rivlin calls off Knesset search for Holocaust victims' land in Israel
  by Zvi Lavi on the "Globes" website, 7th Jun 05
• Yavin discovered the darkness By Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 5th June 2005
• Shards of memory By Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 2nd June 2005
• Police Discover Ring of Neo-Nazi Immigrants from CIS in Arutz Sheva, 2nd June 2005
• MKs to hold urgent debate on demolition of East Jerusalem homesHa'aretz, 1st June 2005
• "According to security sources": What remains of the Israeli media
  By Tanya Reinhart on the Redress website, 29th May 2005
• Israel's silent nuclear attack revealedIssa Samandar on the Al-Aqsa site, 19 May 2005
• Israel to dump 10,000 tons of garbage a month in the West BankHa'aretz, 15th May 2005.
• Israeli doctors experimented on children (Guardian, 11 May 2005)
• Israeli army 'lied' about Miller death(Observer, 24th April 2005)
• Israel 'shocked' at BBC reporter award (Jerusalem Post 21st April 2005)
• How Britain helps IsraelMiddle East International online, 14th April 2005.
  "The British government assisted a leading company in the UK to obtain a lucrative contract with Israel which violates British policy and international law on the status of occupied East Jerusalem."
• British Government Talks Peace While Helpiing Uk Firm Profit From Israeli Occupation (The Electronic Intifada, 14 April 2005)
• A Palestinian prison-state?(Jeff Halper in The Boston Globe, 11th April 2005)
• Israel plans to dump tons of garbage in the W. Bank (Ha'aretz, 4th April 2005)
  Same story in the Palestine Monitor
• Israel to leave Gaza homes intact (BBC, 1st April 2005)
• The End of a Viable Palestinian State (Jeff Halper in Counterpunch, March 31, 2005)
• Budget for cancer mapping doesn t extend to Arab sector (Ha'aretz, 28th March 2005)
• Who will prevent the pogrom? (Ha'aretz, 30th March 2005)
• The Meaning of Rachel Corrie ...Of Dignity and Solidarityby Edward Said, June 23, 2003
  The article was written soon after Rachel's death, but I have just come across it for the first time on the 2nd anniversary.
• Israeli wall to engulf Jerusalem (Al-Jazeera, 14th March 2005)
• Hidden costs of Israel's occupation policies (The Guardian, 25 February 2005)
• New Apartheid Wall construction in two villages near Ramallah (Palestine Monitor, 23 February 2005)
• Rewarding aggression in Palestine (Editorial, The Electronic Intifada, 23 February 2005)
  "An Arab businessman has reportedly offered Sharon tens of millions of dollars to buy evacuated Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. EI contributor Hasan Abu Nimah looks at the legal background and argues that this scheme is as outrageous as offering a common thief compensation for returning stolen property ..."
• Israel in a Middle East Union: A 'Two-stage' Approach to the Conflict (Jeff Halper, in Tikkun, Jan/Feb 2005)
• Racist marriage legislation (Ha'aretz, 18th January 2005)
• Slave Sovereignty: Palestinian Elections Under Occupation (Omar Barghouti in CounterPunch, January 7, 2005)
• Prisoners say only heir is Barghouti (Ha'aretz, 11th November 2004)
• Israel on the road to civil war Uri Avnery on the Redress site, 24th October 2004
• Report: Israel violating international law by destroying homes in Gaza (Ha'aretz, 18th October 2004)
• Michelin Drops Case Against Israeli Jail Satirist (Guardian, 19th October 2004) Michelin Guides recently filed a suit against Israeli expat satirist Shimon Tzabar, publisher of a pamphlet titled "MUCH BETTER THAN THE OFFICIAL Michelin Guide to Israeli Prisons, Jails, Concentration Camps, and Torture Chambers". Click on the image above for more details, and an extract from this brilliant publication.
  footnote: Shimon Tzabar died in March 2007. Read Charlie Pottins' tribute to him here. Sharon aide: No Palestinian state (Al-Jazeerah, 7th October 2004)
• U.S. vetoes UN resolution demanding end to Gaza offensive (Ha'aretz, 6th October 2004)
• The Jihad of Alan Dershowitz: The Harvard Law Professor Who Sat On An Israeli Assassination Target Review Panel. (Counterpunch, 30th September 2004)
• Al Hayat: Arab country assisting Israel against Hamas (Ma'Ariv, 28th September 2004).
• Israel intensifies land seizures (Al-Jazeera, 15th September 2004)
• CENSORED 2005 An extract from the new book by Alison Weir, Executive Director of "If Americans Knew". She describes it as "potentially explosive chapter about Israel and Palestine, which details the press cover-up on Israel in both the mainstream and the progressive media".
• U.S. says plans to stem anti-Israel resolutions in UN (Ha'aretz, 18th September 2004)
• New party urges non-Jews' expulsion (Al-Jazeera, 12th September 2004)
• Police trying to nix PA poll in J'lem by recording voter rolls (Ha'aretz, 8th September 2004)
• Peace activist held as 'danger to Israel' (The Guardian, 7th September 2004)
  (The first known case of a Jewish person held in "administrative detention", formerly reserved for Palestinians)
• Israeli rabbis: Don't spare civilians (Al-Jazeera, 7th September 2004)
• Israel invites bids for construction of 1,000 more homes in West Bank (Canada.com, 18th August 2004)
• Gandhi's grandson to kick off unarmed Palestinian campaign (Ha'aretz, 13th August 2004)
• U.K. charity commission strikes off Jewish youth group (Ha'aretz, 8th August 2004)
• "In the heart of the city, in the middle of the day" (Ha'aretz, 6th August 2004)
  Documentary filmmaker David Ben-Sheetrit is now crippled for life after being beaten up by the IDF when on his way to meet a senior IDF spokeswoman.
• Running rings around the victims (Ha'aretz, 30th July 2004)
  "Tens of thousands of immigrants underwent radiation against ringworm in the 1940s and `50s. Now, 60 years later, they are still fighting for compensation from the state for illnesses said to be due to the treatment."
• Yatom: Jews nearly succeeded in 1984 Temple Mount bomb plot (Ha'aretz, 25th July 2004)
• "Time to apply South Africa remedy to Israel" (Mazin B. Qumsiyeh in the New Haven Register, 7th July 2004).
• Nuclear whistleblower unveils the secrets of Israeli nuclear arsenal (Pravda English version, 27th July 2004)
  Vanunu's latest interview implicates Israel in John F. Kennedy's assassination .....
• New Zealand citizen aided Israelis in passport affair (Ha'aretz, 25th July 2004)
• "If it were the reverse" (Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 18th July 2004)
• ISM activists use Birthright program to get to Israel (Ha'aretz, 17th July 2004)
• West Bank Barrier ruling: key points (BBC, 9th July 2004)
• What Israel Gets Away with and Why (comment on the verdict at the ICJ, 10th July 2004, by M B Qumsiyeh)
• How Israel "Disperses" Demonstrations: Chemical Warfare on the West Bank? (James Brooks, Counterpunch, 5th July)
• Ex-Marine Mobilizes 10,000 Observers To Palestine (Islam Online, 10th June 2004)
• Nearly Half of Palestinian Adult Males Have Spent Time in Israeli Prisons Since 1967 (Counterpunch, June 9, 2004)
• Israeli Cabinet Minister Compares Rafah Home Demolitions to Actions Nazis Took Against His Family (Associated Press, May 23, 2004)
• Anti-Israel art work removed after public outcry in Australia (Jerusalem Post, 4th May 2004)
• A Warning to those who dare to criticize Israel in the Land of Free Speech (Robert Fisk, in Counterpunch, 24th-25th April 2004)
• "Israeli Myths" Nick Pretzlik, 24th April 2004.
  This is a downloadable document in Word format.
• Israel to pour fortune into West Bank settlements (Associated Press, 19th April 2004)
• "A grotesque choice" Max Hastings in the Guardian, Thursday March 11, 2004.
  Max Hastings, a former editor of the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard, argues that Israel's repression of the Palestinian people is fuelling a resurgence of anti-semitism.
• "Short Cuts" (Sara Roy, London Review of books, 1 April 2004) - about attacks on academic freedom in the USA.
• British MP wants economic sanctions against Israel (ABC News, 29th March 2004)
• "I fear that the Zionist dream is doomed" (Avraham Burg in the Telegraph, 28/03/2004)
• The Unmentionable Source Of Terrorism By John Pilger, 20th March 2004.
• "Israeli Jewish myths and the prospect of American war" by Ilan Pappe: Interview by Greg Dropkin (published 13/09/02 but only just brought to Sue's attention)
• The Fantasy Of Democracy In An Arab State (Robert Fisk in The Independent, 13 February 2004) - reproduced on the Information Clearing House site.
• Offending Valerie: Dealing with Jewish self-absorption (Kathleen Christison in Counter punch, 7/8 February 2004)
• The Apartheid Wall; British attempt to sabotage Hague Court hearing (Al-Ahram Weekly, 6th February 2004)
• Palestinian malnutrition at African levels under Israeli curbs, say MPs (Ben Russell, The Independent, 05 February 2004)
• Israel asks U.S. to hold report until after Hague hearing> (Ha'aretz, Monday 2nd February 2004)
• Census: One quarter of Israel's children are Muslims (Ha'aretz, 1st February 2004)
• UK filing objection to Int'l Court hearing on fence (Ha'aretz, Monday 2nd February 2004)
• Hate mail: Jewish activists opposing the Israeli government's policies face intimidation and harassment via email and on the internet. (Guardian, Monday January 19, 2004)
• Rabbi on trial for opposing demolitions (Al Jazeera, 13th Jan 2004)
• A short history of apartheid (Azmi Beshara, Al Ahram Weekly, 9th Jan 2004)
• "A new NGO attempts to build a case against Israeli racism". (Al-Ahram Weekly, 1-7 January 2004)
• Hurndall's mom: 'the truth needs to come out' (Tovah Lazaroff in Jerusalem Post, Jan. 2, 2004)
• The price of ignorance (Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz, 28th December 2003)
• Demographer: Holy Land already has non-Jewish majority (Ha'aretz Service, 9th December 2003)
• Israelis defy 'illegal' orders (Stephen Farrell and Ian Mackinnon, Times Online, 9th December 2003)
• Home of apartheid slams Israeli wall (Al-Jazeera, Friday 05 December 2003)
• Ethnic cleansing on the Jordan River (Japan Times Online, 04 December 2003)
• No, anti-Zionism is not antisemitism(Brian Klug, The Guardian, Wednesday December 3, 2003)
• Israel court lifts prison secrecy (BBC News, 2nd December 2003)
• Hush, hush about Israel's bomb (Jonathan Cook, Al-ahram Weekly, 27th Nov - 3rd Dec 2003.)
• Religious right relishing Road Map's collapse
  Fundamentalist leaders want Bush to add Palestinians to list of targets for war against terrorism (By Bill Berkowitz, on the "Working for Change" website)
• Reform leader calls on U.S. to pressure Israel (Nathan Guttman, Haaretz, 24th November 2003)
• Why not invade Israel? (Gerald Kaufman in The Spectator, 22nd Nov 2003)

• Israel admits it lied over missile raid on camp (Chris McGreal in the Guardian, Friday November 21, 2003)

• Israel's anti-Semitism (Al-Ahram, 21st November 2003)

• Israel's Secret Footage Blunder (BBC website, 6th Nov 2003)
• European Opinion poll finds Israel is the biggest threat to world peace (BBC website, 4th November 2003)
• Traces of Poison (Salman Abu-Sitta in Al-Ahram Weekly).
  New evidence from Red Cross files of Zionist use of chemical and biological weapons against the Palestinian population 50 years ago.
• Death Threats in Berkeley (by Alison Weir on Counterpunch, October 18/19, 2003)
• Michigan Jewsish Activists hold vigils outside Conservative Synagogues (By Henry Herskovitz, Jewish Witnesses for Peace and friends, Ann Arbor, Mi October 14, 2003)
• "Palestinian crusader wins peace prize" (Tony Stephens, Sydney Morning Herald, August 9, 2003)
• "Ethnic Cleansing: Some Common Reactions" (Ron HaCohen's Letter from Israel column on the Antiwar.com site)
• Israeli settlers who seek way out (Raffi Berg, BBC News Online in Jerusalem)
• "Gimme Shelter" (Vered Levy-Barzilai and Max Levitte, Ha'aretz, 25th July 2003)
  "How did an Acre native, the son of an Arab father and a Jewish mother, convince a U.S. court to grant asylum to a citizen of a free and democratic ally?"
• "French and Jewish extremists unite on Net against Arabs" (John Lichfield, The Independent, 17 July 2003)
• "The misleading term 'fence'" (Amira Hass, Ha'aretz, 16th July 2003)
• "Local man opened Gaza to foreign journalists" (Charlotte Sun Herald, Florida, 14th July 2003)
  Contains harrowing accounts of torture of journalists by the Israelis.
• Company fined $6,000 for not reporting customer's question: "Is any of this stuff made in Israel?" (Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News, June 27, 2003)
• "Apocalypse Now"
  A review of "Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages" by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins (Guardian, Thursday June 12, 2003). You won't know whether to laugh or cry at this growing genre of Christian fundamentalist Zionist fiction.
• And here's a website on Christian Zionism (and Palestine more generally) run by an Anglican vicar called Stephen Sizer
• "Jews against Zionism: The Hidden Protest" (on the Real News 24/7 Website, 11th June 2003, )
• "Whose security?" (Jonathan Cook in Al-Ahram Weekly, 13th June 2003)
• Oona King in Gaza (The Guardian, Thursday June 12, 2003)
  A remarkable article: a Jewish British MP decides to boycott Israeli products.
• "Apocalypse soon: Evangelicals in the US believe there is a biblical basis for opposing the Middle East road map" (Giles Fraser, The Guardian, Monday June 9, 2003)
• "Why Palestinians are the modern Sioux" - Ian Gilmour's review of Kimmerling and Migdal's The Palestinian People: A History (Observer, 8th June 2003)
• The Holocaust and the Bush family fortune(Bill Vann, World Socialist Web Site, 5 June 2003)
  About the presidential visit to Auschwitz. Pretty strong stuff. - Sue
• "He has my eyes" by Mark Glenn - a powerfully moving piece (on the Media Monitors site).
• "A bold stride along the road to peace - or a footnote in history?" (Chris McGreal, Brian Whitaker and Ewen Macaskill, the Guardian, Wednesday June 4, 2003)
• "A Love under Fire" - a romance between a Jewish ISM member and a Palestinian activist. (Nicholas Blincoe, Guardian Weekend, 31st May 2003)
• "PM would deny citizenship to children with Palestinian parent" (Gideon Alon in Ha'aretz, 29th May 2003)
• "Most new immigrant IDF soldiers aren't Jewish" (Amiram Barkat in Ha'aretz, 29th May 2003)
• "Israel Discovers That Democracy Is Not An Israeli Value" (Arjan El Fassed and Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada, 22 May 2003)
• Ron HaCohen, "The Apartheid Wall" (on the AntiWar website, 21st May 2003)
• "The Exit That Isn't on Bush's 'Road Map'" (James Bennet, New York Times, 19th May 2003)
  Benyamin Elon, a minister in Sharon's government, argues that the new Palestinian state must be Jordan: this is the "window of opportunity," he says, for Israel to annex the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
• Adam Keller, "Road Map In The Air" (from the Other Israel site)
• "Birthright participant turns pro-Palestinian activist" (Annette Young in Ha'aretz, 16th May 2003)
• "Autopsy indicates cameraman was killed by Israelis" (Justin Huggler in The Independent, 9th May 2003)
• "Vigilantes take up arms, vow to expel 'Muslim filth'" (By Jack Kelley on Information Clearing House site, 9th May 2003)
• "Israel's Responsibility: Britons' deaths must be fully explained" (Leader, the Guardian, 8th May 2003)
• "Settlers offer West Bank 'terror tours'" (BBC News, 5th March 2003)

• "Some Israelis contemplate low-grade 'genocide' for Palestinians" (Fredericksburg.com, 7th March 2003)

• "Israelis to Demolish entire Palestinian Village " (Jerusalem Indymedia, 15th January 2003)
• "False Witnesses" (Guardian, 16th January 2003)
  ITC approval of John Pilger's documentary is "a shot across the bows of mainstream Middle East coverage", says Tim Llewellyn.
• "No room for Justice" (Guardian, 21st December 2002)
  Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain drawn parallels between the boycott of apartheid South Africa and the current boycotts of Israel.
• "Apartheid in the Holy Land" (Desmond Tutu, Guardian, 29th April 2002)

• "Smearmongers" by Paul de Rooij
• "Web Warfare comes to America" by Lawrence Davidson.

  The above two articles in Counterpunch describe the harrassment, including hacking attacks on computers, of people who support the academic boycott of Israel.

• Paul Foot's article in the Guardian; "Still Waiting for 242"

• "Living with the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors"
  Sara Roy's powerful and moving testimony

• EDWARD SAID ON BEING WITCH-HUNTED
  - from Al-Ahram Weekly online

• "Israel set on tragic path, says Chief Rabbi"
  After he gave this interview Prof. Sacks predictably received a lot of criticism and back-pedalled somewhat!

• "Web Warfare"
  - about attempts to hack into computers in order to sabotage sites like this one!

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