May 15, 2010
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Israel’s Red Line: Real Democracy By Jonathan Cook
The recent arrest of two respected public figures from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority in night-time raids on their homes by the Shin Bet secret police — brought to light this week when a gag order was partially lifted — has sent shock waves through the community. The arrests are not the first of their kind.… Continue reading
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Palestinian Teenager Shot, Apparently By Settler
Aysar Yasser a-Zaben, 16 years old, was shot in his back yesterday evening in his family’s lands in Mazra’a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah, apparently by a settler…At some point, a settler stopped his car and exited it, beginning to shoot live ammunition towards them, which caused them to run away back to the village. Escaping… Continue reading
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First Ship Sets Sail for Gaza: Israel’s Intimidation Tactics Won’t Stop Us
14 May 2010 – At 22:45 local time tonight, the MV Rachel Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of the eight-vessel Freedom Flotilla, set sail from Ireland on its way to the Mediterranean Sea. There, ships from Turkey and Greece will join her, then sail to Gaza. Continue reading
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World-class speakers to attend the Summer University of Palestine!
On the 25th July the first session of the annual ‘Summer University of Palestine’ is due to begin in Lebanon. This event is organised by the registered Lebanese charity Viva Palestine Arabia and will focus on Palestine. The week long intensive course will cover ‘Past, Present and Future Palestine’ on the history, geography and politics… Continue reading
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Alice in Videoland By William Bowles
In every sense this past election was played out on television, with the print media doing ‘backup’. Whether the ‘debates’ affected the outcome is neither here nor there, as the script had already been written, on television, through the way the ‘news’ presents the issues and critically what issues to push to the ‘consumers’, sorry… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 