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No place to run, no place to hide By William Bowles
It is directly because of ‘journalism’ like Bowen’s that we have no understanding of our Palestinian brothers and sisters’ situation, where, according to Bowen resistance to Israeli slaughter comes not from a proud people defending what’s left of their homeland but from religious fanatics. Continue reading
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“Even to Live in a Cave Has Been Denied Us”: The Story of Abed al-Fattah Abed Rabbo
The ordeals of tens of families in Walajah started when the Jerusalem Municipality illegally annexed part of the village to be inside its borders in the beginning 1980s. More than 25 homes have been demolished since, and yet others are under orders of demolition. Most of these cases are still pending in the Israeli court… Continue reading
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Jerusalem Diaries: Umm Kamel al-Kurd Returns Home
When Umm Kamel was evicted from her home in Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem) on 9 November, where she had been living with her family since 1956, it was the second time in her life she was forced by the state of Israel to leave her home. The first time was in 1948, when she and her… Continue reading
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Israeli Terrorist Settler Shooting Palestinians in Hebron
Footage filmed by Jamal Abu-Sa’ifan, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, documenting a terrorist Israeli settler shooting two members of his family. The event occurs following the eviction settlers from a Palestinian house they occupied in Hebron. Settlers attacked the nearby house of the Abu-Se’ifan family, and during ensuing clashes, a settler fired his handgun at Continue reading
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Kobi Ben Simon: God’s Little Acre
Israel inside the Green Line may be the new frontier for extremist Zionist settlement. Apparently, the West Bank settlement project is considered secure enough to move on to more challenging pastures. As the Rabbi himself notes in the article, “we had carried out a great project in the settlements for the past 30 years, but… Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: Bypassing Bethlehem’s Eastern Reaches by Nate Wright
In late August, Israel completed refurbishment of the road dipping down from the Jerusalem-area settlement of Har Homa to the bloc of smaller settlements southeast of Bethlehem. The new bypass, meant to speed up the commutes of settlers to their jobs and schools in Israel, has opened another front in the battle over the extent… Continue reading