Tag Archives: Israel

a good woman

Part 2: Attention builds over a slain civilian, article in the Christian Science Monitor’,CAPTION,’www.csmonitor.com’);” onmouseout=”return nd();”> She was influential, affluent, and a powerful symbol promoting peaceful resistance in a brutal place.  Unfortunately, Israel is not equipped to prevail in a … Continue reading

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Apartheid in the Holy Land

Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. Archbishop Desmond Tutu A synopsis of Dr. Tutu’s remarks from his keynote address Occupation is Oppression, given in … Continue reading

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Israeli arrogance

Israel says it will only cooperate with a UN investigation if the following demands are met: ? Military and terrorism experts should be made full members of the investigating team ? The Israeli government should decide who the investigators can … Continue reading

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the insignificance of killing boys

This line was tagged onto the very end of an article in The Guardian.  Elsewhere in Gaza and the West Bank, the Israeli army shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, nine and 14, during a curfew, and two gunmen … Continue reading

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letter to Israel

Excerpt from the Independent News: I emphasise that I and the vast majority of Palestinians support Israel’s right to exist in safe, secure borders. This must be alongside a sovereign Palestinian state, with east Jerusalem as its capital. You have … Continue reading

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test01

Guardian Unlimited Ariel Sharon warns troops may storm Yasser Arafat’s ruined HQ to capture terrorists wanted by Israel.

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state-conducted terrorism

[T]he accounts of the massive destruction of civilian homes, and of the firing on civilians [in the refugee camp of Jenin], could be confirmed as they also occurred in the town of Jenin, suggesting a widespread and systematic pattern of … Continue reading

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rendered evil?

It is regrettable, but all too likely to be true, that the parents of suicide bombers are evil, their brothers are evil, their sisters are evil, their spouses are evil, and their children are born innocent but rendered evil by … Continue reading

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great damage

The officers said they were worried that the truth about the level of destruction wreaked in Jenin would do Israel’s reputation abroad “great damage”. “However many wanted men we kill in the refugee camp… there is still no justification for … Continue reading

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naked beast

From The Problem with Sharon, in the Guardian Unlimited: What [will] be permanent is a further intensification of the hatred between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, with all that will mean for their futures. Israel is using one of the … Continue reading

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Israel descends into chaos. “He

Israel descends into chaos. “He got in one of the buildings and started shooting and throwing grenades, and carried on to the study hall where there were a lot of pupils,” said Yona Emmanuel, a resident of Atzmona, which mixes … Continue reading

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Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told CNN: “The world is facing an unbelievable danger and we have to put aside secondary skirmishes.” Why is it that only Isreali politicians tell it like it is?  Here in America we swim in … Continue reading

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said: “The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness.” I know none of us ever thought a whole ton of things that we are thinking today, … Continue reading

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Simple. A new start, gracious

Simple. A new start, gracious though ungraceful – panicky even.  I am close to the end, the parts amputated are still nearby, sheddings of a weightful something – old trauma perhaps, but more likely sheddings of a present fear.  Just … Continue reading

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