Come September (by Arundhati Roy) -text

[EN] Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation Lensic Performing Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico(18 September 2002). “”” Recently, those who have criticized the actions of the U.S. government (myself included) have been called “anti-American.” Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term “anti-American”

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MIDEAST: Breaking the Silence (by Cherrie Heywood)

[EN] “”” RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 2 (IPS) – An Israeli police commander has called them “provocateurs”, “militants”, and, “lawbreakers”. Earlier in the year the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) decided that their presence in the city of Hebron, 30km south of Jerusalem in the Palestinian West Bank, constituted a security threat and banned them from

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Tunnels feed the hungered people from besieged Gaza

[EN only] “”” Hundreds of tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt are keeping many of the Palestinian territory’s 1.5 million impoverished residents supplied with food and fuel. On Saturday, Egyptian authorities found the entrances of three tunnels and confiscated a large amount of fuel about to be smuggled into the territory. Sources say there are

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“The forgotten fighter”: Nablus’s will to live (by Frank Barat)

[EN] “””   Many Palestinians that I met during my travels in the West Bank told me that to know what Palestine really was about and meant, I had to go to Nablus. Most of them also told me that Nablus was their favourite city. After spending 5 weeks there this summer, I understand why. Arriving

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israel wants to annex 7.3 percent of the West Bank (August 12, 2008)

[EN] “”” Jerusalem – Israeli negotiators have told their Palestinian counterparts they want to annex 7.3 percent of the West Bank as part of a final peace deal, Palestinian officials said Tuesday. In exchange, Israel would cede Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip that is equivalent to 5.5 percent of the West Bank, and would open

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“Smuggled lanterns” (by Saleh Al-Naami)

[EN] “”” For millions of Muslims across the world celebrating the holy month of Ramadan in the comfort of home alongside their families, it is time to strengthen bonds of solidarity with Palestinians and Iraqis. Saleh Al-Naami describes how besieged Gaza struggles to survive the holy month. Seated patiently behind his desk, with a line

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UN Peacekeepers ‘abusing children’ in Haiti

[EN] “”” Children as young as six are being sexually abused by United Nations’ peacekeepers and aid workers in return for food and money, says a report by Save the Children, a non-profit organisation.Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones to help look after them, says Save

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“Israel’s Lopsided Legal System” (by Joharah Baker)

[EN] “”” Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes is nothing new. Since the inception of the occupation in 1967, thousands of Israeli military orders have been handed to Palestinians informing them of the imminent destruction of their houses. The reasons – or excuses – for this destructive policy are many: involvement in resistance against the

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“The General of Onions and Garlic” (by Gideon Levy)

[EN] “”” Here is the “next thing” in the war against terror: the war against hairdressers. After Hamas took over half the Palestinian people, in no small measure because of Israel’s policies, after we tried to fight Hamas with weapons and siege, destruction and killing, mass arrests and deportations, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin

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“Ungenerous occupier: Israel’s Camp David exposed” (by Jonathan Cook)

[EN] “”” After seven years of rumors and self-serving memoirs, the Israeli media has finally published extracts from an official source about the Camp David negotiations in summer 2000. For the first time it is possible to gauge with some certainty the extent of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s “generous offer” to the Palestinians

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