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Suliman Besharat
Israeli occupation forces have adopted a new tactic in detaining what they call “ Palestinian suspects”, based on detaining their wives to get them to surrender in return for releasing their women, according to reports from the region.
Inigo Gilmore
A hard-hitting United Nations report has warned that Israel will effectively annex large tracts of Palestinian territory by ordering thousands of Arabs living near the new ‘security’ wall to apply for a permit to stay in their homes.
al-Jazeera
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. A man such as Ariel Sharon, who epitomises the worst charicatures of the symbolic political pig, couldn’t have thought of a more fitting insult to the hopes for peace in the Middle East under his steerage than to enlist the unwilling help of factory farmed pigs in defence of the illegal settlements in Palestine, and their Zionist inhabitants.
Mustafa Barghouthi
If there is any doubt that Israel’s ‘separation barrier’ is a cynical and corrupt way of “creating facts on the ground”, effectively extending the borders of Israel into illegally occupied territory at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, reading this article will put you right.
Chris McGreal
This report shows with graphic detail how for weeks the Israeli army has been crushing resistance in the Palestinian refugee town of Rafah, in a manner which rivals the destruction of Jenin last year. But it is all carried in the name of ‘stopping terrorism’ so the international community has remained silent.
Gideon Levy
Who told the director of Military Intelligence, Major General Aharon Ze’evi to declare, “Better Palestinian mothers should cry and not Jewish mothers”? Is the head of army intelligence now also to be in charge of setting Israel’s moral priorities? And what prompted the commander of the Ground Forces, Major General Yiftah Ron-Tal, to decide that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has to be liquidated?
John Bell
The unfortunate truth is that, according to his own political dynamic, Sharon simply must act when there is a militant attack and he has the character to do so, but it leads nowhere except the spiral of violence already witnessed in his relations with the Palestinians. This may be enough for Sharon, but is it enough for the Middle East?
A World Crisis Web Report
In a decision that marks a gauge of world opinion, the UN General Assembly today overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel remove it’s “separation barrier”. The resolution “demands that Israel stop and reverse the construction of the wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, which is in departure of the Armistice Line of 1949 and is in contradiction to relevant provisions of international law.”
Ramzy Baroud
It matters little whether the mastermind behind the killing of three Americans in Gaza on Wednesday, October 15, was a Palestinian group or Israeli intelligence. What?s of relevance, however is that the Palestinian people, their leadership, resistance and aspirations will wholly bear the brunt of the incident.
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