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- 'Kill me, shut everything, but I want water for my children' - Describing the anger of an Israeli quarry foreman at the actions of Israel in the occupied West Bank, where blockades and harassment have created anger and resentment, and blocked Palestinian access to drinking water, in what was formerly a calm area.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=203899
- An Impossible Occupation - Describing how Israeli forces take over and operate out of civilian homes, and enforce curfews on Palestinian villages through sniper fire and property desctruction, even as they express concern that their incursions will only breed hate. [Free registration required]
www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/magazine/12IDF.html?ex=1021867200&en=9593ee5c46e9057e&ei=5040
- Back to 1869 - Describing the oppressive effect of Israel's closures and collective punishment on the civilian population of the occupied territories.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=204757
- Barbed wire spreading - Describing Israel's increased restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians, and fears that its collective punishments will crush an already crippled economy and could lead to further violence.
lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/rad-green/2002-May/003494.html
- Bordering on madness - Theorizing that Israel's imposition of burdensome bureaucracy and interminable delays at checkpoints are supposed to cow the Palestinian population into docility, but in fact serve only to increase anger against the occupation.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,718941,00.html
- Civilians Under Siege - Describing the collective punishments imposed by Israel upon Palestinian civilans, including total and internal closures, restrictions on movement, and curfews that amount to house arrest for thousands of families.
www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0103/article/010313a.html
- Closure and Apartheid: Seven Years of "Peace" through Separation - An Israeli human rights attorney describes how the closure of the West Bank and Gaza since 1993 is in violation of international law, and an extreme hardship for the people.
www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/pachec1.htm
- Curfew puts Palestinian life out of view - Describing the oppressive effects of Israel's curfews on the 80,000 civilian residents of Ramallah.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/07/12/curfew.htm
- Demolishing houses - tried and tested - A sarcastic critique of Israel's renewed practice of demolishing the homes of innocent Palestinians as a 'deterrent', observing that it is hard to distinguish such demolitions from those meant as collective punishments, and that the tactics have never worked.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=198185
- Deterrents that haven't deterred - Examining the IDF's claim that the demolition of the homes of innocent family members of suspected militants is a deterrent, in light of the oppressive and often violent collective punishments imposed by Israel over the past two years without deterrent effect.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=202232
- Diplomats condemn West Bank 'cantons' - Describing diplomatic condemnation of Israel's plan to carve the occupied West Bank into eight 'cantons' and to further limit travel by Palestinian civilians, and the likelihood that the new restrictions will further damage the Palestinian economy.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-301679,00.html
- Donors are funding cantonization - Describing oppressive new travel restrictions imposed by military authorities on Palestinian civilians and goods, and suggesting that efforts by international donors to help suffering Palestinians actually instead helps Israel implement its closures.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=166657
- Fahdi's summer camp - Describing how extreme poverty resulting from Israel's curfews and closures has led to a situation where Palestinian children as young as seven sneak into Israel from the West Bank to peddle goods or beg, some now the sole breadwinners for their families.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=188237
- Families of East Jerusalem cell suspects brace for demolitions - Describing Israel's plan to demolish the homes of innocent family members of suspected Palestinian militants, despite their being citizens of Israel.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=201010
- Hated checkpoints top list of Palestinian targets - Describing why Israel's checkpoints in the occupied territories are hated by the Palestinians, unprovoked shootings and attacks by soldiers on civilians, and their negative effect on the lives and finances of the people.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=138996
- Hundreds rounded up in Israeli raid on refugee camp - Describing an ongoing campaign of military incursions in the occupied West Bank, and Israel's mass arrests of Palestinian men and teenagers.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,725783,00.html
- IDF to fight supreme court appeal on house demolitions - Describing plans by the Israeli military to continue demolish the homes of innocent family members of terrorists, and their desire to eliminate any notice or appeal for those innocents, arguing that notice might put troops at risk when they demolished the familes' houses.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=194354
- Israel ends tank blockade of Arafat headquarters - Describing the partial lift of Arafat's house arrest, and the effect of Israel's 'checkpoints' which impede Palestinian travel, detailing anti-Arab slurs painted on barricades and the unprovoked shootings of Palestinian civilians.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,656629,00.html
- Israel to deport families of militants - Describing Israel's history of collective punishments against the families of suspected militants and terrorists, including the demolition of their homes, despite criticism of such policies as illegal, and controversy over current plans to also deport innocent family members.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,758660,00.html
- Israel to deport the families of suicide bombers - Describing Israel's intention to deport family members of suicide bombers after demolishing their homes, as their military onslaughts prove fruitless in suppressing militant activity, and comments from a senior Israeli official that the bad guys on both sides are now winning.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,742681,00.html
- Israeli attacks on militants leave families homeless - Describing the fallout on Palestinian civilians, whose property is destroyed without any opportunity to dispute Israel's accusations, as Israel proceeds to demolish the homes of innocent family members of suspected militants.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=322766
- Israeli Repression and the Language of Liars - Questioning whether a nation with Israel's policies of discrimination against Palestinians and Arab citizens can fairly be called a 'democracy', and expressing concern that Jewish culture and faith are being subverted by Israel's leaders.
www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13087
- Israelis Consider New Limits on West Bank Palestinians - Describing proposed new restrictions on travel and transport in the occupied territories, and the extreme costs and difficulties that will result for civilians and humanitarian organizations. [Free registration required]
www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/international/middleeast/24MIDE.html
- Mercy stalled - Describing how, despite Israel's protests that they don't ordinarily deny medical care to Palestinians, ambulances routinely come under fire, and civilian lives are threatened and lost due to delays caused by Israeli tanks and roadblocks.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,716507,00.html
- New barriers widen gulf on West Bank - Describing new collective punishments imposed on Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories, and the theory that they reflect Ariel Sharon's plan to destroy the Oslo Accords and establish permanent Israeli control over the West Bank.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=299065
- Out of Patience, Palestinians Defy Curfew in Nablus - Describing how, after being confined to their homes virtually non-stop for thirty-seven days, the civilian population of Nablus is emerging in defiance of the curfew imposed on their town by Israel's military forces.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23467-2002Jul30.html
- Palestinian malnutrition bodes ill for the future - Describing the effect of Israel's collective punishments and closures on Palestinians, particularly children, with growing rates of hunger, malnutrition, and anemia, and Israels' closing of schools, and asking what the long-term consequences of these actions will be.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=196557
- Palestinians face disaster, warns US government group - Describing the poverty, hardship, and escalating levels of child hunger and malnutrition, resulting from Israel's closures and collective punishments in the occupied territories.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=321938
- Palestinians' disrupted journeys - Documenting through photographs and personal accounts the oppressive effect, high cost, and dangers posed to peaceful Palestinians by Israel's blockades and checkpoints throughout the occupied territories.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1899000/1899186.stm
- The 94 Percent Solution: A Matrix of Control - Jeff Halper, director of the Campaign Against House Demolitions, explains how the mechanism of the occupation diminishes the quality of Palestinian life, and that it is unlikely that the Oslo process will result in true independence.
www.merip.org/mer/mer216/216_halper.html
- The Limits of Collective Punishment - Examining the use of terrorism against Israeli civilians, and Israel's settlements, mass detentions and torture, discrimination and other collective punishments to argue that those tactics serve to unify the other side and perpetuate the conflict.
www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/04/03_limits.html
- The real disaster is the closure - Describing how Israel's closures have caused enormous unemployment and poverty among Palestinian civilians living under occupation, and an analysis by the World Bank of what is likely to follow if rests aren't lifted.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=165289
- U.S. Finds Israeli Closure of Palestinian University Offices Troubling - U.S. State department criticism of Israel's closing of Al Quds University in Jerusalem as being inconsistent with security issues, and with reform of Palestinian institutions.
usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/latest&f=02071003.nlt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml
- When I tried to go to the airport ... - A Palestinian Christian pastor describes how seemingly arbitrary Israeli restrictions on Palestinian travel prevented his accompanying his wife to visit friends in the United States over Christmas.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,421190,00.html
- Women at barricades keep an eye on their defenders - Describing how a group of Israeli women are monitoring the behavior of soldiers at checkpoints between Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, and their response to Israel's decision to forcibly block peaceful Israel demonstrators from joining a protest in Bethlehem.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,774111,00.html
- Women of the checkpoints - Describing an Israeli grassroots movement which monitors and reports human rights abuses at Israel's checkpoints around Jerusalem. Also commenting on events in Nabus during Defensive Shield, and the words of an activist against anti-Semitism on Israel's own conduct.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=195718
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