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- 3m Palestinians trapped in prison that once was home - Describing the oppressive effect of Israel's occupation, closures, and collective punishments upon Palestinian civilians.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,387215,00.html
- A mission too far - A Captain in Israel's tank corps explains why he will no longer serve in the occupied territories, describing an occupation and collective punishments imposed on Palestinian civilians which he regards as immoral and anathematic to peace.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,710726,00.html
- A time for self-criticism - Arguing that Israel needs to mature past its view that everything it does is right, and everything the Palestinians do is wrong, and recognize that international condemnation is not borne of anti-semitism, but out of the realities of the occupation of Palestinian lands.
www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/04/10/Opinion/Opinion.46636.html
- After 21 months of intifada, a wall is born - Describing the 'security wall' under construction by Israel, concerns by Palestinians that it is being used as a suberfuge to take their land, and by Israeli settlers that it separates them from Israel, and comparing it to similar historic border walls.
www.csmonitor.com/2002/0710/p01s04-wome.html
- Amnesty International USA - Israel and Occupied Territories - Human rights monitors conclude that Israel shows reckless disregard for human life in the execution of its occupation.
www.amnestyusa.org/countries/israel_and_occupied_territories
- Apartheid in the Holy Land - Bishop Desmond Tutu compares Israel's conduct in the occupied territories to his own experience under Apartheid in South Africa, and asks that Israel choose a path of peace that accepts a true Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,706911,00.html
- B'Tselem - Shooting at Ambulances & IDF Impediments to Medical Treatment - An analysis of interference with access to emergency medical treatment by Israel's defense forces during the course of the occupation.
www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/2002/020314.asp
- Ben-Eliezer presents two-state solution to Labor Party - Describing various Labor Party proposals to end or manage the conflict, with the concern that if they do not end the occupation of Palestinian lands Israel is in danger of becoming 'like South Africa'.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=164320
- Combatant Letter 2002: Courage to Refuse - IDF resisters' proclamation against the occupation, listing each soldier's name, rank and unit, current number of signers, and a discussion forum. They risk punishment to protest what they see as illegal military brutality.
www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp
- Conditions of Palestinian life cultivate desperation - A Palestinian American reflects on the humiliations and miseries of growing up under Israel's occupation, as well as with the present military incursions, and suggests that peace that can only come through the end of that occupation.
www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/opinion/3064180.htm
- Family olive groves fall to Israeli attacks - Describing Israel's policy of bulldozing Palestinian olive trees in the occupied territories, many of which are hundreds of years old, on the pretext that they are too close to 'bypass roads' reserved for the exclusive use of Israeli settlers.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,473147,00.html
- Grabbing Rachel's Tomb - Criticizing Israel's decision to annex Rachel's Tomb, located in the occupied Palestinian territories, as not only illegal under international law, but as an expression of political opportunism likely to create additional points of future conflict.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=207913
- Growing evidence of Israel's plans to invade the West Bank and Gaza - Describing the Sharon government's plan for assault, designed to kill Arafat or drive him into exile and to destroy the Palestinian authority, to be launched using the pretext of the next big suicide attack that caused widespread deaths and injuries.
www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jul2001/isr-j14.shtml
- Hardship in the territories - Describing the plight faced by Palestinian civilians under Israel's occupation, closures, and curfews, with a special focus on children, and asserting that it is only the tradition of mutual family assistance that is preventing disaster.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=198654
- How Israel builds its fifth column - Describing Israel's use of mass arrests, coercion, bribery, and blackmail to recruit Palestinian informers, and the culture of suspicion that has resulted.
www.csmonitor.com/2002/0522/p01s04-wome.html
- I would have done the same - An Israeli whose son was murdered by a Palestinian militant while serving as a soldier in the West Bank examines the facts of the conflict, and concludes that as much as he would like to blame the Palestinians, it is Israel's occupation of their land that is ultimately responsible for his son's death.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,770434,00.html
- If All Rabbis Were Like Arik Ascherman, Middle East Peace Would Be Attainable - Presenting the views of Rabbi Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights actively protests the demolition of Palestinian homes, and his ultimate belief that the best resolution would be to allow all refugees to return to a secular democratic state.
www.wrmea.com/archives/october01/0110015.html
- Inbuilt contradiction - Asserting that despite Israel's purported plan to partially withdraw from the occupied territories, it intends to leave in place oppressive internal travel restrictions on Palestinian civilians.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=199764
- Israel must end the hatred now - Arguing that if the Palestinians were black, the world would deplore their treatment by the Israelis and insist upon immediate change, and that Israel's policies serve to perpetuate regional hatred and violence.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,382820,00.html
- Israel planning to eliminate Arafat, Palestinian Authority - Describing a plan by Israel to invade the occupied territories to eliminate the Palestinian authority, and kill or detain Yasser Arafat and his forces, following a suicide boming of significant magnitude to stand as a pretext for the operation.
www.dawn.com/2001/07/13/int2.htm
- Israel set on tragic path, says chief rabbi - Describing how Britain's chief rabbi has departed from his pattern of steadfast support for Israel, in his expression that Israel's conduct is corrupting its Jewish culture.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,781113,00.html
- Israel's Wall: A Step Toward Peace? - Suggesting that Israel's wall around the occupied West Bank may become a de facto border for a Palestinian state.
www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2002/nf20020718_1722.htm
- Israeli 'restraint' still means terror for the Palestinians - Describing Israel's continuing seige on millions of Palestinian civilians, who suffer under closures, collective punishments, curfews, indiscriminate shootings, and demolitions of homes and businesses.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,771708,00.html
- Israeli Reservists Refuse Territories Duty - Describing the position of Israeli reservists who assert that they 'will no longer fight beyond the Green Line for the purpose of occupying, deporting, destroying, blockading, killing, starving and humiliating an entire people'.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A51367-2002Jan28
- Israeli who protects Palestinians from IDF's bullets speaks here - Liad Kantorowicz, 23-year-old Israeli-American activist, says Israelis feel victimized while they are the ones victimizing Palestinians, and works against apartheid to make Israel a better place to be from. Jewish Bulletin.
www.jewishsf.com/bk011109/eb20.shtml
- Jenin checkpoint, 4 P.M. - Describing the systematic harassment and delay of ambulances by Israeli troops in the occupied territories, and the apparent perception of Israel's soldiers that a Palestinian is not a person.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=193807
- Jews Speak Out Against the Occupation - Pacifist, dissident Montreal organization's call on Jews to stand up and demand an end to war and occupation, with list of signers.
www.cam.org/~rsilver/jewspeakout.htm
- Letter from a Palestinian to an Israeli - Asserting a yearning for peace, with two nations side-by-side, while arguing that peace is impeded by Israeli's prejudice and brutality, its settlements in the occupied territories, and the hatred and violence inspired thereby.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285409
- Like Father, Like Son: A Tribute to Moshe and Yehudi Menuhin, by Grace Halsell - Presenting the thesis of Moshe Menuhin that Israel's oppression of the Palestinians is anathematic to Jewish values, and recounting the retaliation suffered by his son, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, for his support of Palestinian rights.
www.washington-report.org/backissues/0796/9607018.htm
- Like the old days in South Africa - A newspaper editor who fought Apartheid in South Africa, comments on the similarities between the mindsets of Israel's soldiers and those who enforced Apartheid, and an atmosphere of power and domination and contempt toward Palestinian rights.
groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishPeaceNews/message/773
- Made in Israel - Photo gallery of the Israel-Palestine conflict with an emphasis on Palestinian suffering and casualties. Not suitable for children.
www.unitedvisionsolutions.com/israel.htm
- Monks in Bethlehem fall victim to the 'peace' fence - Describing how Israel is building a security fence and road through the middle of an olive orchard belonging to Armenian monks, and its refusal to move the fence so as not to render the grove useless.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=324435
- Mystery surrounds rules of engagement - Describing the rules of engagement for Israeli occupation forces, which forbid them from firing on settlers even to protect Palestinians from being murdered, but which are shrouded in secrecy when it comes to firing on Palestinians.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,376569,00.html
- National Lawyers Guild - Report of the NLG Delegation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
www.nlg.org/committees/International/middle_east_delegation_report.htm
- Object lesson - Describing the incarceration of former Prime Minister Netanyahu's nephew, who refuses to serve Israel's armed forces in the occupied Palestinian territories on conscientious grounds, along with the philosophies that led him to his decision, and Israel's treatment of Conscientious objectors.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=197795
- Occupation now, occupation forever? - Examining the policies of the Sharon government, its expansion of settlements, and its desire to annex almost sixty percent of the occupied Palestinian territories, and the high fiscal cost of occupation, and wondering how Israel can extricate itself.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=195287
- One fifth of Palestinian children 'are chronically hungry' - Describing the increasing humanitarian crisis arising from Israel's closures, military occupation, and economic stranglehold on the occupied territories.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=318820
- Opinion Speakout: Israeli occupation is worst form of violence - An American visitor to the occupied territories reacts to what she describes as Israel's disregard for human life. Rocky Mountain News:
www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_943334,00.html
- Palestine's partisans - Observing that in addition to Nelson Mandela's parallels between Israel's occupation and Apartheid, Marek Edelman, deputy commander of the historic Warsaw ghetto uprising of the Jews against the Nazis, has now expressed empathy for Palestinians fighting Israel's occupation.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,778170,00.html
- Palestinian Chronicle - Describing how the civilian population of the occupied territories has been medically and psychologically affected by the breakout of the second Intifada, Israel's collective punishments and economic closure, and the armed conflict.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2001/palestine_01-2001.shtml
- Palestinians feel the heat as police enforce beach apartheid - Describing Israeli efforts to establish areas as for Jews only, even to the exclusion of Arab citizens of Israel.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,327675,00.html
- Poverty and resentment fuels Palestinian fury - Describing how limited economic prospects, growing poverty, collective punishments, and unfair allocation of water resources under Israel's occupation, and the corruption of the Palestinian Authority, feeds unrest.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,382498,00.html
- Reservists refuse to serve in 'war for peace of settlements' - Describing the reaction to the public announcement by fifty IDF reservists that they will refuse to serve in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/28/News/News.42407.html
- Suffer the little children - A rabbi's introspective essay on how to get past the occupation and back on a path toward diplomacy, in the context of his intervention to save a Palestinian baby in desperate need of medical care, but stuck behind an Israeli checkpoint.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=190960
- The bulldozer war - Describing the devastation of the landscape of the occupied territories, as Israel bulldozes Palestinian homes, hilltops and orchards for new settlements and bypass roads.
mondediplo.com/2002/05/08bulldozer
- The Intefadeh and Israel for Dumbbells - Examining the roots of the conflict and the background of both Sharon and Arafat to conclude that Sharon has no interest in a just peace, that peace is not likely to occur under either leader, and that without outside intervention violence will continue for years.
www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/04/17_israel.html
- The Socio-economic Impact of Settlements on Land, Water, and the Palestinian Economy - Analysis of Israel's settlements as part of a process to control of the region's resources, principally land and, water and to limit diplomatic solutions to the occupation, and the environmental damage they cause.
www.mondediplo.com/focus/mideast/question-3-2-2
- There is still much to admire about the old Israeli ideal - Arguing that Israel cannot achieve a victory through military force, or its illegal settlement policies and the denial of Palestinian rights, and that for a meaningful peace, painful concessions must come from both sides.
argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/bruce_anderson/story.jsp?story=280513
- Toothless in Gaza - Examining Israel's conduct, and particularly its assassination of suspected militants, in the context of international law, and questioning if any court can address Israel's disregard of international humanitarian law.
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,764076,00.html
- UN to feed 500,000 needy Palestinians - Describing emergency food relief for Palestinians, plunged into poverty as a result of Israel's closures and incursions, and the likelihood that the situation will worsen if Israel implements plans to carve the occupied West Bank into 'cantons'.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,719881,00.html
- Want Security? End the Occupation - Marwan Barghouti, a high Fatah official, argues that to achieve peace Israel must withdraw from occupied territory. Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A51887-2002Jan15
- Who Pays the Price? by Wendy Pearlman - Asserts that military strategist Sharon provokes futile acts of violence by Palestinians in order to create pretexts for further annexation. Jordan Times.
www.jordantimes.com/Mon/opinion/opinion4.htm
- Why Every Jewish Soldier Should Refuse - An analysis of the occupation as inconsistent with the Torah and Jewish values, authored by an attorney and IDF tank gunner in reserve duty.
www.gush-shalom.org/archives/shamai2.html
- Why I won't serve Sharon - An Israel Defense Forces veteran describes his experiences as a soldier during the first Intifada, and his subsequent manning of a checkpoint as a reservist, and why he will no longer support an occupation he sees as contradictory to Jewish values.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,749719,00.html
- Why I'm boycotting anything 'made in Israel' - Asserting that, while Israel has every right to security and freedom from terrorism, its brutal conduct in its occupation of Palestinian lands under Ariel Sharon warrants a full economic and cultural boycott.
argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/yasmin_alibhai_brown/story.jsp?story=285043
- Why Israel's 'seruvniks' say enough is enough - Describing the motivation of IDF soldiers and reservists who won't serve in the occupied territories, and their observation that the occupation is corrosive to the basic values on which Israel was founded.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,718335,00.html
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