What's New on EI?
This page offers an extended What's New? section that lists the latest additons to EI in reverse chronological order, with descriptive summaries and thumbnail images.
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Report: 348 Palestinians extra-judicially executed since Sept. 2000
Report, PCHR, 4 July 2008
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published a new report entitled "Extra-judicial executions ... Official, Declared Israeli Policy" covering Israeli extra-judicial executions against Palestinians during the period from 1 August 2006 till 30 June 2008. The report is the ninth of its kind in a special series. [MORE]
Palestine :
Diaries: Live from Palestine:
Wall slices off al-Khader's famous vineyards
Adri Nieuwhof, Live from Palestine, 4 July 2008
Since early January the Palestinian village of al-Khader located near Bethlehem in the West Bank has protested against Israel's construction of the Apartheid Wall and Jewish-only settlements built on village land every week. Al-Khader is known in the region for its vineyards which produce excellent-quality grapes. Adri Nieuwhof writes from al-Khader. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
Unite to negotiate a real truce
Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj, The Electronic Intifada, 4 July 2008
Five days into the long awaited Gaza ceasefire, Israel allowed the entry of tissues and sanitary napkins into Gaza as a form of "good will." Simultaneously, it carried out an early morning raid against a student hostel in Nablus, killing two Palestinians in their beds. Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj comments on what it will take for a permanent lifting of the siege and resisting of Israeli colonial designs. [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Critics see vendetta in al-Arian's legal limbo
Ali Gharib, The Electronic Intifada, 3 July 2008
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Palestinian activist and former university professor Sami al-Arian was arraigned Monday in US federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a Northern Virginia Muslim think-tank. The indictment is the latest episode of a long, Kafka-esque process that has violated nearly every tenet of al-Arian's plea agreement following the end of his first trial in 2005, and kept al-Arian in prison for over five years. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
When you shoot the messenger
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 3 July 2008
GAZA CITY (IPS) - The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very good job of it. Omer was abused and assaulted by Israeli security personnel at the Allenby border crossing into Israel from Jordan as he tried to return to his home last week in the Gaza Strip. Omer was returning from Europe where he had addressed European parliamentarians on the situation on the ground in Gaza. [MORE]
Palestine :
Development:
Poll backs greater UN role in Mideast peace
Khody Akhavi and Ali Gharib, The Electronic Intifada, 3 July 2008
WASHINGTON (IPS) - A majority of global publics say their governments should "not take either side" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, instead supporting a call for the United Nations to play a greater role in regional peace, according to a new international poll of 18 countries released here Tuesday. World publics gave low marks to Israeli, Palestinian, US and Arab leaders when asked how well the international actors were doing to resolve the 60-year old conflict, according to the poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org.
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Palestine :
Multimedia:
Crossing the Line focuses on a possible Israeli strike on Iran
Podcast, Crossing the Line, 2 July 2008
This week on Crossing The Line: The Israeli Air Force recently conducted long-range exercises over the Mediterranean Sea, a move that US intelligence officials say might be a prelude to a strike on Iran. Is Israel being used as a proxy by the US to attack Iran? Or is Israel, which has struck sites it alleged to be nuclear in Iraq and Syria in the past, planning to strike Iran on its own? Bill Christison, a former CIA intelligence officer, will join host Naji Ali to discuss a possible Israeli strike on Iran. [MORE]
Palestine :
Multimedia:
Photostory: The month in pictures, June 2008
Slideshow, The Electronic Intifada, 2 July 2008
The following slideshow is a selection of images from the month of June 2008. The month in pictures is an ongoing feature of The Electronic Intifada. If you have images documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, or of solidarity with Palestine, please email images and captions to photos A T electronicintifada D O T net. [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Israel's discriminatory water policies leave West Bank dry
Report, B'Tselem, 1 July 2008
The chronic water shortage in the West Bank, resulting from an unfair distribution of water resources shared by the Palestinians and Israel, will be much graver this summer because of this year's drought. In the northern West Bank, water consumption has fallen to one-third of the minimal amount needed. The 2008 drought, the most serious drought in the area in the past decade, aggravates the built-in, constant shortage of water in the West Bank. [MORE]
Palestine :
Israel Lobby Watch:
US hawks belie Iran's "existential threat" to Israel
Gareth Porter, The Electronic Intifada, 1 July 2008
WASHINGTON (IPS) - New arguments by analysts close to Israeli thinking in favor of US strikes against Iran cite evidence of Iranian military weakness in relation to the US and Israel and even raise doubts that Iran is rushing to obtain such weapons at all. The new arguments contradict Israel's official argument that it faces an "existential threat" from an Islamic extremist Iranian regime determined to get nuclear weapons.
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Palestine :
Diaries: Live from Palestine:
Not only Palestinians suffer
Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 1 July 2008
There are roughly 5,000 Russian women in Gaza. Many, like Jamila, have been living in Gaza for many years. For Jamila, having two children and running a married life has proven difficult with the situation in Gaza, where conditions are totally different from those of her own homeland or maybe any other country in the world. "Prior to the outbreak of the intifada, I used to feel more comfortable. But since 2000 and particularly the last year, things have become much worse. There is no gas, there is no fuel, there is nothing," she explained. Rami Almeghari writes from Gaza. [MORE]
Palestine :
Activism News:
US rapper urged to cancel Israel concert
Open letter, PACBI, 30 June 2008
The following is an open letter sent to US rap musician Snoop Dogg on 29 June 2008 by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: We strongly urge you to cancel your plans to perform in Israel until the time comes when Israel ends its illegal occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories and respects the relevant precepts of international law concerning Palestinian rights to freedom, self-determination and equality. [MORE]
Palestine :
Art, Music & Culture:
Film review: Palestine 1948 Nakba
Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 30 June 2008
Shortly after he moved to Kibbutz Dalia in central Israel in 1967, photographer Ryuichi Hirokawa stumbled upon some "white stones scattered in rubble." He asked the residents of the kibbutz about the origins of the stones, but he never received a satisfactory answer. Through Hirokawa's quest to unearth the origins of those white stones he learned the story of Palestine, and it is this lifelong journey that he presents in his documentary Palestine 1948 Nakba, reviewed for The Electronic Intifada by Maureen Clare Murphy. [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Swimming in sewage
Report, PCHR, 30 June 2008
"I think the sea probably is polluted. Sometimes I get strange white marks on my skin, but we come down to the beach every day because we have nowhere else to go." Samer and his friends are hanging out on the beach in Gaza City, just about to jump in next to the old fishing harbor. Less than a hundred meters away, a sewage pipe pours mucky water into streams of dark waste that flows towards the sea where Samer and his friends swim.
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Palestine :
Human Rights:
Israelis assault award winning journalist
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 29 June 2008
GAZA CITY (IPS) - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to return home to Gaza. Omer, a resident of Rafah in the south of Gaza, was returning from London where he had just collected his Gellhorn Prize, [MORE]
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