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Mar 19, 2007
Film Aired on Murder of Egyptian POWs (Ha'aretz) On the murder of Egyptian POWs in 1956 and 1967: new film and Rela Mazali's correspondence
Planning Council Approves Illegal West Bank Building Plan, Protest in Bil'in (Ha'aretz) Two articles on encroaching occupation and protest
Apartheid Looks Like This (Al Ahram) On the experience, nuances and lies of IDF checkpoints in the West Bank
Israel to Request More Military Aid (Ha'aretz) Israel requests increase in military aid from Washington
Update from Bustan (Devorah Brous) New Israeli policies assaults on Bedouin agriculture in the Negev, and non-violent, popular response to it
Olmert's Truth (Uri Avnery) new understandings of the 2006 Lebanon war, including its long-planning
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Feb 20, 2007
- Will the Real Defense Budget Please Stand Up (MK Avshalom Vilan) on Israel's disproportionate defense budget, with additional context by Rela Mazali
- Occupation and Aid (Alternative Information Center) how the international community's aid enables Israel to continue the Occupation
- Growing Bitterness in Gaza (Amira Hass) new update on Gaza
- Into the Valley of Death (Meron Rapaport) The mythical Mitla Pass heroism - exposed as myth
- Brandeis Donors Exact Revenge for Carter Visit (Jewish Week) Major donors of Brandeis University threaten to withhold contributions
- Teddy Kollek: The Greatest Settler (Gideon Levy) on this famed mayor of Jerusalem and the Settling in the city
- More Important Articles Links to other important news articles for today
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Feb 2, 2007
- A Freedom Ride (Gush Shalom) Uri Avnery on the apartheid analogy
- Taken for a Ride by the Israeli Left (Electronic Intifada) A Response to Uri Avnery
- Sunni Islamists' Changing Agenda (Le Monde) "What Hamas Really Wants"
- Checkpoint Comradeship (Ha'aretz) Amira Hass on the face of Israel that Palestinians see: checkpoints
- Museum of Intolerance? (LA Times) The new Wiesenthal Center Museum to be built atop Muslim tombs in Jerusalem
- Let Our Children Live (Nurit Peled Elhanan) on the death of 11 year old Palestinian girl Abir Aramin
- Is there a Kosher Way to Criticize the Israel Lobby? (The American Prospect) on the Israel lobby in American politics
- More Important Articles Links to other important news articles for today
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Jan 16, 2007
[JPN Commentary: Earlier today, Jewish Peace News
reported on a new IDF order prohibiting Israelis from transporting
Palestinians in their cars. Today, the IDF froze that order.
Israeli
activists, lawyers and human rights organizations had mobilized against
the order. It's a great object lesson in how effective the Israeli
peace movement can be. And it should inspire all of us around the
world. It's a small victory, but an important and principled one, and
on the shoulders of such small victories the larger struggles can be
won as well. -- MP]
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