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Commercial traffic to pass through border points with Israel Adel Zaanoun, Agence France Presse, 28 May 2011 RAFAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Egypt on Saturday reopened its Rafah border crossing […]
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Alex Kane, December 21, 2010 The world is fed up with Israel, with its continued colonization of the West Bank, its continued ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem, its suffocating siege of […]
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Gareth Porter, Truthout, 27 September 2010 Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was aboard the Mavi Marmara when he was killed by Israeli commandos. (Photo: freegazaorg) The […]
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Madison Area Peace Coalition, Cap Times, Jun 13, 2010 The Madison peace community condemns the Israeli murder of nine activists aboard the Mavi Marmara on May 31. Nineteen-year-old U.S. citizen […]
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President Hosni Mubarak caught between Arab solidarity and pragmatic approach to Israel, his country’s neighbours Palestinians carry their luggage to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. Photograph: Eyad […]
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Israeli navy stormed the Mavi Marmara, the flagship of a flotilla of vessels crewed by pro-Palestinian activists An Israeli naval vessel patrols beside one of six ships bound for Gaza. […]
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Josh Brollier and Sister Pat Chaffee. Photo courtesy of Phil Haslanger. Phil Haslanger, Cap Times, Apr 1, 2010 Josh Brollier and Sister Pat Chaffee are in many ways a study […]
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Photo: Laura Durkay Edgewood College Predolin Humanities Center [Map], Room 307 Madison 7:00 pm Josh Brollier, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, will give a talk with slides about this […]
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United Nations Association of Dane County Speaker: Jennifer Loewenstein Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Friends Meeting House 1704 Roberts Ct, Madison [Map] Please join us for […]
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Mike Murray, Capital Times, Jan 8, 2010 Dec. 27 marked the one-year anniversary of Israel’s brutal invasion of the occupied Gaza Strip, which was commonly referred to as “Operation Cast […]
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Voices for Creative Nonviolence, January 6, 2009 Rafah — Traffic on Sea Street, a major thoroughfare alongside Gaza’s coastline, includes horses, donkeys pulling carts, cyclists, pedestrians, trucks and cars, mostly […]
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A Palestinian journalist’s life and work shed light on the violence in Israel’s “dual” society Mohammed Omer, The Nation, July 31, 2008 I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. At […]
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ACTION ALERTJuly 2, 2008 Contact: communications@wrmea.com Washington Report Correspondent Mohammed Omer Hospitalized Following Detention by Israeli Soldiers at Allenby Bridge Crossing Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Gaza correspondent for the Washington […]
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Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, 03 March 08 People I know and love are dying. They are under a siege that prevents them from getting adequate food, medicine and […]
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All showings will be 7 pm at Escape Java Joint, 916 Williamson Street, Madison January 27: The Occupation Understood “Occupation 101” (2006) As 2008 begins — anniversary year of the […]
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December 12, 2007 Dear Members and Friends of MRSCP, As we approach the holiday season and the end of the tax year, please consider donating to the following emergency appeals […]
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Barb Olson, The Capital Times, December 07, 2007 “After meeting their own low expectations for the Annapolis conference amid intense skepticism, Bush administration officials crowed with delight,” said an Associated […]
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Palestinians wait to cross the Rafah border for medical treatment (Photo M. Omer) Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September/October 2007 PERCHED ATOP A suitcase and trunk, her […]
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Jennifer Loewenstein, The Progressive, June 26, 2007 Contrary to the many claims that the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip represents the failure of US and Israeli policies in Palestine, […]
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John Nichols, Capital Times, June 20, 2007 The tragedy of Washington’s narrow “debate” about the Middle East is that few American political players are willing to comment in a serious […]
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Erez Crossing, Gaza (Credit: The Electronic Intifada, May 29, 2005) Jennifer Loewenstein, CounterPunch, November 15, 2006 A clear and warm November evening; sun sets in a violence of color to […]
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NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, CounterPunch, NOVEMBER 13, 2006 The historical chapters of Palestine Peace Not Apartheid are rather thin, filled with errors small and large, as well as tendentious and untenable interpretations. […]
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From: Jennifer Loewenstein Subject: Resuming Emails: Gideon Levy – A Black Flag Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 00:17:34 +0100 Last week I was in the West Bank and East Jerusalem […]
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1.5 million Arabs under Israeli siege Amira Hass, Haaretz, Mar 22, 2006 In the elections, Israelis will not be voting just for themselves. Not only will they choose parties that […]
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Al Jazeera, August 26, 2005 The Palestinian economy has deteriorated sharply since the start of the uprising in 2000, and Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank will depress it […]
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Mehammed Mack, L.A. Weekly, August 25, 2005 A somber note for many Gazans witnessing the Israeli pullout was the prospect of losing jobs. Al-Jazeera profiled the closure of one of […]
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Disengagement or Tactical Military Redeployment? SHAMAI K. LEIBOWITZ and KATERINA HELLER, CounterPunch, August 24, 2005 The imminent handover of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority and the evacuation of a […]
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For the sake of about half a percent of the population of the Gaza Strip, a Jewish half-percent, the lives of the remaining 99.5 percent were totally disrupted and destroyed […]
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The Shame of it All Jennifer Loewenstein, ZNet, August 19, 2005 A great charade is taking place in front of the world media in the Gaza Strip. It is the […]
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But it is still Israel that can do most to improve the economic lot of the Palestinians: not only in Gaza, where it will continue to control the flow of […]
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Will Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza free it from the burden of the occupation? The answer is yes and no. Aluf Benn, Haaretz, Aug 09, 2005 After it is all over […]
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Israel must understand that the liberation of the Israeli people depends on the liberation of the Palestinian people Occupation Magazine, June 28, 2005 Translated from Hebrew by Daniel Breslau Summary: […]
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First United Methodist Church Parlor 203 Wisconsin Ave, Madison Sunday mornings at 9:30 am This is a three-part discussion series on Palestine-Israel, and one on Iraq, sponsored by the First […]
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Gila Svirsky, www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org4/21/2004 Dear Alice, You were signature number 2,750 on the petition “Open the Gates to Allow Food into Gaza”, and you added after your name, “This won’t do […]
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UNRWA Press Release 1 April 2004 UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Headquarters Gaza website: www.unrwa.org Press Release No. HQ/G/06/2004 The United Nations Relief […]
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The entire border of Gaza is surrounded by heavily-patrolled walls and fences. A network of Israeli checkpoints tightly controls movement in and out of the Strip, and between population areas […]