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Unless they can explain how they plan to remove 750,000 armed, messianic West Bank settlers who have the full backing of the Israeli state, presenting “two states” as the sensible way out of this catastrophe should be treated like climate denial. ― Jasper Nathaniel, “It’s Time to Treat the ‘Two-State Solution’ Like Climate Denial,” AUG 24, 2025
UN has stopped emergency food aid in Gaza
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.…
How Israel promotes terror in the occupied territories
Tanya Reinhart, Yediot Ahronot, 31 March 2004 — An extensive discussion has already taken place in Israel regarding the cost-benefit ratio of [Hamas leader Ahmad]…
Victory of Brutality
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Mar 14, 2004 A new species of officer is achieving greatness in the Israel Defense Forces. These people did most of their…
2004.03.09: Madison Premiere of The Killing Zone
Tuesday, March 9The Crossing1127 University Avenue(University and Charter)7:00 pm Wednesday, March 10Grainger HallMorgridge Auditorium(University and Park)7:00 pm The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project is hosting the…
Sharon is not the Problem
Ghadi Karmi, CounterPunch, February 20, 2004
Return to Rafah: Journey to a land out of bounds
Jennifer Loewenstein, The Electronic Intifada, 17 February 2004
Diagnosing Benny Morris: the mind of a European settler
Gabriel Ash, The Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2004
In Gaza, Israeli brutality on display daily
Rana El-Khatib, Arizona Republic, January 25, 2004 “Israel good!” were the last words my husband and I heard as we left the final checkpoint within…
Moral decay and Benny Morris
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 24 January 2004
Where day to day living has had its heart cut out
Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 19 January 2004
Getting the hell into Gaza
Laura Gordon, The Electronic Intifada, 15 January 2004
A Contrast in Media Coverage
MRSCP, Jan 13, 2004
19 Left Dead in Failed Hunt for Master Bomber
Chris McGreal in Nablus, The Guardian, January 9, 2004
And the twins died
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 1/9/04 The twin girls died one after the other. The first to die was the one who was born first, at the…
Resistance Under Occupation
Ringing In The New Year Kelly Bornshlegel, International Solidarity Movement (ISM), 2 Jan 2004 In the midst of an already month-long invasion, the Sheiks announced…
The Reality of the “Geneva Accord”
Al-Awda, 5 December 2003
Wisconsin Bookstore’s Fight for Free Speech Victorious
David Grogan, American Booksellers Association, Nov 12, 2003
Israeli chainsaw massacre
Palestinian farmers seek protection against settlers The Globe and Mail, 12 November 2003 Einabus, West Bank – Men with chainsaws turned Fawzi Hussein’s olive into…
Israeli Roulette
Uri Avnery, CounterPunch, November 7, 2003
EU poll labels Israel world’s biggest threat to world peace
AFP, 04 Nov 2003 BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union scrambled to contain the fallout from a public opinion poll that — to Israel’s fury…
World Food Programme on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
World Food Programme Report, 28 October 2003 . . . Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Programme said that she had been in the occupied…
Settlers Attack Rabbis
Rabbis for Human Rights delegation physically attacked by settlers while documenting cut trees Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), 27 Oct 2003 This morning a RHR…
A Letter from the Deputy Mayor of Rafah
Dr. Emad Sha’at, Deputy Mayor of Rafah City, October 25, 2003 Thank you for your continuous support and committment towards Rafah City and Rafah People.…
Al Mezan Condemns Israel’s War Crimes in Rafah
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Reference: 45/2003, October 16, 2003 At 11:30pm Wednesday 15 October 2003, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) attacked the…
2003.10.30-11.20: Reporting the Middle East, From the Road Map to Iraq: A Lecture Series
Multiple Madison venues
Eyewitness account of the invasion of Rafah
Laura Gordon, The Electronic Intifada, 14 Oct 2003
Al Mezan Condemns Israel’s Crimes in Rafah and Calls for International Intervention
Reference: 43/2003 Date: October 13, 2003 Al Mezan Center For Human Rights On Monday 12 October 2003 Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) redeployed their forces around…
Israeli Occupation Forces Withdraw from Rafah Leaving Behind Devastation
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, October 12, 2003 In the early morning hours of Monday 13 October 2003, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)…
The mirror of fire and tears
Laura Gordon, The Electronic Intifada, 10 October 2003
Israel’s Assassination Policy Triggers Latest Suicide Bombings
Steve Niva, The Electronic Intifada, 2 September 2003
Eight-year-old Aya Fayad shot dead as she rode her bicycle
The Palestine Monitor, 2 Sep 2003 Aya Fayad was one little girl out of one million eighty-five thousand Palestinian children, who should be having their…
2003.09.14-16: Palestinian Labor Tour
South Central Federation of Labor Meeting Monday, September 15 7 pm Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St. Contact: Ron Blascoe, c/o RafahSisterCity at Yahoo.com…
Children’s author faces Jewish wrath
Fiachra Gibbons, The Guardian, August 23, 2003
2003.09.09: MRSCP Working Meeting
MG&E Innovation Center, 505 S Rosa Rd, Madison, 7:00pm This is a meeting to gear up for our fall plans, which are extensive and growing. SUMMARY…
Fragments of Rafah
Laura Gordon, The Electronic Intifada, 21 August 2003
Israel’s New Citizenship Law
Jewish Peace News, 10 Aug 2003 [Israel’s new citizenship law, passed recently by a wide margin in the Knesset, denies any Palestinian who is married…
Torturing innocent children and women
Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today, 8 Aug 2003 Everyone in Palestine tastes the Occupation crimes, this occupation which wasn’t kind to children, women, old men, old…
Removing the witnesses
Israel’s crackdown on international peace activists raises grave concerns. Muna Hamzeh, Al-Ahram Weekly, 29 May – 4 June 2003 At a time when world attention…
