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Updated: 05/09/2010

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ABU-DIS, Jerusalem, at the heart of Palestine

 

 

The Palestinian Cause in 2 Minutes

Abu Dis was covered in snow January 2008

Snow in Abu Dis


Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff creates artworks that call on the world to condemn Israeli holocaust of Gaza

 

Israeli soldiers remove a Palestinian old lady from her land to make way for the bulldozers to build the apartheid Wall

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Black Pages in the Absence of Justice

Report on the Bloody Fighting in the Gaza Strip

7 to 14 June 2007

Palestine Center for Human Rights

 

U.S. Military Assistance and Arms Transfers to Israel: U.S. Aid, Companies Fuel Israeli Military
A World Policy Institute Issue Brief
By Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung
July 20, 2006

 

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Abu-Dis view from the north (Ezariya) side

More Images of Abu-Dis

 

REPORTS FROM ABUDIS:

 

‘Freedom School’ in Abu Dis

Bob Traer from the United States

11 April 2005

On Thursday of last week I accompanied Helle Preisler, a young Danish woman in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, as she went to Abu Dis (a 40-minute walk from the Mount of Olives on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem) and taught English...

 

Elections bring change but the Occupation endures, Anna Burén from Sweden

10 January 2005

The Palestinian people have voted and selected a new President. As expected, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) emerged victorious. Walking in Abu Dis, on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem, I noticed new changes at the Bawabe barrier, where people walk through the garden of a monastery in order to access the city. 

 

GUSH SHALOM - International release, 28 Aug. 2004

"This wall which I see here reminds me of the Bantustans which the Apartheid regime in South Africa tried to create. It is my dream that one day Israelis and Palestinians in their thousands will pull down this wall which separates them".

 

 

UNRWA: Abu-Dis Profile and Wall Impact

 

"Khalil Mahmoud Ahmad Mohsen, from the town of Abu-Dis, was arrested on 12 January 2005 and is awaiting trial. He was shot by a Dumdum bullet in the left leg and a regular bullet penetrated his right leg at time of arrest. He was left to bleed for about one hour before he was transferred to a military camp near the village of Yatta in Hebron District. Military authorities then transferred him to Sirouka Hospital in southern Israel where he stayed for four hours. He was taken back to the same military camp near Yatta and was left in the open cold air until 8:00 Am the following morning. He was then transferred to the 'Atzion detention station. There, authorities refused to admit him and was taken to 'Ofar, a military detention compound near Ramallah. He stayed there one day before he was transferred again to Ramla Prison Hospital."

 

[Posted at http://www.mandela-palestine.org

 Press Release #2, 2 February 2005]

 

Map of Settler Roads and Tunnels

The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, February 26th, 2005
Map of Settler Roads and Tunnels - The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, February 26th, 2005

A spider network of settler roads, bridges and tunnels continue to surround Palestinians villages and towns further ghettoizing them. The Occupation Forces have begun constructing 24 tunnels for Palestinian use while they remain barred from settler-only roads. Such roads, and the obligatory security zones which accompany them, separate Palestinians from their lands, isolating villages and towns from each other. Six tunnels are already completed, the rest under construction or pending.
 

UNRWA: Town Profile: Reports on the

 West Bank Barrier, Jan. 2004

 

ISM climber atop the wall at 27 Aug.2004 protest

 

Youth scale the Wall in Abu Dis at a Rally

on 27 Aug. 2004

 

Music concert at Wall protest in Abu Dis

(15 July 04)

 

New wall going up in Abu Dis

 

New wall going up in Abu Dis

 

The old wall being replaced (looking north)

 


ABUDIS

School girls going to school/ By PENGON 12 Sept 02

 

ABUDIS

Photo by PENGON/Stop the Wall Campaign 12 Sept 03

 

Sick Babies at checkpoints Have to Wait

(Al-Quds Newspaper)


Links

 

NEWS & VIEWS

 

 

 

2010 Palestine Peace Talks - A Stallone Remake?
By Agustín Velloso
Sept. 4, 2010
Palestine Chronicle

 

A new round of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis has just begun in the United States. The summer was one of kite-flying, on the one hand in the form of indirect contacts between the two sides so as not to further provoke Palestinians sick of the Israeli Occupation and the incompetence of the Palestinian Authority. On the other hand threats came from Mahmud Abbas saying he would not participate without a halt to settlement building and from Benjamin Netanyahu saying he would only participate if no preconditions were set.

 

Al Quds Day letter to Tony Blair from Iran
By Lauren Booth (Blair’s sister in law)
4 September 2010

 

Dear Tony,
Congratulations on your political memoir becoming an instant bestseller. I’m in Iran and have the only copy in the country. I can tell you, it’s so fiercely fought over, it’s worth its weight in WMD’s. Note to Random House; have ‘A Journey’ translated into Farsi and Arabic asap, it’ll fly off the shelves in this part of the world…

 

Israel and Palestine: A true one-state solution
By George Bisharat
Friday, September 3, 2010
Washington Post
 

"Where is the Palestinian Mandela?" pundits occasionally ask. But after these latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail -- as they inevitably will -- the more pressing question may be: "Where is the Israeli de Klerk?" Will an Israeli leader emerge with the former South African president's moral courage and foresight to dismantle a discriminatory regime and foster democracy based on equal rights?...

Action Alert: Stop Israel's Abuse of Palestinian Children
September 2, 2010
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

 

According to the Palestine Section of Defense for Children International, each year, about 700 Palestinian children from the West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts. Out of 100 sworn affidavits collected by lawyers in 2009, 69% of the children were beaten and kicked, 49% were threatened, 14% were held in solitary confinement, 12% were threatened with sexual assault, including rape, and 32% were forced to sign confessions written in Hebrew, a language they do not understand. Israel's treatment of detained Palestinian children is considered to be torture by the United Nations under international law...

 

Laying a Liberal Arts Foundation, On Shaky Ground
September 1, 2010
Inside Higher Education

 

Where there’s volatility, says Susan Gillespie, there’s also opportunity.
Gillespie is vice president of special global initiatives and director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, in the Hudson River Valley of New York. Whereas other U.S. universities have established overseas branch campuses bankrolled by oil-rich nations -- initiatives inspired in part by promises of profit -- Bard has gone to places where resources are scarce but problems are plentiful. Bard’s signature international initiative has been to establish dual degree programs in countries that are post-Communist, post-conflict or -- as in the case of its partnership with Al-Quds University, a Palestinian institution in East Jerusalem -- at the crossroads of continuing conflict…
 

Blue and White: Where Uri Avnery has it Wrong

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 06:49

Michael Warschawski

Alternative Information Center (AIC)

 

Once again Uri Avnery is using his blog to criticize the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Under the title "Red and Green," Avnery comments on the long and interesting program recently broadcast on Israeli Channel 10 on the growing international isolation of Israel...

 

Yale University and the problem of anti-Semitism

By Lawrence Davidson

30 August 2010

Redress Information & Analysis

 

Lawrence Davidson considers a recent Yale University conference on anti-Semitism which, instead of engaging in an objective discussion of an age old form of racism, ended up tying itself to an ideological view of the world that is itself racist and dedicating itself to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic...

 

Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail

Interview, The Electronic Intifada, 30 August 2010

 

As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, Nora Barrows-Friedman interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week's US-brokered direct talks between the two parties for The Electronic Intifada...

 

Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650
by Stephen Lendman on Wed, 2010-08-18

Prepared by Asem Khalil, new report entitled, "Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650 on Palestinians' Rights to Legally Reside in Their Own Country," accessed through the following link:

http://cadmus.eui.eu/dspace/bitstream/1814/14401/1/CARIM_ASN_2010_46.pdf

Taking effect in April 2010, it defined all West Bank residents as "infiltrators" (including native born ones), requiring they get IDF-issued permits...

 

Besieging Israel's siege

In just a few years the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has become truly global

By Omar Barghouti

The Guardian, Thursday 12 August 2010

 

Al-Quds University flouts own academic boycott

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

The Electronic Intifada

6 August 2010

 

Al-Quds University is maintaining a joint Israeli-Palestinian master's degree program with Haifa, Hebrew and Tel Aviv universities, despite a decision taken by its own University Council in February 2009 to distance itself from Israeli academic institutions...

 

Build that mosque
The campaign against the proposed Cordoba centre in New York is unjust and dangerous

Aug 5th 2010

The Economist

 

WHAT makes a Muslim in Britain or America wake up and decide that he is no longer a Briton or American but an Islamic “soldier” fighting a holy war against the infidel? Part of it must be pull: the lure of jihadism. Part is presumably push: a feeling that he no longer belongs to the place where he lives. Either way, the results can be lethal...

 

Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK

UK ambassador advising Sheikh Khalid of Ras al-Khaimeh

Robert Booth and Ian Ferguson

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 July 2010

 

Israel is aiding an exiled Arab sheikh who is vying to seize control of a strategically important Gulf emirate only 40 miles from Iran...

 

The Price of Defying Israel

Paul Larudee

June 10, 2010

I was one of those who chose to defy Israeli forces when they attacked and took our Freedom Flotilla ships that were trying to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to civilian organizations in the Israeli blockaded Gaza Strip. Most of us resisted, to varying degrees, for which we paid a price -- in my case multiple beatings in two days of captivity in Israel. At least nine paid with their lives...

 

Helen Thomas, veteran reporter: why she had to resign

Her fierce questions shocked White House staff; Castro refused to answer her. And now veteran reporter Helen Thomas has had to quit

By Chris McGreal

The Guardian,

 

The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla

By Noam Chomsky

June 8, 2010

Israel’s violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world. Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime...

 

Essay of the week: What drives Israel?

Published on 6 Jun 2010

By Ilan Pappe

Probably the most bewildering aspect of the Gaza flotilla affair has been the righteous indignation expressed by the Israeli government and people...

 

My Gaza Flotilla Diary

by Henning Mankell

Bestselling author Henning Mankell, who sailed on the ships trying to break Israel’s Gaza blockade, shares his diary of the journey with The Daily Beast: being attacked by Israeli commandos, robbed of his possessions, and finally deported back to Sweden.

 

Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes
Attack on humanitarian flotilla prompts little media skepticism
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Media)

June 1, 2010

 

On May 31, the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of boats full of civilians attempting to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip. Reports indicate that at least nine and as many as 16 of the activists on board were killed, though details remain sketchy due to Israel's censorious limitations on media coverage. Much of the U.S. media coverage has been remarkably unskeptical of Israel's account of events and their context, and has paid little regard to international law…

 

Nicaragua suspends ties with Israel

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:19:01 GMT

 

President Daniel Ortega's office says Nicaragua suspends its diplomatic ties with Israel in protest to the Gaza Flotilla attack.

 

Nicaragua has suspended its diplomatic ties with Israel in protest at Tel Aviv's deadly attack against an aid convoy heading for the besieged Gaze Strip.

"Nicaragua suspends from today its diplomatic relations with the government of Israel," President Daniel Ortega's office said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Managua government "underscored the illegal nature of the attack on a humanitarian mission in clear violation of international and humanitarian law," AFP quoted Communications Chief Rosario Murillo as saying...

 

Robert Fisk: Gaza's defiant tunnellers head deeper underground

They are threatened with drowning by the Egyptians and punitively taxed by Hamas. Our correspondent meets the Palestinian smugglers bringing oranges, car batteries and bottle tops to a territory under siege

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

The Independent, UK

 

United solidarity with Gaza
Philip Rizk

The Electronic Intifada

8 February 2010

 

Israeli soldiers reveal the brutal truth of Gaza attack
Troops' testimonies disclose loose rules of engagement and use of civilians as human shields. Palestinian houses were systematically destroyed by 'insane artillery firepower'
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
July 15, 2009
The Independent, UK

 

US lifeline to Gaza
Americans have something to be truly proud of on this Independence Day
9 - 15 July 2009
Issue No. 955
Al-Ahram Weekly

 

Netanyahu's Two-State Goal?
Saree Makdisi
July 8, 2009
The Huffington Post

 

Minister calls for Jewish takeover of Palestinian areas in Israel
Jonathan Cook

The Electronic Intifada

6 July 2009

 

The Raids on the Resistances Bookstore
Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris
By DIANA JOHNSTONE
July 6, 2009

 

Hiyam, killed as she offered aid
Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied Gaza Strip
Live from Palestine, 5 July 2009
Electronic Intifada

 

We Arabs have had enough
2 - 8 July 2009
Issue No. 954
Al-Ahram Weekly

 

Ethnic Cleansing as State Policy
Netanyahu's "Peace" Plan
By NICOLA NASSER
July 2, 2009
Counter Punch


The necessity of cultural boycott
Ilan Pappe
The Electronic Intifada
23 June 2009

 

Are the Iranian Election Protests Another US Orchestrated ‘Color Revolution’?
By Paul Craig Roberts
June 20, 2009
Information Clearing House

 

No gourmets in Gaza
Posted by Alex Renton
Tuesday 16 June 2009
guardian.co.uk

 

Smile On The Face Of The Tiger
By John Pilger
11 June 2009

 

Obama in Cairo: a new face for imperialism
Patrick Martin
5 June 2009
World Socialist Web Site

 

Guantanamo’s Hidden History
Shocking statistics of starvation
June 2009

Caged Prisoners

 

Chomsky on Obama Speech in Cairo
June 4, 2009
Institute for Public Accuracy

 

Convenient Crutch: Forget 'Negotiations', Mr. Obama

Mr. Obama: Stop helping to sustain Israeli oppression.
By Stuart Littlewood – London
4 June 2009
The Palestine Chronicle

 

An Elaborate Intelligence Ruse?
Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuke Documents to Israel
By GARETH PORTER
June 4, 2009
Counter Punch

 

A Bush in sheep's clothing
Obama's speech shows little real change. In most regards his analysis maintains flawed American policies
Ali Abunimah
Thursday 4 June 2009
The Guardian

 

In the Wake of the Gaza War
Paradigmatic Progress?
By MOUIN RABBANI
June 4, 2009
Counter Punch

 

Postcard from Ramallah
By Tim McGirk
Monday, Jun. 01, 2009
Times Magazine

 

Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington
by Ali Abunimah
Published on Friday, May 29, 2009 by The Nation

 

Mishal’s Luck
Adam Shatz
28 May 2009
London review of Books

 

A history of discrimination

By Yitzhak Laor

May 28, 2009

Haaretz

 

Israel's 'Existential Threats'

05/27/2009

By Dina Jadallah

Palestine Chronicle

 

The Torture Memos
Noam Chomsky
chomsky.info

May 24, 2009

 

War Crimes Against Children

A PCHR investigation into Palestinian children killed by Israeli Forces in the Gaza Strip,
27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009

May 2009

 

Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid: A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the
occupied Palestinian territories under international law

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A study by the Middle East Project of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, May 2009

 

From Cairo with love
11 - 17 May 2009
Issue No. 951
Al-Ahram Weekly
The Arabs applauded Bush's vision of a Palestinian state before the end of his term in office. Why expect anything better from Obama, asks Azmi Bishara

 

Roxana Saberi's plight and American media propaganda

Glenn Greenwald
MONDAY MAY 11, 2009 07:59 EDT

Salon

 

Remembering Jenin
By Stephen Williams
11 May 2009
The Palestine Chronicle

 

The paradox of Israel's pursuit of might
Forty years ago, I was enraptured by Israel's courageous sense of mission. For me today, as for many, that idealism has palled
Max Hastings
guardian.co.uk
Saturday 9 May 2009

 

Gaza 2009: The Moment of Truth
May 08, 2009 By Dr. Haidar Eid
Dr. Haidar Eid's ZSpace Page


Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
The End of Free Speech?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Counter Punch
7 May 2009

 

Guerrilla Ad Campaign Replaces "Study in Israel" Billboards
by the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
Monthly Review Magazine
7 May 2009

 

How Ideological Enemies Collaborated to Achieve Divergent Goals
by Roderick Stackelberg
05.05.09
Monthly Review Magazine
Book Review

 

One Voice: manufacturing consent for Israeli apartheid
Ali Abunimah

The Electronic Intifada

1 May 2009

 

Occupying Hearts and Minds
Thursday 30 April 2009
by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Truth Out

 

Insights into the Durban Review Conference
Four Palestinian voices
interviewed by Silvia Cattori
30 April 2009

 

Applicability of the Crime of Apartheid to Israel
by Karine Mac Allister
Al-Majdal Magazine
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Issue No. 38 (Summer 2008)

 

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