Mideast conflict through prism of a small town Salim, whose chances of walking again are uncertain, was shot last month during a stone-throwing confrontation with Israeli soldiers in this town, the type of clash that is so frequent in the West Bank that it usually attracts little notice. But Salim's injury was caught on video, providing a rare glimpse into the way Israeli soldiers sometimes use gunfire in street skirmishes with Palestinian stone-throwers.....A few moments later, an armored jeep backs up as rocks are flung at it, and a shot is fired. In the village square, Salim, who is wounded in the leg, is on the ground, screaming and gesturing toward the jeep, which draws closer. A second shot is fired. Salim tries to crawl away before collapsing as friends run up to evacuate him. The soldiers stay inside their jeep, making no attempt to treat Salim.
Read the entire thing. Kudos once again to Mr Greenberg and the Chicago Tribune for having the cojones to print such an honest and informative piece.
West Bank farms fall to Israeli bulldozers The West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza are Israeli-OCCUPIED (not owned) territories. Palestinians have to get Israeli permits to build on Palestinian land (some of it alleged Israeli 'state land', according to Israel). We Americans dealt with a foreign occupying force that was basically doing the same thing to us - once.
Hamas urges EU to pressure Israel The militant Islamist group welcomed a call by the European parliament on Thursday for Israel to end its economic embargo of Gaza.
Israeli army carries out an incursion into Rafah city
Israeli mayor of bombarded border town offers to break ranks and talk to Hamas
Abbas' aide reiterates declaring statehood unilaterally if talks fail
State official: Act against Tehran before it's too late Ynet learns Israel intends to demand UN Security Council assemble to debate third round of sanctions against Islamic Republic after release of IAEA report.
U.S. to announce new aid plan for West Bank, Gaza Strip
Iranians spar with Israel at UN
Hamas ready for a mutual cease-fire with Israel
Four Injured, including two children, when Israeli troops attacked peaceful protest near Bethlehem Four unarmed Palestinian civilians were injured when Israeli troops attack a peaceful protest in Al Ma'ssara village located south of Bethlehem city, in the southern part of the West Bank.
Tourist moderately hurt during Bilin protest An American peace activist was moderately injured Friday afternoon after Border Guard officers and IDF soldiers fired rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators in the Palestinian village of Bilin, participants reported.
Israel extends closure of Palestinian offices in Jerusalem, despite pledge to reopen them
Twelve residents injured in a protest against land expropriation near Salfit
Japanese says he may lose eye from Israeli bullet
The Israeli army attacks Beita village near Nablus and kidnaps 18 civilians
DFLP chief calls for Hamas and Fatah to start talks
West Bank escapees give themselves up
School children in Rafah exposed to Israeli army gunfire
French Consul visits Nablus
New U.S. administration won't mean new Mideast policy All the candidates loudly support the security of Israel, which regards Iran's nuclear capacity as a strategic threat. To cede ground to Iran in Iraq could harm Israeli interests, justifying the candidates' eventually backtracking on withdrawal.
Ismail Haniyeh urged to lift ban on newspaper
Inside Track: NATO?s West Bank Nightmare
Telling hard truths about Israel
Israel to vanish, says Hezbollah Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has told thousands of supporters at a rally in Lebanon that the disappearance of Israel is inevitable.
If Kosovo, Why Not Palestine?
Shot with a rubber bullet
Iraq, Israel and WMD dossier
Rice, Olmert to meet in Japan Condoleezza Rice reportedly will meet in Japan with Ehud Olmert next week to press him on peace talks.
Methodist guide on Mideast conflict blasted as 'hate' A study guide prepared by the United Methodist Church on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is drawing fierce condemnation from Jewish and pro-Israel organizations already concerned that divestment is making a comeback among mainline Protestant groups.
Hezbollah accuses Israel of seeking war
Snake Oil Sellers of the Christian Right? The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs came under heavy criticism earlier this month from Muslim and religious freedom advocacy groups after it invited to a conference three self-professed "former terrorists" with strong links to the Christian right. How many 'ex-terrorists' get to enter the United States (as opposed to being jailed/deported), let alone get to tour the place, giving speeches on campuses nationwide? They are shilling for the Israeli lobby.
Arab Leaders Say the Two-State Proposal Is in Peril "there will be a message to Israel emphasizing the need to respond to the initiative; otherwise, Arab states will reassess the previous stage of peace," said Muhammad Sobeih, assistant secretary general of the Arab League in charge of the Palestinian issue. "They will withdraw the initiative and look for other options. It makes no sense to insist on something that Israel is rejecting."
Palestinian Rights Committee bureau visits camps for Palestine refugees in Jordan -- 'This morning, we saw the real face of Palestine outside of Palestine,' the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People told the community leaders at the Irbid camp for Palestine refugees in northern Jordan
Demonstration in Azzoun against the planned destruction of a children?s park The parks construction was near completion when on the morning of February 22nd, 2006, bulldozers accompanied by Israeli soldiers arrived and demolished half of the park - which consisted of two swimming pools and changing rooms.
Palestinian Territories - Annual report 2008 Palestinian journalists have been badly hit by the political instability in the Territories, especially in the Gaza Strip. Permanently-based foreign correspondents fled the Strip after British journalist Alan Johnston was kidnapped in March and the June takeover of Gaza by Hamas forced out most employees of media outlets close to the rival Palestinian Authority government.
Gaza artists reflect on 60 years of human rights Despite the rain and cold in Gaza, some thirty young Palestinian artists have gathered at a forty meters long wall. It is not one of the walls that close off Gaza from Israel and Egypt; this one has been made available to Gaza artists in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Israel's Olmert to talk business and Iran in Tokyo
Hezbollah vows to avenge Moughniyah's killing
His Majesty King Abdullah II to Deliver Address at Princeton University February 29 King Abdullah will address the future of Arab-American relations in the context of the Middle East's current challenges, particularly how to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which Jordan views as the most significant issue facing the region.
Groups blast Methodist Israel guide Jewish groups blasted a Methodist study guide to Israel as riddled with inaccuracies and intemperate rhetoric.
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