Venturing into the lion's den: Carter to Discuss Book at Brandeis U.
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- Written by DAVID WEBER, Associated Press Writer DAVID WEBER, Associated Press Writer
- Published: 23 January 2007 23 January 2007
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The uproar has been going on for several months and recently prompted 14 members of an advisory board at the former president's international-affairs think tank, the Carter Center, to resign in protest over the book, ``Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.''
{josquote}Closing our eyes to injustice is not a Jewish value{/josquote}
A tightly controlled discussion was planned, with 15 questions selected in advance. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz had also hoped to debate Carter but was told he would not be allowed inside.
Metal barricades were erected along the road leading to the athletic center, where Carter was to speak, and people entering the place had to go through a metal detector.
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A Freedom Ride
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- Written by Uri Avnery Uri Avnery
- Published: 22 January 2007 22 January 2007
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[Uri talks about the recent ruling, now delayed, that would have forbade Israeli drivers from giving a ride to Palestinian passengers. Uri also talks about the use of the word Apartheid as attached to Israel and the dangers of applying the South African model to the Israel / Palestine situation]
Mahatma Gandhi would have loved it. Nelson Mandela would have saluted. Martin Luther King would have been the most excited - it would have reminded him of the old days.
It's the little things that make an occupation.
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- Written by The Economist The Economist
- Published: 19 January 2007 19 January 2007
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DURING 2006, according to B'tselem, an Israeli human-rights group, Israeli forces killed 660 Palestinians, almost half of them innocent bystanders, among them 141 children. In the same period, Palestinians killed 17 Israeli civilians and six soldiers. It is such figures, as well as events like shellings, house demolitions, arrest raids and land expropriations, that make the headlines in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What rarely get into the media but make up the staple of Palestinian daily conversation are the countless little restrictions that slow down most people's lives, strangle the economy and provide constant fuel for extremists.
Israel's 'invisible hand' in Gaza
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- Written by Alan Johnston, BBC News, Gaza Alan Johnston, BBC News, Gaza
- Published: 19 January 2007 19 January 2007
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Although Israel withdrew from Gaza more than a year ago, its control over the lives of Palestinians there is in some ways even tighter than before, a new report by an Israeli human rights organisation says.
In the days after Israeli troops and settlers pulled out of the territory, the then Israeli leader, Ariel Sharon addressed the United Nations.
He declared "the end of Israeli control over and responsibility for the Gaza Strip".
But a study by Gisha challenges that claim. The organisation says it aims to "protect the fundamental rights of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories by imposing human rights law as a limitation on the behaviour of Israel's military".
"Israel continues to control Gaza through an 'invisible hand'," the organisation says, in a detailed, 100-page report.
A Flag Blacker than Black
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- Written by B. Michael, Yedioth Ahronoth B. Michael, Yedioth Ahronoth
- Published: 16 January 2007 16 January 2007
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