Refusenik Omri Evron: "Why I can't become a soldier in the IDF"
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- Written by Amir Tibon, The Electronic Intifada Amir Tibon, The Electronic Intifada
- Published: 31 October 2006 31 October 2006
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Omri is known around the campus of TAU as a leading social activist. Last month, for example, he started a petition of university and high-school students from around the country, protesting the exploitation of maintenance and cleaning workers in educational institutions.
At least once a week, Omri visits the Palestinian village of Bili'in, showing his support for the local Palestinian farmers who are campaigning against the Israeli separation wall that separates them from about 50 percent of their lands. In Bili'in, just like in Tel-Aviv, Omri has earned the reputation of a respected human rights activist.
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Review: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
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- Written by Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle Review Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle Review
- Published: 31 October 2006 31 October 2006
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Reading about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine from this work is intense and relentless. Geoff Simons’ look at the problem in Palestine of the Israeli onslaught against the indigenous population keeps coming at the reader, insistently, imperatively, and almost overwhelming to the point of exhaustion. Story after story, anecdote after anecdote, irrefutable evidence ongoing with excellent source information from personal diaries of those involved on both sides, government records, and NGO records all contribute to this seemingly never-ending compendium of information. As a reader I ran through a full range of emotions: anger, frustration, hopelessness, rage, sadness, and the unsettling sense in both mind and heart that the cause of these feelings is the brutality and savageness of a society that is – that has – descended into a state of blind immorality.
Warming 'may cause economic chaos'
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- Written by CNN CNN
- Published: 30 October 2006 30 October 2006
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Climate change could devastate the global economy on a scale of the two world wars and the depression of the 1930s if left unchecked, a top economist has warned.
Introducing the report by Nicholas Stern, the British government also said Monday that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who is now a vocal environmental advocate, is to serve as one of its advisers on the issue.
The report's main argument is that the benefits of coordinated action around the world to tackle global warming will greatly outweigh any financial costs.
Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb
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- Written by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk
- Published: 30 October 2006 30 October 2006
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Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?
Far-right joins Israel coalition
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- Written by BBC News BBC News
- Published: 30 October 2006 30 October 2006
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Israeli Arabs have also condemned the plan. Yisrael Beitenu advocates the transfer of some Arab towns out of the state of Israel.
Its leader, Mr Lieberman, has also accused some Israeli Arabs of treason for speaking to the Palestinian militant group, Hamas.
Speaking of the move last week, Azmi Bishara, an Israeli Arab member of the parliament, said: "Israel can't pride itself for being the sole democracy in the Middle East and take in someone so radical [as Mr Lieberman]."