Recent stories and news missing or underreported in the Oregonian
Do you think Oregonians might get a different impression if they were able to read these stories?
- Illegal Israeli settlements continue to grow . . .
"A secret, two year investigation by the defense establishment shows that there has been rampant illegal construction in dozens of settlements and in many cases involving privately owned Palestinian properties."
Settlements grow on Arab land, despite promises made to U.S. - October 24, 2006, Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/778767.html
Golan Heights Land, Lifestyle Lure Settlers, October, 30, 2006, Scott Wilson, Washington Post Foreign Service, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900926_pf.html
- - Exotic weapons used by Israel, still killing civilians . . .
Israel admits phosphorous bombing
BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6075408.stm
- - Ultra-Nationalist Far-right joins Israeli government . . .
The Israeli political party, Yisrael Beitenu, advocates the transfer of some Arab towns out of the state of Israel.
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6098310.stm
- - Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb . . .
"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?
"We know that the Israelis used American "bunker-buster" bombs on Hizbollah's Beirut headquarters. We know that they drenched southern Lebanon with cluster bombs in the last 72 hours of the war, leaving tens of thousands of bomblets which are still killing Lebanese civilians every week. And we now know - after it first categorically denied using such munitions - that the Israeli army also used phosphorous bombs, weapons which are supposed to be restricted under the third protocol of the Geneva Conventions, which neither Israel nor the United States have signed."
Robert Fisk,
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1935945.ece
- - A deadly scandal continues in Gaza . . .
"With the world's attention focused on the unfolding disaster in Iraq, on the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and on how to how to moderate Iran's nuclear ambitions - three problems for which no credible solutions have yet been proposed - the Palestinians continue to bleed, starve and suffer unimaginable humiliations and hardships under Israel's pitiless rule."
Patrick Seale,
The Daily Star, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=76415
- - A desperate, critical time in Gaza Strip at close of Ramadan
Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service, http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/29/MNGUJM26MS1.DTL
- - Jimmy Carter's new book to be released in November: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid . . .
"Top Democrats are rushing to repudiate former President Carter’s controversial new book on the Middle East, in which he accuses the Israeli government of maintaining an apartheid system."
- Jennifer Siegel, Forward, http://www.forward.com/articles/dems-repudiate-carter-book/
Question: Why are Democrats so determined to repudiate a fellow Democrat even before his book is released?
- - Israel tightens its grip over the lives of Palestinians . . .
"Israel Bars New Palestinian Students From Its Universities, Citing Concern Over Security"
- DINA KRAFT, NY Times, http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/middleeast/11palestinians.html "Israeli Visa
Policy Traps Thousands of Palestinians in a Legal Quandary"
- GREG MYRE, NY Times,
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/world/middleeast/18palestinians.html
"Israeli barrier and settlement to leave West Bank village with nowhere to go"
- Rory McCarthy, The Guardian,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1934737,00.html
- - Non-violent resistence is ignored. . . . Where is the media?
Here are recent samples of what goes unreported daily: 1. Peaceful Bil'in Protestors Attacked by IOF
by ISM media team, October 27th, 2006
for video and audio footage of the demo visit www.palestinewitness.net
for photos see: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/10/27/bilin-27-10-06/
Twelve-year old Ibrahim Ghazi Beit-Ilo was hit in the neck by shrapnel from a live bullet following a peaceful protest march against the Apartheid Wall in Bil'in today. He underwent surgery at the Ramallah goverment hospital and the shrapnel was successfully removed. Another 16 people were injured by shrapnel from exploding tear gas and sound bomb cannisters or were beaten with military truncheons. Two Israeli protestors were arrested.
The, 600 protestors, comprising Palestinians, Israelis and internationals, Palestinian flags flying, marched behind political and religious leaders . Palestinian Legislative Council members Kayes Abu-Leila and Mohib Awad, Israeli MKs Mohammed Barakeh and Dov Hanin, Taysir Tamimi a Muslim religious leader and village leaders marched at the head of the protest from the Bil'in mosque to the massive razor wire fortifications that divide the village from its agricultural lands. When they arrived they were met by fully armed Israeli soldiers in battle dress and border police.
2. Bil'in Cameraman release delayed
For photo see: www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/10/22/release-delayed/
Bil'in cameraman Emad Bornat will be spending Eid, the Muslim feast that marks the end of Ramadan (the holy month of fasting) separated from his wife and four children. The military prosecution has appealed his release which means that Emad remains in detention despite a military judge's decision to release him on October 19th.
3. Settler Colonists Beat Palestinian Family- One Palestinian Arrested
For photos see: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/10/27/burin-settler-attack/
by ISM Nablus, October 27th
Palestinian farmers were today harvesting olives on their land between the quarry at Huwarra checkpoint and Berakhya settlement. A Palestinian house stands uninhabited in the middle of this area, casting a desolate shadow over the settler bus stop on the road below. The man who used to live there is longing for the day when he can move back to his home but remains pessimistic. The entire land has remained untouched for over 6 years, as Israeli colonists always threaten any Palestinians who dare to even approach it.
Today, however, a family of farmers from Burin decided to brave the Berakhya settlers and set off early this morning to harvest their olive trees. At twelve o'clock, six Israeli colonist men trespassed onto the land and, wielding a knife, proceeded to threaten the Ghazzal family, shouting at them to leave the land immediately. In front of their children, the father and mother were pushed and pulled around by colonists and beaten on the arms and chest.