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 Avnery's Column  

[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.

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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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Those seemingly minor inconveniences that make life hellish

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.

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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.

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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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Palestinians are forbidden to travel in cars with Israelis.

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Iraqis will never accept this sellout to the oil corporations

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Written by Kamil Mahdi Kamil Mahdi
Published: 16 January 2007 16 January 2007
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Today Iraq remains under occupation, and the gulf between those who profess to rule and those who are ruled is filled with blood. The government is beholden to the occupation forces that are responsible for a humanitarian catastrophe and a political impasse. While defenceless citizens are killed at will, the government carries on with its business of protecting itself, collecting oil revenues, dispensing favours, justifying the occupation, and presiding over collapsing security, economic wellbeing, essential services and public administration. Above all, the rule of law has all but disappeared, replaced by sectarian demarcations under a parliamentary facade. Sectarianism promoted by the occupation is tearing apart civil society, local communities and public institutions, and it is placing people at the mercy of self appointed communal leaders, without any legal protection.

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