From Occupied Palestine

Laboratory for a fortressed world
NAOMI KLEIN
The Nation, 2 July 2007

Gaza in the hands of Hamas, with masked militants sitting in the president's chair; the West Bank on the edge; Israeli army camps hastily assembled in the Golan Heights; a spy satellite over Iran and Syria; war with Hezbollah a hair trigger away; a scandal-plagued political class facing a total loss of public faith.

Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine
JON ELMER
The Dominion, 25 January 2007

Judge orders probe over Palestinian cameraman hurt in Bil'in
MERON RAPPAPORT
Ha'aretz, 10 October 2006

An Israel Defense Forces judge on Tuesday ordered the army to open an inquiry into the affair of a Palestinian cameraman wounded over the weekend after soldiers arrested him during a demonstration against the separation fence in the West Bank village of Bil'in.

Olmert should have more of an insight than most into terrorism
GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
Guardian, 14 September 2006

Sixty years ago the sort of atrocity that Israel's leaders habitually condemn helped bring the country into being

After Tony Blair's latest - and perhaps final - trip to the Levant, the TUC must have seemed almost a relief. There were no banners in Brighton reading "Blair, you killer, go to hell", like those that greeted him in Lebanon last weekend - on a visit that seemed a very long time since the prime minister told the Labour conference, in the wake of September 11: "The starving, the wretched, the dispossessed, the ignorant, those living in want and squalour from the deserts of northern Africa to the slums of Gaza, to the mountain ranges of Afghanistan: they too are our cause."

Palestinian displacement: a case apart?
University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre
Forced Migration Review 26 (September 2006)

complete issue: PDF; Doc; single article PDF

Bil'in: The ongoing protests against the wall
JON ELMER and KAREN MACKINTOSH
CFRO Red Eye, 11 March 2006

In a thirteen-minute in-studio interview, Jon Elmer and Karen Mackintosh discuss the ongoing protests against Israel's barrier in the West Bank village of Bil'in and the politics of the occupation on Co-op Radio 102.7 FM in Vancouver.

The last conquest of Jerusalem
Economist, 15 April 2006 [cover]

Jerusalem -- In the twilight of a Bethlehem evening, Jerusalem shimmers on a distant hilltop like the Wizard of Oz's Emerald City, its floodlit walls giving it a surrealist glow. Except that these are not the fortifications of ancient Jerusalem as seen above, but the appropriately named Har Homa (Wall Mountain), one of the new Israeli settlements that now ring the city.

Another brick in the wall
ROBERT FISK
Independent, 2 April 2006

We have been conned again. The Israeli elections, we are told, mean that the dream of "Greater Israel" has finally been abandoned. West Bank settlements will be closed down, just as the Jewish colonies were uprooted in Gaza last year. The Zionist claim to all of Biblical Israel has withered away. Likud, the nightmare party of Menachem Begin and Benjamin Netanyahu, has been smashed by the Gaullist figure of the dying Ariel Sharon, whose Kadima party now embraces Ehud Olmert and that decaying symbol of the Israeli left, Nobel prizewinner Shimon Peres. This, at least, is the narrative laid down by so many of our journalists, "analysts" and "commentators". But it is a lie.

Borderline unilateralism
YAAKOV KATZ
Jerusalem Post, 23 March 2006

Seven days before the elections, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz is busy. Not, he says, with electioneering and campaigning, however.

Indeed, ensconced in his spacious office on the top floor of Tel Aviv's "Kiriya" military headquarters, he seems confident he will still be here after March 28 to continue doing what he has done most of his life - guarding the country.

Mofaz tells Post: These are Israel's borders
YAAKOV KATZ
Jerusalem Post, 21 March 2006

Israel will begin setting its final borders over the next two years according to a plan based on including the major West Bank settlement blocs and the Jordan Valley, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.