The rather prosaic sounding Jewish settlements within the
Occupied Territories are well-armed virtual fortresses, designed to legitimise
Israeli sovereignty over large areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
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On April 10, eight Israelis died and 19 were wounded in a suicide bomb detonation on a bus travelling from Haifa to Jerusalem. Reports indicate that most of the victims of the blast were soldiers from the Israeli Defence Force
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On April 11, US President George Bush told journalists that "[Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat] needs to speak clearly, in Arabic, to the people of that region and condemn terrorist activities. At the very minimum, he
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The brutality of the Israeli government toward Palestinians should be no surprise to anyone aware of the background of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon was born in Kfar Mala in 1928 and joined the Haganah, a military
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Analysis by Electronic Intifada web site has revealed that documents produced by the Israeli government, allegedly proving the involvement of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat in suicide bomber attacks, have
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has found a short-term solution to the political crisis within Israel's ruling circles, brought on by the second intifada. He has seized on the recent spate of suicide bombings to stifle dissent over his
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The United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Financing for Development — held in Monterrey, Mexico, on March 18-22 — produced a great deal of hot air, but little for the world's 1.2 billion people who live on less
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On March 12, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan made a speech that contained some of the harshest criticisms of Israel by any UN representative since the second intifada began in September 2000. Annan said: "Large-scale military
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On March 5, a group of Palestinian school children sent a letter to US President George Bush, in which they wrote, "[E]ven our parents' comforting does not free us from the horror we live on a daily basis, the images of funerals,
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According to the Israeli interior ministry, the demand for gun permits rose 75% over the last year. In 2001, 7790 people applied for permits — almost twice the number of applications in 2000. In January of this year alone, 879
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Israeli society is becoming increasingly polarised. On one side there are those who have lost, or are losing, faith in a military strategy to crush the current intifada, and who are beginning to understand that without justice for
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Argentina is undergoing a transformation, into something rare in Latin America — a beacon of hope that offers a different choice to the only one normally offered by corporate globalisation: submit. Argentina isn't an "ordinary"