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UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
PALESTINE : OPINION/EDITORIAL:
IS ISRAEL GUILTY OF PIRACY? Radhika Sainath, The Electronic Intifada, 13 July 2009
When the Israeli navy seized the Spirit of Humanity and its 21 passengers on 30 June, did the commandos commit acts of piracy under international law? Civil rights attorney Radhika Sainath argues that the laws of piracy should not be selectively applied to poor Africans who hijack huge tankers belonging to rich corporations, but enforced against Israel as well.
PALESTINE : OPINION/EDITORIAL:
THE VICTORY OF DEFEAT Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 10 July 2009
While Israel has been buying yet more time with Washington in bickering over a paltry settlement freeze, it has been forging ahead with the process of creating two Palestinian territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, that, despite supposedly emerging from occupation, are in reality sinking ever deeper into chronic dependency on Israeli goodwill. This is creating a culture of absolute Israeli control and absolute Palestinian dependency, enforced by proxy Palestinian rulers acting as mini-dictatorships. Jonathan Cook comments.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article10653.shtml
PALESTINE : OPINION/EDITORIAL:
DESTROYING GAZA Sara Roy, The Electronic Intifada, 9 July 2009
Recently, I spoke with some friends in Gaza and the conversations were profoundly disturbing. My friends spoke of the deeply-felt absence of any source of protection — personal, communal or institutional. There is little in society that possesses legitimacy and there is a fading consensus on rules and an eroding understanding of what they are for. Sara Roy comments.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article10636.shtml
PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:
HEIDELBERGCEMENT TRIES TO SELL WEST BANK MINES AS LEGAL, BOYCOTT PRESSURES GROW Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 13 July 2009
HeidelbergCement, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of building materials, is reportedly trying to sell its Israeli investments as it has become the target of legal action because of its activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Adri Nieuwhof reports for EI that the move comes amid growing pressure by the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on transnational companies profiting from Israeli occupation.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article10656.shtml
PALESTINE : DIARIES: LIVE FROM PALESTINE:
SHEIKH JARRAH RESIDENTS REFUSE TO BE DISPLACED Marcey Gayer, Live from Palestine, 10 July 2009
Fawzieh al-Kurd, 57, clad in black, spends her days on a promontory overlooking Tomb of Simon the Righteous in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Enduring the cold of winter and the summer’s blazing sun, she relates her family’s tragic story to visitors from around the world with dignity and resolve. Marcey Gayer writes from occupied East Jerusalem.
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