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Opinion/Editorial
DANGEROUS DIRTY TRICKS IN PALESTINE
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 6 June 2006

The referendum called by Palestinian Authority (PA)
chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is supposedly
meant to gain public endorsement for the creation of a
Palestinian state alongside Israel in all the
territories occupied in 1967, as set out in a plan
agreed by senior Hamas and Fatah leaders held in
Israeli prisons. But Abbas' ploy has nothing to do with
hastening the creation of such a state, and everything
to do with Fatah's inability to come to terms with its
defeat in last January's legislative elections. It is,
says EI co-founder Ali Abunimah, another sordid attempt
to use "democracy" not to reveal the will of the
people, but to frustrate it.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4765.shtml


Human Rights
WE NEED JUSTICE
Fida Qeshta, The Electronic Intifada, 3 June 2006

My family and I live in Rafah. On January 21, 2004, our
neighbor, Abu Jamil, woke us at 2:00 AM. He asked for
help because the Israeli military came to bulldoze his
home. My mother and I helped his family to empty their
house. By 6:00 AM it was demolished. Since 1967 Israel
has demolished 12,000 Palestinian homes. During this
uprising, Israel has demolished 2000 homes in Rafah,
mostly near the border with Egypt, and 3,000 houses in
the Gaza Strip. In Rafah 3,000 people remain homeless.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4760.shtml



Human Rights
THE RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT FEAR
Am Johal, The Electronic Intifada, 7 June 2006

Lost in the discussion of peace processes, military
raids, Qassam rocket fire and unilateralism carried
out by the Israeli government for 'security purposes,'
is the climate of fear that is the defining feature of
Israeli and Palestinian life. It does more damage than
anything else. The threat of coercion, of bureaucratic
reprimand, the hold up of paperwork, the threat of
home demolitions and a myriad of other policies force
normal people in to silence even when their rights are
violated.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4772.shtml



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THE BOYCOTT OF PALESTINIAN EDUCATION:
CAN THE ANTI-BOYCOTTERS PLEASE STAND UP?
Report, Right to Education Campaign, 3 June 2006

In the flurry of letters and comments against the
boycott of Israeli academics who, according to Natfhe,
are complicit through their work or silence, in the
military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the
reality facing the other side of the coin, that of
Palestinian academics, researchers and educational
institutions, has been ignored. Under Israeli
occupation, all eleven Palestinian universities have
been closed, the longest being Birzeit between 1988 and
1992, and the most recent Hebron Polytechnic which was
closed by military order for 8 months in 2003.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4761.shtml



Opinion/Editorial
THE MYTH OF UNILATERALISM AND CONVERGENCE
Am Johal, The Electronic Intifada, 2 June 2006

What Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is attempting
to pull off through unilateralism is historically
unprecedented - to take a disputed territory and mark
its own borders without taking in to account historical
aspirations or negotiations. Convergence is a public
relations term rather than something to be taken as
seriously as diplomacy. It will more than likely
perpetuate the vicious circle which has gone on since
1993 and could stoke the fires of a third intifada.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4758.shtml



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