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Coverage Trends
LETTER FROM MA'ARIV EDITOR JUSTIFIES 
LACK OF GAZA  BEACH COVERAGE
Press Release, I'lam, 16 June 2006

This is a  translation of correspondence between Keshev,
an Israeli organisation that  monitors the Hebrew media,
and Amnon Dankner, the editor of Israelâs  second
largest newspaper, Maâariv. Keshev wrote to Dankner
after the paper  failed to offer coverage on its front
page of the shelling of a beach in Gaza  on Friday 9
June that killed seven members of one family and caused
dozens  of injuries. All of the Palestinian dead were
civilians. Maariv buried the  details of the deaths
inside the Sunday paper, the first to be  published
after the incident. 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4819.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4819.shtml)  
 
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Development
WHERE  IS THE HAND? THE SHIFTING OF MIDDLE EAST 
PERCEPTIONS TOWARD  AMERICA
Timothy Seidel, The Electronic Intifada, 16 June 2006

âWhen I  was a boy, my family received a bag of flour
from the United States,â tells  Musa Taha, a Palestinian
farmer from the village of Qatanna. It was right  after
the Nakba or âCatastropheâ of 1948 that left between
750,000 and  900,000 Palestinians as refugees, expelled
from their homes and dispossessed  of their land, that
Musa remembers receiving this gift. He  vividly
remembers the sacks themselves and the picture on the
front of two  clasping hands with the label âA present
from the people of the U.S.A. to the  Palestinian
people.â 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4817.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4817.shtml) 
 
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Human  Rights
CONSTITUTIONAL CHAUVINISM
Azem Bishara, The Electronic Intifada, 16  June 2006

A family is an entire world. But instead of making
every  effort to guard the right to a family life, the
High Court of Justice  decision regarding the petitions
against the Citizenship Law confirmed the  invasion,
rending and destruction of this personal world by the
state.  This is a generalization, since in Israel of
2006 the right to a family life  is recognized as a
constitutional right, which is entitled to  protection
from invasive harm on the part of the state. But that
is not  the case when it comes to Israel's Arab citizens
who have chosen to marry  partners from among their
people who live under Israeli occupation. At least  not
according to the opinion of the majority in the High
Court, which was  written by the outgoing deputy
president of the Supreme Court, Mishael  Cheshin. 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4822.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4822.shtml) 
 
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Development
GROWING  CRISIS IN PALESTINE
Report, TrÃcaire, 16 June 2006

TrÃcaire's local  partner in Jerusalem is appealing
urgently for over 1.5 million euro to help  Palestinians
scrape by as salaries at the Palestinian Authority,
which  provides jobs for more than 150,000 people, go
unpaid. The salaries have been  frozen since Hamas won
the January elections, prompting Israel  and
international donors to withhold funds destined for the
new  government. Those government employees directly or
indirectly support a  quarter of the entire Palestinian
population of 1.3 million people. Other  international
organisations and donors also halted direct funding of
the  Palestinian Authority. About 40 per cent of
children in Gaza already suffer  from malnutrition
because of the area's absolute poverty. 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4821.shtml_ 
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Development
POLITICS  OF STARVATION: THE HUMANITARIAN 
CRISIS IN PALESTINE
Press Release, CNI,  16 June 2006

The continuing obstruction of mobility by the IDF,
forced  upon not only Palestinian civilians but
international aid workers as well,  has dramatically
increased the unemployment rate and prevented food  and
foreign aid to reach the civilian population in the
Palestinian  territories. With the poverty rate in Gaza
alone now standing at a staggering  67% and the UN Food
and Agriculture Organization estimating that 51%  of
Palestinians cannot meet their daily food needs, how
will the  Palestinians survive? 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4820.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4820.shtml) 
 
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Activism  News
ON BOYCOTTS, ACTIVISM AND MORAL STANDARDS
James Brooks, The  Electronic Intifada, 16 June 2006

As a citizen of the United States, I  have been an
activist working to end US support for Israelâs
occupation.  With other anti-occupation activists, I
demonstrated and wrote repeatedly  against the Iraq war
before it began. But once it was underway I had to  make
a difficult decision; would I continue as before, or
focus on the  long fight against our crimes in Iraq? The
thought of becoming yet another  person to abandon the
Palestinians was abhorrent. So I stayed at my post.  It
remains a difficult decision today, but I do not regret
it. 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4818.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4818.shtml) 
 
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BNN
ISRAEL  BLOWS UP WORLD
Yasser Yabechya, BNN Armageddon Correspondent, 17 June  2006

Israeli Mossad agents used too many explosives in a
Gaza car  bombing today and blew up the world. Israeli
Major General Yoav Galant told  reporters that only 12
armed militants were killed in the blast, but  Pentagon
experts believe the death toll could be much higher.
"The  Pentagon is a biased, anti-Semitic radical left
wing organization," Israeli  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
said in response to the allegations, "Their  findings
cannot be taken seriously." 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4823.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4823.shtml) 
 
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