[Marxism] UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA

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UPDATE FROM THE
ELECTRONIC INTIFADA

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Palestine : Activism News:

A VILLAGE MAKES ITS OWN  PROTEST
By Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, Aug 15,  2007

BIL'IN, West Bank, 13 August (IPS) - Amidst acres of
twisting  olive trees in front of the Israeli apartheid
wall, eight protesters in a  weekly nonviolent
demonstration were injured and three arrested on  Friday
when Israeli occupation soldiers fired rounds of tear gas,
smoke  bombs, sound grenades and rubber bullets at the
crowd in the West Bank  village of Bil'in. Five Palestinian
children and a paramedic were also  wounded as over one
hundred protesters, including village residents,  Israeli
activists and international campaigners took part in a
weekly  demonstration that has been planned every Friday
for more than two  years.

<_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8940.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8940.shtml) >  

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Palestine  : Human Rights:

ISRAELI FORCES KILL FOUR, ARREST DOZENS IN ONGOING GAZA  OPERATION
Report, PCHR, Aug 14, 2007

Since the pre-dawn hours today,  14 August 2007, the
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has been waging  a
large-scale incursion into the town of New Abasan to the
east of Khan  Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Up to the
publication of this press  release, IOF killed four
Palestinians: two civilians, one of them an elderly  woman,
and two resistance activists who attempted to resist the
incursion.  In addition, IOF injured 14 Palestinians. It is
noted that IOF continue to  prevent ambulances from
reaching the injured. In addition, IOF are carrying  out a
major arrests campaign in the area.

<_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8944.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8944.shtml) >  

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Lebanon  : Human Rights/Development:

"ARMY TORTURING PALESTINIAN REFUGEES"
By  Anand Gopal and Saseen Kawzally, Electronic Lebanon, Aug 14, 2007

BADDAWI  REFUGEE CAMP, Northern Lebanon, 13 August (IPS) -
Palestinians displaced by  the fighting at the northern
Lebanese refugee camp Nahr al-Bared have accused  the
Lebanese army of torturing and abusing civilians. As the
fighting  between the Sunni Islamist group Fatah al-Islam
and the Lebanese army enters  its 12th week, thousands of
Nahr al-Bared residents have sought refuge in the  nearby
Baddawi camp. Many give detailed descriptions of days
spent in  detention under harsh interrogation.

<_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8941.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8941.shtml) >  

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Palestine  : Multimedia:

AUDIO: CROSSING THE LINE INTERVIEWS AUTHOR RAMZY  BAROUD
Podcast, Crossing the Line, Aug 14, 2007

This week on Crossing  the Line: Independent journalist Ben
White joins host Christopher Brown to  discuss the Israeli
Ministry of Education's "inclusion" of the  Palestinian
Nakba into students' textbooks. White points out a number
of  concerns regarding the supposed enlightenment of the
Israeli school system  and its broader implications. Next
Brown speaks with author, editor and  activist Ramzy Baroud
on the notion of "peace talks" between Ehud Olmert  and
Mahmoud Abbas, the continued exclusion of Hamas from talks
with Israel  and Fatah, and the neo-cons and AIPAC's
attempts to get Bush to go to war  with Iran. 

<_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8942.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8942.shtml) >  

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Lebanon  : Diaries: Live from Lebanon:

REFUGEES, AGAIN
By Dina Awad and Matthew  Cassel, Live from Lebanon, Aug 13, 2007

In June 2006, Dr. Tawfiq Assad  stepped out of the seaside
Rafiq Hariri airport in Beirut and took a deep  breath of
the Mediterranean air. It wasn't home but it was as close
to it  as he had ever been. Dr. Assad returned to Lebanon
to visit family and  friends for what he thought would only
be a few weeks' stay. A Palestinian  refugee himself, Dr.
Assad's story is not uncommon. His family was forced  from
their home in Nazareth during the Nakba in 1948 when the
Zionist  armies invaded to make way for the Jewish state.

<_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8938.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8938.shtml) >  

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Palestine  : Human Rights:

HAMAS FORCE CONDEMNED FOR POLITICAL ARRESTS, PRESS  RESTRICTIONS
Report, Al Mezan, Aug 13, 2007

On Friday 10 August 2007,  the Hamas-affiliated Executive
Force (EF) attacked two wedding parties and a  civilian
demonstration. It also arrested several Fatah members and
a  cameraman in Beit Hanoun town, northern Gaza Strip.
According to  investigations by Al Mezan, at approximately
5pm on Friday members of the EF  arrested four of Fatah's
high ranking members in Beit Hanoun. They were  identified
as 41-year-old Faris Nai'm, 45-year-old Maher Abu  Harbid,
40-year-old Issa Al Mughrabi, and Shihdeh Abu Zreiq. The
latter is  the headmaster of Hail Abdul Hamid Secondary
School.

<_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8939.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8939.shtml) >  

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