[WCUSP] Fwd: Living Hungry | Settler Violence | Nablus Invasion | And more ...

[yvonne simmons]

--- ei News <news at electronicintifada.net> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:37:51 -0600
> From: ei News <news at electronicintifada.net>
> To: roweenayvonne at yahoo.com
> Subject: Living Hungry | Settler Violence | Nablus
> Invasion | And more ...
> 
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> 
> UPDATE FROM THE
> ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
> 
> http://electronicIntifada.net
> _______________________________
> > __ 
> 27 February 2007
> 
> 
> Palestine: Human Rights: 
> UN Rapporteur compares Israel to Apartheid South
> Africa 
> Report, The Electronic Intifada, 27 February 2007 
> 
> The UN's Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the
> Occupied Palestinian Territories, John Dugard, has
> issued
> a harshly critical report on Israel's human rights
> record
> in regards to its treatment of the Palestinians in
> occupied Palestine. "The international community,
> speaking
> through the United Nations, has identified three
> regimes
> as inimical to human rights -- foreign occupation,
> apartheid and colonialism," Dugard says. In a report
> posted on the UN Human Rights Council's website, due
> to be
> tabled this week, the South African law professor
> accuses 
> the Israeli regime of all three.
> 
> http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6602.shtml
> 
> 
> Palestine: Opinion/Editorial: 
> How to Live with Hunger 
> By Ran HaCohen, The Electronic Intifada, 27 February
> 2007 
> 
> When I was a child, a popular argument in favor of
> the
> Israeli "liberation," i.e., occupation, of the
> Palestinian
> territories was its being a blessing for the
> Palestinians
> themselves. "When we took it over," I was told at
> school,
> "there were just a couple of cars in the entire West
> Bank.
> And look how many they have now!" Indeed, in the
> first
> decades of the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian
> standard of living was on the rise -- not because of
> Israeli investments (Israel never invested a cent in
> Palestinian welfare or infrastructure), but mainly
> because
> Israel exploited the Palestinians as a cheap labor
> force,
> and even a cheap labor force gets paid.
> 
> http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6597.shtml
> 
> 
> Palestine: Human Rights: 
> Settlers assault family as soldiers look on: Three 
> testimonies 
> Report, B'Tselem, 27 February 2007 
> 
> Shopkeeper Dahud Jabber testifies to B'Tselem: "We
> heard
> stones hit the door of the grocery store. They [the
> settlers] threw stones for about an hour. They swore
> and
> shouted, "We want to slaughter Arabs." A neighbor of
> mine,
> Tareq, said that they also threw stones at his
> house. They
> did all this with Israeli soldiers next to them. We
> did
> not file a complaint with anyone. Who could we
> complain
> to? We had already complained and never got any
> results.
> Another neighbor, Sufyan, told me that settlers
> broke into
> his house the same night and assaulted his family."
> 
> http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6598.shtml
> 
> 
> Palestine: Human Rights: 
> Second day of "Operation Hot Winter" in Nablus 
> Report, PCHR, 26 February 2007 
> 
> For the second executive day, Israeli Occupation
> Forces
> (IOF) have continued their wide-scale military
> operation
> inside Nablus. No casualties among the Palestinian
> civilian population have been reported, but the IOF
> military operation has paralyzed all aspects of
> daily life
> in the city, which has been placed under a curfew.
> PCHR
> strongly condemns this latest operation, and remains
> concerned over its outcome, especially as IOF
> declared
> that their Operation "Hot Winter" in Nablus could
> continue
> for several days.
> 
> http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6593.shtml
> 
> 
> Palestine: Opinion/Editorial: 
> Apartheid looks like this
> By Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 23
> February 
> 2007
> 
> The scene: a military checkpoint deep in Palestinian
> territory in the West Bank. A tall, thin elderly
> man,
> walking stick in hand, makes a detour past the line
> of
> Palestinians, many of them young men, waiting
> obediently
> behind concrete barriers for permission from an
> Israeli
> soldier to leave one Palestinian area, the city of
> Nablus,
> to enter another Palestinian area, the neighbouring
> village of Huwara. The long queue is moving slowly,
> the
> soldier taking his time to check each person's
> papers. The
> old man heads off purposefully down a parallel but
> empty
> lane reserved for vehicle inspections. A young
> soldier
> controlling the human traffic spots him and orders
> him
> back in line. The old man stops, fixes the soldier
> with a
> stare and refuses.
> 
> http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6588.shtml
> 
> --
> ABOUT US: The Electronic Intifada (EI) is a
> not-for-profit, independent publication committed to
> comprehensive public education on the question of
> Palestine, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the
> economic, political, legal, and human dimensions of
> Israel's 39-year occupation of Palestinian
> territories.
> 


 
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