Links & online resources
Some essential websites with background info that should be extremely useful in discussions on the Israel/Palestine issue:
- ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: very useful site overall and especially this section: Historical Myths
- JEWS FOR JUSTICE: The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict This pamphlet is indispensable. Bring it along and use its quotes from Israeli Prime Ministers at rallies etc.
- ZNET: the monumental all purpose progressive site with an excellent section with articles and resources on the Middle East including Chomsky, Said, and the best of the Israeli and world press. Background to the Israel-Palestine Crisis in particular should be committed to memory.
- From an excellent progressive quarterly on the Middle East, MIDDLE EAST REPORT: Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict A Primer
- www.haaretzdaily.com
- www.endtheoccupation.org
A US national campaign to end the Israeli occupation. Edward Said and other prominent Americans are associated with this campaign. Their web site puts out regular action alerts and tips for activists.
- www.btselem.org
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem sends out frequent updates on human rights conditions in the territories via their list-serve. B'Tselem has also just issued a report detailing how the territories are being settled and, in effect, annexed to Israel. The summary of this report may be very useful for educational purposes.
- Between The Lines is a monthly initiative produced and edited by two former editors of News from Within, together with the help of close supporters and writers.
- www.alternativenews.org
The Alternative Information Center, which reported about the war criminals being awarded medals, contains good investigatory reports on the situation (such as those by Jeff Halper, academic and activist in Israel) as well as links to Adalah and other Arab human rights organizations.
- Courage To Refuse and the full Refusenik petition.
- Yesh Gvul ("There is a Limit")
- Memorial for Shaden Abu-Hijleh
- RememberShaden.org: www.remembershaden.org has photos, articles, remembrances, and much more information about Shaden Abu-Hijleh, murdered by IDF soldiers in October 2002.
What happened in 1948?
On Palestinian human rights, in Israel and abroad
Foundations
Journalism and Alternative Media
Activism
Articles
PJP members have found the following articles interesting or helpful:
- 21 Nov 03:
State sends
bad check to peace activist shot by IDF in Ha'aretz. Posted in Message 1889.
- 21 Nov 03: Israeli
plan aims to settle bedouins in towns, demolish scattered desert
villages by Jason Keyser, The Associated Press. Posted in Message 1888.
- 19 Nov 03: The
Swiss Agreement: A Promise or a Pretense? by RAMZY BAROUD. Posted in
Message
1887.
- 19 NOv 03: Army used
"banned weapon" in deadly Gaza raid: Arab Israeli lawmaker, JERUSALEM
(AFP). Posted in Message 1885.
- 19 Nov 03: President
Bush Discusses Iraq Policy at Whitehall Palace in London. ..."Israel
should freeze settlement construction, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end
the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people, and not
prejudice final negotiations with the placements of walls and fences."...
Posted in Message 1883.
- 15 Nov 03: To
lead, U.S. must give up paranoid policies by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the
International Herald Tribune. This article is adapted from a speech that
Zbigniew Brzezinski - former National Security Advisor to President Carter
- gave to a Democratic Party meeting. Posted in Message 1884.
- 18 Nov 03: American, Israeli Hawks Worried Over Peace Moves by Jim Lobe, Antiwar.com, posted in Message 1880 on listserv.
- 17 Nov 03: Message 1878: [Fwd: The security Fence aka the wall-can you help us?]
- 16 Nov 03: Message 1873: All around a-Ram--"Separation--Between Whom?" and Avnery on Ya'alon--"Hawk turned pseudo-dove--Uri Avnery on Ya'alon"
- 14 Nov 03: Visit Palestine: How an old tourism poster became a ubiquitous symbol of
modern struggle by Nancy Updike in LA Weekly
- 13 Nov 03: Israeli memo suggests failure to honour road map commitments by Ed O'Loughlin, Herald Correspondent in Jerusalem
- 11 Nov 03: Palestinian Farmers Face Insurmountable Odds by MIFTAH, and found at www.miftah.org
- 11 Nov 03: Palestinian Farmers Face Insurmountable Odds by MIFTAH, www.miftah.org
- BBC: Interactive Guide to a West Bank Checkpoint
- 11 Nov 03: "Bad neighbors make good fences" by Carl Pearlston. I haven't been able to find this on the Internet, but it was posted by a PJP member in Message 1868. Another member recommended in Message 1869 that this article should be read along with a U.S. News and World report article by M. Zuckerman.
- 7 Nov 03: Israel destroys US-built wells
- 7 Nov 03: Sharon popularity dips to all-time low
- 7 Nov 03: Red Cross calls halt to West Bank aid by Sharmila Deviin Message 1864
- 6 Nov 03: Silence in the Face of Israeli Apartheid: Captives Behind Sharon's Wall by Neve Gordon
- 3 Nov 03: The One-State Solution by Daniel Lazare, the Nation
- 28 Oct 03: MEDIA ADVISORY: Is Media Bias Filtering Out Good News from Iraq? in Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
- 23 Oct 03: Israel: The Alternative by Tony Judt in The New York Review of Books
- 22 Oct 03: Expulsion, little by little by Amira Hass, in Ha'aretz
- 22 Oct 03: Israel to Build Wall Despite U.N. Demands by EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
- 16 Oct 03: The One-State Solution by Daniel Lazare, in The Nation. See also "Real Jews: Secular vs. Ultra-Orthodox and the Struggle for Jewish
Identity in Israel" by Noah J. Efron; "Israel and Palestine: Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity inthe Twenty-First Century" by Marc H. Ellis; "The Fate of Zionism: A Secular Future for Israel and Palestine" by Arthur Hertzberg; "Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits" by Allan Levine; and "Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel" by Tom Segev
- 14 Oct 03: New Israeli
Military Order de facto Expands Israel's Border. See also
IDF redefines Palestinians west of the fence by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz
- 29 Sep 03: A one-state solution by Ahmad Samih Khalidi in The Guardian
- 15 Sep 03: The end of Zionism by Avraham Burg in The Guardian
- 21 Aug 03: No, it's not anti-semitic by Judith Butler in the London Review of Books
- 25 June 03: Cause of death: The army's rules of engagement By Akiva Eldar (Haaretz, Tuesday, June 24, 2003)
- 23 Apr 03: Noam Chomsky's Golden Rule By Eric Bosse, AlterNet
- 22 Apr 03: WSU council approves divestment resolution:
WSU Student Council shows support for campaign with nine-to-seven vote by Gina Damron, The South End
- 21 Apr 03: Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel Views To Lose Funding: Congress To Pass 'Ideological Diversity' Legislation By Michael Collins Piper, American Free Press, americanfreepress.net
- 20 Apr 03: Give Us Back Our Democracy: Americans have been cheated and lied to on matters of the gravest constitutional importance by Edward Said in the Observer/UK
- 15 Apr 03: Athens in Wartime by Brady Kiesling, the New York Review of Books
- 11 Apr 03: Israeli troops 'shoot British peace activist' by Staff and agencies in the Guardian
- 23 Mar 03: Defense Ministry wants fence moved deeper into West Bank by Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz
- 27 Feb 03: U.S. Diplomat John Brady Kiesling's Letter of Resignation (over the issue of war with Iraq) to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell
- 16 Feb 03: Not just another civilian victim: World watches Israel's probe of Palestinian death MD's `blessed' wife shot as she sat sewing on veranda (Article posted at www.remembershaden.org) By Mitch Potter, The Toronto Star
- 14 Feb 03: Murdered by the Israeli army By Blake Robinswood, letter to Socialist Worker
- 14 Feb 03: Slain mother personifies fighting's toll on innocents By Michael Matza, The Philadelphia Inquirer
- 3 Feb 03: Yassin's hudna, and the army's broken promises by Akiva Eldar in Haaretz
- 31 Jan 03: A War Crime or an Act of War? by By STEPHEN C. PELLETIERE in the NYTimes
- 30 Jan 03:
Heated arguments arise at Israeli divestment forum by Charles Lin in the (Duke U.) Chronical Online
- 26 Jan 03: The Nuclear Option in Iraq: The U.S. has lowered the bar for using the ultimate weapon by William M. Arkin in the LA Times
- 25 Jan 03: Too Many Smoking Guns to Ignore: Israel, American Jews, and the War on Iraq
by BILL and KATHLEEN CHRISTISON, former CIA political analysts, in Counterpunch
- 10 Jan 03: Attention builds over a slain civilian: A Palestinian grandmother's death tests
Israel's justice system By Nicole Gaouette, Staff writer of the Christian Science Monitor
- 9 Jan 03: Rites of death and killing By Amira Hass
- 9 Jan 03: Poll ban on Arab Israelis lifted
- 30 Dec 02: Ethnic cleansing: Past, present and future By Ran HaCohen, Antiwar.com
- 29 Dec 02: The war to annihilate Palestinian civil society By Anat Matar, Yesh Gvul
- Dec 02: After Two Years of Intifada: Chronicles from the Polity of the Periphery By Toufic Haddad, Between the Lines
- 14 Nov 02: "The 'road map' has been folded up" by Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz
- 14 Nov 02 (posted): "The War on Academic Freedom" by Kristine McNeil in The Nation
- 12 Nov 02: "Activism Wire: Columbia faculty demand university divests from Israel" by Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada, 13 November 2002
- 4 Nov 02: "Amnesty report: Israeli military committed war crimes.
Group lists evidence of violations in Jenin, Nablus" CNN.com
- 4 Nov 02: "A Day at the American Enterprise Institute" by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman ("It is interesting how the current fierce alliance between the historically anti-semitic Christian right and American Zionists and Israel brings out such sophistry." Blake Robinswood)
- 4 Nov 02:
"11% of women have been beaten at home in a widening cycle of violence"
By Ruth Sinai
- 3 Nov 02"All Because of a Small Olive" by Uri Avnery
- 31 Oct 02: "Israeli governing coalition collapses" CNN.com
- 29 Oct 02: "A further threat to Gush Shalom and to what democracy there is"
- 28 Oct 02: "Another Road Map To Nowhere" by Sam Bahour and Michael Dahan
- 27 Oct. 02: "Gore Vidal claims 'Bush junta' complicit in 9/11" America's most controversial novelist calls for an investigation into whether the Bush administration deliberately allowed the terrorist attacks to happen.
- 27 Oct. 02: Jewish Peace News resources page, including "MASSIVE ISRAELI SETTLER ATTACK ON FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS IN PALESTINE," a press release by the International Solidarity Movement
- 27 Oct 02 (posted): "Should There Be A Jewish State?" By John Spritzler [newdemocracyworld.org]
- 25 Oct. 02: "P.A.: It May Be Too Late for Two States. Pact 'Pre-empted By Settlements.' Binational Idea Floated." By MARC PERELMAN
- Palestine: The growing clamor for ethnic cleansing by Ali Abunimah. 28 Aug 02.
- Iraq: Questions that Won't Be Asked About Iraq by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), 11 Sep 02
- Iraq: US military builds up huge attack force Posted 13 September 02.
- Israel after Jenin:
Medals of Honor to War Criminals
The butchers of Jenin, Nablus, and Balata will be awarded special commendations for their acts. Sergio Yahni, AIC. Posted 7 June 02.
- Israel's Colonial War by Aijaz Ahmad in Frontline
- Sharon's plans fail to convince by Brian Whitaker in Guardian Unlimited
- Jews for Justice by Michael Lerner in The Nation
- Crisis for American Jews by Edward Said
- 108 Rabbis-to-Be Sign in Sympathy With Palestinians by Philip Weiss in The New York Observer
- Israel must see the inevitable by The Des Moines Register Editorial Board (14 May 02)
- Research Guide to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
- 1998: Scenes from Palestine by Edward Said in Al-Ahram Weekly
- Let Us Rethink Our "Special Relationship" With Israel by Yale Law professor Charles L. Black, a pamphlet on the first intifada published in September 1989 by the Jewish Committee on the Middle East (JCOME). This scanned-in version has quite a few typos and is being proofed against the original so we can include a cleaned-up version here. If you want to see GIFs of the pages of the original pamphlet (along with other resources) visit JCOME's site.
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