In a recent article for the International Herald Tribune, Jonathan Cook, a freelance journalist living in Israel, describes a humorous e-mail circulating on the Internet that explains the âlaw of diminishing territorial returnsâ in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Cook, the first attempt at partitioning the land between Jews and Arabs, undertaken by the United […]
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Theory into Practice into Final Implementation: The Wall’s Path is Based on Ultimate Control over Palestinian Water Resources
Introduction The physical construction of the Wall is new, but the philosophy or purpose behind the Wall is not. The path of the Wall in its first phase, in the northern West Bank, is by no means coincidental, neither in its route nor in its being the first target area for the construction of the […]
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Israel Destroys Entire Commercial Market in One Day in Largest Demolition in Years
OVER 100 SHOPS AND 5 HOMES DEMOLISHED IN NAZLAT ‘ISA FOR THE BUILDING OF THE WALL Nazlat ‘Isa, Occupied West Bank — Marking the single largest demolition of buildings in years, the entire commercial area of Nazlat ‘Isa was today raised to the ground as some 15 bulldozers, accompanied by large numbers of military and […]
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Continued Demolitions in Nazlat ‘Isa
On August 21, 2003 the Israeli military âcontinuedâ with its plan to expel residents in Nazlat âIsa by demolishing over 100 shops–what remained of the commercial area after the demolitions in January 2003– as well as five homes. A full press release from this disaster is available at Latest News. ***image2******image3*** ***image4******image5*** ***image6*** ***image7*** More […]
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The Same Day Sharon Declares “Handover” of City Israeli Bulldozers Return to Encaged Qalqiliya City to Make Way for Wall “Buffer Zone”
Qalqiliya — Israeli bulldozers, accompanied with three military jeeps along with armed guards of the Israeli construction companies, began bulldozing 50 dunums of lands along the eastern side of the Qalqiliya Wall for its so-called “buffer zone”. Among the destruction were vegetables crops and water pipes. The buffer zone of this portion of the Wall […]
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Stop the wall ‘snaking through the West Bank’
Palestinians have been watching with despair the visits of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Washington. Amid the rhetoric of negotiations, more than 100 bulldozers are working every day to continue construction of the wall, highlighting the actual path that the road map is paving. While President Bush was […]
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Book: The Wall in Palestine – Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action
***image2***The following excerpts have been abstracted from a book review featured in the August 2003 edition of the Palestinian English language monthly This Week in Palestine. The Wall in Palestine: Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action, Edited by The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON) Jerusalem, 2003, 199 pages. To date, some 300,000 people are […]
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Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign Poster Map
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Affected Palestinian Population and Localities by the Wall
This map, from the Palestine Land Development Information Systems (PALDIS), details the Wallâs devastating effects on Palestinian communities as they are separated from their land while the entire West Bank is being torn apart into disconnected ghettos. If the Wall is completed in its entirety, 54% of the West Bank lands will be walled into […]
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Families in Jayyus Camp on Isolated Land
In July 2003, families from Jayyus, a village east if Qalqiliya, began sleeping in tents on their land which has been isolated by the Apartheid Wallâthe area which is being de facto annexed by Israel. Jayyus has had 72% of its lands and seven groundwater wells isolated by the Wall. Seventy-five percent of Jayyusâ 3,000 […]