Archive for March, 2008
The Jewish Advocate : This land was theirs
Monday, March 24th, 2008 | Posted in Press clippingsBy Hannah Mermelstein - Sunday March 23 2008
On March 20, 1941, Yosef Weitz of the Jewish National Fund wrote: “The complete evacuation of the country from its other inhabitants and handing it over to the Jewish people is the answer.” On this day in 1948, almost two months before the first “Arab-Israeli war” technically began,...
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House Confiscation in Old City Hebron
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Hebron RegionThe Knaby family have lived in a house in the Old City since Saladin’s time in Hebron. They own a modest five bedroomed house in the middle of the Old City, with Beit Haddasah opposite and two army posts overhead on their roof which insist on being as loud as possible all night.
The family moved out of the house three months ago into...
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JPOST: PA urges Palestinians to ‘return’
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Press clippings, Denial of entryUPDATE: Blake Murphy is deported to the US
Friday, March 21st, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, Reports, Bil'in Village, PhotosBlake Murphy, an American activist from Bedford, MA, working in the West Bank, was beaten and arrested by Israeli army and police forces on Friday 14th March 2008. He has had to face a series of evidently false charges from the Israeli authorities due to his work supporting non-violent resistance to the occupation of Palestine. He was deported to...
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