By MOHAMMED KHATIB

The Seattle Post Intelligencer
seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/233676_arab24.html
Sunday, July 24, 2005

Israel’s planned evacuation of its illegal...

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Swedish ISM-activist Shora Esmailian is currently being held at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. She arrived 15.00 yesterday and was interrogated for ten consecutive hours. A representative from the Israeli Defence Departement in charge of the interrogation demanded information from Esmailian about certain Palestinians. We do not know if Esmailian...

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Israeli forces employed an increased level of brutality against nonviolent Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists Friday during demonstrations in the West Bank villages of Asira and Bil’in.

ASIRA
Over 250 villagers of Asira, in Nablus district, gathered at 10 a.m. Friday to begin the demonstration...

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Residents in the West Bank village of Fundook awoke at 7 a.m. this morning to the sound of their livelihood being demolished as heavy equipment sent there by the Israeli military began demolishing agricultural structures to make way for Israel’s illegal Annexation Barrier.

Fundook is a small village in...

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A trio of demonstrations are planned for Friday in villages and cities around the West Bank. If the Israeli military’s history is any
indicator, violent response to the peaceful protests is expected.

I. PROTESTING THE “BARRIER” IN JENIN:
Israel’s illegal barrier near the northern...

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RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank — Black smoke will be seen rising at 10 a.m. on Thursday July 28 along the path of the Apartheid Wall in the central West Bank region from Marda to Qalandia as an SOS to the world to take action to stop Israel’s annexation of land, and imprisonment of the Palestinian people.

In...

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ACTION ALERT
Update on three Palestinian leaders

I. Abdullah Abu-Rahme

Arrested in a nonviolent protest on July 15, 2005. A Judge at Ofer military base on Tuesday, July 26, ruled that Abu-Rhame was “too dangerous” to be released on bail and that he will be held until the end of the proceeding against him.

Abdullah...

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ISM PRESS RELEASE ON UPCOMING ACTION — A week of nonviolent resistance in the besieged West Bank city of Nablus and surrounding areas will continue Sunday, July 24 when ISM volunteers and Israeli peace activists travel to the village of Salem to assist locals in planting trees on the land separated from the village by a road only settlers are...

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ISM PRESS RELEASE — Residents of the West Bank village of Bil’in – along with Israelis and foreign peace activists – were chased by Israeli soldiers Friday afternoon during the protest against construction of the illegal barrier being built in the village. As the village was filled with tear gas from canisters shot into various points...

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by Marcy Newman

There is a Palestinian rap group called DAM who has a popular song entitled “Meen Erhabe?” or “Who’s the Terrorist?” That song played over and over again in my mind yesterday as I participated in a nonviolent demonstration against the Apartheid Wall and illegal Israeli settlement expansion, in...

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