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EXHIBITION of REMEMBRANCE
Al-Nakba: Palestine's 60-year Catastrophe
Fitzroy Town Hall | Melbourne - Australia

Some 1,200 people streamed through the doors of the Fitzroy Town Hall over the weekend to see the Palestinian Nakba exhibition, despite a bleak rain-laden day on Saturday and a still chilly day on Sunday. Even the difficulty of negotiating blocked off Napier Street did not deter visitors from queuing up to see Rich Wiles’ photographic exhibition and the photos taken by the children of the Lajee Centre in the Palestinian Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem.

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WORLD MEDIA		FEATURE ARTICLES
5 July 2008 Israeli Defense Minister calls for collective punishment of families of Jerusalem attackers IMEMC The families of two men who carried out attacks against civilians will be punished for the actions of their relatives, said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday. (more)		5 July 2008 HEYWOOD-SMITH, Paul & DALLY, Bassam Kevin Rudd must help clamp down on Jewish expansionism The Australian IN November 2005, ambassadors representing 25 European countries with missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah submitted a joint report warning that urgent intervention was needed to salvage hopes of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. (more)
4 July 2008 The Israeli army attacks protesters in Um Salamunah IMEMC The Israeli army attacked a peaceful protest organized by the villagers of Um Salamunah located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning; three protesters were kidnapped by the army. (more)		2 July 2008 PILGER, John From triumph to torture The Guardian Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes to journalists who expose establishment propaganda, or "official drivel"... (more)
4 July 2008 The Khader village protests the Israeli wall IMEMC The village of Al Khader, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, organized on Friday midday a nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village land. (more)		1 July 2008 REPORT Michael Shaik’s paper Seventh Annual Conference Globalisation for the Common Good: An Interfaith Perspective On Tuesday 1 July, there was an interesting development of ideas at The University of Melbourne’s Trinity College in just one of the many sessions that comprise the seventh annual conference of Globalisation for the Common Good: an Interfaith Perspective... (more)
4 July 2008 Palestinian Workers Union slams Israel’s arrest of 50 Palestinian workers IMEMC Shaher Sa’ad, secretary-general of the Palestinian Workers Union, slammed the Israeli attacks against Palestinian workers and said that Israel arrested 50 workers in Jerusalem after claiming that they do not carry the needed work permits. (more)		ARCHIVES
AUSTRALIAN MEDIA		LETTERS
The articles reproduced from the Australian media are merely intended to show the opinions to which our letters respond. With the occasional exception, these articles and reports do not necessarily reflect the position of AFP. 5 July 2008 HARDAKER, David Controversial prisoner swap haunts Israel THE AGE (Read it Here) 5 July 2008 CHULOV, Martin Israel ready to toughen collective punishments THE AUSTRALIAN (Read it Here) 3 July 2008 CHULOV, Martin & CLAYFIELD, Matthew Three killed in Jerusalem bulldozer rampage THE AUSTRALIAN (Read it Here) 4 July 2008 CHULOV, Martin Jerusalem fears Arab enemy within THE AUSTRALIAN (Read it Here) 3 July 2008 KOUTSOUKIS, Jason Earthmover driver kills 3 in Jerusalem rampage THE AGE (Read it Here) 3 July 2008 CHULOV, Martin & CLAYFIELD, Matthew Three killed in Jerusalem bulldozer rampage THE AUSTRALIAN (Read it Here)		26 June 2008 SHAIK, Michael Letter published in the Australian Financial Review Vic Alhadeff is incorrect when he claims that the Arab world's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian problem. (more) 24 June 2008 McPHEE, Dora Response to Editorial in The Australian It is truly remarkable that both in the Editorial and Greg Sheridan’s analysis, the fact that a viable two-state solution seems out of reach has nothing to do with Israel’s expansionist policies that have deliberately... (more) 24 June 2008 MASHNI, Moammar Response to Editorial in The Australian I IMAGINE that now that Greg Sheridan ("Worn-out US seeks bargain with Iran’’, Inquirer, 21-22/6) has ditched the two-state solution for the Palestinians in favour of a joint confederation with Egypt and Jordan... (more) 24 June 2008 McPHEE, Dora Response to Editorial in The Australian In mind-blowing blindness to the facts of Israel’s 60 year long ONGOING dispossession of the Palestinian people, together with the complete avoidance of mentioning Israel’s 41 year long illegal occupation... (more)
AFP ARTICLES		VIDEOS
8 May 2008 SHAIK, Michael & LOWENSTEIN, Antony A celebration that ignores the plight of Palestine The Age "IF YOU will it," wrote Theodore Herzl, the founding father of the Zionist movement, in 1902, "it is no dream." The dream to which he referred was the establishment of a Jewish state in the Arab country of Palestine. (more)
		29 June 2008 VIDEO “Palestine Street” - In the first of a 2-episode series Al Jazeera relives the tragic narrative of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) through the stories of one street in the city of Jaffa. Epsiode1 consists of 4 parts which have all been arranged in order on the following site: watch here 13 June 2008 VIDEO THE ISRAELI LOBBY DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED BY Marije Meerman, Backlight, VPRO Is one allowed to question that reality, or is the pro-Israel lobby so strong, financially and politically, that the relationship with Israel is taboo and therefore unmentionable? And what happens to those who dare expose the unmentionable? In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. watch here
20 Apr 2007 KARKAR, Sonja Double Jeopardy entraps Palestinians CounterPunch Already condemned to a life of imprisonment by the Israeli Government for just being a Palestinian in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, every Palestinian lives in fear of being arrested and imprisoned in Israel for wanting to be free. (more)		25 May 2008 VIDEO Blocking bulldozers in Ni’lin village VIDEO On Sunday 25 May 2008, local villagers, estimated at well over 100 people, accompanied by international and Israeli observers, representatives of the media and human rights workers converged this morning on the village of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah, to demonstrate at the theft of yet more village land by settlers from two nearby illegal Israeli settlements. watch here IMAGES