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24 August 2008 VIDEO

Inside story – Gaza Blockade
Aljazeera English

Activists arrive in the Gaza strip to stress the plight of the people in that area. Inside story asks: Is this another failed attempt or the beginning of a process to end the siege?

Part 1

Part 2

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REES poem on Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish Site

WORLD MEDIA		ARTICLES
21 August 2008 ‘Free Gaza’ boats set sail from Cyprus to Gaza IMEMC Despite Israeli objections and attempts to intervene, Cyprian authorities have given the go-ahead for two boats filled with humanitarian supplies and 60 international activists to set sail tomorrow for the Gaza Strip. The boats took off at midnight Thursday morning. (more)		26 August 2008 AMER, Mosheer Peace and its chances in the Middle East? - This week a joint Israeli-Palestinian team has arrived in Melbourne to participate in a number of sporting events in the International Cup on the AFL’s 150th anniversary. (more)
20 August 2008 Israeli army kidnaps five civilians from Hebron IMEMC Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank city of Hebron kidnapping five civilians at Wednesday midday, local sources reported. (more)
20 August 2008 Soldiers in attempt to attack a village council near Bethlehem IMEMC A number of Israeli vehicles invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday morning and attempted to raid the municipality of the nearby Al Walaja village, local sources reported. (more)
20 August 2008 Army invades several West Bank cities IMEMC Israeli troops invaded the West Bank cities of Jenin, Qabatia and Bethlehem, searched several homes, installed roadblocks and kidnapped one civilian on Wednesday at dawn, Palestinian sources reported. (more)		14-20 August 2008 SUMMERFIELD, Derek Apartheid revisited Ah-Ahram Weekly On-line It's been more than a decade since British psychiatrist Derek Summerfield called for a medical academic boycott of Israel. Growing up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a Zimbabwean Afrikana mother and British father, he knows all too well what racial discrimination and segregation means. He lived it. (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. 18 August 2008 CHULOV Israeli absence sprouts hope for Jenin’s future THE AUSTRALIAN (Read it Here) 10 August 2008 Activist has gender for peace, and it’s all in the talk THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD (Read it Here) 5 August 2008 KOUTSOUKIS Israel sends Gaza gunmen to West Bank for their safety THE AGE (Read it Here) 5 August 2008 CHULOV, Martin Fleeing Gazans granted refuge THE AUSTRALIAN (Read it Here) 5 August 2008 Sick Gazans told to become informers THE AUSTRALIAN (Read it Here) 4 August 2008 Palestinian civil strife deepens divide THE AGE (Read it Here)		18 August 2008 MASHNI, Moammar Response to Martin Guenzel letter in The Australian Financial Review The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians could hardly be described as “security v struggle” as Martin Guenzel (letter 18/08) espouses. In 1988, President Arafat acknowledged Israel’s terms for peace forgoing 78% of historical Palestine and accepting a state on the remaining 22%. (more) 18 August 2008 McPHEE, Dora “Israeli absence sprouts hope for Jenin's future” by Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent in The Australian Reading Martin Chulov’s report one is conned into thinking that if only the Palestinians stopped fighting and the Israelis could retreat, life for the Palestinians would suddenly become rosier. (more) 18 August 2008 McPHEE, Dora Response to Israel's prisoner release in The Age Israel has approved the release of 200 of the 11,000 Palestinian prisoners it holds. About half of these prisoners are political prisoners not involved in any violent attacks on Israel but vehemently against the illegal occupation of their land and people. (more) 18 August 2008 McPHEE, Dora Response to " Man jailed in 35-year fight for Jerusalem home" in The Age Jason Koutsakis’ report on the Palestinian set to lose his home in occupied East Jerusalem is sadly only one of many stories that mostly never reach the mainstream media. (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)
		10 July 2008 VIDEO Norman Finkelstein versus Ariel Sharon's Advisor on The Wall The Israeli separation wall making its way through the West Bank cuts to the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli issue: Will the final settlement between these two peoples be negotiated, or imposed unilaterally by Israel? Part 1 \| Part 2 5 August 2008 VIDEO “The Frog and the Goat: The Success of Israeli Colonialism” – Interview with Israeli journalist Amira Hass recorded on 22 June 2008 "To me, Gaza embodies the entire saga of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; it represents the central contradiction of the state of Israel—democracy for some, dispossession for others; it is our exposed nerve. 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)		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