Words from People
Hassan Nasrallah:"I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land."
King Hussein I: "It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East."
Bruce Dern: "The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had."
Articles
Children In Palestine
"Life is becoming more violent for children in the Palestinian Territory.
By the end of 2006 more than 120 children had died due to the conflict,
more than double the number of child deaths in 2005. Many more have been injured, some for life.
Children have the right to be protected from being hurt and mistreated, physically or mentally.
Governments should ensure that children are properly cared for and protect them from violence,
abuse and neglect by their parents, or anyone else who looks after them..."
Justice, Israeli style
"Does anyone know the Hebrew word for 'occupation'?" A question from the state assigned Hebrew translator to the packed out courtroom. And that kicked off the trial into the killing of US activist Rachel Corrie, which took her family seven years to secure. Today, several months later, we were back at Haifa District Court to hear from the Israeli soldier who was driving the bulldozer that killed Rachel whilst she was peacefully protesting against Palestinian home demolitions in Gaza in 2003.
Tennis in the holy land
Six weeks to the day since direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were relaunched and we've seen the settlement moratorium expire, the Palestinians threaten to walk out of talks and the Israeli cabinet approve one of its most racist laws of all time. But the main players did fit in a nice post-summer mini-break, aka 'peace summit round 2', in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. And to think we were all skeptical at the start of this US-led peace endeavour.
IOF killed 7407 Palestinians, including 1859 children since September 2000
"NABLUS, (PIC)-- The United Nations Commission on Human Rights describes the right to life as the "ultimate human right," and it is in turn considered the most important and basic human right. In spite of that, the Zionist occupation forces persist in violating the Palestinian civilians' right to life through the use of fatal and excessive force and killing in all forms in clear contravention of the provisions of Article III of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the provisions of the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials...