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The Other Israel: The Malaise
Monday, 19 March 2007, 2:37 pm | The Other Israel
"The weakness of Abu Mazen" has become proverbial immediately when Mahmoud Abbas (his official name) assumed the Palestinian presidency, as was before "The Terrorism of Yasser Arafat", each expressing that "Israel has 'no partner' on the Palestinian ... More >>
Rice denies decision not to deal with unity govt
Monday, 19 February 2007, 12:49 am | The Other Israel
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has denied that the United States told Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas it would refuse to deal with the future unity government. More >>
Protesting beatings and solitary confinement
Monday, 19 February 2007, 12:14 am | The Other Israel
Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison of Etzion are on hunger strike in protest of ill-treatment. The prison is part of the Israeli settlement bloc built on confiscated land in the Bethlehem District, southwest of the city. More >>
The Other Israel: It Will Not End Until We Talk
Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 10:32 am | The Other Israel
Saturday, November 18, Morning. "Army forces have withdrawn from Qalqilia, having completed their mission there" says the commentator on the open radio. "While the soldiers were besieging a house where a local Hamas leader barricaded himself, a ... More >>
Peace of no choice
Monday, 6 November 2006, 4:10 pm | The Other Israel
TOI-Billboard, November 5, 2006 The Other Israel's email updates --Rabin rally recorded by Adam Keller, with extensive quotes of Grossman's speech --Selectionof the past week, mostly from Occupation Magazine http://www.kibush.co.il/ Peace of no choice ... More >>
TOI-Billboard, October 14: The new rejectionists
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 6:42 pm | The Other Israel
If the Labor party / Will now give its hand to / Avigdor Lieberman / A despicable racist / The enemy of peace / What reason is there / For its existence? (concluding part of Gush Shalom's ad in Haaretz, October 13). There were this week two moves: ... More >>
Ceasefire On Paper, Fire On The Ground - August 12
Friday, 18 August 2006, 10:10 am | The Other Israel
--The Other Israel's weekly comment --Overview of this week's Occupation Magazine's daily picks attached More >>
No quiet without a Palestinian interest in quiet
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 8:53 pm | The Other Israel
Listening this evening to Israel's Second Channel TV news, one starts to doubt whether captured soldier Gil'ad Shalit stands much chance of being released soon. PM Olmert declared firmly that the Israeli government is not willing to think even about any ... More >>
Israeli letter of support for CUPE
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 8:10 pm | The Other Israel
On May 27, 2006 CUPE Ontario (Ontario’s largest Canadian labor union) decided to “Support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination ... More >>
Waking up? Protests in words and deeds - Israel
Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 9:59 pm | The Other Israel
The view of the girl from the gaza beach, whose life was torn to pieces in front of our eyes, must wake us up from a years-long hypnotic slumber. Instead of worrying about "the damage to Israel's image", instead of immediately starting to ... More >>
Other Israel: Incitement & provocation; elections
Monday, 27 March 2006, 8:12 pm | The Other Israel
As we near elections day, polls indicate that Kadima is losing at least a bit of its enormous lead, while the Labor Party is picking up more seats than hitherto estimated. Meanwhile, the new Palestinian cabinet is about to be inaugurated, with which the ... More >>
Isolation, liquidation, denial: The Other Israel
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:54 pm | The Other Israel
-While the world is caught up in the controversy over the infamous cartoons, in our region it is just one ingredient of the ongoing turmoil. Meanwhile, the cycle of bloodshed escalated with Israeli helicopter gunships carrying out ten "targeted ... More >>
Cracks in the Ice - January The Other Israel
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 3:59 pm | The Other Israel
Cracks in the Ice - January issue of The Other Israel is out During the past period the Israeli political scene went through so many upheavals that it is hard to remember how things looked only months ago. While the health reports of Sharon appeared daily ... More >>
Myth as a stepping stone: Ariel Sharon
Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 2:52 pm | The Other Israel
Sharon is still 'fighting for his life' between operation room and intensive care, but the mythmaking is already going on at full speed. More >>
Israel: New party-old faces & activists' plight
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 3:55 pm | The Other Israel
The PM's private new party Kadima ("forwards") turns out to be a welcome refuge for frustrated old (and less old) Labor horses - Shimon Peres, Haim Ramon, Daliya Itzik. Meanwhile it is Peretz' old-new Labor which attracts spectacular new ... More >>
Peretz changes Israel agenda, Bil'in struggle
Monday, 14 November 2005, 10:40 am | The Other Israel
The apparent preference for Shimon Peres as party leader expressed how little Labor Party members appreciated the younger generation contenders. Only at the last moment did they discover the outsider, the trade-unionist of Moroccan descent Amir Peretz. ... More >>
The bomber, the calm and the balancing act
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:25 am | The Other Israel
-- This week: the bomber, the calm and the balancing act -- One year after the Hague ruling on the Wall -- Onions Were Needed - protesting in Bil'in and Tel-Aviv --`It is all Israel' By Amira Hass -- Unrecognized pacifist after years back to military ... More >>
Heading towards the disengagement bang
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 1:42 pm | The Other Israel
The fence, non-violent activists targeted, and the children of Bil'in Four draft refusers in prison Addressing the Israeli street Silwan demolition threat halted for the time being, or... Death sentence to Refaim valley "I had to apologize in ... More >>
The Calm - May issue The Other Israel is out
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 9:46 am | The Other Israel
At the eve of Abu Mazen's visit to the White House, the Bil'in residents decided to bring their protest to the doorstep of the Muqata in Ramallah; at the same time Sharon does whatever he can to prevent that the Palestinian leader will receive any ... More >>
The battle of the day after has already begun
Monday, 9 May 2005, 12:15 am | The Other Israel
--The general situation: settlers calm down; worry among the doves --Political prisoners monitoring municipal election campaigns More >>