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Perspectives

Perspectives on the
Effects of Israel’s Occupation

Reams of articles and countless books have been written on the Israel/Palestine conflict.  We have selected only recent articles for your information and have listed them according to the particular topic they cover.  Any new article/s added will be shown as “Latest article/s” before being filed under the relevant topic/s.  These articles by different writers are their perspectives on the complex issues that have arisen out of this conflict, but regardless of their approach, or in some cases differing opinions, they all come to the same conclusion – that Israel’s occupation must end.

 

Latest article/s:

"New UN Map charts West Bank Reality" Financial Times,
4 June 2007

“In Praise of the Occupation” by Amira Hass, 6 June 2007

“The Mirage of the Two-State Solution” by George Bisharat,
4 June 2007

APARTHEID

Abunimah, Ali – “Leaked Israeli document gives frightening glimpse of apartheid”, Electronic Intifada, 25 January 2007

Cook, Jonathan“Apartheid looks like this”, Al-Ahram Weekly On-Line Issue 833, 22-28 February 2007

Dugard, John – “Apartheid: Israelis adopt what South Africa dropped”, Electronic Intifada, 29 November 2006

St John, Ronald Bruce“Apartheid by any other name”, Counterpunch, 2 February 2007

 

CHECKPOINTS

Levy, Gideon“The Twilight Zone/By the book”, Haaretz Friday Magazine, 1 February 2007

Hass, Amira -  “Checkpoint Comradeship”, Haaretz, 21 January 2007

Hass, Amira – “The Über-wardens”, Haaretz, 13 April 2006

Merriman, Rima“Keepers of the Peace”,  San Jose Peace Centre, 24 October 2006

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT

Carter, Jimmy -  “Punishing the innocent is a crime”, International Herald Tribune, 7 May 2006

Cook, Jonathan – “Bad Faith and the Destruction of Palestine”, Counterpunch, 29 September 2006

Ernshire, Eliza – “No Lights in Gaza”, Counterpunch, 4 August, 2006

 

ETHNIC CLEANSING

Baroud, Ramzy – “Ethnic Cleansing and Israel’s Racist Discourse”, Global Research, 8 February 2007

Christisons, Kathleen & Bill, “Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians”, Counterpunch, 27 November 2006

 

GAZA

Terror and Starvation in Gaza by John Pilger, 22 May 2007

Egeland, Jan and Eliasson, Jan“The Human Catastrophe of Gaza is a Time-Bomb” Le Figaro, 28 September 2006

Horton, Richard – “Palestinians: The Crisis in Medical Care”, New York Review of Books, 15 March 2007

Lowenstein, Jennifer – “Nightmare in Beit Hanoun – How Gaza offends us all”, Information Clearing House, 13 February 2007


OCCUPATION

Palestine: Forty Years of Occupation Lendman, Stephen, 23 May 2007


ONE STATE, TWO STATES

For a Secular Democratic State Saree Makdisi, June 2007


PEACE

Duisenberg, GrettaIs lasting peace in the Middle East achieveable?” Counterpunch, October 2006

Makdisi, Saree “No Peace for Israel without justice for the Palestinians”, Houston Chronicle, 15 July 2007


PROFITEERS

Dearden, Nick“Profiting from the Occupation”, Counterpunch, 6 July 2006


PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS

Occupation and the Mind by Dr Samah Jabr, May 2007


RIGHT OF RETURN

Abu Sitta, Salman – “A Sacred Right”, The Guardian, 29 March 2007


SETTLERS/SETTLEMENTS

Hass, Amira“There’s a settler in every Israeli”, ZNet, 12 July 2006


SHOOT TO KILL

Peled-Elhanan, Nurit – “Let our children live”, Counterpunch, 29 January 2007


SKEWED VIEWS

“Christadelphians take on the 1967 Six Day War” by Bassam Dally, 4 June 2007


STARVATION


HaCohen, Ran -  “How to live with hunger”, antiwar.com, 26 February 2007


TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS


Hass, Amira – “Impossible Travel Restrictions”, Haaretz, 19 January 2007


THE WALL


Cook, William A. – “Buried Alive: Life inside the Entombment Wall”, Atlantic Free Press, 5 March 2007

ZIONISM

Qumsiyeh, Mazin – “What is Zionism?” from his book “Sharing the Land of Canaan, 2004 – Chapter 6: Zionism)

 

 

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