World.news. Palestine: How Will the Hypocritical West Deal with a Coup D'état by an Elected Government? June 17, 2007 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. Who can we negotiate with? No one asked -- on our side -- which particular Israel Hamas was supposed to recognise. And so today, we are supposed to talk to our faithful policeman, Mr Abbas, the "moderate" (as the BBC, CNN and Fox News refer to him) Palestinian leader, a man who wrote a 600-page book about Oslo without once mentioning the word "occupation", who always referred to Israeli "redeployment" rather than "withdrawal", a "leader" we can trust because he wears a tie and goes to the White House and says all the right things.
I recall years ago being summoned to the home of a PA official whose walls had just been punctured by an Israeli tank shell. All over the Middle East, it is the same. For that is what it is about -- control -- and that is why we hold out, and withdraw, favours from their leaders. So what will we do? Rachel Corrie's Case For Justice By Tom Wright & Therese Saliba. Printer Friendly Version Rachel Corrie's Case For Justice By Tom Wright & Therese Saliba 21 March, 2008 The Electronic Intifada The darkness is infinite As I leave the curtain's edge It is filled with watchers Silent judges- Rachel Corrie, about 11 years old As their plane touched down in Tel Aviv recently, Cindy and Craig Corrie marked five years since their daughter's death.
This week, the Corries come to Israel to attend the first Arabic-language performance of the acclaimed one-woman play, My Name is Rachel Corrie. From Rachel's habit since childhood of journal-keeping and poetry-writing, her parents knew her to be a writing talent of great originality and promise, and they sensed that her dispatches from Gaza could have a broader reach. In the days following Rachel's death, the Corries' whole world was upended.
The Search for Accountability The results of Israel's investigation were announced in May of 2003. The case was closed and no charges were brought. The Corries persisted. Reflections on Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Occupation. T r u t h o u t | How Not to Make Peace in the Middle East. A Jewish schoolboy in Iran holds a sign saying Peace in Hebrew, Arabic and English. (Photo: AFP / Getty Images) Thursday 15 January 2009 Issue The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller, Bantam, 407 pp., $26.00. Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East by Daniel C. Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East by Martin Indyk, Simon and Schuster, 494 pp., $30.00. Foreign affairs had no more than a small part in Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and the Middle East peace process only a fraction of that.
The need for a move away from the lethal mix of arrogance and ignorance characteristic of George W. The failings of Bush's efforts have also revived nostalgia for President Clinton's. President Obama will need to make a change, of that there can be little doubt. The three books offer sharp, at times unyielding critiques of the last two presidents. Wheels of Justice | Nonviolent education and action against war and occupation in Iraq and Palestine for justice and universal human rights. Sabeel Conference Considers Economic Leverage as Tool to Fight Israeli Occupation.
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