Olmert Admits Israel Must Withdraw
by Jesse Rosenfeld, The Real News Network, October 14, 2008. (Found via The Dominion Daily Weblog)

Israel/Palestine- Ehud Olmert passes leadership of the Kadima Party to Tzipi Livni and leaves a challenging legacy. In comments he made during an interview with Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Olmert admits Israel must withdraw from areas of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and even the Golan Heights, an area at the center of the Israeli-Syrian dispute.

By Yonatan Mendel, London Review of Books, February, 29 2008

A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories correspondent at Ma'ariv, an Israeli newspaper. I speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools and taken part in many joint Jewish-Palestinian projects. At my interview the boss asked how I could possibly be objective. I had spent too much time with Palestinians; I was bound to be biased in their favour. I didn't get the job. My next interview was with Walla, Israel's most popular website. This time I did get the job and I became Walla's Middle East correspondent. I soon understood what Tamar Liebes, the director of the Smart Institute of Communication at the Hebrew University, meant when she said: 'Journalists and publishers see themselves as actors within the Zionist movement, not as critical outsiders.'

http://www.counterpunch.com/tilley12152006.html December 15, 2006

By VIRGINIA TILLEY Johannesburg, South Africa What are you going to do now, Israel?

Now that three small boys have been killed by assassins' bullets, and a Hamas judge dragged from his car and murdered, perhaps you are pleased. The Palestinians are finally succumbing to your plots, you think. The long-planned bottle has finally been sealed, in which the "drunken cockroaches" can only crawl around, shooting each other.

Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
Something is not quite right, on another Canadian campus
Tarek Lubani interviewed by Justin Podur
September 17, 2006
ZNet
Justin Podur interviews Tarek Lubani of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a medium-sized University campus at which typical campus activism takes place. Like many North American campuses, activism on Israel/Palestine is a feature of campus life. Also like many North American campuses, suppressing such activism seems to be a priority for the establishment. The deratification Tuesday, and treatment throughout of the campus group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) fits well into this North American context, though it seems a particularly farcical example. In the interest that there be a public record of all such events, great and small, tragic and farcical, I conducted a short interview with Tarek Lubani, a campus activist in SPHR, who described the strange situation for the record.

We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid.

Palestinians voted for Hamas because of our refusal to give up their rights. But we are ready to make a just peace.

Khalid Mish'al
Tuesday January 31, 2006
The Guardian

It is widely recognised that the Palestinians are among the most politicised and educated peoples in the world. When they went to the polls last Wednesday they were well aware of what was on offer and those who voted for Hamas knew what it stood for. They chose Hamas because of its pledge never to give up the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and its promise to embark on a programme of reform. There were voices warning them, locally and internationally, not to vote for an organisation branded by the US and EU as terrorist because such a democratically exercised right would cost them the financial aid provided by foreign donors.

Abnaa elBalad's secretary's sentence extended to 4.5 yrs
Systematic destruction of Arab political expression within Israel

The Israeli courts extends the imprisonment sentence against Abnaa elBalad Secretary General Comrade Muhammad Kana'ane to four and half years

Abnaa elBalad movement strongly condemns the persecution against its leaders and the newest vengeful and ruthless decision

Comrade Muhammad Kana'ane – Abu As'ad - the Secretary General of Abnaa elBalad, was arrested on January 7, 2003, together with his brother comrade Husam Kana’ane, member of the movement's central committee, and comrades Yusuf Abu 'Ali, member of the movement’s control committee and Sahar 'Abdu, secretary of 'elJeel elJadeed' magazine. After a month of intensive interrogation in the hands of the Shin Bet, during which they were deprived of their basic rights and prevented from meeting a lawyer, comrades Muhammad and Husam were put on trial for bogus 'security' accusations, while the other two comrades were released.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades has announced the end of its ceasefire with Israel, vowing to avenge the death of a resistance member shot dead by undercover occupation forces.

The end-of-ceasefire announcement came immediately after the assassination of Ibrahim Hashash during an operation in the northern West Bank on Thursday.

Interview: Israeli Anarchism - Being Young, Queer, and Radical in the Promised Land

Yossi is a young resident of Jerusalem and a member of the International Solidarity Movement. He is part of many social movements in Israel and Palestine, including Anarchists Against the Wall and Black Laundry, a radical queer group. Yossi is currently working at the Alternative Information Center. Here he speaks about anarchism in Israel, it's relationship to the Palestinian struggle, and radical anarchist and queer culture.