Jews Against the Occupation – Sydney
By Donald Macintyre The Independent (Great Britain) 22 September 2007
A Palestinian student urgently trying to get back to Bradford University has become the first test case of new restrictions on movements in and out of Gaza since Israel identified it as “hostile territory”this week.
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By Michael Warschawski Alternative Information Center (AIC) 5 September 2007
One of the sole positive achievements in the past years in what is termed the Israeli Left/anti-occupation camp, is the appearance of the Anarchists Against the Wall. Apart from the Women’s Coalition, which is expending great efforts to keep its head above water, all of the other movements have practically ceased to exist (such as Gush Shalom and Ta’ayush), or in the best case, have simply lost the dynamic force that characterized them four years ago. I am of course referring to movements, and not to political parties or NGOs, which deserve a separate discussion.
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By Gideon Levy Ha’aretz 2 September 2007
Again children. Five children killed in Gaza in eight days. The public indifference to their killing – the last three, for example, were accorded only a short item on the margins of page 11 in Yedioth Ahronoth, a sickening matter in itself – cannot blur the fact that the IDF is waging a war against children. A year ago, a fifth of those killed in the “Summer Rain” operation in Gaza were children; during the past two weeks, they comprised a quarter of the 21 killed. If, heaven forbid, children are hurt in Sderot, we will have to remember this before we begin raising hell.
