2002/09/21 Population Transfer: Is Israel Considering Expelling Palestinians To Jordan Under Cover Of Iraq War? "The New York Times is reporting Jordan is worried that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will force all of the Palestinians from the West Bank into Jordan, under the cover of a US war in Iraq...King Abdullah II and his advisors are asking the Bush administration to assure this will not happen...King Abdullah said recently he would use troops to prevent Palestinians from entering. The Jordanian information minister also recently suggested Jordan would use troops to keep Iraqi refugees fleeing a war from entering the country...Around half of Jordan's 5 million people are Palestinians, and as many as 400,000 are Iraqis. An influx of refugees during an unpopular war could destabilize the monarchy"
 

2002/09/8 How 90 Peruvians Became The Latest "Jewish" Settlers: "The miracle of the creation of this community of new Jews has to be chalked up wholly and exclusively to the credit - or debit - of the chief rabbinate of Israel. At the order of the Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Israel Meir Lau, a delegation of rabbis travelled to Peru. During their two weeks in the country, they converted 90 people to Judaism, most of them of Indian origin...Upon arrival in Israel, the 90 new immigrants were taken straight from the airport to settlements in the West Bank"
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2002/08/16 Israel Approves Forced Expulsions Of Families Of 'Suspected Terrorists': "The expulsions are the first of their kind. Israel says it decided to use this tactic as a deterrent measure. Last month, the Israeli military attempted to expel 19 relatives, apparently intending to send them all to Gaza. But the Israeli Attorney General ruled that only relatives who are directly connected to attacks on Israel can be punished. Human Rights activists fear these expulsions are only a precursor to exile from the Occupied Territories entirely"
 

2002/07/27 What Do Ariel Sharon, George Bush, Boeing, Bell Helicopter, And McDonald Douglas Have In Common? Stanley Cohen. He's Suing Them All On Behalf Of Palestinian Americans For Racketeering And War Crimes: "Israel is facing searing international criticism after an Israeli F-16 dropped a one-ton, laser-guided bomb on a densely populated neighborhood in Gaza City. The bombing killed a Hamas leader as well as nine children and five other civilians...Whitehouse spokesman Ari Fleischer said President Bush "believes the heavy-handed action does not contribute to peace." But he also said President Bush has been and will continue to be the first to defend Israel, and he didn't mention that the F-16 used in the attack was American-made...But some people in this country are trying to hold the White House and US arms manufacturers accountable...New York attorney Stanley Cohen recently filed a lawsuit against Israel and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, President George Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, several US arms manufacturers and a number of U.S. based churches and synagogues that have supported settlements in the West Bank...The suit charges the defendants with a series of individual acts and conspiracies-- some dating as far back as 1982 and the massacre at Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon. It will seek damages and injunctive relief for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and racketeering. The plaintiffs will include Palestinian Americans who have been killed, injured, and tortured; who have been denied medical treatment; whose businesses and homes have been destroyed and whose homes and lands have been taken to establish illegal settlements in Palestine"
 

2002/07/20 USS Liberty: More information on the infamous attack on the US Navy ship

2002/07/20 Seth Ackerman on Camp David Myths: "Complaints about their coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has led some outlets to suggest that it's really all just a matter of perception. But there are some facts about the history of the conflict that are worth attending to, and one of them has to do with Camp David, and the idea that current problems stem from Arafat's rejection of Israel's generous offer there. We'll get behind the media presentation of that story with analyst Seth Ackerman, contributing writer to FAIR's magazine, Extra!"
 

2002/06/30 BRZEZINSKI: A deadly 48 hours in the Middle East has forced George Bush to shelve his long-awaited peace initiative. Zbigniew Brzezinski is a former national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, and one of the experts currently advising President Bush on Israel. He is in Washington
 

2002/06/30 An American Filmmaker Captures Israeli Tanks Opening Fire On A Crowded Jenin Market On Friday: "His Eyewitness Account Helps Force The Israeli Military To Admit It Attacked Innocent Civilians"
 

2002/06/23 Israeli Forces Bomb Gaza City And Invade West Bank Cities After Latest Suicide Bombing Kills Seven; "Israel announced on Wednesday it will seize new Palestinian land in response to every future terror attack, and hold it as long as violence continues. There was no objection from Washington, which only a few weeks ago demanded that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdraw his soldiers from parts of the West Bank controlled by the Palestinian Authority"
 

2002/06/4 USS Liberty - A focus on the attack on the U.S. Navy ship by Israel in 1967

2002/06/4 The Politics Of Culture: Professor Edward Said Talks About The U.S. Media As An Arm Of The So-Called War On Terror Against The Arab
 

2002/05/27 British Journalist Robert Fisk On The Politics Of Language And The Media In The Middle East: "a speech British journalist Robert Fisk gave a few weeks ago at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In it, Fisk turns a microscope on the US media's bias, revealing specific and systematic ways in which the media blocks the Palestinian experience from the eyes and the ears of the American people"
 

2002/04/26 What Really Happened In Jenin? The Independent Newspaper Of Britain Has Published The First Comprehensive Investigation: "The Israeli army insists that its devastating invasion of the refugee camp in Jenin earlier this month was intended to root out the infrastructure of the Palestinian militias, particularly the authors of an increasingly vicious series of suicide attacks on Israelis. It now says the dead were mostly fighters. And, as always - although its daily behaviour in the occupied territories contradicts this claim - it insists that it did everything possible to protect civilians...But The Independent has unearthed a different story. We have found that, while the Israeli operation clearly dealt a devastating blow to the militant organisations - in the short term, at least - nearly half of the Palestinian dead who have been identified so far were civilians, including women, children and the elderly"
 

2002/04/25 Jewish American Peace Group Bucking the Tide of Uncritical Support for Israeli Invasion of West Bank: "Not all American Jews, however, support Israel's refusal to relinquish their 35-year control over the occupied Palestinian territories nor Prime Minister Sharon's brutal assault of West Bank cities and refugee camps. Rabbi Michael Learner, editor of Tikkun magazine, has for many years been working for peace and justice in the Middle East. He recently co-founded a new organization called the Tikkun Community, with co-chair Harvard professor Cornel West, which will serve as a progressive alternative to conservative Jewish lobby groups that generally back Israel's aggressive policies. To press their demand that the Bush administration lead a U.N.-sponsored multinational force to stop the killing, Rabbi Lerner, West and 18 supporters chose to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience at the State Department April 11th"
 

2002/04/25 Watch Group Says U.S. Media Bias Favoring Israel Ignores Root Causes of Middle East Violence: "Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Peter Hart of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting or FAIR, who examines the corporate media's coverage of the violent struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, and the symbolic use of language in network newscasts"
 

2002/04/24 Ariel Sharon Plans To Annex Half Of The West Bank: A Debate On The History Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict And Zionism (Featuring Norman Finkelstein): "Today on Democracy Now! we will have a discussion on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, looking at the expanding Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands, but also going back earlier, to the 1948 war and the roots of the Zionist movement."
 

2002/04/19 Canada to Israel: Get Out of Occupied Territories; "How can Canada help find peace in the Middle East? Rachad Antonius is a sociologist affiliated with the University of Montreal. He specializes in the Middle East. On Commentary he says Canada can help by living up to the position it supports on paper"
 

2002/04/17 Is Criticizing Israel Anti-Semitic? A Debate: "we are going to look at this taboo in the Jewish establishment against criticizing Israeli policy. Is it anti-Semitic to question the state? We'll have a debate"
 

2002/04/15 Israel's Plan for the Palestinians: Drive the Palestinians out?; "FSTV interviews Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and syndicated columnist Normon Solomon on April 10th as Israeli troops continue their savage destruction of the Palestinian political and physical infrastructure in the West Bank"
 

2002/04/15 Hussein Ibish: ADL's spying activities; "Hussein Ibish, Communications Director for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). From the SF Examiner; "(The ADC is) an organization that is, in many ways, the Arab counterpart to the ADL. Though certainly at odds with many Israeli policies, the ADC is not anti-Semitic, and plays a rather moderate role." Ibish will talk about the ADL's spying activities as related in the SF Examiner Article: Adversaries go inside ADL's spying operation "Was the ADL spying on people?" asked Ibish, quickly answering his own question. "Certainly in San Francisco they were. We know they were engaging in illegal activities to gain information. They, and their operatives, were working hand-in-glove with South African intelligence and Israeli intelligence.""
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2002/04/11 Inigo Gilmore (Daily Telegraph), Chaled abu Jamigh (Bethlehem TV) and Heather Guyton (IMC-Palestine) on West Bank Reporting

2002/04/9 French Jews Clash With Police

2002/04/9 The State Of Siege In Jenin and Nablus

 Tens Of Thousands Jews And Arabs March Together In Tel Aviv; Human Rights Lawyers And Activists Accuse Israel Of Human Rights Abuses Against Palestinians
 

2002/04/8 Under Siege: A Report from Inside and Outside the Church of the Nativity: "Israelis Shoot a French TV Reporter Outside One of Bethlehem's Holiest Sites as He tries to Film Israeli Assaults on the Church. Palestians Seeking Refuge Have Been Confined There For Days. Democracy Now! speaks to a human rights lawyer and friend of the shot reporter as he waits outside the hospital. We also go into the Church to speak with a man who has been confined there since shortly after the siege began...U.S. Envoy Anthony Zinni Meets With Yasser Arafat In His Besieged Compound; Journalists Are Attacked As They Try To Enter The Building"
 

2002/04/3 Israel Ignores Calls From Around The World To Halt Its Attacks On The Occupied Territories, And Invades Bethlehem; The Bodies Of 5 Palestinian Policemen Are Discovered In Ramallah, Shot In The Head At Close Range

 Israeli Reservists Refuse To Serve In The Occupied Territories And Hold A "Refusnik Seder Vigil"

Seder Sisters: Jewish Women Observe Passover By Taking On Patriarchy, Militarism, And Occupation

2002/04/3 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Declares War On The Occupied Territories As Israeli Forces Attack Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat's Headquarters, Round Up Hundreds In The Refugee Camps, Raid Hospitals, And Shoot International Journalists: A Conversation With Doctors And Peace Activists Who Are Braving The Fire

2002/04/3 John Sugg on Israeli Spies: "There are reports that 120 Israelis were either detained or deported in the wake of September 11 attacks. Some journalists think there's a story here - that some of the Israelis were involved in a spy ring right here in the United States. It's even been suggested that some of them could have been tailing some of the Sept 11 terrorists. So why are the media mostly staying away from this story? CounterSpin will talk to one journalist who's not: John Sugg, senior editor at Creative Loafing Newspapers."
 

2002/04/1 Israel Launches All-Out Drive To Isolate "Enemy" Arafat: "The invasion came shortly after the Arab world unanimously offered Israel peace and recognition for the first time. The offer came at the Arab summit in Beirut, and specified that Israel would withdraw from all the Arab lands it occupied in the 1967 war and recognize a Palestinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem. In response to the historic declaration, Arafat announced he was prepared for an immediate cease-fire"
 

2002/02/7 A New Opposition in Israel: "Israeli army officers, in small but significant numbers, are signing a petition and taking a stand. They say the occupation of Palestinian land corrupts Israeli society. They say it has nothing to do with security, that it simply perpetuates humiliation and harassment of the Palestinian people. They say they will not cross the line and serve in the occupied territories. Just under 200 reservists are signed on so far, but it's attracting the attention of Israel's military and political leaders who say refusal to serve is sedition. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says a disobedient soldier threatens Israel's democracy, but his tough response is generating debate in a nation where soldiers are required to refuse orders they feel are criminal"
 

2002/01/3 Edward Said Ushers In The New Year With Democracy Now!: "Edward Said, professor of comparative literature, Columbia University and author of numerous books, articles, and essays. He has been an eloquent voice for justice throughout the Palestinian struggle"
 

2001/12/27 Edward Said Discusses The Cycle Of Violence: "Well, just a few moments ago, we heard Pakistani peace activist, Zia Mian, speak of war as a kind of "midwife of history," bringing latent conflicts to life. If this is the case, then how are we to view the United States' expanding "war on terrorism"? What children will it deliver? And what child has it already bore?...Scholar and author Edward Said addressed this question recently in a speech he gave at a conference on the escalation of the Middle East Conflict. The speech begins broadly with a discussion of the US "war on terrorism" and then moves more specifically into the case of Israel and Palestine"
 

2001/12/20 "The Dominion Of Death": An Israeli Mother Who Lost Her 13-Year Old Daughter In A Suicide Bombing Speaks Out Against Israel: "Israeli propaganda and indoctrination manage to keep coverage of these attacks detached from any Israeli reality. The story in the Israeli (and American) media is one of Arab murderers and Israeli victims"
 

2001/12/19 Negotiating Under Fire: ""Track two" they tell us. Track two is the way to peace in the Middle East. In the diplomatic language of international peace negotiations, track one is when Prime Ministers and Presidents stroll the grounds of Camp David, while senior government officials work out details behind the scenes. When that fails, track two opens up in a much less precise way. That's when a friend of someone's cousin's has another friend, and they have an idea or a suggestion or specifically a way out of an impasse, when the two sides have become so intractably caught in the rhetoric of hate and intolerance and anger that progress seems impossible"
 

1997/09/12 Biased US media coverage of the Middle East
 

1997/09/25 A glimpe into the volatile relationship between Israel and Palestinians
 

1997/10/24 Palestinian-American journalist, Daoud Kuttab, looks at the media and Palestine
 

1998/02/09 Media lacking various perspectives on Iraq: Iraqi crisis in Israel
 

1998/04/22 The imperial Israel / The Palestinians: an orphaned people / Kosovo: another Bosnia?
 

1998/12/01 Process Begins for Distributing Holocaust Reparations - Norman Finkelstein
 

1999/04/09 Noam Chomsky and Edward Said: Theater of Ideas: Middle East Politics; Miller Theater and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
 

1999/04/12 Noam Chomsky and Edward Said on Kosovo / War and Peace in Kosovo / The War at Home
 

1999/05/11 Professor Edward Said speaks on the Plight of Palestinians / Theories behind the NATO Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade
 

1999/07/02 Hussein Ibish on Israel/Lebanon
 

2000/03/31 Hussein Ibish on 60 Minutes II & Lebanon
 

2000/04/07 Edward Said
 

2000/05/23 Israel's Lebanon Pull-Out Full Of Violence
 

2000/05/25 Barry Chamish Truth About The Rabin Assassination
 

2000/06/01 Who Is Israel's Yair Klein And What Was He Doing In Colombia And Sierra Leone?
 

2000/07/19 David Morrison Israel's Rabin Murder
 

2000/10/02 Death Toll Rises In The Occupied Territories
 

2000/10/06 In the first week of October, after more than more 60 Palestinians and Israelis Arabs have been killed by Israeli security forces, you might wonder why media are blaming Palestinians for the violence
 

2000/10/13 Occupied Territories - State Of Siege. State Of War / Michael Moore On The Middle East And Ralph Nader / Edward Said On The Palestinian Experience
 

2000/11/15 Israel Increases Pressure On CNN To Cover Conflict From A Pro-Israeli Angle / A Rabbi Condemns Israeli Government Violence

2000/12/01 One-Third of 250 Killed in Palestinian Uprising are Children
 

2000/12/14 "The current crises in the Middle East: What can we do?" A lecture by MIT Professor Noam Chomsky
 

2000/12/22 Phyllis Bennis on CNN & Israel: With the Middle East in the headlines virtually every day, you would think reporters would have a chance to seek out a range of opinions on the situation. But a behind the scenes story coming recently out of CNN suggests that some media are being pressured to designate certain perspectives on Israel and the occupied territories as "unacceptable"

2001/01/04 The Israeli-Palestine Conflict: War, PR War, And Peace Prospects
 

2001/01/10 Elusive Peace: The Israel-Palestinian Conflict
 

2001/01/11 Israeli Campaign Of Political Assassinations Sparks Petition To High Court
 

2001/02/07 Fisk On The Sabra And Chetilla Massacres And The Israeli Election
 

2001/02/08 Edward Said On Palestinian Politics And The Search For Justice
 

2001/03/14 New York Times Casts Stones At Edward Said
 

2001/03/15 Peace, Poverty and Palestine
 

2001/04/13 Hopes for Independent Palestinian State Waning with U.S. Government's Uncritical Support for Israel
 

2001/05/21 Israel Bombs The Occupied Territories With U.S. Fighter Jets For First Time Since 1967 War; Hanan Ashrawi, Member Of Palestinian Legislative Council And Terry Greenblatt, Director Of Israeli Women's Peace Organization, Call For End To Violence And End To Israeli Occupation Of Palestinian Territory
 

2001/06/06 CIA In Israel
 

2001/06/26 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Meets With President Bush As Survivors Of The Sabra And Shatila Massacre In Lebanon Charge That Sharon Should Be Indicted For Crimes Against Humanity
 

2001/08/03 As Israel Insists It Will Continue Assassinating Palestinians, A Conversation With Edward Said
 

2001/08/07 This Just In From The BBC: Journalists May Not Call Israeli Killings Of Top Palestinian Activists Assassination; A Conversation With Robert Fisk In Jerusalem, And Professor Noam Chomsky On The Language Of Death And The Rogue United States
 

2001/08/23 The Mideast Non-Peace

2001/12/1 The Sharon Files: Palestinians Sue Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon For Genocide As New Documents Provide "Watertight Evidence" That Israel Directed Militias To Kill Hundreds Of Refugees In Lebanon / Media In Wartime: Military Tribunals And Torture
 

2001/12/11 Mexico City: Mosad Agents Aressted