Civil society leader arrested | Ex-envoy's investment in Israeli greenwashing | Gaza buffer zone killing
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__ PALESTINE : OPINION/EDITORIAL:
ISRAEL'S REPRESSION OF ITS PALESTINIAN CITIZENS UNITES US IN STRUGGLE
By Ameer Makhoul, The Electronic Intifada, 6 May 2010
Ameer Makhoul, director of Ittijah and chairman of the Popular
Committee for the Defense of the Political Freedoms, was arrested
by Israeli forces today during a raid of his home, two weeks after
a travel ban was imposed on him by the Israeli Ministry of the
Interior. Makhoul, a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, submitted
the following op-ed to The Electronic Intifada prior to his arrest.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11250.shtml
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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:
RIGHTS ORGS CONDEMN ARREST OF PALESTINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER Press
release, Various undersigned, 6 May 2010
This morning at 3:10am, Israeli Security Agency agents accompanied
by Israeli police raided Ameer Makhoul's family home in Haifa and
arrested him. Makhoul is a human rights defender and serves as the
general director of Ittijah - The Union of Arab Community-Based
Associations and as the Chairman of the Public Committee for the
Defense of Political Freedom in the framework of the High Follow-up
Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11251.shtml
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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:
QUARTET EX-ENVOY'S INVESTMENT HELPS ISRAEL GREENWASH SETTLEMENTS
By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 6 May 2010
Former World Bank president and Middle East Quartet envoy James D.
Wolfensohn is an investor in an Israeli company that is developing
transport infrastructure for Jewish-only settlements built in the
occupied West Bank in violation of international law, an investigation
by The Electronic Intifada reveals.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11238.shtml
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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:
THE PRETEXT OF "SECURITY" ALONG GAZA'S BUFFER ZONE By Eva Bartlett,
The Electronic Intifada, 6 May 2010
"There was a single shot without any warning, and a young man was
carried away," Adie Mormech explained. Mormech, currently in Gaza,
is a British activist with the International Solidarity Movement.
She was an eyewitness at the 28 April demonstration at Nahal Oz,
east of Gaza City, when Ahmed Deeb was fatally shot by an Israeli
soldier. Eva Bartlett reports for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11248.shtml
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