From Occupied Palestine

"...namely the State of Israel"
URI AVNERY
3 May 2008

EVERY TIME I hear the voice of David Ben-Gurion uttering the words "Therefore we are gathered here..." I think of Issar Barsky, a charming youngster, the little brother of a girl-friend of mine.

The last time we met was in front of the dining hall of Kibbutz Hulda, on Friday, May 14, 1948.

Hamas' stand
MOUSA ABU MARZOOK
Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2007

DAMASCUS -- Hamas' rescue of a BBC journalist from his captors in Gaza last week was surely cause for rejoicing. But I want to be clear about one thing: We did not deliver up Alan Johnston as some obsequious boon to Western powers.

1967: A personal testimony
URI AVNERY
Gush Shalom, June 2007

On May 25, 1967, twelve days before the Six-day war, I published in Haolam Hazeh, the news magazine of which I was the editor, an article entitled "Nasser Has Fallen Into a Trap". That sounded crazy, because, at the time, all Israel was in the grip of mortal fear.

Out of sight maybe, but not out of mind
ZAFRIR RINAT
Ha'aretz, 13 June 2007

The Holocaust as political asset
AMIRA HASS
Ha'aretz, 18 April 2007

Driven by war to a No Man's Land in Jordan
Lives of Palestinian refugees from Iraq reflect six decades of dispossession
ANTHONY SHADID
Washington Post, 2 April 2007, p.A1

Israel's right to be racist
JOSEPH MASSAD
Al Ahram Weekly, 15 - 21 March 2007

UN committee: Israel should let Palestinians return to their land
YOAV STERN
Ha'aretz, 11 March 2007

A United Nations committee has called on Israel to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their property and land in Israel and to ensure that the bodies responsible for distributing property, such as the Jewish National Fund, not discriminate against the Arab population.

Israel revisited
SCOTT WILSON
Washington Post, 11 March 2007, p. D1

Benny Morris, veteran 'New Historian' of the modern Jewish State's founding, finds himself ideologically back where it all began

Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine
JON ELMER
The Dominion, 25 January 2007