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Updated: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:48:17 +0300
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For Political Expediency, Israel Defines Criminal Attack in Jerusalem as Terrorist Despite Evidence
Sergio Yahni, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Thursday, 03 July 2008
Jerusalem, 2 July 2008, Israeli rescue workers at the scene of an attack in which Hossam Dawyyat rammed a bulldozer into an Israeli commuter...
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2008 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade

On Thursday, 26 June, some 3,000 people turned out to take part in the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade. Besides gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual organizations, the parade this year enjoyed the support of Meretz and Communist parties, which joined the parade.

As in previous years, the parade sparked an outcry from the Jewish  ultra-Orthodox community in the city. However, unlike in previous years, the parade passed without incident , although only 2,000 police officers were on hand at the parade - 10,000 fewer than were deployed last year.

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Palestinians Hold “Monitoring Human Rights Compliance in Places of Detention” Conference on UN Day in Support of Torture Victims
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Despite the Israeli High Court decision on 6 September 1999, outlawing the use of arbitrary torture as an interrogation method, methods of torture are still applied by Israeli interrogators of P...
News from Within Podcast: Implications of the European Union's Decision to Upgrade its Relationship With Israel
Thursday, 26 June 2008
On 16 June, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was in Luxembourg for a meeting of meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council, during which the EU voted unanimously to upgrade its relations...
Berlin Conference: Support for Palestinian Security Forces, Not for Creation of Palestinian State
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Berlin on Tuesday, 24 June. The international community pledged US$242 million yesterday (24 June) to ...
Irving Moskowitz: Gambling for Jerusalem
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Housing in the City of David (Ir David) Jewish settlement in Silwan, East Jerusalem

Leading stories
Israeli High Court Must Lift the Travel Ban on Palestinian Activist Shawan Jabarin
Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
Shawan Jabarin, General Director of the Palestinian human rights organizatio...
The Palestinian Return and Right of Return—No Deal!
Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
Palestinian refugees from the Galilee fleeing towards the Lebanon border in October, 1948 ...
News from Within Podcast: Naomi Klein's
Shir Hever and Bryan Atinsky, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Monday, 30 June 2008
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein Naomi Klein's "The ...
Jerusalem Diaries: 2008 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade
Sergio Yahni, Alternative Information Center
Monday, 30 June 2008
On Thursday, 26 June, some 3,000 people turned out to take part in the Jerusalem Gay Pride par...
Palestinian Survivors of Gaza Bombing Sue Israeli Military Officials
The Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Results of the massive Israeli bombing of Gaza City in July 2002 in which 15 Palestinians were...
News From Within Palestine/Israel Podcasts

News_from_Within_Podcast_ThumbLatest Podcast: Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" in the Israeli Context

On Thursday, the 26th of June, 2008, Shir Hever, economist with the Alternative Information Center (AIC) spoke with Canadian journalist, author and activist, Naomi Klein. Naomi is the author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies and Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate and a frequent contributor to The Nation, In These Times, The Globe and Mail, and The Guardian.

Her most recent work is, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (September 2007). In this book, she undertakes to show how "disaster capitalism," which she defines as "orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as exciting market opportunities," did not begin in the wake of September 11, 2001. Instead, its origins can be traced back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neoconservative and neoliberal thinkers, whose influence is still profound in Washington today.

Shir spoke with Naomi about Israel's role in the disaster capitalism phenomenon, the contradictions in Israeli society, which both profits and suffers from the burdens of being a fortress state in constant conflict, and on the discourse among Israeli economists about the role of peace vs. war in the Israeli economy. 

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