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Israeli Racism and Defeat
Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Lebanese citizens demonstrate support for Hassan Nassrala My heart is with the Goldwasser and Regev families, who can finally mou...
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Jersualem Diaries: The City of David

The City of David Visitor’s Center is ranked among the top five tourist attractions in Israel, growing from 25,000 visitors in 2001 to 350,000 visitors in 2008. Like other Palestinian neighborhoods, the barbed wire, security guards, and Israeli flags hanging from houses speak the true story, a story that archaeology is being used to cover up.

The Ir David settlement, which is being built alongside the archaeological sites, is located in the Palestinian village of Silwan.

Unlike most archaeological sites in Israel, which are funded and managed by the Israeli government, the City of David excavations in Silwan are the exclusive property of the ultra-right wing settler organization, the Elad Group.

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The Lesser of Two Evils? Obama, McCain and the Question of US Policy Regarding Israel
Thursday, 17 July 2008
The US Democratic party's presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Forum on Foreign Policy in Chicago, March 2007. After ...
Update: Evacuation of Al-Kurd Family from Sheikh Jarrah Home Delayed  as International Advocacy Launched
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Fawzia al-Kurd, whose family is facing imminent eviction from their home of over forty years in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, interviewed by local and international press. The Palestin...
Israel-Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange: Insecurity Grows in the Middle East
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Samir Kuntar in PLF Camp prior to the 1979 military operation in Naharia Two years after Israeli army reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were captured by Hezbollah guerillas in a...
Palestinian Housing Rights Threatened in East Jerusalem
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
The remains of the home of Ishak Mustafa, a Palestinian living in the East Jerusalem village of Isawiyya, which was demolished by the Israeli authorities on the evening of 14 July,...

Leading stories
Bulldozer Attack in West Jerusalem Injures Fifteen
Amanda Schweitzer and AIC staff
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
(photo: Cosimo Caridi, AIC) The driver of a Caterpillar construction vehicle was shot ...
Israeli Right Wing Blames Negotiations for Jerusalem Attack
Cosimo Caridi, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Right-wing Israeli demonstrators arrived at the scene of today's incident in Jerusalem, chanti...
A West Bank Town’s Struggle to Survive
Neve Gordon
Monday, 21 July 2008
Nil'in: Palestinian peasants struggle to stop the construction of the wall on their lan...
Syria on Top
Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Syrian Pressident Bashar al-Assad Another defeat for the US neo-conservative strategy:...
An Encounter with Settlers in the Streets of Hebron
Rianne Van Doeveren for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Israeli settlers in Hebron are notorious for their violent actions against Palestinians. ...
News From Within Podcast

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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