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Written by Gadi Algazi for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
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In June
1967, Israel
broke through its temporary borders, and, under the auspices of a military
conquest, embarked upon an extensive colonial project in the newly conquered
territories. The historical timing is intriguing: by the late 1960s it seemed
that the crises of de-colonization were coming to an end. During the 1950s and
the 1960s, anti-colonial movements in Asia and Africa
stripped the old colonial powers of the vestiges of the empires they had
established at the end of the nineteenth century, and in some cases, since the
early modern period. Disillusionment with de-colonization was still lying ahead
of the liberated nations: the replacement of direct political rule by indirect
domination, the failure of the new elites to fulfill the promises associated
with political liberation, and the disenchantment from illusions of
“modernization” and unrestrained “development” (in this respect one could have
learned much from the longer, bitterer experience of Latin America). In 1967,
two years after France’s final exit from Algiers, while the USA just began to flounder
in the mess of Vietnam, Israel opened a new chapter in the history of the
conflict: it imposed its military rule over a million and a half Palestinians
deprived of political rights, but refrained from annexing most of the
territories—except for Jerusalem (1967) and the Golan Heights (1981). The
military occupation had begun.
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Written by Gush Shalom
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
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Thousands of
Palestinians stuck under appalling conditions at Rafah—a 31-year-old mother of
five died yesterday under the blazing sun—Gush Shalom demands immediate
opening of the Rafah Crossing for which the government of Israel
and the European Union share responsibility
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Written by Laura Vail for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
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With an end
to the intense fighting between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip, the area’s
residents now confront what could become a severe humanitarian crisis. The Strip is
one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with around 1.5 million
people living in 360 square kilometers. It has limited natural resources and
economic activity, and is almost completely dependent on outside food, medical,
and fuel supplies, which are largely imported from Israel. Israel,
the United States,
and the European Union (EU) refuse to give aid directly to the Hamas rulers,
and so organizations such as the United Nations Relief and World Agency
(UNRWA), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the World
Food Program (WFP) have been acting as intermediaries to coordinate aid
delivery.
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Written by Dr. Azmi Bishara
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
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The
US and its Western followers revealed what democratisation of the Arab
world actually means to them when they rejected the results of the
Palestinian legislative elections and instead began an economic
boycott. The result was escalating internecine violence fuelled by the
lure of money.
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