A 60-year-old Palestinian will begin a case against the UK government in the High Court later when he will say that sales of arms to Israel are illegal.

Saleh Hassan, who lives on the West Bank, says his land was confiscated by Israel to make way for its barrier.

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The concern Israel demonstrates for the fate of one Palestinian boy touches the heart: Again, note what a fuss is being made about the case of the killing of Mohammed al-Dura. Our heart is impervious to the fate of other children who have been killed. Just little Mohammed continues to haunt us. But the question of who killed al-Dura is not important. And maybe he is even alive, as some eccentrics claim. Perhaps he committed suicide, as the strange investigations are liable to suggest.

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Dans le cadre de l’événement Choc culturel 2007 à l’Université McGill.

MERCREDI 17 OCTOBRE à 18h30
Édifice Leacock, salle 232
Université McGill, 688, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montréal, Canada

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JERUSALEM: The United Nations agency in charge of Palestinian refugees on Friday called on Israel to open crossings into the Gaza Strip and warned of a humanitarian crisis if further restrictions are imposed.

“We don’t believe that just having humanitarian goods coming in is enough, we need other supplies to come in. People need other things besides food and medicine,” UNRWA Commissioner General Karen Abu Zayd told reporters.

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Mahmoud Abbas has to stay home. As things stand right now, he must not go to Washington. Even his meetings with Ehud Olmert are gradually turning into a disgrace and have become a humiliation for his people. Nothing good will come of them. It has become impossible to bear the spectacle of the Palestinian leader’s jolly visits in Jerusalem, bussing the cheek of the wife of the very prime minister who is meanwhile threatening to blockade a million and a half of his people, condemning them to darkness and hunger.

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Communiqué préparé par la Coalition contre l’apartheid israélien & Tadamon! Montreal.

Cette semaine marque les 25 ans des massacres des camps de réfugiés palestiniens de Sabra et Chatila, au Liban. Aujourd’hui, nous commémorons la mémoire des victimes assassinées ou/et disparues lors de ce massacre, ainsi que les milliers de personnes qui ont perdu la vie suite à l’invasion israélienne de 1982 et à la guerre civile libanaise.

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The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) issued a report revealing that 32 Palestinian detainees imprisoned in Al Ramla Israeli prison are hospitalized in the prison hospital which lacks the fundamental resources and tools.

Detainee Isam Abu Jandal, imprisoned since 1986,and hospitalized in the prison hospital, stated that tension is a continuous event as the detainees demand the improvement health services.

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Ma très chère Janet: Aujourd’hui est un très beau jour d’automne, ici, à Beyrouth. Il y a 25 ans cette semaine, avait lieu, du 15 au 18 septembre, le massacre des camps de réfugiés palestiniens de Sabra et Shatila. Un ciel d’un bleu lumineux et une brise d’automne. En fait, il a plu la nuit dernière.

Assez pour nous débarrasser d’une partie de l’humidité et de la poussière. Heureusement, pas assez pour être de ces pluies habituelles qui forment les marécages d’eaux usées et d’immondices dans la rue Sabra ou inondent le cimetière, sans plus guère de pelouse, de la fosse commune, (les habitants du camp l’appellent le carré des Martyrs, il est l’un des mémoriaux qu’on appelle ainsi maintenant au Liban) ; c’est là que tu m’as dit autrefois que le dimanche 19 septembre 1982, tu avais regardé, écoeurée, les victimes massacrées et criblées de balles de ces 48 heures de tueries, entassées par les familles et les secouristes du Croissant Rouge, formant une montagne dans la fosse. Certains de ces corps avaient des membres ou la tête tranchés, des garçons avaient été castrés, des corps portaient des lacérations en forme de croix.

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Photo: A l’entrée du camp de Chatila, 1982.

SAMEDI, 22 SEPTEMBRE, 13H
Librairie Indigo
Coin Sainte-Catherine et McGill College
métro McGill
Montréal, Canada

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Middle East Report. by Muhammad Ali Khalidi and Diane Riskedahl

How long will the state erect military checkpoints in residential areas, treating them as though they were camps sheltering wanted people and gunmen, while all the Palestinian camps, which shelter criminals and wanted people, enjoy freedom of movement, politically, militarily and in terms of security, as though they were security islands independent of Lebanon politically, militarily and in terms of security?

—Jibran Tuwayni, al-Nahar (July 18th, 2002)

The view expressed by assassinated Lebanese Member of Parliament and editorialist Jibran Tuwayni has become depressingly familiar among Lebanese politicians since the end of the Lebanese civil war. Though Tuwayni was a firebrand of what is now the loyalist camp in Lebanese politics, his perspective is also shared by elements of the current opposition, particularly members of the parliamentary bloc loyal to former Gen. Michel Aoun. There may be more than a grain of truth in the saying that the only thing that unites the Lebanese political factions today is antipathy for the Palestinians living in their midst.

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