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August 30 , 2005 Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees: International Delegations Demand an End to the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees from Canada On August 15th, members and supporters of the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees visited Canadian Immigration offices, Beirut, Amman and the United Arab Emirates, to demand an immediate end of deportations for all Palestinians in Canada and for them to be granted permanent resident status. David Noble: Israel Lobby Loses York In the meantime, having been reinstated and having resumed his activism, Dan Freeman-Maloy has launched an $850,000 lawsuit against Lorna Marsden, which is now moving through the courts. Likewise, David Noble filed a ten-million dollar grievance against the university for violation of his academic freedom and defamation. August 23, 2005 It would seem that we have made a grave error! The land of Palestine was indeed a land without a people. The Palestinian people were invisible when Israel was established in 1948 and apparently, they are still invisible today. August 20, 2005 Media Monitors: Gazans finally win, but their tormentors get all the attention ... the reporting of Israel's pullout of the Gaza Strip and eviction of Jewish colonists has been grossly distorted for the benefit of Israel. Yediot Aharonot: How we left Gaza August 18, 2005 Deccan Herald: Terrorism's original sin Israel is angry with the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI was held guilty by Ariel Sharon's government of failing to condemn a Palestinian bombing in the Israeli town of Netanya. The papal ambassador in Israel was summoned to the Israeli foreign office and sternly told that the Pope had spoken against the murderous hand that had struck in Egypt, Turkey, Iraq and Great Britain, but that he had failed to include Israel in that list. The omission appeared deliberate to the Sharon government and amounted to "granting legitimacy to terrorist attacks against Jews". The thrust was unmistakable: the newly installed Pope was being threatened with being branded as anti-semitic.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denounced the security barrier Israel is building along the West Bank, saying Saturday that Israeli policy throughout the territories has brought ``extreme hardship'' to Palestinians. August 13, 2005 The Guardian: The lone warrior Tali Fahima has been called "whore of the Arabs", "traitor" and "the terrorist's girlfriend". She is also seen as a political prisoner, persecuted for daring to condemn the occupation of Palestine. This 29-year-old Israeli, whose case has been filling the Israeli press, has been in prison for exactly one year, remanded until her trial concludes - though it is not clear when that might be. August 7, 2005 Outlook: Canada Park: Canadian Complicity in a War Crime ByDr. Ismail Zayid "Here is our house", says Ibrahim Elsheikh, the 75-year-old mukhtar (village headman) of Imwas (Emmaus), pointing to the rubble of his home which stood there until June 1967, when Israel invaded and occupied Sinai, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights. Thousands of villagers, from Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba-my own hometown-still cry remembering their homes that stood there until Israel erased them from the face of The Holy Land, when they were systematically dynamited and bulldozed. In Beit Nuba alone, 18 old or disabled men, who were unable or unwilling to leave their homes instantly, were buried under the rubble. . ISM: Report from International Solidarity Movement member Sarita Ahooja of Montreal, currently in Palestine The residents had received one day's notice that their homes were to be demolished by a piece of paper left outside one of their dwellings. The villagers knew no one to call and the razing of their twenty-two homes went ahead unhindered. Montreal Planet Magazine: Open letter to Paul Martin asking why Canada's foreign policy on Israel is being made behind closed doors. |
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