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Podur: A Conversation with Justin Podur in Gaza
Znet Article, July, 01 2002
Justin Podur
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Tell me about Gaza. During my first few hours here in Gaza, just after I crossed the Erez checkpoint, I passed an orange grove being knocked down by Israeli armored bulldozers. We started to take pictures of what was going on, but nearby tanks ...
Roughneen: Preventive Diplomacy: Saudi Style
Znet Article, July, 01 2002
Simon Roughneen
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The so-called ‘Abdullah Initiative’ was an unanticipated and revitalizing change in attitude toward the Israel-Palestinian conflict by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Equally encouraging was its approval by the Arab League at its conf...
Roughneen: Preventive Diplomacy: Saudi Style
Znet Article, July, 01 2002
Simon Roughneen
Roughneen's ZSpace page
Preventive Diplomacy, Saudi Style.The so-called ‘Abdullah Initiative’ was an unanticipated and revitalizing change in attitude toward the Israel-Palestinian conflict by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Equally encouraging was its appro...
Roughneen: Preventive Diplomacy: Saudi Style
Znet Article, July, 01 2002
Simon Roughneen
Roughneen's ZSpace page
Preventive Diplomacy, Saudi Style. The so-called ‘Abdullah Initiative’ was an unanticipated and revitalizing change in attitude toward the Israel-Palestinian conflict by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Equally encouraging was i...
Mate: Trip to Palestine
Znet Article, June, 30 2002
Aaron Mate
Mate's ZSpace page
I've just returned from a two-week visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, a land dear to me. As a Jewish person, it is a part of the world that I have long felt an inherent connection to, a connection that has only been strengthened through...
Levy: A Million People Under Curfew
Znet Article, June, 30 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
Few if any Israelis can understand what it means to be under full curfew for 10 days, incarcerated with the children in a crowded house, usually without an air conditioner or a computer or games to play, maybe a barely functioning television set. ...
Chomsky: Questions On Israel
Znet Article, June, 30 2002
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
As a premium to those who support Z through the Z Sustainer Program there are a number of forums where people can ask questions of activists and writers such as Noam Chomsky. Here are Chomsky's responses to questions about Israel And Palestine dur...
Engler: Exporting Enron
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Mark Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
We know the damage Enron has done to the American economy. So why is it still eligible to receive U.S. taxpayer money? Instead of wallowing in bankruptcy, Enron continues to do business internationally. And believe it or not, the scandal-ridden ...
Gott: A Silent Majority Finds Its Voice
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Richard Gott
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The great city of Caracas spreads over innumerable mountainous hills, and in the rainy season the peaks poke up through the clouds that hover in the valleys below. Several million people live on these steep slopes in barrios, a word which, when tr...
Williams: Our Girl Was Killed By A Suicide Bomber...
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Alexandra Williams
Williams's ZSpace page
Jerusalem. A big red "Free Palestine" sticker has a prominent place on the Elhanan family's front door. But this is not a Palestinian house in the occupied territories. Remarkably, this home is in an affluent Jewish area in Jerusalem and bel...
Franklin: Terrorist Connections Resurface In Florida
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Jane Franklin
Franklin's ZSpace page
Governor Jeb Bush is about to choose a Florida State Supreme Court judge. There are five finalists and his deadline is August 12. Since there is no Hispanic on the Court, most people expect Jeb Bush will want to name a Hispanic. There is only one ...
Palast: A Tale Of Two Coups
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
Blondes in revolt On May Day, starting out from the Hilton Hotel, 200,000 blondes marched East through Caracas' shopping corridor along Casanova Avenue. At the same time, half a million brunettes converged on them from the West. It would all se...
Leibowitz: An Israeli Officer's Response To President Bush
Znet Article, June, 27 2002
Shamai Leibowitz
Leibowitz's ZSpace page
I am an Orthodox Jew and a criminal defense attorney in Tel Aviv. I am also a tank gunner in reserve duty, and part of a group of 1000 soldiers who have refused to serve in the occupied territories. Many of them were imprisoned in military jails i...
Abunimah: CNN Negates Victims And Ignores International Law
Znet Article, June, 27 2002
Ali Abunimah
Abunimah's ZSpace page
Bowing to strong Israeli pressure, CNN is to broadcast a special series profiling Israeli victims of terror. Ha'aretz newspaper reported on June 24th that: "After months of gnawing agitation over what they perceive as the pro-Palestinian bias ...
Plitnick: A Speech To End All Peace
Znet Article, June, 27 2002
Mitchell Plitnick
Plitnick's ZSpace page
Rarely since the creation of the state of Israel has peace between Israel and the Palestinians seemed as unattainable as it seems to be right now. Recent days have seen many Israelis killed, including children in Palestinian attacks, and many P...
Pilger: Our Writers' Failure
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Martin Amis represents a problem: that some of the most acclaimed and privileged writers in the English language fail to engage with the most urgent issues of our time. On 1 June, the Guardian published a long essay by Martin Amis, entitled "Th...
Hass: Both sides Are wrong
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
A radio interviewer asked IDF Spokesman Ron Kitrey on Sunday about the three children killed in Jenin by Israeli soldiers in a tank (who also killed a 60-year-old civilian). The interviewer chose his words carefully. So carefully, that he asked Ki...
Weisbrot: What are they doing to Argentina
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
The head of the IMF's delegation to Argentina was recently cornered outside his hotel room by reporters from a popular, muck-raking television show. They handed him a set of large, plastic Halloween vampire teeth. "We found these lodged in Preside...
Rocha: On The Frontier
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
Jan Rocha
Rocha's ZSpace page
Hunger is spreading in a world of plenty: in Brazil, one of the world's major food producers, a third of the population goes hungry. The governments and corporations that run the world insist that only free markets, the removal of trade barriers, ...
Pilger: Israel's Secret Shame
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Ethnic cleansing attended the birth of Israel but, more than 50 years later, the country is still in denial about its bloody past. Those who speak out risk their jobs. Behind the turbulent news from Israel, a struggle for historical truth has p...
