Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
Its a news day full of tension and contradictions. First, the good—and most important—news. The Israeli army is preparing to move the route of the segregation wall in Bil’in village, where it had annexed Palestinian land and sparked weekly, mostly nonviolent protests against the land grab, according to an IDF officer’s pledge disclosed to the [...]
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Another nonviolent Palestinian activist has joined Mohammed Othman in an Israeli jail for the sole crime of organizing demonstrations against the separation wall. A couple months ago, Abdallah Abu Rahmah of Bi’lin was providing a tour of his village for Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former UN human rights chief Mary Robinson, and several other [...]
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For the 45,000 Palestinian residents of the Beit Awwa municipality in the southern West Bank, the years since 2001 have been unusually difficult. In that year, one of the most popular and useful roads in the area was closed to them—and them alone. The Israeli military commander in the area had determined that the use [...]
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