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/ 2 December 2003
Sixty years after the Holocaust, European Jews and Israelis are increasingly wondering if Europe is being sucked into the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. ”Anti-semitism has become politically correct in Europe,”’ said Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident and a minister in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government.
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/ 24 November 2003
Facility 1391 has been airbrushed from Israeli aerial photographs and purged from maps. Where once a police station was marked there is now a blank space. Sometimes even the road leading to it has been erased. But Facility 1391 exists — just ask the Palestinians and Lebanese who have been imprisoned and tortured there.
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/ 23 October 2003
Despite the UN’s vote of condemnation, Israel remains intent on redrawing borders. Altogether, almost 80km of fence and wall will carve through the city’s Arab neighbourhoods and the occupied territories declared to be part of Jerusalem. It will force children from about 30 schools to find new ones.
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/ 17 October 2003
In the back streets of Gaza’s refugee camps they have little doubt about why they believe Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has a free hand to bulldoze their homes, rocket their neighbourhoods and cage the West Bank behind a vast ”security fence”. It is because the United States lets him do so.
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/ 17 October 2003
Sharon has dismissed a draft peace agreement drawn up by left-wing Israeli politicians and Palestinian leaders as the ”greatest historic mistake” since the Oslo peace accords a decade ago. But supporters of the new ”Geneva accords” say that the deal is a breakthrough because it nails the government’s lie that there is no one to negotiate with.
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/ 13 October 2003
Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled out of southern Gaza on Sunday after one of the most destructive raids of the intifada, leaving hundreds of Palestinians without homes and eight dead, including two children.
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/ 10 October 2003
It was, the Israelis insisted to the UN Security Council when not invoking Osama bin Laden, a small thing: a limited strike not aimed at Syria at all. But the international outcry against the deepest Israeli raid into Syria for 30 years, accompanied by warnings of escalation, will not displease Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Palestinians have condemned Sharon’s decision to extend Israel’s controversial ”security fence” to encircle Jewish settlements deep in the West Bank. They claimed that the barrier, which is mostly fence but includes sections of wall 9m high, would wreck the possibility of creating a viable Palestinian state.
Ariel Sharon’s cabinet has agreed to extend Israel’s controversial ”security fence” to encircle Jewish settlements deep in the West Bank, moving closer to formally annexing hundreds of square kilometres of Palestinian territory. Palestinians say it will wreck the possibility of creating a viable Palestinian state.
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/ 19 September 2003
The Israeli military has claimed that large budget cuts agreed by the government last week will ground much of the air force and leave the army at its weakest since the Yom Kippur war 30 years ago.