Press and independent media
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Al-Jazeera crew detained in Bil'in
30/04/2010
[Ma’an] Israeli forces detained three journalists and a peace activist friday in the West Bank village of Bil’in, under the pretext they entered a closed military zone.
Light at end of tunnel
28/04/2010
[Khaleej Times] The wailing ambulance tore through the crowd of several hundred Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists, speeding along the narrow road which winds through the hills of the village of Bili’in near Ramallah in the central Palestinian West Bank.
Israel's Big and Small Apartheids: Meaning of a Jewish State
26/04/2010
[Palestine Chronicle] Below is the text of a talk delivered to the fifth Bilin international conference for Palestinian popular resistance, held in the West Bank village of Bilin on April 21.
Israel’s apologists are very exercised about the idea that Israel has been singled out for special scrutiny and criticism. I wish to argue, however, that in most discussions of Israel it actually gets off extremely lightly: that many features of the Israeli polity would be considered exceptional or extraordinary in any other democratic state.
Embraces, warm and cool
26/04/2010
[Ha’aretz] Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad delayed a working trip abroad in order to open the fifth Bil’in International Conference on the Popular Struggle that took place from April 21-23. He also brought with him a bountiful dowry: representatives of 23 foreign consulates and diplomatic missions.
They sat in the giant tent set up in the village’s schoolyard, among activists from Bil’in and other villages, as well as children who had come along with their parents and were wandering around with cooked beans and za’atar, women who sat behind tables laden with embroidered handicrafts for sale, a handful of Israelis and dozens of activists from abroad.
OC Central Command must cancel the closed military area order imposed on Bil’in and Ni’lin
22/04/2010
[B’TSelem] On the night between 14 and 15 March, dozens of soldiers entered the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin in Ramallah District and posted a closed military area order signed by OC Central Command Avi Mizrahi. According to the order, all the lands lying between the built-up area of each village and the Separation Barrier will be a closed military area every Friday, from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. The order was issued on 18 February and is valid for a period of six months, through August.
