Press and independent media
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Bil'in villagers may just succeed
20/06/2009
[Toronto Star] The beauty of Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act is that it provides for the prosecution of anyone in Canada for any war crime even when the crime was committed outside Canada. It incorporates explicitly the principle of international law that "the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the occupying power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies," is a war crime.
A Town Called Bil’in
18/06/2009
[The Dashing Fellows] One of the most heated issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the separation wall that Israel is building in the West Bank. The Israelis claim it is needed for security reasons, a deterrence against suicide bombers. Palestinians claim it is a land grab, that it does more than just inconvenience their lives, but actually cuts into land that belongs to them.
Palestinian village sues Canadian firms
18/06/2009
[Pakistan Daily] On June 22-25, Quebec Suprior Court is to decide whether Canada can punish its two Montreal-based firms, Green Mount International and Green Park International, fronts for Israel’s on-going new Jewish settlements, under international law and Canada’s 2000 Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act – for building 16 of the proposed 42 apartment buildings, housing 1000 foreign Jewish families on a disputed Palestinian land under Israeli occupation which was owned by its resident, Ahmed Issa Abdallah Yasin. The petition was filed last year on behalf of the 1,700 native Muslims and Christians of Palestinian village Bilin. The villagers are represented by US-born Israeli lawyer Emily Schaeffer and a Toronto Lawyer Mark Arnold.
The unrest in Iran makes me green with envy
18/06/2009
[Haaretz] It makes one green with envy: The scenes from Iran prove that some nations are trying to take their fate into their own hands. Some nations are not floating on the surface in sickly indifference, some are not looking around in endless complacence. And some are not following their leaders with the blindness of a herd. There are moments in the histories of certain nations when the people say enough. No more.
Broken Hearts and Bodies in Bil’in
16/06/2009
[Waging NonViolence] In a poem entitled, “And Now,” Adrienne Rich sets a task for herself: she will pay close attention to our political landscape, to its details and public voice, so that she might better discern just when it was that “the name of compassion was changed to the name of guilt, when to feel with a stranger was declared obsolete.” She points to an “owning up” to the suffering that is inflicted upon the vulnerable, the poor and the oppressed, and asks: “who was in charge of definitions and who stood by receiving them.”
