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From: "Dan Merkle" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: IMC Newsblast: Palestians Under Siege this is probably the most comprehensive compilation produced re: the ongoing war in the middle east. there are numerous members of the imc collective who are locked down in the middle of the crisis. this represents the work of an all-volunteer, grassroots, global collective. please forward as appropriate. thanks. dan http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=165308&group=webcast <<Independent Media Center - webcast news (3).url>> IMC NEWS BLAST | Thursday, 4 April, 2002 | http://www.indymedia.org "PALESTINIANS UNDER SIEGE" Compiled by the Indymedia News Blast Team IMC Palestine: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org Breaking news - 4 April 2300 GMT: The week-long siege continues with even more casualties and attacks on civilians and journalists. Six Palestinian citizens of Israel were severely beaten by Israeli police at a protest outside the US Embassy in Israel. Nine injured internationals are missing after leaving in ambulances from the West Bank to meet embassy officials. A group of Italian politicians tried to enter Tel Aviv to put pressure on Israel to let the internationals leave Bethlehem; Israel refused to negotiate and kicked the delegation out of the country. Israel refused a high-level EU delegation from any form of mediation with or without Arafat; but the US envoy will get to meet Arafat on Friday. Israeli helicopters, tanks, and troops fight with armed Palestinians in Nablus. Israel has taken over 1,000 prisoners. Food and water is running out for everyone under the occupation. Corpses are rotting in the streets. A newborn baby died at the Dheishe UN Medical Clinic today because IDF soldiers would not allow the ambulance passage to the hospital. All reporters within the seige are being intentionally targeted by IDF snipers. ------------------------------------------------- IMC NEWS BLAST: a selection of important news summaries, stories, opinions and media found on a variety of the Independent Media Center websites. An online version of of this NEWS BLAST is posted here: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/5007.php Translations will follow and will be posted as comments to the online version. ------------------------------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. SUMMARY 2. BREAKING NEWS * Uncensored continuous coverage on Indymedia sites * Contacts in Palestine 3. KEY ARTICLES * Eyewitness accounts and other reports * Israeli Refuseniks * History and Political Analysis * International activists in Palestine * International journalists in Palestine under attack * Palestinian protests in the occupied territories 4. IMC COVERAGE * Photos * Audio * General 5. WORLDWIDE SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATIONS * International solidarity protests * How can I protest? 6. THE LAUNCH OF IMC-PALESTINE http://jerusalem.indymedia.org -- innovative coverage of a civil war 7. MEDIA CRITICISM * Critiques of corporate media coverage 8. KEY RESOURCES * Middle-East Media * Other Alternative Media * Activist resources 9. FEEDBACK ------------------------------------------------ 1. SUMMARY: Protests erupted when Ariel Sharon, Israel's most agressive military leader, came to power in 2000, and then brought 1000 armed Israeli soldiers to Jerusalem's holiest site. The Israeli military attacked civilians and Palestinian suicide bombers retaliated. The siege against the Palestinian people has been accelerating since the breakdown of the Oslo peace accords two years ago. Over 300 Israeli army officers and troops are refusing to participate in the occupation. Titular Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, is under siege in his office; Egypt has suspended most diplomatic relations with Israel, and other Arab countries might get involved following massive Anti-Israel civilian protests. Media coverage of the Palestinain-Israeli conflict is shockingly problematic, political, and uneven--especially in the United States. But hundreds of thousands of international readers are depending on Indymedia as a primary source for breaking news -- articles, photographs, audio and video -- from the occupied terroritories. Many of our journalists are being held captive or are under siege, while many other people who have access to the internet continue to publish to the IMC-Palestine site. This newsblast contains essential reading to give those reports context and balance. ------------------------------------------------ 2. BREAKING NEWS ~ Uncensored continuous coverage on Indymedia sites ~ Eyewitness accounts, photos, audio interviews and video: Jerusalem, Palestine -- http://jerusalem.indymedia.org Tel Aviv, Israel -- http://indymedia.org.il Italy -- http://italy.indymedia.org/ New York City -- http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21783 Washinton, DC -- http://dc.indymedia.org San Fransisco -- http://sf.indymedia.org/ United Kingdom -- http://uk.indymedia.org/ ~ IMC Journalist Contacts in Palestine ~ (for international dialing drop the 0 before the phone number) English - Heather 00 972 (0) 67 270 398 English - Georgina 00 972 (0) 55 840 767/ 00 972 (0) 674 5459 English - IMC Palestine 00 972 (0) 2 277 7558 Arabic/English - Bilal 00 972 (0) 52 814 992 Italian - Francesca 00 39 3389 77 3899 ------------------------------------------------ 3. KEY ARTICLES ~ Eyewitness accounts and other reports ~ Life here has stopped http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/2472.php American Woman Shot Dead By Israeli Soldiers http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/3062.php A diary project on Electronic Intifada http://www.electronicintifada.net/diaries/archives/ 900 of the 1100 arrested palestinians are held in a detention camp inside the Ofra settlement near Nablus. http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=45809&group=webcast Sean Riordan of the Palestine IMC gives an interview to CNN (transcript) http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/3831.php Two Women's Reports from April 3 Demonstrations at A'Rahm and Calandia Checkpoints http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/4932.php News From Sussex Students in Palestine: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/4791.php Adam Shapiro Ranks As a Mideast Hero and an example of a Jew with a conscience: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/4806.php Invasion planned last summer: http://www.israelinsider.com/channels/security/articles/sec_0057.htm Refugees in our own Land by Muna Hamzeh: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/4807.php ~ Israeli refuseniks ~ http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp ~ History and Political Analysis ~ An extensive article on the history of the Palestine - Israel conflict http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/3830.php Israel's new economy and the intifada: http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/2002/msg00878.html Detailed maps (high resolution): http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=162262&group=webcast http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/#Proche-Orient In-depth discussion on Israel / Palestine conflict by Noam Chomsky http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/chomsky_palestine_april2.cfm Crisis in Palestine - by Stephen Shalom http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-04/03shalom.cfm Political articles by Tanya Reinhard (Hebrew & English) http://www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/political/politicalE.html Articles by Edward Said (on Counterpunch) http://www.counterpunch.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=conf%2Fcounterpunch.org&; words=edward+said&p=search&words=&Search=Search Links to articles by Israel Shahak http://www.robotwisdom.com/issues/shahak.html ~ International activists in Palestine ~ Statement by Americans in the Palestinian Refugee Camp in Azza http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/2700.php ~ International journalists in Palestine under attack ~ Indymedia Journalists Shot at in Deheishe http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/120401.php http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/2250.php http://ftp.autistici.org/pub/indy/video_palestina/beit_jala_activists_shot.r m http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20020401.ra&; start=9:34.8 http://www.webactive.com/freespeech/fsrn20020401.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1905000/video/_1905587_mideast17_guerin_vi.ram Detailed account of the shooting of the boston globe reporter and of a palestinian journalist hit at the same time. http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/2945.php Journalists Under Fire in the Occupied Territories http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21949&group=webcast Soldiers open fire on peace delegates - by Juan Gonzalez http://www.nydailynews.com Committee to Protect Journalists http://www.cpj.org/attacks00/mideast00/Israel.html Letter to committee to protect journalists by John Katz http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/4314.php ~ Palestinian protests ~ Report on the Israeli-Palestine peace protest at Calandia (and the repression: http://www.jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/3955.php ------------------------------------------------ 4. IMC COVERAGE ~ Photos ~ Photo's from Palestine http://argentina.linefeed.org/news/2002/04/1781.php Pictures from bombardments & buildings in Deheishe http://www.indymedia.it/palestina/01/ Pictures from demonstrations, children & buildings in Deheishe http://www.indymedia.it/palestina/02/ Pictures from a refugee camp http://www.indymedia.it/palestina/02tm/ International Peace Activists & soldiers at Deheishe http://www.indymedia.it/palestina/05/ Various Pictures of people in a refugee camp. http://www.indymedia.it/palestina/06/ International Activists in Beit Jala http://www.indymedia.it/palestina/07/ Nightly pictures of tanks in Deheishe http://www.indymedia.it/palestina/08/ Israeli Army in Deheishe http://www.indymedia.it/palestina/09/ ~ Audio ~ Interviews with an IMC-Palestine member: http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/madison/bilalimcpalestine040102.mp3 http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/washingtondc/040102_interview_heather_imc-pal estine__s.mp3 http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/washingtondc/040202_interview_sean_imc-palest ine__s.mp3 Interview with Sam Bahour, an American Palestinian http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4507 Rocking the Boat: Update from Bethlehem http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4515 Interview with Adam Shapiro http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4496 Personal Reports on Israeli Tanks Surrounding Bethlehem http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4501 http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4495 http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4494 http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4493 Interview with Trevor Baumgarter of the International Solidarity Movement http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4470 Scott Harris' programm "Between the Lines) http://www.wpkn.org/wpkn/news/btl041202.ram U.S. Activists Take Beit Jala Girl To Hospital http://radio.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1133&group=webcast Audio on IMC Palestine http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/?category=&medium=audio Indymedia Israel Radio http://www.indymedia.org.il/radio/indymedia.m3u Overview of audio files on Palestine http://www.ondarossa.info/sp_palestina.php Special Palestine Radio Feature: http://radio.indymedia.org ~ General ~ IMC Global Website with over 75 locals http://www.indymedia.org IMC Radio (for special coverage and commentary on recent events): http://radio.indymedia.org IMC Print (weekly news summaries in distributable newsletter-flyer format) with a Special Edition Palestine 30 March: http://print.indymedia.org IMC TV (ongoing video coverage from various IMCs) http://www.indymedia.org/video/imc.ram ---------------------------------------------- 5. WORLDWIDE SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATIONS ~ International solidarity actions ~ A regularly updated overview of solidarity actions worldwide including reports, photo essays, video, and audio recordings: http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=12464&group=webcast Solidarity demonstration at the embassy in Canada http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/3894.php ~ How can I protest? ~ Comprehensive list of things to do to protest the IDF Invasion: http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0403-03.htm http://www.rapprochement.org) ----------------------------------------------- 6. THE LAUNCH OF IMC-PALESTINE The IMC-Palestine website, launched 28 March, 2002, brings Indymedia innovation to the civil war. Using Indymedia's innovative "open-publishing" newswire, journalists and activists on the scene have had the ability to upload articles, images, audio, and video, directly and immediately to the Indymedia newswires, without the filters and controls of most media. With very little publicity, the IMC-Palestine site has had phenomenal traffic, a testament to the poignancy of immediate, and authentic, grassroots reporting. See site traffic statistics here: http://blackcat.linefeed.org/~joshua/imc-palestine/ ------------------------------------------------- 7. MEDIA CRITICISM Palestine Media Watch monitors Palestine-related news, exposing biases and misinformation. http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html An introduction to the development of media bias on Palestine: http://www.electronicintifada.net/introduction.html Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's Middle East page (Including CounterSpin): http://www.fair.org/international/middle-east.html On the modus operandi of CNN: interview from CNN with Sean Riordan (of IMC Palestine): http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/03/lt.18.html and afterwarths mis-identified as "an activist" http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/04/03/mideast/index.html On censorship and an appeal on autocensorship in Israeli media http://lulu.vu/censored.ram Israel launches 'image management' campaign http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0402/p07s02-wome.html Parallax and Palestine http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020311&s=guttenplan Cut Through the Lies in Palestine by Justin Podur http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-04/02podur.cfm Criticism on Belgian newspaper "De Morgen"'s coverage of the war in Palestine (Dutch). http://belgium.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20333&group=webcast http://belgium.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20278 Institute for Public Accuracy: http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR040102.htm http://www.accuracy.org ----------------------------------------------- 8. KEY RESOURCES ~ Middle East Media ~ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAN2 http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ http://www.afgha.com http://www.afghannews.net/ http://www.alternativenews.org/ http://www.amin.org http://www.electronicintifada.com http://www.haaretzdaily.com http://www.israelinsider.com/index.htm http://www.jmcc.org http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm http://www.palestinechronicle.com http://www.palestinemonitor.org/ http://www.wafa.pna.net/EngText/16-09-2001/page004.htm http://www.solidarite-palestine.org/ Palestinian media links: http://www.birzeit.edu/links/nnm.html Corporate media covering the Middle East: http://www.amin.org/jourmag/index.html Middle East in Focus with host Don Bustany (Wednesday at 2pm, KPFK Los Angeles 90.7FM)--streamed over the internet at http://www.kpfk.org Voice of Palestine (Tuesday at 8pm on Vancouver's Co-op Radio, CFRO 102.7FM)--not streamed (yet) http://www.coopradio.org ~ activist resources ~ http://www.protest.net http://www.zmag.org http://www.batshalom.org http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org http://www.ccmep.org/ http://www.eff.org http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/index.html http://www.igc.org/igc/gt/PeaceNet/ http://www.igc.org/balkans/wib/ http://www.nonviolence.org/ http://www.nowarcollective.com http://www.peace-action.org/ http://www.peace.protest.net http://www.warresisters.org/ http://www.womenwagingpeace.net ~ other alternative media coverage and analysis ~ http://www.newsgrist.com (collection of analysis and background links) http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/sofar.html (another collection from Red Rock Eater News) http://www.abunimah.org http://www.alternet.org/?IssueAreaID=28 http://www.btlonline.org http://www.commondreams.org http://www.counterpunch.org http://www.democracynow.org http://www.fair.org http://www.fpif.org/indices/regions/mideast.html http://www.fstv.org http://www.fsrn.org http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/ http://www.islam-online.net/English/index.shtml http://www.mediachannel.org http://www.poynter.org/medianews http://www.pacifica.org http://www.radioforall.org http://www.stratfor.com http://www.truthout.com http://www.znet.org -------------------------------------------- 9. 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