PALESTINIANS UNDER SEIGE
by Indymedia News Blast Team • Thursday April 04, 2002 at 04:35 PM
 imc-nbwg@indymedia.org

IMC NEWS BLAST: a selection of important news summaries, stories, opinions and media found on a variety of the Independent Media Center websites.

MC 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.

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IMC NEWS BLAST: a selection of important news summaries, stories, opinions
and media found on a variety of the Independent Media Center websites.

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Translations will follow and will be posted as comments to the online version.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.rm
 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-palestine__s.mp3
 http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/washingtondc/040202_interview_sean_imc-palestine__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

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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)

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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/

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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

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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

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