Parents of critically injured US peace activist demand justice from Israel
Peace campaigner was struck in head with teargas grenade during demo in occupied West Bank
Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem Monday 23 March 2009
The parents of an American peace activist who was severely injured by Israeli forces at a demonstration in the occupied West Bank called [...]

Israel uses new, more-lethal tear gas canisters on Palestinians
Friday, March 20, 2009
By: Paul Greenberg
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11563&news_iv_ctrl=1261

The Palestinian town of Ni’lin has become a focal point of protest and resistance against the expansionist Israeli apartheid wall. The wall cuts deep into the West Bank, separating more Palestinians from their land.
Ni’lin has already lost most [...]

Rabbis told Israeli soldiers Gaza offensive was religious war
March 21st, 2009 By: Michael van der Galien
http://www.poligazette.com/2009/03/21/rabbis-told-israeli-soldiers-gaza-offensive-was-religious-war/

More horrifying testimonies from Israeli soldiers were published in the Haaretz yesterday:
Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children’s graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques – these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense [...]

Israel bans Palestinian cultural events
Internal security minister instructs police to suppress any attempt to hold PA-sponsored events in framework of festivities marking declaration of Jerusalem as ‘capital of Arab culture’; Nazareth mayor: Dichter competing with Lieberman’s anti-Arab trend
Ynet

Published:

03.20.09, 21:28 / Israel News

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3689673,00.html

Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter has signed a number of injunctions [...]

Israel’s right not to be criticised
How serious can the international community’s commitment to eliminating racism be taken when it succumbs to Israeli pressure to boycott the Durban II conference, asks Amira Howeidy

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/939/re2.htm

Fresh from its bloody war on Gaza, Israel is actively pressuring the international community to boycott the Durban Review Conference due to convene [...]

Arab world fears Barack Obama’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just more of the same
Arabs were ecstatic when the Bush era ended but commentators are already expressing disappointment with the new president’s Middle East policy
Ian Black – Friday 20 March 2009 11.25 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/20/ian-black-middle-easthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/20/ian-black-middle-east
It is only a few weeks since Barack Obama’s arrival in [...]

Shooting of U.S. Activist by Israeli Army Spotlights Excessive Force Used Against Protesters
By Mel Frykberg, IPS News. Posted March 19, 2009.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/132522/shooting_of_u.s._activist_by_israeli_army_spotlights_excessive_force_used_against_protesters/
The critical wounding of a U.S. activist has highlighted the excessive use of force by Israeli forces.
The activist, Tristan Anderson, 38, was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers during a protest against Israel’s [...]

After Gaza, Israel Grapples With Crisis of Isolation
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: March 18, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/world/middleeast/19israel.html?th&emc=th
JERUSALEM — Israel, whose founding idea was branded as racism by the United Nations General Assembly in 1975 and which faced an Arab boycott for decades, is no stranger to isolation. But in the weeks since its Gaza war, and [...]

Rebranding Israel
By Ben Harris · March 19, 2009
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/03/19/1003845/rebranding-israel
I feel like I’ve read Ethan Bronner’s story in yesterday’s New York Times a half-dozen times already. With the country’s international reputation sagging, Israel tries to tout its cultural and scientific achievements and put forth a different face from one beset by war and conflict; to, in [...]

U.N. rights envoy sees Israeli war crimes in Gaza
By Stephanie Nebehay

http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLJ155314

GENEVA, March 19 (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights investigator said on Thursday that Israel’s military assault on densely populated Gaza appeared to constitute a grave war crime.
Richard Falk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said the Geneva Conventions [...]