EGYPT-ISRAEL "PEACE TREATY" BROUGHT MORE WAR THAN PEACE
By Richard Irvine
The Electronic Intifada, 21 February 2011
In the wake of Egypt's revolution, Israeli and Western commentators have called the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty "cornerstone" of regional peace and stability. That Israel always viewed the treaty as a blank check for war, however, is evident both in its behavior and in fears that the abrogation of the treaty might mean Israel will have to curtail its military interventions.
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AL-TUWANI CHILDREN'S STRUGGLE TO GO TO SCHOOL
By Samuel Nichols
Live from Palestine, 21 February 2011
On the afternoon of 7 February 2011, masked Israeli settlers from Havat Maon outpost chased a group of twelve Palestinian schoolchildren who were walking home from school in al-Tuwani village in the occupied West Bank's South Hebron Hills. The Israeli military had failed to arrive to escort the schoolchildren, forcing the children to take a longer path without the army's escort.
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FAMILIES FORCED OUT AS ARMY OCCUPIES JERUSALEM ROOFTOP
By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
The Electronic Intifada, 18 February 2011
For at least five months, Israeli military has been stationed on the roof of Abid Abu Ramuz's building -- which houses a total of 69 persons from seven separate families, as well as a mosque -- in the heart of Silwan's Baten al-Hawa neighborhood.
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ACTIVISM ROUNDUP: BILIN COMMEMORATES SIX YEARS OF PROTEST Report
The Electronic Intifada, 18 February 2011
The Electronic Intifada brings you this roundup of recent activism news from across the globe, including disruptions by university students of speeches by an Israeli soldier and a politician in Massachusetts and in Scotland, a move to challenge Seattle's violations of free speech rights and a Palestinian youth group's demonstration against a settler-only marathon in the occupied West Bank.
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