Positive Universe Abstracts

Reuters AlertNet, UK 29 Jun 2006 17:01:37 GMT Source: Human Rights Watch

(Beirut, June 29, 2006) Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s only electrical plant needlessly punishes the civilian population and has created the potential for a serious humanitarian crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch also said that Palestinian militant groups are committing a war crime [...]

NY Times (Editorial)

Published: June 29, 2006

The Supreme Court, in a badly fractured decision yesterday, largely upheld Tom DeLay’s gerrymandering of the Texas Congressional districts. Instead of standing up for a fair electoral landscape, the court produced a ruling that did little to ensure the vibrancy of American democracy, and that itself had an unfortunate whiff [...]

Laila El-Haddad writing from occupied Gaza, Live from Palestine, 28 June 2006

A Palestinian fireman tries to fight a fire at a metal foundry in Rafah Refugee Camp in the southern Gaza Strip, June 28, 2006. (MaanImages/Hatem Omar)

Friends and family in Gaza have told me they are bracing themselves for the worst, while praying for the [...]

Christopher Brown, The Electronic Intifada, 28 June 2006 (m)

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American living in the besieged Palestinian city of El-Bireh in the West Bank. He is the co-author of HOMELAND: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians (1994). I spoke with Sam via telephone about the worsening situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, [...]

No Prisoner Swap Talk: www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/730994.html

Civilian Infrastructure Targeted: electronicintifada.net/new.shtml

Israel Sends Troops to Gaza (also huffingtonpost.com) www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/world/middleeast/28mideast.html?hp&ex=1151467200&en=5a0ce4a7ea376354&ei=5094&partner=homepage

War or Peace? Jets Strike as Hamas moves closer to recognition of Israel: news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1115913.ece

Hamas: No recognition of Israel (conservative): www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Hamas_No_Recognition_of_Israel.asp

TODAY’S DEMOCRACY NOW!:

Fmr. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami: “It Was Wrong” For Israel to Invade Gaza *

Israeli forces have invaded the Gaza [...]

KABOBfest, DC

The Associated Press article on Israel’s current siege of the Gaza Strip used some pretty interesting language to describe Israel’s on-going bombardment of one of the most densely-packed impoverished places in the world.

The story reported that Israeli attacks destroyed bridges, bombed “bomb-making factories,” and cut off most of the electricity and water to Gaza. [...]

ReliefWeb, Switzerland

Experts Examine Obstacles to Palestinian Statehood, As United Nations Meeting in Support of Middle East Peace Continues

General Assembly GA/PAL/1013 (Received from a UN Information Officer)

VIENNA, 27 June — The United Nations International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace today heard that Israeli settlements and the related network of “slicing and separating” the Occupied Palestinian Territory, political [...]