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9781844670079

Peace under Fire : Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement

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    9781844670079

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    1844670074

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-07-17
  • Publisher: VERSO
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Summary

The last two years have been the most brutal in the entire thirty-six year history of Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; indeed the most violent since the creation of Israel itself. The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded as a peaceful resistance to that violence. Its highly visible actions, which have included breaking the sieges in Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as saving countless lives, have shone a spotlight on Israel's occupation. Outlawed in Israel and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the ISM has threatened the governing coalition with fears that Israeli opinion might at last be turning against them.In showing what risks Palestinians take, ISM volunteers have also tragically been targeted. The deaths of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, as well as the shootings of Kate Edwards, Caoimhe Butterley and Brian Avery, have never been fully explained, covered up in the US and UK and brushed aside in Israelan unfortunate consequence of Israel's "war on terror."This collection of accounts, drawn from web-logs and diaries of ISM volunteers, news articles, press releases, writings from the Corrie and Hurndall families, Rachel Corrie's last email home, and cover photograph by Tom Hurndall, reveals the real horror of life under occupation and describes the first signs of a new wave of international solidarity.20 b/w illustrations.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note ix
Foreword: The Meaning of Rachel Corrie xi
Edward W. Said
PART ONE: BEGINNINGS
1(42)
Founding The International Solidarity Movement
3(20)
Helping To Bring Back Hope
3(9)
Resisting The Tool of Control
12(3)
The Truth About Occupation
15(2)
The International Intifada
17(3)
What Is The ISM?
20(3)
First And Second Campaigns
23(20)
Trying Not To Go
23(2)
Israeli Police ``Carry Out Routine, Organized Cruelty''
25(2)
Initial Statement Regarding Arrest And Detention
27(3)
Stepping Off The Sidewalk
30(2)
My Mother's Son
32(3)
A Strange Trip
35(8)
PART TWO: REOCCUPATION
43(188)
Siege Of The Muqata'A
45(22)
Ramallah Update
45(1)
Getting Through To The Wounded
46(2)
Ramallah Update
48(1)
Internationals In With Arafat Call For Their Ambassadors
49(1)
Peace Advocates In Arafat Compound Hope To Deter Israeli Troops
50(2)
The World Is Watching
52(3)
``This Is The Occupation''
55(5)
Internationals Enter Presidential Compound In Ramallah---Seek To Preempt Israeli Raid
60(2)
For Activists With Arafat, A Whiff Of Relief
62(5)
Siege Of The Church Of The Nativity
67(20)
How I Wish That Everything Was An April Fool's Joke
67(3)
Under Fire In Bethlehem
70(2)
Four Days In Hell
72(2)
Bethlehem Diary
74(1)
International Activists Reach Door Of Church Of The Nativity
75(2)
Bethlehem Diary
77(1)
International Peacemakers Enter Bethlehem Church Of The Nativity
78(2)
Bethlehem Diary
80(1)
Inside The Church Of The Nativity
81(2)
Israeli Army Arrests Ten Peace Activists In Nativity Church
83(2)
Bethlehem Diary
85(2)
Invasion
87(16)
Courage Under Fire
87(2)
The Boy Who Kissed The Soldier
89(6)
Tulkarem: A Week Of Extreme Violence
95(3)
Swept Clean
98(2)
Abu Muhammad Said To Me...
100(3)
Defying Curfew
103(20)
Israeli Army Opens Fire On Civilians In The Streets Of Jenin
103(1)
Army Tank Shells Kill Three In Jenin
104(1)
The Constant Confusion Of Curfew
105(1)
Defying Curfew In Nablus
106(1)
Nablus Residents Break Curfew And Deliver Appeal To Kofi Annan
106(2)
Israeli Army Fires On Crowds In Jenin
108(1)
Us Guns Used On Us And Palestinian Civilians In Ramallah
109(1)
Peace, Yes---Occupation, No!
110(2)
Looking For Words
112(3)
Soldiers Battling The Will Of The People
115(1)
Children Breaking Curfew In Ramallah
116(1)
Beginning To Understand?
117(1)
Today We Have Made This Demonstration Because We Want Freedom
118(5)
Checkpoints And Freedom Of Movement
123(27)
Israel's Palestinian Bingo Policy
123(2)
Deir Ibzi'e Children's Summer Camp
125(1)
Not Allowed To Live
126(2)
Illegally Detained By The Israeli Defence Force: Complaint To The Us Consulate
128(5)
If I Don't Write Now...
133(1)
Justice Flows Like Water
134(1)
Successful Action At The Iron Gate Today
135(1)
The War Against Teaparties
136(4)
Locals And Internationals Remove Crippling Roadblock
140(1)
Prison And The Beast
141(4)
Nablus To Tel Aviv
145(5)
Ambulance Accompaniment
150(9)
How I Became A Terror Tourist
150(2)
Occupation Forces Raid Prcs
152(1)
Births In Jenin
153(1)
Jenin Fever
154(1)
Israeli Army Attacks Jenin Hospital
155(1)
No Foreseeable End To This Tour Of Duty
156(3)
Home Protection
159(16)
International Solidarity Movement Investigates Hostage Situation, Blocks Tank In Nablus
159(2)
Just Another Day
161(2)
Children's Summer Camp In Askar Refugee Camp, Nablus
163(1)
Israeli Army Carrying Out Collective Punishment In Nablus
164(1)
At Home In Al-Fara'
165(1)
International Day Of Action Against Home Demolitions In Palestine
166(3)
Sleeping In The Bed Of A Suicide Bomber
169(2)
Nablus Decision: Resistance
171(4)
The Olive Harvest
175(16)
Whose Rights, Whose Olives?
175(5)
Yanoun
180(1)
Massive Israeli Settler Attack On Foreign Volunteers In Palestine
181(1)
Permission To Pick
182(2)
Two Protestors Injured Trying To Protect Palestinian Olive Trees!
184(2)
All Because Of A Small Olive
186(2)
An Important Step In The Right Direction
188(3)
The Apartheid Wall
191(18)
Stop The Wall ``Snaking Through The West Bank''
191(2)
Nonviolent Protesters Attacked In March Against The Construction Of The Wall
193(1)
A Bad Day In Jayyous
193(4)
A Community Rises Up To Stop Construction Of The Apartheid Wall
197(3)
Violence At The Gate
200(2)
If It Bleeds, It Leads
202(1)
Camp Against The Thievery Of Land
203(1)
Gathering Firewood Together
204(5)
The Largest Concentration Camp In The World
209(22)
``Welcome To The Erez Crossing''
209(2)
Israeli Army Destroys Road That Internationals And Palestinians Have Been Fixing For Days
211(1)
A Long Night In Gaza
212(3)
Protest Labels Israeli Army ``Murderers''
215(1)
Rafah Under Siege
215(2)
Camp Rafah
217(2)
They Shot A Reporter
219(1)
Waiting For The Declaration Of War
220(1)
ISM Activists Protect Gaza Hospital at Request Of Unais And Hospital Director
221(1)
Water Wars And Assassination
222(1)
Us Embassy Supports Own Citizens Shock!
222(1)
Ism Activists Open Abu Holi Checkpoint
223(2)
On This Side Of The Mirror
225(3)
The Battle Of Tel Zorab
228(3)
PART THREE: ISM UNDER ATTACK
231(64)
Rachel Corrie, Brian Avery And Tom Hurndall
233(26)
In Conversation With The Us Consulate
233(2)
Rachel Corrie's Last E-Mail To Her Mother
235(1)
The Killing Of Rachel Corrie
236(1)
At The Memorial For Rachel In Rafah
237(1)
The Shooting Of Brian Avery
238(2)
Violence In Israel Alters Local Man's Life
240(3)
The Shooting Of Tom Hurndall
243(1)
Getting Tom To Hospital
244(1)
Help Us To Make A Difference
245(2)
Families Seek Truth Over Israeli Deaths
247(5)
Tom Hurndall Dies As Family Receive News Of The Indictment Of His Killer
252(2)
The Daughter I Can't Hear From
254(5)
Crackdown On ISM
259(20)
Open Line With The Chief Of Staff
259(2)
Army Backtracks On Details About Militant Arrest At International Solidarity Movement
261(1)
Gaza Visitors Must Sign Waiver In Case Army Shoots Them
262(1)
Two Britons Still Held At Erez Border Crossing
263(1)
Israeli Forces Raid ISM Office
264(2)
Israeli Forces Snatch, Beat And Arrest ISM Volunteers
266(2)
ISM Update
268(1)
ISM Activists Detained By Israeli Military
268(1)
ISM Demands Israeli Retraction And Apology Over Mike's Place Bombing Allegations
269(2)
ISM Media Coordinator Deported And British School Teacher Barred From The Occupied Territories
271(1)
Israel To Deport Eight International Peace Activists
271(2)
Prison Beating
273(1)
``We Are All Palestinians''
274(1)
Occupied Peoples Have A Right To Resist
275(4)
Here To Stay
279(16)
The Foreigners Who Brave Israeli Bullets
279(4)
Eye On ISM---Activities And Obstacles
283(6)
Walking Towards Gunfire: The Peace Protesters Who Stand Up Against Violence
289(3)
Fighting The Conspiracy Of Silence
292(3)
Epilogue: A Letter From An Israeli To ISM 295

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