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IMC 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.

An online version of of this NEWS BLAST is posted here:
http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/5007.php
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 ~

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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