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Human
rights
B’Tselem,
an Israeli human rights group focusing on human rights in the occupied
territories. I’ve used information from their web site extensively
here.
Amnesty
International has a section of their web site devoted to Israel
and Palestine.
Crimes of
War is a web site designed to educate individuals in international
law. The site is devoted to studying crimes of war throughout history
and the contemporary world.
Gush
Shalom is an Israeli peace group. Their web site contains a
variety of materials on local activism against the occupation as
well as documentation of breaches of international law.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society is affiliated with the International
Commission of the Red Cross. There are a number of links and updates
on this site related to the medical emergency.
LAW, The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights
and the Environment offers a wide range of materials and updates.
This is another excellent human rights site.
Human
Rights Watch has a section on Palestinian/Israeli events and
issues.
List
of Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups provides names
and addresses of a large number of groups. Google
is needed to find web sites if they are available.
There is a group that is collecting signatures for a petition to
end
United States’ aid to Israel.
Second
intifada
Colorado
Delegations to Palestine is one of the International Solidarity
Movement web sites. There are lots of links to information and articles
here.
PalestineChronicle.com
is an excellent Palestinian news site on the web.
Indy Media has two web sites that are of interest, the Jerusalem
site and the international
site with links to Indy Media web sites around the world. Indy
Media is an alternative news site with professional and nonprofessional
reporting of a wide variety of events.
Palestine
Monitor is another news and information web site. Their fact
sheets are useful, for example the Intifada
fact sheet provides a comprehensive breakdown of numbers of
Palestinians killed and injured, property damage, etc.
The Electronic Intifada is a web site with updates, information
about media coverage, and electronic diaries which are updated frequently
with reports and observations by a number of local and international
persons on the scene.
Washington Report
on the Middle East is a magazine that offers excellent background
and current information about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and
other middle eastern affairs. Their web site offers links to a wide
variety of human rights and UN sites and also past issues’ articles
online.
Israeli
media and government
Ha’aretz
is a daily liberal newspaper published in Jerusalem.
Israel’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a web site with lots of information
and statements.
Israel
Defense Force web site has statements and briefings by the Spokesperson’s
Unit along with information about the military activities in Palestinian
areas.
Israel
Government Gateway has links to all of the government sites
on the web.
History
of the conflict
The
Avalon Project at Yale Law School has collected a large number
of important documents and related information (press conferences
for example) pertaining to Israel and Palestine. This is an excellent
source for historical background from the Balfour agreement of 1917
to a briefing by Secretary of State Colin Powell in November 2001.
Two internet sites offer sets of maps which provide a historical
overview. BBC
News has maps and commentary, including maps of areas under
Palestinian control on the West Bank. GlobalSecurity.org
has another set of maps showing the boundaries of the ancient Jewish
homeland up to the present time. Clicking on the maps gives nice,
large views.
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