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Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, spiritual head of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, has fallen victim to justice Israeli-style. Early in the morning as the white-haired, wheelchair-bound leader exited his local mosque after prayers, Israel's Apache helicopter gunships lay in waiting on the direct orders, and under the personal supervision, of Ariel Sharon. This high-profile extra-judicial assassination — one in the long line of many — has thrust the region into turmoil, and, far from weakening the Palestinians and their supporters, it has united them. It has also gagged the moderates and fueled the extremists.

The author expresses great concern about the dramatic upsurge in violations of the law and domestic violence in Palestine. As a Jerusalemite psychiatrist, the author describes the accused perpetrators to the murders that were committed in Palestine in May 2014. She also discusses the factors contributing to people's exclusion from sharing the benefits of nationhood. In addition, she details the impact of the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian people.

The article reports that the Israeli peace camp has failed to become a significant political movement because it could not find a peace partner among the various Palestinian movements. Some Israeli Jews maintain that living in occupied Palestine is a religious obligation and that modern European Jews are the direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews, who had exclusive rights to Palestine. The author says Secular Israelis who reject a one-state solution in favor of an exclusive Jewish state fear and mistrust their non-Jewish neighbors.

The article examines the use of bulldozers for violence in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. In a span of less than three weeks, two Palestinians used bulldozers in rampages against cars and people in Jerusalem. Bulldozers also represent the hundreds of Palestinian villages levelled and thousands of homes demolished in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem by Israel.

The author criticizes the legislative bill introduced in the Knesset of Israel that would make Hebrew Israel's sole official language. The author argues that Israel, the occupier of Palestine, wants to eliminate the Arabic language in order to erase Palestinian memories, culture and history. The author relates how Israel is taking possession of the existing culture of Palestine such as de- or renaming events and territories. The author criticizes a vocabulary that serves to perpetuate the injustices in line with Israel's occupation of Palestine.

The article reports on the 60th anniversary of al-Nakba, a commemoration for the Palestinian people of their displacement and dispossession as a result of their defeat in the 1948 Palestine war. According to the author, Nakba has cast its black shadow over the memory, the narrative, and the identity of the Palestinian community since it took place. The author emphasizes that as people reflect upon the significance of al-Nakba, the significance of Jerusalem should also be recognized and realize that the march of return starts from Jerusalem.

The article reports that 2008 will mark 60 years since the beginning of the Nakba, the events of 1948 that resulted in the occupation of the Palestinian land and the expulsion of its people by Israel. Nakba is a deliberate program, a process, of occupation, transfer and genocide of the Palestinian people and their national identity to create an empty land to be populated by Jewish immigrants.

The article examines the reason behind the protests held by Palestinians during the peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland in 2007 which aimed to resolve the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza, by a wide range of Palestinian political and social groups, are an indication of the concern that the conference is laying the ground for an outcome that the Palestinian people cannot and will not accept.

The editorial discusses the psychological damage done by the Israeli occupation of Palestine since its foundation in the 1950s. The editor describes his experience as a doctor in the region, citing several instances of psychological neuroses among political prisoners and war victims. The editor insinuates that the damages could be part of Israel's efforts to undermine the Palestinian generation.

The article focuses on the celebration of the Eid al-Adha in Palestine following the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The celebration was marked with nausea and loss of appetite and joy. She states that the timing of the execution was hurtful for the Sunnis and the Shi'i's role in the execution is an incitement to religious conflict. Demonstrations in streets were held by Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank to mourn for the former president.

The article focuses on issues concerning Palestinian infighting between Fatah and Hamas militants. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas' September 2006 visit to the U.S. only served to undermine the Palestinian public's optimism over national approval of the prisoners' document and advancement in talks for a national unity government.

The article presents information on the sad plight of the Palestinian Teachers and education in Palestine. They have not been paid since last February after the democratic elections. Teachers represent the largest sector of government employees including health care workers and office employees. The article also informs about a strike joined by Palestinian Teachers that relates to irregularity in salaries and payments. The new government's best efforts to conserve public funds are not sufficient.

The article focuses on the stand taken by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the Palestinian National Accord Document drawn up by members of five separate Palestinian factions imprisoned in Israel. President Abbas launched a national dialogue in Ramallah on May 11, 2006 to work out the differences between his party and other Palestinian factions. He unilaterally decided on a deadline for an agreement of settlement with Israel and pledged to call a referendum if no settlement was reached within ten days. The accord document demanded an unity government.

The article focuses on French President Jacques Chirac's proposal to aid Palestinians via an international mechanism such as the World Bank. The European Union (EU) will take the lead in working out the details of the economic assistance. Washington has been Israel's foremost ally in its campaign to isolate Hamas, even from its Arab and Muslim environment. Chirac insisted that aid must be channelled through institutions independent of the Palestinian government. France has an earlier history of interfering in order to end Palestinian crises.

The article focuses on the views of the author on issues related to the success of the organization Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections. Employees of the Palestinian Authority received their January 2006 salaries 10 days late. This is just the beginning of the financial troubles Palestinians are facing in the aftermath of the January 26, 2006 legislative elections in which the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, won the political high ground against its Fatah opponents, some of whom were financially and politically supported by the American administration.

This article reports that the July 27 execution of Raed Khalil Al Mughrabi, convicted of the 2001 killing of accountant Khalil Zmullt, marks the 13th official Palestinian execution since 1994. Even though President Yasser Arafat agreed to a moratorium on the death penalty in 2002, nine sentenced prisoners have been killed extrajudicially, during Israeli invasions of the Palestinian territories, by gunmen who attacked prisons and courthouses. On June 12 of this year, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) executed four Palestinian prisoners convicted of committing murder and other crimes between 1995 and 2000. All four, it will be noted, were very young when they committed their crimes. Moreover, after allowing them to lanquish in prison for several years without any legal proceeding, the PNA suddenly and summarily executed them. INSET: The Palestinian Center for Human Rights on the Death Penalty.

The article reports that as expected and despite all previous presidential assertions--verbal, visual and official--that elections for the Palestinian legislative council would be held on time, the scheduled July 17, 2005 poll has been postponed indefinitely. The ostensible reason was to allow time to resolve a dispute over proposed reforms to the voting law. The election law and the exact voting dates were two of the major items discussed and agreed upon by the various Palestinian factions as part of the Cairo understandings.

The article author presents his views on the Sharm el-Sheikh summit between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on February 8. Following the meet, the media were full of congratulations and fantasies of peace. The bitter reality, however, is that nothing has changed in the lives of most Palestinians. Israel offers "disengagement" from Gaza with the left hand, while its right hand grabs more West Bank land, continues to imprison Palestinians behind its apartheid wall, advances its political access to and normalization of relations with other Arab nations, and reaches a formal and internationally accepted agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Unlike the principled stand of the New Zealand government, Palestine's Arab neighbors are eager to send their ambassadors back to Israel, and are using the "success" of Sharm el-Sheikh as a pretext to do so.

The article focuses on the views of the Egyptians on the late Palestinian Authority President and the Palestine Liberation Organization founder Yasir Arafat. In addition to the formal military funeral organized by the Egyptian government in Dar Al-Jalaa military club in Cairo, Egypt, there was a grassroots farewell to Arafat organized by the Egyptian Popular Committee in Solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada. After all, for ordinary people in Egypt and around the Arab world, Arafat is the face of the Palestinian nation and the symbol of its foundation.

The article reports on social condition of Palestinian children. More than half the Palestinians population are children under the age of 17. The majority of Palestinians, therefore, consist of the community's most vulnerable members. Not only are they in a crucial stage of physical and mental development, but they are a direct target of Israeli military violence. As the fourth generation of Palestinian trauma, moreover, they are the bearers of the accumulated heavy inheritance of national loss. With the exception of recent media reporting of the latest Israeli atrocities in Gaza, which killed 35 children, more than a third of the total number of victims, the plight of Palestinian children is unknown to people following crises on television.

The recent annihilation of Rafah is but another link in the chain of Israeli burglaries of Palestine. The intensive, heavy-handed targeting of high-ranking Palestinian political leaders, the not-so-long-ago destruction of Jenin, the construction of the separation wall on both sides of which Israelis will continue living and the daily theft of Palestinian land, life and property over the past 56 years of occupation are but a few examples. Instead, the killing, destruction, terror and expulsions were carefully designed to inflict the maximum horror and dread in the hearts of Palestinians, so as to steal the most possible land with the fewest possible Palestinians still living on it.

The occupation of Palestine is based on a 19th century ideology that denied the very existence of the Palestinian people and pursued a colonial agenda asserting divine claims to a land without a people. The overwhelming and ceaseless atrocities of Israel's government leave most Palestinians with little opportunity to reflect on the moral aspect of our resistance. To this day Palestinians still have no state or armed forces. This has shaped Western public consciousness and resulted in an international bias that tends to describe instances of violence against Palestinian civilians in neutral language, reducing Palestinian losses to mere faceless statistics, while using emotional language and visuals to describe Israeli losses.

The latest round of hostilities, after 50 days of relative, uneasy calm in Palestine and Israel, aimed to extinguish the glimmer of hope still alive in the hearts of peace seekers on both sides. The lost Palestinian and Israeli lives were the victims sacrificed in order to attain that goal. The construction of the Wall deep into Palestinian territories, the ongoing building activity in the settlements, the treatment of political prisoners as criminals, and expecting the Palestinians to call themselves terrorists and respect their enemy is definitely not the popular Palestinian concept of peace. Nevertheless, there are enough brave people with the deep commitment to peace necessary to overcome emotional difficulties and cooperate with their Israeli counterparts, provided both sides find that common ground on which their shared humanity can act against in human practices.

The article focuses on the condition of Palestinian and Israeli political activists and fighters. Living with virtually no food, in crippling cold with little clothing, these people are constantly in the shadow of death. Many of their friends and comrades have been assassinated and many live in dread, anticipating death at any moment. They hide in caves, old buildings and public places, not knowing where to go or whom to trust. Israel has a long history of extrajudicial killings, a policy in direct and blatant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. It is being implemented, moreover, with complete disregard for the risks it poses to the lives of innocent civilian bystanders. The ultimate motive for this policy seems not to be the mere killing of Palestinian activists, but rather the “re-education” and imprisonment of the entire nation.

Reports on the harsh treatment of the Israeli soldiers allegedly mete out at check points in Palestine. Rendition of compulsory military service by Israeli citizens; Palestinian's view about Israeli soldiers; Repercussion of the soldiers' act of violence.

Focuses on the impact of Israelite assaults on Palestinian people in Middle East. Story of a Palestinian nurse in relation to Israel assaults; Deportation of the Palestinian prisoners to Gaza Strip; Fears of Palestinians to the deportation of the prisoners.

Focuses on the response of the international community toward the border conflict between Israel and Palestine. Intervention of the U.S. government on the situation; Prevention of the Palestinian from coming home; Importance on the restoration of humanity.

Narrates the story of a witness to the brutality of Israeli soldiers against a Palestinian. Social conditions of Palestinians under the provocation of Ariel Sharon; Prevalence of murders among Palestinians; Rationale behind the provocation.

Presents a perspective by a Palestinian woman on Israeli checkpoints, considered as a sign of Israeli suppression. Author's daily experiences going through checkpoints; Recollection of a difference of checkpoints in the United States; Opinion on the 'Israeli/American' war against the indigenous people of Palestine.

Twenty-seven elite Israeli air force officers delivered a protest letter September 24, 2003 to air force Major Dan Halutz in which the pilots announced their refusal to participate in targeted killings or any other operations in the occupied territories. The fact that the active-duty signers made their initiative public, therefore, makes it an even more impressive political act. Their courageous protest to the Israeli public and to the Israeli occupation forces (IDF) comes at a time when the Israeli government is poised to invade Gaza and to assassinate more Palestinian leaders, possibly including President Yasir Arafat in Ramallah.

Presents an excerpt of the article 'We Palestinians Will Never Lose Our Love, Pride and Dignity' in the 'Palestine Times' periodical.

Focuses on the life of the Palestine as they struggle to fight for their country and to seek peace and justice. Civilization in rush; Recognition on humanity; Rejection on morality.

Argues that Israel's taking of the Holy Land is a violation of other people's human rights. Author's sadness for people killed in the terrorist act by Said Al-Houtary and Palestinians who have died at the hands of Israeli military forces; Definition of a terrorist; Claim that Palestinians are ready to sacrifice themselves to the frustration leveled on them by Israeli-Zionist oppression.