Ramallah, Palestine 29 April 2002
We are Americans who are addressing you from inside Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s besieged compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Read more about An open letter to the American public from Arafat's compound
Ramallah 24 April 2002
I am back in Ramallah -after spending over three weeks in Jerusalem, imposing myself on different friends there. Read more about Ramallah: Everyone has a story
Ramallah, Palestine 23 April 2002
ISM volunteers Richard Johnson and Sofia Ahmed witnessed two young boys “blown up” in a small field in Jenin Camp yesterday. Sofia reports being only 40 meters away when something exploded. “Although we can’t be positive what it was that exploded, four days ago we saw Israeli soldiers on foot in the exact same place.” Read more about Update from ISM
Ramallah, Palestine 22 April 2002
We woke up this morning to see if the Israeli troops withdrew from Ramallah as they claimed yesterday or not. To start with my street, where I live, all that had changed was the fortification of the barrier sealing the beginning of my street and now a new one at the other end. Read more about The 'end' of an occupation
Ramallah, Palestine 21 April 2002
It’s like this: There are 3 million-plus stories out there. Today is the first day I felt overwhelmed by the scale of it. Read more about On a spaceship to nowhere
Ramallah, Palestine 18 April 2002
I went out of my house today, for the first time in four days. The Israelis allowed us to buy food but we can only be on the streets for two hours. The city is destroyed. Cars on the side of the road crushed flat like pizza. Tanks rolled over them. Read more about Under Siege: 2-15 April 2002
Ramallah, Palestine 17 April 2002
So quiet in Ramallah these days, but from time to time we hear explosions because the army is blowing the doors off of ministries, schools, kindergartens, development agencies and houses. Tonight, it is exceptionally noisy. Read more about Independence day
Ramallah, Palestine 16 April 2002
How ironic is it that the only ‘democracy’ in the Middle East, places the residents of its ‘eternal capital’ under curfew for an undetermined period of time, while it celebrates its glorious 54th anniversary as a state? Read more about 'Independence' day: the view from Ramallah
Ramallah, Palestine 14 April 2002
Tonight, five members of the International Solidarity Movement are sleeping at a school in Jenin with 800 refugees from the Jenin Refugee Camp. Earlier in the day, nine internationals from the United States, Sweden and Italy entered the refugee camp and started to deliver food to the remaining residents of the camp - women, children and elderly men. Read more about ISM enters Jenin refugee camp
Ramallah, Palestine 13 April 2002
The Palestinian people have no grudge against the American public. We never did. As a matter of fact, if one resists the media spin and takes a closer look at what the Palestinians have been struggling for during the last two weeks—let alone the last thirty-five years—it will be revealed that the Palestinian Intifada is a very American struggle. Read more about Palestinians and the American people