Written by Ahmad Jaradat and Sara Venturini, Alternative Information Center (AIC)    

Hebron and the South of West Bank

Despite the size of the vote, opposition to the charter is fierce among rights activists and has brought together old enemies. Chérifa Kheddar is the head of Djazaïrouna, an association of victims of terrorism. Nacéra Dutour leads an association that works for those who disappeared at the hands of the state or its agents.

Any ethnic (or confessional) state considers the non-dominant ethnicity as a threat, and aspires to its disappearance through more or less violent means.

On Thursday, June 5, some fifteen union members and other activists
participated in an emergency picket line for more than two hours outside a
"Celebration" of the "60th Anniversary of Israel" held at AFSCME District
Council 37, the largest city workers' union in New York.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74gWWvPs2I

On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided to divide Palestine into a Jewish State and an Arab State, and a special international zone for Jerusalem and the holy sites. The Arab world refused and, on May 15, 1948, intervened against the Jewish State that was proclaimed the day before.