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BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS IN AUSTRALIA, FIVE YEARS ON
By Sonja Karkar, The Electronic Intifada, 9 July 2010

In Australia, with a supine government and a media unwilling to investigate Israel's criminal acts, getting
the Palestine message out to the public has been a real challenge. However, Australian unions look like they might
be changing that. Sonja Karkar comments on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement in Australia on the
anniversary of the historic Palestinian call for such tactics.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11382.shtml

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"BEWARE OF SMALL STATES": JOURNALIST DAVID HIRST INTERVIEWED
By Robin Yassin-Kassab, The Electronic Intifada, 9 July 2010

Veteran Middle East correspondent David Hirst, author of the seminal work on the Palestinian plight The Gun and the
Olive Branch, has a new release: Beware of Small States, an equally important book on Lebanon's complex tragedy.
The Electronic Intifada contributor Robin Yassin-Kassab interviews Hirst on his work and views.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11383.shtml

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UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE POSES DEADLY THREAT IN GAZA
By Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 8 July 2010

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - More than a year after the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the risk of unexploded
ordnance poses as real a threat as the fresh bombings.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11380.shtml

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PROTESTERS GREET NETANYAHU IN WASHINGTON AS ISRAEL EXPANDS SETTLEMENTS
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2010

Hundreds of activists in Washington, DC demonstrated outside the White House to protest Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's visit on Tuesday, 6 July. As protesters held signs calling on the US government to end
military aid to Israel, Netanhayu met with US President Barack Obama in a meeting characterized by the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution as "empty theatrics."

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11378.shtml

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ACTIVISTS FOUND NOT GUILTY FOR DECOMMISSIONING WEAPONS FACTORY
By Chloe Marsh, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2010

Seven anti-war activists on trial for entering a Brighton weapons factory and "decommissioning" it were found
unanimously "not guilty" last week. On 16 January 2009 six of the defendants broke into the premises of EDO MBM, a
supplier of weapons components. According to one of the defendants, Elijah Smith, they "set out to smash it up to
the best of our abilities." Chloe Marsh writes for The Electronic Intifada.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11367.shtml

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WATER IN GAZA: "IT'S NOT A SIMPLE PROBLEM"
By Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2010

For the last year Mark Buttle has been the coordinator for the "WASH cluster," the group of aid organizations working
on water, sanitation and hygiene in the Gaza Strip. Sarah Irving interviews for The Electronic Intifada.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11373.shtml

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PALESTINIAN STUDENTS, TEACHERS CONDEMN ITALIAN UNIVERSITY'S NORMALIZATION PROJECT
Statement, Palestinian Students' Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, University Teachers' Association in Palestine, 7 July 2010

The Italian Development Cooperation (DGCS), with the support of UNESCO, has engineered the partnership of three
Israeli universities with that of Al-Quds University in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in a masters program
that allows 20 Israeli and Palestinian students to participate in learning about "cooperation, humanitarianism, peace and cultural preservation." This act of normalization aims to blur the boundaries between oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, occupier and occupied, executioner and victim, and ultimately aims at whitewashing Israel's war crimes.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11379.shtml

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BOYCOTT THE INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION'S REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN TEL AVIV!
Press release, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, 6 July 2010

Today, a month after the massacre of nine human rights activists in international waters aboard a flotilla
carrying aid and supplies sailing to break the four-year closure of the Gaza Strip, we call once again upon the
International Geographical Union to take a courageous and principled stand and cancel its Tel Aviv conference.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11375.shtml