Still no justice for October 2000 killings, Electronic Intifada, 26 February 2008

Jonathan Cook writes me from Nazareth, Palestine: [Excerpt] "On 2 October 2000, as the Israeli army was beginning its ruthless crackdown on the second intifada in the occupied territories, 17-year-old Aseel Asleh joined tens of thousands of other Palestinian citizens across Israel in taking to the streets in protest and in a show of solidarity with their kin across the Green Line. A firm believer in nonviolence, Asleh wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the logo of a prominent Jewish and Arab coexistence group, Seeds of Peace, as he marched alongside family, friends and neighbors through his town of Arrabeh in northern Israel. Within hours Asleh was dead, face down in an olive grove. ..." Read more