Fadi Abu Sada – As an audience of journalists in the West Bank we waited for the final act: to become the specific target of Jewish settlers. It seems this year that the extremists have added us to their well-organized plan and are not just preventing farmers from harvesting olives but are also bent on ensuring we do not broadcast our reality to the world.

Fadi Abu Sada for (MENASSAT) On September 12, members of the Israeli Jerusalem Association of Journalists (JAJ) and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) met separately in Jerusalem with a delegation from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) to discuss Israeli policies towards journalists working in Israel and Palestinian Territories.

Fadi Abu Sada – I deeply wanted today to be special. I know that I am under occupation in Palestine and that should excuse the lack, but it doesn’t seem to. Even if little attempts make it special with family and friends it’s just not the same as what I think or dream about. I thought about a lot of things and I believe that some ideas may lead to having a special day, but then I just stepped back and thought about writing what I have in my mind.

Fadi Abu Sada- Since the early days of my childhood I have passed the road between Bethlehem and Jericho or Ramallah. I watch the olive trees and the way they are chopped, looking as if they have been executed like humans, their heads severed from their bodies. When I was small I did not know the reason for this and became weighted down wondering about the meaning of “security concerns.” I saw that Israel used this concept as a flimsy argument to excuse its actions and no one believe any of it.

Fadi Abu Sada for Menassat.com- Since Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, and one year after Hamas' victory over the Fatah party in early parliamentary elections, the battle for the hearts and minds of Palestinians has been waged in the media. For over two years now, there has been a well-documented media war between the two rival political factions. A new media battle was ignited on the night of July 25 after a car bomb explosion on a crowded Gaza City beach killed six Palestinians and wounded more than twenty.