Palestinian history is now evolving in two opposing directions. (Activestills) Palestine’s Future in Safe Hands By Ramzy Baroud The commemoration of the Nakba needs to be more than a ritualistic event; the remembrance should be integrated into a clear and comprehensive national project aimed at offsetting the harm wrought to generations of Palestinians. There [...]
A Palestinian, showing solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, stands chained to a cage during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Credit: Abbas Monani / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images) ‘Victory’: Palestinians End Hunger Strike After Israel Agrees to Demands Though deal does not end future use of [...]
(Image Credit: Illustration: Luis Vazquez/©Gulf News) Who Owns the Palestine Solidarity Movement? By Ramzy Baroud A few years ago, after I spoke at a conference in South Africa, Ronnie Kasrils, then the country’s Minister for Intelligence Services, leaned towards me and said, “I agree with everything you said, but in order for the [...]
(MaanImages/file) By Ramzy Baroud Last week Marwan Barghouti, the prominent Palestinian political prisoner and Fatah leader, called on Palestinians to launch a “large-scale popular resistance” which would “serve the cause of our people.” The message was widely disseminated as it coincided with Land Day, an event that has unified Palestinians since March 1976. Its meaning [...]
MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty ImagesPalestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip march near the border with Israel to commemorate Land Day. Lior Mizrahi/Getty ImagesA Palestinian woman protests in occupied East Jerusalem on Land Day. AMMAR AWAD/REUTERSPalestinians pray during Friday prayers on Land Day outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty ImagesIsraeli police on horseback disperse Palestinian [...]
Yahya Shalabi, father of prisoner Hana Shalabi, holds a poster of his daughter during a protest in front of their family house in Burqin, near Jenin March 16. (Reuters/Abed Omar Qusini) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Thirty Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike of Hana Shalabi, who has consumed only water for 33 days, the head [...]
B12 passing Weybourne windmill. (Supplied) By Stuart Littlewood Not all is doom and gloom here in the UK. The North Norfolk Railway (Poppy Line) put on its Spring Steam Gala last weekend and a good time was had by young and old. Their cute little J15 was celebrating her 100th birthday, dwarfed by wildlife artist [...]
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Several dozen Palestiniansdemanding the release of a hunger-striking detainee clashed with Israeli troops Thursday, part of growing protests against the practice of holding Palestinians without formal charges. Soldiers fired tear gas and aimed a water cannon at about 50 women marching in support of Hana Shalabi, a 30-year-old West Bank [...]
By Fiona Tarazi Last weekend, Harvard Kennedy School of Government hosted a sold-out two-day conference on ‘Israel/Palestine and the One State Solution‘. Organized entirely by students — chiefly by a Palestinian, Ahmed Moor, and an Israeli, Elisha Baskin — the event featured a range of prestigious speakers and panelists, including historian and Professor Ilan Pappe, [...]
Protesters hold pictures of Palestinian prisoner Hana al-Shalabi, on hunger strike for three weeks [EPA] Ramallah, West Bank - It began with Khader Adnan’s sudden and bold declaration: “My dignity is more important than my life.”And with that he refused food for the next 66 days. With each day he persisted, more and more people around [...]
The haunting of Daniel Pipes by Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” by Franklin Lamb Posted on March 6, 2012 by dandelionsalad by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon March 4, 2012 Daniel Pipes, the anti-Arab Islamophobe, is reportedly spooked these days. “Actually he has become an almost terrified man”; so says a colleague [...]
Redefining Our Relationship to A People’s Struggle Hana Shalabi is every Palestinian woman. (Alternative News) By Ramzy Baroud (Based on talks delivered by Ramzy Baroud at Israeli Apartheid Week conferences in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada – March 5, 6 2012) In the Winter 2012 Edition of Palestine News – published by the Palestine [...]
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Two children were killed Tuesday as a mortar left by Israeli forces exploded near Hebron, medics and police said. Hamza Zayed Jaradat, 12, and Zayed Juma Jaradat, 12, were killed in the blast in Wadi Reem, east of Hebron in the southern West Bank, medics told Ma’an. Hebron police chief Ramadan Awad [...]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A constitutional court in Ramallah on Tuesday postponed a hearing on the legality of President Mahmoud Abbas‘ appointment as prime minister of a unity government to March 20. Abbas and Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal agreed that the president will lead a unity government in Doha in February. PLO central council member Abdul-Jawwad [...]
by Stuart Rees ABC – The Drum 6 March 2012 In the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, the Qdeh family’s modest rabbit farm is one of several Australian trade union humanitarian aid (Apheda) projects which is bolstering food security for poor families. On a Spring evening in April 2011, Najah Qdeh and [...]
Since then, nothing … (UN) By John V. WhitbeckDear President Abbas, There was visible and audible euphoria at the UN General Assembly in September when you announced Palestine’s application for UN membership, at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters in October when Palestine was admitted as a member state and at UNESCO again in December when the [...]
The Present Stands No Chance Against the Past By Robert Fisk January 28, 2012 “The Independent” – -The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an “invented people” – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean not to enjoy a Spring or [...]
Abbas Confirms: Israel Peace Talks Over No Progress in Latest Round of Negotiations by Jason Ditz, January 25, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The latest round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, kickstarted by [...]
Lawmaker Mohammed Totah walks behind Khaled Abu Arafah (L), a former cabinet minister, as they are escorted to a courtroom at the magistrate’s court in Jerusalem on Jan. 24, 2012. (Reuters/Ammar Awad) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Inter-Parliamentary Union’s committee on the Middle East on Tuesday met to discuss the imprisonment of members of the Palestinian [...]
A boy fills buckets with drinking water at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (MaanImages/Hatem Omar, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The head of the Palestinian Water Authority on Tuesday said the international community must act on Israel’s “apartheid” water policy in the West Bank. In January, the [...]
Palestinians survey damage after Israeli authorities destroyed ancient water wells and natural reservoirs used by Bedouins southeast of Bethlehem in March 2011. (MaanImages/HO) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Ramallah-based cabinet on Monday welcomed a French parliamentary report that said Israel’s control of Palestinian water resources broke international law. The document published by French parliament’s Foreign Affairs [...]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians rallied Saturday against steps toward renewing negotiations with Israel, gathering outside the presidential headquarters in Ramallah. “If you’re against negotiations, honk your car’s horn,” protesters chanted. Sympathetic drivers joined the demonstrators calling for the PLO to cease involvement in bilateral meetings in Jordan. A gathering of young men and women also [...]
Street art showing a woman in a keffiyeh over the word “intifada,” or “uprising,” in West Jerusalem. (MaanImages/HO) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian graffiti artists took to the streets of West Jerusalem overnight Wednesday, spraying symbols of resistance in the city center. Activists told Ma’an the artwork was the start of a campaign which will target [...]
(IRIN/Erica Silverman) RAMALLAH (IRIN) — Izz Tawil draws a black circle on the flip-chart in his office in Ramallah, capital of the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territory. “The Palestinian economy is a closed cash-circle,” the general manager of the Palestinian microfinance network Sharakeh explains. He goes on to draw several small arrows on [...]
Mourners pray at the funeral of seven family members killed when Israeli forces shelled their home in Jabaliya refugee camp on Jan. 9 2009. (MaanImages/Wissam Nassar) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestine on Saturday marked the 47th Martyrs’ Day, a national day declared by late President Yasser Arafat in 1965. Muhammad Nahhal, an official in a [...]
Ancient Palestinian artifacts at al-Mathaf Museum in Gaza. (almathaf.ps) By Hasan Afif El-Hasan In 1917, Jews constituted 7 percent of the indigenous Palestinian population and owned 1 percent of the land. Britain, as a colonialist power and the victor of World War I forced the Palestine Mandate and gave itself the right to grant a [...]
DCI/Palestine ”is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children,” according tointernational law principles. On December 28, it submitted a complaint [PDF] to several UN authorities titled, “The use of solitary confinement on Palestinian children held in Israeli detention.” It’s specifically for [...]
Negotiations have stalled because of Israeli settlement construction in occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem [EPA] Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are set to meet in the Jordanian capital, Amman, for their first face-to-face meeting in 16 months, but both sides say full-blown talks remain some way off. Nasser Judeh, who as Jordan’s foreign minister is to host the meeting between [...]
(MaanImages/Wissam Nassar, File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zahri said on Monday that Palestinians envoys meeting their Israeli counterparts this week were “reproducing a failed policy.” Hamas calls on the Palestinian Authority to boycott the meeting, set for Tuesday in the Jordanian capital, Abu Zahri said. The only beneficiary of the summit [...]
Playground Bullying of Palestine, Iran Must Stop By Stuart Littlewood – UK Last Friday I had a 2-hour meeting with my MP Henry Bellingham, who is a minister in the Foreign Office. We spent much of the time discussing the Palestinian statehood question and the absurd sabre-rattling against Iran. Mr. Bellingham listened [...]
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad helps to rebuild a Bedouin makeshift house near Hebron a day after the Israeli army destroyed it. (MaanImages/Mustafa Abu Dayeh, Pool) By Sam Bahour It’s the end of the year and time to turn the page after a bit of reflecting. What better way to reflect [...]
Pakistan‘s president, Asif Ali Zardari, faces questions over links the the ‘memogate’ scandal, which is being investigated by the supreme court Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Pakistan‘s supreme court is to investigate the scandal surrounding an unsigned memo – reportedly sent by a close ally of the president, Asif Ali Zardari, to the US after Osama [...]
Funeral of Mustafa Tamimi, Nabi Salih, West Bank – Nov 12, 2011. (Activestills) By Ramzy Baroud Mustafa Tamimi was a 28-year-old resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. His meticulously trimmed beard served as the centerpiece of his handsome face. In December 2009, when an Israeli soldier shot him [...]
This page has always maintained that a nuclear device will be dropped/used in Iran. It appears that that time is getting closer by the day. The Israelis can never see the light of day at the negotiating table and their [...]
Interviewed by: Yousef M. Aljamal, CPDS, via E-mail. 1- First, could you please give us a brief introduction about ISM? The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. We founded this international coalition to support and strengthen [...]
Your Day of independence is our Day of Catastrophe Posted on May 14, 2011 Your Day of independence is our Day of Catastrophe יום העצמאות שלכם הוא יום האסון שלנו Had Charles Dickens been asked to describe Nakba, he would have said “It was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch [...]
Hanan Ashrawi.(MaanImages/file) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi said Monday that Palestinian officials had not discussed renouncing their recognition of Israel, but that it could be an option. Ashrawi made the comments in a discussion on the radio show “Sound of Palestine,” official news agency Wafa reported. She said that withdrawing PLO recognition [...]
The state of Israel and the Israeli people were invented from scratch by the Zionist movement [GALLO/GETTY] It is hard to believe that anyone who defends Israel’s legitimacy as a state would buy into former Speaker Newt Gingrich‘s argument that Palestine is an “invented nation”. The singular triumph of the Zionist movement is that it [...]
Popular, Peaceful Demonstrations Peace Camps Tent of Nations Other Nonviolent Resistance Click thumbnails to see more. The thumbnails lead to a great many excellent photos Like many Americans and many Jews, I grew up with a positive view of Israel as a peace-seeking democracy. Israel symbolized to me the one protection that Jews had [...]
CAIRO (Ma’an) — Hamas has agreed to join the Palestine Liberation Organization in a move intended to bolster Palestinian reconciliation, The Associated Press reported Thursday. The report comes as President Mahmoud Abbas met Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Cairo to put “final touches” on an agreement to reconcile the leaders’ rival factions. Fatah leader in [...]
By Sam Bahour – The West Bank Some Palestinians refuse to just sit still and accept their fate as a permanently, militarily occupied people. One would think by now that Palestinians would have received the message loud and clear – the world couldn’t care less about their fate. But no, these Palestinians just [...]
Talal Shreim reunited with his mother after serving 10 years in Israeli prisons [Mohammad Alsaafin/ Al Jazeera] Talal Shreim could not stop beaming as he sat in his new living room in Doha, Qatar, finally surrounded by his family after having spent 10 years in an Israeli jail. Less than 24 hours before, he was [...]
Mayor of Bethlehem Victor Batarseh delivers his annual Christmas address in the West Bank city on Dec. 15, 2011. (MaanImages/Wajdi Jafari) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The mayor of Bethlehem said Thursday after his annual Christmas address that the international community should boycott Israel until it accepts Palestinian aspirations for independence. “We have a right to self-determination,” [...]
Minaret of Al-Bahr mosque is seen next to the beach in the ancient port city of Jaffa.(MaanImages/file) TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel took to the streets on Saturday to protest against a bill to ban the use of loudspeakers in mosques. Protesters in Nazareth, Jaffa, Umm al-Fahm and other [...]
Palestinian Bedouin citizens of Israel take part in a protest outside the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Dec. 11, 2011. Hundreds protested on Sunday against a government housing plan that will uproot as many as 30,000 Bedouins living in unauthorized villages across southern Israel’s Negev desert. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun) TEL AVIV, [...]
Iceland‘s Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson speaks as Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki looks on during a ceremony in which Iceland became the first Western European country to recognise Palestine as an independent state in Reykjavik on Dec. 15, 2011. (REUTERS/Ingolfur Juliusson) REYKJAVIK (Reuters) — Iceland on Thursday became the first west European country to formally [...]
A Masked Palestinian fighter in Gaza. (Zoriah.net) By Ramzy BaroudEssam Al-Batsh and his nephew, Sobhi Al-Batsh, are the latest in a long line of reported Palestinian ‘militants’ killed by Israel. The civilians were both targeted while driving in a car in downtown Gaza on December 8. According to an Israeli army [...]
Palestinian youths hurl stones toward an Israeli watchtower during a demonstration against the Israeli closure near Rachel’s Tomb. (MaanImages/file) link http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=444655 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have displaced a record number of Palestinian families in the West Bank including East Jerusalem this year, a coalition of rights groups said Tuesday. Some 20 leading aid agencies and [...]
UNESCO Director Bokova, left, was joined by Palestinian President Abbas at Tuesday’s flag raising in Paris [Reuters] Palestinians have raised their flag at the headquarters of the UN cultural agency in Paris in a historic move and symbolic boost for their push for an independent state. Cheers rose alongside the red, black, white and green flag during [...]
PLO official Hanan Ashrawi invited US Republican Newt Gingrich to visit Palestine as her guest, after the presidential hopeful said Palestinians were an “invented” people.” (MaanImages/Charlotte de Bellabre, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PLO official Hanan Ashrawi on Monday invited US Republican Newt Gingrich to visit Palestine as her guest, after the presidential candidate said the [...]
