I do not recall any reference to the refugees in Peace Now publications. Erasing the Nakba By Neve Gordon I first heard about the Nakba in the late 1980s, while I was an undergraduate student of philosophy at Hebrew University. This, I believe, is a revealing fact, particularly since, as a teenager, [...]
The Phyllis Bennis site provides for entry to her activities. Please take the time to visit and see if you wish to become part of the service she provides. Link http://www.ips-dc.org/staff/phyllis What follows is an email from her organisation you may find interesting. George Ikners ikners.com Palestinian Hunger Strikers and U.S. Veterans Returning [...]
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 [...]
New Israeli cabinet “war government” 9 May 2012 No one can know what goes on inside the mind of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu these days regarding several regional issues. But what can be foretold is that this man is harbouring evil and planning wars after killing the peace [...]
Empty Stomachs, Clenched Fists: How Palestinians Are Fighting Israel’s Unaccountable Prison System Israeli policy toward Palestinian prisoners is now facing unprecedented scrutiny due to a mass hunger strike aimed at ending administrative detention and other harsh policies. By Anna Lekas Miller May 13, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – Thaer [...]
Israel and the walls that surround it Does the new border wall with Lebanon highlight Israel’s precarious relationship with its neighbours? A wall is sometimes built to protect, sometimes to separate and occasionally to do both – but will Israel’s latest project protect it or further seal the country’s isolation in the region? “Israeli isolation [...]
Bassam Diab sits next to posters depicting his brother Palestinian prisoner Bilal Diab at his home in Kafr Rai near the West Bank town of Jenin on April 30, 2012. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — After 63 days on hunger-strike, two Palestinian prisoners face severe health deterioration and are at risk of death, lawyers [...]
Protests in solidarity with Hana Shalabi and against the wall brutally suppressed across the West Bank 17/03/2012 Bilin Upon the arrival to the Abu Lemon area participants raised Palestinian flags, posters of prisoner Hana Shalabi and slogans calling for national unity, the end of the occupation, destruction of the apartheid wall, and freedom for [...]
The ‘hero’ of the affair is Lieutenant Colonel Shalom Eisner. By Uri Avnery ‘In blood and sweat / A race will arise to us / Proud and generous and brutal…’ Thus wrote Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky, the founder of extreme right-wing Zionism, who was also a writer and a poet. Present-day Likud leaders see him as [...]
Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe says the PA was not involved in the decision to deport Hana Shalabi to the Gaza Strip. (MaanImages, File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority was not involved in the decision to deport Hana Shalabi to the Gaza Strip, Prisoners Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe said Monday. “We have been always [...]
BDS Update: Israel’s Ides of March By Eric Walberg – Cairo Israeli land confiscations accelerated in the 1970s and led Palestinians to organise the first coordinated demonstrations in the Occupied Territories on 30 March 1976, during which 6 Palestinians were killed. This date has been marked ever since as [...]
(MaanImages) By Daoud Kuttab The end of Hana Shalabi’s 45-day hunger strike has produced mixed results, and has pointed out another under-reported issue, the separation and difficulty of movement between Gaza and the West Bank.Shalabi, like Khader Adnan before her, has done a great service to fellow Palestinians by exposing the undemocratic nature of administrative [...]
Hana Shalabi is being compared by some to Winnie Mandela who was also exiled for her activism [EPA] Santa Barbara, CA - As with Khader Adnan, Israel supposedly compromised with Hana Shalabi on day 43 of her hunger strike in protest against administrative detentionand her abysmal treatment. But Israel’s concept of “compromise”, if considered, becomes indistinguishable from [...]
A woman holds a placard depicting prisoner Hana Shalabi during a rally in support of her hunger strike as well as calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City March 24, 2012. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian who was deported [...]
Palestinians mourn next to the body of 20-year-old Mahmoud Zakot during his funeral in the northern Gaza Strip March 30. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli fire killed one young Palestinian man and injured over 30 others in clashes at two sites in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian medical official said Friday evening. Adham [...]
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 [...]
Israel to Deport Hunger Striker to Gaza Strip Over a Month Into Strike, Shalabi ‘Sentenced‘ to Three Years in Gaza by Jason Ditz, March 29, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Detainee Hana Shalabi’s five [...]
A Palestinian woman holds a placard depicting Hana Shalabi during a rally in Ramallah, in support of Shalabi and calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails March 20, 2012. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A deal to release Palestinian hunger-striker Hana Shalabi to the Gaza Strip temporarily was reached late Thursday, [...]
(MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces killed 115 Palestinians last year, including 18 minors, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem.The death toll of 2011 shows a marked increase on 2010, when Israeli forces killed 68 Palestinians in Gaza and 12 in the West Bank. Further, [...]
Statements made by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak led analysts to say that the assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi was not about direct prevention [AFP] Beer-Sheva, Israel - In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, along with another fighter, Palestinians fired rockets at [...]
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton with President Mahmoud Abbas. (MaanImages/File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The European Union contributed 13 million euros ($17.2 million) to upgrade the sole goods crossing into the Gaza Strip, a press statement said Monday. A further 22 million euros ($29.1 million) of EU funds will be used to build a medium [...]
Palestinian children fly kites to show their solidarity with the Japanese people near a Japanese-funded housing project in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2012. The event was organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to mark the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set [...]
Israel is using the the Gaza Strip as a testing ground for a possible military strike on its arch foe Iran, the head of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas said on Monday. “Israel is warming up the region for a possible war against Iran,”Khaled Meshaal said in an interview with Turkey’s Anatolia news agency. Accusing Israel of pursuing “state terrorism” [...]
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 [...]
(MaanImages/file) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli government on Sunday announced a series of measures to build 187,000 new apartments over the next five years, Israeli daily Maariv reported. Around 40,000 apartments will be for affordable housing and the majority of the new buildings will be constructed in the Tel Aviv area, central Israel and Jerusalem, [...]
Gaza violence: ‘we don’t want to escalate but maybe we have no choice’ Rockets from militants are slamming into Israeli cities, Israeli air strikes are killing Palestinian children, and no end is in sight Palestinian relatives of 12-year-old schoolboy Ayoub Useila grieve during his funeral in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. Link to this video The yellowing [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Militant groups in Gaza announced responsibility for firing rockets across the border as the Israeli army said 42 projectiles landed in Israel. The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said it fired 30 rockets into Israel. The armed wing of Islamic [...]
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed and many others wounded in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Friday,Press TV reported. “We believe the reason behind the Israeli attack is the silence of the Arab [world] and the international community. We demand that the resistance factions retaliate for and avenge [...]
Israeli Buffer Zone State Terror By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 11 March 2012 Israeli Buffer Zone State Terror by Stephen Lendman State terror is official Israeli policy. It’s imposed numerous ways to enforce harshness too extreme to bear. The strategy hopes many Palestinians will give up and leave. Israel repeatedly [...]
US Weapons Claiming Palestinian Lives, Group Says By David Elkins March 10, 2012 “IPS” – A new policy paper published earlier this week by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation documents a number of cases occurring over the past decade in which weapons and ammunition produced and [...]
Death toll climbs in Israel strikes on Gaza Medics say at least 11 Palestinians are killed and a dozen more injured after Israel hits Gaza Strip. At least 11 Palestinians have been killed and a dozen others wounded, including children, in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza [...]
Israeli Air Strikes Kill 10 in Gaza Strip Militant Commander Reportedly Among the Slain by Jason Ditz, March 09, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A possible Israeli attack on Iran has been the topic of many discussions this week, but attention turns [...]
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 [...]
Hamas might be reinventing itself. (Via Aljazeera) By Ramzy Baroud Despite all of Hamas’ assurances to the contrary, a defining struggle is taking place within the Palestinian Islamic movement. The outcome of this struggle – which is still confined to polite political disagreements and occasional intellectual tussle – is likely to change Hamas’ outlook, if [...]
By Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza, Palestine For the 7th week in row, the Center for Political and Development Studies, (CPDS) – a Gaza based think-tank – held a lecture via Skype with Palestinian and international activists, aiming at drawing attention to crucial issues related to Palestine. Palestinians have been misrepresented and defamed [...]
Open Letter from Gaza: Three Years after the Massacre, Justice or Nothing! Tuesday, 27th December, 2011 Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make [...]
Celebrating news of scheduled release of Adnan. (Julie Webb-Pullman) By Charlotte Kates‘As for your judicial apparatus…: it is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation, in addition to consecrating its systems and allowing the imposition of these systems [...]
I Israel snaps at Iran 21 January 2012 http://www.abdelbariatwan.com/IsraelSnapsatIran.htm ‘Israel is going to hit Iran’. No, ‘Israel wavers on Iran Strike’. ‘US Army Chief in Tel Aviv to prevent Iran Strike’. ‘Obama warns Netanyahu: No Strike without US’. These are the kind of headlines that have dominated front pages [...]
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 [...]
image by hasbarafellowships.org Accompanied by a US aircraft carrier, 9,000 US troops including airmen, missile interceptor teams, marines, technicians and intelligence officers are scheduled to land in Israel in the coming weeks. Many will stay up to the end of the year as part of the US-Israeli Army deployment in readiness for a military engagement [...]
Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, responds to The Times’ Jan. 2 Op-Ed article, “Bibi and Barack.” Bennis is the coauthor of “Ending the U.S. War in Afghanistan: A Primer” and the author of “Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.” If you would like to write a [...]
Palestinian and left-wing Israeli demonstrators rally during a weekly protest against a nearby Jewish settlement, seen in the background, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on Dec. 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Darren Whiteside) By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel’s government broke all its settlement-building records in 2011, diminishing prospects for establishing a viable Palestinian [...]
(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 [...]
The Stolen War by Uri Avnery, January 07, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Is there no limit to the villainy of Hamas? Seems there isn’t. This week, they did something quite unforgivable. They stole a war. For some weeks now, our almost new Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz, [...]
Senior Hamas leader Khalid Maashal talks during a news conference with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi (R), after their meeting at the Arab League headquarter, in Cairo, Jan. 6 (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih) CAIRO (Reuters) — The Arab League chief on Friday asked Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal to ask Syria to work to halt violence, saying there [...]
(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 [...]
And the flag that refuses to lie down. (Julie Webb) By Mohammed AlNadi – GazaIn Israel, nothing is more rewarding than committing systematic mass killings and war crimes against Palestinians. It seems, according to Israel’s moral system and code of conduct, nothing is more trivial than a Palestinian life. Inflicting death on Palestinians is not [...]
When observing the aerial bombardment, heavy artillery and haubitzer shelling ofGaza, three years ago, I remembered Erich Maria Remarqe’s, bookAll quiet on the Western Front, and the passage that has been deeply imprinted into my memory, where he described the shelling of a graveyard during the first world war, while a platoon of troops that [...]
In Telethon, Israeli Military Chief Pushes New Gaza Invasion by Jason Ditz, December 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today during the Israeli Army’s “annual telethon” on Army Radio, military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz pushed for a new invasion of the Gaza Strip [...]
We will never forget the hurt of 3 years ago. (Zoriah.net) Besieged Gaza, Occupied PalestineWe, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with us in Palestine captures the spark of the revolutions [...]
