A Bird’s-Eye View by Uri Avnery, May 28, 2012 Print This | Share This On May 15, the anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, its Arab citizens observed a day of mourning for the victims of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) — the mass exodus of half the Palestinian people from the territory that [...]
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 [...]
THOUGHTS AFTER INTERVIEWING GILAD ATZMON THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012 AT 3:23PM GILAD ATZMON Thoughts After Interviewing Gilad Atzmon: March 13, 2012, Geneva New York http://www.deliberation.info/ by Pat Carmeli From the wrath expressed by many in the solidarity movement at the mere mention of his name, I was expecting to dislike Gilad Atzmon or at least feel [...]
The Zionist Scenario: Now And In The Future By Lawrence Davidson May 15, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Over the past month Palestinian leaders have begun to publicly acknowledge that continuing actions by the Israeli government, and corresponding inaction by the “international community,” have destroyed any reasonable hope of a viable and independent Palestinian [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The national committee to remember the Nakba is planning a protest in Ramallahon Tuesday to mark Nakba day. Ramallah protest planned for Nakba day BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The national committee to remember the Nakba is planning a protest in Ramallah on Tuesday to mark Nakba day. On May 15, Palestinians commemorate the [...]
Settlement expansion and targeted killings have increased as Palestinians move towards political restraint and away from violence [GALLO/GETTY] Santa Barbara, CA - Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1,500 prisoners engaged in a hunger strikein any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? [...]
Israeli Hawkademia in Australian Universities By Vacy Vlazna The Israeli ‘defense’ industry is embedded in Israeli universities and in universities around the world including Australia. It plunders overseas intellectual property for Israel’s military research-and-development (R&D) programs while strategic bi-lateral research and exchange missions deliberately whitewash or ‘normalize’ the Zionist military occupation [...]
Israel is plotting its version of the endgame in Palestine. Illegal Settlements Bonanza: Israel Plots an Endgame By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s colonization policies are entering an alarming new phase, comparable in historic magnitude to the original plans to colonize Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem following the war of 1967. On April 24, [...]
Israel often builds or relocates its most enviromentally harmful factories to the occupied West Bank [GALLO/GETTY] Ramallah, West Bank - Nowhere is the relationship between environmental protection and social justice displayed more clearly than between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT). The Israeli government takes great care to guarantee that its citizens enjoy the benefits [...]
Palestine and Its People: Understanding the Past By William James Martin linkhttp://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=19252 It is impossible to understand the present Palestinian/Israeli conflict without understanding the past, in particular, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe, who are not Semitic people, but indigenous to Eastern Europe. [...]
A Palestinian woman at a demonstration in the village of al-Walaja. Photo Credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. How We’re Footing the Bill for Violent Crackdowns on [...]
Israel Rides the Rollercoaster of Mass Hysteria By Ilan Pappe April 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Spending a week in Israel these days is like being trapped within a scene from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Like Jack Nicholson in the lead role of that classic film, you [...]
Incredible video of IDF officer Shalom Eisner smashing Danish activist Andreas Ias in the face with his M-16 rifle during a peaceful “Welcome to Palestine” gathering has even Netanyahubacking off. Now what about these grave incidents: The blacklisting and detaining of hundreds of ordinary citizens who wanted to express their views, and the subsequent caving of European airlines to [...]
European Airlines Silence Palestine Protest Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:57By Jillian KestlerDAmours, Inter Press Service | Report Jerusalem – As 60 percent of the international activists set to land at Ben Gurion airport Sunday had their plane tickets cancelled, organisers of the ‘Welcome to Palestine‘ fly-in campaign condemned what they say is [...]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians and two internationals were injured during a weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh, activists said. Usama Bilal Tamimi, 16, was injured near his eye while the unidentified internationals were injured in the hand and one of them in the back. They were taken to the Palestine medical complex. The demonstration was to [...]
Israel, Palestine and the Human Rights Council By Robert FantinaWith the ever-present backing of the hypocritical United States, Israel has once more thrown a temper tantrum on the world stage. The latest move by the United Nations that has outraged apartheid Israel, is that organization’s decision [...]
(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 [...]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Tuesday that peaceful popular resistance is a clear response to occupation and settlements in Palestine. Speaking at an international conference on popular resistance in Bilin, near Ramallah, Fayyad said the weekly demonstrations against Israel‘s separation barrier reflect the Palestinian people‘s resolve. Popular resistance is part [...]
Palestinian youths perform the traditional Palestinian folk dance, the “dabkeh”, in the Nativity Square in Bethlehem. (MaanImages/Haytham Othman, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The mayor of Bethlehem on Tuesday urged Israel not to humiliate hundreds of tourists invited to a week-long tour of Palestine. Some 25 Palestinian organizations have invited internationals to visit Palestine from April [...]
Firefighters try to save bags of food aid at the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City after it was bombed by Israel on Jan. 15, 2009. (MaanImages/Mohamed Al-Zanon) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestine can still pursue an investigation into possible Israeli war crimes during the last offensive on Gaza at the International Criminal Court, PLO observer [...]
Scores of Palestinian civilians were massacred on April 9, 1948 [AP] Washington, DC- On April 9, 1948, scores of Palestinian civilians were massacred at the village of Deir Yassin through co-operative efforts of Yishuv forces like the Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah. The Zionist narrative on the events of 1948 and the Nakba - the Arabic word for [...]
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/UNRWA With the world media focusing on the crisis in Syria, it has been forgotten that Syria is home to some 400,000 Palestinian refugees. This includes 14,000 Palestinians who inhabit a refugee camp in the bombarded city of Homs, and who rely on UNRWA, the UN Agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees, [...]
Passengers disembark an El-Al flight in Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. (MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) Pauline Mevel and Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) — France urged pro-Palestinian activists, who plan to visit Bethlehem this month in solidarity with residents of the occupied West Bank, to avoid joining the operation given there was a high risk of [...]
A family rushes from the scene of an Israeli missile strike on a building in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 28, 2008. (MaanImages/Hatem Omar) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The International Criminal Court will not investigate Israel’s conduct during its December 2008 offensive on Gaza because Palestine is not a state, the world prosecutor [...]
The Balfour Declaration – Book Review By Jim Miles (The Balfour Declaration – The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Jonathan Schneer Anchor Canada. Random House, Toronto, 2012.) This is the best that academic political history gets. More than simply the dates and the ‘facts’, Jonathan Schneer is able [...]
Starting all over again. (Tamar Fleishman) By Tamar Fleishman – The West BankThis March marked the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria‘s liberation from the French occupation that lasted one hundred sixty two years. Throughout the years of French rule, tens of thousands of immigrants from France and its neighboring countries settled on Algerian land and [...]
The Bradford Spring: Atoning for Invasion by Abby Zimet An upset victory in a U.K. special election has gone to George Galloway, a fierce critic of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who has led aid convoys to Gaza and who blasted the mainstream parties as “three cheeks of the same backside. They support the same things, the same wars, [...]
Palestinians endured 6 decades of dispossession, occupation. (Julie Webb) By Roger Sheety The recent killing of 25 Palestinians in Gaza and the wounding of at least 80 more within four days—March 9-12—requires some context as the majority of western mainstream media outlets are either unwilling or unable to provide any. More often than not these [...]
The endless ripples of Balfour and the illegitimate state of Israel! Posted on 20 March 2012 by truthaholics How would the British feel and react if the United States gave France the right to takeover their country? Did England have any right or authority to approve forcing the Palestinians to give up their territory? [...]
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 [...]
(Illustration: Luis Vazquez/Gulf News) By Ramzy Baroud On March 8, Palestinian women rallied in Gaza and Ramallah to mark International Women’s Day. Activities were held in various cities, villages and refugee camps. Women in Palestine are united by a shared struggle, untold hardship, and also a legendary ability to withstand, survive and flourish [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Solving the Problem – A Poem By Nahida IzzatBehind closed doors In big dark rooms Men in black and grey Eating, drinking Laughing and chatting away Gather to discuss our problem The problem of Palestinians! They talked about “Democracy” “Freedom” “Human rights” And a “solution” A “vision” That will bring “peace” [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The prime minister in Gaza on Thursday called on Palestinian leaders to visit the Gaza Strip, saying they all have a right to visit the enclave as part of an undivided Palestine. Speaking during a lunch meeting with leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ismail Haniyeh [...]
by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Dahiyeh, South Beirut, Lebanon February 14, 2012 Rushing to an appointment last Saturday I passed the Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Hassaniyeh (Mosque), which for many in my immediate Dahiyeh neighborhood is the [...]
What Iran Can Do for Lebanon’s Palestinians by Franklin Lamb Posted on February 26, 2012 by dandelionsalad by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon February 18, 2012 “My friends and I like Iran. Maybe they will ask their friends in Lebanon to help baba (daddy) to be allowed to work and our family [...]
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 [...]
The world according to Noam Chomsky by Dean Carroll 02 February 2012 Touching upon a diverse range of topics – from public services, the eurozone crisis and environmental issues to Iran, Europe‘s stance on Palestine and the US presidential race – Professor Noam Chomsky speaks toPublicServiceEurope.com editor Dean Carroll in the second of two major [...]
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 [...]
‘[A] Passionate attachment of one Nation for another provides a variety of evils.’ By Jamil Toubbeh‘Obsession with Israel’ is akin to wearing the Stars and Stripes on one’s lapel; while both may be symbols of commitments to causes, the causes, by virtue of their uniqueness, are rarely complementary and if by chance they are, their [...]
Remember the catch dry from the Israeli Zionists was always, “take what you can you will never have to give it back.” With that as a fundamental position and strategy there can never be meaningful negotiations from the Israeli fascist, apartheid regime. No matter what propositions they are [...]
Europe Should Call Israel’s Bluff Stopping the colonialist machine in its tracks will earn struggling EU much-needed Arab goodwill By Stuart Reigeluth and Dimitris Bouris January 24, 2012 “Gulf News” — The figures say it all. Over 1,200 Jewish colonists occupied outposts in the West Bank [...]
Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal confirmed on Saturday that he not stand again as head of the party’s politburo in upcoming elections in the movement. (AFP/Khaled Desouki, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=454153 – Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal confirmed on Saturday that he does not seek renomination as head of the party’s politburo in upcoming elections. A statement from [...]
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 [...]
It is time for the American public to hold AIPAC accountable. (CODEPINK) By Clive Hambidge Habituation writes James Austin M.D ‘means that repeated stimuli yield a decreasing response.’ Conversely and importantly he goes on, ‘Sensitization implies that responses increase when stronger stimuli are repeated.’ For in this understanding, ‘we are addressing the basis [...]
You may have wondered why there is such a lot of material at this site on Israeli attacks on Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine. The primary reason is to remind readers of this site that the Israeli offensive, unlawful settlement and the detention of Palestinians continues on a 24/7 basis. This is of course combined [...]
The tribunal’s final verdict should be delivered at its closing session. By Ludwig WatzalThe Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) was launched in Brussels on 4 March 2009. It’s a people’s tribunal in the spirit of the Tribunal on the Vietnam war that was set up by Lord Bertrand Russell in 1966 to protest the [...]
