Free Free Palestine!

  PressTV – Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:27PM By Porya Mohajer Soltani After more than 60 years of occupation, genocide and media isolation, the voices screaming ‘Free Free Palestine!’ around the world are now louder than ever before. When only a decade ago, just a few people, in a handful of cities across the world, […]

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Palestine’s Hidden History of Nonviolence

You wouldn’t know it from the media coverage, but peaceful protests are nothing new for Palestinians. But if they are to succeed this time, the West needs to start paying attention. BY YOUSEF MUNAYYER | MAY 18, 2011 Last weekend, as tens of thousands of unarmed refugees marched toward Israel from all sides in a […]

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Join the Global Intifada, Uprising, Against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, May 15 2011

By Mazin Qumsiyeh Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, May 9, 2011 Join us 15 May 2011 on the streets as we launch a global intifada (uprising), using popular resistance methods. It will not be the end but the beginning of the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, as hundreds of demonstrations and marches are held around the […]

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Year of Living Dangerously: Palestinians on the Brink

By Mikail Jubran | March 31, 2011 | Palestine Chronicle During the past couple of weeks we have witnessed a somewhat stall of the Arab spring. An ongoing civil conflict that is raging in Libya pits the ‘ancien regime’ against a rag-tag rabble of self-proclaimed freedom fighters who thought that international intervention would guarantee their […]

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For the Love of Egypt: When Besieged Palestinians Danced

      Gaza was Cairo, Egypt was Palestine. (Aljazeera)   By Ramzy Baroud A dear friend of mine from Gaza told me that he hadn’t slept for days. “I am so worried about Egypt, I have only been feeding on cigarettes and coffee.” My friend and I talked for hours that day in early […]

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No Facebook Revolution for Palestine

Mar 31, 2011| By Alan Kurtz  | AllVoices   Six weeks after the world celebrated Google executive Wael Ghonim’s Facebook page that, proclaimed Newsweek, “played a crucial role in inspiring the uprising in Cairo,” Facebook has removed a page calling for a Palestinian uprising against Israel. The term “Facebook Revolution” applies to the social networking […]

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ei: Palestine and the Egyptian revolution: a view from Gaza

Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 23 March 2011 Palestinian children stand atop the remains of the border wall between Gaza and Egypt after it was destroyed in January 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) When I was asked by a solidarity activist about the impact of the end of the Mubarak regime on the Gaza Strip, my immediate […]

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Palestinians in Libya leave for Gaza

Published March 21, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Thirty-four Palestinians waiting at the Libya border for permission to travel to Cairo and return to the Gaza Strip were granted travel visas Sunday, an official said. Though directives were given to issue the visas one week earlier, Palestinians in Libya remained stranded at the border for days. […]

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A Storm is Coming: What Price Palestine…?

What this all mean for the Palestinians? (Aljazeera) By Mikail Jubran Popular revolt has transformed Tunisia. A budding revolution takes hold in Egypt. Civil war is raging in Libya. Social unrest intensifies in Yemen, and sectarian strife heightens in Bahrain. What this all mean for the Palestinians? During the past several weeks they have held […]

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Nakba Day 2011 | Palestine Refugee Revolution | #MAY15

CONTINUOUS UPDATES |  PICTURES | VIDEOS | NEWS █▌ ANNOUNCEMENT  ▶ June 5th 2011 | Support the Palestinian refugees’ Right to Return Update from Occupied Palestine | May 16, 2011 Below as posted, the initital newscoverage of the announced “Refugee Revolution”: A Global Sit In, non-violent commemoration of the Nakba which started 63 years ago, […]

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End the Division: ‘Gaza Youth Breaks Out’ Calls for a Unified Palestinian Leadership to Lead Us to Freedom

Tuesday, 22 February 2011 15:56 Gaza Youth Breaks Out On behalf of the Palestinian Arab people, on the blood of the martyrs, widows and bereaved, orphans and thousands of prisoners in Israeli jails and all our people in the Palestinian diaspora, we call on all the Palestinian factions to unite under the banner of Palestine: […]

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Imprisoned PFLP leader praises Arab revolutions, calls for Palestinian uprising

Posted by gazasolidarity at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 1:42 pm. Sa’adat salutes Egyptian revolution and calls for Palestinians to overthrow occupation and division February 20, 2011 Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned Palestinian national leader, Palestinian Legislative Council member and General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, released a message […]

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BECAUSE ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS …. THE CONNECTIONS « Desertpeace

February 21, 2011 at 09:24 Egyptian revolution is just the beginning Prepared by Antony Loewenstein What a start to 2011. After decades of US and Israeli backed repression, countless Arab peoples are rising up and asking for freedom; freedom from us and our meddling. From Egypt to Yemen and Bahrain to Jordan, the status-quo is […]

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Zahhar: The US and Israel are the biggest losers in the Arab uprising

[ 20/02/2011 - 09:34 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Member of Hamas’s political bureau Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar said that the US and Israel are both the biggest losers in the changes taking place in the Arab world as a result of the popular revolutions. In a press statement to Safa news agency on Saturday, Dr. […]

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Haniyeh aide: Arab upheaval will free Palestine

  Published Thursday 17/02/2011 (updated) 17/02/2011 21:30       GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A top aide to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza said Thursday that the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia would free the Palestinian cause out of the grip of America and Israel. Yousef Rezqa told a group of journalists that both […]

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Racist Subjectivity and Intellectual Dishonesty

20:18 02/15/2011 It is as if prospect of democratic Egypt is prelude to Armageddon. (Aljazeera) By Mohamed El Mokhtar It felt sometimes quite depressing, and indeed demeaning, to be an Arab, living or going to school in America, during the Second Intifada, and hear ad nauseum the same old refrain chanted every minute in every […]

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Reflections on the triumph of the Egyptian revolution

Allaho Akbar….Egypt is finally free [ 11/02/2011 - 11:50 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh   I can’t express  in words the  extent of  my personal joy over the spectacular  triumph  of the Egyptian revolution. In my humble opinion, the deposition  of  the tyrant Hosni Mubarak,  widely considered  Israel’s  and  America’s most trusted  agent in the  […]

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ei: Muslim-Christian unity characterizes Egypt’s uprising

Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani, The Electronic Intifada, 10 February 2011 Pro-democracy protesters at Tahrir Square call for Muslim-Christian unity. (Matthew Cassel) CAIRO (IPS) – Over recent years, Egypt has witnessed mounting tension between its Muslim majority and its sizeable Coptic Christian minority. But in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the site of ongoing mass protests […]

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Arab Earthquake: The Arab Nation is Back

22:21 02/11/2011 The Arab nation is back. (Aljazeera) By Robin Yassin-Kassab  Throughout yesterday messages were sent out from within the Egyptian regime to the effect that Hosni Mubarak was about to resign. Millions went onto the night streets to celebrate the victory. Then, incredibly, Mubarak repeated his intention to stay. He lied about his contributions […]

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Gaza celebrates Mubarak resignation

PressTV -  Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:21PM Egyptians celebrating Mubarak’s resignation Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have taken to the streets, celebrating Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation. Gazans congratulated the Egyptian people on achieving this goal, describing it as the victory of the will of the Egyptian people and their sacrifices. “We […]

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Mubarak resigns: world reactions (UPDATES) (VIDEO)

What world leaders and key figures in the Egypt uprising had to say in the press and on social media such as Twitter. By News Desk — GlobalPost Editors Published: February 11, 2011 11:43 ET in Middle East Egyptian army soldiers watch anti-government protesters gathering in Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square on Feb. 11, 2011, before […]

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ei: Revolution is an export Tunisia can be proud of

Nouri Gana, The Electronic Intifada, 8 February 2011 Grafitti in Tunis reads “Democracy, proud to be Tunisian.” (Fethi Belaid/AFP) I am not a big fan of Tunisia’s Prime Minister Mohammad Ghannouchi. His name is reminiscent of deposed President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali’s autocratic regime, and of the interim government’s riot police’s recent attack on […]

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