“The Fall of the Oppressor” ~ A Poem by @DimaEleiwa

The Fall of the Oppressor They’re trying to mess with my head, psychologically. Telling me my wife is cheating on me. I know, he’s lying, the picture is clear. I know, he’s bluffing, yet the lie still pressures me. It reminds me of how weak and helpless I am here… But my faith is strong, […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Why Palestinians? ~ by @Karameleiwa

CNN iReport | by Karam Eleiwa,  14 years old | Nov 18, 2012 Why is it Palestinians who get killed. Murdered or injured all the time. Why is Palestine the only occupied land on earth in the current history? Asking such questions will not change anything! Asking these kind of questions will not make an […]

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A Refugee Is What I Am ~ by @YasirTineh

June 20, 2012 By Yasir Tineh | Beyond Compromise Weblog Kuwait – A refugee is what I am, a person whose body resides far from where his heart and soul chose to live, heartless because as simple as the saying goes, home is where the heart is. It is hard for most people to understand […]

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We Will Not Be Denied ~ by @Abou_Charlie

June 20, 2012 By Adam Akkad | Beyond Compromise Weblog United States – Throughout my life, I have met many people who are interested and involved in the Israeli-Palestinian impasse. Many of them have very peculiar and unique stories as to why and how they have become interested. That is not the case for me. […]

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#Naksa | When the Tanks Came Rolling in ~ by Mazin Qumsiyeh

Mazin Qumsiyeh | The Palestine Chronicle | June 5, 2012 It seems like yesterday that we watched Israeli tanks rolling down the hills towards our sleepy town of Beit Sahour 45 years ago today. As a child it was the most frightening sight. The second stage of the Zionist expansion on the land of Palestine […]

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Originally posted on Besieged Gaza:
This is the proof of the crime? White cheese! June 4, 2012, London I don’t think that what is called the Israeli Army has the ethics of humanity at all. How? It’s clear through the target which its warplanes always drop tons of explosives that carry death and destruction for…

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Letter to my Occupier ~ by @48Refugee

48Refugee weblog | May 18, 2012 To my occupier:I know you will read this because you read everything I write. You watch me closely hoping to decipher at least some of my words in any way that can hurt me.  Maybe you can figure out where my loyalties lie, where my sympathies are, what political […]

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AL-Khalil (Hebron): Israeli Military Demolishes Dairy Farm

Thursday May 03, 2012 03:47 by Christian Peacemaker Teams – Press Release | IMEMC On May Day, 1 May, at 7:45 a.m., the Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron received a phone call from Noah al-Rajabi in Bani Naim who reported that the army and bulldozers were demolishing his cousin’s home and threatening to demolish the […]

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Must see & read – Word and Picture Diary: South Hebron Hills Weekly Visit, April 5 2012

April 16th, 2012 | The Only Democracy in the Middle East As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Erella – […]

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My Grandfather Passed Away and I was Denied the Right to See Him – by Linah Alsaafin

Linah Alsaafin on Tue, 02/28/2012 – 15:29 Electronic Intifada I’ll never forget the hilarious conversation we had back in the summer of 2005. The extended family went to the beach that day. As the sun went down, my father ordered an argilah, and whenever he’d break to continue a conversation, I’d take the pipe and […]

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The essence of Apartheid in Qaryout village ~ by @AbirKopty مدوّنة عبير قبطي

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. By abirkopty ⋅ February 11, 2012  Today, I attended with other comrades the weekly protest in the Palestinian village of Qaryout, south of Nablus. Qaryout hs joined the popular resistance last Friday. The village held in the past numerous marches and protests to resist the […]

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Call me a Palestinian from Palestine

Posted on 26/01/2012   A Voice From Palestine | Jan 27, 2012 Don’t call me homeless, because I have a home thousands of years old. I have a home in Jrash which you demolished, erased from your map. I have a home whose stones still stand as witness to your crimes, still stand witness to […]

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Anwar And Haneen: Two Beautiful Girls Murdered By Israel – By Sarah Ali

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | In pictures Aug-Sept 2011 | Oct-Nov 2011 | Dec2011 By Sarah Ali| 05 January, 2012 | The Electronic Intifada What could possibly explain the Israeli army’s targeting of children in the Gaza Strip? (Ashraf Amra / APA images ) Gaza Strip: I am a terrorist. At least that is […]

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Raw memories of war ~ by Yousef M. Aljamal

Memorial Website | Never Cast Lead Again – War on Gaza by Yousef M. Aljamal | 27 December 2011 | Center for Political and Development Studies | ISM UNRWA refugee shelters, school and mosque in destroyed in Rafah, Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. (Photo: ISM) Simply put, I hate war. I love peace, for I […]

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Damn your fathers, you shot baba! ~ by @AbirKopty

The First Intifada | انتفاضة – in pictures Dec 22, 2011 | Abir Kopty مدوّنة عبير قبطي For Arabic version click here This story began when I was looking for a child who has lived through the First Palestinian Intifada (uprising) or been active participant. The project was part of Palestinian bloggers’ campaign to mark the twenty-fourth anniversary of “the First […]

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