Vote for Mohammed Assaf – Arab Idol 2013!

ARAB IDOL 2013: MOHAMMED ASSAF! This was NOT just a contest for idols! FOR PALESTINE THIS WAS THE RESULT OF SUMUD OF 1 MAN! Imagine what all together can do… June 20, 2013 – by occpal Let’s start with the confession that I never really listen to music at all. Nor watch TV for the […]

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4m Gaza 2 NYC: Mission Impossible ~ by @Omar_Gaza

Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR Art 13(1):”Everyone has the right to freedom of movement & residence within the borders of each state”  UDHR Art 13(2): “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.” …. But these Human Rights are not valid in Palestine Gaza | […]

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Reason for Hope and Despair in Palestine ~ by Stephen Lendman

By Stephen Lendman | Indybay | June 5, 2012 First the good news. On May 24, Haaretz headlined “Turkey issues arrest warrants for ex-IDF officers,” saying: Four former senior IDF officers were named. They include Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, military intelligence head Amos Yadlin, naval commander Eliezer Marom, and air force intelligence head Avishai […]

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Randa Adnan: ‘I still have hope’

The wife of Khader Adnan speaks out over the detention that forced him to lapse into an increasingly dire hunger strike. Omar Rahman Last Modified: 19 Feb 2012 11:43 | Al Jazeera Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for more than two months in protest at his detention in Israel [EPA] Arrabeh, occupied Palestinian territories – […]

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Salama’s wife clings to fading hope

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Shahd Abusalama | October 17, 2011 | Mondoweiss   I had one-hour break at university so I grabbed the chance to visit the Palestinian detainees’ solidarity tent by the Red Cross. Every day I go, I see the same people, whom […]

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Wadi Fuqeen: Palestine’s Valley of Hope and Despair – video

Film by Joshka Wessels, Jakob Schiller and Lubna Sharief | Redress 15 September 2011 The film Valley of Hope and Despair, by Joshka Wessels, Jakob Schiller and Lubna Sharief, illustrates how the Israeli occupation deprives Palestinians of their water resources and how illegal settlements continue to pour raw sewage into the many valleys of the […]

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The EU must give Gazan hope a hand

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures Without pressure on Israel, aid from the EU will only succeed in sustaining dark days for Palestinians in Gaza Sami Abdel-Shafi | guardian.co.uk |  Monday 22 August 2011 Smoke rises following a retaliatory Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Sunday 21 August 2011. Photograph: Majed Hamdan/AP It […]

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#Flotilla2 | Gaza and a Liturgy for Justice by Ray McGovern from aboard the Audacity of Hope

by Ray McGovern, July 09, 2011 — Antiwar.com We passengers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza represent a cross-section of America. Yet, if there is an emblematic trait that sets us apart from “mainstream” America, it is a common, radical determination to take risks to bring Justice for the oppressed — in this case, the 1.6 […]

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#Flotilla2 | John Klusmire Capt. of The Audacity of Hope RELEASED From Jail – July 5 2011‬‏ – video

Captain John Klusmire who piloted The Audacity of Hope US Boat to Gaza was arrested for leaving port to escape a Greece police order. The boat traveled for 20-minutes in Greek waters before it was stopped by the Greece Coast Guard and 8-commandos carrying m-16 rifles. The Audacity of Hope was demanded to turn around […]

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Bringing hope and history to Balata camp youth

Mel Frykberg |The Electronic Intifada |Balata refugee camp |6 July 2011 A writing workshop at the Yaffa Community Center during the 2010 Palestine Festival of Literature. (Palestine Festival of Literature) BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, occupied West Bank (IPS) – Bougainvilleas climb the walls of the Yaffa Community Center (YCC). Children play in its kindergarten, while older students […]

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Make A Dream Come True : Just Once, Please – for Nader K.

UPDATE | Aug 4, 2011 Today august 4, 2011, Nader received devastating news from the university, while reaching the final selectionround, he was not selected for a scholarship. So our appeal is to donate a little, if many do so, we may be able to change his hopes into reality and change a life. Please […]

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Palestinian Youth… New Hope for Near Return

  Sara Taha | Al Manar It has been 63 years since the UK handed over Palestine to Zionist gangs allowing them to forcibly exile the Palestinian natives from their homes and establish a racist state that overpowers and terrorizes all its neighboring countries. Time flew by and the Palestinian dispersed community has been conducting […]

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Winds of Hope in the Occupied Syrian Golan

Sunday, 29 May 2011 11:47 Francesc Cabré Sánchez for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) Residents of the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan city of Majdal Shams were those who restored calm after the Israeli military assassination of four Palestinians during the Nakba, on 15 May. Occupied Golan residents applaud the courage of the Palestinian refugees and are convinced […]

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Hope for Gaza, headache for Israel as border opens at Rafah – video

RussiaToday | May 28, 2011 After 4 years under total lockdown, Gaza’s 1.5 million residents finally have a gateway to the outside world. Egypt’s dropped the stringent security that Israel insisted on for its border crossing with the blockaded region. Israel’s long struggled to keep Gaza’s borders watertight, depriving people there in the hope of […]

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TO GAZA WITH LOVE – THE AUDACITY OF HOPE – video

The Audacity of Hope will sail as a human rights mission to help end the illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. ustogaza1 | May 18, 2011 U.S. BOAT TO GAZA The U.S. Boat to Gaza Campaign is collecting thousands of personal letters to the people of Gaza from people like you in the U.S., in […]

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