Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Ali Gharib | Oct 28, 2011 | ThinkProgress Cain at a jewish holy site in Jerusalem Former pizza company CEO and GOP candidate Herman Cain started his presidential campaign — quite by accident, it seems — as an advocate for a cherished Palestinian ideal to […]
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Biggest Losers in Palestine Veto? The American People
Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood by Philip Giraldi, September 22, 2011| Antiwar.com If the Palestinian application for United Nations full membership actually takes place Friday and the United States uses its Security Council veto to stop the process, it will be the final step in a predictable and preventable tragedy […]
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Time for People Power to Open Rafah Crossing
By Haidar Eid ‘The wolf is more merciful than my brothers.’ — Mahmoud Darwish Writing about the Rafah crossing, after the spectacular success of the Egyptian revolution in ousting Hosni Mubarak, brings back the horrific memory of the deposed dictator’s regime. There were high expectations amongst the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza earlier this year […]
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In occupied Nablus, people live inside a 6-kilometer radius and dream of a normal life
Lynn Gottlieb on September 10, 2011 | Mondoweiss George Rishmawi is a dedicated activist from Beit Sahour who I’ve known since 1999 when we stood in front of Deiheshe Refugee Camp as he told the story of Palestinian nonviolent resistance against the background of the ordeals of occupation. Over the years we have visited each […]
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Israel firing tear gas canisters directly at people – video
B’Tselem, Aug 25, 2011 B’tselem has edited together video clips of demonstrations in Ni’lin, Bi’lin, and Jayyus filmed in recent months. The clips document this potentially lethal repeated firing of tear-gas grenades directly at demonstrators, proving that, contrary to the army’s contentions, security forces in the West Bank have commonly practiced this dangerous and unlawful […]
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The Arab Spring: Tribute to People Who Value History
By Jamil Toubbeh In his review of Margaret MacMillan’s book, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (2009), David Kennedy writes: humans live in history, a few write it, others read it; some are made or broken by it, most try to make use of it, “usually by ransacking the past for analogies to […]
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IDF forces arrest 12 people protesting for social justice in West Bank
Amira Hass, Haaretz, Aug 15, 2011 An IDF force operating in Jerusalem arrested 12 people protesting for social justice. This is not the opening to some futuristic piece about an open military takeover of Israel. It happened last Wednesday in the southeastern part of the city, on lands in the village of Walajeh, which were […]
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Israeli forces detain 7 people in Hebron
Published today (updated) 21/07/2011 13:04 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained seven people from Al-Thahriyeh village south of Hebron on Wednesday night after raiding their houses. Israeli forces entered the village and broke into the home of Muhammad Al-Batat detaining him and his two sons Haitham and Adham, local witnesses said. Israeli forces also detained […]
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Haniyeh: Raed Salah’s Arrest in the U.K. Harms The Entire Palestinian People
At a Gaza Legislative Council solidarity rally for the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, who is detained in the U.K., Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said that Salah is a symbol of the Palestinian presence in occupied Palestine since 1948. Haniyeh added that Salah expresses […]
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Former Bush Speechwriter: Shooting People On Gaza Flotilla “OK” Because Participants Are Like Nazis
June 27, 2011 5:05 pm ET — MJ Rosenberg| Political Correction This week the second international Freedom Flotilla will embark to Gaza from several ports in Europe. The flotilla represents an act of non-violent civil disobedience aimed at ending Israel’s four-year-long illegal blockade of the tiny strip of land populated by 1.6 million Palestinians. […]
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GISHA: Israel Can Stop Flotilla; Not Goods and Passengers
PNN – Palestine News Network | 23.06.11 – 11:39 Gaza -PNN- Victoria Delacroix- In a press release by GISHA- The Legal Center for Human Rights announced that after an entire year after easing the border closure on Gaza, the Israeli military is determined to stop the Freedom Flotilla II, but may be willing to […]
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Schlomo Sand Writes Book about “The Invention of the Jewish People” – video”
JEWISH HISTORIAN SCHLOMO SAND WRITES A BOOK “THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE” Source
Continue readingEmperor Obama Vs the Arab people
Despite calling for change in some parts of the Middle East, the US president reaffirmed the status quo where it counts. Joseph Massad | 21 May 2011 13:17 | – Opinion – Al Jazeera English By giving Israel his unflinching support, Obama has alienated much of the Arab world [GALLO/GETTY] In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold […]
Continue readingHaneyya: Israel’s aggression will fail to suppress our people
[ 09/04/2011 – 08:07 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya strongly denounced the Israeli brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip that targeted children, women, elderly people, and ambulances, stressing this aggression would fail to subdue the Palestinian people or break their will. Haneyya mourned in a statement the death of civilians during the Israeli […]
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