Tag Archives: uprise

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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