Palestine
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Video: Israeli troops humiliate Palestinians – and put it on YouTube
19 June, 2009 – Ha’aretz http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2765705 Forty-three seconds: that’s the duration of a video clip uploaded to YouTube less than a year ago under the category of “Comedy.” For the “hero” of the clip, an unidentified young Arab, they were probably eternally long seconds and far from amusing. He was forced to slap himself and… Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s “brilliant” peace plan By Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah
Netanyahu wants Palestinians to become committed Zionists. They can prove this by declaring, “We recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own in this land.” As he pointed out, it is only the failure of Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular to commit themselves to the Zionist dream that… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Absurdity Is the Norm in the Gaza Strip By Stephanie Westbrook
Gaza itself remains frozen in time; for nearly five months after the ceasefire, aside from a few rare cases in which cinder blocks have been used to fill gaping holes in the sides of buildings, no reconstruction whatsoever has begun. The blockade keeps the necessary building materials out of Gaza. Continue reading
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Video: GazaFriends – Getting ready to go
This week’s update is lighter in tone than last week’s update. It gives you an idea of what we are doing to get the Free Gaza ready. We are hoping this time to entertain you a bit (our first mate would do well at open-mike night) and to let you know that we have enjoyed… Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon – Yearning for a Minyan
The images of Israeli youngsters calling Obama ‘F**k Head’, ‘S**t Head’ and ‘Ni**er’ are rather effective PR materials at the hands of the friends of Palestine and it seems as if the Israelis are aware of it. Haaretz reported the other day that Netanyahu is convinced that “Obama seeks a clash with Israel to appease… Continue reading
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Report: Palestinian Child Prisoners – The systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities
From the moment of arrest, Palestinian children encounter ill-treatment and in some cases torture, at the hands of Israeli soldiers, policemen and interrogators. Children are commonly arrested from the family home in the hours before dawn by heavily armed soldiers. The child is painfully bound, blindfolded and bundled into the back of a military vehicle… Continue reading
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Video: Seven Jewish Children – A Play for Gaza by Caryl Churchill
Video: SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN – A PLAY FOR GAZA by Caryl Churchill Continue reading
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Susan Abulhawa – Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?
That Israelis simply take property belonging to Palestinians is not a right. That is theft. That Israel cut off the movement of food, medicine and other basic goods to the Gaza strip, causing massive malnutrition, economic collapse and misery because Palestinians elected particular leaders is not a right. That is an affront to humanity. That… Continue reading
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Khalid Amayreh – Netanyahu’s Kafkaesque vision of Palestinian statehood
Undoubtedly, Netanyahu’s speech caricatured a thoroughly arrogant and megalomaniac leader, not unlike Adolf Hitler, a Fuehrer who thinks non-Jews living the “Land of Israel” are children of a lesser God, or wretched Untermenschen, who should serve as “wood hewers” and “water carriers” for the Jewish master race. And if they refuse servitude and enslavement, they… Continue reading
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Palestine: Tesco defends right to choose illegal settlement goods
Tesco’s position was that their fundamental responsibility is to provide choice to customers. They stressed that they comply with the law, they do not make it, but at the same time their core value is “to treat people as we would like to be treated”. We made little progress when we pointed out the gross… Continue reading
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New Profile: Israel – Investigating the Investigation
The philosopher, Michel Foucault, dwelt in his writings on the consciousness developed by the hypothetical inmate of an eight-sided prison – a “panopticon”. Within such a structure, every prisoner is exposed to the jailer’s gaze in every corner of his or her cell. The jailer, who ostensibly watches the prisoners all day, every day, is… Continue reading
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Israel, the other apartheid state Address by Ronnie Kasrils
Such a colonial racist mentality which rationalised the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australasia, in Africa from Namibia to the Congo and elsewhere, most clearly has its echoes in Palestine. What is so shameless about this latter-day colonial sham is that Zionist Israel has been permitted by the West to aspire… Continue reading
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Gaza bonanza By Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau
bout two months ago, the COGAT officials allowed pumpkins and carrots into Gaza, reversing a ban that had been in place for many months. The entry of “delicacies” such as cherries, kiwi, green almonds, pomegranates and chocolate is expressly prohibited. As is halvah, too, most of the time. Sources involved in COGAT’s work say that… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends Video Update
We think we have a video that you will not forget… a video that is a testament to the grace and bravery of the Palestinians. Continue reading
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Lina Suleiman – State of “Caged” Palestinians
American rhetoric is full of devious political Language. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with Al Jazeera in May 19 confirmed that “the US is going to be pushing for a two-state solution which, by its very name, implies borders that have to be agreed to”. But why the borders should be… Continue reading
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Video: Jordan Flaherty, “Resistance in Gaza: Young Palestinians Find Their Voice through Hip-Hop”
Fifteen Hip-Hop acts from across Palestine performed on Thursday night, and the show was broadcast simultaneously in Gaza City and the West Bank city of Ramallah. Through the use of video conferencing and projection, each city could see and hear the performances happening in the other. Five groups from Gaza participated, and Gazans came in… Continue reading
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Palestine – do the right thing by George Galloway MP
Seasoned activists in the Palestinian cause confirm that there is now a window of opportunity to take this case beyond the ghetto and into the mainstream of political life – in the US and in Britain, which between them bear the heaviest responsibility for the suffering in Palestine: the US as the cashier for Israeli… Continue reading
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Video Free Gaza News 3 June, 2009
Video update, news from Free Gaza Continue reading
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Hajo Meyer, Auschwitz survivor: “I can identify with Palestinian youth”
One of the major annoyances in my life is that Israel by means of trickery calls itself a Jewish state, while in fact it is Zionist. It wants the maximum territory with a minimum number of Palestinians. I have four Jewish grandparents. I am an atheist. I share the Jewish socio-cultural inheritance and I have… Continue reading
