Palestine
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Ramzi Kysia: GazaFriends “Nam, Nehnu Nastatyeh!” is Arabic for “Yes, We Can!” 29 October 2008 13:33:27 GMT
This morning I arrived in Gaza aboard the SS Dignity, part of a Free Gaza Movement delegation of twenty seven doctors, lawyers, teachers, and human rights activists from across the world, including Mairead Maguire – the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Continue reading
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GazaFriends Update 29 October, 2008, 06:15:06 GMT: We’ve done it again! SS Dignity arrives in Gaza
[These are the latest releases from SS. Dignity which has now arrived in Gaza apparently without incident. Ed] For Immediate Release October 29, 2008 For More Information, Please Contact: Greta Berlin (Cyprus) +357 99 081 767 / iristulip@gmail.com Osama Qashoo (Cyprus) +44 (0)78 3338 1660 / osamaqashoo@gmail.com Angela Godfrey Goldstein (Jerusalem) +972 (0)54 736 6393… Continue reading
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GazaFriends Update 28 October, 2008: A ship called dignity
Several times over the past week, people had said that Israel was looking for the Free Gaza, asking port authorities where it was and when we were going. So today was another triumph for the human spirit. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Israel Threatens to Forcibly Stop Us
For Immediate Release October 28, 2008 Contact: Greta Berlin, Cyprus: +357 99 08 17 67 Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Jerusalem: +972 547 366 393 Huwaida Arraf (on boat): +357 96 723 999 /SS Dignity: +357 967 80 329 Osama Qashoo, +447833381660 This morning, the Free Gaza Movement was informed through the media that the Israeli Navy… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: YES, WE ARE COMING
As part of the message, we invited Aharon Abramovitz, Minister of Foreign Affairs and/or Ehud Barak, Minister of Defense, to join the voyage to witness first hand the devastating effects of Israel’s illegal policies on the occupied civilian population of the Gaza Strip (Please leave your weapons at home, we are nonviolent). Continue reading
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Tariq A. Al-Maeena: ‘US supporting Israeli-sponsored terrorism’
Hart expressed his alarm at the absolute lack of veracity of the spin machines of the western media when it came to reporting on Israeli ambitions and atrocities. Continue reading
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Sameh Habeeb – The Children of Gaza: Weaned on Fear and Trauma
Gaza Strip, Palestine – Severe terror and traumas are de facto storms for children in the occupied territories, especially those who exist in the Gaza Strip. The ongoing Israeli military operations and violent retaliation induce psychological maladies and wretched conditions. The recent CEASEFIRE in Gaza allows a temporary rest but not the cure for their… Continue reading
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Locked in the Hebron Ghetto 18 October, 2008
Israeli soldiers in Hebron refuse to let Palestinians return to their homes. Volunteers with the Christian Peacemaker Team try to intervene, but they and the Palestinians are threatened with arrest. An Israeli soldier loads and cocks his automatic weapon to threaten unarmed civilians. Continue reading
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Yousef Abudayyeh – It Was Never About Borders
The Palestinian-Zionist conflict is not about disputed borders, it’s about the very existence of the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine. The Zionist invaders came to Palestine because according to the Zionists, Palestine was a land with no people and needed to be filled with “people who have no land.” Unless the whole world and especially the… Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: Bypassing Bethlehem’s Eastern Reaches by Nate Wright
In late August, Israel completed refurbishment of the road dipping down from the Jerusalem-area settlement of Har Homa to the bloc of smaller settlements southeast of Bethlehem. The new bypass, meant to speed up the commutes of settlers to their jobs and schools in Israel, has opened another front in the battle over the extent… Continue reading
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NIKHIL SHAH: Venezuela’s Support for Palestine – A Model for Third World Democracy
Chavez has been outspoken in his criticism of Israeli policies and has undertaken and proposed steps to hold Israel accountable for their actions. Venezuela, like many other Latin American countries traditionally had friendly diplomatic relations with Israel. Since its existence, Israel has maintained military relations with right wing regimes in Latin America including Argentina, Bolivia,… Continue reading
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NIKHIL SHAH: Venezuela’s Support for Palestine – A Model for Third World Democracy
Chavez has been outspoken in his criticism of Israeli policies and has undertaken and proposed steps to hold Israel accountable for their actions. Venezuela, like many other Latin American countries traditionally had friendly diplomatic relations with Israel. Since its existence, Israel has maintained military relations with right wing regimes in Latin America including Argentina, Bolivia,… Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: Livni in Principle and in Practice by Peretz Kidron September 30, 2008
One theory argues that the eagerness of law enforcement agencies was tacitly supported and perhaps even instigated by far-right groups outraged over Olmert’s apparent intention to follow in the footsteps of his mentor and predecessor in office, Ariel Sharon, by ordering a unilateral withdrawal from extensive portions of the occupied West Bank, in a pattern… Continue reading
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It takes a flight to UK to read the other version of the newspaper and examine the ethics of media By Iqbal Tamimi
British media is not the saint I used to believe carried the truth in every single word. I found out lots of bias, most of the time the content is treated as a business only, a machine that has to yield the biggest revenue possible, regardless of how balanced or fair it might be. Most… Continue reading
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So you think you can dance? Israel ethnic profiles Alvin Ailey’s African American Dancer By Omar Barghouti
Dance Insider So you think you can dance? For Ailey dancer with Muslim name, rocky entrance in the Bosom of Abraham Copyright 2008 Omar Barghouti Dance Insider — September 12, 2008 JERUSALEM — Israeli security officers at Tel-Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport Tuesday forced an African-American member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater — by far… Continue reading
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Stop the lying! By: B. Michael
It is not clear which bluff broke the camel’s back this time. Was it the shooting in the head of an emotionally-disturbed person in Ni’lin village? The distraught mother who went to a police station to report the disappearance of her daughter and left it with a broken hand? The Israel Security Agency [ISA –… Continue reading
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The Palestinians: Warehousing a “Surplus People” By Jeff Halper
So rapid is the pace of systemic change in that indivisible entity known as Palestine/Israel that it almost defies our ability to keep up with it. The deliberate and systematic campaign of driving Palestinians out of the country in 1948 was quickly forgotten, the plight of more than 700,000 refugees becoming an invisible “non-issue.” Instead,… Continue reading
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Double Standards: Israeli military occupation is not a bar to EU partnership By David Morrison
On 28 November 1995, the EU allowed Israel to become a partner, under Euro-Mediterranean Partnership arrangements with states bordering on the Mediterranean. At the time, Israeli troops were occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (the West Bank and Gaza) and had been for many years – Lebanon since 1978, the… Continue reading
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UPDATE FROM GAZA ON FISHERMEN ACCOMPANIMENT THIS PAST SATURDAY By Andrew Muncie
It was just 09:30 in the morning, and we were only 4 miles out to sea, having barely left Gaza’s coastline behind, when the gunboat’s heavy machine gun opened up, spraying the wake around our hull with bullets. Continue reading
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The definition of occupation By Abdelnasser Rashid
April 15, 2006, 11th Grade student, PALESTINE Occupied, terrorized, genocide while the whole world is hypnotized, Sixty years, incessant tears no day passes by without countless fears For our lives, our wives, our children cry yet the world turns away, and our spirits die. For my land, I do stand but I remain hopeless without… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 