Palestine
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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
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“End of an Odyssey” By: Jeff Halper
(One Palestinian from Hebron was in jail for being illegally in Israel; I was in jail for being illegally in Palestine.) As it stands, I’m out on bail. The state will probably press charges in the next few weeks, and I could be jailed for two or so months. I now am a Palestinian in… Continue reading
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Palestinians Calculating Next Move: Coexistence with Occupation Not an Option By: Sam Bahour
A newly released Palestinian strategy document which outlines strategic political options gives witness to a renewed breath of fresh air in the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom and independence. Continue reading
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Occupation by another name By Ran HaCohen
In the past, peace talks were supposed to lead to a peace agreement, which would in turn lead to peace; now, not even that little is assumed. What the negotiations are expected to yield is at best a ‘shelf agreement’ to be implemented at some vague point in the future, or not. No one believes… Continue reading
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The End of the War on Terror and a new New World Order? By Ali Abunimah
Over the past eight years, critical challenges such as climate change, competition for energy, population growth, the economic emergence of China, Russia, India and Brazil and domestic economic problems have gradually superseded the “War on Terror” as primary public concerns. Conflicts in Palestine, Iraq, South Asia and Africa, which the U.S. hoped would be subsumed… Continue reading
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Yoav Bar – The Crisis of Zionism (and) a Perspective for Palestinian Approach To the Jewish Community in Palestine | Haifa Conference
The situation in Palestine is very different from that of Europe or the US. Since the beginning of the Zionist colonization of Palestine, some 130 years ago, Jews in Palestine were a small enclave of settler population in the midst of the Arab homeland. Colonialism is not external expansionism of some imaginary ‘western-capitalist Israel’, but… Continue reading
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FREE GAZA — LIBERTY ARRIVE IN CYPRUS WITH PALESTINIANS ON-BOARD
The historic return voyage represents the first time ever that Palestinians have been able freely to enter and leave their country. The Free Gaza Movement will mark this historic moment with a reception at Larnaca Harbour , as will Palestinians in Gaza , as both boats return safely from Gazan and international waters after a… Continue reading
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Palestine: When is the doctor a doctor? And when is he a citizen? By Derek Summerfield
Summerfield has spent the last 16 years exposing Israeli war crimes and publishing scathing critiques in Britain’s leading medical journals on the complicity of Israeli doctors. Today, the name of this honorary senior lecturer at London’s Institute of Psychiatry and teaching associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, stands out in… Continue reading
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Leaving Gaza – Journey Hour One
The SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty left port in Gaza at 3:40 PM, and have begun their long voyage back to Cyprus. Aboard the ship are seven Palestinian passengers, including several children. We were able to speak with Paul Larudee on the SS Liberty just a few minutes ago: Continue reading
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SS FREE GAZA & SS LIBERTY TO LEAVE FOR CYPRUS WITH PALESTINIANS ON-BOARD
Several Palestinians who have previously been denied exit visas by Israel will join international human rights workers on the journey. Among the Palestinians leaving are Saed Mosleh, age 10, of Beit Hanoon, Gaza. Saed lost his leg due to an Israeli tank shell and is leaving Gaza with his father to seek medical treatment. Also… Continue reading
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Fulbright or McCarthy for Palestinian students? By Fidaa Abed, 17 August 2008
“Last week, I landed in Washington, DC, brimming with optimism. Upon arrival, I was whisked into a separate room. An American official informed me that he had just received information about me that he could not reveal. However, it required him to put me on the next plane home. I was shocked. And I was… Continue reading
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Sailing into Gaza By Huwaida Arraf August 25, 2008
On Saturday, after 32 hours on the high seas, I sailed into the port of Gaza City with 45 other citizens from around the world in defiance of Israel’s blockade. We traveled from Cyprus with humanitarian provisions for Palestinians living under siege. My family in Michigan was worried sick. Continue reading
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GazaFriends – Gone Fishing 25 August, 2008
Israel has refused to let Palestinians fish in their own waters for the past 15 months. Even before that, they restricted Palestinian fishermen to around 6 miles. Now, they shoot holes in the boats and in the fishermen if they are caught farther out than about a kilometer. Continue reading
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GazaFriends – Mary’s report from Gaza City 25 August, 2008
It was a day of smiles and a day of tears for me here in Gaza City. Another early press conference, followed by a visit to the hospital which has seen most of the carnage created in Gaza by Israeli bombs and rockets. The doctor related some of the difficulties faced by the population of… Continue reading
