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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 8 July 2013: When non-violence is criminal: Palestinian women stand trial for West Bank protest
8 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterMousa: “Hamas Will Be A Heavy Price For Interfering In Internal Egyptian Affairs”IMEMC – Legislator Yahia Mousa, a political leader of the Hamas movement, stated that the Hamas movement and the Gaza Strip will pay a heavy price for interfering in internal Egyptian affairs, and called on Continue reading
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In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice By Pankaj Mishra
At a dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose centenary falls this year, wrote: “We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton”. Continue reading
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NYT Bronner Tries A Less Biased Path to Reporting on Palestine –and Trips Up
Bronner makes several big mistakes. First, he ignores the long history of Palestinian nonviolent struggle against colonization, beginning in the 1930’s, and characterizes current nonviolent protest against the Occupation in the West Bank as a “new approach.” And second, he credits the movement entirely to the efforts of Fatah political leadership and the business community Continue reading
The New Dark Age 