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Month: April 2012
Lamenting the Arab Revolutions
By Samah Sabawi ViolatedFromInside and outSeeking refugeAmongst masked menGuided byDisjointed wordsBreathing in Rhetoric devoid of meaningProcessingMeaning devoid of actionsExhalingActions…Random…Devoid of strategiesDeveloping strategiesThat fall on deaf earsWhispering FreedomIn a chorus of loud noiseViolatedFromInside and outThe enemy […]
Where the ‘Self’ Ends and the ‘West’ Begins
By Gilad Atzmon When we were young there was hope in the air. There was good reason to look ahead. Some of us enrolled at university, but we also knew that if life did not […]
Swedish Airport Bans Israeli Security Procedures
Stockholm’s international airport has refused to allow Israeli security inspections to take place, forcing an Israeli airline to stop its service, daily Haaretz reported Thursday. Israeli security procedures, which often involve ethnic and personal profiling, […]
April Memories: Deir Yassin Remembered
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘No person has the right to rain on your dreams.’ — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968. Many dreams have been rained on since peace was declared at the end of the Second World War, […]
Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard
By Kathy Kelly Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted […]
Israel’s Iron Man: ‘Stupid and Mean and Brutal’
By Uri Avnery ‘In blood and sweat / A race will arise to us / Proud and generous and brutal…’ Thus wrote Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky, the founder of extreme right-wing Zionism, who was also a […]
OPT: Microloan Demand Grows, Despite Risks
The demand for microloans has risen steeply in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent years, according to data from the Palestinian Network for Small and Microfinance (Sharakeh), which represents 11 microfinance non-profit institutions […]
PA: Lieberman Remarks ‘Misleading’
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused Israel’s Foreign Minister of trying to mislead international public opinion. Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday told Cypriot President Demitris Christofias that President Mahmoud Abbas was not interested in […]
AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Kabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s […]
French Activists Censure Israeli ‘Psychological Violence’
Five female French pro-Palestinian activists have strongly criticized the ‘psychological violence’ exercised by Israeli security personnel against them while in detention. The five pro-Palestinian activists arrived in the southern French city of Nice in early hours […]
Adnan: Crowd’s Joy Made Me Forget All Suffering
“The happiness I saw on my peoples’ faces made me forget all the suffering I experienced when I was on hunger strike,” freed Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan said Wednesday. When he arrived in Jenin, instead […]
UN Envoy Condemns Eviction of Palestinian Families
A senior United Nations official has condemned the eviction today of two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem and called for an end to such violations of international law. The eviction today follows […]
Very Bad Prognosis for Israel: Ex-Mossad Chief
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan says Israel is on the brink of “disaster” and that Israel faces a “very bad” forecast of its future. “We are on the edge of — I would not say […]
Jenny Tonge’s Victory over the Lobby
By Ramzy Baroud ‘My Lords, I was in Gaza six weeks ago,’ began Baroness Tonge, when she spoke at the House of Lords in January 2009. ‘Now, as a result of the impotence of the […]
Egypt’s Rough Ride towards Democracy
By Jamal Kanj The upcoming Egyptian presidential election has started with a wild ride. The poll contenders covering wide political spectrum ranging from the ultra conservatives to Leftists; from the anti-dictatorship to Mubarak’s subservient; from […]
Israel Frees Former Hunger Striker
Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner who went on a 66-day hunger strike over his detention without charge by Israel, has been released following a deal reached in February. Adnan has since arrived at his home […]
Erekat, PA Intel Chief Meet Netanyahu
PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj met Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and handed over a letter on the peace process. The letter from President Mahmoud Abbas included references […]
1,600 Palestinian Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike
About 1,600 Palestinian prisoners have begun an open-ended hunger strike in the Israeli jails across the occupied territories to protest imprisonment without charge and solitary confinement exercised by the Tel Aviv regime. Palestinian prisoners began […]
Israel’s Real Easter Pilgrims
By Eric Walberg Ben Gurion Airport was thrown into chaos for the third annual Flytilla on Sunday. As starry-eyed tourists arrived to visit the Holy sites and beady-eyed new Israelis arrived to kick more Palestinians […]
Bradley Manning : For You, a Thousand Times Over
By Kathy Kelly At the start of The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini later adapted for film, a brave and selflessly loyal Afghan boy runs to help his much wealthier friend, singing out […]
Banning the ‘Flytilla’ to Palestine: Open Letter to CEO of Lufhansa
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘There is a higher Court than the Courts of Justice, that is the Court of Conscience. It supercedes all other Courts.’ — (Mahatma Ghandi, 1869-1948.) Stefan Hansen, CEO and Chairman of the […]
Meeting the Demands of the Occupation in the UK
By Richard Irvine Amongst what remains of the Israeli left, the siren cry for many years has been that the Occupation is destroying Israel. This view, brilliantly propounded by Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Ben Cramer in […]
New Hamas Politburo ‘Remains Confidential’
The results of Hamas’ internal leadership re-shuffle are still confidential, party officials said Monday. Hamas officials, speaking to Ma’an on condition of anonymity, denied that there had been any clashes over the process which took […]
Israeli Airport Police Deport 18 Pro-Palestinian Activists
Israeli police at Ben Gurion Airport of Tel Aviv have deported 18 pro-Palestinian activists taking part in the “Welcome to Palestine 2012” fly-in campaign to express support for the Palestinian cause. The 18 activists were among […]
Israeli Soldier Suspended for Gun-butt Attack
An Israeli soldier has been suspended after video footage showed him hitting a foreign pro-Palestinian activist in the face with his gun during a bicycle rally in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli […]
Pope Benedict’s XVI Should Visit Sabra and Shatila
By Ludwig Watzal The Pontifex Maximus, Pope Benedict XVI, will visit Lebanon from 14 to 16 September 2012. This papal visit will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre that was […]
The Miracle, and Christian Presence in the Holy Land
By Maria C. Khoury, Ed.D. In the last few years during Great Lent, I have developed a pattern of promoting our Christian presence in the Holy Land with a book tour (using the book Christina Goes […]
Free Speech vs. Israel
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph On April 4, 2012, an 84-year-old German writer and Nobel literature prizewinner Gunter Grass published the poem: ‘What Must Be Said’ (‘Was gesagt werden muss’) in several European newspapers. In this […]
Gunter Grass, German Guilt, and We’re the Ones Who Pay
By Susan Abulhawa No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you’ve achieved in your life or what gifts you’ve given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to […]
Abbas: NATO Could Fill Security Gaps after Israel Peace Deal
President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that NATO could fill any security gaps in a future peace deal with Israel. Speaking to diplomats in Tokyo, where he is on an official visit, Abbas said completing a […]