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Month: March 2012
Gaza Truce Holds Despite Exchange of Fire
The Israeli air force and Gaza fighters have traded sporadic fire overnight but a fragile truce between the sides that ended four days of violence appeared to be largely holding on Thursday. Overnight, Israeli aircraft […]
Bibi Stirs Trouble with Attack on Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud The first Israeli missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts of two new martyrs, while Israeli media celebrated the demise […]
Myth of Israel’s Favorable Treatment of Palestinian Christians
By Fida Jiryis Amb. Michael Oren’s article, ‘Israel and the Plight of Mideast Christians,’ presents Israel as a tolerant, dove-like, and peaceful democracy. This is belied by the facts. I am one of those Palestinian […]
South Africa Must Resist Sanctions on Iran
By Iqbal Jassat South Africa’s latest corruption scandal is once again linked to high profile politicians and their close business associates. However, unlike earlier cases of fraud, the murkiness of current allegations implicating deputy president […]
Israeli Warplanes Bomb North Gaza
Israeli warplanes bombed the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, casting uncertainty over a truce deal agreed 24 hours earlier. Israeli airstrikes hit an open area west of Gaza City, sparking […]
Finding Hope At Occupy AIPAC
By Tom Compton How can one start to describe the events, emotions and encouragements experienced at the 2012 Occupy AIPAC event in Washington, D.C., timed to coincide with the annual meeting of the most powerful […]
For Three Days the Fire Blazed
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Since Talat Ramia’s murder tranquility had yet to be restored to the streets of Ar-Ram. For the past three days the younger residents had been going out to […]
Motherhood Celebrated in Irish, Palestinian War Literature
By Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza Gaza Center for Political and Development Studies (CPDS) held Tuesday, March 13 a lecture on Palestinian and Irish Women in War Literature, delivered by Dima T. Tahboub, comparative literature […]
A Farewell to a Purity of Arms
By Richard Lightbown In response to the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Hillary Clinton repeated the political mantra “Israel has the right to self-defence”. The statement is absolutely true of course, but that […]
Israeli Forces Fire on Gaza Funeral, 3 Injured
Israeli forces opened fire on a funeral procession east of Gaza City on Tuesday, injuring three Palestinians, hours after a truce was agreed to halt cross-border violence. Mourners carried the bodies of Bassam al-Ajla and […]
Israel and Gaza Factions Agree on Truce
Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-mediated truce to end days of cross-border violence that have left 25 Palestinians dead, according to Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials. But the […]
Israel Cancels Visit by Knesset Delegation to US
Israel has cancelled a planned visit by an Israeli Knesset delegation to the US in response to a move by Washington to deny entry to an Israeli lawmaker on the grounds of his membership in […]
Silent Palestinian Warriors
By Ramzy Baroud On March 8, Palestinian women rallied in Gaza and Ramallah to mark International Women’s Day. Activities were held in various cities, villages and refugee camps. Women in Palestine are united by a […]
‘The New Black’ by The Mavrix- Official Release
In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix, and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called "The New Black". The song is taken […]
‘Price Tag’ Transforming Israel
By Jamal Kanj ‘Death to Christians’ and ‘death to Arabs’ was scrawled in Hebrew last week on an old monastery and properties of Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem. On February 20th a Baptist church was defiled […]
What Happened to Palestine’s Railways?
By Stuart Littlewood Not all is doom and gloom here in the UK. The North Norfolk Railway (Poppy Line) put on its Spring Steam Gala last weekend and a good time was had by young […]
Palestinian Folkloric Fairy Tales: Palestinian Painter, Bissan Rafe
By Federico Cao ‘Someone once described my work as emotive and powerful without the need for jargon yet criticized that my politics use art as its tool; to which I simply replied: ‘Politics are the […]
Israel and Gaza Factions ‘Agree on Truce’
Egyptian official says Cairo has mediated a deal to end four days of violence in which 25 Palestinians have died. Israel and factions in the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-mediated truce to end […]
Medics: 2 Killed in Israeli Airstrike East of Gaza City
Two Palestinians were killed Monday evening in Israeli shelling east of Gaza City, bringing the death toll in Gaza to 25 since Friday, medics said. Bassam al-Ajla and Muhammad Thaher were killed in an airstrike […]
China Calls on Israel to Put End to Airstrikes on Gaza
China has called on Israel to put an end to its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip after the Israeli premier vowed that the besieged enclave would be pounded ‘as long as necessary.’ "China is concerned […]
Israel Will Not Attack Iran
By Uri Avnery Israel will not attack Iran. Period. The United States will not attack Iran. Period. The United States will not attack. Not this year, nor in years to come. For a reason far […]
Death Toll at 18: Israeli Airstrikes Kill 3 in Gaza
Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed three people in the Gaza Strip, including a 12-year-old boy, as cross-border violence continued for a third day. Medical spokesman in Gaza Adham Abu Salmiya said Ayoub Useila, 12, was […]
Gaza Activists Prepare for Israeli Apartheid Week
By Rana B. Baker and Joe Catron – Gaza After two successful Israeli Apartheid Weeks (IAWs) in 2010 and 2011, the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI), together with the One […]
Israel, the US Watchdog in the Middle East
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Britain and France won World War I and divided the Arab countries to the east of the Mediterranean, and Britain issued Balfour Declaration that designated Palestine as a homeland for worldwide […]
Why Boycott Strauss?
By Vacy Vlazna The Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement was given an unlikely boost last month with strident calls in Israel to boycott the Strauss Group after two months of protests outside the homes […]
Death Toll Climbs after Israeli Raids on Gaza
At least 15 Palestinians have been killed and a dozen others wounded, including children, in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources have said. A Palestinian riding a motorcycle […]
Gaza Power Station Shuts for Third Time
Gaza’s sole power station was shut down on Saturday evening due to lack of fuel supplies, the third closure in the past month. A Ma’an correspondent said parts the Gaza Strip were plunged into darkness, […]
Arabs: Israel, US Our Main Concern, Not Iran
By Sami Zaatari The Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) has recently published their preliminary report on a major survey they conducted on Arab opinion, over the course of their project they covered […]
Teaching Palestine to Americans
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans – Addressing Pedagogical Strategies. Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman. Palgrave/MacMillan, 2011.) When I first read this title it struck me as being ‘intriguing’ but also perhaps […]
Four Killed in Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza
At least four Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources say. According to Palestinian sources, in the first attack missiles fired from an Israeli drone struck a […]