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Month: June 2012
Memo to J14 Movement: Social Justice Demands Ending Occupation
By Patrick O. Strickland – Jerusalem The organizers of Israel’s J14 movement demand social justice. Outraged by the increasing concentration of wealth and the soaring cost of living, many Israelis have stood up and called […]
The Never-Ending Negotiations
By Jamal Kanj It has been more than 20 years since the Madrid talks and the peace process between Palestinians and Israelis started. Thus far, their abject failure has surprised even the most pessimistic of […]
Why Gulf States Want Regime Change in Syria
By Prasanta Kumar Pradhan Ever since the protests started against Bashar al Assad’s regime, the Gulf countries have adopted a tough posture by criticizing and condemning the reactions of the Syrian government and squarely putting […]
Church of the Nativity Sanctuary Seekers in Exile after 10 Years
By Stuart Littlewood The election of Egypt’s president Muhammad Mursi momentarily threw a spotlight on the long-forgotten Palestinians exiled to Gaza after the Israelis’ infamous siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in […]
Touching Letters from Barack Obama
By Ralph Nader I’ve been getting a variety of letters from President Barack Obama. The salutation is often: ‘Dear Ralph.’ One of them asks me for $25, adding ‘Ralph, this is that moment. This is […]
Tale of Israeli Soldier and Palestinian Hunger Strikers
By Dallas Darling When Palestinian poet and author Naomi Shihab Nye wrote: ‘A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently/looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder;’ right now, in […]
On Human Identity
By Richard Falk Early in my blog life I wrote about Jewish identity. It was partly an exercise in self-discovery, and partly a response to those who alleged that I was a self-hating Jew, or […]
The Predicament of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
By Ramzy Baroud When Lebanese security reportedly killed 18-year-old Ahmad al-Qasim over a documentation dispute in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, the camp’s Palestinian refugee population erupted in anger and dismay. Within a few days […]
Iraq, Libya, Syria: We Have No Right to Play God
By Jonathan Cook In a traditional cowboy movie, we know what to do: we look for the guy wearing the white hat to be sure who to cheer, and for the one wearing the black […]
My Response to Liberal Zionists: BDS is Not Extremism
By Samah Sabwai (Watch a video recording of the article below). Leading Liberal Zionists have come out in impressive numbers calling for the boycott of settlements. But I have to warn you there is something to […]
How Pro-Israel Lobby Fails This Simple Test
By Stuart Littlewood Have you read this in the Wall Street Journal? It is not difficult to figure out why the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee feels he has to write such nonsense. […]
Leila Khaled and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation
By Ron Jacobs There was once a time not so long ago when the world seemed to be full of revolutionary heroes. These heroes were both men and women. The actions and accompanying commitment of […]
Are Palestinians Being Scapegoated Over Army Killings in Lebanon?
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut The killings of three Palestinian refugees this past week including Ahmad Qassim from Nahr al Bared ( ‘cold river’) camp near Tripoli and 15 year old Khaled al-Youssef from Ein […]
Our Muslim Brothers
By Uri Avnery Everybody knows by now why we are stuck in Palestine.
Egyptian Military Threatens Crackdown over Presidential Elections
By Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier Egyptian military sources signaled plans for a crackdown against popular opposition to army rule yesterday evening, amid an escalating dispute over the outcome of this weekend’s presidential elections. The […]
Syria Verging on Civil War
By Jamal Kanj What started as an extension to the Arab Spring is pushing Syria to the verge of a civil war. Bashar Al Assad must stop deluding himself by blaming the frustration of the […]
World Refugee Day: ‘Crusaders’ Collateral Damage
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere … We have a country of words.Speak, speak so we may know the end of this travel.’ — (Mahmud Darwish, 1942-2008.) Wednesday, […]
Defaming Palestinians: Mensch by Name but Not by Nature
By Richard Lightbown ‘mensch: a person of integrity and honor’ Merriam-Webster online dictionary Louise Mensch first came to fame when, as Louise Bagshawe, she earned recognition for her poetry and considerable commercial success for her […]
Gaza Experiment: Mere Words Will Not Help Solve Gaza Crisis
By Ramzy Baroud The fifth anniversary of the Israeli siege on Gaza was commemorated on June 14 with a barrage of statements, urging Israel to end the blockade and allow Gazans long-denied humanitarian assistance, freedom […]
War, Humiliation and the Making of History
By Deepak Tripathi The ‘global war on terror’ started by President George W. Bush more than a decade ago has taken a new and more sinister turn. Now we know that Barack Obama, the current […]
Syria: Many Agendas at Work
By Richard Lightbown Much has been written about the barbarous massacre in the Syrian administrative area of Al-Houla on 25 May 2012, in which 108 persons are known to have died including 49 children. Absent […]
Palestinian Nationalism, Alive Despite Israeli Instruments of Control
By Hasan Afif El Hasan From day one after the 1967 war, Israel’s actions in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem suggest the occupation was not temporary and underscore Israel’s desire to erase the […]
Susiya: Another Casualty of Israeli Occupation?
By Patrick O. Strickland – Jaffa Last week Israeli military forces delivered demolition orders to the residents of Susiya, a small village in the South Hebron Hills. The villagers were told that they have illegally […]
Iraq: Lies and Statistics
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘A rock,Breathing with the lungs of a lunatic,That is it, This is the twentieth century.’ — A Mirror for the Twentieth Century: Adonis – Ali Ahmad Said. Recently a contradictory, but in […]
Manhunt: African Migrants in Israel
By Uri Avnery ‘We shall not be a normal people, until we have Jewish whores and Jewish thieves in the Land of Israel,’ our national poet, Haim Nahman Bialik, said some 80 years ago. This […]
Romney’s Campaign of Inanity
By Ralph Nader Mitt Romney’s daily dittohead assertions make one wonder what he got out of the law and business degrees he received from Harvard University. One of his regular blasts blames Barack Obama for […]
Egypt Voting for a Change
By Jamal Kanj This weekend, Egyptians will line up to select their next president in the first democratic election in the country’s modern history. It was moving a fortnight ago to witness voters, old and […]
Islamic Law: Playing God in the Here and Now
Reviewed by Eric Walberg (Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Sharia Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World. Sadakat Kadri. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) There […]
The Unresolved Question of Egypt’s Economy
By Ramzy Baroud A new Egypt demands a new constitution and president. Many pressing questions also need to be addressed, including the religious-secular divide, the value of Sharia in the making of law, citizenship, minority […]
South Africa: What’s in a Label?
By Neve Gordon – Be’er-Sheva, Israel South Africa’s recent demand that products originating in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights remove the label "Made in Israel" is extremely significant – much […]