Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance
Nadia Hasan - There is no civil war in Lebanon; there is a war against the resistance
(illustration by Mazen Kerbaj - translation below*)
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is the main factor of this dispute and they are trying to cover the political motivations and especially [...]
Haitham's Choice
Should the United States Worry About “Zionists” as Fifth Column? Yes.»
By Sami Jamil Jadallah
Last week calls by candidate Hillary Clinton to obliterate Iran for and on behalf of Israel and her willingness to commit to nuclear war risking the lives of hundreds of millions of people for and on behalf of a state that since its inception has been at war with all of its [...]
Mary's Choice
The historic wronging of Palestine»
WRITTEN BY DAVID MORRISON (art by Carlos Latuff)
The state of Israel came into existence 60 years ago on 14 May 1948. In the months before and after this declaration, Jewish forces drove around 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Over 500 villages were emptied of their Palestinian population and most of them were destroyed [...]
Gilad's Choice
Anatomy of a Conditionally Unresolved Conflict»
According to Hegel, attaining ’self-consciousness’ is a process that necessarily involves the other. How am I to become conscious of myself in general? It is simply through desire or anger, for example. Unlike animals that overcome biological needs by destroying another organic entity, human desire is a desire for recognition.
In Hegelian terms, recognition is accomplished [...]
Features
Hasbara Deconstruction Site
Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry: Lies are Truth»
The people in the press staff of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry are talented science fiction writers. Almost nothing that they write has any bearing on reality, and it seems that they use Orwell’s 1984 as a guidebook for news dispatches. All that they need to do is look at the facts on the ground [...]
Action Alert
Paint the Skies of Occupied Al-Quds Black»
Participate in painting the skies of Occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) with black
21,915 (365 days x 60 years) black balloons
Please read and ask your friends to help. It will be a great show of support for a fighting, oppressed and 60 years suffering people.
Lutuf
Dear Beloved Friends,
Many thanks to our friend, Dr Ahmad Kamal, who passed this info. [...]
Nakba and Right of Return
Young people, be fairies. Only a weak Israel can put us back on the right track»
WRITTEN BY BENNY ZIFFER for Haaretz Hebrew Edition
On Sunday, one of my students (I am a lecturer in a course from four to six at Tel Aviv University) approached me after the class and told me that she was the producer of an alternative Memorial evening, which also takes into account cruelty to Palestinians, that [...]
Video
refugeeHood: the inheritance»
Palestinian youth in the Dheisheh refugee camp talk about what it means to them to be a refugee, their identities and hopes for the future.
Video source: ibdaa194.org
Grassroots Activism
The Nakba, Voices for Palestine event with Gilad Atzmon»
Exeter Friends of Palestine Society Presents:
The Nakba - Voices for Palestine
Featuring: His Excellency Dr. Manuel Hassassian the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Gilad Atzmon and band, Nizar Al Issa and More…
University of Exeter, Monday May 12th, 2008:
On commemoration of the 60th anniversary of The Nakbah, meaning: “The Catastrophe”: The expulsion and dispossession of hundreds [...]
Human Rights
PCHR condemns detention of 3 journalists by …. WEST BANK INTELLIGENCE (!?)»
PCHR Condemns Detention of 3 Journalists and a Columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence in the West Bank
PCHR strongly condemns the detention of 3 Palestinian journalists and a columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (GIS) in Bethlehem and Qalqilya towns in the West Bank on Thursday, 8 May 2008. PCHR believes that such arrests [...]
Middle East Issues
Annual Arab Public Opinion Poll»
The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development has released its poll results. The poll was conducted under strict sampling methodology (margin of error +/- 1.6%) amongst a representative population in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan. The full survey can be viewed here: 2008 Arab Public Opinion Survey (power point).
Key [...]
Internet and Communication
Ramzy Baroud - Beyond Media Revolutions: Is Arab Media Truly Free?»
On February 12, 2008, Arab League information ministers issued a communique outlining ‘tough’ guidelines for Arab satellite channels. The new guidelines specifically prohibited the broadcasting of negative reporting of heads of state, religious or national figures.
In following days, a massive campaign of denunciation, led by those who felt targeted by the new policy, joined by [...]
