Palestine Think Tank

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Hasbara Deconstruction Site

…a desire to disrupt the communities of people working for Palestine, to entrap young Muslim men in a "honey trap", a need to find "radical anti-Zionists" and get their private contact information to threaten them or worst of all, to damage the Palestinian cause by bringing it to disrepute. Is she a Zionist? A few of us had suspected as much, due to the "over the top" blog name, but then again, it is hard to tell, but there are signs pointing towards the affirmative, and the damage this person intentionally does points VERY much in that direction.

Action Alert

Petitioners request that the Government of Switzerland, in its capacity as depository of the Fourth Geneva Convention, consider this issue in the context of resuming the High Contracting Parties’ Conference to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Please sign this important Petition and pass it on to others to prevent Israel from continuing its ethnic cleansing not only [...]

Nakba and Right of Return

To work strategically on our liberation process, we need to instill an appropriate discourse that embodies our future strategic vision. This discourse should start by purging itself from the language of “two-state solution”, “two states for two people”, “West Bank and Gaza”, “East Jerusalem”, “peacemaking”, “direct or indirect negotiations”, “state building”, “legal or illegal settlements”, etc. Our language should focus on means of resistance to achieve our liberation towards living in a free, non-racist, secular country in the entire land of historical Palestine; on emancipation from occupation and economic dependency; on individual and collective rights; on international law; on responsive and accountable leadership; on self-reliance and productivity; and on the right of all the refugees and displaced persons, who were ethnically cleansed from their homes and country by the Zionist colonial movement, to return to Palestine.

Video

Very good video that explains how it is logical that Israel is aptly described as an Apartheid State. Although it is actually worse.

Grassroots Activism

Here is a leaked copy of the Zionist plan to attack the Boycott and Divestment Campaign Against Israel's Occupation and to strategy to shut down the debate on the Palestinian issue and to shift it discussion of anti-Semitism and not Israel's illegal Occuption and illegal settlements and human rights violations. (thanks to the various people [...]

Human Rights

Sunday, March 14 2010 – The European Union, US war criminal General Keith Dayton, the Egyptian and the Jordanian regimes, are all jointly responsible for the torture of Palestinian prisoners at the PA jails. Dayton is the de-facto head of the corrupt PA repression system; his forces taught the PA thugs [...]

Children's Corner

WRITTEN BY JOE HARBISON
There is a song on the Gotan Project album that is reminiscent of a memory I never had, like déja vu played forward. The song transports me to a time and place I did not think existed. Until I came to Gaza. The tango never fails to take me to a Mediterranean [...]

Middle East Issues

For many years since the early days of the Reagan and Bush administration continuing with Clinton and now Obama administrations, everytime there is visit by a high ranking American official, Israel announces either expansions of Jewish settlements, expulsions of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, expansions of security checkpoints, expanding the Apartheid Wall, committing targeted assassinations or attacking neighboring countries. This is the message American officials get from Israel every time they can pretend they are on a “peace mission”.

Internet and Communication

Despite a nearly endless barrage of reporting on Iran's nuclear energy program, the US government's push for a new round of sanctions, and on-going efforts to foment regime change in the Islamic Republic, all had been relatively quiet on the Ahmadinejad front in the Western press for some time.
Until now.
The mainstream media's favorite scapegoat, Iranian [...]

Website of the Week

This week's site is a very special site. DesertPeace is run by Steve Amsel, (who also happens to be a dear and loyal friend) who is that rare bird known as an Israeli citizen who is doing all he can to redress the balance of lies and falsehood told about what Israel is, who the [...]

Arabian Coffee House

It was hard to say goodbye to my wife and friends in the US.  The last night was very meaningful as we were in New York seeing the performance of Najla Said, daughter of my friend and mentor, the late Professor Edward Said (for an earlier statement from Najla, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMrmRCbvA0 ). I cried while she [...]