Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance
Nima Shirazi – When the Truth is Inconvenient: A Preview of 'Countdown To Zero'
The film lauds the Obama Administration's position on nuclear weapons and promotes the claim that Obama is really interested in reducing the US stockpile, using the START treaty with Russia as an example, as if agreeing to decommission a few hundred old nukes is evidence of an "historic" commitment to disarm. This seems a bit hard to believe considering that Obama has already requested $80 billion for rebuilding and upgrading the US nuclear arsenal in clear violation of the requirements of the NPT. Obama's twenty-year spending plan calls for the United States to actually increase the nuclear weapons budget to about $8 billion a year and while spending $175 billion between 2010 to 2030 on new weapons production, testing and simulation facilities, and on extending the life of nuclear weapons already in the arsenal.
{More»} Mary's Choice
Mahmoud Darwish – You, as of now, are someone else!»
“The stranger and I will join forces against my cousin. My cousin and I will join forces against my brother. My Sheikh and I will join forces against me.” This is the first lesson in the new national education curriculum. In the abyss of darkness, who will go to heaven first? He who died with enemy bullets or he who died by his brother’s bullets? Some jurisprudents say: Thou shalt have an enemy born from your mother’s womb! The fundamentalists do not annoy me; their secular supporters infuriate me, as do their atheist supporters who only believe in one religion: their images on TV!
Haitham's Choice
A trip from Gaza to Eilat and back – by Omar Ghraieb»
By Omar Ghraieb* in Gaza
nder the hardships of living that camp in the small space of his modest bungalow, and hindered from providing a somewhat decent living to his seven little kids who depend on him like all children do on their fathers, M.K. -who is at in his mid thirties- decided to take off [...]
Kawther's Choice
Angels and Devils: Mozart, Strauss, Hitler, Hertzl»
On last Friday July 2 2010, Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Professor and researcher at Bethlehem and Bir Zeit Universities, a human rights activist who lived 28 years in the USA, returned to his homeland Palestine to demonstrate non-violently against the Apartheid Wall, the massive uprooting of olive trees, the destruction [...]
Khalid Amayreh
Khalid Amayreh – Refuting Palazzi's Lies»
Ed note: Massimo Abdul Hadi Palazzi is a well-known figure to Italians who are active for Palestinian rights. He has been frequently unmasked by the great Miguel Martinéz and others. However, those unfamiliar with this figure will learn about him in this piece by Khalil Amayreh.
(Massimo) Abdul Hadi Palazzi calls himself a "Muslim Zionist," [...]
Features
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Hasbara Deconstruction Site
Nima Shirazi – 'Hope' Floats: Hey Hollywood, time to put your money where your morality is»
A coalition of nearly twenty U.S.-based human rights and peace groups has joined the global justice community and numerous foreign governments in vowing to send more humanitarian aid ships to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza this coming Fall. The coalition, united under the mantle US To Gaza, includes activist organizations such as CodePink, [...]
Action Alert
Felicity Arbuthnot – An open letter to the Methodist Church on their decision to Endorse BDS»
Dear Sir or Madam,
The decision of the Methodist Church to endorse the BDS Campaign, has not alone been greeted with huge respect by those concerned with the near unique plight of Palestinians, attacked, evicted, walled in or excluded, land divested for sixty two years, but has also restored faith in what believers are : adherents [...]
Nakba and Right of Return
Raid Khoury – On Ramzy Baroud's "My Father was a Freedom Fighter"»
The last 100 years have been cruel to the Palestinians, their land selected for a colonial project unlike any other in its attempt to replace an entire population with a foreign colonial population and ethnically cleansed from a land in which they were the original inhabitants. Haphazard help from Arab regimes later turned to betrayal and abandonment, and as Gaza is witnessing today, eventually developed into open collaboration with the usurping Zionist state. While the betrayal and abandonment of Palestine by Arab regimes has become official policy, the liberation of Palestine remains the demand of an entire Arab people who refuse to turn their backs on Palestine and the Palestinians.
Video
VIDEOS "the Anti-Semite trick", "Meet the Settlers", " by Mozafar Najafzadeh & "Occupation, Inc."»
Former Israeli Education Minister, in a radio interview states precisely what "the trick we always use" is when dealing with critics of Israel and Zionism. She should know. Then, Mozahafar Najafzadeh presents a slideshow on the Settlers. It's not only robbing Palestinian and Arab land and building on it, it's an uncontrollable taste for violence and racism. Lastly, an IMEMC video, "Occupation, Inc.", where we see how the permanent checkpoints, over 90% of them stationed beyond "the Green Line" and thus, in land that even in the most rosy perspective of "two States" would be land stolen from Palestinians meant for "their State", and serving as permanent border crossings, are not manned by the IDF (so the soldiers can be used in combat); but instead are outsourced to private contractors who run it for profit, with zero accountability.
Grassroots Activism
Israel's Freedom Flotilla Massacre underlines the urgency of intensifying BDS»
Occupied Palestine, 08 June 2010 — In light of Israel’s massacre of humanitarian relief workers and activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May 2010 and its insistence to continue its illegal siege on Gaza, pressuring Israel to comply with its obligations under international law has become of undeniable urgency. Drunk with power and impunity, Israel has ignored recent appeals by the UN Secretary General as well as a near consensus among world governments to end its deadly siege, putting the onus on international civil society to shoulder the moral responsibility of holding Israel accountable to international law and ending its criminal impunity. The Palestinian-led global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel has shown the most effective way of achieving this. Detailed information on how to do it, Italian and French copies also available courtesy Gulagnik.
Human Rights
Ghassan Hage – A massacre is not a massacre»
I saw misery, racism, inhumanity and a concentration camp.
But they told me that they were experts in misery, racism, inhumanity and concentration camps
and I have to take their word for it:
this was not misery, racism, inhumanity and a concentration camp.
Children's Corner
Israel's war against children»
WRITTEN BY Shadi Salman AlQarra
Naseem Jawad Abu Dakka, 14, was playing in front of his grandfather’s house, under the lemon tree in the front of the house, 800 metres from the area where Israeli army the made an incursion, firing tanks shells and bullets. One medium calibre bullet entered his back and exited from his [...]
Middle East Issues
Yvonne Ridley – Why Tony Blair is the Most Useless Peace Envoy on the Planet»
The so-called Middle East Peace Envoy Tony Blair certainly does not want to see any more flotillas sailing for Gaza. It’s not because he lies awake at night thinking about the deaths of those innocent humanitarian activists. No, Blair is afraid – very afraid – that people power will expose him for what he is, probably the most useless peace envoy on this planet. Exactly what has he done for the Palestinians since he took the job? Actually it would be easier to list what he hasn’t done.
Internet and Communication
Jeff Blankfort – Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability?»
From PULSE Media: In a recent interview renowned linguist Noam Chomsky called the BDS campaign ‘hypocritical’. Jeffrey Blankfort, who is the author of an earlier important critique of Chomsky’s position on Palestine, responds:
When Noam Chomsky was stopped at Jordan’s Allenby Bridge and prevented from entering the Palestinian West Bank by Israeli occupation forces in May, [...]
Website of the Week
DesertPeace»
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
Sahar Hamzeh, (with Adib Kawar) – To break the Gaza Siege»
A gift for those who are doing all they can to break the inhumane siege on Gaza. This poem was written to express the joy of the arrival of internationals to the shores of Palestine on the Freedom Flotilla, but the translator Adib Kawar added a verse after the tragic events of the martyrdom of more people for the love of the people and land of Palestine. (Also in Arabic)
