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Adel Samara – What if Palestinian Feminism was Class Oriented?

By Adel Samara • Jul 23rd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

(In the picture, all woman march in Bil'in, poster says, "We will protest the wall till it falls!") While writing my coming book about women, I had the opportunity to read two books published in Arabic and dealt with Palestinian women in West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBG).
What I offer here is not a review of [...]


Adel Samara – Oil Surpluses Must be Directed to Development, not Charity: a Comment on Chavez's Suggestion

By Adel Samara • Jul 19th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Links, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Most economists, from Marxists and leftists to liberals, have been contributing to analysis of the current crisis of the world capitalist system that started within the last resort economy, the US economy. Despite various reasons and interpretations mentioned by those writers, and even in spite of contradictory analyses between economists of one school, there is [...]


Adel Samara – Why the Socialist Solution in Palestine!

By Adel Samara • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Education, Features, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

And why the Secular Democratic State will serve the Zionist and Arab Comprador Solution! (Also published today on Knaa'an Online) www.kanaanonline.org

More than ever before, the One-State Solution (OSS) [i] for the Arab-Israeli conflict jumps to the forefront of the debate by some Israeli and Palestinian activists.
While some returned to this solution after they realized that [...]


Adel Samara – Letter to Luisa Morgantini: "You are too greatly terrified!"

By Adel Samara • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

To Luisa Morgantini,Vice President of the European Parliament

It was really interesting that you have made the sacrifice of issuing a press release (13th June 2008) before the EU Monday June 16th June in Luxembourg in the margin of the EU general affairs and external relations council, wherein it states that Israel doesn’t respect the [...]


Adel Samara – Development by Colonialism: The Bethlehem Conference

By Adel Samara • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The huge propaganda machine went in parallel with the so-called “Bethlehem Investment Conference” which has attracted more than 1400 participants from many places around the world. It is the first time since 15 years of siege that the holy town of Bethlehem enjoyed the chance to see the holy city of Jerusalem. Thanks to the [...]


A Global Massacre Against Gaza

By Adel Samara • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

source Kanaan Online (thanks to Nadia Hasan for the forward)
Note: I certainly need help in answering the following two questions:
� What is going on in the mind of a Palestinian infant in the last moments of his or her life when a US/Israeli rocket strikes him/her?
� What do Israeli military leaders tell their pilot when [...]