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Make a difference in Gaza: launch of worker solidarity fund

By Guest Post • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

Sawt el-Amel launches worker to worker solidarity fund 
www.gaza-worker-fund.org 
…Thousands of workers from Gaza spent years working for private Israeli employers…When the Gaza Strip was sealed off, they lost their jobs, and the money owed to them, without any compensation…Today they are trapped in Gaza, unemployed, their families dependent on foreign aid…Sawt el-Amel is taking their cases [...]



Sa'id Barghouti – Palestinian History and Identity in Israeli Schools

By Guest Post • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Education, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Palestinian students are inculcated with the idea that Jews are the original and oldest inhabitants of the land and the most attached to it. Raising Arab-Palestinian students on this idea, while not providing adequate cultural and historical knowledge to challenge it, encourages alienation from their homeland.

Feelings of alienation will later on undermine the capacity of students to tackle oppressive policies, especially in matters of land and social culture, and transform them into easy prey for the dominant Israeli political discourse which can be summarized as follows: this is the land of the Jewish people. We returned to our rightful historic homeland and built it up. You Arab-Palestinians are just passers-by, strangers to this land, and a source of annoyance to our presence. This is the discourse underlying Israeli political demands for the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.



cartoon of the day

By Guest Post • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day


Franklin Lamb – Lebanese students advise President Obama how to get it right

By Guest Post • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War

If those in Lebanon watching the news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an interesting news item.  It appeared at approximately 4:20 pm on Narharnet.com, the pro-US/Saudi news website. 
The news item read “4:16 pm, American Ambassador Michele Sison (sp) departed Lebanon for her country.”  Ten minutes later the item disappeared and, as it turned [...]



Yousef Munayyer – Humanity targeted in Gaza

By Guest Post • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

There was a time, not so long ago in fact, when opposing armies would line up across from each other with nothing but green fields between them and take turns exchanging fire. While these tactics were very efficient at killing soldiers on both sides, civilians were rarely ever hurt.
Somewhere along the line this all changed. [...]



Angie Tibbs – Spotlight on Palestine: an interview with Stuart Littlewood

By Guest Post • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Angie Tibbs*
British writer and photographer Stuart Littlewood talks to Angie Tibbs about his experience of Israel's occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, and comments on how British and American collusion, under the auspices of the Jewish lobby, is helping to sustain the world's most lawless, brutal and unjust occupation regime.
"Lawlessness must have painful [...]



Doc Jazz – Undhor! Anti-wall song and video

By Guest Post • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

This song is dedicated to Basem Abu Rahme, 29 years old, who was non-violently protesting the theft of his village's farmlands and was shot dead by the Israeli Occupation Forces.
The song expresses support for the people's struggle against the Israeli Apartheid Wall in Bil'in and Nil'in, on the West Bank in Palestine. People there are waging daily non-violent protests against the confiscation of their lands and their livelihood, while the armed forces of Israel respond with live ammunition and have injured and killed several people in this way.



Alan Hart – President Obama’s opportunity to speak truth to power, Part 2 – Rahm Emanuel does it for him

By Guest Post • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

When I wrote and posted Part 1 of this article, I was, of course, aware that there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of President Obama speaking truth to the power of Jewish America as it was represented at the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America. The words I put into his [...]



Justice for Mohammad Othman

By Guest Post • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Weeks of solitary confinement. Six military hearings. Sleep deprivation. No access to a lawyer. No criminal charge.
Mohammad Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist involved with War on Want partner, Stop the Wall, has been detained without charge by Israeli authorities. His detention is illegal – and he now faces the risk of torture. We need to [...]



Ayman Nijim – The Palestinian Status Quo and the Proclaimed Elections

By Guest Post • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

The Palestinian political situation now is somehow vague and it is unclear whether there will be elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, or separate elections in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Palestinians and the international community may ask on the optimal means behind reaching an acceptable government with [...]