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75 children and 23 women killed, the harvest of Israel’s terrorism in the first 6 months of 2008

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The Israeli occupying forces have killed 75 children and 23 Palestinian women during the first half of this year, says a report published yesterday by the National and International Relations Department of the PLO in Ramallah.
The report informs us that the Israeli military occupation authorities continued their violations of the rights of the Palestinians, showing [...]



Are bodies that monitor corruption…. corrupt too?

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jun 28th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

I was looking for information for some research about international corruption. I found Israel is almost always classified with European countries, while the Palestinian authority is classified with Middle Eastern countries, even though both are occupying the same geographical area.
Such classification does not appear on a personal blog so that one might consider such deviation [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - Israeli soldiers using Palestinian children as human shields

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Documents, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Quotes, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Israeli Soldiers force Palestinians to approach, enter and search buildings where they believe gunmen may be hiding.
The civilians are subjected to different forms of manipulations to use them as human shields during operations to acquire control of the houses, detaining inhabitants in one place (often in one room of the house) and turning the houses [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - Changes in Palestinian Demographics

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

85% of the Palestinian population has been expelled by Israel since the Nakba. This has transformed Gaza into the most densely populated area in the world
The number of the Palestinian population has increased seven fold since the Nakba in 1948 despite the plight and the tragic circumstances as stated by the Head of Palestinian Statistics [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - Israeli authorities imprison Palestinian women even after their death

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Israeli occupation forces have arrested more than 10,000 Palestinian women of various backgrounds and ages since 1967.
720 Palestinian women were arrested during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, 102 of them are still detained to this date.
Arresting mothers, wives and sisters of wanted persons or detainees is one form of collective punishment, and it is aimed at forcing [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - The Ministry of Prisoners

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

In the UK, where I am living, there is a Ministry of Justice, but in Palestine, where my home country is, there is a Ministry of Prisoners. Does this make any sense?
Well, it seems that it does, after all, states create Ministries to solve the problems affecting a large sector of their citizens. It is [...]



إقبال التميمي - الإعلام الدولي يشتعل بمأساة القضية الفلسطينية وبعض الإعلام العربي دماغه بين فخذيه

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine

كيف يمارس الفلاسفة الجنس؟
روائيات سعوديات يسردن مفاتن الجسد ويشددن وتر الغريزة
رحلة الحيوان المنوي المثيرة
لا مزيد من المواقع الإباحية في فلسطين والشباب يتذمرون
كيف تجعلك الأنثى حبيباً أو تصنع منها عاشقة؟
وثلاثة صور لنساء يعرضن الكثير من لحمهن على الصفحة الأولى
هذا هو مثال على ما هو موجود على الصفحة الأولى لموقع صحيفة الكترونية عربية. وقبل أن أبدأ بإطلاق [...]



Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Azzam: 10 years captive in Israeli prisons without trial.

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 25th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Nafha Society for the Defence of Human Rights in Palestine sent an appeal to help the Palestinian prisoner “Mahmoud Saeed Azzam” from the town of Seelet Al Harthiya in Jenin district. This appeal came after a visit to Shatta prison where he is detained.
The Palestinian prisoner “Azzam” has been arrested from his home by Israeli [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - Israel’s “Free Press”? Broken pencils, broken bones and broken lives of reporters

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Open letter to David Miliband by a Palestinian Journalist residing in the UK. Detailed report follows.
The Jewish Chronicle published an article on the 16th of May entitled ‘Miliband tribute ahead of Israel trip’. The article says:
Foreign secretary David Miliband delivered an unscripted tribute to Israel’s achievements and search for peace at the Israeli embassy’s Independence [...]



إقبال التميمي - أخبروا نقيب الصحفيين الفلسطينيين أنني أبحث عنه

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Internet and Communication

مسؤولة مكتب الحريات الصحفية / شبكة صحفيين في المهجر البريطانية
عندما التقيت بالسيد نقيب الصحفيين الفلسطينيين نعيم الطوباسي في مؤتمر اتحاد نقابات الصحفيين البريطانيين قبل حوالي شهر ونصف في إيرلندا، فرحت واستبشرت خيراً. خصوصاً بعد أن أعلن على الملأ وعلى المنصة دعمه الكامل للحريات الصحفية، وإنصاف زملاء المهنة. وعندما لوّح بالكوفية إلى أن التقطت كل كاميرا [...]