Palestine Think Tank

WRITTEN BY MIKE WHITNEY FROM INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE (be sure to visit their site and read comments)
There were no surprises on Barak Obama’s trip to Israel. Everything went by without a hitch. Obama met with all the heads of state and party bosses and raced from one event to another without incident. He skillfully tip-toed [...]

in the picture, peace and human rights activist Mousa Abu-Maria after he was hit by an IDF bullet during a peaceful demonstration. He is now under “Administrative Detention”.
The Case of Dr. Ghassan Khaled, the law faculty of Al Najjah University, Nablus
Administrative detention is detention without charge or trial, and without informing the detainees or their [...]

A Palestinian-Scottish couple are driving a ton and a half of urgently-needed medicines to Gaza on July 10th and they have arrived the Rafah border but cannot enter Gaza because the Egyptian government doesn’t give the permission to open the border. Please take action and write to the Egyptian officials:
http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/content/view/2547/458/
http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15217
http://www.gaza.tk/
a letter could look like this:
His [...]

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Join us for a [...]

Al-Gumhuriyya, March 3, 2008 (Egypt)
The caption above reads: “The International Legitimacy.” On the paper, in Arabic: “Gaza’s Holocaust.”

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams, Second President of the United States

Immediately after their 1967 conquest of the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli military occupation authorities issued orders to the effect that no new wells were to be drilled to supply water to the Palestinian population. All new wells drilled in the ensuing 28 years provide water only for Israel and for the Jewish settlements in [...]

Media humanize Israeli soldier, but what of Palestinians, asks Simon Black
I know Gilad Shalit. Not personally, but I could tell you what he looks like, his age, where he went to school, his hometown, his father’s name, what his father looks like, and how he weeps for his son.
I know that this is not the [...]

Translated by Mimi Asnes
Honorable General Ehud Barak, you don’t know me personally. I am a seeker of peace, and I struggle with all my strength and ability for the realization of a just peace that will bring calm and prosperity to Palestinians and Israelis together. I have suffered personally from your criminal occupation and I [...]