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Nadia Hasan - The Call is Palestinian, but the Decision is Israeli!

By Nadia Hasan • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The 60 years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine and other areas of the Arab Homeland puts constant pressure in a direct way upon the daily lives of the Palestinian people. Walls and fences, checkpoints and block roads, closure and siege are just some of the elements that exert devastating effect on the Palestinian economy. The [...]


Nadia Hasan - “America Don’t Worry! Israel is Behind You!”

By Nadia Hasan • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

I remember a few years ago walking through the wonderful narrow streets of the occupied Old city of Jerusalem, seeing a small shop managed by an old Palestinian man who was selling souvenirs to the tourists. I entered the shop, not because I wanted to buy something, I am not a tourist in my own [...]


Nadia Hasan - There is no civil war in Lebanon; there is a war against the resistance

By Nadia Hasan • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

(illustration by Mazen Kerbaj - translation below*)
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is the main factor of this dispute and they are trying to cover the political motivations and especially [...]