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Khalid Amayreh – The Musa’ab Yousuf Story: a classic example of Israeli disinformation

By Khalid Amayreh • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

In addition to its protracted war of terror against the Palestinian people, Israel has long waged an unrelenting campaign of psychological warfare against the Palestinian will, aimed at debilitating the domestic front across the occupied territories. The Israeli media, which often operates in sync with the Israeli occupation army and intelligence agencies, readily and routinely [...]



Zahir Ebrahim – Response to John Kaminski's 'Why no Jewish writer can be believed'

By Guest Post • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Features, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Religion, Zionism

Often times, as G. Edward Griffin also puts it, the sins of the 'left' are uncovered by their enemies on the 'right', and vice versa. The in-fighting among hegemonic pigs often betrays their criminal secrets. For an astute non-bigoted seeker of truth and justice for all, that's simply the low hanging fruits of the rotten tree to be plucked for forensic analysis.



Zahra Carla Pilavdzic – Personal Problems in a Privileged Society

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Mary's Choice, Music, Poetry, Events, Resistance

WRITTEN BY ZAHRA CARLA PILAVDZIC  (artwork by Carlos Latuff)
So and so thinks she's too fat. She not only wants some liposuction but a nose job while she's at it. And if she could afford it, maybe some new boobs. She thinks then she'll be famous and people will love her.
Another one has more serious problems, [...]



Tariq Shadid – Palestine is full of heroes

By Guest Post • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the 'right' ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the people rally behind a certain leader, more than behind an ideology. While Palestinian society continues to be torn apart [...]



Mohamed Khodr – Veritas in Harvard: No, Just Double Standards, Injustice, and Fear

By Mohamed Khodr • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Arabian Coffee House, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Prof. Arnold Toynbee, Foreword to the Transformation of Palestine, 1971
"Israel may have the right to [...]



Tim King – Mainstream Media Questions Inaccuracies in 9/11 Story

By Haitham Sabbah • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Zionism

By Tim King* (Salem-News.com)
The Washington Times publishes story questioning official account.
The mainstream press is showing interest in a taboo, however glaring subject; the inconsistencies in the Bush White House 9/11 account.
As The Washington Times reports today, "A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How [...]



Zahir Ebrahim – Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Justice in the Service of Empire

By Guest Post • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Newswire

While it is true that most in Pakistan are very upset by what has befallen Dr. Aafia Siddiqui as yet another victim of imperial mobilization – only one among the millions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan's Tribal-Belt, all along the 'arc of crisis' in the global zone of percolating violence, etc. – the handful who did publicly protest this latest visitation of empire's justice upon a frail tortured woman in a nation of almost 200 million, did so only symbolically. And many an English-enabled 'house Negro' only expressed faith in empire's Justice. The English language Pakistani press is full of their editorials which span the gamut of intellectual servitude from heaping scorn on any public expression of empathy with the victim, to outright blaming the victim. And this combined show of moral bravado despite the fact that Dr. Aafia has become the inextricable symbol of the summation of all the abhorrent injustices purveyed upon women in wars – from rape to rape – and no mere words can ever capture her indescribable agony! Yet, most Pakistanis among the 'field Negroes' daring to express a modicum of moral outrage only displayed our fine moral tenor from the comforts of our living room. Just as we did when Iraqi women were being raped, tortured, and disappeared in the service of empire not too long ago. Then we returned back to our daily grind.



Ibrahim Hewitt – The Observer, Israel and the language of war

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM HEWITT – ALSO IN SPANISH BELOW!
A leader writer in the Observer newspaper (“Israel can accelerate peace by exercising restraint” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/21/observer-editorial-israel-palestine , 21 February) really must be taken to task over the language that was used in the column. In seeking to analyse the Israel-Palestine situation the writer slipped into the sort of [...]



Khalid Amayreh – No light ahead

By Khalid Amayreh • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Zionism

While the Palestinian Authority (PA) seems prone to agree to "indirect talks" with Israel without the latter undertaking any meaningful freeze of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, the Israeli government is making only provocations, rendering the resumption — let alone success — of peace talks more unlikely, especially in the near future.
Israel lately [...]



Ramzy Baroud – Challenging History: Why the Oppressed Must Tell Their Own Story

By Ramzy Baroud • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

When American historian Howard Zinn passed away recently, he left behind a legacy that redefined our relationship to history altogether. 
Professor Zinn dared to challenge the way history was told and written. In fact he went as far as to defy the conventional construction of historical discourses through the pen of victor or of elites who [...]