Palestine Think Tank

"I had prayed Samer, prayed that I would not have to witness bloodshed at their hands because I would go for the kill.. period – and I can and I would, I was not worried about my dying.. that would have been fine.. lovely actually. I would rather die there so it made no difference, but I would not stand by and let any of my brothers or sisters lie hurt and bleeding.. because it is our blood.. all of us, our blood."

WRITTEN BY ANTOINE RAFFOUL
BACKGROUND:
In April 2002, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield by invading the Palestinian
refugee camp of Jenin, south of Nazareth. In this operation which lasted about 8 days and followed a suicide bomb attack on the Israeli town of Netanya. Israel deployed 30,000 reserve soldiers against a camp population of 33,000 refugees. It sealed [...]

WRITTEN BY Salim Nazzal – At the beginning I got “strange” e-mails which hinted towards assassination and the like. The Zionist character in these e-mails was obvious. I simply paid no attention. I know Zionists fear the voice of the victims. My voice is the voice of my people who were murdered and uprooted from [...]

Two years ago today Dr. George Habash’s body left us, and since then, many books have been published about this legend El Hakeem (the doctor and the wise in Arabic), who became a beacon to freedom fighters worldwide and an Icon of steadfastness for humanity, democracy and goodwill. Dr. Habash was a visionary and a complete [...]

Commemorating the second anniversary of the death of Al-Hakim George Habash, we reprint three articles published in homage to this great man who remains an inspiration and a source for millions. The first briefly recounts the legacy of this great man, the second is an interview in which Dr. Habash in his own words describes the decisive [...]

UPDATE: UNHCR has accepted to take Yousra to her own shelters after she refused, according to her lawyer, to go back to Caritas shelters, pending a permanent solution. Caritas is held a conference on Tuesday and issued a press release to voice its view point. The main question on the ‘legal status’ of Yousra, when [...]

The Lebanese General Security Office (GSO), the official state body in charge of entry, stay and exit of foreigners, is coming under heavy fire following its decision to maintain the arbitrary detention of Iraqi refugee Yousra El-Amiri.
On 11 December 2009, a Lebanese judge in Zahle, Cynthia Kasarji, order the immediate release of Yousra who has [...]

I was born in 1933, in the village of Beit Nuba in Palestine, where I was brought up and lived happily with family and friends. The village of Beit Nuba had existed for thousands of years, as historic records show. However, Israeli wars of aggression and war crimes made its recent history painful and tragic.
In [...]

WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH  (artwork by Edna Spennato)
The recent arrest warrant issued in London  for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is more than justified.
This woman, along with two other Israeli leaders, Ehud Olmert and  Ehud Barak, stood at the helm of the Israeli government that ordered, supervised and charted  the  genocidal onslaught against the [...]

Ramzy Baroud's new book is out now. Here's a promotional clip describing the content.