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The historic wronging of Palestine

By Mary Rizzo • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Israel, Mary's Choice, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY DAVID MORRISON (art by Carlos Latuff)
The state of Israel came into existence 60 years ago on 14 May 1948. In the months before and after this declaration, Jewish forces drove around 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Over 500 villages were emptied of their Palestinian population and most of them were destroyed [...]



Annual Arab Public Opinion Poll

By Mary Rizzo • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development has released its poll results.  The poll was conducted under strict sampling methodology (margin of error +/- 1.6%) amongst a representative population in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan.  The full survey can be viewed here: 2008 Arab Public Opinion Survey (power point).
Key [...]



Traces of Poison, Israel’s Dark History Revealed

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 4th, 2007 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

By Salman Abu Sitta
Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent. Salman Abu-Sitta digs into a dark history
At a time when TV screens are filled with images of perceived weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq among people who [...]



The Politics of Anti-Semitism: Zionism, the Bund and Jewish Identity Politics

By Gilad Atzmon • Nov 28th, 2007 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Gilad Atzmon, Zionism

(illustration: Zionist recruitment poster “Salvation and Vengeance!”)
Those amongst us who support the Palestinian people, those amongst us who are devastated by the growing scale of Israeli atrocities, those who want to bring justice to Palestine and this includes bringing Palestinians back to their land, will have to make up their minds sooner or later. From [...]



The African Lakes Plateau is an Israeli Water Playground

By Adib Kawar • Nov 25th, 2007 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Israel, Middle East Issues, Zionism

By: Ahmad Tuhami Abd Al-Hay from Sudanese Media Centre 26 November 2006
Translated by: Adib S. Kawar, revised by Mary Rizzo
Some Egyptian parliamentarians and commentators have recently raised the issue of the crisis between Egypt and the Nile basin States, some of whom such as Kenya and Uganda, signatories of the Nile source agreement, expressed their [...]