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Yousef Munayyer – Humanity targeted in Gaza

By Guest Post • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

There was a time, not so long ago in fact, when opposing armies would line up across from each other with nothing but green fields between them and take turns exchanging fire. While these tactics were very efficient at killing soldiers on both sides, civilians were rarely ever hurt.
Somewhere along the line this all changed. [...]



No Motion in Norway's Academic Ocean: they didn't even flip through the boycott motion text

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Education, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
Last week might have been a week when history was made. There would have been a precedent set that would from that point onwards made a change in very many ways, one comparable to fulfilling the request the ANC made in South Africa. At first, the ANC request was seen as merely symbolic, [...]



Sami Jamil Jadallah – Major Nidal Hasan and Rabbi/Senator Joseph Lieberman.

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

“If we kill a gentile who had sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong with the murder,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira head of the Od Yosef Yeshiva in the illegal Jewish settlement of Yitzhak was quoted in the Israeli newspaper Maariv. Rabbi Shapira (no doubt an American Jew) recently published [...]



Ayman Nijim – The Palestinian Status Quo and the Proclaimed Elections

By Guest Post • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

The Palestinian political situation now is somehow vague and it is unclear whether there will be elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, or separate elections in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Palestinians and the international community may ask on the optimal means behind reaching an acceptable government with [...]



M. Shahid Alam – How Eurocentric Is Your Day?

By Guest Post • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Education, Features, Maps, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – this is the central theme. It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading Western accounts of the rise of the global economy.
This fall, I began [...]



Mamoon Alabassi – Noam Chomsky: no change in US 'Mafia principle'

By Guest Post • Nov 7th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Top American intellectual sees no significant change of US foreign policy under Obama.  
As civilised people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington's foreign policy under President [...]



Nahida Izzat – Equal Rights for serial killers, and for their victims???

By Nahida Izzat • Nov 6th, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Can anyone see some ethical flaws with that?
I have no authority to talk in the name of all Palestinians, but I have previously stated that I DO NOT wish the zionist murderers, those of whom were directly or indirectly involved in massacres, theft of land, subjugation and oppression, to remain in Palestine after its liberation [...]



Alan Hart – How Zionist lobby stooges in Congress brought shame to their institution

By Guest Post • Nov 6th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Alan Hart *
s expected, the U.S. House of Representatives voted, on Tuesday 3 November, by 344 votes to 36, to urge the Obama administration to oppose endorsement of the Goldstone Report. But for those who are interested in truth and justice, not to mention democracy, the highlight of what passed for debate was the [...]



Give up on Obama, Disband the Palestinian Authority

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Sami Jamil Jadallah
The issue of continuing and expanding Jewish settlements came back to haunt the Palestinian leadership that negotiated Oslo and continued to negotiate with Israel for the last 16 years while Israeli continued to build and expand its settlements, not to mention building the Apartheid Wall.

Now 16 years later finally the Palestinian [...]



Mohamed Khodr – America’s Media? A Colonial Force for Israel’s Infallibility

By Mohamed Khodr • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

“Their/our” media is the true Apartheid Wall between Israel and our nation. It strangles our capitol like an elastic beltway that it tightens and loosens according to Israel’s directions.

It is the whip that keeps our cowardly politicians in tow and our populace ignorant of the truth about Israel “our ally and only democratic government in the Middle East”. Israel is the huge sucking sound that drains our money, military, and mind set while we like indoctrinated puppets cheer it on. We are helping Israel in its strategy to create our own national suicide.
And not only that: Twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama's campaign identified as collecting more than $500,000 have been named to government positions. If you look closely you will find that the vast majority of these donors are Jewish, many from Wall Street, or Pro-Israel activists.