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Archives for the ‘Ideas and Projects’ Category

IDF, Army of Shame

By Haitham Sabbah • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Ideas and Projects, Palestine, War, Zionism

By Sami Jamil Jadallah
Before there was the Israel Defense Forces “IDF” there were the Jewish terrorist groups in Mandated Palestine. Before there was state terrorism committed by an army of the state, IDF, there was Jewish terrorism and terrorists committing crimes and murder against Arabs, British and even Jews.
Before the State of Israel became an [...]



Remi Kanazi - Poets for Palestine book is released

By Mary Rizzo • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Culture and Heritage, Features, Ideas and Projects, Music, Poetry, Events, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Illustration by Nasri Zacharia, Day of the Martyr
Palestinian Identity - By Remi Kanazi
I was born overseas
A refugee
With little knowledge of myself or my ancestry
Growing up in American society
I conformed to the mentality
I watched MTV
Envied actors and people who drove Mercedes
I didn’t listen to Public Enemy or read Edward Said
Comprehend the need for autonomy
I was a [...]



The French Resistance in the Service of Palestine

By Gilad Atzmon • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Gilad Atzmon, Gilad's Choice, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

The commemoration events of 60 years of the Nakba have brought a very different type of Palestinian solidarity activism to my attention: it is young, vibrant, dynamic and creative solidarity campaigning. It’s a new form of struggle that goes far beyond the old dogmatic clichés, a fierce battle that aims at the exposure of [...]



Mazin Qumsiyeh - Palestinian Options as the Nakba turns 60

By Mary Rizzo • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Education, Features, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Written by Mazin Qumsiyeh
We are 126 years after the practical initiation of Zionist project to colonize Palestine and we are 60 years after the realization of that vision in the form of a Jewish ethnocentric nationalistic state. These are very short periods in human histories (the crusader kingdoms lasted much longer). History teaches us that [...]



Paint the Skies of Occupied Al-Quds Black

By Mary Rizzo • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Children's Corner, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Resistance

Participate in painting the skies of Occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) with black
21,915 (365 days x 60 years) black balloons
Please read and ask your friends to help. It will be a great show of support for a fighting, oppressed and 60 years suffering people.
Lutuf
Dear Beloved Friends,
Many thanks to our friend, Dr Ahmad Kamal, who passed this info. [...]



Carlos Latuff - His Palestinian Cartoons

By Carlos Latuff • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

ftp://ia360941.us.archive.org/3/items/Palestine2002to2008/Palestine2002to2008.zip
Artist and activist Carlos Latuff shares over 300 of his drawings on Palestine. Download! Print! Share! Never Give Up!



World’s Largest Key in Bethlehem

By Mary Rizzo • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Palestine, Resistance

Bethlehem / Munjed Jadou - The Aida Youth Activity Center is located in northern Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp.
Today it has launched a project to build a gigantic structure in the shape of key hole, in addition to the largest iron key which goes next to it. This is all in memorial of 60 years of [...]



Wael Al Saad - Justice Lost in the Age of Power

By Wael Al-Saad • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Education, Features, Ideas and Projects, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

The Dimensions of Occupation, the Occupational Lobby and the Age After
I am not a politician or a journalist or writer but I am thinking day and night, experiencing new dimensions of consciousness and seeking answers. How can we move forward strategically in our struggle for justice and peace?
An Insight
Looking into the current analyses that are [...]



Children of the World, reach out to the children of Gaza!

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 3rd, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Education, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Palestine

On the Palestinian Mothers web community (which I urge caring people to join) EshaAmeena asked if there was any way that her children and other children could write to kids in Gaza to show friendship. I asked a friend in Gaza if there was a school that could accept these letters, and he gave this [...]