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Petition! Civil Rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

By Guest Post • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance

Please sign and circulate this petition! It involves an innovative twinning intiative. Each signer will be twinned with a person living in a Palestinian refugee camp located in Lebanon. The number of signers required to secure a personal twinning with each refugee is 433,000. Express your views to those who govern Lebanon and to the [...]



Ismail Zayid – My Personal Story of Dispossession and Suffering

By Guest Post • Jan 14th, 2010 • Category: Biography, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

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 [...]



Another Childhood Nakba Memory

By Guest Post • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Khalil Nakhleh – Ramallah
I remember it was one Sunday afternoon, sometime around one or two o'clock, when my father barged running into the house shouting "we have to leave, we have to leave". His face was all red; his eyes shined with piercing outrage, uncertainty and incredulity.
I remember it was Sunday because my [...]



Manuel GARCÍA VIÑÓ – By Order of Mr. God

By Guest Post • Dec 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

If Israel doesn’t disappear once the U.S. stops helping it – a rather unthinkable possibility – it will never permit a Palestinian State. It is astonishing that both in the media and in international forums people still speak so profusely of a process of peace, of a roadmap, of meetings between the Israeli government and the sold out – more than weak – Palestinian Authority, all of this more than sixty years after the UN decreed a partition which was unjust but, in the end, was a partition nonetheless.



Ali Hattar – A Right of Return primer (Arabic and English)

By Guest Post • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Documents, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

A referential drafting extracted from the Human Rights Covenants and human principles and the laws related to it based on the basis that Palestinian Arabs should have the same human rights as the rest of the peoples of the world. Also included in English are excerpts from relevant Covenants.
Translated from Arabic by: Adib S. Kawar, revised [...]



PFLP – PFLP: U.S. is not a mediator but an enemy of the Palestinian people

By Guest Post • Nov 6th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on November 3, 2009 that the Palestinian Authority, and all Palestinian parties, must immediately end any and all illusions about the United States or its president, Barack Obama, and instead reject its "negotiations" based on surrender and rely on the Palestinian people and their resistance, unity [...]



Obama and Palestine: Predictable disappointment

By Guest Post • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War

Democrats are eager to show they are as murderous as Republicans on any issue related to national security, especially during an election campaign. Obama, however, seems sincerely committed to his policy. “The right war, the right time. It is not a war of choice but of necessity.” So goes the rhetoric. What president ever says a war he supports is the wrong war fought at the wrong time and is not necessary? And of course the war in Afghanistan remains a politically cheap way to establish Obama’s national security credentials. How many Americans object to the killing of Muslims, so long as any connection, however tenuous, can be made with terrorism, however ill defined? Given the interconnectedness of political issues, Obama cannot afford to lose any domestic support. Muslims will thus continue to provide the pound of flesh demanded by the Shylocks of national security.



Justice This Time Around: Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?

By Ramzy Baroud • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY Ramzy Baroud 
'We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,' Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member United Nations Fact finding mission. The mission, led by internationally-renowned [...]



"Land First, Then Peace": letter by former Saudi Ambassador to the USA and UK

By Guest Post • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion

The United States and other Western powers have for some time been pushing Saudi Arabia to make more gestures toward Israel. More recently, the crown prince of Bahrain urged greater communication with Israel and joint steps from Arab states to revive the peace process.
Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam, the custodian of its two [...]



Kawther Salam – A Palestinian Child Against Israel at the ICC

By Kawther Salam • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Children's Corner, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Netherlands/ The Hague, Amira Al-Qirim, a Palestinian girl aged 15, a victim and survivor of the Israeli massacre in Gaza last January, held a press conference together with her lawyer Gilles Devers in The Hague, in front of the building of the International Criminal Court, ICC, during which she stated: “I am here to present [...]