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Washington’s Pathological Liar

By Khalid Amayreh • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Zionism

George W. Bush is well known for his low intellectuality and clarion ignorance of the world. To mask these serious flaws and shortcomings, he routinely adopts a discourse based on mendacity and dishonesty.
 
And while it is premature to pass a final judgment on the man, it is probably safe to conclude by now that he [...]



The Nakba is our Holocaust

By Khalid Amayreh • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Opinions and Letters, Our Authors, Palestine, Zionism

“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto.”
German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke during a visit to Ramallah in March 2007.
Basking in their usual insolence and self-absorbedness, Israeli leaders have been visibly irate over the highlighted commemoration of the 60th anniversary [...]



Israel’s Twilight Years

By Khalid Amayreh • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Zionism

Illustration by Abdul-Rahman Modallal, Tulkarem from the Badil Poster Contest
As Israel ostentatiously celebrates the passage of 60 years since its creation in Palestine in 1948, more than nine million Palestinians at home and in exile are commemorating the Nakba, the violent seizure of their ancestral homeland by Zionist Jews and the dispossession, expulsion and dispersion [...]



Canada’s Ignorant Prime Minister

By Khalid Amayreh • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Zionism

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently made outrageously ignorant comments on the plight of the Palestinian people.
He claimed that criticism of and opposition to the Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing and apartheid against the Palestinian people amounted to “anti-Semitism.”
“Unfortunately, Israel at 60 remains a country under threat - threatened by those groups and regimes who [...]



Celebrating Evil

By Khalid Amayreh • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Normal nations, like normal people, don’t celebrate their days of infamy.  In fact, they struggle to forget them. Some countries with a troubled past try hard to deal with their shameful legacies, often by openly acknowledging their sins and apologizing to their victims and to their victims’ descendants.
 
However, in Israel, which encapsulates evil and racism, [...]



Shimon Peres: The Lying Old Man

By Khalid Amayreh • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

wirtten by Khalid Amayreh
Does Shimon Peres carry the genes of a pathological liar?
The question may sound facetious to many, but Peres’s apparent inability to distinguish between truth and falsehood makes the question quite valid.
At 84, Peres continues to dish out a daily staple of lies, including obscene lies.
This week, the “hero” of the Qana-1 massacre, [...]



An evil state that will disappear one day

By Khalid Amayreh • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Dateline, Human Rights, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Our Authors, Palestine, War, Zionism

By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
30 April, 2008
Just as Israel inaugurated its misbegotten birth with genocidal ethnic cleansing sixty years ago, the evil brat of Zionism is marking its 60th anniversary with yet another spate of bloodletting.
On Sunday, 27 April, the Israeli “Defense” Forces (a more appropriate appellation would be the Jewish Wehrmacht) murdered [...]



Palestinian Islamists, Christian activists make last-ditch effort to save Orphans from Israeli state terror

By Khalid Amayreh • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Khalid Amayreh, Our Authors, Palestine

Palestinian leaders and Christian peace activists as well as representatives of human rights organizations operating in the occupied Palestinian territories on Thursday made an impassioned appeal to “all men and women of conscience all over the world” to help stop Israeli army plans to close down and take over several orphanages and boarding schools [...]



Is Dubai helping ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

By Khalid Amayreh • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Features, Khalid Amayreh, Our Authors, Palestine

The government of Dubai recently allowed a major bankroller of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank to open at least two Jewelry stores in the Gulf emirate.
According to reliable sources in the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a key member-state, Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev is preparing to open two [...]



Shame on Arab Petrodollars

By Khalid Amayreh • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Middle East Issues, Palestine

Khalid Amayreh from Occupied East Jerusalem, 15 April, 2008
Is Arab oil more precious than Arab blood? This is a question that many Palestinians are asking these days in light of the oil-rich Arab states’ reluctance to help the Palestinians withstand the most ferocious onslaught ever being waged by Zionism against the Palestinian people’s very existence.
Today, [...]