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VIDEO by Shadi Nassar "I RESIST"

By Guest Post • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video

Beautiful video by a rising star, Shadi Nassar. "I Resist" is three minutes of power, beauty and ultimately hope. The Palestinians will never be defeated, their existence is resistence.



Khalid Amayreh – The Musa’ab Yousuf Story: a classic example of Israeli disinformation

By Khalid Amayreh • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

In addition to its protracted war of terror against the Palestinian people, Israel has long waged an unrelenting campaign of psychological warfare against the Palestinian will, aimed at debilitating the domestic front across the occupied territories. The Israeli media, which often operates in sync with the Israeli occupation army and intelligence agencies, readily and routinely [...]



Tariq Shadid – Palestine is full of heroes

By Guest Post • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the 'right' ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the people rally behind a certain leader, more than behind an ideology. While Palestinian society continues to be torn apart [...]



Khalid Amayreh – We must never forget Gaza

By Khalid Amayreh • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

Despite a slight improvement in the general humanitarian situation, the Gaza Strip remains a disaster area. In fact, in terms of the sheer destruction of homes and infrastructure, the coastal enclave can be compared to quake-stricken Haiti, with the main difference lying in the fact that while the Caribbean island’s calamity was a natural disaster, [...]



Mohamed Khodr – Veritas in Harvard: No, Just Double Standards, Injustice, and Fear

By Mohamed Khodr • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Arabian Coffee House, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Prof. Arnold Toynbee, Foreword to the Transformation of Palestine, 1971
"Israel may have the right to [...]



"UM-D Student government approves divestment resolution"

By Guest Post • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Action Alert, Education, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

WRITTEN BY  Khalil AlHajal

ARAB AMERICAN NEWS (Dearborn, Michigan)
The University of Michigan—Dearborn's student government body passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for investigation into ethical implications of University investments in companies that do business in Israel.
The measure came after more than a week of events on campus that discussed human rights issues in the occupied Palestinian [...]



Tzipi Livni: "the ONLY targets are Military targets" A Video by Shadi Nassar

By Guest Post • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video, War, Zionism

A truly outstanding video by Shadi Nassar that shows clips of Tzipi Livni and others, during the Israeli wanton destruction of Gaza known as "Operation Cast Lead". Her words contradict the actions of her government and army.



Samira Quraishy – Why are we surprised that Mossad used fake passports?

By Guest Post • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The aspect of the Al-Mabhouh assassination that is attracting most attention is the issue of forged passports. Today's Jewish Chronicle carries a short commentary on the tendency of Israeli security services to "borrow" passports, highlighting two methods by which this could have been done. The first is apparently innocuous, whereby as part of the normal [...]



Ibrahim Hewitt – The Observer, Israel and the language of war

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM HEWITT – ALSO IN SPANISH BELOW!
A leader writer in the Observer newspaper (“Israel can accelerate peace by exercising restraint” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/21/observer-editorial-israel-palestine , 21 February) really must be taken to task over the language that was used in the column. In seeking to analyse the Israel-Palestine situation the writer slipped into the sort of [...]



Khalid Amayreh – No light ahead

By Khalid Amayreh • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Zionism

While the Palestinian Authority (PA) seems prone to agree to "indirect talks" with Israel without the latter undertaking any meaningful freeze of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, the Israeli government is making only provocations, rendering the resumption — let alone success — of peace talks more unlikely, especially in the near future.
Israel lately [...]