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Gilad Atzmon - Messing with the Zohan

By Gilad Atzmon • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Gilad Atzmon, Gilad's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

“You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” is a new American comedy film. It tells the story of Zohan Dvir (Adam Sandler), the IDF’s Number 1 counter-terrorism killing machine who has simply grown tired of his military murderous engagement. At a certain stage, he fakes his own death while in action in order to pursue [...]



cartoon of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Cartoon of the day, Palestine

Haniyeh and Abbas to each other, “please be my guest, you go (to lift the burden of the Israeli occupation) first!“



Ramzy Baroud - Palestinian Unity: Goal or Mantra?

By Ramzy Baroud • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa used exceptionally tough language during a Cairo news conference 9 September, when he lashed out at Palestinian factionalism, saying that the League is going as far as studying the possibility of imposing sanctions on quarrelling Palestinians.
“I am extremely angry with the Palestinian organisations… We are studying the measures to be [...]



Scottish Activist Films Israeli Navy Shooting at Gaza Fishermen

By Haitham Sabbah • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video

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Scottish activist films Israeli navy shooting at Gaza fishermen
A SCOTTISH human rights activist has filmed the Israeli navy firing machine guns at unarmed Palestinian fishing boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
The footage, taken on September 6 by Andrew Muncie, who is [...]



Sabra-Shatila Foundation: XO Laptops to the children of Palestinian camps

By Haitham Sabbah • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Haitham's Choice, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Palestine

Donations to Support Our XO Laptop Program are Greatly Appreciated
Note: The Sabra Shatila Foundation is funding the purchase and shipment of as many XO laptops as possible from the MIT One Laptop Per Child program. These unique self-powered, wind-up, internet-ready laptops cost approximately $180 per unit to manufacture, but they are offered in lots of [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - Palestinian Journalists Block demands an investigation regarding the increased incidents of harassment against journalists by the PA

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Features, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

The Palestinian Journalists block has sent me a number of e-mails expressing their serious concerns regarding the security services of the Palestinian Authority increasing incidents of harassment against Palestinian journalists in the West Bank.
The block of Palestinian Journalists expressed their concerns regarding the way the PA services are treating Palestinian journalists, especially after hearing the [...]



Nahida Izzat - some facts about my beloved Palestine

By Nahida Izzat • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

Photo by Ahmad Omar (this was originally written in response to a comment by a Quaker activist. The entire conversation may be seen at Palestinian Mothers, the web network for those with Palestine in their hearts, no matter who they are or where they come from). I have befriended and cooperated with many Quakers over [...]



Is Palestine a Province of the Monstrosity called Israel?

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

WRITTEN BY JORGE ALDAO 
Translated by Ernesto Paramo and revised by Machetera
In a recent piece titled “The Hottentots Morality” Uri Avnery makes some truly amazing assertions.
The most surprising of them is the one that states: ” *in my view, there is one simple principle, and it applies to everybody: every province that wants to secede [...]



Abu Mazen willing to negotiate away Palestinian rights?

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

According to several recent reports of an interview with the Ha’aretz newspaper (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020471.html), Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is quoted as indicating that he is willing to negotiate away the rights of millions of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin. This outrageous statement, which has not been denied to [...]



David Baldinger - For The Murdered Children Of Palestine

By Haitham Sabbah • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Cartoon of the day, Children's Corner, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

By David Baldinger