I would propose to everyone in this room that the first question on our minds when dealing with a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude is not whether or not these people are terrorists, but how we can help them?
Samer Badawi, United Palestinian Appeal
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
Danny Glover, American actor
The Palestinian flag represents all Palestinian Arab aspirations regardless of party.
Flags of the World
I am the David child wielding a single stone
Against the Israeli Goliath.
I am not afraid,
For truth is with me and God is on my side.
If I die,
A choir of angels will honour me
And later, my parents will grasp my outstretched hand
And join me in Heaven.
I am the tears of
Mothers weeping for their dead sons.
I am [...]
"Israel as an occupying power has an obligation to ensure adequate medical care for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and especially pregnant women, according to the Fourth Geneva Convention, but Israel has consistently disregarded its obligation and the army has often impeded access for Palestinian women, children and men to healthcare facilities." [...]
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, by the end of 2006 around half a million Palestinian olive trees had been uprooted by the Israeli military for security reasons, such as their proximity to Israeli roads, checkpoints or closures. But despite the burdens of the occupation, Palestine’s farmers continue cultivating olives. [...]
My sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and in the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after their return to Palestine. Why should they not, [...]
Given the gendered socio-economic structure, house demolitions inordinately impacts women, for the home is where women most acutely invest their time, build their safety nets, advance their talents and hobbies, carry on their work of looking after the family, and carrying on with their life responsibilities. Once the home is destroyed, women are left with [...]
To this day Palestinians still have no state or armed forces. Our occupiers subject us to curfews, expulsions, home demolitions, legalized torture, and a highly imaginative assortment of human rights violations. No justifiable comparison can be drawn between the level of official accountability to which Palestinans are held for the actions of a few individuals [...]
So indeed, what happens to a Palestinian woman when she finds out something is wrong? All Palestinian patients who need radiation therapy must get it in Egypt, Jordan or Israel: radiation therapy does not exist in the Occupied Territories. This is mainly due to Israel's objection to the import of radioactive materials into the area, [...]
