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Shadi Nassar – A Very Dangerous Racial Israeli Publication in Jerusalem! بالعربية , English and French

By Guest Post • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Documents, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

These are translated copies (English and French) of the publication which was published by the Israelis in Arabic to people of Jerusalem within their savage campaign to judaize Jerusalem and the historical holy land of Palestine:
النص الأصلي باللغة العربية بالاسفل
Call for all Muslims living in "Israel "
In this message, we would like to explain the [...]



Petition to stop destruction of Muslim Cemetery for "Museum of Tolerance"

By Guest Post • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Action Alert, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Religion, Zionism

Petitioners request that the Government of Switzerland, in its capacity as depository of the Fourth Geneva Convention, consider this issue in the context of resuming the High Contracting Parties’ Conference to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Please sign this important Petition and pass it on to others to prevent Israel from continuing its ethnic cleansing not only [...]



Qais Nawwaf – Roberts Owes Iraqi People an Apology

By Guest Post • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Newswire, Religion, War

From Dissident Voice
As an Iraqi, I took serious offense to Paul Craig Roberts’ patronizing article, “Muslim Disunity: A Religion Divided Among Itself,” in Counterpunch, March 2, 2010. Roberts audaciously states that the “reason Americans are still in Iraq is because the Iraqis hate each other more than they hate the American invader.” Roberts blames the [...]



Zahir Ebrahim – Response to John Kaminski's 'Why no Jewish writer can be believed'

By Guest Post • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Features, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Religion, Zionism

Often times, as G. Edward Griffin also puts it, the sins of the 'left' are uncovered by their enemies on the 'right', and vice versa. The in-fighting among hegemonic pigs often betrays their criminal secrets. For an astute non-bigoted seeker of truth and justice for all, that's simply the low hanging fruits of the rotten tree to be plucked for forensic analysis.



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 [...]



Talal Shihadeh – The Abraham Mosque of Hebron

By Guest Post • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

I was 12 years old when my family forced to move from Hebron, on 1977. I don't know if I was lucky or not, as I was born in this historical holy city, which is located in the south of the West Bank (WB).
I was born in the old city, very close to the Abraham [...]



Khalid Amayreh – Open Letter to Obama's Envoy to the OIC

By Khalid Amayreh • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, Religion

Dear brother Hussein, like many Muslims around the globe, I am glad that President Obama has appointed you as his Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Needless to say, the repair of American-Muslim relations require, first and foremost,  honesty, integrity, and good will — characters I am sure you exemplify as an [...]



Ahmad Barqawi – Targeting the Wrong Kind of Tunnels

By Guest Post • Feb 20th, 2010 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

At a time when extreme and even unthinkable measures are being taken to completely sever the few remaining passageways of life into Gaza through Rafah's underground tunnels into Egypt, other tunnels of a different kind and a different purpose are being dug elsewhere everyday in broad daylight for all the world to see in occupied [...]



Zahir Ebrahim – Rescuing a Failed Struggle from Its Narrative, A response to Witness in Palestine

By Guest Post • Feb 20th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Internet and Communication, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Amidst all this energized symbolic weekend run on the treadmill for most people, and perhaps a lifestyle for a handful of others of courageously putting band-aids on visible wounds while doing little for curing the systemic disease, the only people all this wonderful dissent doesn't work for, and hasn't work for, are the bleeding Palestinians exhausting themselves out at ground Zero.

The enemy is simply far superior and far more cunning in waging a full spectrum overwhelming war by way of deception. Those on the ground see only the most overt of its instruments – the guns, the walls, but not the forces which drive them.



Fawaz A. Gerges – The Transformation of Hamas

By Guest Post • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance

From The Nation – WRITTEN BY FAWAZ A GERGES
Something is stirring within the Hamas body politic, a moderating trend that, if nourished and engaged, could transform Palestinian politics and the Arab-Israeli peace process. There are unmistakable signs that the religiously based radical movement has subtly changed its uncompromising posture on Israel. Although low-key and restrained, [...]