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The French Resistance in the Service of Palestine

By Gilad Atzmon • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Gilad Atzmon, Gilad's Choice, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

The commemoration events of 60 years of the Nakba have brought a very different type of Palestinian solidarity activism to my attention: it is young, vibrant, dynamic and creative solidarity campaigning. It’s a new form of struggle that goes far beyond the old dogmatic clichés, a fierce battle that aims at the exposure of [...]



Mazin Qumsiyeh - Palestinian Options as the Nakba turns 60

By Mary Rizzo • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Education, Features, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Written by Mazin Qumsiyeh
We are 126 years after the practical initiation of Zionist project to colonize Palestine and we are 60 years after the realization of that vision in the form of a Jewish ethnocentric nationalistic state. These are very short periods in human histories (the crusader kingdoms lasted much longer). History teaches us that [...]



Lebanese resistance turns back rightist offensive

By Mary Rizzo • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY JOHN CATALINOTTO
Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, popular because of their successful resistance to past Israeli attacks on the country, have answered a provocation from the U.S.- backed Lebanese government and at the same time handed a sharp military defeat to rightist forces, especially in Beirut. By May 12 heavy fighting between the Hezbollah-led opposition [...]



Time is Running Out for Israel, Atzmon’s report of the Nakba commemoration event

By Gilad Atzmon • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Gilad Atzmon, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Nakba and Right of Return, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance

Something positive is happening, I would even call it a shift of awareness, a realisation that the Palestinian struggle is leading somewhere after all.
Yesterday, at Exeter University, to a very crowded theatre, in an event of that was a commemoration of 60 years of the Nakba, I had a chance to listen to Dr Manuel [...]



Paint the Skies of Occupied Al-Quds Black

By Mary Rizzo • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Children's Corner, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Resistance

Participate in painting the skies of Occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) with black
21,915 (365 days x 60 years) black balloons
Please read and ask your friends to help. It will be a great show of support for a fighting, oppressed and 60 years suffering people.
Lutuf
Dear Beloved Friends,
Many thanks to our friend, Dr Ahmad Kamal, who passed this info. [...]



The Ball of Violence in Lebanon is growing

By Adib Kawar • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

(Arabic translation below)
WRITTEN BY ABDUL BARI ATWAN,Editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Translated by Adib S. Kawar
The last four days uncovered the reality of the balance of power in Lebanon, for when the pro-government leaders, such as Saad Al-Hariri and Walid Jumblatt find themselves under siege, and cannot leave their headquarters, and ask for the army’s protection, [...]



Nadia Hasan - There is no civil war in Lebanon; there is a war against the resistance

By Nadia Hasan • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

(illustration by Mazen Kerbaj - translation below*)
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is the main factor of this dispute and they are trying to cover the political motivations and especially [...]



Reham Alhelsi - Our Cultural Heritage

By Reham Alhelsi • May 11th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Features, Human Rights, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

As Palestinians all over the world commemorate the Nakba and 60 years of on-going zionist ethnic cleansing, murder and apartheid, there is one aspect of our Palestinian identity that survived despite all zionist attempts of elimination: our cultural heritage. The Palestinian cultural heritage is full of popular songs, poetry, sayings, stories handicrafts and other forms [...]



Carlos Latuff - His Palestinian Cartoons

By Carlos Latuff • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

ftp://ia360941.us.archive.org/3/items/Palestine2002to2008/Palestine2002to2008.zip
Artist and activist Carlos Latuff shares over 300 of his drawings on Palestine. Download! Print! Share! Never Give Up!



The Nakba, Voices for Palestine event with Gilad Atzmon

By Gilad Atzmon • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Gilad Atzmon, Grassroots Activism, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

Exeter Friends of Palestine Society Presents:
The Nakba - Voices for Palestine
Featuring: His Excellency Dr. Manuel Hassassian the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Gilad Atzmon and band, Nizar Al Issa and More…
University of Exeter, Monday May 12th, 2008:
 
On commemoration of the 60th anniversary of The Nakbah, meaning: “The Catastrophe”: The expulsion and dispossession of hundreds [...]