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Still Breathing, A Report from Gaza

By Guest Post • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War

WRITTEN BY Caoimhe Butterly (in the picture, medical staff of a Gazan hospital shows one of the shells that struck there)
The morgues of Gaza's hospitals are over-flowing. The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital  morgue. Some are intact, most horribly deformed, limbs twisted into unnatural positions, [...]



Obama is not an Arab… he is a decent family man

By Iqbal Tamimi • Oct 16th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Newswire

WRITTEN BY Iqbal Tamimi 
A few days ago a woman at a rally for John McCain said, “I don't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's an Arab.”
So from a US citizen’s point of view, Arabs are not trustworthy, maybe because they invaded her country killing hundreds of thousands, and causing almost 3 million [...]



PA Preventive Security Police arrests Hebron Journalist

By Khalid Amayreh • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Newswire, Palestine

Hebron: Occupied Palestinian Territories
By Nour Amir in Jerusalem
The Palestinian Authority (PA) Preventive Security Force (PSF) on Tuesday arrested Awadh Rajoub, a Hebron-area journalist, apparently as part of a general crackdown on non-conformist journalists and intellectuals.
Eyewitnesses said a dozen PSF officers raided and searched Rajoub’s press office in the small town of Dura, 12 miles [...]



The Demographic Fear Factor in Israel… Keep Them Babies Coming!

By Mary Rizzo • May 25th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

Most observers of the Israel-Palestine conflict have heard a phrase without even really reflecting upon what it might mean or any implications behind it. The phrase is that Israel risks the detonation of a demographic bomb. The Israelis have been convinced up until very recently that they are unbeatable in any military milieu. That belief [...]



Mahmood Mamdani – on the Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

By Mary Rizzo • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Interviews, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Back in 2005, the Italian weekly magazine Il venerdì della Repubblica published an important interview with Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani, upon occasion of the publication in Italian of his book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. At the time, I translated the interview into English, as well as publishing on my blog a segment from another [...]



The Hypocrisy of the British Government: why not Gaza?

By Guest Post • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM TURNER*
Today in the Parliamentary Question Time Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister answered questions about the Myanmar crisis caused by the cyclone that hit the country over a week ago. Among the measures he called for was an emergency meeting of the United Nations to call on the Military Junta of Myanmar [...]



350 Palestinian children are suffering inside Israeli prisons

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Centre ADDAMEER, declared that the Israeli Zionist forces have arrested almost 6200 Palestinians since the last Intifada started in September of 2000. 350 of those languishing in prison are children who, against international conventions, are still imprisoned in Israeli jails and detention centers.
Those youngsters undergo severe punishment and [...]



Children of the World, reach out to the children of Gaza!

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 3rd, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Education, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Palestine

On the Palestinian Mothers web community (which I urge caring people to join) EshaAmeena asked if there was any way that her children and other children could write to kids in Gaza to show friendship. I asked a friend in Gaza if there was a school that could accept these letters, and he gave this [...]