Palestine Think Tank

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]