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Posts Tagged ‘Amira Hass’

Tariq Shadid – Empowering the Palestinian popular voice: the first step towards unity and liberation

By Guest Post • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

We must reclaim the struggle as our own, by regaining our Palestinian popular voice, making sure it gets heard, and speaking up loudly and clearly for Palestinian unity and liberation. We also should always give priority to Palestinian speakers and writers, instead of rushing only to forward the articles of Amira Hass and Gideon Levy to our mailing lists, and barely giving any interest to the writings of our own people. Have you caught yourself doing this? Let us change it. We are not in a position to compete against each other – we should empower each other. Our own Palestinian voice is irreplaceable – if we let others speak for us, we have already killed our independence before it is even born.

"A remarkable failure for a journalist"-2009 Courage in Journalism Award Acceptance Speech by Amira Hass

By Guest Post • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

Allow me to start with a correction. How impolite, you'd rightly think, but anyway, we Israelis are being forgiven for much worse than impoliteness.
What is so generously termed today by the International Women's Media Foundation as my lifetime achievement needs to be corrected. Because it is Failure. Nothing more than a failure. A lifetime failure.
Come to [...]

Amira Hass on the Israel Donors Conference, a gift to Israel

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

The extent of the funding pledged to the Palestinian Authority by donor countries reflects the extent of their support for Israel and its policies. The American taxpayers' contribution to the Ramallah government's bank account is dwarfed by the large sums the U.S. government donates to Israel every year. It's impossible to get excited over the [...]