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At last a UK PM urging ‘justice’ for the Palestinians

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Palestinians have lost hope a long time ago with the many governmental and state personalities making their routine visits to Palestine, making their rounds as if they came for tourism, turning the blind eye on the misery of the Palestinians and their plight.
The Palestinians were feeling disappointed with the previous British PM Tony Blair when [...]

Reham Alhelsi - East Sawahreh and the Apartheid Wall

By Reham Alhelsi • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Maps, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Last week I got my new “Palestinian Passport”. Palestinians need to renew their passports every three years, and it was time for me to renew mine. Living in Germany the next step for me would be to get my “residency permit” transferred from my old to my new passport. As I prepared the documents I [...]

Hebron is a ghost town where joggers carry automatic rifles

By Mary Rizzo • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Human Rights, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

WRITTEN BY IAN JACK
For the settlers, subsidies and tax breaks have become as important a motive as Deuteronomy
At Birzeit University in Ramallah last week a young woman student in a headscarf asked how it was that Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist and Nobel laureate, could agree to visit and speak in Israel. Hadn’t Gordimer [...]