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Hany Abu Assad – Short Film: "A Boy, A Wall and a Donkey"

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video, Zionism

This beautiful short film was produced in the series sponsored by the EU commission on Human Rights.
A must watch clip.



Football game or tear gas and bullets? Palestinians put racist ad to test

By Haitham Sabbah • Jul 23rd, 2009 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video, War, Zionism

The row over a racist advert of Cellcom – an Israeli mobile phone operator, which shows Israel Occupation Forces soldiers playing football with Palestinians on both sides of the Apartheid Wall, continues.
In the Cellcom advert, IOF soldiers on patrol along the Wall stop their army jeep when it is hit by a soccer ball from [...]



Luisa Morgantini – Under attack Bil’in and the peaceful resistance of the village against the Israeli wall

By Guest Post • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance, Zionism

UPDATE: parts of this article are taken from
MIFTAH. The editor notes that several quotes and lines in this article were taken directly or indirectly from an article written for MIFTAH by Jennifer Urgilez entitled "Bilin Under Fire: Peaceful resistance meets assailment" published on July 15.  by Luisa Morgantini, Former Vice President of the European Parliament

Published by [...]



Mazin Qumsiyeh – A crazy world?

By Guest Post • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The old Hebron to Jerusalem (now Hebron-to-wall-near Bethlehem) road was lined up with perhaps over 200 armed special forces.  These are not Israeli but Palestinian "security".  I was going to pick a friend at Dheisheh Refugee camp to eat Knafah (a Palestinian sweet). Every 10 meters (30 ft) for a stretch of over a mile there [...]



Int'l study: Israeli control in occupied territories 'is a breach of the prohibition of apartheid'

By Haitham Sabbah • May 17th, 2009 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The following international report concluding that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories "has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid" was sent out by journalist Ben White. Another stinging statement from the report: "The Wall and its infrastructure of gates and permanent checkpoints suggest a policy permanently to divide the West Bank into [...]



Iyad Bornat – For Freedom and Justice (and Bassem) "History will not forgive those who are partners in crime"

By Guest Post • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Introduction and translation of the speech by Mazin Qumsiyeh – In this videotape, Bassem Aburahma (nick named ElFeel, the elephant, for he was always thought of as a giant among his peers) is seen pleading with Israeli soldiers to wait (saying Raiga in Hebrew) as Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals protested the land confiscation and building [...]



CBS 60 Minutes, MUST WATCH VIDEO on Israel!!

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 27th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Documents, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Video, War, Zionism

Is Peace Out of Reach? is the title of this absolutely fundamental video which presents facts, information and some interviews which show to the world public what things really are like regarding the chances for peace in Israel. I cannot recommend this video more than I do. It is an important document that I believe should be seen by everyone.



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 Guest Post • 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 [...]