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Posts Tagged ‘Arab nationalism’

M. Shahid Alam – Zionism: An ‘Abnormal’ Nationalism

By Guest Post • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

“The ultimate goal…is, in time, to take over the Land of Israel and to restore to the Jews the political independence they have been deprived of for these two thousand years…The Jews will yet arise and, arms in hand (if need be), declare that they are the masters of their ancient homeland.”
—Vladimir Dubnow, 1882
Zionism is [...]

Raid Khoury – Iran, Palestine and the Arab Nationalists: a response to Rime Allaf

By Guest Post • Jul 3rd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

In the June 25 edition of "Bitterlemons.org", Rime Allaf lashes out at Arab nationalists for what she perceives is their support of Ahmadinajad and the repressive Iranian regime. Allaf is simply wrong. The one group of Arabs which has not supported Ahmadinajad or the ruling theocracy in Tehran is the Arab nationalists, a position dating [...]

The Iranian Crisis from the Point of View of a Progressive Arab

By Adib Kawar • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY ADIB S KAWAR
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic regime that since day one of its life had dedicated itself to confront colonialism and Zionism, and expelled the Zionist diplomatic mission to the Shah’s imperial court and handed its premises to the Palestinian Arab people, an act that international Zionism had never [...]

Muhammad al-Arabi – A realist’s view of the protests in Iran

By Guest Post • Jun 21st, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Newswire, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

What is happening in Iran and what do I think about it?
There is much talk about the presidential election having been rigged in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's favour, but where is the evidence?
Opponents of Ahmadinejad find it incredible that, according to the official election results, the other candidates did not do well in their home provinces. [...]

Adib Kawar, of the first generation of the “Arab Nationalist Movement”

By Guest Post • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Culture and Heritage, Interviews, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY: Salwa Atamimi
Forty-four testimonies of uprooted Palestinians, summarize the crime of raping a homeland and expose the truth with clarity and sincerity that many tried to efface or hide, sometimes due to ignorance or avoiding it, and mostly with design and dubiousness.
Emigrants… displaced… uprooted? This is the ordinary and simple question that may not [...]

Palestine is not a nation, Palestinians are part of the Arab people

By Adib Kawar • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Middle East Issues, Nakba and Right of Return, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

As a student of political science who had been involved in the protection of the interests of his nation all his life, I would like to clarify few points regarding the definition of what is a nation, a people or a political entity.
There is a vast difference between a people or a nation with a [...]