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Posts Tagged ‘Arabs’

Raid Khoury – Christian Arabs remain the best situated to combat the demonization of Islam

By Guest Post • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Arabs — both Muslims and Christians — have been the target of a ferocious propaganda campaign in this country. Responding to this onslaught is more than enough to keep them busy without having to contend with a contingent of self-hating Arabs and religious agitators in their midst. As an Arab who happened to be born into a Christian family, I cannot remain silent as individuals on the margins of the Arab American community are enlisted in this demonization campaign as representatives of Christian Arabs. For Christian Arabs their Christianity is an indigenous religion, and Islam is their indigenous civilization.



Qais Nawwaf – Hug-An-American Day

By Guest Post • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Features, Newswire, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

The following are excerpts from press releases that have been issued by American individuals and groups apologizing for senseless acts of violence committed by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan including but not limited to Operation Desert Storm; Operation Desert Fox; Operation Enduring Freedom; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Vigilant Resolve; Operation Achilles; Operation Phantom [...]



Khalid Amayreh – What if Obama's Middle East Strategy Failed?

By Khalid Amayreh • Aug 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Interviews, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Three Palestinian Intellectuals Voice Their Opinions
  
Will Obama succeed in achieving what every other American administration failed to achieve? (Reuters file photo)
 
President Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4th and his declared commitment to achieve a "balanced" solution to the enduring Palestinian plight revived hopes for ending decades of cruel Israeli occupation [...]



Hussin Ramadan – For Humanity

By Guest Post • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Palestinians identify with one another through not only our mutual identity, but also through our common experiences, ­for example, our situation under occupation, our economic conditions, our lives as refugees, the lives and conditions of our prisoners. When we go to sleep, we are unable to do so like ‘normal people’, undisturbed by these realities. We [...]



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 [...]



Saja – Where is the self-respecting outrage from Institutional Arab-America?

By Saja • Jul 2nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

Dear everyone who continues to graciously demonstrate patience to listen to my anti-House-Arab* diatribes,
 
I could denounce the complacency of the self-absorbed and disconnected leadership of our "Arab" community. But at some point, words and videos (and threats to do unspeakable things to one's hair) don't suffice to express frustration. The complacency somehow manages to confound language and [...]



Saja ("Arab with Camera") – Throw Shoes, Not Invitations (plus video FLOWERS FOR ABEER)

By Saja • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Following this article please watch the short video (in Arabic and English)

Bill Clinton, ADC's most zionist invitee with the most Arab blood on his hands, attracts the highest number of attendees at its convention. The NAACP invites the Ku Klux Klan's president to its convention.  
The former sentence is true, the latter might as well be. I've seen "my people" [...]



Azmi Bishara – The Subversion of Liberation

By Mary Rizzo • May 21st, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

When leaders in struggle confuse themselves with recognition of the rights of the people they claim to defend, everyone suffers, including the national cause, writes Azmi Bishara
The Scottish philosophers of the Enlightenment, from Ferguson through Adam Smith, taught us that such emotions as the yearning for recognition and affection from others, as well as envy [...]



Adib S Kawar – Israelis Vote their Equally Warmongering Leaders to Knesset

By Adib Kawar • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

The Zionist Electorate Warmongers
The last parliamentary elections of the Zionist entity proved beyond doubt that there is no right or left as well as there are no extremist Zionists and no moderate Zionists, they are equally extremist in their hatred of Arabs, and their aim to fulfill their final goal that is to complete their ethnic [...]



Rashid Khalidi – What you don't know about Gaza

By Guest Post • Jan 9th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

(art by Carlos Latuff) Nearly everything you've been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip.
THE GAZANS Most of the people living in Gaza are not [...]