Palestine Think Tank

WRITTEN BY Franklin Lamb in Beirut (Illustration by Carlos Latuff)
 
"I'm not calling for a coup d'etat, but go talk to your leaders and tell them you do not accept what is happening in Gaza".
 
– Hezbollah Sec-Gen Hasan Nasrallah calling for Egyptians "in millions" to demonstrate their support for opening the Rafah crossing from Gaza to [...]

"What thou hast done to thyself none else did,
Thou has caused pain to the spirit of the Prophet
Ignorant of the witchery of the Frank (the west),
Behold the mischief hidden in his sleeve!
By his diplomacy all nations prostrate,
Unity of the Arabs crushed to pieces,
As long as they are caught in his vicious trap,
The Arabs shall not [...]

By Carlos Latuff. Click to enlarge.

To:  Honorable President Hosni Mubarak, Honorable Omar Suleiman, Interior Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly and Members of Cabinet
24 August, 2008
To the Honorable President Hosni Mubarak, Honorable Omar Suleiman, Interior Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly and Members of Cabinet,
We, the hundreds of Palestinians waiting at the Rafah crossing in Egypt, call upon your honorable government to [...]

A Palestinian-Scottish couple are driving a ton and a half of urgently-needed medicines to Gaza on July 10th and they have arrived the Rafah border but cannot enter Gaza because the Egyptian government doesn't give the permission to open the border. Please take action and write to the Egyptian officials:
http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/content/view/2547/458/
http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15217
http://www.gaza.tk/
a letter could look like this:
His [...]

Egyptian dissident and singer Azza Balbaa came to Vienna to sing at an event commemorating 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe), to sing for the Palestinian resistance and for Iraq before a great part of the Arab community in Vienna. Mary Attia from the Egyptian Women Organization and Dr. Georg Nicola from the Palestinian [...]