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Posts Tagged ‘Fatah’

Ayman Nijim – The Palestinian Status Quo and the Proclaimed Elections

By Guest Post • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

The Palestinian political situation now is somehow vague and it is unclear whether there will be elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, or separate elections in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Palestinians and the international community may ask on the optimal means behind reaching an acceptable government with [...]



Give up on Obama, Disband the Palestinian Authority

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Sami Jamil Jadallah
The issue of continuing and expanding Jewish settlements came back to haunt the Palestinian leadership that negotiated Oslo and continued to negotiate with Israel for the last 16 years while Israeli continued to build and expand its settlements, not to mention building the Apartheid Wall.

Now 16 years later finally the Palestinian [...]



Palestine: Elections Doomed to Fail Under Division

By Khalid Amayreh • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Zionism

Let us suppose for the sake of argument that Hamas would win the elections, even by a narrow margin. Would Fatah then cede power to the victorious party? Would the United States and Britain and Israel's Western allies come to terms with the results? Would Israel recognize Hamas as the true representative of the Palestinian people? Would the American-trained PA security forces agree to be answerable to the new government?

Obviously, the answer for all these crucial questions is absolutely "No".



Ayman Nijim – Facing Tomorrow

By Guest Post • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War

(artwork by Carlos Latuff) The time has come for looking deeper into the Palestinian political system and empowerment of the Palestinian, Arab and international think tanks worldwide to face the thought-provoking challenges of the Palestinian divide and its negative impacts on the Palestinians, their neighbors and the international community. If it matters, measure it.
Firstly, the [...]



Omar Ghraieb – A Dialogue between Hamas and Fatah leaders

By Guest Post • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Features, Ideas and Projects, Interviews, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

From: Revealing Gaza, in the eyes of the beholder
I recently was invited to a workshop discussing the Palestinian dialogue and what destiny is waiting for it, I found it very useful for non-political people like me and I thought it would be helpful and eye-opening if I share it with you.  The invitation was from Mr. [...]



Hamas – They’re not bad, they’re just drawn that way

By Mary Rizzo • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

An entire mythology has been built around the Palestinian resistance movement (which morphed into a party) Hamas. This construct has actually taken on more legitimacy as a factual interpretation of Hamas than the facts themselves. In most of the Western media, no matter if it is on the right or the left, and in some of the “moderate” media in Arab countries, the very name of the party is coupled with terms such as “fundamentalist”, “radical” or “terrorist”. Clearly, this serves to create a fear trigger that will remove the word from being critically and honestly evaluated. The listener will immediately identify Hamas with a negative connotation and is removed from responsibility for understanding that this is a manipulation of reality. The listener is expected to accept the claims that Hamas is “anti-democratic” and “fanatical”. It is child’s play to then convince the listener that Hamas is Bad, that it is the Enemy of all We represent (in our own eyes, tolerance, democracy, Goodness itself). It is possible to then extend that reading to the belief that action must be taken against them, that they are a “cancer that must be gotten rid of”, as quoted by the institutional peacenik, Noa. How does one eradicate a cancer, once it has been diagnosed? By extirpation or bombardment.



2 articles: Embarrassed and denounced AND Abbas Must Go

By Khalid Amayreh • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, War

We are a people languishing under a cruel military occupation that is trying to obliterate us as a people using nefarious tactics, including murderous ethnic cleansing. This is why we can’t allow ourselves to have the luxury of having third-class leaders playing with our cause.
The Palestinian people are too tired and too exhausted to fight on two battles, the main battle with the Zionist beast which is trying to arrogate our land and ruin our present and future, and a secondary battle of preserving our just cause from the betrayal of narcissistic and self-absorbed “leaders” who think that complacency and capitulation are the best policy.



Sami Jamil Jadallah – Is Palestinian and Arab blood cheap? Yes. It is cheap when spilled by Israel and its cheaper when spilled by Arabs.

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

It is written in the Torah if any one cares to read and know: “Destroy all the land, beat down their pillars and break their statues and waste all of their high places, cleansing the land and dwelling in it for I have given it to you for your possession” Numbers 33:52,53. “ And they [...]



Another PA betrayal

By Khalid Amayreh • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH – The Palestinian Authority (PA) decision to defer until March a vote on the “Goldstone report” at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva constitutes a huge betrayal of Palestinian people. 
Likewise, the stupid and disgraceful feat immensely serves the Israeli goal of covering up the Nazi-like crimes the Israeli occupation army [...]



Saleh Al-Naami – Devil in the details

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

In Gaza, Saleh Al-Naami finds the latest ideas coming out of Cairo for Palestinian reconciliation miss the core problems
Perhaps the common denominator in the special night prayers at West Bank mosques during Ramadan is a plea for Palestinian unity and an end to internal divisions that constitute a national crisis. It appears that the Palestinians [...]