Palestine Think Tank

On Thursday Sep. 10 2009, GOC Central Command Gadi Shamni said during the mock trial of First Lt. Adam Malul of the Kfir gang, one of the IDF criminals who smashed, tortured and hit a Palestinian victim while he was under arrest, which was held for the media, that “the IDF soldiers were not authorized [...]

the average number of Palestinian children held in Israeli detention in 2009 remains high, at 375 per month

By Haitham Sabbah
his might sound off-topic, but it is not and you will know why by reading until the end. Yet, it is so salient to every single one of us who are members of a global society.
As mentioned here, the US Department of Labor released their long-awaited report (PDF) on goods produced by "Child [...]

WRITTEN BY SAMEH HABEEB AND AYMAN QUADER
If you are a young Gazan, how do you react to siege, blockade and war? It's time to hear about the struggle to be constructive in the midst of so much hatred and destruction, and to ask how long it can survive.
26 – 08 – 2009
 
The Gaza Strip has [...]

WRITTEN BY Andrei Vltchek
Sometimes I am chased by nightmares: I am in the middle of some bombed out refugee camp, maybe in Congo (DRC) or in some other desperate country at the periphery of media interests. Children are running around with swollen bellies, clearly suffering from malnutrition. Many women in the camp have swollen bellies [...]

WRITTEN BY Mozhgan Savabieasfahani
 
In a wounded and burning Middle East, aching under U.S. and Israeli military boots, with constantly expanding invasions by Israel (Lebanon 2006; Gaza 2009), with close to 2 million dead Iraqis just next door, with millions more Iraqis wounded, made homeless, and poisoned by uranium (some of whom end up in Iran [...]

ألمناضل ألقائد أبو غسان مستمر في إضرابة عن ألطعام , فهل لنا أن نتضامن معة ومع باقي ألحركة ألاسيرة ألبطلة ؟
ألمناضل ألفذ أحمد سعدات مستمر بإضرابة عن ألطعام دفاعاً عن كرامتنا فرداً فرداً ولكننا نعيش في كوكب آخر ….إلى متى سنبقى غائبين مغيبين يا ترى ؟
هل لنا أن نتضامن معهم بإعلان اضرابنا عن ألطعام يوم [...]

The Beit Ayn settlement outpost near Hebron
WRITTEN BY Khalid Amayreh in al-Khalil
8 April, 2009
 
Religious Jewish terrorists on Thursday attacked a small Arab village north of al Khalil (Hebron), shooting randomly on civilians and vandalizing homes and businesses.
Eyewitnesses said as many as a hundred settler terrorists descended on the small village of Safa, 10 kilometers north [...]

WRITTEN By PAUL SCHEMM
The rules were simple: Don't touch the blindfold. The handcuffs stay on. Speak only when spoken to — and then only in a low voice.
Newly released German-Egyptian activist Philip Rizk said Thursday that he was interrogated by Egypt's State Security for four days, accused of being everything from an Israeli spy to [...]