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The Execution of a Palestinian Journalist

By Kawther Salam • Sep 19th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Last Wednsday, August 26 2009, the criminal Israeli occupation forces shot the Palestinian journalist Ubayda Maher  Al-Qudsi, aged 25, while he was walking on Al-Shuhada Street in the heart of the occupied city of Hebron.
To justify the murder, the IDF murderers claimed that Al-Dweik had attempted to attack an IDF soldier with a knife. [...]



Khalid Amayreh – A Criminal State that MUST be Isolated. Reading the Goldstone Report

By Khalid Amayreh • Sep 19th, 2009 • Category: Documents, Features, Israel, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

(art by Carlos Latuff) Israel is unusually furious over the publication this week of the Goldstone commission report which accuses the apartheid regime of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip during the bloody blitz against the coastal Palestinian territory nearly nine months ago. 
Israeli officials and hasbara doctors have been railing against Goldstone, [...]



A Thief Resigned From the Jewish Community in Hungary

By Kawther Salam • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Friday, September 18th 2009
Budapest – According to German news Agency “dpa”, the deputy leader of the largest Jewish organization in Hungary has announced his resignation after being arrested because of the theft of wallet at a gas station. The incident was confirmed on Thursday.
Budapest (dpa) – The deputy leader of the largest Jewish organization in [...]



Remi Kanazi – Israel/America: A Rambling Poem (video)

By Remi Kanazi • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Every time I think of 9/11
I see burning flesh dripping off the bones of Iraqi children in Fallujah
Now Gaza
I tend to memorialize the forgotten
The collateral damage eclipsing our unpunished crimes
Maybe it’s because I’m a numbers guy
Because if I had a dollar for every time an Iraqi died since 2003 
I’d be a millionaire
And don’t get me [...]



IDF brutes invade Bil'in, night-time raid, injuring those present SEE FILM

By Guest Post • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

WRITTEN BY HAITHAM AL KATIB
Shortly after  1:30 am, Israeli forces invaded Bil'in again. They raided the house of Abdullah Mahmoud Aburahma in an attempt to arrest him. However, he was not home at the time. Palestinian and international activists intervened by jumping over the wall into the garden since the soldiers had shut the gate [...]



From War Criminal in Israel to Coffee Salesman

By Kawther Salam • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Kawther's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

If the past is associated with war crimes and crimes against humanity and injustice, then the history of the perpetrators is the history of criminals and their crimes, and the victims must never forget, never forgive, lest the perpetrators continue on their path of crimes. Nobody can ask from perpetrators to take responsibility for their crimes, because if they were responsible, or even capable of responsibility, to begin with, they would not engage in acts understood as reprehensible by the vast majority of humanity. The victims, on the other hand, have the responsibility not only to take care of ourselves, but to do everything in our power to stop the perpetrators, and to warn others about them.



Kawther Salam – Palestinian Organs for Sale and Experiments

By Kawther Salam • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Many Palestinian bodies which had their organs removed are still in the refrigerators of the Israeli jails and hospitals, and many Palestinian bodies (about 300) which had their organs removed are still in secret and cemeteries with numbered graves. Israel is the only State in the world which continues holding the bodies of Palestinian victims [...]



Petition for Free Speech and investigation of Organ Theft accusations

By Guest Post • Sep 5th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Zionism

Please Sign Petition to Support Free Speech and an Investigation of Alleged Israeli Organ Theft From Palestinians
Five organizations have joined together to sponsor the following petition:
"As people deeply concerned with human rights, we believe it is essential to listen respectfully when occupied people speak about war crimes committed against them. Therefore, we support Donald Boström [...]



Kawther Salam – Fancy Title People and the IDF against Journalists

By Kawther Salam • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Documents, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

I strongly reject and condemn the “work” of the Israeli military censorship imposed on the work of journalists and the publications of the Palestinian in the West Bank. I also strongly condemn the continuous restrictions which the Israeli military censorship imposes on the foreign journalists, monitoring their reports, banning and censoring them in the office of [...]



Kawther Salam – Night of Israeli Horror in Jerusalem Hospital

By Kawther Salam • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The roots and the horror of this crime date back to June 2, 1994, when the Israeli Special Forces and other IDF soldiers stormed the surgery, maternity and pediatric wards of the Palestinian hospital Augusta Victoria (generally known as “al-Motala”) in Jerusalem while they were looking for the BODY of a Palestinian who they mistakenly [...]