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Iqbal Tamimi – Gaza artists deliver hope out of the womb of destruction

By Iqbal Tamimi • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Culture and Heritage, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Israel should realize by now that the Palestinian nation is indestructible. A nation that was born from the womb of a great civilization is hard to defeat regardless of the methods or the variety of arms used to attack them. Nothing ever will break their spirit. Israel keeps destroying and Palestinians keep rising up from [...]



Israel expels Palestinians and other countries are forced to deal with the refugees

By Iqbal Tamimi • Feb 9th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

WRITTEN BY IQBAL TAMIMI
Since the first minute the Zionists arrived in Palestine during the first half of the 1900s their policy was clear, it was to empty the land of its indigenous people and house immigrant Jews in their place. Almost 6 million Palestinians are now scattered all over the world as refugees since then, [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Alarabiya TV and its USA agenda of media manipulations

By Iqbal Tamimi • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

  

The latest of Al Arabiya TV series of betrayals to the ethics of journalism and another move of manipulations of the media came today with a report it has published on its news website.
 
Al Arabiya claims that Palestinian Mothers are requesting NOT to broadcast images of children killed in Gaza because it causes fear and [...]



It takes a flight to UK to read the other version of the newspaper and examine the ethics of media

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 20th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Opinions and Letters

After eight years of working on production of current affairs programmes and the news at a TV station in the Middle East, and subsequently an ample number of press and media episodes and articles, I found what I have worked on was built on only half the truth.
The nature of working on press related TV programmes [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Bishop Attallah Hanna: a Palestinian Christian Hero

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Biography, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Features, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

 
I met a teacher on the train during one of my trips from Bristol to London; she was very kind and she encouraged me to start a conversation. This I can assure you does not happen much. We started to talk about different issues to break the silence and the dull and cold atmosphere that [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Chant for Israel… "long live Demonclassy"

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

Whenever there is a debate about what happens in Palestine, and what kind of hell the Palestinians endure under the Israeli occupation, there is always a Zionist volunteer ready and armoured with the same sentence “Isn’t it enough that Israel is THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?”
I don’t know who offered Israel such a [...]



Good Israelis and Corrupt American Media

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

In the picture, me and Gilad Atzmon, two activists from two different worlds, interested in Human Rights and ethics. The meeting was during a medical aid for Palestine concert in London. I read my poetry while Gilad played Jazz to stitch the wounds of Palestinians.
Iqbal Tamimi/ Palestinian Journalist and researcher in UK and creator of [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Palestinians on the Iraqi borders: How did this story start?

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

The methods used by the Zionists to drive Palestinians out of their country 1948, including claiming they had a Nuclear bomb like the one dropped on Hiroshima.
The story starts almost here…..

The Zionist Haganah gangs worked on expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland in 1948, supported by the British mandate then, through the Balfour [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Media manipulations: The child was called a murderer while the soldier was called a ‘boy’

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

One of today’s main articles on the Guardian reads ‘Israel exchanges Lebanese murderer for bodies of two captured soldiers’.
When anyone in the English reading world sees this title and what follows in the article, he or she would immediately think that one of the persons mentioned is a vicious murderer while the others are innocent persons. This is [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Israel's "Free Press"? Broken pencils, broken bones and broken lives of reporters

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Open letter to David Miliband by a Palestinian Journalist residing in the UK. Detailed report follows.
The Jewish Chronicle published an article on the 16th of May entitled ‘Miliband tribute ahead of Israel trip’. The article says:
Foreign secretary David Miliband delivered an unscripted tribute to Israel’s achievements and search for peace at the Israeli embassy’s Independence [...]