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Posts Tagged ‘Israel’

The Scottish van goes back home

By Haitham Sabbah • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Palestine, Video

Khalil is back home after the Egyptian authorities refused the van entry with the medicine donated from the Scottish people to the people of Gaza.. Watch Khalil’s message to the Egyptian government, Palestinians and the world.



IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM FREE GAZA

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

Dear Endorsers and Supporters
The moment we’ve all worked so long for is nearly here: on August 12th or 13th the Free Gaza Movement will begin its trip from Cyprus to Gaza. They will sail in two boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty with 40 people on board. If all goes well, the [...]



Sameh Habeeb - A voice from Gaza: All I need is my freedom

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Source: www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
Freedom is a broad expression that includes a mosaic of freedoms for humans in all aspects of life. It means being guaranteed certain things by all laws for all the time that law has been for the people, adopted by civilized countries and widely acknowledged by the few democratic nations - headed by [...]



Reham Alhelsi - Our Living Dead

By Reham Alhelsi • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Biography, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Education, Features, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

During a seminar I attended in Germany about journalism and its role in conflicts, some participants were against the idea of TV stations like Aljazeera showing the horrific photos of Palestinian victims. They argued that seeing such pictures would only increase the hate and the anger and fuel the conflict. I was against that, and [...]



The Jewish settler pogrom against Palestinians must be stopped now

By Khalid Amayreh • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Our Authors, Palestine, Zionism

In the picture: nets run over the pavements of the Old Quarter of Hebron,  to spare the pedestrians getting hit by the trash dropped out the windows by the settlers. Nazi-like Jewish settlers have of late stepped up their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinian civilians and their property throughout the West Bank.
In some areas, like in [...]



Mohammed Omer - Truth and Consequences Under the Israeli Occupation PLUS Kenneth Ring: the Ordeal of Mohammed Omer

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Biography, Interviews, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

From The Nation
I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. At the age of 17, I armed myself with a camera and a pen, committed to report accurately on events in Gaza. I have filed reports as Israeli fighter jets bombed Gaza City. I have interviewed mothers as they watched their children die in hospitals unequipped [...]



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 [...]



Anis Hamadeh - Is Gaza under occupation or not? Free Gaza boats about to find out more

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

http://www.anis-online.de/1/ton/49.htm
For more than two years, all border crossings to the Gaza Strip have been closed by the Israeli army. Since then, the 1.5 million inhabitants live in a state of siege, even more so since June, when the siege was tightened. As reasons for the siege Israel refers to Qassam rocket fire from the area [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - The Zionists Gave God a Bad Name

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 27th, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Part one of a report: Some people do not know much about the suffering of Palestinians. Most Israelis suggested over and over again that they have the right to live in Palestine and kick its people out. The Jewish people came from all over the world without any connection to Palestine but a promise under [...]



cartoon of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 27th, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day

political canibalism of occupied Palestine.
“Gaza is impossible to digest but the West Bank is delicious”