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Posts Tagged ‘Israel’

cartoon of the day

By Guest Post • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day, Israel

Israel's Peace Plan, by Habib Haddad



Khalil Nakhleh – How Must We Explain Our Century-old Struggle to a Foreign Audience?

By Guest Post • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Education, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

To work strategically on our liberation process, we need to instill an appropriate discourse that embodies our future strategic vision. This discourse should start by purging itself from the language of “two-state solution”, “two states for two people”, “West Bank and Gaza”, “East Jerusalem”, “peacemaking”, “direct or indirect negotiations”, “state building”, “legal or illegal settlements”, etc. Our language should focus on means of resistance to achieve our liberation towards living in a free, non-racist, secular country in the entire land of historical Palestine; on emancipation from occupation and economic dependency; on individual and collective rights; on international law; on responsive and accountable leadership; on self-reliance and productivity; and on the right of all the refugees and displaced persons, who were ethnically cleansed from their homes and country by the Zionist colonial movement, to return to Palestine.



Israel, Yemen, the Gold Watch and Everything!

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, War

But I know. You’re going to tell me that Obama has already assured us that he has no intention of sending troops into Yemen, right? Well, actually I believe him. How can he? We’re already over-extended with a war in Afghanistan and one staring in Pakistan. Where is he going to get the troops? Now Bush might try to pull off a crazy thing like that but that’s not Obama’s style.



VIDEO by Shadi Nassar "I RESIST"

By Guest Post • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video

Beautiful video by a rising star, Shadi Nassar. "I Resist" is three minutes of power, beauty and ultimately hope. The Palestinians will never be defeated, their existence is resistence.



Khalid Amayreh – The Musa’ab Yousuf Story: a classic example of Israeli disinformation

By Khalid Amayreh • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

In addition to its protracted war of terror against the Palestinian people, Israel has long waged an unrelenting campaign of psychological warfare against the Palestinian will, aimed at debilitating the domestic front across the occupied territories. The Israeli media, which often operates in sync with the Israeli occupation army and intelligence agencies, readily and routinely [...]



Khalid Amayreh – We must never forget Gaza

By Khalid Amayreh • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

Despite a slight improvement in the general humanitarian situation, the Gaza Strip remains a disaster area. In fact, in terms of the sheer destruction of homes and infrastructure, the coastal enclave can be compared to quake-stricken Haiti, with the main difference lying in the fact that while the Caribbean island’s calamity was a natural disaster, [...]



"UM-D Student government approves divestment resolution"

By Guest Post • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Action Alert, Education, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

WRITTEN BY  Khalil AlHajal

ARAB AMERICAN NEWS (Dearborn, Michigan)
The University of Michigan—Dearborn's student government body passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for investigation into ethical implications of University investments in companies that do business in Israel.
The measure came after more than a week of events on campus that discussed human rights issues in the occupied Palestinian [...]



Tzipi Livni: "the ONLY targets are Military targets" A Video by Shadi Nassar

By Guest Post • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video, War, Zionism

A truly outstanding video by Shadi Nassar that shows clips of Tzipi Livni and others, during the Israeli wanton destruction of Gaza known as "Operation Cast Lead". Her words contradict the actions of her government and army.



Samira Quraishy – Why are we surprised that Mossad used fake passports?

By Guest Post • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The aspect of the Al-Mabhouh assassination that is attracting most attention is the issue of forged passports. Today's Jewish Chronicle carries a short commentary on the tendency of Israeli security services to "borrow" passports, highlighting two methods by which this could have been done. The first is apparently innocuous, whereby as part of the normal [...]



Ibrahim Hewitt – The Observer, Israel and the language of war

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM HEWITT – ALSO IN SPANISH BELOW!
A leader writer in the Observer newspaper (“Israel can accelerate peace by exercising restraint” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/21/observer-editorial-israel-palestine , 21 February) really must be taken to task over the language that was used in the column. In seeking to analyse the Israel-Palestine situation the writer slipped into the sort of [...]