Palestine Think Tank

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Message from Mona (a Jerusalemite):
Dear Friends and Family,
I am writing to share a little about what is happening in my life lately. As most of you know, I have been in Jerusalem since March 18 with Ramzi who at the time had barely turned 5 months. We left Habib [...]

A Palestinian woman’s story. Zeina Shrawi Hutchison is Hanan Ashrawi’s daughter.
I am Palestinian - born and raised - and my Palestinian roots go back centuries. No one can change that even if they tell me that Jerusalem, my birth place, is not Palestine, even if they tell me that Palestine doesn’t exist, [...]

George Bisharat
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
On his first day as the presumptive Democratic candidate for president earlier this month, Barack Obama committed a serious foreign policy blunder. Reciting a litany of pro-Israeli positions at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), he avowed: “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it [...]

Last week I got my new “Palestinian Passport”. Palestinians need to renew their passports every three years, and it was time for me to renew mine. Living in Germany the next step for me would be to get my “residency permit” transferred from my old to my new passport. As I prepared the documents I [...]

Jerusalem, the holy city, a city once the religious, social and economic center of the Palestinians for thousands of years, has turned into a ghost city under Israeli occupation. Moslems, Christians and Jews lived peacefully here until the Zionists started implementing their plans of establishing a Zionist state in Palestine. A city that was open [...]

Participate in painting the skies of Occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) with black
21,915 (365 days x 60 years) black balloons
Please read and ask your friends to help. It will be a great show of support for a fighting, oppressed and 60 years suffering people.
Lutuf
Dear Beloved Friends,
Many thanks to our friend, Dr Ahmad Kamal, who passed this info. [...]

Following is an edited open letter from Gaza lecturer Dr. Haider Eid
to Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer…
 
I am a Palestinian lecturer in Cultural Studies living in Gaza. I happen to also have South African citizenship as a result of my marriage to a citizen of that beloved country. I spent more than five [...]