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Posts Tagged ‘Non-violent resistance’

Non-Violence in Palestine: Timing and Intentions

By Ramzy Baroud • Apr 18th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Ramzy Baroud (photo by Valentina Perniciaro)
 
When one speaks of or advocates non-violence, does he promote such an idea because he believes that historically it has been a more effective means of liberation, or is it purely because he thinks that it is a more self-respecting means of struggle? 
 
In recent history, many advocates of [...]


Akram Awad – The Siege on Gaza: We Share the Blame

By Guest Post • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

As an international community, we all share the responsibility for the ongoing brutal siege on Gaza, and not until we utilise all possible means of peaceful and nonviolent resistance shall we hope for a close end of that siege.
There is not much to say about the Holocaust of Gaza's people – assuming that the reader [...]


Ramzi Kysia – Gazans Resist by Surviving

By Guest Post • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

"I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza…" — Amos 1:7
In a small cafe in Gaza City, Amjad Shawa, the coordinator for the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), sips black coffee and ruminates on the Israeli blockade of Gaza. “This siege isn’t about ‘security’ or even about Hamas,” he says. “Israel’s ultimate aim is to [...]


Raytheon Nine Acquittal Details by David Morrison

By Guest Post • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Documents, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Resistance, War, Zionism

I'm happy to finally be able to publish this! When the news broke, at the very day the trial ended, all of the activists who were following the case were asked to kindly not give too many details for reasons of a Gag Order. Seeing that this article has been published in an Irish paper, [...]