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Antoine Raffoul – Full-Circle of The Waiting Game: Total Boycott Against Total Occupation

By Guest Post • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Reading Rifat Kassis's Opinion: Moment of truth (e.i. 4 March 2010) we are inspired to put a halt to the arguments that call for a selective boycott of Israel, and to defy those voices which warn us Palestinians (and many internationalists, for that matter) who criticise Israel for fear of being labelled 'anti-semites' (although we [...]



Anis Hamadeh – Palestine 2030, A Literary View into the Future of Palestine

By Guest Post • Mar 6th, 2010 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Biography, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The following eleven voices from different countries show views on Palestine after the breakdown of Zionism, written in 2030, three years after the State of Israel had collapsed.
1. Shlomo Berge: "Three years ago, the last war in the region ended. We as Israelis never knew how real peace would feel like, because we were [...]



Petition to stop destruction of Muslim Cemetery for "Museum of Tolerance"

By Guest Post • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Action Alert, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Religion, Zionism

Petitioners request that the Government of Switzerland, in its capacity as depository of the Fourth Geneva Convention, consider this issue in the context of resuming the High Contracting Parties’ Conference to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Please sign this important Petition and pass it on to others to prevent Israel from continuing its ethnic cleansing not only [...]



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.



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 [...]



Tariq Shadid – Palestine is full of heroes

By Guest Post • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the 'right' ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the people rally behind a certain leader, more than behind an ideology. While Palestinian society continues to be torn apart [...]



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.