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Stuart Littlewood – Losing patience with squabbling '2-rump' Palestine

By Haitham Sabbah • Feb 13th, 2010 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance

By Stuart Littlewood*
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!"
A few weeks ago, on the annual Robert Burns Night, these immortal lines from 1786 were being recited all over the world, but probably not in Palestine. The leadership there aren't blessed with the gift of seeing themselves as the [...]



Gaza Lives On

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video, War, Zionism

One year later, it is very important to remember what happened in Gaza. But it is more important to realize the aspirations of the Palestinian people in Gaza. They deserve our solidarity, respect and reverence. They deserve justice. It is the duty of every person to contribute to break the unprecedented siege and bringing the [...]



William A. Cook – A Christmas Remembrance

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

By William A. Cook*
"The white civilized man (is) the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth."
(Herman Melville, 1840s)
In 1841, Melville sailed aboard the Acushnet, a whaling vessel, on a three year trip to the South Seas. By July of 1842, Melville and a shipmate, Toby Greene, jumped ship revolting against the tyrannical powers [...]



Maidhc Ó Cathail – A Wolfowitz in Sheep's Clothing

By Guest Post • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Maidhc Ó Cathail
Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the Iraq War, now wants the United States to help refugees. No, not the estimated 4.8 million Iraqis forced to flee their homes in a war he and other pro-Israeli neoconservatives planned as far back as 1992. Instead, the unlikely humanitarian, having brought "democracy" to the [...]



William A. Cook – Walled in by Myth and Deceit

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Zionism

By William A. Cook*
Ben Gurion "…realized that the holy book could be made into a secular national text, serve as a central repository of ancient collective imagery, help forge the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants into a unified people, and tie the younger generation to the land." (Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish [...]



No Business as Usual with Apartheid Israel

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

At Leviev Store, Protesters Tell Business Leaders "No Business as Usual with Apartheid Israel"

New York, NY, December 4, 2009 – 25 New York City human rights advocates caught the Israel Business Leaders Delegation to the United States by surprise this morning with a noisy protest outside their "breakfast reception amidst the Leviev jewelry collection" at [...]



Ayman Nijim – A Policy Paper on the Internal Palestinian Peace Plague

By Guest Post • Nov 22nd, 2009 • Category: Documents, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

The speculation upon the destiny of the Palestinian factions and the hope of a unified geographical Palestine (West Bank and the Gaza Strip), in this period, may seem spontaneous and easy, according to the facts of life in the Palestinian territories. But this is the challenging situation – Hamas governs the Gaza Strip and Fatah [...]



Sami Jamil Jadallah – Is Palestinian and Arab blood cheap? Yes. It is cheap when spilled by Israel and its cheaper when spilled by Arabs.

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

It is written in the Torah if any one cares to read and know: “Destroy all the land, beat down their pillars and break their statues and waste all of their high places, cleansing the land and dwelling in it for I have given it to you for your possession” Numbers 33:52,53. “ And they [...]



Khalid Amayreh Interview: "the mental landscape of every Palestinian man, woman and child is overwhelmed with the Israeli nightmare"

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Those who seek information about Palestine often tend to be attracted to particular writers and journalists for the special insights and gifts that seem to be uniquely their own. “The Middle East Crisis” is an issue having a profound, complex and multi-faceted dimension of interpretation, that for however long there has been a crisis (and worse), and despite the great abundance of written material available, more than we can ever realistically confront, the reader is driven to seek the voices that can analyse any aspect of the situation clearly. There really are far fewer with this talent than one would expect. The characteristic of this type of writer is that there is a distinctive voice or style, and more than that, there is a strong sense that the coherent and authentic ethics of this person are part of the message. It is not just reporting facts and intelligent analysis, but creating within us a consciousness of the moral situation that underlies the events. Khalid Amayreh is one such “source”. He is a very prolific author, and he is often able to correctly analyse the event of the day and place it into its overall context. This makes his work almost a diary of Palestinian events. However, as useful as it would be if he limited himself to reporting, Khalid Amayreh is far more important as a writer. He is concerned with the human condition and knows that the reader should not be left only with a cold reportage, because that would be telling only half of the story, and the less important half at that. His voice is the one speaking to the human heart, to the reader who sees the oppression that Palestinians are living under, and is mystified at they are no nearer to the end of their suffering. Khalid does not talk about “indiscriminate masses”, his work is almost a passion play, where there are names, identities, human stories behind all of the events narrated. In this interview, he touches on many issues in his intimitable way.



Helping Palestinian Children Confront their Trauma of the Occupation

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Education, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

Child psychologists have found that art therapy works to enable children to show in nonverbal ways what they have experienced and to deal with traumatic events in their lives.