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Tear down THIS wall!

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

A group of Palestinians from the popular committees and Fatah movement tore down a part of the Apartheid Wall separating occupied East Jerusaelm from the rest of the West Bank.
  
On Monday 9 November a hundred Palestinians waving Palestinain flags and wearing florecent jackets saying "WE ARE GOING TO JERUSALEM" took down a piece of the [...]



First Word War: Khalil Nakhleh "Reclaiming Words: Identity and thought, We are not Israeli Arabs, we are Palestinians" & Realistic Bird "The Term 'self-defense'"

By Guest Post • Oct 21st, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Our next entry in the First Word War, the intitiative by Palestine Think Tank and Tlaxcala to declare war against disinforamation, presents two writers who deconstruct the Israeli and Zionist lexicon. We are asked to stop calling Palestinians who live within Israel "Israeli Arabs", when they were, are and always will be Palestinians. The second intervention explains why Israel's use of the word "self-defense" is an abuse of the concept.
Translations into Italian by Mary Rizzo and Spanish by Manuel Talens



Care and Feeding of the Holocaust Elephant in the Room (spiced up by Ahmadinejad)

By Mary Rizzo • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Features, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

While Netanyahu and the West rant and rage about the alleged sins of Iran’s President in order to help Israel stay on the top of the game, we see another really bizarre trend in this “constant reminder of the Holocaust”. Surprise surprise, it’s not only the main theme for those whose purpose for existing is to enable Israel who are keeping the “constant reminders of the Holocaust” in the place of prominence. It is also the committed anti-Zionists who like to keep this fil rouge of Ahmadi and the Holocaust running.



Remi Kanazi – Israel/America: A Rambling Poem (video)

By Remi Kanazi • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Every time I think of 9/11
I see burning flesh dripping off the bones of Iraqi children in Fallujah
Now Gaza
I tend to memorialize the forgotten
The collateral damage eclipsing our unpunished crimes
Maybe it’s because I’m a numbers guy
Because if I had a dollar for every time an Iraqi died since 2003 
I’d be a millionaire
And don’t get me [...]



Ramadan asserts Muslim attachment to Jerusalem

By Khalid Amayreh • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, Resistance

WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH  in Jerusalem 
As the month of Ramadan draws to a close, many Palestinians are devoting the last ten days of the holy month to gaining more  spiritual enrichment through I’tikaf or uninterrupted spiritual engagement. 
Many people are going for I’tikaf this year, motivated by a desire to gain Allah’s blessing and also encouraged by [...]



IDF brutes invade Bil'in, night-time raid, injuring those present SEE FILM

By Guest Post • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

WRITTEN BY HAITHAM AL KATIB
Shortly after  1:30 am, Israeli forces invaded Bil'in again. They raided the house of Abdullah Mahmoud Aburahma in an attempt to arrest him. However, he was not home at the time. Palestinian and international activists intervened by jumping over the wall into the garden since the soldiers had shut the gate [...]



Normalization with Israel a stab in the Palestinians’ back

By Khalid Amayreh • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Our Authors, Resistance

WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH – There is no doubt that any form of Arab normalization with Israel, especially under current circumstances, constitutes a brazen betrayal of the Palestinian people and their enduring just cause for justice and freedom from the cruel Israeli occupation.  
In recent weeks, there have been consistent reports indicating that a number of [...]



It Is Our Right to Travel with Dignity! Petition

By Adib Kawar • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance, Zionism

The International Campaign for Freedom of Movement for Palestinians (KARAMA) 
The International Campaign for Freedom of Movement for Palestinians (KARAMA) is an independent public and national campaign that aims to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people and help them travel within and outside of Palestine in freedom and dignity. The Campaign is fully aware that [...]



From War Criminal in Israel to Coffee Salesman

By Kawther Salam • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Kawther's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

If the past is associated with war crimes and crimes against humanity and injustice, then the history of the perpetrators is the history of criminals and their crimes, and the victims must never forget, never forgive, lest the perpetrators continue on their path of crimes. Nobody can ask from perpetrators to take responsibility for their crimes, because if they were responsible, or even capable of responsibility, to begin with, they would not engage in acts understood as reprehensible by the vast majority of humanity. The victims, on the other hand, have the responsibility not only to take care of ourselves, but to do everything in our power to stop the perpetrators, and to warn others about them.



Kawther Salam – Palestinian Organs for Sale and Experiments

By Kawther Salam • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Many Palestinian bodies which had their organs removed are still in the refrigerators of the Israeli jails and hospitals, and many Palestinian bodies (about 300) which had their organs removed are still in secret and cemeteries with numbered graves. Israel is the only State in the world which continues holding the bodies of Palestinian victims [...]