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Posts Tagged ‘PLO’

Khalil Nakhleh - Palestinians Under the Occupation

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Quotes, Resistance, War, Zionism

An Analytical Overview of the Current Situation
Our current Palestinian situation can be characterized candidly, as one observer described it over 20 some years ago, as a “fragmented national mood”; where more than 80% perceive themselves to suffer from depression and worry; where the percentages of the poor are in constant upward increase [...]



Palestinian envoy to Britain told to be more proactive

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

Palestinian mission in London is failing Gazans in their “darkest hour”, campaigners say
The Palestinian representative to Britain should wake up, get his act together and robustly defend his people’s cause or else pack up and go home, British peace campaigners have warned Dr Manuel Hassassian in a scathing message.
British peace campaigners* have told the Palestinian [...]



Time is Running Out for Israel, Atzmon’s report of the Nakba commemoration event

By Gilad Atzmon • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Gilad Atzmon, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Nakba and Right of Return, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance

Something positive is happening, I would even call it a shift of awareness, a realisation that the Palestinian struggle is leading somewhere after all.
Yesterday, at Exeter University, to a very crowded theatre, in an event of that was a commemoration of 60 years of the Nakba, I had a chance to listen to Dr Manuel [...]