Palestine Think Tank

In a press conference conducted earlier this evening, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit announced some threats, warnings, surprises as well as some good news. The press conference that aired on Egyptian official TV a few hours ago was boiling with Aboul Gheit's very firm and angry answers to the journalists' questions who did [...]

Hello, 
I came back from Rafah yesterday, but when I'll go back in few days I'll go to the gate ask to meet an official there and ask him about our colleagues Jenny and Natalie. I'll give him a piece of my mind as I always do and translate everything you wrote here and add the demand to [...]

The Gaza donor conference concluded a couple of days ago in the Egyptian city of Sharm-El-Sheik and was attended by more than 70 countries, pledging more than $5 Billion, exceeding any and all expectations. Of course this sum of money and the US pledge of $300 million is dwarfed by the $30 Billion George Bush [...]

To:  Honorable President Hosni Mubarak, Honorable Omar Suleiman, Interior Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly and Members of Cabinet
24 August, 2008
To the Honorable President Hosni Mubarak, Honorable Omar Suleiman, Interior Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly and Members of Cabinet,
We, the hundreds of Palestinians waiting at the Rafah crossing in Egypt, call upon your honorable government to [...]

A Palestinian-Scottish couple are driving a ton and a half of urgently-needed medicines to Gaza on July 10th and they have arrived the Rafah border but cannot enter Gaza because the Egyptian government doesn't give the permission to open the border. Please take action and write to the Egyptian officials:
http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/content/view/2547/458/
http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15217
http://www.gaza.tk/
a letter could look like this:
His [...]

LETTERS TO THE BBC BY DAVID HALPIN
To BBC News online
Dear Olivia,
My first message to you was on 06/28/2008  at 08:33 PM.
I see no report of the assault on this journalist on the BBC web site.  Assuming you are on holiday, I am copying this to senior colleagues.  To this lay person, there would appear to [...]

WITH UPDATE BELOW! WRITTEN BY STEVE AMSEL My dear friend and brother Mohammed Omer returned to his native Gaza Strip on Thursday… literally unconscious and unable to speak after being beaten and tortured by Israeli troops. He is still unable to speak so I was not able to communicate with him, I [...]

Trouble is Double for Georgette Harb Bring Georgette her afflicted family!
Palestinians have consistently lived through the traumas of home destruction, nearly all families have its martyrs from life under occupation these last 60 years. The existing siege only helps them to relive the negative experiences all over again and Georgette is no exception.
A simple modest [...]