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Shadi Nassar – A Very Dangerous Racial Israeli Publication in Jerusalem! بالعربية , English and French

By Guest Post • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Documents, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

These are translated copies (English and French) of the publication which was published by the Israelis in Arabic to people of Jerusalem within their savage campaign to judaize Jerusalem and the historical holy land of Palestine:
النص الأصلي باللغة العربية بالاسفل
Call for all Muslims living in "Israel "
In this message, we would like to explain the [...]



Qais Nawwaf – Roberts Owes Iraqi People an Apology

By Guest Post • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Newswire, Religion, War

From Dissident Voice
As an Iraqi, I took serious offense to Paul Craig Roberts’ patronizing article, “Muslim Disunity: A Religion Divided Among Itself,” in Counterpunch, March 2, 2010. Roberts audaciously states that the “reason Americans are still in Iraq is because the Iraqis hate each other more than they hate the American invader.” Roberts blames the [...]



Talal Shihadeh – The Abraham Mosque of Hebron

By Guest Post • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

I was 12 years old when my family forced to move from Hebron, on 1977. I don't know if I was lucky or not, as I was born in this historical holy city, which is located in the south of the West Bank (WB).
I was born in the old city, very close to the Abraham [...]



cartoon of the day

By Guest Post • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day, Israel, Newswire

Eugenio Merino's sculpture "Starway to Heaven" caused a stir in Madrid. see the original source: http://www.publico.es/agencias/efe/296304/escultura/eugenio/merino/convierte/arco/espacio/estrella



Khalid Amayreh – Open Letter to Obama's Envoy to the OIC

By Khalid Amayreh • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, Religion

Dear brother Hussein, like many Muslims around the globe, I am glad that President Obama has appointed you as his Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Needless to say, the repair of American-Muslim relations require, first and foremost,  honesty, integrity, and good will — characters I am sure you exemplify as an [...]



Ahmad Barqawi – Targeting the Wrong Kind of Tunnels

By Guest Post • Feb 20th, 2010 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

At a time when extreme and even unthinkable measures are being taken to completely sever the few remaining passageways of life into Gaza through Rafah's underground tunnels into Egypt, other tunnels of a different kind and a different purpose are being dug elsewhere everyday in broad daylight for all the world to see in occupied [...]



Zahir Ebrahim – Rescuing a Failed Struggle from Its Narrative, A response to Witness in Palestine

By Guest Post • Feb 20th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Internet and Communication, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Amidst all this energized symbolic weekend run on the treadmill for most people, and perhaps a lifestyle for a handful of others of courageously putting band-aids on visible wounds while doing little for curing the systemic disease, the only people all this wonderful dissent doesn't work for, and hasn't work for, are the bleeding Palestinians exhausting themselves out at ground Zero.

The enemy is simply far superior and far more cunning in waging a full spectrum overwhelming war by way of deception. Those on the ground see only the most overt of its instruments – the guns, the walls, but not the forces which drive them.



Max Blumenthal – Video: Rapture Ready, the Christians United for Israel convention

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 10th, 2010 • Category: Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Religion, Video, Zionism

Max Blumenthal is just fantastic, as usual. His approach, halfway between deadpan and ironic, always allows the persons interviewed to feel free to express themselves, and the platform he offers them provides us with an image that we have to see and try to understand.
Christian Zionists are a very strange reality. Fundamentalists whose greatest desire is to [...]



Raid Khoury – Christian Arabs remain the best situated to combat the demonization of Islam

By Guest Post • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Arabs — both Muslims and Christians — have been the target of a ferocious propaganda campaign in this country. Responding to this onslaught is more than enough to keep them busy without having to contend with a contingent of self-hating Arabs and religious agitators in their midst. As an Arab who happened to be born into a Christian family, I cannot remain silent as individuals on the margins of the Arab American community are enlisted in this demonization campaign as representatives of Christian Arabs. For Christian Arabs their Christianity is an indigenous religion, and Islam is their indigenous civilization.



Common Activist Errors and Some Proposals to Rectify Them

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

A Palestine Think Tank Editorial
WRITTEN BY  Yousef Abudayyeh, Mohamed Khodr, Mary Rizzo, Haitham Sabbah and Saja 
Activism and activists for Palestine have been getting some media attention recently. This is absolutely great news. It is an opportunity that we need to take advantage of, especially since Palestinians themselves are denied space in almost all mainstream mass [...]