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Arab Support for Palestine

By Guest Post • Jan 12th, 2010 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

from Al Masry Al Youm
Over the weekend Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit announced that Egypt will prohibit aid from entering the blockaded Gaza Strip through the Egyptian border. The decision came after the Viva Palestina aid convoy, led by British MP George Galloway, entered Gaza through Rafah prompting clashes between international activists and Palestinians on [...]



Mohamed Khodr – An Embarrassment of Riches and Riches of Embarrassments

By Mohamed Khodr • Jun 12th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

“Verily, God does not change men's condition unless they change their inner selves; and when God wills people to suffer evil [in consequence of their own evil deeds], there is none who could avert it: for they have none who could protect them from Him.  (Qur’an: 13:11)
 
Muhammad Asad’s comment on this verse:  (M. Asad: “The [...]



Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on UN-Google Earth Map

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Features, Palestine, Petitions

However, my happiness did not last for long when I discovered that NONE of the Palestinian refugee camps within the Occupied Palestinian Territories are published there (see map below). So, even if you �Sit in front of your computer�, with a few clicks you can �see, hear and develop an emotional understanding of what it is like to be a refugee�, but not the Palestinian refugees� experience. They don�t exist!