Palestine Think Tank

I remember a few years ago walking through the wonderful narrow streets of the occupied Old city of Jerusalem, seeing a small shop managed by an old Palestinian man who was selling souvenirs to the tourists. I entered the shop, not because I wanted to buy something, I am not a tourist in my own [...]

(illustration by Mazen Kerbaj - translation below*)
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is the main factor of this dispute and they are trying to cover the political motivations and especially [...]

The world media have been gawking at, salivating over and provoking conflict in Lebanon since. . . well, since the bombs stopped falling in the Summer 2006.  As if the 33-day war merely whet their appetite for the drama of death and destruction, the media have analysed every vibration in Lebanon as the prelude to [...]

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.
This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase.
A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27 (2007), says the 2008 bill and its [...]

A continuation of the reports from the Bruxelles Tribunal on the Israeli War Against Lebanon.
Three expert witnesses gave scientific testimony about the weapons that were used by Israel against Lebanon in the war that lasted 33 days, as well as the effects these armaments had on people and objects. Lebanese nuclear physicist and expert in [...]

By Mary Rizzo from the Bruxelles Tribunal. At the left, Mr Shokr holds a piece of the US-made rocket that destroyed his house.
At the Bruxelles Tribunal, several people represented the victims of the war. It was very interesting to note how different these people were from one another, judging by the type of presentation they [...]

Two witnesses give their testimonies at the Bruxelles Tribunal for Lebanon, Salam Daher and Dr Hayder Decmak
(in the photo, Salam Daher and one of the victims of the Qana Massacre)
Salam Daher has been a relief worker in Southern Lebanon since 1985, practically his entire adult life. He has seen his share of misery and catastrophe, [...]

“Much depends on our belief in our capabilities. Hezbollah believed they could win, and if it wasn’t so, right now we’d be speaking as representatives of Occupied Lebanon.” Rania Masri
By Mary Rizzo from the Bruxelles Tribunal
Rania Masri, PhD is a professor at the University of Balamand, Lebanon and member of Green Line Organisation. She came [...]

This account, from Workers World, is an excellent summary of what i witnessed in the three days in Bruxelles. I am going to begin my own accounts of it, but in the meantime, please read this article and READ THE FINAL VERDICT
(in English, French, Italian and Spanish).
By John Catalinotto Brussels, Belgium
Published Feb 28, 2008
A four-member [...]

At the left, a man searches in the ruins of his home for his family members after an air raid in Southern Lebanon.First of a series of reports of the People’s Tribunal for Lebanon (Bruxelles, February 2008) Mary Rizzo, http://www.peacepalestine.wordpress.com/
Many were the testimonies that we 250 members of international civil society were able to hear. [...]