Hariri Bombing Indictment Based on
Flawed Premise
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 29, 2011 (IPS) - The indictment of four men linked to Hezbollah in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri made public by the Special Tribunal on Lebanon Aug. 17 is questionable not because it is based on "circumstantial evidence", but because that evidence is based on a flawed premise.
How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones
Video seen by Catrina Stewart reveals
the brutal interrogation of young
Palestinians
Catrina Stewart
Friday, 26 August 2011
The Independent, UK
"This rarely seen footage seen by The Independent offers a glimpse into an Israeli interrogation, almost a rite of passage that hundreds of Palestinian children accused of throwing stones undergo every year."
Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11
Injustice
Adama Bah shares her shocking
experience: At just sixteen, the FBI
forcefully entered her home before
degrading, arresting, and deporting her
family.
By Alia Malek and Adama Bah
August 26, 2011
Alternet
Legal opinion challenges PLO statehood bid
Palestinians risk losing their rights under the new bid, as representation is called into question, legal expert says.
Guy Goodwin Gill
25 Aug 2011
Aljazeera.net
Al Jazeera's Nour Samaha conducted an interview with Professor Goodwin-Gill to get a clearer picture of the dangers the Palestinian people may potentially face with the bid. His entire legal judgment on the problems with the current Palestinian bid for statehood can be accessed here.
One man's stand against an Israeli settlement
Matthew Kalman reports from Jerusalem on a Palestinian farmer's extraordinary story
Thursday, 18 August 2011
The Independent, UK
The politicians and protesters gave up the fight years ago, and the Palestinian Authority, while praising Mr Ayid's "steadfastness", have lifted neither finger nor chequebook to help him. "My son went to the President's office in Ramallah to ask Abu Mazen (the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas) for help, but they did nothing," Mr Ayid said. "Thousands of Palestinians used to come here and protest but in they end they achieved nothing."
81 House Members Enjoy Hiatus In Israel
13 Aug 2011
by James M. Wall
"Eighty-one members of the US House of Representatives—about 20 percent of the total membership—are enjoying a late summer week-long, all-expenses paid trip to Israel."
Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers it Up
by Alison Weir
August 11, 2011
antiwar.com
"You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, weeklong junkets to a foreign country — paid for by a lobby for that country — would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong."
The Future of Arab Revolts: Interview
with Samir Amin
by Hassane Zerrouky
11 Aug 2011
Monthly Review Mag.
"The way Egyptian scholar and researcher Samir Amin sees it, nothing will be the same as before in the Arab world: protest movements will challenge both the internal social order of Arab countries and their places in the regional and global political chessboard."
Israel’s manipulation of soccer violence
dissected in new book
Steven Salaita
The Electronic Intifada
8 August 2011
Magid Shihade’s new book Not Just
a Soccer Game is a thorough
exploration of internecine conflict
among Palestinian citizens of Israel,
using a series of violent events in 1981
as a foundational point of analysis that
leads to a wide-ranging assessment of
failed Israeli state policies vis-á-vis
its Arab minority.
Academic claims Israeli school textbooks contain bias
Nurit Peled-Elhanan of Hebrew University says textbooks depict Palestinians as 'terrorists, refugees and primitive farmers'
Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
The Observer
Sunday 7 August 2011
Asked if Palestinian school books also reflect a certain dogma, Peled-Elhanan claims that they distinguish between Zionists and Jews. "They make this distinction all the time. They are against Zionists, not against Jews."
How the US media marginalises dissent
The US media derides views outside of
the mainstream as 'un-serious', and our
democracy suffers as a result.
Ted Rall
04 Aug 2011
Aljazeera.net
"The American media deploys a deep and varied arsenal of rhetorical devices in order to marginalise opinions, people and organisations as "outside the mainstream" and therefore not worth listening to. For the most part the people and groups being declaimed belong to the political Left."
Islamophobia, Zionism and the Norway
massacre
Anti-Defamation League director Abraham
Foxman condemned Breivik's ideology, but
he is still an enabler of Islamophobia.
Ali Abunimah
02 Aug 2011
"What makes Breivik's attack so shocking
and new is that he turned the
Islamophobic rhetoric against the white
citizens of the Euro-American
"homeland", those whom the
officially-sanctioned military slaughter
of Muslims abroad was ostensibly meant
to protect."
Israeli Arabs more likely to be
convicted for crimes than their Jewish
counterparts, study shows. Study
commissioned by Israel's Courts
administration and Israel Bar
Association finds that 48.3 percent of
Arabs receive custodial sentences for
certain crimes, compared to 33.6 percent
of Jews.
By Tomer Zarchin
2 Aug 2011
Haaretz
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight
Back: How the US Crushed Youth
Resistance
The ruling elite has created social
institutions that have subdued young
Americans and broken their spirit of
resistance.
By Bruce E. Levine
July 31, 2011
AlterNet
Norway: Muslims and metaphors (Part 1)
After the Norway attacks, as after many
others, Muslims were the first to be
blamed.
Hamid Dabashi
31 Jul 2011
Aljazeera.net
"This gang of badly educated,
monolingual, provincial goons who
masquerade as responsible journalists
and is quick to assume the posture of a
respectable institution, and who even
congratulate themselves to be the paper
of record and keep giving themselves the
Pulitzer Prize, and who have for
generations intimidated our parents and
children will never, should never, be
left off the hook this time around."
Norway: Muslims and metaphors (Part 2)
The dichotomy between Islam and the West
is fictitious, yet it is accepted by
both the Left and the Right as real.
Hamid Dabashi
Modified: 03 Aug
Pakistani troops aid Bahrain's crackdown
Foundation linked to the Pakistani army
has been providing Bahrain thousands of
soldiers for its crackdown on protests.
Mujib Mashal
30 Jul 2011
Aljazeera.net
"In March, as a government crackdown on pro-democracy protestors intensified in Bahrain, curious advertisements started appearing in Pakistani media."
"Urgent requirement - manpower for Bahrain National Guard," said one.
Europe's Right-Wing Populists Find
Allies in Israel
The Likud Connection
By Charles Hawley
07/29/2011
Spiegel
"Islamophobic parties in Europe have established a tight network, stretching from Italy to Finland. But recently, they have extended their feelers to Israeli conservatives, enjoying a warm reception from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition. Some in Israel believe that the populists are Europe's future."
The Strauss-Kahn Handlers Crank Out the
Lawsuits
By PAM MARTENS
July 28, 2011
Counter Punch
Carnal Confusion
The Strauss-Kahn Handlers Crank Out the
Lawsuits
By PAM MARTENS
"Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and aspirant to the Élysée Palace, has left a trail of DNA from Davos to Paris to Gotham (and that’s just what he’s acknowledged). But that’s not the only mess he’s left others to clean up."
Long live Egypt's Supreme Council
With Mubarak out of power and SCAF
taking the reigns, what's next for the
country?
Joseph Massad
28 Jul 2011
Aljazeera.net
"Many Egyptians are expressing concerns about the deployment by the ruling Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of the very same political rhetoric previously employed by the Mubarak regime, despite the SCAF's claim that it is maintaining "neutrality" between "popular" forces; a "neutrality" that it has failed to demonstrate on all fronts."
Israeli "Soldiers" raped and killed Bedouin girl in the Negev
Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
The Guardian
Tuesday 4 November 2003
"For 54 years the fate of a young Bedouin girl who disappeared in the Negev desert was relegated to rumour and a single entry in the diary of David Ben-Gurion, the prime minister of the fledgling Israeli state. 'It was decided and carried out: they washed her, cut her hair, raped her and killed her,'" he wrote.
Who is the real oppressor of Gaza
women’s rights?
Yasmeen El Khoudary
The Electronic Intifada
Gaza Strip
22 July 2011
"The story of our life: the White Man (and Woman) come to Palestine to teach us about our rights, while supporting the very entity that is continuously depriving us of them. In Gaza, add to that blaming the deprivation on the local government, and taking the burden off the real cause of this deprivation: Israel’s siege and occupation."
The grumpy diplomats of the rogue state
Ilan Pappe
The Electronic Intifada
22 July 2011
"The Israeli ambassador to Spain, Raphael Schutz, has just finished his term in Madrid. In an op-ed in Haaretz’s Hebrew edition he summarized what he termed as a very dismal stay and seemed genuinely relieved to leave."
Poet jailed in protests claims she was beaten by Bahraini royal
Ayat al-Gormezi says she was tortured while in jail for reciting a poem at a pro-democracy protest.
Patrick Cockburn reports
Monday, 18 July 2011
Independent.co.uk
"A female member of the al-Khalifa royal family in Bahrain has been accused of repeatedly beating the 20-year-old student poet Ayat al-Gormezi when she was in prison accused of reciting a poem at a pro-democracy protest rally criticising the monarchy."
The Case Against the Grand Egyptian Museum
Jul 16, 2011
by Mohamed Elshahed
Jadaliyya
A Modern Museum for an Ancient Nation?
"The Egyptian Museum became a destination for package tourists to indulge in their fantasies about mummies and the Boy King. From the start, the Museum fulfilled touristic and cultural functions for different audiences. However, by the 1970s it had lost its cultural orientation towards Egyptian audiences and had become more exclusively touristic."
House Arrest: A Palestinian Prison Friday
15 July 2011
Meg Walsh
Palestine Telegraph
"Abu Samir and his family like so many others, simply want to live in peace on their land. While Abu Samir told us many things -- the familiar incidents of harassment and the constant fear that his house will be demolished or overtaken, his main message remains clear in my head. As he wrapped himself up in his blanket once more and laid back down to rest, he told us that no matter what happens, he will never leave. This is the land he loves and on which he will one day die."
The Unequal Battle
Class War Without Mercy
By GREGORY ELICH
July 11, 2011
Counter Punch
"One can never have too much money. In the U.S., the top one percent of the population rakes in almost a quarter of the national income and enjoys 40 percent of the wealth. That class sees this as a problem. It is not enough."
Greece, Gaza and the Grand Drama
By KATHY KELLY in Athens
July 8 - 10, 2011
Counter Punch
"If there were no humanitarian crisis, if there weren't a crisis in almost every aspect of life in Gaza there would be no need for the flotilla," said Gunness. "95 percent of all water in Gaza is undrinkable, 40 percent of all disease is water-borne ... 45.2 percent of the labor force is unemployed, 80 percent aid dependency, a tripling of the abject poor since the start of the blockade. Let's get rid of this blockade and there would be no need for a flotilla."
Time to Default? Egypt vs. the IMF
By ERIC WALBERG
July 8 - 10, 2011
Counter Punch
"Egypt indeed could consider defaulting on what is called in financial jargon an "odious debt", referring to the national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation. The US did this to tear up Iraq's debt in 2003. Ecuador did it in 2009. The latter (unlike the US in Iraq) even in compliance with international law. Greek citizens have already formed an Audit Committee to establish which parts of the national debt are "odious" or otherwise illegitimate."
West Bank town forgotten behind the wall
by Maysaa Bsharat, Omer Othmani
July 10, 2011
People's Daily (China)
"Waiting at an Israeli military electronic gate that separates his house from the place where he works, was a daily concern of the despaired Ahmad Aassa, the 40- year-old Palestinian from the town of Nazlet Eassa, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem."
The PLO is to "liberate" not to legalize
partition
Salman Abu Sitta
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Middle East Monitor
"If political wisdom does not prevail, if no crucial decisions are taken in which ALL Palestinians are represented, and if we do not learn from the mistakes of the past by changing the previous policies and methods and those who made them, then we are embarking on a disaster greater and more catastrophic than that of Oslo."
The tactic of arresting Palestinian
children
The Israeli tactic of arresting and
detaining Palestinian children is aimed
to deter resistance.
Jillian Kestler-DAmours
08 Jul 2011
Al-Jazeera English
There’s more to Gaza than broken slabs
of concrete
Sami Kishawi
The Electronic Intifada
Gaza City
7 July 2011
"Until the headlines stop focusing on just the devastation and systematic oppression perpetuated by the Israeli occupation and start recognizing or at least acknowledging Gaza’s audacity to become what the occupation is designed to prevent it from becoming, the population of the Gaza Strip will continue to harbor feelings of discontent towards foreign journalism and justifiably so."
Children not exempt from widespread
torture in Israeli detention
The Electronic Intifada
6 July 2011
"Arrested near his home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis in February 2010, Halabiyeh confessed after days of abuse and torture to the charge that he threw a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli army base. More than one year after his arrest, which was spent in Israeli custody, Halabiyeh was found guilty in an Israeli military court."
South African Artists Against Apartheid LEGAL VICTORY
SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA WATCHDOG RULES (5 July 2011):
Israel can be called an "apartheid" state
THE COSTS OF WAR SINCE 2001: IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, AND PAKISTAN
Eisenhower Study Group
Eisenhower Research Project
June 2011
"Ten Years, 225,000 Killed, and More than $3.2 - 4 Trillion Spent and Obligated to Date."
The Politics of Militarization and
Corporatization in Higher Education
War Colleges
By HENRY GIROUX
June 29, 2011
"The culture of organized violence is one of the most powerful forces shaping American society, extending deeply into every aspect of American life. There can be little doubt that America has become a permanent warfare state."
In arresting Sheikh Raed Salah, the UK authorities support the persecution of Arab citizens of Israel
Haneen Zoabi
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 June 2011
The decision to ban the Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah from entering Britain, and then to arrest him, was transparently not based on any serious examination of his political activities. It was an ugly kneejerk response to the growing hostility of the Israeli establishment and its supporters abroad towards anyone opposing its racist policies – and a rising tide of Islamophobia in Europe.
From ’48 to 2011: The Story of the Al-Aju Family from Ramle
Hadas Ben-Eliyahu
Published: 27/06/2011
In Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity
"The state took possession of the land and today, with the rise of land prices in the Ramle area, the developers’ eyes are glistening and the Land Authority is out to finish the task: Arabs out, Jews in."
West Bank struggles without security
Hugh Naylor (Foreign Correspondent)
Jun 25, 2011
The National
ABU DIS, WEST BANK -- Communities along Israel's separation barrier have complained of an increase in crime and tribal-based violence in the absence of state security. Residents and Palestinian officials said trade in illegal drugs and stolen vehicles is flowing unchecked. There were two murders earlier this year, the result of a blood feud between local families in a place not known for such violence...
Alice Walker: Why I'm joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
Pulitzer prize-winning American writer Alice Walker is on board an international flotilla of boats sailing to Gaza to challenge the Israeli blockade. Here she tells why.
The Guardian, Saturday 25 June 2011
Israel lobby group outlines dirty tricks
against campus Palestine activists
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri,
06/24/2011 -
Lobby Watch -- Electronic Intifada
What is the best way to smear Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists and get away with it?
Fighting apartheid on land and sea
As the second Freedom Flotilla packs its humanitarian aid and prepares to brave the wrath of the Israeli navy, boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activities continue on the home front, notes Eric Walberg
23 - 29 June 2011
Issue No. 1053
Al-Ahram Weekly
My Jerusalem diaries: a permit for home
Because of Israeli permits and
regulations, many Palestinians have been
forced to become tourists in their own
homes, writes Rana B Baker from Gaza
23 - 29 June 2011
Issue No. 1053
Al-Ahram Weekly
The truth behind another Israeli
expulsion trick
The artificial division between Areas A,
B and C was supposed to be erased from
the map, and dropped from the discourse,
in 1999. Instead, Israel has sanctified
and perpetuated it.
22 June 2011
By Amira Hass
Haaretz
Israel letting chaos rule in Palestinian
villages near Jerusalem;
Crime and murder reigns around Abu Dis B
enclave; Israel forbids the presence of
a Palestinian police force.
By Amira Hass
19.06.11
Haaretz
Spare us Bahrain's sudden 'concern' for its Asian expat workers.
The regime is trying to pit abused foreign workers and working-class Bahrainis against each other to justify its brutality
Fahad Desmukh
guardian.co.uk
Saturday 18 June 2011
Palestinian desire for food security drives farming innovation
Gaza goes organic in bid for safer
and more reliable supply of vegetables
and fruit
Rebecca Collard
Guardian Weekly
Friday 17 June 2011
"In a rural area of the central Gaza Strip, Eyad Najjar plucks organic carrots from the sandy soil of his tiny farm. Najjar no longer uses fertilisers or pesticides for his plot, which also grows tomatoes, parsley, rocket, lettuce and spinach. Instead, a fishpond on the field's far edge delivers water rich in nutrients via drip irrigation."
Israeli investigated on his Jewish
status after Haaretz interview
Kibbutz resident Itai Bar believes a
Family Affair article is to blame for
his case being 'blocked' at the
population registrar office; in the
article, Bar is quoted as calling
himself a 'Shabbes goy.'
By Nir Hasson
16.06.11
Haaretz
Tinpot Bombardiers (Libya)
June 10 - 12, 2011
CounterPunch Diary
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The alleged purpose of UN Security Council resolution 1973, passed on March 17, was to seek to protect Libyan civilians from violent attacks by both sides.
The future of the Arab uprisings
The US, with its allies, has already begun plans to subvert the Arab Spring to save its own regional hegemony.
Joseph Massad
18 May 2011
Al-Jazeera
Multinational companies mining occupied Palestinian land
Adri Nieuwhof
The Electronic Intifada
17 May 2011
HeidelbergCement and Cemex, two building materials industries from Germany and Mexico, respectively, are involved in the operation of quarries in the occupied West Bank. The Electronic Intifada has obtained documentation showing loaded trucks leaving the illegal quarries and traveling into Israel.
Palestine Papers: Why I blew the whistle
The mislabeled "peace talks" were instrumental in creating divisions amongst Palestinians, compelling me to speak out.
Ziyad Clot
14 May 2011
Al-Jazeera
Isarel admits it covertly canceled residency status of 140,000 Palestinians
Justice Ministry document reveals that between 1967 and 1994 many Palestinians
traveling abroad were stripped of residency status, allegedly without warning.
By Akiva Eldar
11 May 2011
Haaretz
Israel's textbooks in Arabic are full of mistakes, study finds
A new study finds more than 16,000 mistakes; now the authors want to see the
Education Ministry after school.
By Jack Khoury
09 May 2011
Silencing
Israel's Critics
Helen Thomas and the Political Cleansing of America
By JAMES ABOUREZK
Counter Punch
You remember Helen Thomas? She was the senior White House Correspondent who always opened Presidential press conferences and closed them by saying the magic words: “Thank you Mr. President.”
A Yemeniya’s Response to Mona Eltahawy. By Dr.Lamya Almas
April 21, 2011
IKHRAS.com
As Mona Eltahawy’s scope of representation and expertise continues to expand with each new uprising across much of Asia and Africa, her views continue to be rejected. The New York-based “revolutionary feminist’s” detractors are not her imaginary group of bearded, misogynistic, religious fanatics she likes to rail against, but rather the same women, feminists, and revolutionaries the American Media darling assigned herself to represent. In this excellent piece Dr. Lamya Almas rejects Mona’s views and her claim she represents the revolutionary Arab and Muslim women of Yemen.
US campus activists facing increased repression
Marwa Katbi
The Electronic Intifada
13 April 2011
Last November, four friends and I — all of us activists with Students for Justice in Palestine — were protesting near a Tommy Trojan statue at the University of Southern California (USC) when campus authorities tried to break up our peaceful demonstration. Unfortunately, it is only one of many examples of the discrimination faced by Arab, Muslim and pro-Palestinian students at my campus and at campuses around the United States.
U.N. Reported Only a
Fraction of Civilian Deaths from U.S. Raids
By Gareth Porter and Shah Noori*
WASHINGTON/KABUL, Mar 17, 2011 (IPS) - The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids last year was probably several times higher than the figure of 80 people cited in the U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan published last week, an IPS investigation has revealed...
Pentagon buys social networking 'spy software'
The Pentagon has purchased a pioneering software programme that creates fake
identities on social media websites, in an attempt to infiltrate and influence
suspected terrorists and extremists overseas.
By Alex Spillius, Washington
17 Mar 2011
The Telegraph, UK
Palestinian family in East Jerusalem told to make way for Jewish settlers
Court order to evacuate room follows 11-year battle waged by US millionaire Irving Moskowitz
Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 March 2011
A Palestinian family in East Jerusalem have been ordered to evacuate a room in their home so Jewish settlers can move in, following an 11-year court battle waged by a pro-settler US millionaire...
Temporary Injunction against New Building in Palestinian Village Destroyed in
1948
Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
An Israeli court has issued a temporary injunction on selling luxury lots on the
site of the historic Palestinian village of Lifta, whose residents were expelled
and forced out in 1948. Judge Yigal Marzel issued a temporary injunction on
Monday (7 March) ordering the Israel Land Administration to freeze publication
of the results of a tender to lease plots for building in the historic
Palestinian village of Lifta...
BBC Country Rating Poll reveals positive views of Brazil on the rise in 2011
"Positive views of Brazil have sharply improved in the annual BBC World Service Country Rating Poll of 27 countries around the world... While overall views of Israel have not moved substantially over the past year, there have been significant increases in negative views of the country among Americans (negatives rising from 31 per cent to 41 cent) and Britons (from 50 per cent to 66 cent)."
Political 'art' blossoms in Bahrain
Manama's Pearl roundabout, centre of the opposition movement, is home to
graffiti, posters and other artefacts of protest
Omar al-Shehabi
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 March 2011
“A big banner hangs from the side of flyover: "We have heard of people changing
their regimes. Have you ever heard of a regime changing its people?" This refers
to the widespread accusation regarding the government bringing in thousands of
carefully selected foreigners and fast-tracking their citizenship to re-engineer
the country's demographic makeup.”
‘Volcano of Rage’
March 24, 2011
Max Rodenbeck
New York Review of Books
“Mubarak’s mix of toughness, bluntness, and prudence as air force commander
during the October War of 1973 impressed Anwar Sadat, who picked him as
vice-president in 1975. The assassination of Sadat six years later put Mubarak
in charge. His failure to appoint any deputy soon spawned a joke. It was said
that Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s leader from 1956 to 1970, wanted someone more
stupid than himself to be vice-president, and searched the country until he
found Sadat. Sadat in turn searched high and low for someone even dumber until
he found Mubarak. And as for President Mubarak, well, he was still searching.”
Egypt's revolution has been 10 years in the making
Hosni Mubarak's wall of fear began to crumble once people were able to see that
others shared their desire for liberation
Hossam el-Hamalawy
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 March 2011
“The Egyptian revolution, rather than coming out of the blue on 25 January 2011,
is a result of a process that has been brewing over the previous decade – a
chain reaction to the autumn 2000 protests in solidarity with the Palestinian
intifada.”
Letter from Palestine: life under occupation
Alex Snowdon
February 26, 2011
Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association
“Since Saturday night I've been here in the West Bank, based in Abu Dis (a
suburb of Jerusalem), and am flying home on Sunday evening. A half-term holiday
with a difference…I'd also never grasped how ever-present and visible the
settlements are. I'd imagined them being out of the way, but the landscape - all
valleys and hills - means you can frequently see the Israeli settlements when on
the road. And there are roads set aside specially for the settlers, which
Palestinians aren't permitted to travel on at all.”
Murdered
Jerusalem man subjected to racism even in death
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, The Electronic Intifada, 25 February 2011
Twenty-four-year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning hours of
Friday, 11 February, on Hillel Street in West Jerusalem as he and a friend,
Murad Khader Joulani, were walking to their car to drive home from work.
Behind the Arab revolt lurks a word we dare not speak
John Pilger
Published 24 February 2011
New Statesman
The people of Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and Libya are
rising up not only against their leaders, but also western economic tyranny.
UK’s PM
Cameron talks “democracy” while peddling arms to Gulf despots
By Julie Hyland
23 February 2011
World Socialist Web Site
"Cameron arrived in Cairo as revolutionary contagion spread across the Middle East and North Africa. His visit, the British media claimed, was intended to show solidarity with the people’s demands for democratic changes. In keeping with Britain’s long alliance with the Mubarak dictatorship, and its own colonial history in Egypt, it involved nothing of the sort."
This is an Arab 1848. But US hegemony is only dented
With western-backed despots being turfed out politics has changed for ever. So just how far can the revolution spread?
By: Tariq Ali
guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 22 February 2011
"The refusal of the people to kiss or ignore the rod that has chastised them for so many decades has opened a new chapter in the history of the Arab nation. The absurd, if much vaunted, neocon notion that Arabs or Muslims were hostile to democracy has disappeared like parchment in fire."
Western Hypocrisy With Pro-Democracy Movement
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui
21 February, 2011
Countercurrents.org
Many in the western world are surprised to see the lack of support for the democracy movement in the Middle East from their respective governments. One writer wrote, “It is doubly shameful that Europe's citizens have also held back, that western capitals have seen no mass demonstrations, no shows of solidarity with the people in the Arab world – the people who are, after all, our neighbours."
From the Gulf to the
Ocean
The Middle East is Changing
By RAMZY BAROUD
February 18 - 20, 2011
Counter Punch
The Egyptian revolution has shown the world that democracy and freedom in the
Arab world needs no military funding, no political doctrines, no Great Middle
East Democracy Projects, and no foreign invasions or foreign-backed military
coups. It only needs ordinary people to unearth their own, innate and
extraordinary strength. The Egyptian revolution has finally restored the power
back to the people, a collective experience that many of us will always
remember, with pride, and some will always fear, for good reason.
Return with pride
Khaled Dawoud recounts his experiences in Tahrir Square
Al-Ahram Weekly
17 - 23 February 2011
Issue No. 1035
Special
I managed to get a flight to Cairo, and eventually arrived at my family's home in Mohandseen after a three-hour drive from the airport. Every 10 meters there were so-called "popular committees", ordinary citizens who had joined together to protect their properties, replacing the massive police force that had disappeared into thin air. At each checkpoint they searched the taxi and checked my identity.
The final hours
Demonstrators marched to the presidential palace in what was looming as a
dangerous showdown, Alaa Abdel-Ghani reports
Al-Ahram Weekly
17 - 23 February 2011
Issue No. 1035
Special
How The World Works
Paul Ryan: "It's like Cairo has come to Wisconsin"
As protesters swarm the state capital, a GOP legislator sees echoes of the
Egyptian revolution. Huh?
By Andrew Leonard
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 14:34 ET
SALON
Egypt and the global economic order
Egypt's protests were a denunciation of neo-liberalism and the political
suppression required to impose it.
Philip Rizk
15 Feb 2011
Aljazeera.net
“Whether or not it has been directly articulated, the recent demonstrations on
Egypt's streets are in large part a protest against crony-capitalism driven by
the agenda of neo-colonial economic institutions. The protests are a
denunciation of capitalism and the political suppression required to impose it.”
The toxic residue of colonialism
The overt age of grand empires gave way to the age of covert imperial hegemony,
but now the edifice is crumbling.
Richard Falk
14 Feb 2011
“Western liberal eyes were long accustomed not to notice the internal patterns
of abuse that were integral to this foreign policy success - and if occasionally
noticed by some intrepid journalist, who would then be ignored, or if necessary
discredited as some sort of "leftist". And if this failed to deflect criticism,
they would point out, usually with an accompanying condescending smile, that
torture and the like came with Arab cultural territory - a reality that savvy
outsiders adapted to without any discomfort.”
'Egypt fed up with foreign bullying - people won't accept new stooge'
(Video)
February 12, 2011
Russia Today
Mubarak's steely determination not to resign was broken as he stepped down as president on Friday. Egyptians spent all night celebrating the end of his 30-year regime. The renowned author and Middle East expert Tariq Ali believes the U.S. was playing a risky game during the days of the Egyptian unrest.
Mark LeVine describes the sense of exhilaration among Egyptians at Cairo's Tahrir Square.
11 Feb 2011
Al-Jazeera.Net
It is now about one hour since Mubarak's resignation was announced. I had just finished filming Shung above the crowd in an apartment used by activists and journalists as a safe house and place to debrief and meet up. Khaled Said's mother arrived. The last thing Shung said as we were filming him, with the sun setting behind the Intercontinental Hotel, was: "I hope this is the last sunset of the system."
Will the pan-Arab intifada reignite Palestinian streets or is the challenge facing Palestinians just too great?
By: Ahmed Moor
11 Feb 2011
Al-Jazeera.net
“There are signs that the American street is awakening to the abuses marshalled by American government "aid" in the region. The revolution has ignited discussion in online chat forums and op-eds about why Americans are providing billions to a brutally despotic regime.”
In post-Mubarak Egypt, the rebirth of the Arab world
By Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
Friday, February 11, 2011; 4:00 PM
“Some policymakers in Western capitals have convinced themselves that seizing the moment to promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will placate public opinion. This is to engage in both denial and wishful thinking. It ignores that Arabs have become estranged from current peace efforts; they believe that such endeavors reflect a foreign rather than a national agenda. And it presumes that a peace agreement acceptable to the West and to Arab leaders will be acceptable to the Arab public, when in truth, it is more likely to be seen as an unjust imposition and denounced as the liquidation of a cherished cause. A peace effort intended to salvage order will accelerate its demise.”
Uncovered: MI6 in the Palestine Papers
Dr. Daud Abdullah
Wednesday, 09 February 2011 12:30
Middle East Monitor
At a meeting in Jericho with David Hale on 17 September 2009, the PLO's chief
negotiator Saeb Erekat said, "We have had to kill Palestinians to establish one
authority, one gun and the rule of law. We continue to perform our obligations."
Egypt: Exchanging a Dictator for a Torturer
By James Ridgeway
Thu Feb. 3, 2011 8:30 AM PST
Mother Jones Magazine
As it now stands, the United States appears content to contemplate exchanging
Hosni Mubarak for Egypt's new Vice President, Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian spy
master--that is, one dictator for another-- to maintain the status quo. Of
course, Israel must sign off on this deal, assuring the U.S. that Egypt can
remain as its main base in the region, straddling as it does North Africa and
the Middle East. Without it, the U.S. would most definitely have to rethink its
entire neo-colonial policies in the region.
The Time That Remains - Film Review
10/12/2010
By Roger Sheety
Palestine Chronicle
In just three years the Toronto Palestine Film Festival, which was originally created in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba, has become a major cultural happening in a city bustling with such events. That it has succeeded so quickly is due entirely to the festival’s tireless organizers and volunteers, their vision and their determination to present films of the highest quality possible.
One such film is Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains: Chronicle of a Present
Absentee which opened to a sold-out audience of over 800 at the October 2010
edition of the festival. Like few directors before him, the Nazareth-born
Suleiman has been able to capture not just the tragedy but also the comedy and
outright absurdity of Palestinians who were dispossessed while still living in
their own homeland. Partly inspired by the private diaries of Suleiman’s father
Fouad and his mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave their
own homes, The Time That Remains traces his own family history in four separate
but interwoven episodes from the Nakba of 1948 to the present day…
The danger to Egypt's revolution comes from Washington
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 6 February 2011
The US "policy" establishment seems only capable of viewing the region through Israeli eyes. This is why for so many officials and commentators the concerns of Israel to maintain a brutal hegemony trump the aspirations of 83 million Egyptians to determine their own future free from the shackles of the regime that has oppressed them for so long.
Tahrir Warrior: How an Egyptian Doctor Joined the Battle
By Abigail Hauslohner / Cairo
Thursday, Feb. 03, 2011
TIME
Mustafa Nabil's jeans are dirty. His glasses are smudged. His maroon striped
shirt is nearly in tatters. And he holds up his hands: calloused and bruised:
"Do these look like the hands of a doctor?" he smiles. The stethoscope hanging
around his neck as he moves amongst the demonstrators in Tahrir Square on
Thursday attests to his profession.
25 Tons of Bombs Wipe Afghan Town Off Map
By Spencer Ackerman Email Author
January 19, 2011
Wired
An American-led military unit pulverized an Afghan village in Kandahar’s
Arghandab River Valley in October, after it became overrun with Taliban
insurgents. It’s hard to understand how turning an entire village into dust fits
into America’s counterinsurgency strategy — which supposedly prizes the local
people’s loyalty above all else.
Muslim girl benched during a basketball game for wearing a headscarf
01/18/2011
By: Cheryl Conner
ABC News
Smithsburg, MD - On the court, the Lady Leopards of Smithsburg Middle School
suit up in their shorts, tank top, and pony tail. But one member, a 12-year-old
Muslim girl, has added apparel, a headscarf.
Confusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime's militia carries on the fight
Tunisian capital witnesses violent clashes between armed forces and those loyal to former president Zine el-Abedine Ben Ali
Angelique Chrisafis in Tunis
guardian.co.uk
Sunday 16 January 2011
As the sun set on Bourguiba Avenue in central Tunis, the lull of a distant call to prayer was drowned out by the relentless crackle of machine-gun fire as soldiers darted for cover from tree to tree along the deserted boulevard. Up above, on top of the interior ministry whose basements had housed the regime's torture rooms, snipers were firing down into the street.
Cosy cocoon or spider’s
web? Facebook: the magic mirror
by Philippe Rivière
Le Monde diplomatique
2011/01/16
A few days ago Facebook asked me to change my user name. The name I had chosen
wasn’t obscene, it did not incite to racial hatred, it was not an attempt to
usurp the name of the all-powerful Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook’s CEO, founder and
majority shareholder), nor was it even vaguely similar to a registered
trademark. I had chosen a name composed entirely of Braille characters. The
engineers at Facebook had suddenly decided that this was no longer acceptable.
Whose Land is it? Israel or Palestine!
Tuesday, 11 January 2011 11:41
By Dr. Mohsen Salih
Palestine Telegraph
London, (Pal Telegraph) - A Disputed land: The fame of Palestine comes from the over 80 years dispute between its local Arab population and the immigrant Zionist Jews who strove and later managed to establish their own political entity, the “State of Israel”, expelling and depriving the local population. Zionism in brief is a political ideology that believes in the establishment of a “national” home for the Jewish people in Palestine, it works to realize its aim through all possible means, with violence on top of the agenda.
Starting the new year off wrong (Part 1)
Posted By Stephen M. Walt
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 12:00 PM
Foreign Policy
It's a New Year, and there's more news from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. No
surprise: It's not good. Over the weekend a 36-year-old Palestinian woman,
Jawahar Abu Rahmah, died after inhaling tear gas fired at a demonstration at
Bilin in the occupied territories. For eyewitness accounts and useful
commentary, check out the Israeli website +972mag here.
(Part 2)
More on the Bilin incident
Posted By Stephen M. Walt Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 12:10 PM Share
This is a follow-up to my previous post on the death of Jawahar Abu Rahmah.
I'm trying to get ready for a trip to Southeast Asia and hadn't intended to
write about it again, but subsequent events deserve a brief commentary.
Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame
Castro's doctors and nurses are the backbone of the fight against cholera
By Nina Lakhani
Sunday, 26 December 2010
The Independent, UK
They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America's doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America's arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame.
Gaza: Two Years after The Horror!
December 22, 2010
By Haidar Eid
Haidar Eid
ZSpace Page
This week marks the second anniversary of the horror inflicted on the people of the Gaza Strip. Nothing has changed! Gaza has returned to its pre-invasion state of siege, confronted with the usual international indifference. Two years after the Israeli assault that lasted 22 long days and dark nights, during which its brave people were left alone to face one of the strongest armies in the world, Gaza no longer makes the news. Its people die slowly, its children are malnourished, its water contaminated, and yet it is deprived even of a word of sympathy from the President the United States and the leaders of Europe.
The tragedy of child arrest: a story
from Ofer Prison
Wednesday, 22 December, 2010
Wadi Hilwah Information Center
Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) -- One of the most serious cases of human rights violations enacted by Israeli forces in is surely that which are carried out against children. Palestinian children throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank live under threat of targeting and arrest by Israeli forces, who rarely distinguish between the minors and adults they apprehend. Here Silwanic seeks to illustrate the tragedy of Palestinian childhood through a story as told by Ghada Aruri, a human rights activist speaking about the trial of a boy from Abu Dis village. Israel began construction of the Apartheid Wall through Abu Dis, a district of Jerusalem, in 2010. When completed it will sever Abu Dis from Jerusalem entirely.
The Great Islamophobic Crusade
Max Blumenthal: Meet the Bizarre Cabal Behind an Increasingly Paranoid Crusade
Dec. 20, 2010
(CBS) Max Blumenthal is a writing fellow for the Nation Institute and author of
the bestselling book Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the
Party (Nation Books). This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.
Naomi Wolf
December 15, 2010 01:59 PM
Huffington Post
Separate and
Unequal
Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Human Rights Watch Report
December 2010
The Carmel wildfire is burning all illusions in Israel
Max Blumenthal writing from New York City, US, Live from Palestine, 6 December 2010
… Four days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to place thousands of migrant workers in a prison camp deep in the Negev Desert because, as he claimed, they pose a "threat to the character of [the] country," a burning tree trunk fell into a bus full of Israeli Prison Service cadets, killing forty passengers…
WikiLeaks cables: Saudi princes throw parties boasting drink, drugs and sex
Royals flout puritanical laws to throw parties for young elite while religious police are forced to turn a blind eye
Heather Brooke
guardian.co.uk
Tuesday 7 December 2010
In what may prove a particularly incendiary cable, US diplomats describe a world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll behind the official pieties of Saudi Arabian royalty.
The Special Tribunal Prepares to Indict in Hariri Case -- All Eyes on Lebanon
By RANNIE AMIRI
December 3 -5, 2010
CounterPunch
While the world’s eyes are busy reading WikiLeaks cables, Middle Eastern eyes are focused squarely on Lebanon.
If the past week of frenzied diplomacy is any reflection of the region’s anxiety over the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s (STL) upcoming indictment in the February 2005 assassination of the late premier Rafiq al-Hariri, imagine the mood in Beirut.
Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive
CounterPunch Diary
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
December 3 -5, 2010
The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head. Jonah Goldberg, contributor to the National Review, asks in his syndicated column, "Why wasn't Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago?" Sarah Palin wants him hunted down and brought to justice, saying: "He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands."
New language for Middle East peace
Unless our language equates to reality and can conform to the dictates of justice, there will be no peace possible from talks or negotiations, writes John Whitbeck*
2 - 8 December 2010
Issue No. 1025
Al-Ahram Weekly
The recent passage by Israel's Knesset of a law requiring either a two-thirds Knesset majority or approval by an unprecedented national referendum before Israel can "cede" any land in expanded East Jerusalem to a Palestinian state or any land in the Golan Heights to Syria has been widely recognised as making any "two-state solution", as well as any Israeli-Syrian peace, even more inconceivable than was previously the case. It also highlights the need for a concerted effort by politicians, negotiators and commentators to adopt a new "language of peace".
WikiLeaks cables claim first scalp as German minister's aide is sacked
Helmut Metzner admitted acting as a mole for the US embassy during negotiations to form a government
Ian Traynor, Europe editor
Friday 3 December 2010
The WikiLeaks revelations have claimed their first political scalp in Europe with the sacking of the German foreign minister's chief of staff, who acted as a mole for the Americans, keeping the US embassy in Berlin posted last year on the confidential negotiations to form Angela Merkel's new government.
NATO 'duped by impostor who posed as Taliban negotiator'
Embarrassment over claim that grocer from Pakistan attended talks and was given cash
By Julius Cavendish in Sangin
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
The Independent, UK
He may be a Taliban agent sent to sabotage hopes of a peace deal; he might be on the payroll of Pakistan's top intelligence agency; or he could just be a happy-go-lucky shopkeeper from Quetta, out to pocket some hard cash.
Robert Fisk: An American bribe that stinks of appeasement
Saturday, 20 November 2010
The Independent, UK
In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter's
reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of
somebody else's property would be regarded as preposterous…
Shlomo Sand Visits the Birthplace of Zionism, and His Own
By Anthony Löwstedt
Monday, November 01, 2010
"Sand’s book, The Invention of the Jewish People, will soon have been translated into 19 languages. While we sit down for a coffee in the small interview chamber at the Bruno Kreisky Forum he mentions to us his recent lectures in Budapest and Tokyo and proudly tells us a small Ramallah publisher is now offering an Arabic translation of the sensational book, first published in Hebrew and French in 2008, then in English in 2009 (London-New York: Verso), and this year in German and Arabic among many others."
The Baghdad Cathedral Massacre: Zionist Fingerprints All Over
by Jonathan Azaziah
November 14, 2010
Theuglytruth/wordpress.com
Prior to the fascist, destructive, genocidal US-UK-Israeli occupation of Iraq,
Sunni and Shia, Muslims and Christians, Arabs and Kurds lived together in a
harmonious atmosphere of brotherhood and unity that paralleled that of occupied
Palestine before the Zionist occupation in 1948. It is egregious. Disgusting.
Despicable. Ignorant. Absurd. And erroneous on every factual basis to assert
that the aforementioned ethnic and religious groups are now massacring each
other, when in reality, they are being massacred by the murderous occupation
armies.
by Ahmed Moor on November 6, 2010
“But if the Palestinian Authority cannot secure economic growth, and it cannot promote Palestinian institution-building (and appears to actively destroy them), and it cannot create a Palestinian state, why does it exist?”
US
Elections: A Meaningless Ritual
November 4, 2010 by Ikhras
I vehemently refuse to engage in the American contrivance known as ‘voting’.
Why would I then reject what is branded as a powerful means of expression? The
answer is fairly straightforward: to take part in a political system which is
awash with corporate interests and the financial stimulation which accompany
such interests is to willingly become fettered to the corrupt political
apparatus itself. Your ballot becomes the chain, shackling you to the
legislative machine; it is self-induced bondage.
The Top 6 of The World's Largest Yachts (5 are owned by Arabs)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The world's super yachts are some of the biggest and most expensive toys of the
super rich, floating palaces with unique features that can carry price tags into
the hundreds of millions.
Shlomo Sand Visits the Birthplace of Zionism, and His Own
By Anthony Löwstedt
Monday, November 01, 2010
"Sand’s book, The Invention of the Jewish People, will soon have been translated into 19 languages. While we sit down for a coffee in the small interview chamber at the Bruno Kreisky Forum he mentions to us his recent lectures in Budapest and Tokyo and proudly tells us a small Ramallah publisher is now offering an Arabic translation of the sensational book, first published in Hebrew and French in 2008, then in English in 2009 (London-New York: Verso), and this year in German and Arabic among many others.”
Detention Bulletin October 2010
Defence for Children International – Palestine Section
http://www.dci-pal.org/english/doc/dbulletin/Detention_Bulletin_OCT_2010.pdf
Invisible Arab-Americans
Alia Malek
September 23, 2010
The Nation
When the mainstream media or pop culture does feature Arab- and
Muslim-Americans, it often feels like a safari. These Americans are treated as
objects of curiosity instead of as a part of America's complexity. Similarly,
when the government develops special laws or extrajudicial measures and
procedures that seem to ignore our Constitution and applies them mostly to Arab-
and Muslim-Americans, it is signaling that they are not real Americans, entitled
to real American constitutional protections. Can we be so surprised, then, at
the impunity with which some of the louder politicians, talking heads, extremist
preachers and the like incite hatred of them?
2010 Palestine Peace Talks - A Stallone Remake?
By Agustín Velloso
Sept. 4, 2010
Palestine Chronicle
A new round of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis has just begun in the United States. The summer was one of kite-flying, on the one hand in the form of indirect contacts between the two sides so as not to further provoke Palestinians sick of the Israeli Occupation and the incompetence of the Palestinian Authority. On the other hand threats came from Mahmud Abbas saying he would not participate without a halt to settlement building and from Benjamin Netanyahu saying he would only participate if no preconditions were set.
Al Quds Day letter to Tony Blair from Iran
By Lauren Booth (Blair’s sister in law)
4 September 2010
Dear Tony,
Congratulations on your political memoir becoming an instant bestseller. I’m in
Iran and have the only copy in the country. I can tell you, it’s so fiercely
fought over, it’s worth its weight in WMD’s. Note to Random House; have ‘A
Journey’ translated into Farsi and Arabic asap, it’ll fly off the shelves in
this part of the world…
Israel and Palestine: A true one-state solution
By George Bisharat
Friday, September 3, 2010
Washington Post
"Where is the Palestinian Mandela?" pundits occasionally ask. But after these
latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail -- as they inevitably
will -- the more pressing question may be: "Where is the Israeli de Klerk?" Will
an Israeli leader emerge with the former South African president's moral courage
and foresight to dismantle a discriminatory regime and foster democracy based on
equal rights?...
Action Alert: Stop Israel's Abuse of Palestinian Children
September 2, 2010
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
According to the Palestine Section of Defense for Children International, each year, about 700 Palestinian children from the West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts. Out of 100 sworn affidavits collected by lawyers in 2009, 69% of the children were beaten and kicked, 49% were threatened, 14% were held in solitary confinement, 12% were threatened with sexual assault, including rape, and 32% were forced to sign confessions written in Hebrew, a language they do not understand. Israel's treatment of detained Palestinian children is considered to be torture by the United Nations under international law...
Laying a Liberal
Arts Foundation, On Shaky Ground
September 1, 2010
Inside Higher Education
Where there’s volatility, says Susan Gillespie, there’s also opportunity.
Gillespie is vice president of special global initiatives and director of the
Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, in the Hudson
River Valley of New York. Whereas other U.S. universities have established
overseas branch campuses bankrolled by oil-rich nations -- initiatives inspired
in part by promises of profit -- Bard has gone to places where resources are
scarce but problems are plentiful. Bard’s signature international initiative has
been to establish dual degree programs in countries that are post-Communist,
post-conflict or -- as in the case of its partnership with Al-Quds University, a
Palestinian institution in East Jerusalem -- at the crossroads of continuing
conflict…
Blue and White: Where Uri Avnery has it Wrong
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 06:49
Michael Warschawski
Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Once again Uri Avnery is using his blog to criticize the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Under the title "Red and Green," Avnery comments on the long and interesting program recently broadcast on Israeli Channel 10 on the growing international isolation of Israel...
Yale University and the problem of anti-Semitism
By Lawrence Davidson
30 August 2010
Redress Information & Analysis
Lawrence Davidson considers a recent Yale University conference on anti-Semitism which, instead of engaging in an objective discussion of an age old form of racism, ended up tying itself to an ideological view of the world that is itself racist and dedicating itself to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic...
Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail
Interview, The Electronic Intifada, 30 August 2010
As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, Nora Barrows-Friedman interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week's US-brokered direct talks between the two parties for The Electronic Intifada...
Impact of Israeli
Military Order No. 1650
by Stephen Lendman on Wed, 2010-08-18
Prepared by Asem Khalil, new report entitled, "Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650 on Palestinians' Rights to Legally Reside in Their Own Country," accessed through the following link:
http://cadmus.eui.eu/dspace/bitstream/1814/14401/1/CARIM_ASN_2010_46.pdf
Taking effect in April 2010, it defined all West Bank residents as "infiltrators" (including native born ones), requiring they get IDF-issued permits...
In just a few years the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has become truly global
By Omar Barghouti
The Guardian, Thursday 12 August 2010
Al-Quds University flouts own academic boycott
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
The Electronic Intifada
6 August 2010
Al-Quds University is maintaining a joint Israeli-Palestinian master's degree program with Haifa, Hebrew and Tel Aviv universities, despite a decision taken by its own University Council in February 2009 to distance itself from Israeli academic institutions...
Build that
mosque
The campaign against the proposed Cordoba centre in New York is unjust and
dangerous
Aug 5th 2010
The Economist
WHAT makes a Muslim in Britain or America wake up and decide that he is no longer a Briton or American but an Islamic “soldier” fighting a holy war against the infidel? Part of it must be pull: the lure of jihadism. Part is presumably push: a feeling that he no longer belongs to the place where he lives. Either way, the results can be lethal...
Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK
UK ambassador advising Sheikh Khalid of Ras al-Khaimeh
Robert Booth and Ian Ferguson
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 July 2010
Israel is aiding an exiled Arab sheikh who is vying to seize control of a strategically important Gulf emirate only 40 miles from Iran...
Paul Larudee
June 10, 2010
I was one of those who chose to defy Israeli forces when they attacked and took our Freedom Flotilla ships that were trying to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to civilian organizations in the Israeli blockaded Gaza Strip. Most of us resisted, to varying degrees, for which we paid a price -- in my case multiple beatings in two days of captivity in Israel. At least nine paid with their lives...
Helen Thomas, veteran reporter: why she had to resign
Her fierce questions shocked White House staff; Castro refused to answer her. And now veteran reporter Helen Thomas has had to quit
By Chris McGreal
The Guardian,
The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla
By Noam Chomsky
June 8, 2010
Israel’s violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world. Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime...
Essay of the week: What drives Israel?
Published on 6 Jun 2010
By Ilan Pappe
Probably the most bewildering aspect of the Gaza flotilla affair has been the righteous indignation expressed by the Israeli government and people...
by Henning Mankell
Reporting Israeli Assault
Through Israel's Eyes
Attack on humanitarian flotilla prompts little
media skepticism
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Media)
June 1, 2010
On May 31, the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of boats full of civilians attempting to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip. Reports indicate that at least nine and as many as 16 of the activists on board were killed, though details remain sketchy due to Israel's censorious limitations on media coverage. Much of the U.S. media coverage has been remarkably unskeptical of Israel's account of events and their context, and has paid little regard to international law…
Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:19:01 GMT
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President Daniel Ortega's office says Nicaragua suspends its diplomatic ties with Israel in protest to the Gaza Flotilla attack. |
Nicaragua has suspended its
diplomatic ties with Israel in protest at Tel Aviv's deadly attack against
an aid convoy heading for the besieged Gaze Strip.
"Nicaragua suspends from today its diplomatic relations with the government
of Israel," President Daniel Ortega's office said in a statement on Tuesday.
The Managua government "underscored the illegal nature of the attack on a
humanitarian mission in clear violation of international and humanitarian
law," AFP quoted Communications Chief Rosario Murillo as saying...
Robert Fisk: Gaza's defiant tunnellers head deeper underground
They are threatened with drowning by the Egyptians and punitively taxed by Hamas. Our correspondent meets the Palestinian smugglers bringing oranges, car batteries and bottle tops to a territory under siege
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
The Independent, UK
United solidarity with Gaza
Philip Rizk
The Electronic Intifada
8 February 2010
Israeli soldiers reveal the brutal truth of Gaza attack
Troops' testimonies disclose loose rules of engagement and use of civilians as
human shields. Palestinian houses were systematically destroyed by 'insane
artillery firepower'
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
July 15, 2009
The Independent, UK
US lifeline to Gaza
Americans have something to be truly proud of on this Independence Day
9 - 15 July 2009
Issue No. 955
Al-Ahram Weekly
Netanyahu's Two-State
Goal?
Saree Makdisi
July 8, 2009
The Huffington Post
Minister
calls for Jewish takeover of Palestinian areas in Israel
Jonathan Cook
The Electronic Intifada
6 July 2009
The Raids on
the Resistances Bookstore
Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris
By DIANA JOHNSTONE
July 6, 2009
Hiyam,
killed as she offered aid
Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied Gaza Strip
Live from Palestine, 5 July 2009
Electronic Intifada
We Arabs have had
enough
2 - 8 July 2009
Issue No. 954
Al-Ahram Weekly
Ethnic
Cleansing as State Policy
Netanyahu's "Peace" Plan
By NICOLA NASSER
July 2, 2009
Counter Punch
The
necessity of cultural boycott
Ilan Pappe
The Electronic Intifada
23 June 2009
Are
the Iranian Election Protests Another US Orchestrated ‘Color Revolution’?
By Paul Craig Roberts
June 20, 2009
Information Clearing House
No gourmets in Gaza
Posted by Alex Renton
Tuesday 16 June 2009
guardian.co.uk
Smile On The
Face Of The Tiger
By John Pilger
11 June 2009
Obama in Cairo: a new face
for imperialism
Patrick Martin
5 June 2009
World Socialist Web Site
Guantanamo’s Hidden History
Shocking statistics of starvation
June 2009
Caged Prisoners
Chomsky on
Obama Speech in Cairo
June 4, 2009
Institute for Public Accuracy
Convenient Crutch: Forget 'Negotiations', Mr. Obama
Mr. Obama: Stop helping to sustain
Israeli oppression.
By Stuart Littlewood – London
4 June 2009
The Palestine Chronicle
An Elaborate
Intelligence Ruse?
Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuke Documents to Israel
By GARETH PORTER
June 4, 2009
Counter Punch
A Bush in sheep's
clothing
Obama's speech shows little real change. In most regards his analysis maintains
flawed American policies
Ali Abunimah
Thursday 4 June 2009
The Guardian
In the Wake of
the Gaza War
Paradigmatic Progress?
By MOUIN RABBANI
June 4, 2009
Counter Punch
Postcard from
Ramallah
By Tim McGirk
Monday, Jun. 01, 2009
Times Magazine
Mr. Abbas Goes
to Washington
by Ali Abunimah
Published on Friday, May 29, 2009 by The Nation
Mishal’s Luck
Adam Shatz
28 May 2009
London review of Books
By Yitzhak Laor
May 28, 2009
Haaretz
Israel's 'Existential Threats'
05/27/2009
By Dina Jadallah
Palestine Chronicle
The Torture Memos
Noam Chomsky
chomsky.info
May 24, 2009
A PCHR
investigation into Palestinian children killed by Israeli Forces in the Gaza
Strip,
27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009
May 2009
Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid: A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the
occupied Palestinian territories under international law
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A study by the Middle East Project of the Human Sciences Research Council of
South Africa, May 2009
From Cairo with love
11 - 17 May 2009
Issue No. 951
Al-Ahram Weekly
The Arabs applauded Bush's vision of a Palestinian state before the end of his
term in office. Why expect anything better from Obama, asks Azmi Bishara
Roxana Saberi's plight and American media propaganda
Glenn
Greenwald
MONDAY MAY 11, 2009 07:59 EDT
Salon
Remembering Jenin
By Stephen Williams
11 May 2009
The Palestine Chronicle
The
paradox of Israel's pursuit of might
Forty years ago, I was enraptured by Israel's courageous sense of mission. For
me today, as for many, that idealism has palled
Max Hastings
guardian.co.uk
Saturday 9 May 2009
Gaza 2009: The
Moment of Truth
May 08, 2009 By Dr. Haidar Eid
Dr. Haidar Eid's ZSpace Page
Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
The End of Free Speech?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Counter Punch
7 May 2009
Guerrilla Ad Campaign
Replaces "Study in Israel" Billboards
by the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
Monthly Review Magazine
7 May 2009
How Ideological Enemies Collaborated to Achieve Divergent Goals
by Roderick Stackelberg
05.05.09
Monthly Review Magazine
Book Review
One Voice: manufacturing consent for Israeli apartheid
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
1 May 2009
Occupying Hearts
and Minds
Thursday 30 April 2009
by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Truth Out
Insights
into the Durban Review Conference
Four Palestinian voices
interviewed by Silvia Cattori
30 April 2009
Applicability of the Crime of Apartheid to Israel
by Karine Mac Allister
Al-Majdal Magazine
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Issue No. 38 (Summer 2008)
Smearing Rashid
Khalidi
Palin's Idiot Wind
By VIJAY PRASHAD
October 30, 2008
Counter Punch
Freedom Riders on
the sea
Ramzi Kysia writing from occupied Gaza Strip, Live from
Palestine, 30 October 2008
Electronic Intifada
October 2008 in
Akka (Acre)
Course of Events
Updated 14 October 2008
At the Checkpoint on the Day of Atonement - The Devouring
Dragon
By MATS SVENSSON
October 9, 2008
Counter Punch
When I sit and speak with Muhammad in Abu Dis, I realize that he sort of celebrates Yom Kippur every day.
Corrupt analogy: Exposing
Israel’s attempts to equate the Palestinian refugee plight
with Jewish immigrants from the Arab world
By Khalid Amayreh
16 September, 2008
Jaffa
‘renewal plan’ aims at eviction
Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent
September 14. 2008
Another facet of Israel's regime in the occupied territories
has come to light – and it's tearing families apart
Seth Freedman
Friday September 12 2008 12:30 BST
Israel's
weapon of house demolitions
Jill Shaw writing from Beit Hanina, occupied West Bank
Live from Palestine
26 August 2008
By URI AVNERY
August 4, 2008
CounterPunch
On life, literature and
Palestine, a tribute to Abdelwahab Elmessiri
Aslam Farouk-Alli
The Electronic Intifada
4 August 2008
Paramilitary Police Attack Al-Nakba March
"What a Way to Mark Independence Day"
By JONATHAN COOK
May 16, 2008
Counter Punch
Resisting the Nakba
The viciousness of Israel is testament to its knowing that
Palestinians will always remain steadfast and defeat its
past and present attempts to erase them, writes Joseph
Massad*
15 - 21 May
2008
Issue No. 897
Al-Ahram Weekly
A deadly
miscalculation in Lebanon
By Sami Moubayed
May 14, 2008
Asia Times
An
Interview with Howard Zinn on Anarchism
Rebels Against Tyranny
By ZIGA VODOVNIK
May 12, 2008
Counter Punch
AL-HAQ POSITION
PAPER: SIXTY YEARS OF NAKBA: ISRAEL’S CONTINUED POLICY OF
FORCIBLE DISPLACEMENT
Al-Haq, May 2008
ISRAEL AT 60
Remembering the Palestinian Nakba
By Nasser Barghouti and Bassemah Darwish
May 7, 2008
San Diego Union-Tribune
A
portrait of life and death in Gaza
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 23/04/2008
Telegraph, UK
Al-Nakba:
Nothing to Celebrate
04/22/2008
By William A. Cook
Palestine Chronicle
Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army
In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron
By Donald
Macintyre in Jerusalem
Saturday, 19 April 2008
Sixty years of the Nakba (Catastrophe) for Palestinians
The Right To Return, a Basic Right Still Denied
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Arab world sees U.S.
in poor light: poll
Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:34pm EDT
By Sue Pleming
Born to Demolish
Jeff Halper
Friday, April 11, 2008
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Sixty years
after Deir Yassin
Ronnie Kasrils
The Electronic Intifada
8 April 2008
This is
the Time to Smash the Ghetto Wall at Rafah, Again
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Comment by Tony Sayegh
Palestinian Pundit
In Praise of Al Nakba
By Salman Abu Sitta
Palestine Chronicle
7 April 2008
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
Revolution #125, April 6, 2008
Interview
Seeing ghosts
By Meron Rapoport
5 April 2008
Haaretz
Empire or Humanity?
What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire
by Howard Zinn
Published on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 by TomDispatch.com
Gaza
‘Bombshell’ Took a Year To Fall
US Coup Backfires, But Most Media Outlets Unwilling to
Investigate, Cover Story
by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 by Inter Press Service
The Gaza Bombshell
Vanity Fair Magazine
The Middle East
With
confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and
current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President
Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser
Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman
Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and
leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
by David Rose April 2008
"Blood and
Religion"
A Review of Jonathan Cook's book
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, March 27, 2008
Anti-Arab
Racism and Incitement in Israel
March, 26 2008
By Ali Abunimah
Source: Palestine Center Information Brief No. 161
U.S. Labor and Gaza
by Larry Adams, Michael Letwin, and Brenda Stokely
New York City Labor Against the War
March 23, 2008
Instead of slamming the Palestinian resistance, the Arabs should formulate a better strategy for stopping Israeli atrocities, writes Galal Nassar
13 - 19 March 2008
Issue No. 888
Opinion
Al-Ahram Weekly
Israeli sniper bullet takes 12-year-old girl's life
Sami Abu Salem writing from Jabaliya, occupied Gaza Strip
Live from Palestine
10 March 2008
Electronic Intifada
THE ICJ CONCLUDES A SECOND HIGH LEVEL MISSION TO THE
OCCUPIED
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES AND ISRAEL
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS
"dedicated since 1952 to the primacy, coherence and
implementation of international law and principles that
advance human rights"
Press Release, Ramallah, 6 March 2008
Slaughterhouse
province
by Jeremy Salt
[received from the author]
2 March 2008
Gaza attacks 'a holocaust'
SUNDAY, MARCH 02, 2008
Al-Jazeera (English)
Israel's "Bigger
Holocaust" Threat Against the Palestinians
High Time for a Worldwide Boycott
March 02, 2008 By Omar Barghouti
Israeli
minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire
talks
Opinion/Editorial
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 29 February 2008
No room for two states: The case for a single state solution for Palestine is irrefutable
By Hassan Nafaa
7 - 13 February 2008
Issue No. 883
Al-Ahram Weekly
Diaries: Live from
Palestine
"Where are you from?"
Rima Merriman, Live from Palestine, 12 February 2008
Electronic Intifada
A Palestinian Odyssey
YIOTA KAMARATOS
February 07, 2008
Middle East Times
How the EU
helps Israel to strangle Gaza
David Morrison
The Electronic Intifada
4 February 2008
How Can
India be Israel’s Friend? What would Mahatma Gandhi make of
this newfound love of Indian leaders for the apartheid state
of Israel?
By Aijaz Zaka Syed
Sunday February 03, 2008
PalestineChronicle.com
A Prison State: Life in
Occupied Gaza
By STEPHEN LENDMAN
Weekend Edition
February 2/3, 2008
CounterPunch
Matt McCarten:
West stands by while a whole population is illegally jailed
Sunday January 27, 2008
By Matt McCarten
New Zealand Herold
One and Two State
Solutions
The Myth of International Consensus
By KATHLEEN CHRISTISON
January 24, 2008
Counter Punch
Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
War Crimes Airbrushed from History
By JONATHAN COOK
January 4, 2008
Counter Punch
WHERE VILLAGES STOOD
ISRAEL’S CONTINUING VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN
OCCUPIED LATROUN, 1967-2007
John Reynolds
Al-Haq
December 2007
The young
prisoners of the West Bank
Amid continuing violence, Israel has jailed more than 5,000
Palestinian youths
By John Murphy
Sun Foreign Reporter
November 18, 2007
The Baltimore Sun
by LARRY COHLER-ESSES
November 12, 2007 issue
The Nation Magazine
Israel's Dilemma
in Palestine
A Land With People, For a People with a Plan
November 5, 2007
By LUDWIG WATZAL
CounterPunch
Arab
delegates meet in Syria for talks on reviving boycott of
Israel
05 November 2007
By The Associated Press
Israeli occupation:
Injustice in our name
Op-Ed
November 5, 2007
By Amanda Gelender
Stanford Daily
By Ramzy Baroud
4 November 2007
Cyrano’s Journal Online
Israel's regard for Palestinians can be summed up in how it imprisons and terrorizes them, writes Khaled Amayreh in the occupied West Bank
25 - 31 October 2007
Issue No. 868
Al-Ahram Weekly
Getting your victims to love you
To mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, Arab-Israeli schoolchildren are expected to negate their very identity
Azmi Bishara
25 - 31 October 2007
Issue No. 868
Opinion
Al-Ahram Weekly
Jamal Nkrumah reflects on Sarkozy's bad week
25 - 31 October 2007
Issue No. 868
Al-Ahram Weekly
08 Oct 2007
Source: Reuters
By Nidal al-Mughrab
Ben White
The Electronic Intifada
Oct 3, 2007
The cancellation of the Palestinian academics' UK speaking tour amounts to censorship and bullying, writes Amjad Barham
Tuesday October 2, 2007
EducationGuardian.co.uk
The legacy of Sabra and Shatila: Amnesia and impunity
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi writing from Cambridge, US, Live from Lebanon
Oct 2, 2007
Electronic Intifada
By Fadi Kiblawi and Diana Khaled
1 October 2007
Jordan Times
A Special Issue on the 7th Anniversary of the al-Aqsa Intifada
The Intifada Enters Its Eighth Year and Criminals Remain Free of Punishment
Palestinian Center For Human Rights
September 2007
Majda Hassan: The
‘Osloization’ of the Palestinian Left
By Majda Hassan
Special to PalestineChronicle.com
In spite of its rich revolutionary tradition, the Left has been hijacked by right-wing cabals, whose interest is intertwined with that of the political elite of Oslo.
A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East
By George Bisharat
September 17, 2007
baltimoresun.com
Moran Upsets Jewish Groups Again
U.S. House Democrat Said Pro-Israel Lobby Promoted War
By Amy Gardner Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 15, 2007; B05
September 15: The 25th anniversary of Sabra and Shatila Massacre
From the darkness of Gaza, Saleh Al-Naami monitors the dynamics of the ugly inter-Palestinian conflict
23 - 29 August 2007
Issue No. 859
Al-Ahram Weekly
Why the US and Israel Should Lose Middle East Wars
By BILL CHRISTISON, Former CIA Analyst
August 27 2007
Israel relents on little girl struck down by war
Uzi Mahnaimi, Jerusalem
From The Sunday Times
August 5, 2007
Jonathan Cook: Israel's Jewish Problem in Tehran
By Jonathan Cook
Friday August 03, 2007
The Palestine Chronicle
By Smadar Lavie
The Electronic Intifada
3 August 2007
Lebanon's Crucial Special Elections
By FRANKLIN LAMB
CounterPunch
August 2, 2007
Beirut Diary
It's Time for a Declaration of Independence From Israel
By Chris Hedges
Truthdig MARIN COUNTY'S NEWS MONTHLY - FREE PRESS
August 2007
By Noam Chomsky
30 July 2007
Clearing House
By CAM SIMPSON in Jerusalem and NEIL KING JR. in Washington
July 30, 2007; Page A4
Wall Street Journal
The number of settlers in the West Bank in 2006 reached 475,760
Palestinian Central bureau of Statistics (CBS): Released a Statistical Report about Israeli Settlements in the Palestinian Territories in 2006
29/07/2007
New Interior Minister: Bring
only Jews to Israel
Nurit Felter
Published: 07.17.07
Yedioth Internet
By Ghada Karmi
13 July 2007
Haaretz
Abbas challenged over new cabinet
SUNDAY, JULY 08, 2007
Al-Jazeera
Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust
by Richard Falk; TFF; July 05, 2007
ZNet | Activism
Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup
Washington's fingerprints are all over the chaos that has hit Palestinians. The last thing they now need is an envoy called Blair
By Jonathan Steele
Friday June 22, 2007
The Guardian
Why the shampoo didn’t make it to my hair By Arda Mardirossian
This Week in Palestine magazine
June 2007
A possible alternative to amputation
by Samah Jabr
11 June 2007
BitterLemons.org
The US plans permanent military bases in Iraq, confirming to many that it really was all about oil
Patrick Seale
Saturday June 9, 2007
Guardian
Why the shampoo didn’t make it to my hair
By Arda Mardirossian
This Week in Palestine magazine
June 2007
Hasan Abu Nimah
The Electronic Intifada
23 May 2007
The Village of Husan Near Bethlehem
By Cara Loverock
The Alternative Information Center
May 15th, 2007
A political marriage of necessity: a single state of Palestine-Israel
The case of South Africa shows that a unity government can succeed
By Ali Abunimah, Chicago
May 14, 2007
The Christian Science Monitor
Special Report on the 59th Anniversary of the Nakba
14 May 2007
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
For Palestinians, memory matters -- It provides a blueprint for their future
George Bisharat
Sunday, May 13, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle
The Pro-Israel Lobby and US Middle East Policy: The Score Card for 2007 (PDF)
James Petras
May 2007
http://www.lahaine.org/petras/b2-img/april2007.pdf
CHILDREN IN THE STREET -- The Palestinian Case (PDF)
Defence for Children International Palestine Section
May 2007
(This study was carried out with support from UNICEF)
May 10th 2007, JERUSALEM
From The Economist print edition
Conal
Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Monday May 7, 2007
Guardian
