by Genevieve Cora Fraser Recently, while talking to a local peace activist about her refusal to take on the Free Palestine issue, she explained that she had been to Israel and Palestine and saw first hand what the Palestinians suffer. I asked then why not publically protest?? She began a litany of reasons why and [...]
by Uri Avnery There’s nobody like the British. The things they get excited about! A terrible thing has happened. Their Prime Minister lied to them! The whole country is in an uproar.
By Mark Glenn Thomas Jefferson, co-writer of the American Declaration of Independence and 3rd president of the United States once remarked that the introduction of slavery into a society was akin to “grabbing a wolf by the ears,” in that the person grabbing the wolf must never let go for fear that if he did [...]
By Israel Shamir War is crime, but this is the manly crime defying effeminate mores and rigid society. The most convinced pacifist can be carried away by the sight of charging cavalry, attacking troops, roaring tanks and fighter jets taking off a desert strip. Not in vain, women admired warriors, poets sung their mighty deeds, [...]
From Golan heights to Dearborn heights…. my people have transfered… From the Middle-East to some place near East Detroit….. My people have since then moved…. Displaced, but never a culture replaced…. no matter where in the world…
By Mazin B. Qumsiyeh This evening (July 23rd) brought a demonstration in New Britain against the silence of Congresswomen Nancy Johnson about the killing of US Citizen and ISM volunteer Rachel Corrie. Johnson and other of our supine officials willing to sign on to billions of our taxes going yearly to Israel to fund apartheid [...]
By Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada Khalil Shikaki of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research was attacked by an angry mob when he recently held a press conference announcing the results of a poll conducted among 4,500 Palestinian refugees on the right of return. In his study, Shikaki reported that only 10 percent [...]
External link By Mark Glenn Today, while driving through town, I wound up behind a minivan that had a big sticker on the back. The sticker had an Israeli flag in the middle of it, and under it the quotation from the book of Genesis that reads “I will bless those who bless thee.” I [...]
By Baha Abushaqra If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past Security in human systems we’re told will always always last Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast Without a breath of real freedom we’re getting nowhere fast
By Patricia Ryan Dear God This is my second letter to You, Lord. I hope You received the first about Iraq. The invasion went ahead and, as predicted, thousands died. Did they arrive safely over there? But the US/UK war is not over though the Americans would like it to be. Dragging on, Vietnam style [...]
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