Archive for: August, 2005

Viva Palesetine

Dr. Mary Majayda, Ramallah Online Columnist Today I have been reading the many reports complaining about the lack of planning and preparation for the removal of settlers from Gaza. Not one person thought about the thousands of Palestinians that Israel has made homeless over the past 57 years. They were receiving no reparations and no [...]

Poem: The Stand Against the Wall

Sonia Nettnin, Ramallah Online Columnist At Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem near Israeli watchtower men stand their ground against the wall. They look out

Gaza Stripped, Occupation Remains

Sonia Nettnin, Ramallah Online Columnist Although Israeli Forces withdrew settlers from Gaza the military occupation of Palestinians continues. Despite U.S. mainstream media reports that the 38-year-occupation of Palestinians within Gaza has “ended,” the Israeli military still controls water, the Palestinians’ passage through checkpoints and air space.

Invisible…

Samah Sabawi, Ramallah Online Columnist It would seem that we have made a grave error! The land of Palestine was indeed a land without a people. The Palestinian people were invisible when Israel was established in 1948 and apparently, they are still invisible today.

Deadly Sun Illuminates Israeli Blue Moon

Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online Columnist The sad sun rose Red waiting Deadly developments As settlers fought With their tongues Extradition

An Apology From a US Christian to Palestinians

Nancy Harb, http://umkahlil.blogspot.com This is my apology for Christians in the US to Muslims, the Arab World, and particularly Palestinians. Too many of my co-religionists have made a travesty of the Golden Rule which unequivocally compels us, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

The Murder of Muhammad ”Niinu” Al-’Assi

Anne Gwynne – Occupied Nablus – Tuesday, 09 August 2005 This is a rare eyewitness account of one of the hundreds of illegal “targeted murders” by Israel of young Palestinian men, members of the legal Resistance. As such, its importance cannot be overstated. It is the only eyewitness account of this particular brutal murder and [...]

COHRE: UN to Adopt Pathbreaking New Global Standard, Demanding Return of Confiscated Refugee Land an

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) Press Release Geneva, Thursday, 11 August 2005 Geneva – The United Nations (UN) is expected to adopt a sweeping series of principles today that urge governments everywhere to ensure all refugees and persons displaced due to conflict and natural disasters are entitled to return to, recover and reside [...]

Poem: A Palestinian Man

In a desert jail moonlight cascades my hands between prison bars, shadows cast wind brushes beads of sweat detention because I spoke my human rights with stone throws for

A Massacre Foretold

Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom It was all expected: both the massacre and the questions it raised. But behind the easy questions that practically posed themselves, much more difficult and unasked questions are hidden.

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