Genevieve Cora Fraser, RamallahOnline Hamas was born as an avenging angel following the 1994 attack in Hebron by the Jewish extremist, Baruch Goldstein, who shot 29 Muslims to death and injured 125 as they prayed in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the burial site of Biblical figures Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah – which [...]
Jennifer Loewenstein, CounterPunch.org For those who haven’t noticed, Israel opposes a two-state solution. It has been doing everything in its power to prevent a Palestinian state from emerging and will continue to do so as long as it can count on the complicity of its powerful friends and on abundant popular indifference. Under such circumstances, [...]
Genevieve Cora Fraser, RamallahOnline President Mahmoud Abbas advised the Hamas dominated opening session of the Second Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) that the peace process, which was established by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to build a present and a future for the Palestinian people in a modern state, must be allowed to move forward if [...]
Genevieve Cora Fraser, RamallahOnline Call it déjà vu but Israeli television reports are branding Mahmoud Abbas as irrelevant in a move identical to their position toward the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. And though Hamas has largely honored the truce established last year, not only has Israel broken that truce over 24,000 times resulting in [...]
Omar Beidas, Ramallah Online Last weekend marked the fifth annual Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) conference, sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Georgetown University. In the weeks prior to the conference, many opposed to the idea of divestment bashed and criticized the conference as being affiliated with terrorist organizations or labeled the entire [...]
PalestineSolidarityMovement.org Washington, DC, February 23, 2006 – The Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) concluded its Fifth Annual Divestment Conference at Georgetown University this weekend with the announcement of a National Day of Divestment Action to take place on March 30, 2006 – otherwise known to Palestinians as Yom al-Ard, or Land Day. On this date in [...]
Sonia Nettnin, RamallahOnline Professor Joel Beinin and Professor Lisa Hajjar spoke about the attack on Middle East Studies and academic freedom on America’s university campuses post Sept. 11.
Genevieve Cora FraserRamallah Online He wore a Western business suitAnd smile as he shook My hand in NablusAbbas was about to speakTo Muslim, Christian and JewishPalestinians
Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom ONE OF our former Chiefs-of-Staff, the late Rafael ("Raful") Eytan, who was not the brightest, once asked a foreign guest: "Are you Jewish or Christian?" "I am an atheist!" the man replied. "Okay, Okay," Raful demanded impatiently, "but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?" Well, I myself am a 100% [...]
Adam Keller, Gush Shalom The idea was: as Olive Harvest Coalition to do something about the Palestinian loss of olive trees – replanting saplings for all the trees uprooted on behalf of the notorious wall, and for the trees destroyed overnight by malicious settlers. With money raised in an international campaign, and with hundreds of [...]
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