Archive for: April, 2006

I Remember 1948

Sonia Nettnin, Ramallah Online The narrative documentary, “I Remember 1948,” explores the lives of four, Al-Nakba (The Palestinian Catastrophe) survivors. After living in the Palestinian Diaspora for 58 years, they share the intimate details of their lives at the time Zionist terror gangs invaded their villages and expelled Palestinian families for more land. From1947-49 an [...]

Gem of a Film Festival

Sonia Nettnin, Ramallah Online After five years I have decided to write some of the reasons why the Chicago Palestine Film Festival is one of Chicago’s cinematic treasures. The film festival, one of the few of its kind in North America, features films by Palestinian filmmakers and films about Palestine. The films cover a range [...]

Palestine Will Not Bow to Anyone But Allah

Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online Olives, thyme and olive Oil to lubricate and heat To fire the hearts Of Palestine To be free Ismael spoke

Do We Need Bin Laden to Tell Us Arabs & Muslims Are Targeted?

Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online Do we need Osama Bin Laden to tell us the Arab and Muslim world is being targeted. Case in point, Israel has lobbed thousands of missiles and bombs at Palestine since the January 25th election, killing dozens and dozens of men, women and children and the US press is not [...]

The Definition of Occupation Poem

Abdelnasser Rashid April 15th. Occupied, terrorized, genocide – while the whole world is hypnotized, Sixty years, incessant tears – no day passes by without countless fears, For our lives, our wives, our children’s cries – yet the world turns away, and our spirits die, For my land, I do stand – but I remain hopeless [...]

Hamas – Thumbs Up or Down?

Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online Sam Bahour’s article "Hamas Forced to Collapse" was not only timely, coming out shortly before the April 18th Tel Aviv suicide bombing, his points were well taken, though I dispute the title of his piece. As he states, Hamas is beginning to show an impressive pragmatism, but the West is [...]

Punishing Palestinians

Ramzy Baroud, PalestineChronicle.com Responding to successive decisions made by the US, the European Union and various European and non-European countries to boycott the Palestinian Authority and deprive it of urgently needed funds, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh described these dictates as both "hasty and unjust." Hasty for the obvious reason that the new Palestinian government [...]

Peace can only be the fruit of justice

Al-Ahram, Issue No. 790Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Ismail Haniyeh outlines the basis for comprehensive peace As the Palestinian people continue their long and painful journey for freedom and independence, we look to the future with hope and optimism. Indeed, it is this hope, this strong faith in the justice of our cause, that [...]

Palestinian Welcome

Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online He was grimyWith sweatThat cold winterMorning IsraeliOccupation soldiersTrained a gun

Innocence Killing Innocence

Sam Bahour, Ramallah Online This week’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, which took nine innocent Israeli lives and one innocent Palestinian life, was the most predictable act by any novice observer of the ongoing conflict. A Palestinian in his late teens, early twenties, possibly the youngest suicide bomber ever, from a small, besieged village near [...]

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