Facebook group | Tell Google Earth Jerusalem is Not the Capital of Israel Editor Note: (Please Take Action – submit a complaint to Google, steps further below) Under international law, neither East nor West Jerusalem is considered Israel’s capital. Tel Aviv is recognized as Israel’s capital, pending a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. East Jerusalem [...]
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD | http://www.qumsiyeh.org A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home The UN General assembly voted 29 November 1947 to recommend partition of Palestine to give the Zionist movement control over 55% of Palestine and leave the Palestinians with 45% of Palestine. The Palestinian natives were then more than 2/3rd of the population [...]
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, has an idea. That happens to him quite often. One might almost say – too often. It goes like this: The US will turn its back on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The entire world will follow. Everybody is fed up with this conflict. Let the [...]
Sonja Karkar | Australians for Palestine The news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was in Australia and was welcomed by the honourable members of our parliament came as somewhat of a shock. It is one thing to have allowed a man on corruption charges as well as facing war crimes indictments into Australia at [...]
26.11.2009 Still photograph from B’Tselem’s internet campaign against security forces’ violence. Animation: Alon Simon Israel chokes Palestinian constructionThe Civil Administration has recently issued demolition orders for structures in several Palestinian villages in Area C. The Administration rarely authorizes Palestinian construction in Area C, which comprises 60 percent of the West Bank. Army renews use of [...]
Stuart Littlewood | Radio Free Palestine The UK is now in the grip of festive fever as the nation prepares for the customary annual binge called Christmas. Despite the recession families are being urged to spend, spend, spend on an excess of food and alcohol and extravagant presents. For them there is also the luxury of [...]
Eva Bartlett | http://ingaza.wordpress.com/ I wake in the early hours of the morning, as the rush of Eid begins: prayers call out from mosques around Gaza, Palestine. In the living room of my friends’ home, the prayers surround me, like the carols and church bells did at Christmas as a child. In fact, there [...]
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD | http://www.qumsiyeh.org A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home Happy Eid AlAdha to all Muslim friends and Colleagues. May this holiday return to us with advance in justice and freedom and a retreat in the forces of darkness, hate, and violence in this world. A trip to Jenin Monday turned into another [...]
Ramzy Baroud | The Palestine Chronicle This week Americans will observe ‘Thanksgiving’ commemorating a romanticized era in their nations record, celebrating the supposed solidarity and brotherhood enjoyed by the first settlers and the indigenous people of what is now called the United States. However, this fantastic tale of friendship contradicts the candid remarks of many notable [...]
Stephen Lendman In a December 2008 article, this writer explained that the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was the largest American Muslim charity until the Bush administration bogusly declared it an enemy of the state and shut it down. On December 4, 2001, the Treasury Department declared HLF a terrorist group, [...]
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