Palestine Think Tank
Haitham Sabbah, Mary Rizzo and Gilad Atzmon are very pleased to announce their new site, Palestine Think Tank. It is a site containing news, analysis, art and more to further the cause of justice for Palestinians. It concentrates on many aspects of the resistance, but also focuses on the issues affecting the entire Middle East. Please visit us at www.palestinethinktank.com, share this news with those who might be interested, and if you have a blog or site, consider linking to us. We also have a forum for those interested in interactive communication.
Together with us are some of the most insightful and talented writers, activists and artists around. Contributors include Khalid Amayreh, Ramzy Baroud, Adib Kawar, Ernesto Paramo, Wael Al Saad, Nadia Hasan, Iqbal Tamimi, Richard Jones, Nahida Izzat, Razan Al Ghazzawi, Khaled Islaih, Steve Amsel, Ben Heine and many more. www.palestinethinktank.com contains both original material and material from other sources that we believe deserves to be considered.
We are people from different backgrounds who live in different countries. We speak different languages and believe in different religions, or even believe in no religion at all.
These differences are not a problem to any of us.
Differences are what makes the world a wonderful place because everyone is unique. It allows us the possibility to learn more about the world and gain insights we would never have access to otherwise.
Celebrating our differences, we understand that there is a belief that unites us and unites all the people involved in creating this website. It is the belief that Zionism is wrong. Zionism is racism. For Zionism to happen, it means the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of the land of Palestine. We accept nothing about Zionism as being positive, yet we believe there are some people who don’t know exactly what Zionism is, and therefore assume it is something different than an ideology, and therefore, is beyond criticism.
We wish to educate those who don’t know what Zionism is so that they are able to see how damaging it is and how it is a just cause to stop it. We hope www.palestinethinktank.com will be a space for free discussion and wide-ranging analysis.
We believe that the just struggle of the Palestinian people is the greatest liberation struggle of our times, and we aim to render service to their cause through presenting as many aspects of their history, culture and struggle as we can. We intend to give space to many Arab voices as well, since the full realisation of the potential of people in the entire Arab world has been hindered for far too long by the “International Community”. It is far easier to promote an idea of “the Arab” that cleanses Israel and the West from all responsibility for the instability and lack of progress that in some cases is evident than to listen to the complex arguments and reasoning that people from these countries and who understand the history of the Arab World are able to present.
We hope to be able to provide a site full of valid content that is at the service of the Palestinian people especially. Their steadfastness is an inspiration to all mankind, and to those of us in particular who feel close to their cause or are Palestinian, it is a message of love, hope and humanity that we hope we are worthy of.
Content of www.palestinethinktank.com is intellectual property of the authors. All material that does not appear in this site as the original source will always be credited for authors and source.
The material here may be reproduced elsewhere, but we request that you kindly cite our source and post a link to the page on www.palestinethinktank.com from where it was taken. We will also build up our links and community as time develops, so that we can all work towards our goal with the energy and imagination required.
www.palestinethinktank.com contains a forum, which is a space to discuss arguments related to the Middle East. We hope that it will allow all of us to broaden our horizons, engage in constructive debate and present a social network that will be useful to all of us.
www.palestinethinktank.com will be in two languages, in English predominantly, and Arabic.
We accept original articles as well as suggestions for material published elsewhere.
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11 Comments on “Palestine Think Tank”
Yes Indeed.
Let us intensify the efforts for the LOVE of Palestine. Do your part and perform your responsibility toward the Palestinian human rights.
Mark you calendar for May 23-25 where we assert the Palestinian National rights. We will say it loud that we will never forget. Palestinians are the Key holders of peace. Join the thousands and strengthen the network of the thousands of activists. Express your opinion and let the many panelists know of where Palestine should go. Support our efforts to empower our community and assert the Palestinians right of return. Join the many Palestinian Americans and their supporters in Chicago commemorating the 60th year of the forced exile of the Palestinian people. Be pro active, ask questions to the Panelists and discuss the current event. We must empower ourselves and make a strong network for Justice, Peace and Freedom. Be pro active. Enough talks, Register on line.
Does this mean you wont be updating/blogging on this website anymore?
No, no. My blog will stay as is and will continue to write here.
Wow! I think this is a fantastic and global metaphorical development!
I hope news of this spreads near and far quickly.
Hey, can’t access the Palestine think tank site.
Tried palestinethinktank.com but it doesn’t work.
The interesting thing is that i can access the forum of Palestine think tank but according to my browser Palestine think tank doesn’t exist.
Are you able to access it?
Btw, i am in IT so i do know my way around a computer and the net.
Don’t ask me why but clicking on palestinethinktank.com from your site works but clicking on it from uruknet does not.
Maybe Uruknet have wrong links!
“Maybe Uruknet have wrong links!”
The thought did occur to me but i checked the address in the address bar after clicking on it from uruknet and the address was the correct one.
Don’t understand it but as long as it’s working now, who cares.
Oh and congrats on the new site, it looks good.
In response to the many requests for the photographs referred to in the article “are you a Coward Like Me?” published on PTT a few days ago.
Dear all,
Forgive me for posting yet another thing, but I thought you might like to know about the reaction in the Middle East of the people who sent me the Photographs.
My contact, of long standing in the Middle East, (the one that sent me the photos of the Palestinians) is a Circasian young woman studying to be a pharmacist, just like any young man or woman in the west, wishing to do the best they can for their career.
No doubt there were many like her in Iraq, which was the educational Jewel in the Middle East, in spite of Saddam’s rule. Now look at it.
And you can bet you house that in Iran there are similar people studying to make a career and a better life for themselves and their eventual families just like we do in England, Europe and America. Yet there is very little outcry to the proposed bombing of Iran.
Haven’t we done enough to these innocent people yet? Must we be so complacent that we will allow the warmongers to kill thousands with their bombs and trash their houses?
It is a chilling when you weigh up the awful consequence of that stupid phrase. “We will bomb you back to the Stone Age!’ Which ever speech writer thought that one up should be allowed to profit from his work, and should be killed, or at least have his tongue removed.
My contact in the Middle East has received some encouraging messages from the recipients of the photos and requests for more, having got her email from the message forwarded. It is gratifying that some have taken this initiative independently, and I can assure you that the young lady and many of her friends are astounded and grateful for all that we do. Living under the threat of war cannot be very pleasant can it, especially since they have among them many Iraqi refugees and can see and hear about the destruction of that country and the terrible price the common people are paying every day for Bush’s war based on nothing more than a pack of lies.
Ibrahim
Two you tube videos.
In this You Tube short video you will see American professors, senators and others talking about the overthrow of the American government by Israelis. Some are speaking out, but will it ever get into the Mainstream Media?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ynWjYHP91gA&feature=related
This video was broadcast on Israeli channel 2 TV and pictures on the front page of the newspapers in Israel. Why the silence in America and in Europe? What are the media in the West afraid of; or do they have an agenda?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0&NR=1
Many of us are not leaders, and that goes for me too. All of you are connected in that you sent for the photographs and some have sent me very interesting things which I am very reluctant to send out to you all, simply because I don’t want to become information central. You have the opportunity to share information with others in the group of 50 that you find yourself in, so why not do it?
I’ve been invited to join forums in far away places like Pakistan and Bangladesh. There is an active group in Spain. There is a Swedish man who speaks German who is going to dig up and translate what he can about the CIA indictments in Germany. I’m looking for someone who can contact the French group petitioning the high court in France to overturn the lower court Judge’s decision not to prosecute Donald Rumsfeld for Torture under the Nuremberg Protocols but I don’t have French. I have some Spanish, a little Turkish, some Arabic and some Norwegian, (due to a romantic episode when I was seventeen LOL).
I find that with languages there is almost no penetration of news into other languages unless it is of international importance, and with the American censorship fully in place, it would seem that in Europe we are more free, but that is not true. In England there is a thing called the “D” notices which are placed on information from the government, which they might find embarrassing which means it cannot be reported in the media due to ‘national security interests’. That phrase hides a lot of wrongdoing. I suspect that it is the same across Europe, in Russia and China too. I watch news from Russia, China, India, France and Al Jazeera, all in English of course. Maybe being retired I have too much time on my hands. But the point is that the news from the BBC and CNN and the others is very different and we are being manipulated daily by it. Thank god for the Internet, if we can keep it.
You might get a message from Philip about the origin of some of the photographs, which apparently are from Iraq and not Palestine. I passed them on in good faith and apologize for misinformation.
HUNGER STRIKERS MESSAGE FROM PRAGUE
by Bruce K. Gagnon
We heard from the Czech Republic today that Jan Tamas and Jan Bednar will end their hunger strike tonight. Others in their country and around the world will then join the strike in their place. In their statement from Prague today they concluded, “We call on all the people who disagree with this plan [U.S. radar deployment] to show their disagreement, not to stay silent, and to start being active. Because ‘democracy’ is not just a word, putting a vote into a ballot box once every four years, democracy is about the active participation of every individual. ”
Divide and Rule on OPEDNews.
An article with lots of links and suggestions for Googling some interesting news.
Can’t seem to get the html link to work. Sorry.