If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!by Cynthia McKinney*
This is Cynthia McKinney and I'm speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned [...]
By Ilan Pappe *
If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming to these isles in 1980 when supporting the Palestinian cause was confined to the left and in it to a very particular section and ideological stream. [...]
Israel's attempt to legislate loyalty to the Jewish state is proof of the failure of the Zionist/colonial project of Israelification.
by Azmi Bishara
What is behind the latest wave of legislative proposals flooding the Knesset agenda? I refer specifically to those intended to curb manifestations of Palestinian patriotism and to restrict the political activity of Arab Israelis.
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A special political vocabulary prevents us from being able to recognize what's going on in the Middle East.
By Saree Makdisi
On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the [...]
[Sabbah's Blog note: For simplicity, read COGAT = OCCUPATION ADMINISTRATORS. For your info, these are administrators in military uniform.]
By Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau
Every week, about 10 officers from the Israel Defense Force's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit convene in the white Templer building in the Kirya, the Defense [...]
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
WISPS of mournful tunes from a cane flute mingled with the plucking, jangling arabesques of the zitherlike qanun, the oud and gentle drums. The sounds arose from a quartet of Arab musicians who call themselves the Oriental Music Ensemble as they shared a precious moment of togetherness in the Miller Theater at [...]
The three-month-long war between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon ended on 2 September 2007. While the Lebanese army has allowed displaced residents to return to some parts of the camp, the fate of other parts of the camp still under the army's [...]
Tagged Army, Camp, Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, Palestine, palestinian, Refugee, Refugees, Warby Susan Abulhawa*
Following Netanyahu's much anticipated policy speech, politicians and journalists, like mindless automatons, have set about repeating Israel's tired mantra that Palestinians should recognize Israel's right to exist. Never mind the fact that the PLO and Palestine Authority have obliged this ludicrous call, not once, but four times. And never mind that Israel has [...]
By ROGER PULVERS
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. . . . Bombers and tanks and rockets and white phosphorus shells are that high, solid wall. The eggs are the unarmed civilians who are crushed and burned and shot by [...]
By Alan Sabrosky *
The hopes Obama raised in Cairo didn't last a week before US Middle East envoy George Mitchell buried them five days later in Israel. It was understood that what Obama proposed would be difficult to translate into concrete deeds. I believe Obama was sincere, and it wouldn't have been the first time [...]
Canada's leaders swoon over Israel
By ROSIE DIMANNO
Have you hugged a Jew today?
Couldn't hurt, on any day, given some worrisome trends in Canada - though less here than in Europe - to demonize both Jews and Israel, particularly via the rubric of anti-Zionism, which anybody with half a brain recognizes for what it is: The same [...]
الجزء الأول
عزمي بشارة
لم يكن الاهتمام بالقضية الفلسطينية بمجملها يوماً، اهتماماًً بالفلسطينيين أنفسهم، ولهذا لم تنتهِ قضية فلسطين بل ازدادت تعقيداً مع مرور الزمن. ليس صحيحاً القول إذاً إن هناك اليوم اهتماماً دولياً أكبر وتضامناً متنامياً مع قضية فلسطين، فهذه الأخيرة تأثرت أكثر من أية قصية أخرى سلباً بالتطورات الدولية. فقد شهدت، منذ نشأتها، محاولات لتحويلها [...]
by Medea Benjamin*
Obama will give a major policy talk at Cairo University on June 4, intended to start mending the rift between the United States and the Arab world. During the Bush years, many Arabs turned against the United States because of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the abuses at Guantanamo [...]
نظّمت الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت، في 14 أيار / مايو الجاري، ندوة بمناسبة مرور 61 عاماً على نكبة فلسطين. ولمّا كان هذا الموضوع وما يتفرّع عنه، من أكثر ما استحوذ على اهتمام المفكر والسياسي عزمي بشارة وعلى نشاطاته، ألقى محاضرة تنشر «الأخبار» نصها الكامل بالتنسيق مع المحاضر
عزمي بشارة
إنه لشرف كبير لي أن أكون اليوم بينكم [...]
By Franklin Lamb, Beirut
Time for transparency at Der Spiegel?
"We don't know where the Der Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don't know where they brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor's office has spoken to the German magazine about anything. We have a clear policy of not leaking any information [...]
