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Today in History: Hebron Massacre - 1994

Monday, February 25th, 2008

14 Years of Lessons after Al-Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre - A Memorial History for the 30 Palestinian Martyrs

The story:

The dawn of Friday 15 Ramadan 1414 a.h. / 25 February 1994 marked the first of three massacres perpetrated by Israeli settlers accompanied by the Israeli Army. There were more than 30 martyrs and 270 injured. The main [...]

THE STATE OF ISRAEL

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

A while ago, I was doing my -almost- daily check to see requests of new bloggers to be added to Palestine Blogs. One of the requests was from an Israeli student, Shahaf Ifhar, who just returned to Israel after 3-year programme in London called Olive Tree, which beings Palestinian and Israeli students together to live [...]

Oct. 29th: Zionist massacres in Palestine

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Today in history is another black day in the Palestinian history.

Following post was published a year ago in the same occasion:

Oct. 29th massacres in Palestine history and Ben Gurion wonders: “How can an order be given to shoot children?”

Starting from the oldest:

1. On October 29, 1948, when Israeli brigades captured the village of Safsaf. The [...]

Weekend Video: Interview with Rabbi Aharon Cohen

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Interview with Rabbi Aharon Cohen from Neutrei Karta (GB) on al-Manar Tv:

Documentary on JNF’s Illegal Canada Park

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Spare half an hour of your weekend time to watch this doc. video about some of the destroyed Palestinian villages and the Israeli settlements which occupied their places:

[Hat tip: Robin]

Palestinian history for beginners

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Even my 9 years old boy liked this documentary movies about Palestinian history (in Arabic) and learned something new from it:
http://tinyurl.com/2s73ty

On Israel, Zionism, the Memory of the Shoah, and the use of the word “Jew”

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

French philosopher Alain Badiou gave this interview to Le Monde last week. The original title was about the crisis of the intellectual Left. While the first two questions focused on the crisis of the French Left, most of the interview was about the particularisms lying at the foundations of Israel as a Jewish only [...]

Enduring Occupation

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Today marks the 40th sad anniversary of ‘Naksa’ (setback), as Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser described the defeat in his resignation announcement on the fifth day if the ‘Six Day War’.

On June 5th 1967, the Israel occupation forces launched ‘Operation Focus’, which toke by surprise three Arab armies; the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian and ended [...]

Weekend read: Four decades of occupation, six decades of wars. Enough!

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

(Image by Ben Heine)

When will the world reconsider the future options of resolving the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict? The lack of ‘peace-seeker’ leadership on Israeli sides makes a solution far away than any time in the past, yet, who is paying the price? People under occupation…

Quoting Hasan Abu Nimah:

Has the time not come to determine precisely and [...]

FAQ on the 1967 war

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

This June marks the fortieth anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Four decades of control maintained by force of arms have enabled Israel to impose its will on the occupied territories and to remake them in its own image.

Here is FAQ on the 1967 war:

1. How did the [...]