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I left my home in the United States to spend the summer in the West Bank, where I was attacked by Israeli settlers late last month. As [...]
By Osama Dawoud
Not many people in the Gaza Strip spend their time thinking about Utah’s Great Salt Lake. I have been dreaming of it for months. This year, I was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Utah to study in the department of civil and environmental engineering. Palestinians in Gaza suffer from critical [...]
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Source: Reuters
By Adam Entous
The United States says Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank threaten any peace between Israel and the Palestinians — yet it also encourages Americans to help support settlers by offering tax breaks on donations.
As Condoleezza Rice flew in on Monday for another round of peace talks, Israeli and American supporters of [...]
A Statement from the International Human Rights Workers Aboard the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty, Sailing to Gaza
(10am, 23 August, 2008) At 10am this morning, the Cyprus team of the Free Gaza Movement was able to briefly speak with our people on board the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty. They are all fine, [...]
A STATEMENT TO THE PRESS FROM THE FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
Forty-six international human rights workers are now sailing to Gaza through international waters with one overriding goal: to break the Israeli siege that Israel has imposed on the civilian population of Gaza. Any action designed to harm civilians constitutes collective punishment (in the Palestinians’ case, [...]
A STATEMENT TO THE PRESS FROM THE FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
Forty-six international human rights workers are now sailing to Gaza through international waters with one overriding goal: to break the Israeli siege that Israel has imposed on the civilian population of Gaza. Any action designed to harm civilians constitutes collective punishment (in the Palestinians’ case, [...]
EI study refutes CAMERA media bias accusation
By Shervan Sardar, The Electronic Intifada, 18 August 2008
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9711.shtml
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is a media monitoring organization with a large database of supporters known for its staunch support for Israeli policies and its ability to influence media coverage. While CAMERA claims to [...]
A storm has delayed two boats, carrying 40 pro-Palestinian activists, from sailing to Gaza according to the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the vessels. The ships left Nicosia, Cyprus on August 7 and arrived in Chania, Crete, on Saturday, August 9,
The activists (now waiting for clear weather to set sail) and their families back home, [...]
A storm has delayed two boats, carrying 40 pro-Palestinian activists, from sailing to Gaza according to the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the vessels. The ships left Nicosia, Cyprus on August 7 and arrived in Chania, Crete, on Saturday, August 9,
The activists (now waiting for clear weather to set sail) and their families back home, [...]
Under its truce with Hamas, Israel has permitted shipments of frozen meat, soft drinks, cookies, jam, shampoo, clothing and other items. However, the amounts are insufficient for the entire population.
In September 2007 - three months after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, and after the main cargo crossing, Karni, had been shut down - the [...]
Years of silence by Palestinian “Sheiks” and intellectuals led us to where we are now. Arafat ruled the PLO and Fatah with iron fist, using bribery, intimidation even physical liquidation to silence every one. There was never a call for accountability of decisions, failures even financial corruptions. Time for a national salvation front to save [...]
The drooping Israeli flags were as numerous, unmoving, and lifeless in the desert heat as the Israeli police and military conscripts blocking people from their basic rights. One of those young Israeli conscripts at the “immigration window”, obviously not enjoying her work and trying to make it as hard as possible for Palestinians and [...]
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University - and cosignatory of “The People’s Choice,” a peace plan that he formulated with former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon - told me he wouldn’t be surprised [...]
I produced this video based on the original e-slides presentation which was shared with us by our friend, Ann.
Barghouti Presentation
27 June, 2008 — peoplesgeography
An excellent extended overview of the I-P conflict by Dr Mustafa Barghouti and Israel’s apartheid policies of continued ethnic cleansing and annexation of up to 58% of the West Bank through illegal [...]
U.S. Revokes Visas Of Fulbright Scholarship Winners From Gaza based on “Secret Charges”
Blocking a Gazan’s path to San Diego
By Fidaa Abed
August 15, 2008
As a young Palestinian from Gaza, I had been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to study at the University of California San Diego on a Fulbright scholarship. The chance to escape Gaza ’s confines [...]
Omer Ori
Jewish and Arab relations in the city of Jaffa have always been tense, and Jewish residents’ committees of some of Jaffa’s neighborhoods have decide to do something about it, at least where the city pool is concerned: They rent out the pool every two weeks – to Jews only.
“There was quite a [...]
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