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YouTube - All I Got’s Gone
Ernest Stoneman’s recording “All I Got’s Gone” (1928). Film footage from 1937 film: Telephone Operator. Music and video are in the public domain.
Israel and Complete 911 Timeline
1987: Hamas Forms with the Support of Israeli Intelligence. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin forms Hamas as the military arm of his Islamic Association, which had [...]
Above: A map showing the area of Silwan threatened with demolition and settlement expansion, including an indicator of the area in which settlements already exist. As highlighted on the map, Silwan as well as the adjacent villages of Tur and Ras Al Amud will be on the western side of the Wall, as Jerusalem is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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]
As most of you know, Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi died. Abdel-Shafi was the chief Palestinian negotiator at Madrid Peace Conference - 1991. At the time, Abdel-Shafi and the other Palestinian delegates had to participate as members of the Jordanian delegation, because Israel was then refusing to recognize that Palestinians exist and/or talk to the PLO [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
PalestineRemembered.com is leading with few active members inside Israel to video document the remains of some of the 531 ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages, towns and cities.
Some of the videos can be found here, and more is coming.
Please circulate this link to your fiends and loved ones. Also, your humble donation (no matter ho much it [...]
Despite gains made to make ‘occupation’ the frame of reference in understanding what is going on in the Occupied Palestine, to a large extent the occupation continues to remain “invisible”.
The occupation’s invisibility is mainly credited to propaganda-influenced media reports. Repeated studies of the media’s coverage of Palestine/Israel have highlighted the prevalent pro-Israeli bias. A bias [...]
The Palestinian refugee problem was created as the result of two wars (Al-Naqba of 1948 and Al-Naksa of 1967), massacres, and other aggressions perpetrated by Jewish underground and terror groups such as Haganah, Irgun, and Stern. After the War of 1948, the UN Conciliation Commission estimated that 726,000 Palestinians (75% of the Arab population of [...]
In the U.S., the issue is framed as “Immigration”
The face of the issue is framed as a brown skinned Mexican man.
And yet, all you have to do is scrape just a little under the surface to know what immigration really means and who it effects.
750+ Immigrants Detained in “Operation Return To Sender” Raids
Immigrant youth shelter [...]
May Day is May 1, International Workers’ Day. It is recognized internationally for the celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. Put for Palestinians, this day has more than celebration. It is a mourn day.
It was not enough that Palestinians should have their homes and farmland stolen; they faced the [...]
By now, most of you have heard of Azmi Bishara. If not, Dr. Bishara is the Head of the National Democratic Assembly political party in Israel, a Christian Palestinian and a citizen of Israel who USED to represents Israel’s Palestinian minority in the Knesset until few days ago.
In this remarkable 30 minutes speech presented at [...]
Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it [...]
Another excellent piece by the Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe:
Professor Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer of Political Science at Haifa University. He is the author of numerous books, including A History of Modern Palestine, The Modern Middle East, The Israel/Palestine Question and, most recently, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, published in 2006. [...]
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