The following is an update to Project Humanbeingsfirst’s public service announcement of May 15, 2008 made on the occasion of Celebrating Israel’s 60th Birthday bash, when the President of the United States along with the First Lady had just arrived in Israel.

[May 20, 2008] It is known to be customary to celebrate independence day [...]

How did the cartoonists in the Arab media Commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nakba?

I’ve been monitoring most of the Arab media, especially newspapers, during the last 5 days to read what they have to say on this event. To tell you the truth, you haven’t missed much. On the air, Aljazeera made a big difference [...]

This is from the Israeli licensed march of Palestinian families at the old destroyed arab village of Safurye. About half way through the clip CNN’s own Ben Welderman gets harassed too and barks back. If this is how Israel treats Palestinians who are citizens of Israel you can only imagine how it treats [...]

Balfour to Blair is a special 30 minute film that investigates the role of British policy in the Middle East from the beginning of the 20th century to today. (Source: Aljazeera)

Part 1:

“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto.”

German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke during a visit to Ramallah in March 2007.

Basking in their usual insolence and self-absorbedness, Israeli leaders have been visibly irate over the highlighted commemoration of the 60th anniversary [...]

On the festive and felicitous occasion of the 60th anniversary of Israel’s existence which is being celebrated with much fanfare from Tel Aviv to Washington D.C., President George W. Bush along with his notable wife landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport on May 14, 2008, to the warm greetings of Shimon Perez:

“Welcome to the [...]

Palestinians are increasingly rejecting the crumbs of a two-state solution in favour of justice for all in a single state, Palestine, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah

As Israel ostentatiously celebrates the passage of 60 years since its creation in Palestine in 1948, more than nine million Palestinians at home and in exile are commemorating the Nakba, [...]

Palestinian youth in the Dheisheh refugee camp talk about what it means for them to be a refugee, their identities and hopes for the future.

Video source: ibdaa194.org

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Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5dc8w_refugeehood-the-inheritance_news

Blair, Gorbachev, Streisand to attend Israel’s 60th

President Shimon Peres is bringing in top personalities from around the world to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday.

United States President George W. Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and Rupert Murdoch …

But guess who is joining the celebration too:

The list of confirmed guests also includes Henry Kissinger, Nobel laureate [...]

Israeli occupiers in the city of Kiryat Yam filed a police complaint to force Google to delete what they called as “false information that hurts the city’s image”.

The so called “false information” was placed a Palestinian doctor as user-generated notation placed on the image of Kiryat Yam and gives brief historical information about the location [...]