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Sami Jamil Jadallah Is President Obama enemy of the Jews?

Even before he was elected president, Barack Obama faced a relentless and vicious attacks of main stream American Jewish organizations and leadership with claims of being Muslim in secrete, of lacking the born American credential among many other claims, including being anti-Israel even though as a senator he was one of the ardent supporter of Israel and always voted in favor of Israel on all bills drafted by AIPAC and passed by the US Senate. I think it is necessary here to inform the readers… Continue

Added by Sami Jamil Jadallah on December 5, 2009 at 2:07pm — 7 Comments

Fakhri Dweik A Day In Palestine

A Day In Palestine

by Mazin Qumsiyeh

December 3, 2009 passes, just another day among 365 days of the year. But no day here is boring. I videotape at length (mostly for another project) but put a tiny bit on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QImBLtYNXW0 ) to give you a visual to accompany this description s

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Added by Fakhri Dweik on December 4, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Iqbal Tamimi Muslim Women cartoonists: A Palestinian and a Pakistani

By Iqbal Tamimi One of the amazing fields where Muslim women have shown extra special skills in self expression is working as cartoonists. The skills of two Muslim women working in the same field but separated by a wide geographical and social distance is highlighted here, one in Pakistan and the ot… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on December 4, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Sami Jamil Jadallah The hell with Israel, open the sea port of Gaza.

Special Note: This posting was written days after the conclusion of the Gaza donor conference. However not the Palestinians, not the Arabs asked and demanded the opening of the sea port of Gaza to allow for direct access to Gaza. It seems there are interests within certain circles to keep the gates of Gaza closed. The Gaza donor conference concluded couple of days ago in the Egyptian city of Sharm-El-Sheik and was attended by more than 70 countries, pledging more than $5 Billions exceeding any… Continue

Added by Sami Jamil Jadallah on December 4, 2009 at 8:04am — 1 Comment

Iqbal Tamimi Unethical new media and programming the polls: switching Palestine’s name to Israel

By Iqbal Tamimi Looking at every website where one has to choose the category of naming a country for any reason whatsoever to be redirected to the next stage of service, one finds Israel is enlisted but no mention of Palestine. This deprives us Palestinians from our freedom of choice and expression when… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on December 1, 2009 at 9:34am — 33 Comments

Iqbal Tamimi Hypocrisy and manipulating language in journalism: The Olive Branch

By Iqbal Tamimi Today the same ‘olive branch’ expression is used again in an article published on the British newspaper the Daily Mail. It reads ‘Brown extends olive branch to Mugabe with plans to readmit Zimbabwe to the Commonwealth’. I am not talking here about the content of the article but for us… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on November 28, 2009 at 10:00am — 8 Comments

Iqbal Tamimi The Palestinian martyrs and the Jewish Holocaust victims are in The HyperTexts

By Iqbal Tamimi When the editor of The HyperTexts on-line poetry journal Michael R. Burch first contacted me, he asked me if I am willing to publish some of my poetry in their journal as a Palestinian poet in exile, I did not mind since I have had always a weak side to nicely dressed words that can… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on November 27, 2009 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

Tali Divide and Conquer - Undermining the BDS Movement from Within

Last week, my local BDS group was put on alert, when the following headline emerged:
“Palestinian Unions Say Israel Boycott Would Harm Them”
The Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) is a signatory of the PACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of I… Continue

Added by Tali on November 25, 2009 at 3:37pm — 1 Comment

Elias Farhud Netanyahu’s Prayer

Oh God, thank you for giving us the power to continue in our illegal settlements & ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Oh God, thank you for dealing with Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called “president of Palestine” who still believes that we will bring him “peace” & a “two-state solu… Continue

Added by Elias Farhud on November 24, 2009 at 7:44pm — No Comments

Iqbal Tamimi Um Salamuna and more

Today over 150 Palestinians and internationals participated in an activity to reclaim and plant olive trees on a threatened hill in an area called Um Salamuna. Um Salamuna already lost significant amount of its land to colonial Jewish-only settlements like Efrata and Migdal Oz. The wall that includes the settlements has not been completed in this area and is slated to zig-zag to capture the h… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on November 22, 2009 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Martha TILLEY: Bantustans and the unilateral declaration of statehood November 20, 2009

If you only have time to read one opinion piece this weekend, please make it Dr Virginia Tilley’s “Bantustans and the unilateral declaration of statehood”. It is a devastating scenario of what lies ahead for the Palestinians if the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral declaration of statehood proposal goes ahead. Aside from Dr Tilley’s impressive academic credentials and professional standing, she is South African and understands like only South Africans can what machinations went on during white… Continue

Added by Martha on November 20, 2009 at 11:05am — No Comments

Iqbal Tamimi Why would Palestinian women creative Writers switch to campaigning journalism?

A personal experience from literature to campaigning journalism By Iqbal Tamimi I have been a journalist for the past 17 years, but my passion and loyalty was undivided for literature and art that I spent most of my past years researching different civilizations' literature I could lay my hands on. Writ… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on November 19, 2009 at 9:30am — 10 Comments

Elias Farhud TODAY'S ANCIENT WARFARE:FACTS VS. BELIEFS

By: Jeff Gates

In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon. Recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratorie… Continue

Added by Elias Farhud on November 11, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Iqbal Tamimi IFJ Defies Hamas Sabotage to Launch Ethical Journalism Campaign in Palestine

10 November 2009 The International Federation Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the action of Hamas officials in Gaza who prevented a meeting of journalists aimed at building a dialogue on independent journalism with Palestinian colleagues in the West Bank. The meeting was part of the launch of a discussion by the IFJ of the Federation's Ethical Journalism Initiative, a global campaign to improve standards in journalism, which has already been taken up in a number of Arab countries. Th… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on November 10, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Gail Alfar Link Between Fort Hood Shootings and US Congress vote on Goldstone Report...

The recent decision by US Congress to reject the findings of the factually based Goldstone Report adds to the hopelessness of the situation in Gaza. There are passionate, caring people that feel the extreme agony of the Palestinian people, and they feel powerless. This horrible feeling of hopelessness can lead people to do extreme things. We may very well see more incidents like the one at Fort Hood, Texas. Remember, we really do not have to sit back and believe the fairy tales the media tell… Continue

Added by Gail Alfar on November 9, 2009 at 7:13pm — No Comments

Iqbal Tamimi The Children of Gaza develop narcotic addiction to withstand the pain while working 12 hours a day in the tunnels

Written by Iqbal Tamimi Sunday, 08 November 2009 19:20 Creator of Palestinian Mothers Network for Human Rights The Jewish children of the state of Israel that attacked the children of Gaza last January with their phosphorus bombs… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on November 8, 2009 at 8:00pm — 18 Comments

Fakhri Dweik Letters from Palestine - By Mona Halaby

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Added by Fakhri Dweik on November 7, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Iqbal Tamimi Balfour declaration and the moral responsibility of Britain towards the Palestinians

By Iqbal Tamimi Few days ago all Palestinian around the world mourned the 92nd anniversary of the infamous Balfour declaration that lead to 4.5 million Palestinian refugees. Our agony as Palestinians started here in the UK and inside what is supposed to be a democratic institution where one of the… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on November 6, 2009 at 6:30am — 6 Comments

Iqbal Tamimi ADC Thanks 36 House Representatives who Opposed H.RES 867

Iqbal Tamimi Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted 344-36 in support of the remarkably biased H. Res. 867 which called on the President and the Secretary of State to unequivocally oppose any endorsement of the… Continue

Added by Iqbal Tamimi on November 5, 2009 at 5:00am — 13 Comments

Sami Jamil Jadallah Give up on Obama, Disband the Palestinian Authority.

The issue of continuing and expanding Jewish settlements came back to haunt the Palestinian leadership that negotiated Oslo and continued to negotiate with Israel for the last 16 years while Israeli continued to build and expand its settlements, not to mention building the Apartheid Wall. Now 16 years later finally the Palestinian leadership discovered there is a problem with the Jewish settlements. One has to wonder why did Arafat continued to negotiate with Israel while Israeli continued wi… Continue

Added by Sami Jamil Jadallah on November 4, 2009 at 7:42am — No Comments

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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
~ Desmund Tutu.

The children appear traumatized. The teachers say that when they hear a loud noise they look to the sky and cry out and weep. They don’t know what the future holds. They deserve better.
Mia Farrow, after visiting Gaza as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.

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Army opens fire at funeral of assassinated fighters in Gaza, 17 residents wounded

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that the Israeli army opened fires at hundreds of residents participating in the funeral of three Al Quds Brigades fighters, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and wounded at least 17 residents. ...

HRW report; EU: Demand Justice for Victims of Gaza War

 (Brussels, September 25, 2009) – The European Union and its member states should fully endorse the report of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict led by South African judge Richard Goldstone and demand justice for the victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law, Human Rights Watch said today. ...

Birth defects in Gaza due to illegal weapons used by Israel during the war

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Friday that eight months after the Israeli war ended, several birth defect cases were reported among the Gaza Strip newborns. ...

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