Tawana Kupe The death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in his birthplace of Sirte has dominated the news since Thursday. No radio or television news bulletin goes by without some reporting on the story. Newspapers and online sites also carry the story. It is a major and important story because Gaddafi was a large, [...]
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Reminder: Support this cause ->Obama, give back the Nobel Peace Prize
Barack Obama was given the Peace Prize by the Nobel Committee in the hope that he would pursue an end to wars around the world. In fact, he is more of a warmonger than George Bush. So, we urge the Nobel Committee to ask for a return of the prize or for Barack Obama to [...]
Robert Fisk: The never-ending war against cliché and jargon
Independent Saturday, 1 October 2011 Asked to give a talk on the Middle East last week, I read on my invitation: “We want to bring visionaries, innovators, doers, funders, connectors, and their community into one space…With all of these people gathered into one space, it’s inevitable that sparks will happen, ideas will find momentum, [...]
Interview: Palestine’s red lines of struggle
Hazem Jamjoum, The Electronic Intifada, 7 October 2010 While many of the key concepts of the Palestinian struggle, the likes of intifada (uprising) and awda (return), have become familiar in other languages, an integral term in the Palestinian lexicon has yet to be understood by non-Arabic speakers. Thawabet (plural of thabet) is an Arabic word that literally means [...]
Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail
Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 30 August 2010 As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, Nora Barrows-Friedman interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week’s US-brokered direct talks between the two parties for The Electronic Intifada. Nora Barrows-Friedman: What are the [...]
“Like living in a big factory” in Gaza
Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 24 August 2010 “Uff, uff, uff, you can never get time to rest or sleep quietly and you can’t even work. Wherever you are, you hear sound of power generators which makes it seem we are all living in a big factory,” Ahmad al-Bar explained, expressing the frustration of many Palestinians [...]
Why do they fear our cemeteries?
by Bouthaina Shaaban Media Monitors Network – Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Bouthaina Shaaban is Political and Media Advisor at the Syrian Presidency, and former Minister of Expatriates. She is also a writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. She’s got Ph.D. in English Literature from Warwick University, London. After the whole village of al-Araqeeb [...]
Turkey must oppose Uribe appointment to flotilla probe
Open letter, various undersigned, 18 August 2010 The following open letter to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, was issued by various Palestinian organizations on 17 August 2010: Dear Mr. Prime Minister, We are writing to you from under a brutal, hermetic siege now entering its fourth year to express our outrage against the nomination [...]
Gaza’s record-breaking children
Vittorio Arrigoni writing from occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine Electronic Intifada – 16 August 2010 Gaza’s kids truly are record-breakers. They survived Israel’s 2008-09 winter invasion and every day they put up with a state of war during a so-called ceasefire. Smeared in blood, they’ve crawled through the rubble of shelled buildings, taking care [...]
Saving Women and Preventing Genocide: The Real Reasons We’re in Afghanistan Now
By Bretigne Shaffer Information Clearing House – August 11, 2010 “LewRockwell” – So now the cheerleaders for war would have us believe that they are more concerned for the welfare of Afghan civilians than are those who wish to end the US occupation. First we have White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sanctimoniously imploring the [...]
Calling Gaza a prison camp is an understatement
There may be some semblance of civil life and stability in Gaza, but it is our freedoms that are under siege Laila El-Haddad guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 August 2010 It’s three years since I’ve been back to Gaza. Much has happened since my last visit. Fatah waged a failed coup and now rules only the West Bank, [...]
ALLISTER SPARKS: A rabbi’s pain in choosing between truth and ethnic loyalty
The avalanche of personal abuse hurled at me for suggesting that Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein owed Judge Richard Goldstein an apology now that Israel had officially confirmed several of his comission’s most serious findings about the Gaza War was no surprise. BUSINESS DAY – 4 August 2010 The avalanche of personal abuse hurled at me [...]
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