Ibrahim Hewitt – The Observer, Israel and the language of war

Friday, February 26th, 2010

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM HEWITT – ALSO IN SPANISH BELOW! A leader writer in the Observer newspaper (“Israel can accelerate peace by exercising restraint” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/21/observer-editorial-israel-palestine , 21 February) really must be taken to task over the language that was used in the column. In seeking to analyse the Israel-Palestine situation the writer ...

Khalil Nakhleh – “Contested histories”, “contested narratives”: What kind of nonsense is this? Again it’s a war of words and concepts!

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

A contribution to Palestine Think Tank's and Tlaxcala's First Word War Numerous books and articles have been written, guided by the main thesis that the reason for the prolonged and intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine, and which is constantly at an impasse, is that there are two “contested” histories (of ...

Atilio Boron – Obama, an "F" in Political Theory (First Word War)

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

WRITTEN BY ATILIO BORON And Translated by David Brookbank, members of Tlaxcala Obama took some courses in political theory at Harvard. But the speech he gave upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize — an undeserved distinction that still arouses reactions ranging from amusement to indignation — reveals that he did not ...

Aadel M Al-Mahdy – War of Words

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

A response to the first entry in Palestine Think Tank and Tlaxcala's First Word War: “Logos", plural “Logoi” is Greek , meaning “Word” or “Reason”. In Arabic “Kalimah” means “Word”, Plural “Kalaam” Hence, “’Elmul-Kalam” means “Science of word” which means “Linguistics”. It is also worth mentioning that the “word” is sharper ...

"A remarkable failure for a journalist"-2009 Courage in Journalism Award Acceptance Speech by Amira Hass

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Allow me to start with a correction. How impolite, you'd rightly think, but anyway, we Israelis are being forgiven for much worse than impoliteness. What is so  generously termed today by the International Women's Media Foundation as my lifetime achievement  needs to be corrected.  Because it is Failure.  Nothing more than a  ...

A few comments on the term “internationalised armed conflicts”

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

The First Word War AUTHOR:  Julio C. SÁNCHEZ Translated by Christine Lewis Carroll and edited by Machetera Piracy on the Somali coasts, armed violence in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the explosive situation in Darfur, and the harmful impact all these matters have on neighbouring countries fill the news headlines. But ...

First Word War: Khalil Nakhleh "Reclaiming Words: Identity and thought, We are not Israeli Arabs, we are Palestinians" & Realistic Bird "The Term ’self-defense’"

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The First Word War – Palestine Think Tank and Tlaxcala Declare War Against Disinformation Reclaiming words:  identity and thought, We are not Israeli Arabs, we are Palestinians  WRITTEN BY KHALIL NEKHLEH The indigenous remnants of the Palestinian people in Israel after the ethnic cleansing of 1947/1948 should be referred to as The Palestinians in Israel, ...

The First Word War, Second Battle: Nahida Izzat, Adib S Kawar and Kissa OnLine

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

UPDATE! NEW ADDITIONS IN SPANISH AND ARABIC. FIRST WORD WAR – PALESTINE THINK TANK AND TLAXCALA DECLARE WAR ON DISINFORMATION.  (Original art for PTT and Tlaxcala by Carlos Latuff). Our second instalment features Nahida Izzat, Adib S. Kawar and Issa OnLine. Translations into Spanish, English and Arabic by Manuel Talens, ...