Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Khalid Amayreh
Khalid Amayreh (*) is a journalist who lives in Hebron, a city brutalized and bloodied daily by armed Jewish settlers who are driving the authentic inhabitants by force. He is what might be called a true Palestinian; a man of integrity who was never seduced by financial rewards and ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Reading Rifat Kassis's Opinion: Moment of truth (e.i. 4 March 2010) we are inspired now to put a halt to the arguments that call for a selective boycott of Israel, and to those voices which warn us Palestinians (and many internationalists, for that matter) who criticise Israel for fear of ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Personal reflections on my forthcoming lecture
Since the date for my new lecture became fixed, a few months back, at my alma mater university in the State of Minnesota, USA, where I received my first 4 years of higher education, and earned my Bachelor’s degree, I was in a quandary. Certainly, ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the 'right' ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the people rally behind a certain leader, more than behind an ideology. While Palestinian society ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Prof. Arnold Toynbee, Foreword to the Transformation of Palestine, 1971
"Israel ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
When American historian Howard Zinn passed away recently, he left behind a legacy that redefined our relationship to history altogether.
Professor Zinn dared to challenge the way history was told and written. In fact he went as far as to defy the conventional construction of historical discourses through the pen of ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Photo by Gill Swain
I was 12 years old when my family forced to move from Hebron, on 1977. I don't know if I was lucky or not, as I was born in this historical holy city, which is located in the south of the West Bank (WB).
I was born in ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
An interview with a Palestinian songwriter of political music
Doc Jazz
In December 2000, Doc Jazz released his first political song 'Intifada', which was listened to widely on the world wide web, and started his internet project 'The Musical Intifada'. Since that time, the collection of his self-written and -produced songs has ...
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
At a time when extreme and even unthinkable measures are being taken to completely sever the few remaining passageways of life into Gaza through Rafah's underground tunnels into Egypt, other tunnels of a different kind and a different purpose are being dug elsewhere everyday in broad daylight for all the ...
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
Samer Mustafa – Once upon a time at a check point
Dearest May, this is Samer; how are you and your family? I hope that you all are just fine. I am writing this note to tell you about a strange thing that I witnessed at the infamous Qalandia check point ...
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