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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
by Juan Kalvellido
WRITTEN BY ATENEA AVECEDO
Aminetu Haidar was arrested at the El Aaiun Airport (former capital of Western Sahara, a country under Moroccan military occupation since 1975) because in filling out the corresponding entry form she wrote "Western Sahara" as her country of origin instead of "Morocco". The Moroccan authorities confiscated her ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Translated from Arabic by Saja
On September 2008 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu’s fact-finding delegation submitted to the Human Rights Council its latest report on the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip in 2006, which led to the death of nineteen civilians. At a press conference in Geneva, ...
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
AN INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ESSAYS and the first essays by MARY RIZZO, AYMAN EL KAYMAN AND SANTIAGO ALBA RICO (Spanish and French translations below. Translations to English, Spanish and French by Manuel Talens, Machetera and Fausto Giudice)
Reclaiming Significance: Palestine Think Tank and Tlaxcala declare the First Word War
WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
There are some words ...
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