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If music be the food of love
Thu, 08/07/2008 - 11:57… play on, as Shakespeare has said. I’m also reminded of that other wonderful quote that architecture is frozen music (Goethe), which is probably more apt for this image. Addendum:...
Shooting Back: Israeli occupation filmed by 100 Palestinian cameras
Sun, 08/03/2008 - 17:03The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont recently filed this report on a B’Tselem initiative to equip 100 Palestinians with small video cameras to film Israeli settler and IDF abuses (thanks Homey)....
Joe Klein launches a truth rocket, but …
Fri, 08/01/2008 - 11:06… doesn’t himself quite escape the gravitational pull of the Israel-first mentality. At least, so far. First, credit where its due: Time’s political columnist Joe Klein joins a...
Bring Sami Al-Arian Home
Fri, 08/01/2008 - 04:11Professor Sami Al-Arian: political prisoner in a US prison since 2003. Despite being acquitted, Al-Arian remains in prison in Bush’s America, a ‘test case’ for the Patriot Act and a...
“Are you Islamabad?”: A lighthearted look at stereotypes
Tue, 07/29/2008 - 06:35Vox pops from Arab- and Iranian-Americans, from comedian Dean Obeidallah, Negin Farsad and friends (3.38).
Militant Zionism and the Invasion of Iraq: Ron Andreas
Mon, 07/28/2008 - 02:32An important reminder of the goals of destabilisation of the Middle East and the instrumentalisation of war for militant zionism, with thanks to Ron Andreas (submitted by the author). Unlike the...
Dr H. in the Holy Land VII: Hebron and the Christian Peacemaker Teams
Sun, 07/27/2008 - 02:49Hebron is a town that lies to the south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. In Arabic it is known as Al Khalil. We went by bus and the drive from Bethlehem south was beautiful, a lot of arable land and...
Dr H. in the Holy Land VI: Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation
Sun, 07/27/2008 - 02:37The hospital I am volunteering in gives me hope for this country, it is a symbol of a community working hard despite the daily hardships that they encounter in a land where the word...
Dr H. In The Holy Land V: Qalandia Check-Point
Sun, 07/27/2008 - 02:29Qalandia check point is the main check point into Jerusalem from Ramallah. It is worse than I remember it to be. A humiliating example of every day life for the Palestinians living in the Occupied...
Dr H in the Holy Land IV: Land
Sun, 07/27/2008 - 02:07The battle here is about land… and it has always been. Last night Nicholas took us to his land or his family’s land, it’s called Al Makhror, and now lies on the other side of the...
Dr H in the Holy Land III: Bethlehem
Sun, 07/27/2008 - 01:57I feel suffocated here… Last week when I came, I kept hearing people talk about being in a “prison”, “animals in a cage”, time and time again. A week later I feel...
Dr H in the Holy Land II: Week One
Sun, 07/27/2008 - 01:48Last Sunday, after my horrific arrival, I decided to go to church – the Nativity Church - and I went for Sunday mass. Nicholas, one of the security guards, took me there after finishing his night...
Dr H in the Holy Land I: The Trauma of Entry
Sun, 07/27/2008 - 01:26I am very pleased that Reclaiming Space will be joined by Dr H., a physician working in Palestine. Dr H will be writing regularly with direct dispatches and we are fortunate to be learning of the...
US Occupation Dollars For Israeli Houses
Thu, 07/24/2008 - 00:31Overall, US government aid to the hafrada Israeli regime comes to almost $3 Billion a year. This Council for the National Interest (CNI) poster draws attention to unwitting US taxpayer largesse for...
Israel, Palestine, and the US Congress: CNI Event
Thu, 07/24/2008 - 00:20Three video clips from the Council for the National interest (CNI) Public Forum event: Israel, Palestine, and the US: Realities and Opportunities at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill,...
For a fairer, non-partisan policy on I-P: world to political representatives
Tue, 07/22/2008 - 02:21The University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes recently released a new survey regarding public opinion on the Israel-Palestinian conflict: A new WorldPublicOpinion.org...
Murdered for sport: Israel’s collective psychosis versus hasbara PR
Tue, 07/22/2008 - 01:35Khaled Amayreh takes aim at the Israeli apartheid state’s collective psychosis in chilling but required reading, contrasting its PR campaign against the “evil other” with its own...
Ni’lin نعلين: A West Bank Town’s Fight to Survive - Neve Gordon
Sun, 07/20/2008 - 00:38Lone crazed bulldozer driver in Jerusalem: 3,500 news search hits Popular resistance of both Israeli Jews and Palestinians to protect West Bank border town of Ni’lin: 75 search results. In...
Work, interrupted: the fragmentation of our attention
Sat, 07/12/2008 - 19:58A culture of attention deficiency and distraction? An interesting recent discussion on Late Night Live (Radio National, Australia) about how many digital technologies are contributing not only to...
The Untold Story of Iraq
Tue, 07/08/2008 - 10:05Two excellent recent videos discussing Iraq and US foreign policy. The first is a panel featuring Jeremy Scahill, Laila Al-Arian, Chris Hedges and Seymour Hersh and showcases an important and...
