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BREAK TIME…..
Sun, 08/10/2008 - 11:38Time for a break and a battery recharge…. While I’m gone… please visit the blogs that I have linked on my sidebar…. many of them will keep you updated on the situation in...
MAHMOUD DARWISH ~~ IN MEMORIAM
Sun, 08/10/2008 - 02:06Under Siege - Poem Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Portrait by Palestinian artist Ismail Shammout (1971). Mahmoud Darwish, the world’s most recognized Palestinian poet...
BEYOND CHUTZPAH
Sun, 08/10/2008 - 00:13by Khalid Amayreh Israel is very much behaving like a whore who urges her town’s folks to erect a great memorial plaque to celebrate and glorify her chastity. This week, some Zionist...
GIVING NEW MEANING TO THE TERM ‘PISS ON THEM’!
Sat, 08/09/2008 - 10:40Piss on the occupation! The following is truly revolting… just when one thought that Israel soldiers and settlers couldn’t sink lower than where they already are… they do the...
POLITICAL CARTOON OF THE DAY ~~ PALESTINIAN OLYMPIC EVENT ~~ 9/8/08
Sat, 08/09/2008 - 10:25The Wall Hurdle…..Image by Abonoon Nader al-Masri, a 5,000-meter runner, is one of four athletes who will represent the Palestinian territories in Beijing. Masri comes from the Beit Hanoun...
ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN STILL SILENT ON THE ASSAULT OF MOHAMMED OMER
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 15:31Ambassador Prosor still silent on Mohammed Omer assault case The following is from a Press Release issued this morning…. Friends of Mohammed Omer have reminded the Israeli...
VIDEO OF THE WEEK ~~ JERUSALEM STREET FOOD
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 10:07One would think this is a non political issue…. watch this to see how wrong that conception is… It is a city torn by politics and war, but whatever a citizens’ race or religion,...
BLOODY-MINDED NARROWNESS
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 09:13Image by Abonoon Parochialism is now driving the Palestinian scene, reports Khalid Amayreh The latest confrontation between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip has deepened the chasm separating the...
ISRAELI SETTLERS WORSE THAN SATAN
Thu, 08/07/2008 - 15:40Israeli settlers prevent a Christian service in Beit Sahour, assault worshippers George Rishmawi - IMEMC Settlers trying to force worshippers out (Photo: Rami Rishmawi-IMEMC) August 7,...
CENSORSHIP OF PEOPLES ART ~~ WHITEWASHING THE TRUTH (LITERALLY)
Thu, 08/07/2008 - 11:46One of my Associates, Carlos Latuff, lives in Rio… he was commissioned to do the following billboard which is against police brutality in the city…. Obviously the police themselves were...
ONE BEREAVED PALESTINIAN FATHER SPEAKS TO ANOTHER IN AN OPEN LETTER
Thu, 08/07/2008 - 09:35From One Bereaved Palestinian Father to Another. An open letter by Bassam Aramin, co-founder of Combatants for Peace Bassam Aramin Translated from the Arabic by Miriam Asnes Dear Hussam, father...
NOAM SHALIT IS WRONG
Thu, 08/07/2008 - 09:19Noam Shalit is wrong By Khalid Amayreh In a brief article published on the front-page of the East Jerusalem-based Arabic daily, al Quds, 5 August, Noam Shalit claimed that Israel’s criminal...
POLITICAL CARTOON OF THE DAY ~~ 6/8/08 ~~ WORLD’S WORST NIGHTMARE
Wed, 08/06/2008 - 15:31‘Uncle’ Freddie Krueger Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff
CHILD LABOUR AND EXPLOITATION OF WORKERS DECLARED KOSHER IN THE U.S.
Wed, 08/06/2008 - 10:37Two articles appear below… the first from the Forward declaring that ‘all seems well’…. the other report appeared on Ynet, which is pretty much in contradiction to the...
ROVING ADVENTURES OF THE FULBRIGHT REJECTS
Wed, 08/06/2008 - 09:49An interesting follow-up to my post of yesterday appeared in HaAretz this morning…. it is worth reading. Why did the U.S. turn away Gaza Fulbright scholars? By Barak...
MARRIED WITH CHILDREN ~~ ISRAELI VERSION
Tue, 08/05/2008 - 23:14We keep hearing about the equality of the citizens living in Israel, both Jewish and Palestinian. We are told they have the same rights. We are, in fact, told lots of things….. ALL...
THE LAND OF THE SETTLERS ~~ THE HORRORS OF THE CHECKPOINTS
Tue, 08/05/2008 - 18:47A brilliant production showing the horrors of the occupation on a daily basis…. Will Palestine remain a land of the settlers or a land of a proud and free natiion?
THE JEWISH SETTLER POGROM AGAINST PALESTINIANS MUST BE STOPPED NOW
Tue, 08/05/2008 - 17:11By Khalid Amayreh In the picture: nets run over the pavements of the Old Quarter of Hebron, to spare the pedestrians getting hit by the trash dropped out the windows by the settlers. Nazi-like...
ARE YOU NOW? WERE YOU EVER??
Tue, 08/05/2008 - 10:37Obviously two questions that weren’t asked of the Gaza recipients of Fulbright grants when they applied for travel permits. In the ‘good-ole’ McCarthy era those questions were in...
RABBIS WHO BRING SHAME TO JUDAISM
Tue, 08/05/2008 - 09:00By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Religious extremism is very dangerous. It means that every thinkable vice under the sun can be committed, “sanctioned” and “justified” in the name of the...
