Archive for the '1948 Palestine' Category

EI: George Habash’s contribution to the Palestinian struggle

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Press clippings, 1948 Palestine

By: As’ad AbuKhalil
30 January 2008

I lived more than half of my life in the US and I never felt the alienation that I felt on the day I read George Habash, the Palestinian revolutionary who passed away last week, labeled as a “terrorism tactician” in a front page obituary in The New York Times. What do you...

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Bush Peace Hallucinations Continue

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 | Posted in Press clippings, Ramallah Region, 1948 Palestine

By Sam Bahour

January 10, 2008

U.S. President George Bush landed in Israel yesterday on his first Presidential trip to the country. He participated in a press conference in Jerusalem...

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Ha’aretz: Leftists announce mock power cuts to protest Gaza fuel slash

Friday, December 7th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Gaza Region, 1948 Palestine

By: Yigal Hai

Residents of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were surprised Thursday morning to find on the doors to their homes mock notices announcing that the flow of electricity to the two cities would be cut off next week.

The 10,000 or so fake notices were posted across both cities by some 70 left-wing activists in response to...

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Apartheid Masked: A Generous Offer to Palestinian Refugees

Friday, December 7th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Commentary, 1948 Palestine

Click here for the original article.

By Neta Golan

Anyone familiar with Israeli politics, was not surprised that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not acknowledge Israel’s occupation in his speech at Annapolis. What was surprising was, that, short of mentioning the...

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PSL: On the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine, we remember the Nakba

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Commentary, 1948 Palestine

By: Richard Becker

Palestinian right of return still a fundamental demand

The struggle in Palestine can be complex and confusing even for the closest of observers.

Like all great struggles, it has had many twists and turns, and will have many more. But the root cause of the conflict— the forcible...

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Looting and burning in Nahr al Bared

Monday, November 5th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Video, ISM Media Alerts, 1948 Palestine


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Palestine Chronicle: 90th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Commentary, 1948 Palestine

By: J. A. Miller

It becomes, therefore, specially important to foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads directly away from these fatal [socialist] associations. And it is here that Zionism has such a deep significance for the whole world at the present time….The struggle which is now beginning between...

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Reporters Without Borders: Golan Heights journalist Ata Farahat held without trial for past three months

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, 1948 Palestine

Press release

30 October 2007

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the prolonged detention of journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested on 30 July and is being held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). The organisation has been told he could be prosecuted for “collaborating with an enemy nation” but this...

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Haaretz: ILA destroys Bedouin homes to make way for Jewish town

Monday, June 25th, 2007 | Posted in 1948 Palestine

By Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondent

The Israel Land Administration (ILA), with the assistance of an unusually large police force and IDF soldiers, demolished dozens of tin shack homes Monday in unrecognized Bedouin villages Um Al-Hiran and A-Tir in the northern Negev.

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40 Years of Corruption, Racism, Prison, Hunger…

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 | Posted in Commentary, 1948 Palestine

by Nurit Peled-Elhanan, laureate of the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament for Human Rights and Freedom of Thought.

Speech by Nurit Peled-Elhanan at the demonstration in Tel Aviv to commemorate 40 years of the occupation
Translated by Mark Marshall

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