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pakistan as cambodia?
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 21:01another u.s. bombing of pakistan today. as with gaza, the congo, no public outcry. more death and displacement. more euphemisms to mask the death of innocent civilians: At least five people have been...
Israel’s Internal Politics and the Crisis in Gaza
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 18:55Last night I was on Iran’s Press TV’s Middle East Today to discuss “Israel’s Internal Politics and the Crisis in Gaza” (a bit different than what I was told we would be...
two schools & double standards
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 11:48There is a documentary that was on Al Jazeera about a year ago byTom Evans and George Azar called Two Schools in Nablus. The program is worth watching if you want to see what life is like here in...
not hillary!
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 13:17i woke up to this alarming story in the guardian today: Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad...
ceasefire. truce.
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 12:45do words have no meaning any more? is “all language bankrupt” as suheir hammad tells us in her beautiful poem “a prayer band”? here is how my dictionary defines these...
غزة على بالي
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 12:08Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition November 17, 2008 For Immediate Release Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, calls on all its chapters and members, supporting...
apparently money doesn’t change anything
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 22:01In The Nation magazine this week Naomi Klein makes a powerful pronouncement: The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington’s handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely...
why zionism = racism
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 16:32First, a couple of examples–both examples of the continued ethnic cleansing project that is part and parcel of the Zionist state. In Al Quds: Last Sunday [27 July], around 11:30 A.M., my...
gaza déjà vu
Sun, 11/16/2008 - 21:58I was just glancing through my posts from the beginning of this year–in January. I was recalling the teach-in on Gaza we did at Boise State University around that same time. I was recalling...
lakota people need help and heat
Sun, 11/16/2008 - 08:31angry indian had this important announcement on his blog. for those of you who can help, please do. EMERGENCY WINTER HEATING/UTILITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM October, 2008 through March, 2009 For the...
toward a definition of genocide
Sun, 11/16/2008 - 00:58so i’m sitting here in my apartment in nablus, working on my book, with al jazeera playing in the background. “people and power” was on and i turned up the volume when i heard...
it’s like watching a train wreck
Sat, 11/15/2008 - 13:13Rumor after rumor, decision after decision: it’s like watching a train wreck. The latest news? That Hillary Rodham Clinton may be Obama’s Secretary of State. For a candidate who wanted...
israeli = illegal
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 15:02There are many forms of resistance as I’ve often written about here. Palestinians have always used a variety of such methods. And indeed it took decades before they resorted to their right to...
Tell Oxford not to create lecture series in Peres’ honor
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 09:11Appeal, Badil, 13 November 2008 Oxford University’s Balliol College has decided to honor Shimon Peres and the apartheid state of Israel by inviting him to speak in Oxford, and by planning to...
on apologies
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 07:59So he did it. Rahm Israel Emanuel bowed to public pressure–or Barack Obama forced him to submit to that pressure. Either way he apologized to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee...
more hunger, more war
Thu, 11/13/2008 - 22:47in gaza right now there is darkness. it is cold, it is raining. and there is no light. there is no food shipment nor any fuel shipment. this is zionism. this is terrorism. (they are one in the...
bamboozled
Thu, 11/13/2008 - 18:46There are still a number of important editorials coming out with critical analysis about what a President Obama will mean. As my posts over the entire election campaign make clear, I’ve never...
hunger
Thu, 11/13/2008 - 16:161.5 million people trapped in the open-air prison that is gaza. 750,000 palestinian refugees living there dependent on unrwa food aid will likely have no food tomorrow. Israel plans to allow a...
insecurity
Wed, 11/12/2008 - 22:09even the un is unable to do anything. not that they ever have before. too many parallels between palestine insecurity and congolese insecurity… Congo: Palestine: A spokesman for the United...
1848 to 1948
Wed, 11/12/2008 - 20:53A story on Al Jazeera today about Mexican migrant workers–economic refugees if you will–who die on the U.S.-Mexican border. The story is a small one, but it is a reminder of a larger...
