Palestine Blogs

Complementing the previous quote of the day, here’s yet another warning. “We have no time — time works against us. The conflict can be transferred from a national conflict to a...

“The Israel-Palestine standoff is a globally consequential fault line that will blow sooner rather than later if the problems and pressures there are not seriously addressed.” - Steve...

“I get so frustrated with his casual conflation of support or opposition to the policies of any Israeli government and being or not being a friend of “the Jews,” whatever that...

“The Israeli offensive claimed the lives of 118 women, and injured at least 825 more. However, although the numbers of victims and casualties illustrate the appalling human toll of this...

From Coteret: On February 14 2010, Israel Hayom published an article by Efrat Porsher suggesting that the Jewish Defense League (JDL) is reorganizing to defend Israeli speakers on campuses in the US...

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Author Victor Kattan discusses his latest book From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949. Link @ blip.tv

McCarthyism à l’Israélienne vs. Jewish Humanism* * On Jewish humanism, see also here or simply listen to these young people.

A review of Yves Engler’s Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid.

From Mondoweiss: South Africa’s whites did not have a dedicated cadre of coreligionists or ethnic kin abroad who labored to protect them from the consequences of their deviance from the norms of...

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“As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic,… If this bloc of millions...

From Mondoweiss: Israel is cracking down on all popular/civil resistance activities because: 1) there is no armed resistance now, and 2) Civil resistance is escalating and portending a new powerful...

“What [Canadians] don’t have enshrined as a privilege in the Charter [of Rights], and what cannot be taken away by anyone else, is freedom of conscience. The intimidation unleashed by the...

Also on You Tube Food for thought: The Nation of Israel? Wait and See. The Elephant in the Living Room It’s Not About Peace

A couple of weeks ago, I came upon Lia Tarachansky’s column Addicted to the occupation at The Daily Nuisance and got a jolt on reading her last paragraph: Stumbling home after the interview, I...

“It’s cliche to talk about how we’re in a state of occupation and we’re trying to occupy more and more. I’m at that age where I don’t even talk about peace...

Perhaps worried that Israel has strayed too far from the international community and worried also about the ensuing backlash (and possibly even more dire consequences), Irwin Cotler is there advising...

Kind of … What I find intriguing is that people from every country entrapped in this maze seem to be convinced that they are alone in there, which is obviously not true. Strange!