Category: Refugees
Posted on May 31, 2010 by Elie - FTLebanon
In my opinion, the terrible attack on the freedom flotilla was bound to happen. Anyone, who has been following news related to this high profile fleet, would have expected such confrontation between the international activists and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, regarded the flotilla as a provocation and made it clear that the country’s forces are going to restrict the ships from arriving to port on Sunday, with any means necessary.
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Posted on November 5, 2009 by Reem Shawkat (Sudan)
Last May, a professor of mine told me about an upcoming project, a book on refugees in Cairo. I was an undergraduate student and May is the worst month of the year for me. I didn’t ask a lot of …
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Posted on October 12, 2009 by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)
It happened in October in Palestine (*) October 1920: The Zionist ruler of Palestine and British official Herbert Samuel issues decrees that facilitate transfer of lands from natives to immigrants setting the stage for the beginning of the ethnic cleansing …
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Posted on April 3, 2009 by Esra'a (Bahrain)
This request is an urgent one. I personally am very passionate about the usage of any media to tell a story, it’s the most empowering thing. So you can imagine why I’d request for your help in pushing this forward; …
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Shahrazad (Iran)
“Good morning! Still alive?” excited teenage girls asked each other as their class, all in white headscarves, lined up in the yard shortly after dawn at Beach Preparatory School. School starts early in the Gaza Strip because there is not …
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Posted on January 16, 2009 by Nissim Dahan
In the Bible, Isaiah, in one of his more memorable prophesies, says that there will come a time when, “…They beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation does not lift a sword against nation, and …
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Posted on January 14, 2009 by Tamara
Esra’a, the Director of MidEastYouth recently brought to my attention an article in the Wall Street Journal written by Gunnar Heinsohn who heads the Raphael Lemkin Institute at the University of Bremen, Europe’s first institute devoted to comparative genocide research. …
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Posted on January 7, 2009 by Nissim Dahan
With the bloody fighting in Gaza, emotions are running high in the region, and around the world. The ghastly images we see on the news evoke a wide range of emotions: sympathy, empathy, regret, guilt, remorse, and yes, anger. All …
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Posted on November 13, 2008 by Ben Lynfield
Jerusalem – The UN’s refugee agency has confirmed that ninety one African refugees expelled by the Israeli army to Egypt as part of Israel’s controversial “hot return” policy have gone missing. A spokeswoman in Cairo for the United Nations High …
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Posted on October 8, 2008 by Ben Lynfield
On Sept. 1, Israeli army Brig.-Gen Yoel Strick said in a deposition to Israel’s Supreme Court that is a matter of public record that Israel had “returned” 91 African “infiltrators”—official parlance for asylum seekers—to Egypt in late August. Yesterday, Israeli …
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