Tag Archives: Palestine

Youth conference and more

Posted on by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)

Items in today’s post: Video of the event today at Al-Walaja (three arrested but subsequently released), Comments on the just concluded Herzliya conference, action item to do for Brussels Air, Youth Conference in Palestine in July, and more. 1) Video: …

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Leadership gambit points up deepening rift in Hamas

Posted on by Ben Lynfield

Jerusalem – The Arab Spring and its aftermath are shaking even the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist movement Hamas, and there are now indications it may soon change its leader. Hamas, in an official statement, confirmed over the weekend that long-time leader …

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Stabbing of human rights activist fuels Gaza fears

Posted on by Ben Lynfield

Jerusalem – An assault on a human rights activist after he voiced extraordinarily blunt criticism of Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement has heightened concern about the safety of independent voices in the troubled coastal enclave. The stabbing by three masked men …

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Frivolous thoughts about the Israeli and the Palestinian Affairs

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

I very often remember the wonderful Egyptian joke in which an Egyptian person asks a cleric of a mosque, “If we conquered Tel Aviv, would it be permissible for us to penetrate Israeli females?”, then the cleric answers him, “If …

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Can you help Kurds to have a remembrance day for the Genocide?

Posted on by Laween Atroshi

Dear Friends of Kurdistan, I have set up an e-petition urging the British Government to recognize the Genocide inflicted upon the Kurdish population by the former regime of Saddam Hussein. If we get 100,000 signatures than they will debate this …

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Green Industrial Zones: A New Model for the Middle East

Posted on by Nissim Dahan

The following conversation took place between me, myself and I; three people I happen to know quite well: What is your answer for the Middle East? I would use Arab and Western capital and know how to build a Green …

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Israeli court ruling heightens fears for Palestinian spouses of Arab citizens

Posted on by Ben Lynfield

Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem – Israel’s supreme court has upheld a controversial law that prevents Arab citizens from living with their Palestinian spouses in the Jewish state, a move that impacts thousands of people and is raising concern over a …

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Program of activities in Bethlehem area

Posted on by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)

Below is a program of selected activities in the Bethlehem area starting tomorrow and over the Holidays (your participation if around would be appreciated). I also included a link to the best and most detailed account of the colonial destruction …

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December in Palestinian history

Posted on by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)

December in Palestinian history is replete with important events*: – December 1908: Palestinian villagers of Kafr Kama (near Tiberias) tried to reclaim land taken unfairly by the “Jewish Colonisation Association” (yes that was its actual name). – 9 December 1917, …

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I was released

Posted on by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)

I was finally released. Israeli soldiers abducted me while filming an attack on villagers of Al-Walaja. The attack started with dynamiting their village lands near their houses, a process that already shook and cracked houses and injured some residents before. …

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