By Sandy Tolan, professor and author
Air Force One will travel back in time this week, banking low near the southern Mediterranean coast and touching down on contested soil where the past is always present.
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Archive for the 'Occupation' Category
On the 15th of May, bloggers everywhere will unite through blogging to help raise awareness about the Palestinian cause and what happened (and is still happening) 60 years ago on the 15th of May, 1948.
Your post could be a picture, an article, a video, a poem or something you’d like to say about it.
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This week in Palestine: Gazans decided to go on strike in protest to violence caused by Hamas-linked groups two days ago. This is the first strike since Hamas gained power three months ago; the majority of shops, universities and even hospitals were closed on Sunday. Hamas shrugged it off and considered it an attempt by [...]
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This week in the Palestinian blogosphere, bloggers tackled serious issues such as the academical boycott of Israel, checkpointsEdward Said’s mural in San Francisco as well as lighter topics such as a Palestinian swimmer participating in a regional competition in Beit Sahour and other personal stories.
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For the longest time I tried to find the words to describe how I feel seeing Palestinians fight among themselves. And for the longest time, I couldn’t get myself to write about it. But right now, all I want is to vent.
I’ve been wondering lately about what Palestinians really want. I thought that we, Palestinians, [...]
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Filed under Humanities, Israel, Jordan, Occupation, Palestine, Peace, Politics, Racism, Terrorism, Terrorism and occupation. |7 Comments | 1,071 Views
Filed under Humanities, Israel, Jordan, Occupation, Palestine, Peace, Politics, Racism, Terrorism, Terrorism and occupation. |3 Comments | 541 Views
And then people wonder why the hell do some people bomb themselves just to kill a few other people. If Palestinians are denied the simplest rights such as the right to play football, can we expect them to love the tyrant who on the top of everything else deprived them from playing football?
This is not [...]
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Happy Assassination
24Oct06I know I’ll never ever understand the gangaster mind behind such inhumane acts! How low can an Israeli system get?!
The agency added that troops opened fire at a mourning house of the Shanbari family in Beit Hanoun, killing six residents, and injuring at least thirty, four seriously.
Eyewitnesses reported that the under-cover forces fortified themselves in [...]
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Just Another Mother Murdered
09Oct06Well, those Palestinians man, they die everyday, surely we can’t report that everday!!!
So what if she died because she was defending her husband and when she refused to stay away they shot her several times…I mean, Gilad Shalit was kidnapped and the whole world was very lucky to know about it - one way or [...]
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Amjad Mahfouz
Shaden, Hani Obaid, Abed Hamdan
Hani Obaid
Abed Hamdan, Abed Hamdan
KAD, Chelsea, french girl, Zippie, Natural Girl [...]