In my memory…
60 years ago my father, an 8 year old boy at the time, along with his family took a bus from Ayn Hawd , a small village in Haifa to the West Bank. That wasn’t a trip though; they were so frightened and in a hurry that they left everything behind. That was [...]
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Fouad Alfarhan is a Saudi blogger who uses his blog, alfarhan.org, to promote political reform and greater freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia. He was forced to stop blogging at the beginning of 2007 after being harassed by government officials, but then resumed writing in July 2007. He was arrested without charge on Tuesday, December [...]
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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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A very disturbing report by the DCI was published on Welcome to Baqa’a Refugee Camp about Palestinian children tortured, prisoned and sexually abused by the Israeli occupational forces. The report states that in 2006 and the first half of 2007:
Only 3 to 5% of the juveniles abducted were granted bail pending trial.
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Two teachers tied up a 2nd or 3rd grade female student and took turns in beating her, in one of Amman’s school. The teachers tied her up to the safety net of a window, and had another student watch her being tortured, perhaps to learn a lesson. Read the full story here (in Arabic)
But not [...]
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Another journalist and blogger was arrested in Egypt! I can’t believe it, how threatening words are for some people (AKA oppressing regimes). Egyptian security forces arrested Abdul-Mon’em Mahmood, who works for Al-Hiwar channel and is also a blogger while trying to leave the country. The arrest happened after two days of chase and police raids [...]
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Just Foreign Policy together with Jewish Voice for Peace are planning to deliver to the US Senate - particularly the Democratic presidential candidates - a petition against cluster bombs.
Millions of unexploded cluster “bomblets” were left scattered over southern Lebanon after Israel withdrew last summer. Lebanese civilians, particularly children, have been killed and maimed by these [...]
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Al-Kasaba Film Festival ends tomorrow with Arna’s Children (which is on my to-watch list ). Today I could finally make it to Al-Balad Theater and I watched with my friend Ola and her cousin Goal Dreams. When you know that it’s about the Palestinian football team, you’ll probably think it’s just another documentary about [...]
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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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If Palestinians did that, this would make headlines in the U.S media.
Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers (HRWs) to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 Jewish extremists in small groups. They started chanting in Hebrew “We killed [...]
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Amjad Mahfouz
Shaden, Hani Obaid, Abed Hamdan
Hani Obaid
Abed Hamdan, Abed Hamdan
KAD, Chelsea, french girl, Zippie, Natural Girl [...]