They’re starved to death, mind you but if saying that “they’re not getting a balanced diet” gets through to anyone then similarly, children are terrified to sleep at night without night lamps. Translation: 70 percent of Gaza is living without electricity after Israel has forced the shut down of Gaza’s main power plant last week.
Gazans [...]
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The situation is beyond disastrous at this point.
Please sign this petition and speak up about this on your blog. You can sign the Arabic petition too.
To whom it may concern: the siege must be broken immediately.
Banning Arabian Childhood
01Sep08ERUSALEM, August 12, 2008 (AFP) – Harry Potter and Pinocchio are apparently not welcome in Israel, at least in their Arabic translations imported from Syria and Lebanon.
Arab-Israeli publisher Salah Abassi told Israeli public radio on Monday that authorities ordered him to stop importing Arabic-language children’s books from the two longtime foes of Israel.
The ban includes [...]
Slingshot Hip Hop & DAM
15Jul08
Last Thursday I was lucky enough to catch the first (and long awaited) screening of Slingshot Hip Hop in Jordan which was followed by an awesome performance by DAM on the theater’s stage.
I’ve been a fan of DAM ever since I read about them nearly 5 years ago and I can’t believe I finally [...]
Divine Intervention
15Jun08Divine Intervention is the title of a spectacular movie by Elia Suleiman, a genius Palestinian director from Nazareth. Elia Suleiman was also the star in this movie about love and pain. The movie was nominated for a Palme d’Or award in 2002 at Cannes Film Festival making Suleiman the first Palestinian to show at Cannes, [...]
Smile, You’re in South Lebanon
12Jun08“Smile, you’re in south Lebanon” is a great documentary I was lucky enough to watch last week in Souk Jara. The 1 hour and 20 something minutes documentary by a brilliant Dalia Kury filmed the life of a southern Lebanese family and how they deal with fear and hardship.
The answer to the previous question is [...]
Action - Reaction
07Jun08Action:
Israel’s prime minister has said that the country’s military could launch fresh large-scale military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Ehud Olmert’s warning on Friday came as Israeli raids on the occupied Palestinian territory left at least one person dead and at least 17 injured.
“According to the information we have now, the pendulum is much closer to [...]
Nakba in My Memory and Today
16May08In 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 [...]
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.
In the Holy Land, the battles over the historical narrative surrounding the founding of Israel in 1948 are as hard-fought as [...]
clay, Ayman Maqussi
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Shaden, Anonymous, Travis Stark, Ashwaq, CHE [...]
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