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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Help spread [...]
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.
Over 99% [...]
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 [...]
I’ll leave you with the pictures…
ahmed elsayed
Farah, clay, Ayman Maqussi
Farah, FATEMA, asma, wedz, z3tr [...]
Farah, Shaden, Anonymous, Travis Stark, Ashwaq [...]
Mar1, vic, kinzi, Shaden, john [...]