Palestinian Authority Disrupts Egypt Solidarity Protest in Ramallah

Human Rights Watch Palestinian Authority security forces shut down a demonstration on January 30, 2011, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Ramallah, after calling in one of the organizers for questioning multiple times on January 29 and ordering him to cancel the event notice that he had created on Facebook. Human Rights Watch monitored [...]

“We can’t refer to the past” – Israel refuses to take responsibility for creating the Palestinian refugee crisis.

Tzipi Livni then-Israeli foreign minister – “I feel like we can’t refer to the past“. by Laila Al-Arian, al Jazeera It’s a core issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that dates back to Israel’s creation: the forced expulsion in 1948 of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes by Israeli soldiers and Jewish paramilitary groups. [...]

PA negotiators reject leaked report

“Because of the sensitive nature of these documents, Al Jazeera will not reveal the source(s) or detail how they came into our possession.”  Al Jazeera, Introduction to the Palestinian Papers The Palestinian Papers are brought to you by the same propaganda mill that brought you the Wiki”leaks” fraud. “shared exclusively with the Guardian“. Again, there [...]

Russia recognizes Palestine

from UPI Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recognized Palestine as an independent state during a visit to Jericho. Medvedev said since 1988 Moscow has recognized the need for a Palestinian state during his visit Tuesday to the Palestinian city. He said everyone including Israel will benefit from its establishment, Ynetnews.com said Wednesday. “The Russian position hasn’t [...]

The IDF uses propaganda like an authoritarian regime

by Gideon Levi, Haaretz Jawaher Abu Ramah died young. She stood facing the demonstrators against the separation fence in her village, inhaled very large quantities of the gas that Israel Defense Forces soldiers fired that day, collapsed and died several hours later at a Ramallah hospital. These are definitive facts. The IDF should have immediately [...]

Israel academics to boycott college

“I have two young daughters and I want them to grow up in a democratic, free Israel” At least 165 professors sign peition vowing to avoid activities at campus built on illegal settlement in the West Bank. from Al Jazeera English At least 165 Israeli professors have declared a boycott against a contentious college in [...]

Allen West: If You Want to Free Palestine… Give it Back to the Jews

(H/T Kennys SideShow) Wow. Just fucking… wow. Allen West (R.22nd District FL) explains how “God” proclaimed the boundaries of Israel in the Old Testament. Then he goes on to say “Take Your Pro-Hamas Butt and Get the Hell Out of My Country“ apparently directed at people in this country who support Palestinian rights.  This was [...]

Abbas, Palestinians should die: Israeli rabbi

from Reuters An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week. “Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this earth,” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual head of [...]

Formalizing Israel’s Land Grab

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig Time is running out for Israel. And the Israeli government knows it. The Jewish Diaspora, especially the young, has a waning emotional and ideological investment in Israel. The demographic boom means that Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories will soon outnumber Jews. And Israel’s increasing status as a pariah nation [...]

American Radical – The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

“A famous English aristocrat once said that if a person were to walk down the streets of London telling the truth to people he met, he would probably be killed before he went a couple hundred meters.” Noam Chomsky Part 1 “This past week one of Israel’s main television networks broadcast the documentary AMERICAN RADICAL [...]

Sands of Sorrow (1950) Palestinian Arab Refugee Camps Video

Arrests at Al Walaja

a little history of the land… Abu Nidal finds the original location of Walaja on a map dating from the 1920s.Walaja is located south west of Jerusalem. The village was Occupied in October 1948, but Palestinian and Egyptian guerillas fought off the Israeli battalions and successfully defended their village. Several times they were able to [...]