The Trade Union of Palestinian Journalists organized in Bethlehem a sit-in on Wednesday morning to protest at the kidnapping of a Palestinian journalist from Bethlehem on Monday by the Israeli army. Journalists Protest in Bethlehem (Photo: Mousa Shaer) The protest was attended by a number of local Bethlehem based journalists in addition to the head…
Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad Thursday, 13 March 2008 Um Saad, a middle-aged woman living in the Sunni district of Khadra in west Baghdad, blames the Americans for the death of her husband and two of her sons and threatens revenge. “They are monsters and devils wearing human clothes,” she exclaims vehemently. “One day I will…
“The Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is based on contempt for all Gentiles, not only Arabs. This yeshiva was founded by Rabbi A.Y. Kook, and later led by his son, T.Y. Kook. The manner in which young minds are shaped at this Yeshiva can be guessed from one of A.Y.’s spiritual pronouncements, that “The difference between a…
The situation for 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worse now than it has ever been The current situation in Gaza is man-made, completely avoidable Gaza has suffered from a long-term pattern of economic stagnation and plummeting development indicators. The severity of the situation has increased exponentially since Israel imposed extreme restrictions on…
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Hundreds of Israeli occupation troops stormed a Palestinian orphanage and a boarding school in the southern West Bank City of Hebron early Thursday, looting large amounts of frozen food, dairy products, clothes, shoes, refrigerators and kitchen equipments, local officials and eyewitnesses said. The looted material were to be used to feed and cloth as many…
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I was of course happy to meet the Hizbullah people…I have no problem saying that I do want to express solidarity with them…there is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country. That…
Continue Reading We honour those who resist: Israel has to suffer a defeat (Norman Finkelstein)