Palestinians are finding new ways to rebuild houses destroyed during the war on Gaza a year ago.That’s because an Israeli blockade is preventing construction materials from getting into the Strip.
by Philip Weiss on February 7, 2010 · 18
Several BDS groups, including Adalah-NY here, have called for boycott of the Israel Ballet’s tour to Florida and the Northeast this month. The groups say that the ballet is part of the government’s rebranding campaign–
By Tony Judt
2003
The Middle East peace process is finished. It did not die: it was killed. Mahmoud Abbas was undermined by the President of the Palestinian Authority and humiliated by the Prime Minister of Israel. His successor awaits a similar fate. Israel continues to mock its American patron, building illegal settlements in cynical disregard of the “road map.” The President of the United States of America has been reduced to a ventriloquist’s dummy, pitifully reciting the Israeli cabinet line: “It’s all Arafat’s fault.” Israelis themselves grimly await the next bomber. Palestinian Arabs, corralled into shrinking Bantustans, subsist on EU handouts. On the corpse-strewn landscape of the Fertile Crescent, Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and a handful of terrorists can all claim victory, and they do. Have we reached the end of the road? What is to be done?
The more I read about the Chilcot inquiry the more disturbed I am. The fallacy imbued in the heart of British ‘democracy’ is staggering. While some commentators are concerned with questions to do with the legality of the war, the most crucial issue here is actually the disappearance of ethical judgment from our public and political life. Rather than being concerned with morality and ethics British politicians are concerned with legalism. In other words, if someone would manage to prove that the war was ‘legal’ then the murdering of a million and a half Iraqis would be well justified. Let’s all face it, our politicians are corrupted to the bone.
Manif Palestine, aujourd’hui samedi 14h pl de la république en direction de l’ambassade d’Israël.
De : CCIPPP
Encore la matinée pour appeler vos ami-es et continuer la mobilisation!
Il faut venir accompagné-e-s! Si vous ne l’êtes pas, vous ne vous sentirez pas tout-e seul-e non plus 🙂
Les militant-e-s de la CCIPPP seront dans le cortège du pôle Palestine, juste derrière le carré de tête et le camion de tête qui partira à au niveau du numéro 13 du bd saint martin. Ambiance et détermination.
L’arrivée sera dans la place de l’opéra, une prise de parole est prévue au nom du collectif et sera portée par les représentants de la CCIPPP, l’AFPS et Génération Palestine.
à nous voir nombreuses et nombreux ce samedi.
les militant-e-s de CCIPPP.
http://www.protection-palestine.org
AuthorGilad Atzmon
Ramzy Baroud’s “My Father Was A Freedom Fighter” is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light the history of the Palestinian people and their battle with Israel and Zionism. Through the story of the Baroud’s family the book outlines every event in the history of the conflict and reflects on the way it transformed the Palestinian reality.
The book is a heart breaking depressing story of the Baroud family’s journey from paradise to hell. It is a flight that starts in Beit Daras, a small pictorial village in the south of Palestine. It ends in a Gaza refugee camp. It is a tragic journey of a rural self-sufficient population that is driven into total dispossession, humiliation and absolute poverty. And yet, there is a beam of light along the book namely resistance: Ramzy’s father Mohammed, was a freedom fighter. He didn’t win a single war, not even a battle, yet, against all odds, in spite of his poverty and illness, he managed to educate his children and to plant hope in their young souls, to fuel Ramzy with fierceness, which along the years transformed the young man into a monumental inspirational writer and an icon of intellectual resistance.
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