MUST SEE VIDEO: HEY ELTON -
May 14, 2010
by Canadian filmmaker John GreysonPalestinian civil society has called on Elton John to respect their boycott call and cancel his June 17th concert in Tel Aviv. If he does so, he’ll be joining Santana and Gil-Scott Heron, who recently cancelled their spring concerts in Israel. This video suggests six reasons why Elton should join the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement.
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WHITE: Israel seeks to silence dissent
- May 14, 2010
Repressive practices long used in the West Bank and Gaza are now being used to limit civil liberties within Israel
John Baldessari's "Six Colourful Gags"
Last Thursday, in the early hours of the morning, a Palestinian community leader’s home was raided by Israeli security forces. In front of his family, the wanted man was hauled off to detention without access to a lawyer, while his home and offices were ransacked and property confiscated.
While this sounds like an all-too typical occurrence in West Bank villages such as Bil’in and Beit Omar, in fact, the target in question this time was Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and head of internationally renowned NGO network Ittijah. Read More…
FEFFER: The Israeli Exception
- May 5, 2010
by John Feffer - Foreign Policy in Focus - 4 May 2010
North Korea and Israel have a lot in common.
Neither is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and both employ their nuclear weapons in elaborate games of peek-a-boo with the international community. Israel and North Korea are equally paranoid about outsiders conspiring to destroy their states, and this paranoia isn’t without some justification. Partly as a result of these suspicions, both countries engage in reckless and destabilizing foreign policies. In recent years, Israel has launched preemptive strikes and invaded other countries, while North Korea has abducted foreign citizens and blown up South Korean targets (including, possibly, a South Korean ship in late March in the Yellow Sea). Read More…
WATZAL: Surrender to injustice never an option – A Gaza Story -
May 5, 2010
PHOTO: Rich Wiles
by Dr Ludwig Watzal - The Palestine Chronicle - 2 May 2010
‘Not one refugee will return. The old will die. The young will forget.’ This prediction, uttered by David Ben-Gurion in 1948, did not come true. Not only the keys of the houses, that the Palestinians were forced to leave, passed on from generation to the other, but so did the memoirs and the deep roots and emotional attachment to the Land of Palestine endured over the years. Read More…
KHOURI: Israel lobby becomes part of the debate
- May 4, 2010
by Rami Khouri - Agence Global - 2 May 2010
NEW YORK — One of the fascinating aspects of recent tensions between the American and Israeli governments over Washington’s Middle Eastern diplomacy has been a sea-change in the public posture of what is usually called “the Israeli lobby” in the United States. This phrase refers to a very sophisticated, extensive and successful web of American organizations and individuals working to shape American foreign policy so that it favors the prevalent Israeli rather than Arab view of things. Read More…
FREEMAN: Israel is useless to US power projection -
May 3, 2010
by Chas Freeman - MONDOWEISS - 30 April 2010
The other day Stephen Maher published a piece on Electronic Intifada saying that American thirst for hegemony in the region, and not the Israel lobby, is the prime motivator of US policy in Israel and Palestine. What follows is an excerpt of a private email exchange responding to Maher’s post, reprinted by permission of the author, Chas Freeman, a former assistant secretary of defense. Read More…
Berkeley Israel divestment bid fails
- May 3, 2010
The UC Berkeley Student Senate this week failed to override a veto of a plan to divest from two US firms that sell weapons Israel uses in its occupation of Palestinian territory.
The proposal originally passed on a 16-4 vote in March, but the Student Senate Will Smelko vetoed the measure, which would withdraw the senate’s funds from General Electric and United Technologies.
After a second all-night debate on the subject in a week, a final attempt to override the veto failed on a 13-5 vote early on Thursday morning.
Also on Thursday, student Senators at UC San Diego voted to create a committee to re-write their own Israel divestment measure, effectively postponing action on the issue. Read More…
BIRD: Who lives in Sheikh Jarrah?
- May 3, 2010
The Talbieh quarter in West Jerusalem, early 1940s before it was captured by Zionist forces in 1948
As a boy, I lived in Sheik Jarrah, a wealthy Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Annexed by Israel in 1967 and now the subject of a conflict over property claims, my former home has come to symbolize everything that has gone wrong between the Israelis and Palestinians over the last six decades.
Despite talk of a slowdown in Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, Jerusalem’s mayor, toured Washington earlier this week and told officials that the expansion into Arab neighborhoods is going ahead at full speed. Read More…
HIJAB & ROSENFELD: Are Palestinian roads cementing statehood or Israeli annexation?
- May 2, 2010
PHOTO: Tal Adler - Israeli-only roads in the Israeli-occupied Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has staked his political credibility on securing a Palestinian state by 2011 in the entire West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, a program enthusiastically embraced by the international community. Ambitious PA plans include roads and other infrastructure across the West Bank, with funds provided by the United States, Europe and other donors.
Fayyad has argued that development will make the reality of a Palestinian state impossible to ignore. However, many of the new roads facilitate Israeli settlement expansion and pave the way for the seizure of main West Bank highways for exclusive Israeli use. Read More…
VIDEO: The movement to hold Israel accountable continues to grow 1May10
- May 2, 2010
Laura Flanders of GRITtv interviews Remi Kanazi and Phyllis BennisPhyllis Bennis is the Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and is a fellow of both TNI and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC where she directs IPS’s New Internationalism Project. Phyllis specialises in U.S. foreign policy issues, particularly involving the Middle East and United Nations. She worked as a journalist at the UN for ten years and currently serves as a special adviser to several top-level UN officials on Middle East and UN democratisation issues.A frequent contributor to U.S. and global media, Phyllis is also the author of numerous articles and books, particularly on Palestine, Iraq, the UN, and U.S. foreign policy.
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian
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