Chapter 5- PALESTINE. Our guide in the West Bank was an Israeli Arab.
All his life he was an Arafatsupporter. Though not at all religious, he had recently joined Hamas. As he was driving us through Qalqilia, a Palestinian town in the West Bank separated by the Wall, we pressed him on the matter of Hamas’ refusal to recognise Israel. My provocative interruption of his initial political diatribe was of a simple variety: "Since Hamas will never have the military might to defeat Israel, to get anywhere near a settlement Hamas will need to talk to Israel.
Commentary.. Debates... Maps. Palestinian problems. The campaign to silence Gilad Atzmon. Zingers... Robert Fisk: Condemn me, but get your facts right first - Robert Fisk - Commentators. "Robert Fisk is the most anti-Semitic, rabid, prejudiced, blithering fool in Britain, if not the world – he is a non-journalist, in fact he's a raving idiot with a very small mind and a very large ego.
He stops at nothing to put his personal anti-Semitic message across, which he gets sent to him from the where? [sic] the Middle East, not through any personal investigation; he tells any number of lies that gullible, unthinking people can't wait to agree with. He's a pawn of the Muslims – may he enjoy them when they set up sharia law in Britain and Europe – which is what they intend doing – chances are, if he makes one slip, they would turn on him and have him stoned to death, or even publicly behead him. Unfortunately far too many people are totally fooled because of people like him. " I should add that The Independent took this matter up with the South Cambridgeshire police, who interviewed those present at the union but concluded that Malkovich had not spoken with "intent".
Institute for Palestine Studies - Home. Then came Cast Lead in Gaza. Distinguished scholars return from USACBI delegation – Radio interviews with Robin Kelley, Nikhil Singh, Bill Mullen, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Neferti Tadiar. The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel recently organized a delegation of five scholar/activists to Palestine; the scholars who participated were Robin D.
G. Kelley, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Neferti Tadiar, Nikhil Pal Singh and Bill Mullen. Prior to the delegation, Kauanui served on our Advisory Board; following the delegation, Kelley, Tadiar, Singh and Mullen joined our Board as well. Several of the scholars who participated have written articles and engaged in radio interviews upon their return. NEW: Arab Talk Host Jess Ghannam interviews Professor Neferti Tadiar on the delegation to Palestine: NEW: Voice of Palestine Host Hanna Kawas interviews Professor Robin Kelley on the delegation to Palestine: Arab Talk Host Jess Ghannam interviews Professor J.
Arab Talk Host Jess Ghannam interviews Professor Robin Kelly on his recent trip to Palestine: Arab Talk Host Jess Ghannam interviews Professor Nikhil Singh on his recent trip to Palestine: Sheldon, Newt and Bibi: Egomaniacs for a strong Israel. For Sheldon Adelson, Newt Gingrich and Binyamin Netanyahu, the political is the personal, and vice versa.
I make it a point not to judge people’s personalities on the basis of their politics; I’ve known, and known of, too many humble right-wingers and superior-acting left-wingers for that. But not infrequently, the personal and the political line up: the good guy (of either gender) has what I would call good political ideals, the bad guy has rotten ones. At this rather fateful time for Israel, its three greatest champions - Bibi Netanyahu at home, Sheldon Adelson among American Jewry, and Newt Gingrich among American gentiles – are politically all Arab-bashers and personally all insufferable egomaniacs. I think this says something about Israel’s sphere of influence today, about what sort of people it lifts up.
About Gingrich, we already know: He visited his first wife in the hospital where she was recovering from cancer surgery and told her he wanted a divorce. Lisa Hajjar: Israel/Palestine as a 21st Century Lawfare Laboratory (Dec, 2011) Seeing the forest and the trees: The untold story of the Jewish National Fund. What WikiLeaks Reveals about Israel-Palestine. In March 2010, then-CENTCOM chief Gen.
David Petraeus set off a storm of protest among neoconservatives when, in his statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee, he named "insufficient progress toward a comprehensive Middle East peace" as an obstacle to U.S. goals in the region. "The enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the AOR [area of responsibility]," read the statement.
Compilation of Wikileaks Relating to Israel & the Palestinians. The Palestine Papers: A fact-based play in one act - Israel. Earlier this week, Al-Jazeera released a decade’s worth of memos, emails, maps and minutes from high-level negotiations between the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
The documents revealed that the Palestinians had offered far more significant concessions than previously reported. In the wake of these revelations, Palestinians expressed anger at their increasingly weak leadership, accusing them of capitulating, while some Israeli commentators accused the government of missing its chance for peace. The Americans, meanwhile, came across as intent on not offending the Israelis, even if it meant contradicting established U.S. policy. It was against this backdrop that Uncle Sam decided to spend some time on the couch this week… Scene: A psychiatrist’s office in a nondescript strip mall in suburban Virginia. Dr. Uncle Sam (not meeting the doctor’s eyes): Doesn’t matter.
Dr. The two men settle into their comfortable armchairs. Dr. Palestine papers: Browse the documents. The Palestine Papers. Attack on S Sudan UN base may be 'war crime'#link# of abducted girls freed in Nigeria#link# Korea divers see bodies inside sunken ferry#link# delays Keystone XL pipeline decision#link# leaders propose constitutional change#link# Francis leads Good Friday procession#link# bomb blast kills policeman#link# Korea arrests captain of sunken ferry#link# signs law blocking Iran's envoy to UN#link# urges Israel to reverse West Bank moves#link# ailing president wins fourth term#link# Sudan deploys army to guard UN base#link# earthquake rattles Mexico#link# Ukraine's political crisis#link# Korea ferry tragedy death toll rises#link#
Palestine Papers: Why I blew the whistle. In Palestine, the time for national reconciliation has come.
Palestinians in a 'Jewish state' Israel's crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories - like the settlements, the killing of civilians and the demolition of homes - are openly condemned in the West by human rights groups and others like never before.
But as the peace process remains stuck, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu forces the issue of Israel as a "Jewish state" into the spotlight, understanding the situation of Palestinian citizens of Israel has become crucial to grasping the core of the entire conflict. So-called "Israeli Arabs" have got it better than most Palestinians, who are either under military rule or forcibly excluded from their homeland.
"No Room for Palestinian Artist": An Interview with Larissa Sansour. 'The Fate of an Honest Intellectual', by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Understanding Power) I'll tell you another, last case—and there are many others like this.
Here's a story which is really tragic. How many of you know about Joan Peters, the book by Joan Peters? There was this best-seller a few years ago [in 1984], it went through about ten printings, by a woman named Joan Peters—or at least, signed by Joan Peters—called From Time Immemorial. David Remnick erases Norman Finkelstein. Norman Finkelstein (Photo: OR Books) Yesterday I praised David Remnick for his story about Joan Peters’s 1984 book of propaganda that said that there were no Palestinians in Palestine till Jews got there.
And I barely touched on a curious aspect of his piece that many commenters then seized on: Remnick left out Norman Finkelstein’s role in exposing the fraud; he gave credit to an Israeli: The book was thoroughly discredited by an Israeli historian, Yehoshua Porath, and many others who dismantled its pseudo-scholarship. Remnick’s link was to Porath’s 1986 review of the book, From Time Immemorial, in the New York Review of Books. This is a misrepresentation of intellectual history.