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Electronic Intifada : Palestine

• Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
  And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed markedly. We have reached a point where peaceful protest is unacceptable to the Israeli state and military l […]
• "Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people"
  The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice, which examines a rights-based approach to crafting durable solutions for Palestinian refugees. The Electronic Intifada contrib […]
• "Bureaucratic weapons worse than bombs"
  Firas al-Maraghi from the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem has been on hunger strike outside the Israeli embassy in Berlin since 26 July. Al-Maraghi is striking in protest of the Israeli Ministry of Interior's refusal […]
• Bedouin's legal fight threatens Jewish state
  Nuri al-Uqbi's small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighborhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel's Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicenter of a legal struggle that some observers say threatens Israel's Jewish character.
• Lifta's legacy under threat
  There are few villages in historic Palestine which invoke the memories of the Nakba (the 1948 dispossession of the Palestinian people) as does Lifta. However, Lifta's architectural legacy is under threat as Israel moves to Judaize the formerly pluralisti […]
• What the wall has done
  Israel began constructing the wall in June 2002 following its invasion of cities in the West Bank, which it dubbed "Operation Defensive Shield." The immense scale of the 2002 invasion -- characterized by the destruction of Palestinian civilian infra […]
• Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail
  As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, The Electronic Intifada interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week's US-brokered direct t […]
• "Solidarity tastes different inside prison"
  "My human dignity, basic human rights and constitutional rights are suffering from basic violations. I still have no permit to meet my lawyers without being recorded." The Electronic Intifada publishes an edited excerpt from a 7 August 2010 l […]
• "Once winter's over, the sun will shine"
  When Israel's construction of the wall began in their village May 2008, the people of Nilin embarked on a campaign of unarmed grassroots resistance against the theft of their land. They have followed a philosophy of direct action, cutting through the ele […]
• Art as resistance: "Against the Wall" reviewed
  London-based journalist and photographer William Parry's Against the Wall serves as both a political and aesthetic document, perhaps exemplifying the German philosopher Walter Benjamin's famous thesis that "[t]here is no document of cult […]

Mondoweiss The War of Ideas in the Middle East

• Matthews says Obama has gone ?neocon.? Why?
  Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews lamented Obama's passivity and, speaking of his foreign policy, said that his speech on Iraq the other night was the speech of a neoconservative, not a "dove." Over the course of the hour, the hobbyhorsical host several times slammed the Republican Party as a party of "neocons" that will give [...]
• Netanyahu has more power in Congress than Obama
  Echoing the point made by Sheera Frenkel below, here is an interesting column by MJ Rosenberg at Mediamatters, appealing for the two-state solution, and saying that Netanyahu can deliver it, not Obama, because, well, Obama is bought and paid for. Rosenberg is blunt about the fact that Netanyahu is more powerful politically than Obama here, [...]
• Tail beats the dog
  Sheera Frenkel of McClatchy reports that even as Netanyahu arrived for the talksmembers of his political party were in Washington to push a different agenda. Danny Dayan, a settler leader and member of the Yesha Council, the lobby for the settler movement in Israel, was meeting Jewish and congressional leaders in Washington to [...]
• Actually, Herzl was a colonialist
  Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies was on Russian television today speaking of her disappointment in Obama and Mitchell. The talks are a "photo-op," she said, because the Palestinian refugees and the Palestinians in Gaza are not represented. And the terms have been set by Israel. "The U.S. has not brought real pressure [...]
• As talks resume, two-thirds of Israelis support settlement building
  And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Abbas demands a freeze on Israeli settlement activity (AFP) AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Wednesday publicly demanded a freeze on all Israeli settlement activity at the launch of landmark US-mediated peace talks at the White House. http://us.rd.yahoo.co […]
• Palestinian guns ? redux
  Many people reacted strongly with disapprobation to my "Hamas attack was wrong" post yesterday. Nearly everyone agrees that murdering civilians is wrong, but some question whether the settlers are civilians in the first place. The settlers are racial supremacists whose race pride, irrational hatred and extermination fantasies combine to make Palest […]
• ?Do you know how hard I work to control the rage inside of me??
  Yesterday on this site, responding to the murders of the four settlers in the West Bank Tuesday, Seham, a Palestinian-American, offered a list of settler attacks on Palestinians. David Samel, who has taken a strong stance against violent resistance, responded in a comment:Seham, I have no doubt that many settlers, especially the ones who [...]
• I know a ton of old lefties, wheat-grass drinkers, and painters in falling-down houses that went to Bard, but
  the lobby never sleeps.Dear Friends and Colleagues,The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and Foreign Affairs magazine cordially invite you to the opening of this year's James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series: "The Demonization of Israel: Its History and Politics" Martin Peretz Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic; and recipie […]
• Help! CNN runs reports produced by propaganda outfit headed by former AIPAC president
  Check this out. Israel 21c is a pro-Israel p.r. organization. "A Focus Beyond," its motto, says it all.ISRAEL21c – a New Paradigm for Pro-Israel Communications ISRAEL21c’s mission is to focus media and public attention on the 21st century Israel that exists beyond the conflict.Its board is headed by a former president of AIPAC, Amy Friedk […]
• ?New York Post? joins campaign against Moustafa Bayoumi
  The New York Post, the sensationalistic right-wing daily in New York, is joining the smear campaign against Moustafa Bayoumi, the Brooklyn College professor and the editor of the newly released book titled Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How it Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict. In [...]

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