By: Richard Becker Palestinian right of return still a fundamental demand The struggle in Palestine can be complex and confusing even for the closest of observers. Like all great struggles, it has had many twists and turns, and will have ...
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Stop the Wall: Declaration of Principles and National Rights
November 2007 Out of our serious concern for our national cause and legitimate rights, which have been under direct and systematic attack from the Israeli Occupation and the United States, who wish to liquidate the Palestinian struggle by taking advantage ...
Read More »Palestine Chronicle: 90th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
By: J. A. Miller It becomes, therefore, specially important to foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads directly away from these fatal [socialist] associations. And it is here that Zionism has such a deep significance for the whole ...
Read More »Reporters Without Borders: Golan Heights journalist Ata Farahat held without trial for past three months
Press release 30 October 2007 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the prolonged detention of journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested on 30 July and is being held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). The organisation has been ...
Read More »Jerusalem Post: ‘I didn’t suggest we kill Palestinians’
By Ruthie Blum, Oct. 10, 2007 Arnon Soffer arrives at our meeting armed with a stack of books and papers. Among them is a copy of an interview I conducted with him three and a half years ago (“It’s the ...
Read More »Dissident Voices: The 25th Anniversary of the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla, A Letter to Janet
Will anyone remember? Does anyone really care anymore? by Franklin Lamb / September 12th, 2007 Martyrs Square Sabra-Shatilla Palestinian Refugee Camp Beirut A Letter to Janet Dearest Janet, It’s a very beautiful fall day here in Beirut today. Twenty-five years ...
Read More »Family Reunification
Date posted: August 06, 2007 By MIFTAH Since the beginning of Israeli occupation in 1967, all policies towards curbing the process of Palestinian family reunification have greatly threatened normal and stable family life for many. This has been especially true ...
Read More »1967: Abandoned and rejected
By Ahmad Shaheen | Guardian: Comment Is Free I was born in a tent and I’m living in a tent, but I hope I won’t die in a tent. I’m a middle-aged journalist and a human rights advocate. My children ...
Read More »Family’s trees uprooted in Artas, Palestinian Information Minister attacked by Israeli soldiers
1) World Bank condemns roadblocks, 5 activists arrested for dismantling them 2) Two internationals hospitalized after Israeli settlers attack 3) 40 Children Without a Roof 4) IWPS: Family home in Al Funduq to be demolished in three days 5) The ...
Read More »Commemorating the Nakba in Ramallah
from Kim and Anjelka, IWPS, 17 May 2007 Al Nakba, which means “the catastrophe” in Arabic, is the name given by the Palestinians to the 1948 UN partition of British Mandate Palestine, establishment of the state of Israel and the ...
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