Category: Journals

  • Prisoner’s Day in Tubas

    Tom Hayes Today Tubas prisoner’s society held a rally outside the Red Cross building in Tubas to commemorate prisoner’s week. Students at Al Quds Open University in Tubas also held a vigil for the families of prisoners in the university grounds At the university vigil students gave prisoners’ families trees to plant. Each tree was…

  • Avnery: Blood on Our Hands

    Uri Avnery April 17th is recognized annually by Palestinians as Prisoner’s Day At this moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing. The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: “trafficking in human beings”. The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated…

  • The Unbelievable Stench of Irony

    The Unbelievable Stench of Irony by Dan Glass, Brighton-Palestine, 10 April 2007 The look in their eyes gave it all away. They knew something was wrong – how could they not? Only sixty-five years ago my grandparents were running from young soldiers dressed in green, with machine guns strapped to their under-developed arms, with officers…

  • Re-Ignited in Palestine: Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians

    Re-Ignited in Palestine: Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians by The Shmoogster The Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians had their first reunited circus extravanganza last night. Due to heavy rains, our flames were dampened 2 weeks ago when we attempted to have our first 2007 circus show in Tel Rumeida. Last night, however, Katie…

  • Znet: How Palestine became “Israel’s Land”

    How Palestine became “Israel’s Land” by Sonja Karkar of Women for Palestine, 31 March 2007 For Palestinians, theirs is not the land of conquest, but the land of their roots going back to time immemorial. Such a lineage does not rely on a biblical promise like the Jewish claim that God promised the land to…