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…