Category: In the Media

  • The language that absolves Israel

    Saree Makdisi | The Los Angeles Times 19 June 2009 On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the quest for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.…

  • Attack on water brings sanitation crisis

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 18 June 2009 While diminishing water resources are a global concern, in Palestine the struggle for water is not against global warming or multinational corporations, but for access to water, and against contamination of what precious resources there are. Mohamed Ahmed, director of the Water Control Department in the…

  • Viva Palestina: our convoy to Gaza

    George Galloway | Counter Punch 10 June 2009 “Where is the ummah; where is this Arab world they tell us about in school.” Those words will forever remain etched on my brain. They were spoken by a 10 year old girl in a bombed out ruin in Gaza in March. She had lost her almost…