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Gulf News: Adalah rally outside UAE UN office in New York
By Abbas Al Lawati, published in Gulf News on 29th May 2008. To view original article click here Dubai: A Jewish-Palestinian advocacy group held a thank-you rally outside the UAE’s representative office in New York on Tuesday over the country’s stand on not allowing a controversial Israeli businessman from opening a store in Dubai. The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Adalah) gathered on Tuesday outside the UAE representative office in New York city to…
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Haaretz: Tutu meets Hamas leader, raps Israel for barring entry
By Akiva Eldar, published in Haaretz on the 29th May 2008. To view original article click here Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu criticized Israel’s refusal to allow him entry to the country, in his role as head of the U.S. special committee to investigate the November 2006 incident in Beit Hanun where 19 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire. In a telephone interview with Haaretz after he met with Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh…
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ei: Ramallah commemorates the ongoing Nakba
By Hazem Jamjoum, published by Electronic Intifada on 29th May 2008. To view original article click here Photos from Electronic Intifada Most Nakba commemoration events this year focused their attention on the 1948 War and the plight of the Palestinian refugees. Rightly so, for that war was in fact the implementation of a Zionist political and military strategy to forcibly remove the majority of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants to pave the way for the creation of an…
