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Dreadful Consequences
Gaza today -lawless embargo , sanctions and occupation by Dr. Mona El-Farra, 23 May 2007 A few days ago, a ceasefire has been signed again between the two Palestinian fighting parties, Fatah and Hamas. And children are back at school. My daughter started her end of the year exams early. All the schools had to squeeze the schedule of the examination, so they end as soon as possible before new violence erupts. I believe it is…
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Boycott Israel – Don’t Play another “Sun City”!
An open letter to the Rolling Stones regarding their planned gig in Israel from PACBI Dear Rolling Stones, The Palestinian arts community received in disbelief media reports of your upcoming performance in Israel, at a time when Israel continues unabated with its colonial and apartheid designs to further dispossess, oppress, and ultimately ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland. If the news is accurate, and we sincerely hope it is not, we strongly urge you to cancel…
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Occupation and the Mind
Exposing the damage done to the emotional health of Palestinians by the Israeli occupation by Dr Samah Jabr, The New Internationalist, May 2007 In Palestine the kind of war being waged needs to be understood in order to appreciate the psychological impact on this long-occupied population. The war is chronic and continuous, over the lifetime of at least two generations. It pits an ethnically, religiously and culturally foreign state against a stateless civilian population. ________________________________________________ Ahmad,…
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