Originally published in the New York Times. By Marwan Barghouti Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment ...
Read More »Your Palestinian Gandhis exist… in graves and prisons
Alison Weir | Counterpunch 8 January 2010 Dear Bono, In your recent column in the New York Times, “Ten for the Next Ten,” you wrote: “I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that…people ...
Read More »A harsh reality for Palestinians
Ahmad Tibi | The New York Times 6 April 2009 JERUSALEM — The right-wing coalition of the new Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, does not bode well for Palestinians in Israel. With the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister, ...
Read More »Israel on trial
George Bisharat | The New York Times 3 April 2009 Chilling testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests that ...
Read More »Black Agenda Report: The Niggerization of Palestine
By Jonathan Scott | Black Agenda Report The situation of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has become so bad that even the pro-Israeli New York Times is reporting on some of the more revolting developments. For instance, on ...
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