Video: Sheikh of National Unity calls for peace in Gaza  AlJazeeraEnglish While the leaders of the various Palestinian factions are in Cairo discussing a unity government – one Gazan has taken it upon himself to heal the rifts. Yasser Meheissen, known as the Sheikh of National Unity, has collected 270 thousand signatures, urging factions [...]

  Sentences…  Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues …They sentenced him to Life, they sentenced him to Death…they cry out. Sentences… Who is the judge and who is the guilty one ? Does it have any meaning today ? When the judge is the guilty one and the culprit is the innocent…what do sentences mean [...]

  Constraining Palestinian Resistance: Some Political and Economic Attempts  Dina Jadallah-Taschler …Acknowledging these facts would go a long way in dealing with the reality of the Palestinian situation. In dealing with the multitudinous and multiplying constraints confronting the Palestinians, one would hope (probably in vain!) that Palestinian leaders of both Fateh and Hamas would notice [...]

    Israel Bans Gaza Toilet Papers, Soap  IslamOnline.net & News Agencies European and American officials are protesting its blocking of humanitarian aid, including harmless goods such as cheeses, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and toilet papers, from the sealed off Gaza Strip. “We’re certainly asking the Israelis questions about this,” a US official told Reuters on [...]

      Toward a Policy of Death The Structure of Israel’s Occupation  LUDWIG WATZAL Israel has used Gaza as a free fire zone for 22 days and nights. Inevitably, the question arises how could Israel’s occupation become so brutal taking into account the country’s claim of being a “benign occupation power”. Neve Gordon’s book [...]

  ACLU demands Obama administration release prisoner abuse photos  Jeremy Gantz Like most Americans, you’ve probably seen the infamous Iraqi prisoner abuse photographs. The American Civil Liberties Union wants you to be able to see more, and is demanding that the Obama administration release additional photos depicting abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces in both [...]

  Ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem  Marcy Newman writing from occupied East Jerusalem, Live from Palestine Last week when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held a press conference in Ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas, whose term as Palestinian Authority president officially expired on 9 January, a Washington Post reporter questioned her about the 143 Palestinian [...]

  Finally — Lone, Lost, Weeping, Wailing, Dead, Willows…  Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues … Do you see that Arab walking down the street, ever so swiftly like some shadow ? We raped her… Do you see that Sunni Rafidha, Nawasib hiding in the alley way ? We tortured her… Do you see that [...]

  Photo Gallery  Butchery in Gaza  Kawther Salam This album contains images which have been kindly provided to me by Dr. Mouneer Deeb, who entered Gaza together with some other surgeons from Europe during the last Israeli butchery, “Operation Cast Lead”, in January 2009, to help the local doctors. The pictures are part of what [...]

  On International Woman’s Day Al Mezan Center Congratulates Palestinian Women and Calls on Women around the World to Strengthen their Solidarity with the National Struggle of Palestinian Women  Al Mezan Center For Human Rights Today, Sunday 8 March, marks International Women’s Day. This international occasion comes at a time when Palestinian women are confronting [...]

  Palestinians are the Priority: an open statement of commitment to the Palestinian Solidarity Cause  Mary Rizzo There are individuals within the Palestinian solidarity movement seeking to create divisions by: * deliberately shifting focus away from Israel’s war crimes and its supremacist Zionist ideology; * imposing unilateral agendas by presenting both sides as victims; * [...]

  On American crimes & the International Criminal Court  Body on the Line …in addition to multi-national, u.s.-based corporations and military involvement in sudan, what i think is really important about snow’s writing is his unpacking of the so-called “save darfur” movement, a movement that in the u.s. is largely controlled by zionists who enjoy [...]

  Israeli military readying for second “harsh attack” on Gaza  Ma’an news Ma’an – The Israeli military is preparing a “harsh attack on Gaza,” in response to homemade rockets that are continuously fired into Israel by Palestinian fighters, multiple Israeli news sources reported on Friday. “The army is preparing to carry out a huge and [...]

    Gaza Aftermath (4)  Hammad’s death barely made the news  PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights On the 14 of February 2009, almost a month after Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza, thirteen year old Hammad Silmiya was grazing his sheep and goats in northeast Gaza, about 500 metres from the border [...]

  The Fifth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week March 1 – 8, 2009  Israeli Apartheid Week Mark your calendars – the 5th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week will take place across the globe from March 1-8, 2009! First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the [...]

  Choosing Atrocity: Israel, America and the Strangling of Gaza  Chris Floyd …Here again, I will pay Barack Obama much more respect than many of his followers do. I don’t believe that he looked at the attack on Gaza, felt to his very soul that it was an horrific atrocity, but then refused to denounce [...]

  Comrade Fahoum: Boycott of anti-racism conference proves Obama is just new face for US imperialism  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Comrade Marwan Fahoum, “Abu Sami,” member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on March 2, 2009 that the decision of the new U.S. administration [...]

  Expelling Jerusalem’s Palestinians, One House at a Time  By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH There are some people whose faces betray the difficulties they have encountered throughout their lives. Salah Shweiki is one of them. Sitting under the large tent set up in Silwan’s Bustan Quarter, seeking warmth from the wood burning in an old [...]

    Paper – Israeli Military Attacks on the Civilian Police Force and Government Buildings and Institutions of Hamas in Gaza  By Fatmeh El-‘Ajou – Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel This paper will examine the legality of the recent Israeli military attack on members of the civilian police force and [...]

Viva Palestina Update 15.30 (GMT) Monday 9th March 2009 GROWN MEN CRYING…THE SIEGE IS BROKEN… ON THE DAY THE PROPHET WAS BORN And they entered side by side like heroes, some on foot some in their vehicles, tears, smiles, hugs, flowers. It was historic, it was legendary. Gaza we are here. We have fulfilled the [...]