Optimism
Overall life is good and people are good. Some people do foolish things once in a while: oppress, kill, steal land, destroy trees etc. But life continues and people survive, adapt, and struggle to...
View ArticleSaud and Susya
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Nayef Al-Saud died at age 78. Nayef was the Interior Minister known for his "efficient" crackdown on dissent and thus was praised by US administrators for dealing with...
View ArticleShifting politics
In this newsletter are notes: on Middle East shifting politics, on a baby fruit bat, on success of BDS campaign against Caterpillar, on an upcoming trip to Germany, and a factoid on...
View ArticleGermany
I just returned to Palestine after a week giving talks in southern Germany (für einige meiner Schriften in deutscher Sprache sehen http://www.qumsiyeh.org/articlesingerman/). Back in Palestine, there...
View ArticleHumanizing
It is abundantly clear that oppressors spend an inordinate amount of time and resources to dehumanize their victims. But we humans spend an inordinate amount of time also trying to suppress our own...
View Article650,000 Jewish settlers
More than 15,000 Jewish settlers were added in one year to bring the total colonial settlers living in the West Bank to 650,000. Does any one still think a two-state solution is possible? In...
View ArticleIt happened in July
3 July 1919: Syrian Arab Congress (attended by 15 delegates from Palestine) emphasizes Arab Unity and rejection of colonialism.July 1920: The World Zionist Organization meeting in London establishes a...
View Articleفلسطين من الجو
معبر رفح وزيارة هنية للقاهرة!http://maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=507941عالم فيزياء المانى : إسرائيل تجاوزت الـ300رأس نووي والمصريون مازالوا يستوردون فوانيس...
View ArticleNo nice wars
An attack on an Egyptian army post in northern Sinai left 15 soldiers dead. The attack was denounced by all Palestinian resistance forces including mainstream ones (Fatah, PFLP, DFLP, popular...
View ArticleIl n’y a pas de jolies guerres
Il n’y a pas de jolies guerres !15 soldats ont été tués lors d’une attaque contre un poste de l’armée égyptienne dans le nord du Sinaï. L’attaque a été condamnée par toutes les tendances de la...
View ArticleRestiamo umani
(English with a bit of Italiano and Français)On Friday, we had a day of lectures and discussions on the situation of Christians in Palestine and in Diaspora. This coincided with the launch of three...
View ArticleMan versus Cat
I have comments and news after watching accidentally two videos of cats and men1) A cat dealing with a dead cathttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlTWpn136k2) Men proud of suffering and death of fellow...
View ArticleRachel Corrie
It is hard to believe that we lost Rachel Corrie in March 2003. Our pain makes it feel like only yesterday especially when this week a consistently biased lying Israeli judge justified his unjust...
View Articleفي المناطق المحتلة
أحداث مؤلمة جدا هذا الأسبوع. منها قيام قطعان المستوطنين بالهجوم على دير في القدس وكتابة "يسوع قرد" على الجدران. منها ألأحكام بالسجن على المدافعين عن حقوق ألإنسان في البحرين. منها مصرع 60 شخصا غرقا...
View ArticleIn the occupied areas
This week, a Christian monastery near Jerusalem was vandalized by Israeli with one of the graffiti statements saying ‘Jesus is a monkey.’ A Bahrain kangaroo court upheld "convictions" of pro-democracy...
View ArticleBenghazi
We must condemn attacks done in the name of religionby Mazin QumsiyehThe struggle against colonialism, imperialism, and Zionism by definition must be a human struggle for democracy, freedom, and human...
View Article30 years of mayhem
This is the thirtieth anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. We now have documentary evidence of Israeli and American roles in this preventable massacre of hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese...
View ArticleApartheid leader lectures the UN
The Prime Minister of Apartheid Israel just lectured the United Nations General Assembly! He spent most of his time nagging those present as if they were school children about Iran. He even insulted...
View ArticleOil, Zionism and more
Recent discoveries show that the Eastern Mediterranean area has huge energy fields which together with water resources could provide the impetus for new conflicts/wars. The initial estimates is that...
View ArticleDoubling money for settlement
Today, Jewish settlers came to Beit Sahour to look over the area they want to build the new settlement on. Last night, settlers tried to burn a Palestinian family home in Tequa. This week, Israeli...
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