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Palestinian Prisoners of Freedom

© http://avoicefrompalestine.wordpress.com Filed under: Palestine, Palestinian Prisoners, Resistance Tagged: free Palestine, Freedom, Israeli human rights violations, Israeli military occupation, Israeli...

Posted Aug 30 2010, 10:00 AM by My Palestine

Filed under: Palestine, Zionism, Occupation, Resistance, Freedom, Occupied Palestine, Israeli war crimes, Free Palestine, Palestinian Detainees, Palestinian children, Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian women, Israeli Military Occupation, Zionist terror, Palestinian children in detention, Israeli human rights violations, Palestinian Martyrs

Israel’s Separation Wall

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Posted Aug 30 2010, 05:26 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Barbarity, Colonialism

The Aggression is Ongoing: Their Maps and our Destinies

The story of mass-destruction weapons was fabricated; and here are the facts today which show that terrorism did not exist in Iraq before the war. It was the invaders who opened the doors wide open for...

Posted Aug 26 2010, 08:03 AM by Intifada Palestine

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The Voice of Palestine (1)

We, the Palestinians, have a voice; a strong one that never tires no matter the deafness or the silence of the world. We speak of our suffering, aspirations and hopes when all others are silent. We tell...

Posted Aug 25 2010, 09:53 AM by My Palestine

Filed under: Palestine, Zionism, Occupation, Resistance, Oppression, Freedom, Occupied Palestine, Israeli war crimes, Free Palestine, Israeli Military Occupation, Zionist terror, Israeli massacres, Israeli terror, Israeli human rights violations, IOF terror

Father, Forgive me, I will not Fight for your Israel [VIDEO]

by Igal Sarna Omer Goldman told me that the crucial moment of her metamorphosis occurred this year when she went to a Palestinian village where the Israeli army had set up a roadblock. Someone she had...

Posted Aug 25 2010, 06:34 AM by Intifada Palestine

Activist harassed in UK

What else is new? Check the comments as well … Read More...

Posted Aug 24 2010, 06:32 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, UK, RACISM, Occupation, Dissent, Rule of Law, Islamophobia, Human Spirit

Palestinian Female Prisoners and the Struggle for Freedom

Palestinian women have always stood side by side with their fathers, brothers, husbands, comrades to resist the Zionist occupation, to fight for freedom and legitimate rights. They are the first to go...

Posted Aug 18 2010, 05:13 AM by My Palestine

Palestinian Prisoners: A Symbol of Resistance, Steadfastness and Pride

A couple of days ago I read the following tweet on twitter: “Too many long days and night passed since Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas 1501 is beyond comprehension.” Shalit, as any human being with...

Posted Aug 11 2010, 03:50 PM by My Palestine

Chris Hedges on Gaza

“The tears of Gaza must be our tears – via Mondoweiss Read More...

Posted Aug 09 2010, 07:32 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Solidarity, International Law, State Terrorism, Gaza Siege

Tony Judt, R.I.P.

“Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling: the dafka-like quality of awkwardness and dissent for which we were once known. It is not enough to...

Posted Aug 08 2010, 09:55 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Dissent, Judaism, Human Spirit

“The Subjective Atlas of Palestine”

I’ve had a link to this document for some time. Now there’s a more detailed description by Roger Sheety that’s very much worth a read. Read More...

Posted Aug 07 2010, 10:12 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Occupation, Human Spirit, Resilience

Tony Judt, R.I.P.

Obituary Read More...

Posted Aug 07 2010, 09:55 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Human Spirit

Quote of the day

“[T]here are many countries whose conduct fully deserves condemnation – but none was given such a unique privilege as the Zionist movement was given, none had made such a binding obligation in return...

Posted Aug 07 2010, 09:50 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Zionism, Occupation, Humanity, Rogue States

Neocons and the Tea Party movement

There may be more than meets the eye with the Tea-Partiers [via Open Left]. Will such movement in the political landscape have any impact on the likes of Hagee and Christian Zionism in particular? Read...

Posted Aug 07 2010, 09:36 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, USA, Neocons, Christian Zionism

Quote of the day

Palestine is the barometer of the state of the world, as well as a frontline of the global confrontation between domination and freedom. – Michel Warschawski Read More...

Posted Aug 02 2010, 04:38 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity

Photo of the day

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Posted Jul 23 2010, 10:13 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Saudi Arabia, boycott, BDS Israel, Arab duplicity

Quote of the day

“The struggle for freedom and justice for the Palestinian people has become the litmus test of our time (Gaza today has become the test of our universal morality and our common humanity). –...

Posted Jul 22 2010, 07:55 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity

BBC HARDtalk: Israeli Arab Minister of Knesset Haneen Zoabi [VIDEO]

BBC HARDtalk Arab Knesset member Haneen Zoabi who has had her diplomatic privileges revoked by parliament has condemned what she calls the civilian 'siege' of Gaza. She was sanctioned this week...

Posted Jul 20 2010, 11:15 PM by Intifada Palestine

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Photo of the day

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Posted Jul 19 2010, 09:10 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Resistance, Human Spirit, Resilience

Quote of the day

“The war on Gaza, which President-elect Obama watched in silence, showed not merely the brutality that Israel is willing to use under America’s political protection, but the extent to which Israel...

Posted Jul 19 2010, 02:14 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, USA, Militarism, State Terrorism

Sur la « mouvance pro-palestinienne »

Extrait: «Mouvance» n’est évidemment pas un terme neutre, puisqu’il désigne un groupuscule ultra-minoritaire suspecté d’activités dangereuses sur la base d’opinions politiques extrémistes...

Posted Jul 17 2010, 12:29 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, State Terrorism, Western complicity

Arrogance

More … Drawing by Carlos Latuff Read More...

Posted Jul 17 2010, 12:12 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, RACISM, Occupation, Barbarity, Colonialism, Western complicity

Quote of the day

“One day, many years from now, people will ask how come we were bystanders.” Read More...

Posted Jul 15 2010, 06:02 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Colonialism

Trouble in Golan , Trouble In The Syrian Front

There is something happening for sure between Syria and Israel , first we got these news from Israel that there is a mysterious plague spreading among the Syrian army and now we got this tension between...

Posted Jul 11 2010, 05:38 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: News, middle east, media, Israel, Arab, politics, Syria, mideast, Occupation, Peace, National Security, Druze, Golan, Majdal Shams

Trying to be a responsible citizen of the world

“Each of us, each of you, can draw the line through BDS and act as a caring, responsible citizen of the world. To end Israel’s 43-year-old occupation. To end the unacceptable, criminal siege of Gaza...

Posted Jun 29 2010, 06:09 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Resistance, Solidarity, Canada, boycott, BDS Israel, International Law, Gaza Siege

BDS: what is it for?

“[T]he global BD movement must have been a lot more successful than I thought for Avishai to get so worked up about it.” – The Magnes Zionist [link added] See also here Read More...

Posted Jun 23 2010, 04:48 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Solidarity, BDS Israel, International Law, Colonialism

On obsessing about the I/P conflict

From Robert Fowke: I think of myself as an average sort of Englishman, a little to the left of centre politically but within the moderate middle ground. I like good beer and country walks. My tastes are...

Posted Jun 23 2010, 12:54 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Solidarity

Mavi Marmara: Listing of witness accounts

Witness accounts of Israeli killings aboard Mavi Marmara See also Turkish officials blow AIPAC claims out of the, uh, sea and A flash of lightning. Read More...

Posted Jun 21 2010, 05:41 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Turkey, International Law, State Terrorism, Gaza Siege

On Israeli-German relations

A dialogue with Helmut Schmidt and Fritz Stern. Read More...

Posted Jun 19 2010, 12:28 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Dissent, Germany

Quote of the day

The sad conclusion is that, to the extent that it depends on Israel the chances for peace are very small. It only remains to add that in the long run the continuation of the status quo is of great danger...

Posted Jun 19 2010, 03:44 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, ethnic cleansing, Colonialism

A very crowded queue

Looking into his eyes is just unbearable! The inhumanity! Read More...

Posted Jun 18 2010, 04:00 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Barbarity, Colonialism

Why ‘us’ and not ‘them’?

Some are still harping on that question hoping to shut down criticisms … to no avail. Here’s another one: ‘Why are we picking on Israel? What about Libya? Yemen? Burma? China? All of which...

Posted Jun 18 2010, 05:10 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Dissent, Resistance, Solidarity, Genocide, war crimes, International Law, State Terrorism, Western complicity, Arab duplicity, Gaza Siege

On “Israel-firsters”

“[W]hile Israel’s killings may have sparked enough outrage to force at least minor relaxing of the blockade, they have also underscored just how large a crowd remains willing to praise anything Israel...

Posted Jun 17 2010, 08:29 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Occupation, Humanity, Dissent, The Silence, Resistance, State Terrorism, Western complicity

Mavi Marmara: new footage released at UN [with video]

[Click on image to go to original] Via Mondoweiss Related material here and here. VIDEO UPDATE Read More...

Posted Jun 10 2010, 03:19 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Barbarity, State Terrorism, Gaza Siege

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

What killed the two-state solution? “The international community stood by and patted themselves on the back while Israel expanded the settlements and instituted a system of racial separation with...

Posted Jun 07 2010, 09:59 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity

There’s a little bit of Israel in all of us

Via Australians for Palestine Related material Read More...

Posted Jun 06 2010, 07:24 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Occupation, Humanity, Solidarity, State Terrorism

Photos of Israeli soldiers being cared for by Mavi Marmara passengers

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Posted Jun 06 2010, 07:09 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation

Quote of the day

“The occupation is killing Israel. And we are on the sidelines letting it happen.”- M.J. Rosenberg Read More...

Posted Jun 04 2010, 06:21 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Barbarity, State Terrorism

Post massacre …

And how does it feel for the rest of us, the real, flesh-and-blood international community – apart from manifesting immense outrage (as did the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) plus...

Posted Jun 02 2010, 04:33 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Occupation, Anti-barbarity, Humanity, Resistance, Solidarity, boycott, BDS Israel, State Terrorism

PALESTINE: Israeli Love Song [VIDEO]

Never before campaign When the Israeli regime feels that it has to create a ministry for propaganda, you know that they are worried. This concern is shared by dedicated Zionists and other misled people...

Posted May 30 2010, 08:54 AM by Intifada Palestine

62 Years, 62 Messages: We have A Home and it’s Called Palestine

by Reham Alhelsi Palestine belongs to our People: Some are dead, Some are living, But most are not yet born. This Land is Not for Sale let me tell you about Palestine Read More...

Posted May 21 2010, 04:47 PM by Intifada Palestine

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Zionism, Nakba, Gaza, Occupation, Resistance, Oppression, opinion, Palestinians, Children, ethnic cleansing, Israelis, Featured, Israeli occupation, Zionists, Israeli, Israeli war crimes, Palestinian, Zionist, Free Palestine, Palestinian Refugees, israeli army, Boycott Israel, right of return, Israeli Soldiers, Israeli Detention, right to return, Catastrophe, Palestinian children, Palestinian prisoners, Israeli Military Occupation, Palestinian villages, Palestinian land, Prisoners, Zionist terror, News/Politics, Media Information, Israeli massacres, Israeli occupation army, Zionist terror gangs, zionist war crimes, Palestinian female prisoners, depopulated, depopulation, Israeli terror, Palestinian children in detention, pales, Nakba 62, Zionist Massacres, Destroyed Palestinian villages, ethnic, Palestinian Catastrophe, female prisoners, We Shall Return, cemeteries of numbers, l-Quds - Jerusalem, unknown martyr, Israeli human rights violations, Martyrs, Zionist terror organizations, Palestinian Martyrs, Palestinian Mothers, Zionism. Tags: Occupied Palestine, fanatic zionists

Oyoun Qarra Massacre, 20 May 1990

- - In the early hours of Sunday, May 20th, 1990, a group of 100 Palestinian labourers from the Gaza Strip were waiting at the Oyoun Qarra (Rishon Lezion) bus stop to be transported to their working place...

Posted May 20 2010, 03:59 AM by My Palestine

Our Paradise on Earth

- “Yamma, wake up, its morning and we have work to do”. It was the olive harvest season and for over a month the whole family together with the entire village had been spending the day in the olive fields...

Posted May 14 2010, 11:25 AM by My Palestine

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62 Years, 62 Messages: We have A Home and it’s Called Palestine

- - Message 1: While playing one day, I found a beautiful wooden box stacked back in the cupboard. It was well-hidden and surrounded by several sheets as if to protect it from theft or damage. I quietly...

Posted May 14 2010, 11:22 AM by My Palestine

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Quote of the day

“If it was all about oil, we’d have boots on the ground in Venezuela …” Read More...

Posted May 14 2010, 10:59 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, USA, Fundamentalist Zionist Lobby

No Canadians friends of UNRWA

I came upon this site today and wondered whether there was a Canadian branch. I made a quick online search. No, there isn’t one as far as I can tell. However, during that quick search I discovered...

Posted May 13 2010, 10:17 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Occupation, Humanity, Canada, unrwa

“Novelistic Scabs”

What an interesting headline! Atwood & Ghosh continue to make waves. Related material Read More...

Posted May 13 2010, 09:48 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Occupation, Canada, ethnic cleansing, BDS Israel, International Law, Colonialism

UK Liberal Democrats on Palestine

Before the election that is … [Via Media Lens.] Read More...

Posted May 12 2010, 11:10 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, UK, Occupation, International Law

Poor Atwood!

What a way to end one’s career! Robin Yassin-Kassab writes: Of course it would be a mistake to expect writers to attain to higher moral standards or to to display more political intelligence than...

Posted May 11 2010, 04:43 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Canada, International Law, Colonialism

Emad Fakha

Read about the tragic fate of his children here [via Indymedia Israel] Read More...

Posted May 08 2010, 10:14 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Barbarity, Children in war

Inform People! Educate People!

I’ve posted a couple of links here in response to a comment on the blog on the need to put out information on what is being done to the Palestinians, much of it in our name and on our dime. Here’s...

Posted May 08 2010, 06:45 AM by Filasteen

Quote of the day

“His greatest concern, [Saban] says, is to protect Israel, by strengthening the United States-Israel relationship. At a conference last fall in Israel, Saban described his formula. His ‘three...

Posted May 08 2010, 06:21 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, media, Israel, Zionism, Occupation, USA, The Silence, Lobbying, Western complicity, Fundamentalist Zionist Lobby, Think Tanks

Al Walaja, Palestine

“[F]ootage from earlier today in al-Walaja, a hillside village miles south of the Holy Basin in Jerusalem, and across from a Jewish settlement called Gilo. The settlement wants to expand, and Israel...

Posted May 06 2010, 01:07 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, ethnic cleansing, International Law

Univ of Manitoba Student Union and IAW

From Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East On April 22, 2010, the council of the University of Manitoba Student Union (UMSU) voted near-unanimously to oppose both a recent motion as well as...

Posted May 05 2010, 07:24 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Anti-Apartheid, Humanity, Dissent, Canada, Free Speech, International Law

Photo of the day

Rashid Khalidi on the I/P conflict

Interview with Israeli Occupation Archive Ultimately, this is now a different kind of conflict, and it will not be won by killing people. It will be won when enough of the Israeli and American peoples...

Posted May 04 2010, 06:07 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, USA

I refuse to be complicit *

“Today, I write to you as a survivor. I am one of the lucky ones, and I will never forget that. I am a Palestinian who was not denied rights because I don’t live under siege or occupation....

Posted May 04 2010, 04:55 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Dissent, Resistance, Solidarity, International Law, Resilience

“Symphony of Incitement in Israel”

by Marcello Weksler In the past few months, the symphony of incitement against everything that has a whiff of leftism, liberalism, humanism and empathy toward “the other” is becoming louder and more encompassing...

Posted May 03 2010, 09:46 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Dissent, International Law

“Details of Gaza blockade revealed in court case”

Reported by the BBC. More here Read More...

Posted May 03 2010, 07:12 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation

“Nationality – The Key to Israeli Apartheid”

Worth reading. It contains this gem of a quote: “We are all Israeli nationals — but only abroad.” Read More...

Posted May 02 2010, 08:24 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Dissent, APARTHEID

Gil Scott-Heron boycotts Tel Aviv

The ‘Left’ doesn’t like it at all. Noam Sheizaf writes: To the credit of the Israeli Right one should say that it is much more consistent and well argued. From the Right’s perspective...

Posted May 01 2010, 02:26 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Solidarity, BDS Israel

Friday Bil’in protest – April 30, 2010

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Posted Apr 30 2010, 06:42 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Anti-barbarity, Anti-Apartheid, Dissent, Resistance, Human Spirit, Resilience, Bil'in

“Protecting Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing”

Deceptively Called “Protecting Israel’s Security” by Edward S. Herman in Z Magazine, May 2010 With Israel, the West is actively engaged in supporting a state that violates the Fourth Geneva Convention...

Posted Apr 30 2010, 04:56 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, The Silence, War on societies, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, APARTHEID, International Law, Colonialism, State Terrorism, Western complicity

Nadim and Jihad Basim Kawazba

They face charges “for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.” On another front, young Ahmad Salem Deeb didn’t make it. Read More...

Posted Apr 28 2010, 10:22 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Uncategorized, Israel, Occupation, West Bank, Children in war

Jerusalem myths and facts

“Top 10 Myths Likely to be Heard from Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat in Washington this week.” – From Americans for Peace Now Read More...

Posted Apr 27 2010, 07:37 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Jerusalem

“Deportation and Forcible Transfer as International Crimes”

A legal analysis of Israeli military orders 1649 & 1650 Read More...

Posted Apr 26 2010, 10:24 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, International Law

“Israel’s Big and Small Apartheids”

by Jonathan Cook Israel’s apologists are very exercised about the idea that Israel has been singled out for special scrutiny and criticism. I wish to argue, however, that in most discussions of Israel...

Posted Apr 26 2010, 10:07 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, APARTHEID, International Law

Quote of the day

“It has always been my strong conviction that any real change in Israeli politics must inevitably come out of Israel itself and not solely as a result of external pressure.” – Joharah...

Posted Apr 26 2010, 06:00 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Humanity, Resistance, International Law, Jewish Dissent

BDS Israel: personal journey

A few days ago, I visited Bulk Barn to purchase amongst other things coarse sea salt. Happy to come upon the container, I was about to dig in with the small shovel when I spotted on the label above the...

Posted Apr 26 2010, 02:33 PM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Occupation, Solidarity, Activism, BDS Israel, International Law

Earth Day in OPT

“[T]here is nothing green about occupation and colonization, nothing ecological in violating human rights and dignity.” – Stephanie Westbrook Read More...

Posted Apr 24 2010, 04:36 AM by Filasteen

Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Occupation, International Law

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