Qwaider Planet : Palestinians

Kourosh Ziabari: Does Burning Quran Solve your Problems?

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:14:47 GMT

Kourosh Ziabari Those who crashed into the twin towers of New York and accomplished the mission of 9/11 were not Muslims. They belonged to the gangs which the very White House, that is now purportedly...(read more)

Stuart Littlewood: Hamas Re-Positioning Themselves?

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:51:18 GMT

Stuart Littlewood “Negotiation today does not serve the Palestinian side… Just as there is currently no parity in the field of confrontation, there is also no parity around the negotiating table,” says...(read more)

Dr. Lawrence Davidson: The Boycott of Israel is “Gaining Speed”

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:16:07 GMT

Dr. Lawrence Davidson When you have a powerful and single-minded lobby that is able to manipulate your government in such a fashion that it pours its national treasure into a racist state, arms it and...(read more)

Dr. Franklin Lamb: Munir’s Story: 28 years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:14:53 GMT

Dr. Franklin Lamb “Entire families were slain. Groups consisting of 10-20 people were lined up against walls and sprayed with bullets. Mothers died while clutching their babies. All men appeared to be...(read more)

JEFF GATES — When Will We See the Next Mass Murder?

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:57:36 GMT

Jeff Gates On August 26th, a leaked memo from the Central Intelligence Agency cited American Jews as exporters of terrorism. Then came the news on August 30th from Sephardi chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef who...(read more)

Khaled Mesh’al Lays out New Hamas Policy Direction

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:55:54 GMT

Middle East Monitor This is the most recent interview with Khaled Mesh’al who, since 1996, has been the Chairman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Political Bureau. After the assassination...(read more)

Stuart Littlewood: Hamas, Don’t Blow this Chance

Intifada Palestine — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:27:29 GMT

Stuart Littlewood For example, Hamas could have said: "Israel doesn’t have a monopoly on security and we Palestinians are equally entitled to feel safe... Armed Jewish squatters terrorise Palestinian...(read more)

Enthusiasm for Palestinian Prime Minister isn’t Shared by Palestinians

Intifada Palestine — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:20:46 GMT

Ali Abunimah Palestinian Authority thugs raided a meeting of dozens of Palestinian political activists opposed to the authority taking part in new direct talks with Israel while settlement construction...(read more)

What does Increased Palestinian Political Repression say About the Prospects for Peace?

Intifada Palestine — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:20:13 GMT

Yousef Munayyer By cracking down on political opponents who reject further concessions to the Israelis (an effort supported and aided by the U.S. and Israel), Abbas is only affirming to the Israelis, Americans...(read more)

An Al Quds day letter to Tony Blair. From Lauren Booth, in Iran

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:57:17 GMT

Gilad Atzmon: I guess that Tony Blair’s sister in law, Lauren Booth, could easily use the phone and tell Tony what she thinks of him, his politics and his new memoir. However, being a peace activist she...(read more)

Obama has Signalled his Coming Complete Surrender to Zionism and its Lobby

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:58:15 GMT

Alan Hart Israel’s leaders knew that settlements on Arab land occupied in 1967 are illegal. They simply didn’t give (and still today don’t give) a damn about international law. But this attitude, a mixture...(read more)

Fascism in Ramallah

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:15:30 GMT

Khalid Amayreh Palestinian Authority Intelligence have been harassing and even beating opposition figures. Clearly undemocratic, even barbaric methods, have been used to intimidate, harass and even terrorize...(read more)

A Middle East Peace that Wreaks Havoc

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:06:08 GMT

Ghada Karmi All peace proposals after 1967 were based on maintaining Israel as a regional power and forcing the Palestinians to settle for less than they were entitled to. They were repeatedly offered...(read more)

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Palestinians should be Annihilated

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:48:39 GMT

By Khalid Amayreh Who says there is no Jewish Nazism? Ovadia Yosef is the spiritual leader of hundreds of thousands of haredi orthodox Jews who give him automatic and nearly absolute allegiance. This week...(read more)

Dr. Lawrence Davidson: Israeli Rabbi Outdoes Amadinejad

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:14:46 GMT

Dr. Lawrence Davidson Rabbi Yosef said that the Palestinians and their leaders are “evil and damnable.” That “God should strike them with a plague.” And just in case God doesn’t get them all, Israel “must...(read more)

Mitchell Hoping for a Quick-Fix Fake Peace?

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:34:48 GMT

Stuart Littlewood Obama is US president courtesy of the pro-Israel lobby. He is like putty in their hands. And he’s so ill-informed that he told AIPAC it's OK for Israel to grab the hallowed City of...(read more)

Israeli Shin Bet Electrocuted Child Prisoners to Extract Confessions

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:09:54 GMT

Middle East Monitor Abdul Hamid Abdul Latif Sa'id Abu Haniyeh was beaten up severely before being hit hard by a large jolt of electricity. Read More......(read more)

Not Guilty. The Israeli Captain who Emptied his Rifle into a Palestinian Schoolgirl

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:33 GMT

Chris McGreal Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body. On the tape, Capt R then "clarifies"...(read more)

Sami Moubayed: Abu Mazen’s Mission Impossible

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:19:12 GMT

Sami Moubayed Uri Avnery, an Israeli peace activist and Arafat friend, once wrote: "If you are a Palestinian in Jenin [in the West Bank] with a rifle, and you hear their names [Abbas and his team...(read more)

Philip Giraldi: Boxed into a Corner on Iran

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:30 GMT

Philip Giraldi The only way to stop the rot is for President Obama to consider for a moment what is good for the United States rather than for his political party’s hold on power. He should act like a...(read more)

Yale University and the Problem of Anti-Semitism – An Analysis

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:05:51 GMT

Dr. Lawrence Davidson The fact that not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Zionists, it is nonsensical to claim that criticism of a political state and its idiosyncratic ideology is the same as...(read more)

Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:09:28 GMT

Ali Abunimah Why should Hamas or any Palestinian accept Israel’s political demands, like recognition, when Israel refuses to recognize basic Palestinian demands like the right of return for refugees? Read...(read more)

Jamal Dajani: Direct Talks: Five Myths

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:46:04 GMT

Jamal Dajani Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said recently that Abbas was too weak to stand up to Israel and negotiate a just deal at the talks in Washington. "If the talks succeed they will succeed to...(read more)

Diana Butto: The Space where Palestinians are Living is shrinking: Israel Continues Land Grab [VIDEO]

Intifada Palestine — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:24:48 GMT

Diana Butto The space where Palestinians are living is shrinking. The Israelis want to confine the Palestinians into smallest space possible and take as much Palestinian land as possible. Read More......(read more)

Leaked CIA Memo Cites U.S. Jews Among Exporters of Terrorism

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:05:08 GMT

Haaretz.com Baruch Goldstein, an American Jewish doctor from New York, emigrated to Israel, joined the extremist group Kach, and killed 29 Palestinians during their prayers in the mosque at the Tomb of...(read more)

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban: Palestine waiting for Wikileaks!!

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:58:03 GMT

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban What leaks do the Americans and the West need to know for sure that their silence regarding the most dangerous crime of ethnic cleansing and genocide committed in the twenty first...(read more)

Stuart Littlewood: More Pointless Talks with Israel? Send in the Clowns

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:37:06 GMT

by Stuart Littlewood The talks of course have nothing to do with peace. They are about greed, dominance and more land theft. The plan is to get a weakling Palestinian leader into a corner and arm-twist...(read more)

Dr. Lawrence Davidson: Victory in Iraq?? – An Analysis

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:52:18 GMT

Dr. Lawrence Davidson We invaded a country and overthrew its dictator. Americans might take pride in that accomplishment if it were not for the fact that we did so on false pretenses. In other words, we...(read more)

Bishop Donald Corder: Gaza, Zionism and World Domination: The Fall of Zionism

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:01:07 GMT

Bishop Donald R.Corder Now we are faced with reports of Zionist participation in blowing up the World Trade Center on 9/11. Articles are circulated throughout the Internet and alternative media channels...(read more)

Bishop Donald Corder: Gaza, Zionism and World Domination: Financial Warfare Global Campaign

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:40:45 GMT

Bishop Donald R. Corder Direct negotiations have no place for an Arab win in the annals of Zionist literature. Where Netanyahu’s recent declaration, that there is to be no Palestinian State in the foreseeable...(read more)

An Epitome of the Israeli Jewish Society

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:56:09 GMT

BY Khalid Amayreh She added "I am in favor of a Jewish-Zionist State. I defend what has been rightfully mine for ages. I would even slaughter, not only abuse, the Arabs." Read More......(read more)

Bishop Donald Corder: Gaza, Zionism and World Domination: Global Economic Warfare and the U.S.

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:28:46 GMT

Bishop Donald R. Corder Infiltration had been complete as the Zionist Elite seized control of the likes of World Bank, Federal Reserve System, The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), New York Board of Trade...(read more)

Gaza, Zionism and World Domination: Origins of Zionist Ideology

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:03:32 GMT

Bishop Donald R. Corder Senator William J. Fulbright fought to force the American Zionist Council to register as agents of a foreign government. The Council eluded registration by reorganizing as the American...(read more)

Canadian Boat to Gaza to Break Siege, Overcome “Aid traps”

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:01:55 GMT

In partnership with the Free Gaza Movement (the group behind numerous boats to the Gaza Strip), the Canadian Boat to Gaza initiative, headed in part by Canadian activist Sandra Ruch, seeks to also take...(read more)

Water Supplied in Gaza Unfit for Drinking; Israel Prevents Entry of Materials Needed to Repair System

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:50:23 GMT

B'Tselem Almost 95 percent of the water pumped in the Gaza Strip is polluted and unfit for drinking. This warning was recently issued by the UN Environment Programme, the Palestinian Water Authority...(read more)

Dr. Lawrence Davidson: Netanyahu & Abbas: What are the Possibilities?

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:25:34 GMT

Dr. Lawrence Davidson "Despite the fact that Obama and the Europeans act like Abbas is the head of a Palestine government, he represents almost no one but a largely corrupt cabal armed and financed...(read more)

Archbishop Atallah Hanna and Sheikh Taiseer Al Tamimi Speak on the Right of Return

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:48:20 GMT

By Al-Awda This video presents the inspiring speech in Arabic with English subtitles of Archbishop Atallah Hanna and Supreme Justice Sheikh Taiseer Al Tamimi as filmed at the Sixth International Annual...(read more)

A United Iran Against a Collapsing Israel

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:29:52 GMT

Kourosh Ziabari Israel possesses up to 200 nuclear warheads in flagrant violation of the international law and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has made striking advancements in taking over the nuclear...(read more)

PHILIP GIRALDI: Israeli Mossad Spying in America

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:02:49 GMT

PHILIP GIRALDI FBI sources indicate that the increase in Mossad activity is a major problem, particularly when Israelis are posing as U.S. government officials, but they also note that there is little...(read more)

Firas Al-Atraqchi: The Farce of Middle East Peace Talks

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:52:05 GMT

Firas Al-Atraqchi Israel is mighty and under no pressure whatsoever to concede anything to the Palestinians. This becomes doubly more dangerous when one considers that a super right-wing government which...(read more)

Open Letter to the Panorama BBC Team: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:14:56 GMT

Mairead Maguire BBC choose instead to try to demonize the passengers on the from the word go MV ‘Mavi Marmara’ by trying to make them out as violent terrorists. They choose to collude with the Israeli...(read more)

An Open Letter to Israel From: Lauren Booth, UK

Intifada Palestine — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:37:07 GMT

Lauren Booth Before you scream ‘lies!’ or ‘anti semite!’ please, I beg you. Parent to parent. Human to human. in the name of the God of all faiths, take a breathe, suspend your disbelief a while longer...(read more)

Don’t Deny our rights: An Open Letter to Mahmoud Abbas

Intifada Palestine — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:15:38 GMT

By Various Undersigned (29 July 2010) The following open letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose elected mandate expired in July 2009 and who has remained in power under controversial...(read more)

IDF Soldiers Suspected of Theft from Gaza FLOTILLA Ship

Intifada Palestine — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:38:28 GMT

Haaretz News Service The officer, who holds the rank of first lieutenant, allegedly stole between four and six computers from activists on the Mavi Marmara, which was trying to break the naval blockade...(read more)

Israel will attack Iran: Will Israel Attack Iran?!

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:23:23 GMT

by Kourosh Ziabari President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put forward insightful and astute questions: "why should Israel possess nuclear weapons in violation of the international law", "why should...(read more)

New York Times Spins UN Report on Gaza Suffering

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:11:49 GMT

Jeremy R. Hammond These casualties have resulted from Israeli attacks across the Green Line (the 1949 armistice line), with soldiers firing indiscriminately at Gazans who are frequently guilty of nothing...(read more)

Dr. Lawrence Davidson: A Case of Decency Deficit in Israeli Society

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:39:56 GMT

Dr. Lawrence Davidson Former Israeli Soldier Eden Abargil seems to have decency deficit problems. If nothing else she cannot see that there is in fact violence in her photos. The Palestinian men whom she...(read more)

Why is Israel Afraid of our Cemeteries?

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:21:41 GMT

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban These efforts to break the will of the Palestinians while assaulting the remains of their dead suggests a moral bankruptcy haunting Israelis today, through which they are trying to...(read more)

Former IDF Soldier: ‘I would gladly kill Arabs – even slaughter them’

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:02:25 GMT

Haaretz.com "In war there are no rules," Abergil allegedly wrote on the wall of her profile page on the social network Facebook. Photographs uploaded by Abergil from Ashdod and labeled "IDF...(read more)

Americans Won’t Back Attack on Iran

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:09:37 GMT

Tim King If the United States backs an attack on Iran, a large percentage of Americans will have nothing to do with it. Protests and riots will begin and never stop. The US military will splinter and fall...(read more)

Hamas must re-brand … and take the wind out of Israel’s and America’s sails

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:35:33 GMT

Stuart Littlewood Palestinians have been put through that sort of mangle for decades. Death and misery still stalk their daily lives thanks to piss-poor Palestinian leadership and the international community...(read more)

Why Iran’s Jews are Better Off Than Gaza’s Palestinians

Intifada Palestine — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:00:39 GMT

Mike Whitney Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is demonized in the western media. He is called an anti-Semite and the "new Hitler". But if those claims are true, then why did the majority...(read more)

The IDF’s Sociopathic Mentality Towards Palestinians: a Reflection of the Israeli “State of Mind”

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:04:00 GMT

Middle East Monitor In a news item reminiscent of the shocking and disturbing photos that came out of Iraq's notorious Abu-Ghraib prison a few years ago, now ex-IDF soldier Eden Aberjil has posted...(read more)

Israel should not keep its History Behind Lock and key

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:48:49 GMT

Jonathan Cook One document in particular, Plan Dalet, demonstrated the army’s intention to expel the Palestinians from their homeland. Its existence explains the ethnic cleansing of more than 80 per cent...(read more)

Muslims have More Reasons to Hate the US than the Other way Around

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:47:01 GMT

Khalid Amayreh So, you hate us because of the 9/11 events. Well, 99% of Muslims condemned in the strongest terms these terrorist acts. And we are sorry for the umpteenth time for the death of dozens of...(read more)

Palestinian Female Prisoners and the Struggle for Freedom

My Palestine — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:13:31 GMT

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...(read more)

Ramadan Kareem from the Netanyahu and Obama Administrations

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:12:07 GMT

Jeff Halper Nothing prevents Israel from terrorizing the Palestinian population, whether by its own army or the surrogate militia founded by the US and run by the Palestinian Authority to pacify its own...(read more)

Israel’s Hidden Hands in Lebanon: Who Killed Hariri?

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:40:52 GMT

By ESAM AL-AMIN It took four years for the tribunal to admit that much of “the evidence” used against Syria was fabricated by false witnesses, some of them even tied to Israeli intelligence. The whole...(read more)

Welcome to Lebanon: Graveyard of the Arrogant

Intifada Palestine — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:13:01 GMT

PATRICK COCKBURN Why has Lebanon ended up as the graveyard of so many invaders? Israelis used to say in the 1960s that one of their military bands would be enough to conquer the country.Within a few years...(read more)

GARETH PORTER: Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Striking Iran

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:10:01 GMT

Gareth Porter The Goldberg article also reveals extreme Israeli sensitivity to any move by Obama to publicly demand that Israel desist from such a strike, reflecting the reality that the Israeli government...(read more)

Fredrick Toben: Materialism that Sustains the Western Democracies is Exhausting Itself

Intifada Palestine — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:41:15 GMT

Dr. Fredrick Toben The materialism that still physically sustains the western democracies is exhausting itself. This is so evident by the number of countries where US troops are stationed. This physical...(read more)

Israeli Belligerence prompts Fascist Support in the West

Intifada Palestine — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:55:25 GMT

Khalid Amayreh In the United States, even Jewish organizations with a track record of anti-racism, such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), are signaling support for right-wing opponents of an Islamic...(read more)

Dr. Lawrence Davidson: All Is Not Quiet on the Lebanese Front

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:47:03 GMT

Dr. Lawrence Davidson Rep. Howard Berman announced that he had exercised his "legislative prerogative to place a suspension" on $100 million of aide to the Lebanese army. Berman said he suspected...(read more)

Gaza, Soweto and African American Thought: Message of Truth

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:25:00 GMT

Bishop Donald R. Corder Israeli Rabbi Ovadia Yosef exclaimed: "May the Holy Name visit retribution on the Arab heads, and cause their seed to be lost, and annihilate them." He added: "It...(read more)

150 Irish Artists Pledge to Boycott Israel

Intifada Palestine — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:10:24 GMT

CONOR SULLIVAN A CULTURAL boycott of Israel was launched yesterday, with more than 150 Irish artists announcing that they intend not to perform or exhibit in Israel, or to accept any funding from institutions...(read more)

Lebanon PM: UN Must Probe Claims of Israeli Complicity in Hariri Murder

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:04:19 GMT

Haaretz.com Nasrallah held a press conference during which he attempted to shift the blame to Israel, citing an audio recording of an alleged Israeli agent and intercepted Israeli aerial drone footage...(read more)

Israel Shamir: Fear Not

Intifada Palestine — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:09:51 GMT

Israel Shamir With the destruction of Iran, the countdown for the takeover of Saudi Arabia would begin. In words of a neocon: “Everyone wants to take out Tehran. But real mensch wants to take out ar-Riyadh...(read more)

Children are just Israel’s latest victims

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:38:24 GMT

Mya Guarnieri Israel's plan to deport the children of foreign workers is yet another reminder of the state's ongoing inhumanity Read More......(read more)

Once again, is the West’s Frankenstein out of control?

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:08:16 GMT

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban While Israel demolishes Palestinian homes and expropriates the properties of absent Palestinians by forcibly expelling them from their homes, it demands that Arab countries return...(read more)

Intifada Palestine Wish you a Blessed Ramadan

Intifada Palestine — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:08:00 GMT

The Intifada Palestine Team Both God's blessing and his generosity are best exemplified this month, as giving alms to the poor, suppressing greed and lust, along with feeling for suffering of the other...(read more)