Nov 16 2011
By Rafeef Ziadah, London, 12.11.11 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of …
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Nov 13 2011
A new Israel in the making By Gideon Levy, 02:21 13.11.11 … One day not long from now we will wake up to a different kind of country, the country that’s now in the making. It won’t look like the country we know, which already has its share of flaws, distortions and ills. And when …
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Nov 13 2011
Why do the US media believe the worst about Iran? By Brian Whitaker, Wednesday 9 November 2011 10.36 EST … “One of the oldest tricks in the run-up to a war is to spread terrifying stories of things that the enemy may be about to do. Government officials plant these tales, journalists water them and …
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Nov 04 2011
Apartheid and the occupation of Palestine By John Dugard, 04 Nov 2011 09:00 … This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime of apartheid within the meaning of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the …
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Nov 03 2011
America’s itch to brawl has a new target – but bombs can’t conquer Iran By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 3 November 2011 17.30 EDT … This time there will be no excuses. Plans for British support for an American assault on Iran, revealed in today’s Guardian, are appalling. They would risk what even the “wars of …
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Nov 03 2011
Welcoming Palestine to UNESCO By Richard Falk, 02 Nov 2011 11:29 … It may not ease the daily pain of occupation and blockade or the endless anguish of refugee status and exile or the continual humiliations of discrimination and second class citizenship, but the admission of Palestine to membership in UNESCO is for so many …
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Oct 25 2011
India and Israel: a friendship deepened by prejudice By Kapil Komireddi, Tuesday 25 October 2011 06.25 EDT … In 1974, the New York Times journalist Bernard Weinraub described India as “the loneliest post in the world” for Israeli diplomats. Having voted against the creation of Israel at the UN in 1947, India held back from …
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