Tag Archives: Occupation

The Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike: Traveling below the Western Radar

Richard Falk

Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story?  It would be featured day after day, and reported on… Continue reading

Posted on May 2, 2012 by FG

On anti-Semitism, war crimes, and old poets

Lillian Rosengarten

Silence in the face of apartheid is unbearable.

We can no longer remain silent nor turn our backs and pretend ignorance to a gruesome occupation of stolen land, the cruelest collective punishment in the open-air sewer prison where Palestinians once lived in peace… Continue reading

Posted on April 12, 2012 by FG

‘I’ve Been Duped’

Reflections on Israel and Palestine

Rick Steeves

April 09, 2012 “Huffington Post

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Posted on April 9, 2012 by FG

Reality in Occupied Palestine

Stephen Lendman

Gaza’s attacked regularly. Dozens of West Bank incursions occur weekly. Police state harshness and arrests follow.

In the week ending April 5, one Palestinian was killed and dozens injured, including 18 children. They were nonviolently commemorating Land Day.

Many others, including an international human rights… Continue reading

Posted on April 9, 2012 by FG

Technologies of control: The Case of Hewlett Packard (HP)

A report about the direct Involvement of Hewlett Packard (HP) in the occupation. HP is used as a case study to discuss the role of the international and local corporations in Israel’s mechanisms of surveillance and control over the occupied Palestinian territories.

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Posted on February 29, 2012 by FG

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Noam Chomsky: America’s Decline Is Real — and Increasingly Self-Inflicted

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.  Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie ahead. … Continue reading

Posted on February 21, 2012 by FG

Transformational Politics

Awakening an American Society and the Global Community

Be Part of the Evolution

Clive Hambidge

“Julian Assange” said Noam Chomsky “should be congratulated for  carrying out the responsibilities of a citizen in democratic societies, where the

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Posted on February 13, 2012 by FG

61 Homes Demolished in Gaza!

Barbara Lubin

I am writing this letter to you late at night and I am asking you to help me. Over the years I have asked for you to step up and reach out to the people here in Palestine because to be honest with… Continue reading

Posted on February 12, 2012 by FG

A 75th Anniversary for the American Dream

Friends,

On this day 25 years ago, in 1987, I became a filmmaker. It was around ten in the morning and the first-ever roll of Kodak 16mm film for my first-ever movie was loaded into my friend’s camera to shoot the very first scene of ‘Roger… Continue reading

Posted on February 11, 2012 by FG

Officials: CIA to Stay in Iraq, Afghanistan for Years After Wars

Jason Ditz

Baghdad-Based CIA Spying on Maliki Government

US officials said today the CIA is planning to maintain a large and secretive presence inside both Iraq and Afghanistan long after the US occupations of those nations end.

In Iraq, which… Continue reading

Posted on February 8, 2012 by FG

OPT: Boosting protection and tackling food insecurity

IRIN

The humanitarian community’s 2012-2013 Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has a narrower scope than in previous years, focusing on two strategic objectives: improving the protective environment, including access to essential services like health care and education, and tackling… Continue reading

Posted on January 31, 2012 by FG

Why a Regional Model for Israel/Palestine Is Viable and Just

David Zlutnick

Rachel Havrelock is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and its historical interpretation. She is an associate professor of Jewish studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the author of three books and the writer/director of the play… Continue reading

Posted on January 29, 2012 by FG

Is the bid for Palestinian statehood bad for peace?

CMEC – MAP Chairman Robin Kealy: During my service as a diplomat, over many years in the Middle East, I frequently had to defend and justify publicly my Government’s policies, with some of which I privately felt distinctly uncomfortable. Such is the nature of the… Continue reading

Posted on January 16, 2012 by FG

Ki-Moon: All Israeli Settlements Illegal

Alaa Ashkar – IMEMC & Agencies

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, demanded on Sunday the removal of the Israeli Occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, considering that the continuing of the Israeli Occupation blocks the establishing of an Independent Palestinian state, the Maan News Agency reported Sunday afternoon… Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2012 by FG

A.I.P.A.C.

Persuading Americans to break the law?

Clive Hambidge

Habituation writes James Austin M.D “means that repeated stimuli yield a decreasing response.” Conversely and importantly he goes on, “Sensitization implies that responses increase when stronger stimuli are repeated.” For in this understanding, “we are addressing the… Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2012 by FG