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Tags: Human Rights, media, Palestine An excerpt of the documentary Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience: I’ve been here for about a month and a half now, and this is definitely the most difficult situation that I’ve ever seen. In the time that I’ve been here, children have been shot and killed. On

-Tell your representatives that you are outraged by the myriad international law and human rights violations that the Israelis have committed in the past week and that you are alarmed by reports that the attack on the Palestinian prison in Jericho was done in collusion with the United States and

Dear friends, As I have been repeating over and over, the situation here is moving rapidly downhill. The most recent hostage-taking in Jericho by Israel is just one more notch downward. Today’s Israeli military attack (as I write) on Jenin, AGAIN!!!!, is another. Olmert’s statement

Today is the time to ask the moderate non-Muslims to please stand up and let themselves be counted. “I don’t mean to sound harsh or anything but I don’t like what the Muslim people believe in, according to the Koran. Because I think they preach hate.” This is what one of the

Israeli aggression, American/British betrayal… Nothing new! Another act of aggression by the Israeli state, emboldened by western governments’ hostility to Hamas. Al-Jazeera broadcasted footage of a brutal Israeli raid on a prison in the Palestinian town of Jericho; while BBC and western media focus on the reaction of the Palestinian street, as

Tags: Arab World, blogs, Global Voices Online, Human Rights, Iraq, occupation, Palestine, Palestine Blogs, peace, politics, Women Happy Women’s Day to every Palestinian woman who has lost a father, brother, son or a husband. To all Palestinian women who are still languishing inside the Israeli prisons waiting for justice. Palestinian women commemorate

Tags: Arab World, Human Rights, news, occupation, Palestine It was a horrible night for a child who had not lived past his fifteenth spring. He was hit and insulted, and his identity card taken by men who did not identify themselves. Hamza Fawzi Iweida’s small body did not protect him against the

Tags: Arab World, news, occupation, Palestine, politics They are reaping what they’ve sowed already: Israeli soldiers raided a prison in the West Bank town of Jericho in an operation to transfer to Israeli jails five inmates who assassinated a minister. Their main target, militant leader Ahmed Saadat, surrendered after a stand off,

Why are people afraid of Rachel Corrie’s words? Rachel Corrie was 23 years old when she was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer on March 16, 2003. She was working with others trying to protect the home of a Palestinian pharmacist from demolition in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine. “My

Three hours ago, a breaking news was on Aljazeera TV, which said the three disguised Jews attacked Basilica of Annunciation in Nazareth. Period. No further details. I went digging for more details in the MSM, unfortunately I could not find much worth mentioning. However, I noticed what we call biased story