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I was very moved by this profoundly affecting piece from Franklin Lamb. He not only offers excellent reflection of this timely marker of the 25th anniversary of the terrible massacre of Palestinians at Sabra-Shatilla in Lebanon, but generously and courageously shares his personal experience. For him, this was a political

This week in Palestine: Gazans decided to go on strike in protest to violence caused by Hamas-linked groups two days ago. This is the first strike since Hamas gained power three months ago; the majority of shops, universities and even hospitals were closed on Sunday. Hamas shrugged it off and

Last week Fayyed/Abbas outlawed 103 charities to Gaza… If Israel murdered everyone in Gaza, Foxman and the NY Times would explain that it was suicide, or maybe just not even mention it. (Or does anyone really believe Fayyed/Abbas are not well paid puppets?) Well then: They are not dead yet, so

[Image by Carlos Latuff] I never once put the term “rare” in association with news coming from Occupied Palestine, but hearing good news from there is rare and seldom. Yesterday we came to hear about Bilin victory and the celebration of Bilin villagers in this occasion. For a moment I thought: “what

Speechless really, but I will throw some words: Nazis and Jews / Zionists and Palestinians. One would think they learned something.

But this is the kind of demagoguery America likes, and Rice so desperately needs… anything to have the “right” party win… The right party is, of course, made up of weak, corrupt politicians… the easier to handle… Asides, Democracy, fatah, Palestine, USA

A Dr. & nurse who spent summer working in West Bank talk about their experience. Asides, Israel, occupation, Palestine

I was thinking about that when I saw this article from As'ad Abu Khalil about Fatah's demise, and how the U.S. worked hard to ensure that this secular "leftist" party would rise to power. Well, in case you didn't hear the good news, Fatah is crumbling and biting the dust

The Israeli military has said a tank fired at three Palestinian children who were killed in Gaza on Tuesday because troops mistook them for militants. The three cousins - two boys aged 10 and 12, and a 12-year-old girl - were playing near rocket launchers outside Beit Hanun, a military statement

By Régis Debray, Le Monde Diplomatique Forward from the journal: Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 Debray sent the French authorities the following document on Palestine. It is an important key to understanding a long policy drift whose