Is the Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation as threatening as the Israeli Government makes it out to be?
With the buzzing news surrounding the reconciliation deal struck between Fatah and Hamas there seems to be the usual nay-sayers to a just peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. These nay-sayers include the US Congress, Lieberman, Netanyahu, and Barak, or simply the US and Israeli governments. After the signing of the unity agreement Lieberman pronounced … Read more
Palestinian Prisoner’s Day
To give recognition to all those Palestinians in Israeli prisons, April 17th, 1974 was declared Palestinian Prisoner’s Day. The day is April 17th because the first prisoner swap was done on this day releasing Mahmoud Hijazi from an Israeli jail. Since the occupation began over 650,000 Palestinians have been in Israeli jail and is sometimes used … Read more
Book Review “Gaza in Crisis” by Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky
I completed this book yesterday so I figured I would give a review to people who like to read books about the Middle East and Palestine in particular. It takes two prominent authors Ilan Pappe (author of A History of Modern Palestine, the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, etc) and Noam Chomsky (Hegemony or Survival, Manufacturing Consent, … Read more
Israeli public knowledge of Gaza
I am a news/information masochist, I admit it. It may be because there is a lack of news outlets I agree with politically or simply because I like to anger myself. This said I was doing my 2nd run of Jerusalem Post articles yesterday and found this article. Now admittingly the Jerusalem Post is generally the … Read more
Imagine If…
If a 15-year-old African-American minor was abducted by a 28 year white man – after chasing the youth down in an open field in an ATV; if the man had stripped the youth and beat him with the butt of a rifle; if all this happened after the same white man slapped the youth and … Read more
Palestinians vs. Settlers
The discrimination of the Israeli state, through its illegal occupation of Palestine, towards Palestinians is well documented and, unfortunately, immense. Discriminatory allocation of water, confiscation of private and public land, unlawful restriction of movement as well as unequal zoning and planning policies (not to mention repetitive and often unpunished acts of settler terrorism) target the … Read more
The Mossad’s Zionist Zoo Plot
A few weeks ago, Israel was accused, pretty conclusively I might add, of deliberately dumping man-eating sharks into the Red Sea in an evil Zionist plot to dent Egypt’s tourism industry. The sharks were apparently not native to the area and sharks, in general are hardly ever seen so close to the Egyptian shore. The … Read more
Guest Post: Israeli Hypocrisy
Chris Whitman is a masters student at Hebrew University in occupied East Jerusalem. In October Israel announced that it was going to create an index to measure Palestinian incitement that would tally actions such as naming streets after martyrs/terrorists. The following is a response from Whitman discussing the absurdity and hypocrisy of such claims. For … Read more
Misnomers Abound With Settler Terrorism
It is olive harvesting season in Palestine, meaning, of course, a spike in the violent attacks on innocent Palestinian civilians by Israeli settlers. Be sure, the attacks on Palestinian farmers are not in response to Palestinian violence, but rather to their existence. Settlers attack Palestinians, destroy valuable olive groves, steal olives, burn mosques and generally … Read more
Hamas and Negotiations
A while back I wrote about the immense double-standard in Washington concerning the Taliban – with whom the US has recently begun negotiations – and Hamas – to whom the US and Israel continue to ignore. The Taliban had a direct hand in the murder of over 3000 Americans while Hamas is involved a national … Read more
