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- O Kris Einai Stin Ellada!
Geia sas from Greece! Sorry for not alerting you earlier, but I am in Greece with Ilektra until May 6. Consequently, I will not have time to post, though I will still be monitoring comments… The Guillermo Habacuc Vargas post is still going crazy. Please remember to read our comments policy before taking the time [...]
- John Pilger: Stealing Diego Garcia
There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history’s [...]
- Donald Macintyre: Our Reign of Terror, by the Israeli Army
The dark-haired 22-year-old in black T-shirt, blue jeans and red Crocs is understandably hesitant as he sits at a picnic table in the incongruous setting of a beauty spot somewhere in Israel. We know his name and if we used it he would face a criminal investigation and a probable prison sentence. The birds are [...]
- Obama Defends Israel’s Right To Kill Civilians
The frontrunner for the Democratic U.S. Presidential nomination, Barack Obama, was apparently very impressed with the killing of Palestinian children and a Reuters cameraman yesterday. Obama voiced his support for Israel’s “right to defend itself” and condemned Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal—even as bombs rained down on Gaza’s refugee camps. Immediately following [...]
- As’ad Abu-Khalil: The Anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War (The Wars That Never End)
When did the Lebanese civil war (the major one) start? Did it start in February of 1975 when Sidon-based leader, Ma`ruf Sa`d, was assassinated by a Lebanese Army intelligence sniper? Or was it the widely accepted “Sarajevo” (of the civil war) of 13th of April, 1975? I think that the civil war started in 1973, [...]
- Gideon Levy: Palestinians Versus Tibetans (A Double Standard)
Israelis have no moral right to fight the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The president of the Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People, the psychologist Nahi Alon, who was involved in the murder of two Palestinians in Gaza in 1967 – as was revealed in Haaretz Magazine last weekend – chose to make his private “atonement” [...]
- Yigal Bronner & Neve Gordon: The Politics of Archaeology in East Jerusalem
“Archaeology has become a weapon of dispossession,” Yonathan Mizrachi, an Israeli archaeologist, said in a recent telephone interview with us. He was referring to the way archaeology is being used in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in the oldest part of Jerusalem, where, we believe, archaeological digs are being carried out as part of a concerted [...]
- Jimmy Carter To Meet With Hamas Leader
At a time when a majority of Israelis support an open dialog with Hamas, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is on his way to Damascus to meet with exiled Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal. Now don’t get me wrong: I am not at all impressed by Carter’s lukewarm criticism of the Israeli occupation (yes, I read [...]
- Ronnie Kasrils: Sixty Years After Deir Yassin
As a 10-year-old growing up in Johannesburg, I celebrated Israel’s birth, 60 years ago. I unquestionably accepted the dramatic accounts of so-called self-defensive actions against Arab violence, to secure the Jewish state. The type of indoctrination South African cartoonist Zapiro so bitingly exposes in his work, raising the hackles of scribes such as David Saks [...]
- Mahmoud Darwish: Identity Card
Record! I am an Arab And my identity card is number fifty thousand I have eight children And the nineth is coming after a summer Will you be angry? Record! I am an Arab Employed with fellow workers at a quarry I have eight children I get them bread Garments and books from the rocks.. [...]
- Anniversary of the Occupation of Denmark by German Forces: April 9, 1940
Today marks the anniversary of the Nazi German invasion and subsequent occupation of Denmark in 1940—the so-called Operation Weserübung. Early that morning 68 years ago, German warships entered Copenhagen harbor in violation of a German-Danish non-aggression treaty signed the prior year. The Danish military was in no condition to pose a serious obstacle to German [...]
- The Guillermo Habacuc Vargas Hoax
I am not usually inspired to write about something (in my opinion) so silly, but the uninformed furore over alleged cruelty during an art exhibition has truly bothered me. As the story goes, a Costa Rican artist named Guillermo Habacuc Vargas used a stray dog as part of an art exhibition held last year at [...]
- Narratives Under Siege: Abu al-Kass Mini-Market, Gaza City
“There have been rapid price increases over the last few months because of the closure. Three months ago, for instance, a litre of corn oil cost 19 Shekels (the equivalent of $4.5). Now it costs 29 Shekels ($7). The price of flour has also doubled; three months ago a kilo of flour was 2 Shekels. [...]
