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• No Kidding

  According to Saudi newspaper, Suha Arafat blackmailed into denying any knowledge of Abbas and Dahlan’s involvement in alleged plot to poison deceased Palestinian leader. Reportedly, Abbas’ office threatened not to pay her monthly salary if she declined (more…)

  Posted on Jul 27.09 to Abbas, Mahmoud, Arafat, Yassir, Dahlan, Mohammed, Palestine   

• EI: PA Blocks Website Reporting Corruption

  The Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah has blocked access to a popular news website because of the site’s reporting on widespread corruption among the entourage of PA President Mahmoud Abbas. For several days, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been unable to view the website Donia al-Watan (http://www.alwatanvoice.com) as access has been [...]

  Posted on Nov 20.08 to Abbas, Mahmoud, Arafat, Yassir, Censorship, Corruption, European Union, Fatah, Gaza, Jordan, Media, Palestine, Palestinian Authority   

• Eyad Sarraj

  In the Gaza Strip, there are a vast number of inspiring individuals prepared to put their personal reputation (and even their own physical well-being) on the line for matters of conviction. Dr. Eyad Sarraj is one of the more prominent of these figures and I was fortunate enough to speak with him on several occasions [...]

  Posted on Jun 13.08 to American Foreign Policy, Arafat, Yassir, Ashrawi, Hanan, Bush, George W., Darwish, Mahmoud, Democracy, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, History, Human Rights, International Law, Interviews, Israel, Jewish Settlers, Military Occupation, Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Sarraj, Eyad, Sourani, Raji, United Nations   

• Bradley Burston: Sixty Years of Nakba, 60 Years of Nothing

  In a nation as coiled and embroiled as this, with a language fraught and zip-filed as the bible, it’s only fitting that a single daily newspaper headline will often say more than the thousands of words that follow. So it was, that on the day before Israel was to celebrate its independence, Maariv’s banner read, [...]

  Posted on May 10.08 to Arafat, Yassir, Israel, Military Occupation, Palestine, Peace Process, al-Nakba   

• 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, [...]

  Posted on Apr 14.08 to Abu-Khalil, As'ad, American Foreign Policy, Arafat, Yassir, Barak, Ehud, Civil War, History, Israel, Lebanon, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Syria   

• 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 [...]

  Posted on Apr 11.08 to Arafat, Yassir, Carter, Jimmy, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Media, Military Occupation, Palestine, Syria, United States