Palestine Think Tank

Mazin Qumsiyeh – What is said and what is not said

Guest Post — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:05:33 +0000

If Netanyahu can use the excuse of having a coalition that can break apart if he gave up an inch, then how can Abbas who is now ruling by Fiat and has already given up 78% of Palestine resist further pressure for further back-downs without rebuilding a representative PLO?

Where Is The Sense of Decency? Video

Kawther Salam — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:10:09 +0000

Al- Shuhada Street is the main street in Hebron in southern part of the occupied West Bank. Al-Shuhada Street is a major commercial street, is connects between the north and the south of Hebron. Al-Shuhada Street could be compared to any major Street in New York that links between East of [...]

cartoon of the day

Guest Post — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:48:20 +0000

terrorism vs militarism

Muslims have more reasons to hate the US than the other way around

Khalid Amayreh — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:45:57 +0000

WRITTEN BY Khalid Amayreh I don't think that most Muslims hate ordinary Americans who believe in the general principle of "live and let live." Moreover, I don't think that most Americans would unhesitatingly embrace Israeli Nazism if they had the slightest chance to know the truth about Israel, e.g. that it is a criminal state par excellence, [...]

Terrorism is certainly not a Muslim monopoly!

Guest Post — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:43:36 +0000

WRITTEN BY SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR "All Muslims may not be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." This comment, frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts are very different. [ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE, BUT ALL CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE [...]

Peace Talks in the Shadow of Demolitions – BADIL press statement

Guest Post — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:41:33 +0000

According to OCHA, July and August have marked the highest number of demolitions this year. As of the end of July, OCHA reports Israeli forces have destroyed over 230 structures effectively displacing and/or affecting over 1100 Palestinians, including 400 children since the beginning of 2010. Over 50% of said destruction has taken place in July alone. OCHA further comments that the Israeli Civil Administration will be stepping up demolitions in the West Bank per orders by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Kourosh Ziabari – Israel will attack Iran: Will Israel attack Iran?!

Kourosh Ziabari — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:55:36 +0000

Those who mastermind the U.S.-directed psychological operation against Iran have obliviously forgotten that we're now accustomed to seeing the uninteresting, exhausting charade of "will attack Iran"; you put the subject for it, either the United States or Israel. Over the past five years, Iran has been recurrently under the threat of an imminent war which the [...]

Riddle Or Conspiracy of Traitors , Video

Kawther Salam — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:40:01 +0000

Is this a Palestinian-Israeli riddle or a conspiracy? Yesterday I was searching and documenting the bloody crimes of several Israeli officials who were involved in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, among others I was interested in Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi, Brig. Gen. Yoav "Polly" Mordechai, [...]

Letters from Palestine – a very special book

Mary Rizzo — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:09:43 +0000

REVIEW BY MARY RIZZO Very often, among activists for Palestine who are not Palestinians themselves, a sort of fraternity develops. Our love of Palestine is our primary common denominator, but how frequent it is (and how joyful and satisfying) when we find other affinities that create a strong bond after we’ve had such an important [...]

Israeli Rabbis on God-ordained Child Sex Mission

Kawther Salam — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:43:47 +0000

Homosexuality, theft, banditry, hypocrisy, lying, villainy, child rape, pimping … are all symptoms of vice, immorality and sin which are contrary to the stated principles of all religions, of the divine laws, the laws of morality and humanity. These could be applied to the two protagonists of this scandal of sexual [...]

Khalid Amayreh – NO AMOUNT OF HASBARA CAN BEAUTIFY ISRAEL'S FACE

Khalid Amayreh — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:15:58 +0000

Israeli hasbara doctors and their mouthpieces in the West don’t stop dithering about the perceived failure of the Israeli propaganda machine "to get the message through" to western audiences. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year and the best of the best PR firms are recruited to do the job for Israel. However, Israel [...]

Kawther Salam – The Fog of Smear

Kawther Salam — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:22:50 +0000

Yesterday was a special day in the history of the criticism of my journalistic work. In the morning I received an email which included some information about a writer who had criticized previous reports which I had posted on PTT defending Palestinian human rights, in which I clearly wrote about honor killings, the execution of people without fair trials, the corruption and the misuse of foreign financial aid given to Palestinian institutions. These are issues which always appeared in the Palestinian daily newspapers, which were written about despite the censorship from several sides. The person who criticizes me, who lives in a house of glass and is surrounded by all the contradictions and the suspicions in regards to their personal affairs and their relation to an American revert, has reached in their criticism of my writing the level of the Israeli military censorship while at the same time claiming their commitment to the interests of the Palestinian struggle factions. The analysis which this critical writer made of my past essays reached a filthy level of smear, slander and personal insults while she disregarded in her writing the laws of the European Union and UK where she lives since decades while calling me "westernized" in a way which I perceive as lacking the basic respect which is normally extended to strangers. Besides that, it is incompatible with ethics of Islam, to slander others. This is expressly forbidden in the Quran and considered as a major sin. (Al-Nur: 23, Al-Ahzab: 58).

Antoine Raffoul – One-State, Two-State and the ATFP

Antoine Raffoul — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:22:03 +0000

(In the Photo, Hussein Ibish) Until recently, we had never heard of the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP). After some research on the subject of the One-State vs the Two-State solution, we discovered a long Study published by the ATFP in 2009 entitled "What's Wrong With The One-State Agenda". It made for interesting reading [...]

Sameh Habeeb – Inside Gaza

Sameh A. Habeeb — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:21:12 +0000

Life in Gaza is unique. Misery is mixed with joy, pain, happiness and suffering. Siege still suffocates people via different manners and tactics. Israel which indirectly pushed Hamas and Fateh towards the split is announcing day and night that siege has been lifted. But facts on the ground are obviously different. Siege is still on [...]

cartoon of the day

Carlos Latuff — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:19:51 +0000

more outstanding BDS work by Carlos Latuff

cartoon of the day

Farah Filasteen — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:16:03 +0000

By Farah Filasteen

William Blum – So please tell me again: What's the war about?

Guest Post — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:55:09 +0000

With all the lies exposed about the American Iraqi misadventure, I and many others had allowed ourselves the luxury, the hidden pleasure, of believing that the United States government and media had learned a lesson which would last for some time. They'd been caught and exposed. But it's the same all over again with the lies about Iran and Ahmadinejad. (No, he's not even a Holocaust denier.)

Belén Fernàndez – Terror attack by Lebanese army thwarts Israeli landscaping effort

Mary Rizzo — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:40:09 +0000

In the latest Israeli inversion of cause and effect relationships, the clash near the Lebanese border village of Adaisseh yesterday between Israeli and Lebanese soldiers—which resulted in the deaths of one of the former nationality and three of the latter—was characterized by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak as a “planned provocation”, by Kadima MK Shaul [...]

Mohammed Khatib denied exit despite valid Israeli-issued permission

Guest Post — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:33:49 +0000

Coordinator of the Popular Struggle Committee denied exit at King Hussein's Bridge WRITTEN BY IYAD BURNAT On August 4, 2010 about 1 PM, Mohammed Khatib from Bil'in was denied exit to Jordan via King Hussein Bridge. Khatib was on his way to Spain via Amman when Israeli border officials prevented him from crossing the border to [...]

Petition to Mahmoud Abbas: We reject compromise on Palestinian Rights

Antoine Raffoul — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:10:32 +0000

WRITTEN BY ANTOINE RAFFOUL Israel does not need security. It needs democracy. It has the 4th largest army on the planet supported by the largest and most powerful nation on earth. All of this power poised against an occupied people. It is the Palestinians who yearn for security from attacks, protection from night raids, safety for their families, peaceful access to their farmland, the right to live in their homes just like any other people, and a democratic system run by democratically elected representatives to fight on their behalf for their dignity, their rights and for their freedom. That should have been the agenda at that dinner, Mr Abbas. For this, we ask you to retract your first statement about "Jewish Rights to the Land of Israel" and to support the right of return of all refugees from the Diaspora to their Palestine to rejoin their families and to enable them to live in peace and harmony with all other peoples who came into Palestine whether by day or by night. There is room for all of us.