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Alan Hart and What It Takes to Struggle On – An Analysis

RamallahOnline — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:07:13 +0000

Dr. Lawrence Davidson I – Who Is Alan Hart? Alan Hart is an author and a journalist. He is the former Middle East Chief Correspondent for Britain’s Independent Television News and a former BBC Panorama presenter whose beat was the Middle East. He has written a number of books, including Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? (1984) [...]

US watchdog turns blind eye to Israel’s religious rights violations

RamallahOnline — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:59:59 +0000

It’s hilarious. I’m still rolling on the floor laughing my socks off at a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). What’s the joke? Well, it’s no joke really. The USCIRF has just released its 2013 Annual Report http://www.uscirf.gov/images/2013%20USCIRF%20Annual%20Report%20(2).pdf on the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. And… you simply won’t believe this… [...]

The Donkey of the Messiah

RamallahOnline — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:51:54 +0000

Uri Avnery “THE TWO-STATE solution is dead!” This mantra has been repeated so often lately, by so many authoritative commentators, that it must be true. Well, it ain‘t. It reminds one of Mark Twain’s oft quoted words: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” BY NOW this has become an intellectual fad. To advocate [...]

Truth-tellers and justice-seekers, don’t give up!

RamallahOnline — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:50:06 +0000

Stuart Littlewood William Cook in his masterly way tells us not to give up http://mycatbirdseat.com/2013/05/38222-the-truth-tellers-lament-in-a-time-of-darkness/ even if “overwhelmed by darkness of the times”. And he reminds us that “sixty-five years ago this May 14, the world body admitted to its membership the state of Israel even as that self-declared state was in the process of [...]

Nakba and Palestinian Failings

RamallahOnline — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:36:33 +0000

SAMI JAMIL JADALLAH Every year at this time, the Palestinians remember the “Nakba” or catastrophe and mourn their failings, while Israel celebrates its independence and success as regional and world power. No one can doubt the power and influence Israel and the world Zionism play in shaping domestic and international policies of major world capital [...]

The Samson complex

RamallahOnline — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:30:38 +0000

JONATHAN COOK Washington’s reputation as an “honest broker” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is in tatters after four years of indulging Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intransigence. The Obama administration desperately needs to resurrect a credible peace process. Faced with a diplomatic impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, John Kerry, the US [...]

In Praise of Richard Falk – An Analysis

RamallahOnline — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:43:44 +0000

IN PRAISE OF RICHARD FALK – AN ANALYSIS (6 MAY 2013) BY LAWRENCE DAVIDSON PART I – Richard Falk Tells the Truth Shortly after the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories, [...]

Rabbi: Religious Zionism is ‘like a powder keg’

RamallahOnline — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:41:45 +0000

By Maidhc Ó CathailThe Passionate AttachmentMay 3, 2013 In a fascinating Vox Tablet podcast discussion of the seminal role of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and his son, Zvi Yehuda, in the history of religious Zionism and the Kooks’ influence on the so-called “settler” movement, Rabbi Shai Held speaks of the dangers of this increasingly influential theology in Israeli [...]

Islam: The Danger Within

RamallahOnline — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:40:13 +0000

Sami Jamil Jadallah As if the war on Islam and Muslims declared by certain evil forces within the US and international Zionism is not enough, the so-called “ Takfiri/Jihadist” terrorists have also declared war on Islam and Muslims. Mohamed Imami Kashani, the Imam of the Friday Prayer Mosque in Tehran is correct when he recently [...]

Palestine – Fist Full of Dollars

RamallahOnline — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:38:39 +0000

Sami Jamil Jadallah The meeting that took place in Nablus on Sunday the 4th of November 2012 between Palestinian Oligarchs and officials from the office of Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli investors and businessmen, mainly those heavily invested in Jewish Settlements, was not out of the blue. It set the pace for Secretary John Kerry of [...]