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• Mahmoud Abbas and Barack Obama: tragic hero vs political prostitute
  24 September 2011, by Uri Avnery

  A wonderful speech. A beautiful speech.
  The language expressive and elegant. The arguments clear and convincing. The delivery flawless.
  A work of art. The art of hypocrisy. Almost every statement in the passage concerning the Israeli-Palestinian issue was a lie. A blatant lie: the speaker knew it was a lie, and so did the audience.
  It was Obama at his best, Obama at his worst.
  Being a moral person, he must have felt the urge to vomit. Being a pragmatic person, he knew that he had to (…)

• #opIsrael – Anonymous stands by Palestine in this time of war and grief
  17 November 2012

  Greetings World
  For far too long, Anonymous has stood by with the rest of the world and watched in despair the barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the Palestinian people in the so called “Occupied Territories” by the Israel Defense Force. Like so many around the globe, we have felt helpless in the face of such implacable evil. And today’s insane attack and threatened invasion of Gaza was more of the same.
  But when the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all (…)

• Utopia as Alibi: Said, Barenboim and the Divan Orchestra
  20 December 2009, by Raymond Dean

  As a classical musician involved in pro-Palestinian activism, I frequently encounter the assumption that I am an unconditional admirer of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO). My reservations on this score tend to produce shocked disapproval: How could I not enthuse about such an idealistic project, particularly since it was co-founded by the late Edward Said, a figure for whom I have frequently expressed respect and admiration?
  In truth, I have always been a little wary of Said’s (…)

• « Protocole de Doha » : fin de l’Etat syrien ?
  12 décembre 2012, par Noureddine Merdaci

  Il faudra sans doute attendre encore des mois, certainement des années, avant que ne soit reconstitué le processus par lequel la Syrie s’est retrouvée piégée dans cette guerre civile. A l’évidence, Damas n’en a pas mesuré la dangerosité, non seulement pour le régime en place mais, singulièrement, pour la Syrie qui risque de disparaître en tant qu’Etat national. Or, le voile commence à se lever sur les circonstances du « conclave » qui s’est tenu à Doha au début du mois de novembre dernier, (…)

• كيف هرب القذافي الى الجحيم؟
  6 كانون الأول (ديسمبر) 2011, بقلم ريمون عطاالله

  بصرف النظر عن طبيعة الحكم العشوائي الذي كان قائماً في ليبيا بقيادة العقيد المغدور معمر القذافي، فقد كان الزعيم الليبي الراحل رجلاً ذا نكهة في السياسة العربية والدولية. ومما يزيد من طعم نكهته ان الذين انقلبوا عليه من اهل حكمه، بدفع من قوى خارجية، كانوا طيلة عقود ينفذون ارادته من غير نقاش، وهم الذين ارتكبوا بأيديهم ما نسبوه تالياً اليه لادانته. واسطع دليل على ذلك مصطفى عبدالجليل رئيس المجلس الانتقالي نفسه الذي كان وزيراً للعدل في زمن القذافي، حيث كانت العدالة في ايامه عدالة قراقوشية تشهد عليها (…)

• Palestine: A Century of Resistance against Globalized Settler Colonial Terror
  11 December 2009, by Adel Samara

  An address prepared for Kurd, Turk and French workers, Leon-France

  25 November 2009.

• من تحرير الوطن لهيمنة إيديولوجيا التسوية وانتهاء ب "الكلبشة" للمصارف
  11 تموز (يوليو) 2010, بقلم د. عادل سمارة

  صار مألوفاً ذلك الصوت المنبعث من متعدد، كلما تبدَّت أزمة المفاوضات على السطح ، مرددا: سنحل السلطة، أو حِلُّو السلطة...! ولكن السلطة باقية.
  يعيدنا هذا الحديث إلى الكثير مما قيل بشأنها. بعض القوى الفلسطينية رددت منذ مفاوضات مدريد اوسلو أنها سوف تُسقط أوسلو. ومن يتذكر لا بد يستحضر نصائح وُجهت إليهم حينها: «قولوا نحن ضد اوسلو...فلو كان بوسعنا إسقاطها لما حصلت» اي لا ترفعوا شعارات يبين للناس سريعاً أنكم غير قادرين على التقدم بها وإنجازها.... ومع السنين بقي شعار : «نحن ضد اوسلو» ...بينما ينخرط (…)

• My message to the West – Israel must stop the slaughter
  18 January 2009, by Ismail Haniyeh

  I write this article to Western readers across the social and political spectrum as the Israeli war machine continues to massacre my people in Gaza. To date, almost 1,000 have been killed, nearly half of whom are women and children. Last week’s bombing of the UNRWA (UN Relief Works Agency) school in the Jabalya refugee camp was one of the most despicable crimes imaginable, as hundreds of civilians had abandoned their homes and sought refuge with the international agency only to be (…)

• George Habash’s contribution to the Palestinian Struggle
  2 February 2008, by As’ad AbuKhalil

  I lived more than half of my life in the US and I never felt the alienation that I felt on the day I read George Habash, the Palestinian revolutionary who passed away last week, labeled as a "terrorism tactician" in a front page obituary in The New York Times. What do you do when they want to convince you that a kind and gentle man you met and respected as a person is a terrorist when you know otherwise? Do you quibble with their definitions to no avail? Do you go back and see how they wrote (…)

• The language of Zionism
  13 May 2010, by Joseph Massad

  The reason for the ongoing "violence" in Israel and Palestine is not on account of Israeli colonialism at all but rather a direct result of mistranslation. Joseph Massad provides an abridged lexicon of Zionist terminology