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The New Yorker: Israel’s One-State Reality (By David Remnick)
"I'm not asking if we've forgotten how to be Jewish, but if we've forgotten how to be human." ~Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin, the new President of Israel "Israel has not moved to the right. It has gone to a madhouse!" ~Dr. Husam Zomlot, a high-ranking adviser in the Abbas...
NYT: Europe Is Blocking Mideast Peace (By NAVI PILLAY)
A very sound analysis that should be read by all involved. "This cycle of violence will only be broken when the international community insists upon greater accountability and ceases to turn a blind eye to the horrific human rights violations committed by both sides."...
Otherwise Occupied / The genius of Israeli evil: It poses as concern (By Amira Hass)
Haaretz Otherwise Occupied / The genius of Israeli evil: It poses as concern How to murder human beings without using an explosive or a knife, how to empty them from within, how to steal from workers of the land the thing they hold most dear. By...
LRB: Organised Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale (By Robert Wade)
"They [restrictions] are so pervasive and systematic that it almost seems as if the Israeli state has mapped the entire Palestinian economy in terms of input-output relations, right down to the capillary level of the individual, the household, the small firm, the...
+972/TPM: Why must Gaza wait in the dark?
+972 Blog Published October 3, 2014 Why must Gaza wait in the dark? Separating Gaza's electricity supply from the political conflict is a step long overdue. By Sam Bahour Palestinians gather near a fire in the At-Tuffah district of Gaza City, which was heavily ...
Washington Post: An Israel equal for all, Jewish or not (A MUST READ)
Washington Post Opinions An Israel equal for all, Jewish or not A Jewish man places a note at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, ahead of the Jewish New Year in Jerusalem's old city. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP) By Patricia Marks...
Haaretz: Why Israel pretends Mohammed isn’t there (A Must Read)
HaaretzWhy Israel pretends Mohammed isn't there It isn't a matter of racism. It's a matter of denial. By Asher Schechter | Sep. 28, 2014 Babies born in Israel. Photo by Ancho Gosh Earlier this week, Israel's Population, Immigration and Borders Authority (PIBA)...
Palestine Pod: Steve Sosebee chats with Sam Bahour + A long read
Palestine Pod: Steve Sosebee chats with Sam Bahour http://ssosebee.podbean.com/e/palestinian-american-activist-sam-bahour and Long, but well worth the read for a comprehensive overview of the U.S.'s role in sustaining the continued deterioration of Palestine. Thanks...
FILM: To see if I’m smiling (MUST WATCH BEFORE TAKEN DOWN)
The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court are going to have such an easy time holding Israel accountable for their war crimes. Watch how easy here:https://vimeo.com/ondemand/toseeifimsmiling _____________________________________...
The Hill: US guilty of war crimes in Palestine
The Hill (Congress Blog) September 18, 2014 US guilty of war crimes in Palestine By Sam Bahour The U.S. is not a neutral mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; it is an active participant and is guilty of the crimes being committed by Israel against...
43 brave Israelis take us behind the system of occupation (A MUST READ)
If you don't have time to read them all, please read the first and last articles below. Haaretz: Graduates of Unit 8200, the IDF's technological spearhead. Photo by Moti Milrod ---- The Guardian, Friday 12 September 2014 ---- 'Any Palestinian is exposed to monitoring...
Do people understand the magnitude of what just happened in Gaza?
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Mondoweiss: Three-sentence letter to the ‘NYT’ results in Yale chaplain’s resignation
Message Received: DISSENT TOLERATED = ZERO! One state of Apartheid, here we come... Bruce Shipman, Chaplain - Episcopal Church at Yale http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/sentence-chaplains-resignation _____________________________________ Everything about this list:...
+972: Israelis, stop swimming in our shit
For Hebrew click here. +972 Blog Published September 5, 2014 Israelis, stop swimming in our shit A new report by Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network details the damage that consecutive Israeli military assaults have caused to Gaza's water systems, whereby 95...
Guardian: Fatou Bensouda: the truth about the ICC and Gaza
Politicking around when, or if, to hold a criminal responsible for his/her crimes is as abhorrent as the crime itself, if not more so! ~Sam Bahour Friday 29 August 2014 Fatou Bensouda: the truth about the ICC and Gaza Under the laws of the Hague court, my office can...
The Forward/Haaretz: Israeli Teens Gripped by Virulent Racism
A peek into tomorrow's Israel... "For me, personally, Arabs are something I can't look at and can't stand," a 10th-grade girl from a high school in the central part of the country says in abominable Hebrew. "I am tremendously racist. I come from a racist home. If I...
The New Yorker: Friends of Israel
Political prostitution at its best! --- The New Yorker The Political Scene September 1, 2014 Issue Friends of Israel The lobbying group AIPAC has consistently fought the Obama Administration on policy. Is it now losing influence? By Connie Bruck...
+972Mag: Palestinian unity is no substitute for a viable political system
By +972 Blog Published August 17, 2014 Palestinian unity is no substitute for a viable political system Where do the U.S. and Israel want Hamas: as part of a transparent political system, or in underground tunnels? By Sam Bahour Palestinian "unity," reconciling...
The Ultimate Act of Resistance
Al-Quds Newspaper (Ar) & Open Democracy (En) The Ultimate Act of Resistance A call for political leadership By Sam Bahour As the horrific carnage in Gaza slowly moves off the world’s headlines and all the shock and outcry that reverberated around the globe turns...
LRB: Israel mows the lawn (by Mouin Rabbani) – A MUST READ
London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 15 · 31 July 2014 page 8 | 1981 words Israel mows the lawn Mouin Rabbani "So far, they appear to have the majority of the population with them, because they seem to prefer death by F-16 to death by formaldehyde."...
MME: Analysis: Reaction to Israel-Hamas ceasefire collapse
Middle East Eye Analysis: Reaction to Israel-Hamas ceasefire collapse #GazaUnderAttack Analysts say that Gaza has bled too much to accept an easy truce with Israel, but fear this will usher in a "horrendous tragedy" that will further compound Palestinian suffering...
NYT: Eight Days in Gaza: A Wartime Diary (Atef Abu Saif)
First comes the shelling, then the explosions, then the bodies, so many bodies, so many young, fragile bodies, then the burials, then, once the dust starts to settle, emerge the stories...horror, human made horror, a horror that does not settle with the dust! Eight...
Don’t Cry For Me
Don’t Cry For Me The voice of a Palestinian child in Gaza, taken from this world by Israel — “the only democracy in the Middle East” By Sam Bahour As the latest horrific obscenity of Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip continues, the death toll mounts....
LRB: Hamas’s Chances (by Nathan Thrall) – A MUST READ
A really solid and comprehensive analysis by my good friend, Nathan Thrall. London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 16 · 21 August 2014 pages 10-12 | 3611 words Hamas's Chances Nathan Thrall http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n16/nathan-thrall/hamass-chances Nathan Thrall is a senior...
POSTER: GAZA_We_Are_With_You
Sadly, even the poster only needed minor updating, AGAIN!!!... Please post online and offline wherever you can. JPG: https://www.epalestine.ps/GAZA_We_Are_With_You.jpg PDF: https://www.epalestine.ps/GAZA_We_Are_With_You.pdf...
JEWISH DAILY FORWARD: A Palestine That Israelis Can’t See
What purpose would be served by repeatedly writing the already stated obvious? This was published on November 18, 2012 in The Jewish Daily Forward: "Most important, they [Israelis] also can't see something much more serious than any of this — that the Israeli status...
WP: Israel hopes phone calls to Palestinians will save lives. It ends up looking Orwellian
Washington Post WorldViews Israel hopes phone calls to Palestinians will save lives. It ends up looking Orwellian. By Adam Taylor July 17 A Palestinian man walks on debris from a damaged building after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza...
It’s 1948 all over again…
It's 1948 all over again...this voice being the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Knesset Member, and head of the Manhigut Yehudit ("Jewish Leadership") faction of Israel's governing Likud party. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15326...
OpenDemocracy: Israel’s self constructed image is crumbling
OpenDemocracy July 4, 2014 Israel's self constructed image is crumbling By Sam Bahour July 3, 2014. Palestinians inspect damages following overnight Israeli air strike, in Gaza City. Nine Palestinians were wounded. Demotix/Yazan Majdi. All rights reserved....
Reflections as we brace ourselves…
Just a reminder of the type of society living in our midst, as the words "kids," "youth," and "children" are being thrown around between the words "revenge," "kill all Arabs," and "price tag now". Child in army gear crawling soldier-style as officer encourages him...
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