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Liquid asymmetry: How the PA is forced to support water projects for West Bank settlements
Haaretz Liquid asymmetry: How the PA is forced to support water projects for West Bank settlements According to a British researcher, the work of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee reflects another example of Israel's Ability to coerce and restrict the...
Al-Shabaka Policy Brief: Beyond South Africa: Understanding Israeli Apartheid
Al-Shabaka Policy Brief Beyond South Africa: Understanding Israeli Apartheid 4 April 2013 Samer Abdelnour Overview Much analysis of Israeli apartheid focuses on comparisons with South Africa. Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Samer Abdelnour argues that the specific...
Haaretz: Just 0.7% of state land in the West Bank has been allocated to Palestinians, Israel admits
Dear friends,An appropriate news story to strike home the meaning of Land Day, March 30th. Happy Passover to our Jewish friends. There is a right and wrong here, Sam --- Haaretz Just 0.7% of state land in the West Bank has been allocated to Palestinians, Israel admits...
[Youngstown, Ohio] Vindicator: Obama fails in the Mideast
[Youngstown, Ohio] Vindicator Obama fails in the Mideast By Sam Bahour Published: Sun, March 24, 2013 As I watched President Barack Obama's helicopter pass above my home, just before landing at the Palestinian Presidential Compound next to Ramallah, I just shook my...
Palestinian-American: A new strategy is needed for Palestinian advocacy in U.S.
HEBREW VERSION OF BELOW: http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/1.1972409 Haaretz Palestinian-American: A new strategy is needed for Palestinian advocacy in U.S. Sam Bahour, who voted for Obama, explains why he has no expectations for the president's visit...
NYT Magazine: Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?
New York Times March 15, 2013 Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start? By BEN EHRENREICH On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi's house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with friends and relatives smoking and sipping coffee,...
NYT: Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? (By RASHID KHALIDI)
The New York Times March 12, 2013 Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? By RASHID KHALIDI WHAT should Barack Obama, who is to visit Israel next Wednesday for the first time in his presidency, do about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? First, he must abandon the stale...
World Bank: Palestinian Economy is Losing Long-Term Competitiveness (A MUST READ)
What I've been preaching for a very long time...here it is in numbers... FULL REPORT AT: siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWESTBANKGAZA/Resources/AHLCMarchfinal.pdf World BankPRESS RELEASE Palestinian Economy is Losing Long-Term Competitiveness March 11, 2013 JERUSALEM,...
NYT: On Questioning the Jewish State
March 9, 2013, 7:30 pm On Questioning the Jewish State By JOSEPH LEVINEI was raised in a religious Jewish environment, and though we were not strongly Zionist, I always took it to be self-evident that "Israel has a right to exist." Now anyone who has debated the...
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: The BDS movement explained (By Omar Barghouti)
Daily News - Opinion The BDS movement explained Why I've boycotted Israel By Omar Barghouti / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Monday, February 25, 2013, 4:52 AM Updated: Monday, February 25, 2013, 4:52 AM In many media reports on the recent panel held at Brooklyn...
Daily Beast: Israeli-American Company To Drill For Oil In Occupied Golan Heights (by Emily L. Hauser)
Israeli-American Company To Drill For Oil In Occupied Golan Heights by Emily L. Hauser Feb 22, 2013 6:00 PM EST http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/22/israeli-american-company-to-drill-for-oil-in-occupied-golan-heights.html
The Nation: Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS
The Nation Judith Butler's Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS February 7, 2013 Editors Note: Despite a campaign to silence them, philsophers Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College on Thursday night. In an exclusive, The Nation...
NYT: U.N. Panel Says Israeli Settlement Policy Violates Law
Asked if Israel’s actions constituted war crimes, Ms. Chanet replied that its offenses fell under Article 8 of the International Criminal Court statute. “Article 8 of the I.C.C. statute is the chapter of war crimes,” she said at a news conference. “That is the...
“The Lab” documents Israel’s profitable weapons testing in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Yotam Feldman’s investigative documentary reveals how the Israeli military occupation in Palestine has become a business rather than a burden.
So Much for Balance: Five Ways of Looking at the New Knesset (by NEVE GORDON)
Counterpunch January 24, 2013 So Much for Balance Five Ways of Looking at the New Knesset by NEVE GORDON http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/24/five-ways-of-looking-at-the-new-knesset/ Land for Peace moving to Rights for Peace, Sam...
ABCNews/AP: US Protests “State of Palestine” Placard in UN
What is it exactly that the U.S. cannot understand in a vote that was 138-9 in favor of Palestine? http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-protests-state-palestine-placard-18295960 Democracy...yeah, right, Sam...
WOW!! Grand Waffle in the Middle East — By Chas Freeman
Lobe Log January 17th, 2013 "Amb. Chas Freeman (ret.) spoke to a Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) forum on U.S. Grand Strategy — or, in his words "Grand Waffle" — in the Middle East on Capitol Hill yesterday and has graciously agreed to have the text posted on Lobe...
NYT: U.S. Inaction, Mideast Cataclysm? (By BERNARD AVISHAI and SAM BAHOUR)
READ ONLINE: http://nyti.ms/UOgok6 The New York Times January 21, 2013 U.S. Inaction, Mideast Cataclysm? By BERNARD AVISHAI and SAM BAHOUR ISRAELIS go to the polls today in an election that will likely give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a...
A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity (By Mark Karlin, Truthout – Interview) – A MUST READ
"For me, the bottom line is this: the cornerstone value of my religious tradition commands me to stand in solidarity with all who are oppressed. It would thus be a profound betrayal of my own Jewish heritage if I consciously choose not to stand with the Palestinian...
The New Yorker: The Party Faithful (by David Remnick)
You think you know Israel? Well, think again...this is a long read but well worth the insights gained. --- The New Yorker Letter from Jerusalem The Party Faithful The settlers move to annex the West Bank—and Israeli politics. by David Remnick January 21, 2013 Read...
Why All Americans Should Care About the Holy Land Foundation Case
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs January/February 2013, Pages 17, 26 Special Report Why All Americans Should Care About the Holy Land Foundation Case By Stephen Downs, Esq. and Kathy Manley, Esq. ...
Haaretz: Israel’s Palestinians are not a minority (Amira Hass)
Israel’s Palestinians are not a minority Like Canada’s First Peoples, the Palestinians’ nationhood cannot be measured in numbers. By Amira Hass Jan. 15, 2013 One...
AL-MONITOR: ‘The Gatekeepers’ Unmasks Israeli Security Apparatus
AL-MONITOR 'The Gatekeepers' Unmasks Israeli Security Apparatus By: Shlomi Eldar for Al-Monitor Israel Pulse. posted on Mon, Dec 31. Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/6timesiia-ShlomiEldar.html#ixzz2H1nQHKNi...
The terror lurking in a Christmas tree (By Jonathan Cook)
December 24, 2012 The terror lurking in a Christmas tree Israel tries to ban non-Jewish celebrations By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Israel’s large Palestinian minority is often spoken of in terms of the threat it poses to...
The Nonexistent “Jewish Lobby” Declares War on Chuck Hagel (by: MJ Rosenberg)
Tikkun Daily The Nonexistent "Jewish Lobby" Declares War on Chuck Hagel by: MJ Rosenberg on December 20th, 2012 The American Jewish Committee was the latest Jewish organization to enlist in the battle to prevent President Barack Obama from naming...
National Geographic: The Tunnels of Gaza
National Geographic December 2012 The Tunnels of Gaza By James Verini Photograph by Paolo Pellegrin The tunnels of Gaza are a lifeline of the underground economy but also a death trap. For many Palestinians, they have come to symbolize...
Mondoweiss : Roots of Resistance: During the first Intifada Palestinians used our most strategic asset — our people
Mondoweiss - December 10, 2012 Roots of Resistance: During the first Intifada Palestinians used our most strategic asset — our people by Sam Bahour ...
AP: UN calls on Israel to open nuclear facilities…Now we’re talking!
US News & World Report Politics UN calls on Israel to open nuclear facilities December 4, 2012 By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel...
Israeli Street Sign in West Bank
Above: An Israeli street sign placed in the occupied West Bank (near Bethlehem) on Road 375 going from El-Khader Junction with road 60 (Tunnel Road) to Ela Valley. The sign is placed just before crossing from Israel to the West Bank, near the illegal, Jewish-only...
Al-Monitor: Freedom, Not Handouts, Will Save Palestine (By: Sam Bahour)
Al-Monitor Freedom, Not Handouts, Will Save Palestine By: Sam Bahour Posted on Fri, Nov 30 Palestine not only has a pie in the sky, it also has one off the coast of Gaza and many more across the land. The pies here are strategic economic assets for a...
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