Salon Saturday, Apr 7, 2012 The “NGOs” that spooked Egypt    History shows that the country is right to regard some U.S.-backed aid organizations warily  By Steve Weissman and Frank Browning  "Like it or not, this is how Washington...

MA’AN Development Center  "Parallel Realties: Israeli Settlements and Palestinian Communities in the Jordan Valley."     MA’AN has recently completed its newest publication entitled "Parallel Realties: Israeli Settlements...

Foreign Policy Dear Abu Mazen: End This Farce An open letter to the Palestinian leader. BY YOSSI BEILIN | APRIL 4, 2012 To read online: bit.ly/HRG9b ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ePalestine Blog: http://www.epalestine.com...

Interview (46:33min) with Sam Bahour on Palestine telecom, Israeli occupation, & State of Israel by Inka Stafrace Sam Bahour talks in detail about the troubles the telecommunications company PALTEL faced in being the first Palestinian owned and run...

The Israel you will not find on CNN... Ma'an News Network  Report: No arrests in racist mall riot  Published today (updated) 23/03/2012 18:08  TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israeli police have made no arrests after hundreds of football supporters attacked...

CORRECTION: Walid's release date was originally set for yesterday, March 22, 2012, not April 22nd as appeared in my original post. Rgds, Sam ------- Forwarded message follows -------...

My friend's daughters still wait!!!  Many of you have been following my reporting of the arrest of my friend Walid Abu Rass ( http://bit.ly/walidaburass ) who was taken from his home by Israeli occupation forces in the middle of the night on November 22,...

The American Prospect  Part 1: Love in a Troubled Land :   http://prospect.org/article/love-troubled-land Part 2: Tinderbox in Israel : http://prospect.org/article/tinderbox-israel About the Author  Ann Crittenden  is an award-winning journalist,...

8 March 2012  Christ at the Checkpoint challenges Christian Zionism  By: Daoud Kuttab  For the second year running a unique event took place in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem this week. Christian evangelicals that many consider as most ardent supporters for Israel...

Source: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150587146906662 David Grossman: Why? Who died? by Sol Salbe on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 2:53am ·  Last Friday Haaretz did something unusual: it placed an opinion piece on top of its front page. But it...

Source: http://bit.ly/yb95mJ JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People  U.S. congresswomen see Israel, Palestinians in the eyes of J Street  By Linda Gradstein · February 27, 2012  KALANDIYA, West Bank (JTA) -- The U.S. congresswomen get...

Dear friends, You may recall my article about my friend Walid Abu Rass  who was arrested by Israel and placed under 6-month administrative detention. You may also remember reading his daughter's  passage about her visit to the prison. By the way, Israeli...

Palestine Securities Exchange a Bright Spot in Equities Rgds, Sam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ePalestine Blog: http://www.epalestine.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything...

Al-Shabaka Policy Brief  Defeating Dependency, Creating a Resistance Economy  14 February 2012 Alaa Tartir, Sam Bahour, Samer Abdelnour In an important recent piece - Economic Hallucination - Ramallah-based Al-Shabaka policy advisor Sam Bahour exposed the...

Al-Haq  "My dignity is more precious than food" Palestinian Prisoner Enters 53rd Day of Hunger Strike  http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/topics/right-to-life-and-body-integrity/525 Dying to live, Sam...

Dear friends,  On December 09, 2011, I wrote about my friend, Walid Abu Rass, who was arrested by Israeli soldiers from his home at 1:30am in front of his wife and two young daughters. To read that story visit: http://bit.ly/walidaburass   I must thank all...

One of the few who have realized the right of return! May there be many more soon! http://web.archive.org/web/20120303050805/http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=3787 ORIG LINK: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=3787 Homeland is home, Sam...

Jadaliyya  In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post- Oslo Palestine  by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins  http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4170/in-colonial-shoes_notes-on-the-material-afterlife- Solid (un-wasted) Writing, Sam...

TO READ ONLINE: http://bit.ly/x6VNcN Bitterlemons.org A PALESTINIAN VIEW  The writing has always been on the wall  Sam Bahour  The human body is an amazing creation. It's not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it...

TO READ ONLINE: bit.ly/zKrNBy Little Girl Behind a Big Wall A Testing Ground  Posted on January 2, 2012 I grumble as I wait in the line of cars at the checkpoint. At least, there are only a few cars in front of me and the soldiers are moving quickly. As I...

Superb, but he will still need to learn the difference between his, yet great, religion and how it was hijacked by Zionism.  --- Dietrich College News  January 2012  2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards  Prose: High School  First Place...

NOTE: I've had the opportunity to privately read this report, it's shocking and long overdue. The Independent  EU on verge of abandoning hope for a viable Palestinian state   Israel's foreign ministry denied that Israeli settlers were taking water...