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...

The National Interest  January 6, 2012  The Mideast Peace Process in 2011: Hopes and Disillusionment  By Henry Siegman  This past December, four European countries—the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Portugal, all members of the UN...

Dear friends, Happy New Year to you all. My friend Walid Abu Rass, Finance and Administration Manager at the Health Work Committees (HWC) is still in an Israeli prison, being held without charge for 6-months. We anxiously await his appeal date in hopes that all the...

http://972mag.com/watch-ultra-orthodox-spit-on-immodest-8-year-old-girl-in-bet-shemesh/31268/ Israel has caught up with itself. This mess must stop for all our sakes, Israeli and Palestinian! Dismantle racism, in all its forms, Sam...

Waking Up Stateless in Jerusalem  By Danielle C. Jefferis, Third-year law student, Georgetown University  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-c-jefferis/waking-up-stateless-in-je_b_1171010.html?ref=israel This article is based on the forthcoming paper...

The Myth of "Resuming Negotiations" By John Kleinheksel Sr, FPI, (Friends of Palestinians and Israelis) http://friendsofpalestiniansandisraelis.blogspot.com/2011/12/myth-of-resuming-negotiations.html...

Alternate Focus interviews Nurit Peled-Elhanan, author of the forthcoming book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education. Nurit Peled-Elhanan argues that the textbooks used in the school system are laced with a pro-Israel ideology, and...

The Atlantic  Netanyahu Government Suggests Israelis Avoid Marrying American Jews   By Jeffrey Goldberg   http://bit.ly/uMLwdo No comment, Sam  ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ePalestine Blog:...