THE NEW YORKER The Book Bench March 25, 2011  A Fixture of Jerusalem Literary Life, Threatened with Deportation  Posted by Mary Hawthorne http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/03/fahmi-american-colony-hotel-jerusalem-deportation.html...

Huffington Post  The Democracy Revolutions and the Israel-Palestine Conflict   By Henry Siegman  March 22, 2011  For the longest time, Israeli governments have explained their resistance to Palestinian statehood by pointing to the...

Watch the trailer here: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1245944345/ De Niro and Penn back Palestinian film at UN   (AFP) – 3 days ago   UNITED NATIONS — Sean Penn and Robert De Niro joined stars who appeared at the UN headquarters for...

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011314135126922189.html Between UN recognition of Palestinian statehood or UN Resolution moving this from Occupied Territory to Apartheid Territory,   Sam...

NOTE: for all the embedded hyperlinks click on link at bottom. Sunday, March 13 2011 | Yossi Gurvitz The Itamar victimization dance is disgusting  Why I fail to be impressed by the wails emanating from the religious right, in four points  The strange call...

Dear friends, http://www.thenation.com/article/159164/new-israeli-left?page=full There is a way out, Sam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ePalestine Blog: http://www.epalestine.com...

AsiaNews - 02/25/2011 16:44  ISRAEL  Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem’s visa revoked  Arieh Cohen  Sheil Dawani is considered a foreigner, having been born in Nablus, while the Anglican cathedral and offices are in East Jerusalem. Without a visa,...

Philip Weiss: A Jewish Argument around the Arab Revolt By Chris· February 23, 2011 http://www.radioopensource.org/philip-weiss-a-jewish-argument-around-the-arab-revolt/ download an mp3:...

AlterNet  8 Most Commonly Held Misconceptions About the Israel-Palestine Conflict  By Ira Chernus, AlterNet  Posted on February 21, 2011 The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza goes on, seemingly without end. Israeli troops continue...

Refuge and return  Lamya Hussain writing from Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camp  EI, February 8, 2011  "Where would you like to go?" asks a taxi driver a little older than my father, his thick Lebanese accent I barely understand.  I reply...

Macleans.ca - Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Why Egypt worries Israel Feb 11, 2011 by Paul Wells ... “I’m a business planner. I do business plans. If Israel was given to me today as a business plan, my recommendation would be that...

guardian.co.uk  Monday 7 February 2011 13.09 GMT  Palestine is the key to Arab democracy  Protesters in Egypt and Tunisia can learn from events in Palestine, the region's barometer for reform  Sam Bahour  Current events in Egypt and Tunisia...

A MUST SEE!!  Channel 4 News Revealed: story of Israeli troops told to 'cleanse' Gaza Wednesday 26 January 2011 Exclusive: Israeli soldiers tell Channel 4 News they were ordered to "cleanse" Palestinian neighbourhoods, as filmmaker Nurit Kedar says...

New York Review Books   ‘And No One Wants to Know’: Israeli Soldiers on the Occupation   David Shulman  http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jan/09/no-one-wants-to-know-israeli-soldiers-occupation/...

"...history is not in the habit of rewarding good behavior; it is a struggle, not a beauty contest."  Who’s Afraid of the Palestinians?  February 10, 2011  Hussein Agha and Robert Malley ...

latimes.com  Israel drops investigation into police shooting of Palestinian  The Palestinian motorist sideswiped police and then tried to flee when they opened fire. Israeli officials say the border policeman who shot the man in the head while he was lying...

"More civil society actions to highlight Palestinian dispossession are being planned, probably the most spectacular of which will be the next flotilla planned to take place a few months from now. Ordinary civilians from the U.S. will embark on “The Audacity...

Truthout Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock  by: Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed  While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as...

Dear friends, Now I've heard it all! Remembering Gaza: the dead, the living, and the living dead, Sam Israeli soldier jailed for stealing one pita   Dec 27, 2010 at 14:45   By AFP   JERUSALEM - An Israeli soldier was sentenced to 20 days...

Something Inside So Strong - Labi Siffre Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all those who struggle every day to feed their kids, defend their dignity, and strive for peace based on justice.  May 2011 expose reality in Palestine, Sam P.S.  I've joined...

NOTE: I know the writer personally. Dark times inside Israel! -Sam Please Boycott Us! (by Anonymous)  For years I have been rather ambivalent about the wisdom of boycotting Israel. While a boycott of anything related to the illegal settlements in the West Bank,...

Dear friends, For those of us still active in the http://www.righttoenter.ps/  Campaign this comes as no surprise, especially during this holiday season where Jerusalem is blocked, for Christians and muslims alike, from all Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza,...

The Elders: We need peace in the Middle East, not just process.  Media Release  13 December 2010  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  https://theelders.org/news/new-elders-statement-we-need-peace-middle-east-not-just-process...

Guardian.co.uk Friday 10 December 2010 The returning issue of Palestine's refugees  It's 62 years since the UN passed a resolution on the rights of Palestinian refugees – rights Israel must recognise for peace  By Saeb Erekat  Before his murder in...

China Radio International: Beyond Beijing  2010-11-29 Middle East Peace Talks The United States is working to keep the Israel-Palestine peace talks from breaking down over the issue of disputed settlements. America is offering Israel fighter planes and a UN veto...

Note: Robert Grenier was the CIA's chief of station in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 1999 to 2002. He was also the director of the CIA's counter-terrorism centre.  Al Jazeera English  Opinion  The endgame for the peace process  Future historians will...