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Medium: America’s Intifada Must Dig Deeper
Medium America's Intifada Must Dig Deeper By Sam Bahour READ and/or COMMENT at: https://bit.ly/Americas-Intifada and at Counterpunch. _____________________________________ Everything about this list: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/epalestine To subscribe, send...
Israel puts the entire Palestinian banking system on notice
Mondoweiss Israel puts the entire Palestinian banking system on notice By Sam Bahour Read at: Mondoweiss here or Medium here. https://mondoweiss.net/2020/05/israel-puts-the-entire-palestinian-banking-system-on-notice/ _____________________________________ Everything...
Sam Bahour on Annexation & the Palestinian Future – Webinar
EXTEND Watch here: https://youtu.be/pJJnAbL1cqk (1 hour) To download a PDF version of the updated presentation click here. _____________________________________ Everything about this list: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/epalestine To subscribe, send mail to:...
Open Letter (my second) to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Leadership
Medium Open Letter (my second) to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian LeadershipTonight, Palestine can be back on track By Sam Bahourرسالتي المفتوحة (الثانية) للرئيس الفلسطيني والقيادة الفلسطينيةيمكن لفلسطين الليلة أن تعود إلى المسار الصحيحبقلم:...
Thank you, Israel, you are a poster child for justice
Medium Thank you, Israel, you are a poster child for justice By Sam Bahour Read at: https://bit.ly/Israel-justice or https://medium.com/@sbahour/thank-you-israel-you-are-a-poster-child-for-justice-68cc7853001f?sk=7ef1f154fbb890bce997d76f50c2c22c...
Israel put itself in a corner: Another act of annexation or not, Israel has already lost
Medium Israel put itself in a corner Another act of annexation or not, Israel has already lost By Sam Bahour Read here: ENGLISH: https://bit.ly/Israel-in-a-corner and at Responsible Statecraft ARABIC: Al-Hadath here and Wattan News here. #Palestine...
ADC: Remembering Al Nakba 72 years later webinar – SAM BAHOUR & SAID ERIKAT
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) May 14, 2020Remembering Al Nakba 72 years later Webinar with SAM BAHOUR & SAID ERIKAT If you missed this webinar you can catch the recording here: YouTube: https://youtu.be/D8iH6bJyU0M?t=522 Facebook:...
Gaps in Palestine’s Investment Environment (RITAJ Roundtables)
RITAJ Roundtables Gaps in Palestine's Investment Environment With Dr. Samir Hulileh & Mr. Ibrahim Barham This session is well worth the time to watch and learn from, especially as we seem to be entering into a reset of our governance system. Watch here:...
Why can’t we just be Palestinians in Palestine, and left alone
“A land without people for a people without land”
From Mormon Idaho, Through Youngstown, to Everyone in Palestine and Israel [Book Review]
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. (Publisher’s Description)
Palestinian refugees are Israel’s Achilles heel [Book Review]
The book is a long-winded frontal attack on Palestinian refugees and reads more as a commissioned assignment from the Hasbara-hub called the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs than a truly deep analysis of the issue of Palestinian refugees. What is missing from the book is as important as what is in it—all the other references that Palestinians’ Right of Return is based on, above and beyond the single one, UN General Assembly 194, that the authors pin their entire argument around.
Perpetual Turmoil: A man-made holy pandemic that never ends [Book Review]
Before Israel prohibited me from having free access to Jerusalem, I would meet up for lunch in East Jerusalem with Avner, a Jewish Israeli friend of mine, at the Ambassador Hotel, owned by a mutual friend of ours. Our political arguments always ended on the same note. I would claim that Israel has, and always had, a master plan and acts with full intention. Avner would counter that claim saying I’m giving the Israeli side too much credit and that much of what we are facing are a hodgepodge of haphazard missteps that have created an unfortunate reality on the ground. Enter Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron by Menachem Klein, another Jewish Israeli friend of mine. The book unintentionally offers Avner and myself an answer to our ongoing debate. It turns out we are both correct. How so? Read on.
A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present
As it is said, "Follow the money..." Several years ago my dear friend Dr. Sreemati Mitter was back in Palestine for a visit. She shared with me a hardcopy of her Harvard dissertation which I started to read but was unable to finish at the time. Thanks to the COVID-19...
“God does not exist, and he promised us this land” [Book Review]
Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology – Zionism – is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advocate for the state of Israel, Yakov Rabkin points to the Protestant roots of Zionism, in order to explain the particular support Israel musters in the United States. (Publisher’s Review)
Trump’s Deal of the Century – in less than 6 minutes
Dear friends, I'm still being asked by well-meaning people, near and far, "What's wrong with Trump's Deal of the Century?," more accurately called, the US-Israel Joint Venture. I can't blame them, not everyone is up to closely reading the 181-page plan which requires...
Saving a rules-based world order
III https://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/chapter-vii/ IV https://www.un.org/en/sc/repertoire/otherdocs/GAres377A(v).pdf
Trump’s Ordeal of the Century
“The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017” [Recommended]
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.
“Incitement” documentary tells the story of Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir
Acclaimed Israeli writer-director Yaron Zilberman (“A Late Quartet”) chronicles the disturbing descent of a promising law student to an intransigent ultranationalist obsessed with murdering his country’s leader, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “Incitement” is a gripping and unnerving look through the eyes of a murderer who silenced a powerful voice for peace.
PRI The World: The end of the two-state solution (8 mins)
The World (A radio program heard each weekday on over 300 public stations across North America and consumed by almost 20 million people each month.) The end of the two-state solution Friday, November 22, 2019 This week's announcement by the Trump administration on...
Jewish Currents: “Really See, Not From a Bus Window”
Jewish Currents -- November 21, 2019 "Really See, Not From a Bus Window" By Sam Bahour This article is part of a roundtable on the ethical response to Birthright READ HERE:https://jewishcurrents.org/really-see-not-from-a-bus-window/ and at Medium...
Medium: Make the PLO Great (Central and Relevant) Again
Medium.com Make the PLO Great (Central and Relevant) Again The Palestinian political agency is begging for new leadership. By Sam Bahour READ AT: ENGLISH:...
Green Olive Collective — Not your fly by the night organization
Medium.com Green Olive Collective — Not your fly by the night organization What's a Palestinian-American and a Jewish-Scotlander living in Israel and Palestine, respectively, have in common? Simple, peace with justice! By Sam Bahour READ AT:...
That Massacre Was Personal
That Massacre Was Personal By Sam Bahour READ AT: https://medium.com/@sbahour/that-massacre-was-personal-79c0f285fa8a?sk=3cb5449a03fd6307da0f3875404a2e24 #Palestine #Israel #Lebanon _____________________________________ Everything about this list:...
LobeLog: Trump’s Middle East Communications Theater
LobeLog Trump's Middle East Communications Theater by Sam Bahour "In what seems like another ill-fated attempt to address the failure of his efforts to date, the latest being his Peace to Prosperity economic workshop in Bahrain, Kushner and company seem willing to go...
AMANPOUR on CNNI – Sam Bahour & Amb. David Freidman
AMANPOUR on CNNI - Sam Bahour & Amb. David Freidman Thank you, Christiane Amanpour, for upholding the discipline of professional journalism which is a rare commodity today. PART 1: Palestinian businessman: I call it 'US-Israeli occupation'...
There is a way out for the Israelis (Sam Bahour & Michael Dahlan)
Americans unaware of Palestinian plight
Reports on Palestine
AI NEW REPORT: Trigger-happy: Israel’s use of excessive force in the West Bank
"It urges the USA, the European Union and the rest of the international community to suspend all transfers of munitions, weapons and other equipment to Israel." Amnesty International 27 February 2014 ‘Trigger-happy’ Israeli army and police use reckless force in the...
HRW: Israel’s Control of Palestinian Residency in the West Bank and Gaza
Human Rights Watch NEW REPORT “Forget About Him, He’s Not Here” Israel’s Control of Palestinian Residency in the West Bank and Gaza http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/02/05/forget-about-him-he-s-not-here-0...
ACTION ITEM: Presbyterian Church under attack for their “Breaking Down The Walls” report
Dear friends, A few days ago I posted a report issued by the Presbyterian Church USA's Middle East Committee titled, "Breaking Down The Walls". As could be expected the Church is now under a vicious attack from the pro-Israel lobby in the US. I urge you to read the...
Actions you can take
[ePalestine] Twenty-five actions you can take for Gaza (ACTION ALERT)
Dear friends, Based on the following news article: Los Angeles Times: Behind closed doors, U.S. seeks Israel exit strategy (12/31/2008) I'd like to focus on #3 below to be taken in the next 24-48 hours: Demand Israel stop its genocidal killing spree in Gaza before...