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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
Another step on the road to annihilation (Sam Bahour & Michael Dahlan)
Only term for lasting peace
Israel must be thanked
Open Letter to Chairman of the PLO and President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas
رسالة مفتوحة إلى رئيس منظمة التحرير الفلسطينيّة ورئيس دولة فلسطين السيد محمود عباس Open Letter to Chairman of the PLO and President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas READ AT: ENGLISH (Medium): http://bit.ly/open-letter-abbas ARABIC (Al-QUDS Newspaper): Click...
“Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians” by Atalia Omer [Recommended]
For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegiances to Israel. How did that transformation come about? What does it mean for the future of Judaism? In Days of Awe, Atalia Omer examines this shift through interviews with a new generation of Jewish activists, rigorous data analysis, and fieldwork within a progressive synagogue community.
PEACE TO PROSPERITY WORKSHOP – BAHRAIN – EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Farewell to the Traveling Circus of the Century in Bahrain
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Sam’s Interview with WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
Sam's Interview with WBEZ 91.5 Chicago Listen (15 mins) here: https://www.wbez.org/shows/worldview/palestinian-leadership-rejects-kushners-peace-to-prosperity-plan/5a98224d-c19e-450d-aed2-473fb58df7ec
Reports on Palestine
B’Tselem בצלם: This Is Ours – And This, Too : Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank
Thank you B'Tselem בצלם! NEW REPORT - NOT TO BE MISSED - Don't miss the maps too! English: https://www.btselem.org/publications/202103_this_is_ours_and_this_too Hebrew: https://www.btselem.org/hebrew/publications/202103_this_is_ours_and_this_too Arabic:...
NEW REPORT: World Bank calls to stop the deterioration of the Palestinian economy
World Bank JERUSALEM, April 27, 2017 NEW REPORT: World Bank calls to stop the deterioration of the Palestinian economy "One third of Palestinians are out of work and more than half of the youth in Gaza are jobless. Gaza is on the verge of a human catastrophe....
UNCTAD: The staggering economic cost of occupation
Only $448 billion, and that was only up until year 2000! This new economic report from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is of utmost importance. It focus on the damage done to the Palestinian economy by this prolonged Israeli occupation....
Actions you can take
UPDATE: Campaign for Right of Entry to oPt – Monthly Report
Dear friends,Sad to report that we are still struggling with the issue of getting the Israeli occupation authorities to apply international law and common sense in applying a transparent and accountable system for entry of foreign nationals into the occupied...