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ePalestine.ps - Sam Bahour

News & opinions from a Palestinian-American
living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine

Support Solar Project in Gaza Displacement Camp

In the aftermath of October 7th and the ensuing genocidal campaign by Israel, the Jabalya Refugee Camp was leveled, including R and M’s home. Here is a photo of their home after it was destroyed in April 2024.

Ungrounding by Eyal Weizman

Ungrounding establishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between coloniser and colonised – and how Israel’s actions after 7 October escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide.

Unshielded Childhood (B’Tselem)

Lethal, unbridled violence employed by the Israeli regime’s armed forces, including the military and settler militias, has led to an unprecedented increase in the killing of Palestinians, and particularly the killing of children and teenagers by Israeli forces.

“The essence of childhood has been destroyed” (Human Rights Council)

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examines violations and crimes against and affecting Palestinian children, including serious physical and psychological harm by the Israeli security forces since 7 October 2023 resulting in the death of at least 20,179 and injury of 44,143 children.

Importing Occupation

Importing Occupation is a four-year investigation by Global Echo Litigation Center into how agricultural products originating in illegal Israeli settlements enter European markets, declaring
preferential tax status reserved for Israeli goods and bearing “Product of Israel” labels and invalid organic and plant health certifications, undermining EU and UK laws.

Erasing Anything Palestinian – Amnesty International

This report lays bare the scale and severity of the ethnic cleansing campaign targeting these communities, carried out in a context of apartheid and unlawful occupation and against the backdrop of an ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.

PODCAST: How Israeli classrooms indoctrinate Jewish supremacy

Education scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan unpacks the ways children learn to view domination as necessary and Palestinians as ‘a problem to be solved.’

The Disorder Podcast with Sam Bahour on Gaza

To discuss from a Palestinian perspective the fallout of October 7th, two years of the Gaza War, and the suffering of the Palestinians from occupation, displacement, cantonization, and bombardments, Jason is joined by Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American entrepreneur based in Ramallah.

Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

Fourteen years after his first visit and 2011 film The Ultra Zionists, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the West Bank.

The Perimeter

Breaking the Silence
New Testimony Collection
Soldiers’ testimonies from the Gaza Buffer Zone 2023-2024

The Silent Overhaul: Changing the nature of Israeli control in the West Bank

The current government’s policies and actions are an apex towards realizing a strategy designed to fulfill a political vision of applying full Israeli sovereignty to the West Bank while establishing a reality of Jewish supremacy and relegating the Palestinians living in the territory to the smallest possible geographical area.

Saudi Arabia: Thank you, but no thank you!

As Saudi Arabia attempts to assume the unilateral leadership role in the Arab World, it has welcomed the Palestinian issue as a component in the negotiations because it is looking for a save-face measure in front of the Arab and Muslim worlds to normalize with Israel, which seems to be one of the conditions the Biden Administration has placed on Saudi Arabia to be able to reach a historic U.S.- Saudi Arabia deal.

LATEST NEWS

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...

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.

“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...

“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...

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...

Reports on Palestine

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The Perimeter

Breaking the Silence
New Testimony Collection
Soldiers’ testimonies from the Gaza Buffer Zone 2023-2024

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...

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