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i just finished watching my dear friend rania on press tv’s “middle east today.” it was tedious to watch because some delusional zionist was on the show. he–with the help of the show’s host i might add–effectively silenced dr. naji shurab the one voice living in gaza who was on the show. it’s so hard [...]
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this is an article i wrote for electronic intifada a couple of weeks ago in the aftermath of my anger at rumors of clinton being appointed as secretary of state. this is material from the second chapter of my book that i’m working on, though many thanks and a big ya3tiki il3fiye to maureen who [...]
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of rafiq super-Saed the candlelight vigil in Nablus tonight came off with out a hitch. (Okay, there was one hitch: I should not be allowed to hold a candle. I set my hair on fire twice before putting it up and my kuffiyeh on fire once before a friend took [...]
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when one is writing about palestine one must speak about multiple sieges. there are layered sieges. they come from all directions. yesterday one of my students was in my office. like most palestinian families i know the political ideologies vary from family member to family member. she is pflp, one of her brothers is in [...]
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anyone wanting to understand the inherent lack of logic, the inherent lack of humanity among zionists, the inherent distortion of history and of the present realities in gaza you must watch the brilliance of rania and caoimhe on press tv yesterday.
the siege on gaza continues unabated in spite of outrage expressed by journalists and humanitarian [...]
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I was just glancing through my posts from the beginning of this year–in January. I was recalling the teach-in on Gaza we did at Boise State University around that same time. I was recalling the images I watched on television and read in the newspapers about Gaza earlier this year. Here is one such [...]
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There are many forms of resistance as I’ve often written about here. Palestinians have always used a variety of such methods. And indeed it took decades before they resorted to their right to armed resistance against the Jewish settler colonists and the British who imposed this colonial context on them vis-a-vis the Zionist project of [...]
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A story on Al Jazeera today about Mexican migrant workers–economic refugees if you will–who die on the U.S.-Mexican border. The story is a small one, but it is a reminder of a larger issue that that combines the history of U.S. expansionism–better known as Manifest Destiny–with policies like NAFTA that have been a disaster and [...]
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Strike day two. I went to the university today–yesterday as today–at the usual time. But it was a ghost town. There were not services and buses full of students unloading at the gates. Even the coffee shop was closed. Rami’s felafel stand was empty–no customers. I found out today that there are 13,000 who travel [...]
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There is a great loss today in Miriam Makeba. This clip of her singing “Khawuleza” in 1966 gives you a sense of how she used music as a form of resistance, as a way to sing the truth about South African apartheid in a way that honored those South Africans who were most severely subjected [...]
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and this is what president-elect barack obama is choosing to support with his selection of rahm israel emanuel as white house chief of staff. maybe if obama chose to come to khalil (hebron) instead of sderot he might understand the ways in which emanuel stands for racism, apartheid, colonialism, terrorism. this clip is from al [...]
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When I spoke with my students about the election this week one woman asked me, why did the Americans emphasize Barak Hussein Obama’s middle name so much–in an attempt to scare Americans into thinking he’s Muslim–when his first name is a Jewish one? Indeed. Those of us familiar with the work of Ehud Barak (it’s [...]
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So I’m preparing for an interview on Press TV tonight. They want me to talk about four things:
1. inter-Palestinian talks in Cairo
2. U.S.-Israel sowing seeds of discord
3. Abbas’ strategy as failed
4. results of the Quartet’s work in Palestine
To be honest, I haven’t entirely followed the talks in Cairo because I find them irrelevant in so [...]
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I thought it might be useful to post a couple of maps here for those who are unfamiliar with where I am. The first map is of the West Bank. It shows the Apartheid Wall’s route, very clearly delineated solid line, as opposed to the dotted line, which is the Green Line or the pre-1949 [...]
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i post this with the permission of a dear friend:
Dear Mr. The President of the Palestinian Authority
My name is Abdelfattah Abdelkarim Hasan Ibrahim Mohamad Ahmad Mostafa Ibrahim Srour Abusrour. I was born in Aida Refugee camp, [...]
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Settlers from Yitzhar and Itamar settlements, built on southern Nablus lands, have routinely attacked the southern villages but increased the burnings of fields and beatings of residents since the beginning of September.
The assaults are sometimes aided by Israeli soldiers in the area who either watch on or participate. Both settlers and soldiers attacked Asira and [...]
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of course, i don’t trust israelis in general, but today i am finding myself trying to make something of their new rhetoric. could it be their jewish supremacy? their idea that they are superior to all other people? first, olmert finally calls it like it is and names illegal israeli settler violence a “pogrom”:
Ehud Olmert, [...]
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If I had the energy, time, or ability I would organize try to encourage and help people here in Palestine to organize a nation-wide march, with everyone dressed in black, and carrying symbolic coffins. We would march from Jenin to Khalil in this fantasy (although if it is really a fantasy we could march to [...]
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This is what the street outside Deheishe refugee camp looked like when I left this morning at 7 AM. I hadn’t heard any stones being thrown at all, but I was happy to see the remnants in the street to know that there were people resisting. Here is what one official report says about the [...]
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How can you not love a a people who grieve so deeply for a poet. A poet who is such a beloved hero that he must be buried in Ramallah where more people–though nowhere near all–can visit his grave. I thought about this a lot today at Darwish’s funeral. Certainly there were many people at [...]
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and this is as close as he’s going to get to his village of al Birwa. the view is from my friend’s house in ramallah of the helicopter with mahmoud darwish’s body landing in the muqata’a. he won’t be buried in his home village or anywhere near it. perhaps that is why it is [...]
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Ramallah streets seemed quiet yesterday. Lots of businesses closed, though not all. As I walked through downtown I could hear people chatting and I would hear Mahmoud Darwish’s name uttered on the lips of many people I passed by. There are new posters around town (pictured above) preparing for today’s funeral. The schedule keeps [...]
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What makes the headlines about Palestine of late? Predominantly the clashes between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza and the West Bank. This in spite of the fact that of late the Israeli Occupation Forces (more accurately, it should really be called the Israeli Aggressor Forces) have been and are always already brutal in the West [...]
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the latest from khalil bendib
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this is the program i mentioned two posts below, street food, on al jazeera that focuses on al quds.
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We all know those pithy little phrases like “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” But I’m starting to think that it’s all just hot air. Especially when it obscures the present that is re-enacting other histories. I mean how is it possible that Senator Barack Obama went to Ramallah [...]
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Apparently some time late last month Nelson Mandela was removed from the U.S. “terrorist” watch list. I found this out today reading an op-ed in the Daily Star. Somehow this missed my radar screen, likely because I was traveling at the time. But I think this is particularly instructive given how the western media continues [...]
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I made it to Beirut after spending a week in Sham and Halab. It was great seeing more of Syria, but it was insanely hot and difficult walking around during the day. Halab is beautiful with so many parks and green spaces in the city (picture to the left is a view of Halab from [...]
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