Palestine

November 23, 2012

Avnery: Once And For All!

Uri Avnery November 24, 2012 THE MANTRA of this round was Once And For All. “We must put an end to this (the rockets, Hamas, the Palestinians, the Arabs?) Once and For All!” –...

Gaza Strip / Palestine / Palestinian people

November 21, 2012

Daniel Cohn-Bendit @ European Parliament

At the European Parliament, Cohn-Bendit speaks (unhappily only in French) of the need for the European Community to come clear about Palestine & to back the Palestinians & tell Israel it has to stop...

Palestine / Poetry

November 18, 2012

Rafeef Ziadah – ‘We teach life, sir’

Gaza Strip / Israel / Palestine / Uncategorized

November 17, 2012

Avnery: Another Superfluous War

Uri Avnery November 17, 2012 Another Superfluous War HOW DID it start? Stupid question. Conflagrations along the Gaza Strip don’t start. They are just a continuous chain of events, each claimed to be a...

Israel / Middle East / Palestine / Politics

October 19, 2012

Avnery on Debate

Here’s Uri Avnery’s take on the 2nd debate & beyond: The Man with the Uzi THERE WAS this young Israeli who was captured by cannibals. They put him in the cooking pot and...

Israel / Palestine

July 7, 2012

Avnery on Arafat

Uri Avnery July 7, 2012 Poisoning Arafat FOR ME, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about...

Agitprop / Independent Publishers / Israel / Palestine

June 19, 2012

Alice Walker’s position on Israeli Boycott

This just in via the Electronic Intifada: JTA and Haaretz distort Alice Walker’s position on boycott of Israeli publisher Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 06/19/2012 – 11:31 Alice Walker speaks in the occupied West Bank...

Israel / Palestine

June 9, 2012

Avnery on the First War in Lebanon

Uri Avnery June 9, 2012 The War of Lies THIRTY YEARS ago this week, the Israeli army crossed into Lebanon and started the most stupid war in Israel’s history. It lasted for 18 years....

Live Reading / Palestine / Palestinian people / Poetry

April 10, 2012

Ghassan Zaqtan’s Absence in Albany Today

—> Just learned that today’s event has been cancelled! <— For anybody in Albany or surrounds, please go to the events at the New York State Writers Institute at SUNY Albany that should have...

Palestine / Poetry / Translation

April 8, 2012

Times Union on Zaqtan

The Albany Times Union newspaper picks up the Ghassan Zaqtan visa story: Palestinian poet’s U.S. visit delayed over visa issues April 5, 2012 at 2:36 pm by Michael Janairo, Arts & Entertainment Editor The Palestinian poet...