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Palestine solidarity action is holding firm and spreading despite the brutal efforts of university authorities to suppress them, reports Des Freedman The morning after hundreds of New York City cops smashed up the pro-Palestinian occupation on the campus of Columbia University, the city’s mayor Eric Adams warned that ‘There is a movement to radicalize young people and I’m not going to wait until it’s done and all of a sudden acknowledge the existence of it’.
C15.12.2013 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip recieved their first fuel shipment in over 45 days Sunday, after cries for relief from the torrential rains and unprecedented flooding were met with a temporary loosening of the Israeli blockade on the territory. According to the United Nations, over 10,000 Palestinians were displaced after a rare winter storm and torrential rains turned large swathes of the region into a "disaster area."
Reuters The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday [18.10.23] that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
Middle East peace talks in a London kitchen (The Jewish Chronicle 29.8.2011) Secret peace talks between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, took place in London, the JC can reveal. The encounter was hosted over dinner by UK businessman Poju Zabludowicz at his north London
Anat Matar: Walid and I shared a political, personal, and philosophical correspondence for two decades. Even in death, he accompanies me on the path of truth.
In Cyprus news article about Mr.Friedman, who is to be appointed US Ambassador to Israel.
In early December, Obama renewed the presidential waiver, signed by every US president for the past two decades, against moving America’s embassy to Jerusalem for another six months. It effectively means any action by Trump would be delayed until at least June.
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH 04/23/2014 Hamas and Fatah announced Wednesday that they have reached a “historic” agreement to end their differences and form a Palestinian unity government. The announcement came one day after a senior PLO delegation arrived in the Gaza Strip for talks with Hamas leaders on ways of ending the Hamas-Fatah dispute and achieving national reconciliation.
Palestine’s politics were saturated by an orientalist view of the region, making a claim for self-determination impossible. Beyond the suffering, Said had to show how the way in which the region was thought had put the Palestinians under a shroud. The third book was on how the western media configured Islam as the answer to all questions about the “East.” The idea of “Islam” covered over all other meaningful dynamics in the region — such as economic and political subjugation. The media wrote of Iran’s revolution as the eruption of Islamic rage, not as a people’s quest for freedom. Orientalism opened the conceptual space to undo this. The book inaugurated a field of study – postcolonial studies – but what it did not set in motion was the kind of work that Said was now able to do as an essayist for Palestinian freedom.