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Palestinian Perspectives on Palestine

This website (admittedly pro-peace biased) was created because its author, a Quaker pacifist/activist and web activist, must speak speak Truth to Power. That truth resides not just in one side's perspective. British, Israeli, Palestinian, and American parents continue to grieve for their dead children.--Dennis W. Mills

Action: On the 40th anniversary of Israel's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, join the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, United for Peace and Justice, and 150 organizations in Washington, DC, June 10-11, 2007 for a protest, teach-in, and lobby day.

ACTION 1: Tax Day Is Coming: Offset Your Tax Dollars to Israel
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1607

ACTION 2: Donate and join the ship to the free Gaza movement
http://www.freegaza.org/pages/joinIn.html

ACTION 3: Newsletters of the Palestine Conference and needed support
http://www.palestineconference.org/newsletter.html

ACTION 4 (For Jews): NO TIME TO CELEBRATE: Jews Remember the Nakba" is a campaign organized by anti-Zionist Jews from around the U.S. and Canada to coordinate and make visible Jewish response to Israeli Independence Day celebrations and Jewish participation in commemoration of the Nakba. Sign the NO TIME TO CELEBRATE statement and pledge of action (text below).  Go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/notimetocelebrate/ to sign!  All signatories will be sent additional information about how to get involved in the campaign.

ACTION 5: "Palestinian refugees living in the US, EU, Canada and Latin America are requested to use their foreign passports to fly to the Israeli Ben-Gurion Airport from May 14-16. The plan calls for the Palestinians to hire dozens
of boats flying UN flags that will converge on Israeli ports simultaneously."
http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1588&search=1&key1=Ziad%20Abu%20Ein

ACTION 6: "Dying to Live"- A Peoples Struggle, Gaza Fundraiser- Friday March 28th at 6pm at Rutgers University Newark NJ, 350 MLK Jr. Blvd. in the Paul Robeson Campus Center in the MPR. Guest Speaker is Commissioner Ramsey Abdallah, there will be dinner, poetry, auctions, debkah performece. Tickets are $10 student and $15 General. The sponsoring groups are The Palestinian American Organization of Rutgers Newark, The Muslim Student Association of Rutgers Newark, The National Islamic Association and Islamic Relief. If people cannot attend but would like to donate the best and safer way is to make the Check out to Rutgers University and place under it somewhere PAO (PAO is the Palestinian American Org, we are the account holder and main sponsorer and we would be able to cash the check from our account at the university and put it with the rest of the donations.) If they would like to add a name or message to the donation we can give them a shout out during the event thanking them for the donation. Info: Manal Ramadan manalramadan2023@yahoo.com Rutgers University

Mazin Qumsiyeh
http://qumsiyeh.org
http://justicewheels.org

 

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Summary:

This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites -- working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies -- exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides an historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion.

Interviewees include Seth Ackerman, Mjr. Stav Adivi, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Dr. Neve Gordon, Toufic Haddad, Sam Husseini, Hussein Ibish, Robert Jensen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Karen Pfeifer, Alisa Solomon, and Gila Svirsky.

Reverse the Reversal Retired U.S. diplomats urge President Bush to rethink his Israel policy. Archived

Hello, Peace! is a free phone service that lets Israelis and Palestinians start talking again.  Now you - Palestinian or Israeli - can talk with someone on the other side.
If you're in Israel, the West Bank or Gaza, you can pick up the phone and talk to someone on the other side about reconciliation, tolerance, and peace.
 

 

Go to homepageSabeel is an ecumenical grassroots liberation movement among Palestinian Christians. In Arabic Sabeel means 'The Way' and also a 'Spring of Water'. Sabeel strives to develop a spirituality based on justice, peace, nonviolence, liberation and reconciliation for the different national and faith communities. Sabeel also works to promote a more accurate international awareness regarding the identity, presence, and witness of Palestinian Christians.


Caterpillar Campaign The purpose of this campaign, is to stop the sales of Caterpillar heavy bulldozers to the Israeli army. These bulldozers are used by the Israeli army for wide scale demolition of Palestinian homes.


Refusenik Watch

Yesh Gvul
Courage To Refuse
Shministim
Pilots
Free The Five
New Profile
Refuser Solidarity Network
 
Bat Shalom, together with The Jerusalem Center for Women, a Palestinian women's peace organization, comprise The Jerusalem Link.

 

 

Palestinian National Anthem  Also see and hear PAC-USA

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Sami Awad, Part 1
http://www.aibtv.com/ECAPC_011.wmv
Sami Awad, Executive Director of The Holy Land Trust-Palestine, a resident of Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine and an advocate for the use of non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
In Part 1, Sami discusses what it is like to live and work under the Israeli occupation; the prospects for peace in the Middle East; The construction of the Israeli wall and how present day Palestine compares with the brutality of South African apartheid. Will non-violent resistance work in Palestine?

Sami Awad, Part 2
http://www.aibtv.com/ECAPC_012.wmv
In Part 2, Sami continues the discussion of the use of non-violent resistance as a technique to confront the oppression and humiliation of the Israeli occupation. Listen to the personal and poignant narrative of being held hostage to the IDF. Why did the Israeli military commander in Bethlehem tell Sami that his nonviolent resistance efforts will not work?
 

Media in the Region

Jerusalem

Rafah

May 19th, U.S.-supplied attack helicopters fired missiles, tank shells, and machine gun fire into a street demonstration in the Rafah refugee camp, killing at least 18 people and severely wounding 55 others, including children. The whole world condemned this outrageous act with the exception of the U.S. government.

Rafah Update More Deaths, Shootings and Arrests 19 Nov 03

Israeli Sites with Statistics and Statements

Sunbala Support Palestinian women by buying their handicrafts.

The home of all Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians

Israeli Perspectives on Palestine

 

If you ask a child in Gaza today what he wants to be when he grows up, he doesn't say that he wants to be a doctor or a soldier or an engineer. He says he wants to be a martyr. - EYAD EL SARRAJ, a psychiatrist, is the founder and director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) in Gaza.

 

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