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Zionism, Racism and Culture

Sukumar Muralidharan, Newsclik, Nov. 22, 2011

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After blustery threats failed to banish the item from the agenda, the U.S. and Israel retaliated in their own ways when the U.N. cultural body UNESCO, voted overwhelmingly to admit Palestine as a full member. The U.S. cut off all financial support and Israel announced plans to build a few thousand more dwelling units in occupied Palestinian land.

The Russell Tribunal On Palestine Cape Town Session: Summary Of Findings

Al - Haq, Nov. 13, 2011

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Russell-Tribunal-on-PalestineThe Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) is an international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience created in response to the demands of civil society (NGOs, charities, unions, faith-based organisations) to educate public opinion and put pressure on decision makers. In view of the failure to implement the Advisory Opinion of 9 July 2004 of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning the construction by Israel of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,

Palestine Bid in UN: More Theatrics, Less Solutions

Newsclick Presentation, Sept 29, 2011

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Prof. Aijaz Ahmad shares his opinion with Newsclick about Mahmoud Abbas's bid for Palestinian state in the United Nations.

 

Bye-Bye "Peace Process" - Palestine Comes to the UN

Phyllis Bennis, Courtesy: alternet.org, 21 Sept. 2011

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Take away the crass political motives, and what is left in the U.S. plan to veto Palestinian membership in the UN can be summed up in one word: chutzpah. The U.S. is threatening to veto a resolution aimed at achieving something Washington claims it supports — a Palestinian state [truncated, still-occupied, demilitarized and divided but nominally independent] side by side with Israel — because they don’t like the venue where this particular step towards statehood is underway. It’s hardly news that the U.S. only supports a Palestinian state created under its own control, within the parameters of its own U.S.-dominated “peace process,” whose 20 painful years have achieved only failure — and worse. The U.S. only supports a Palestinian “state” shaped by the realities of U.S. and Israeli power, not one based on human rights and international law.

Yemen - Saleh using Geopolitics to Clutch on to Power

Newsclick Production, May 30, 2011

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Vijay Prashad, professor at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA comments on the latest developments in Yemen where unpopular ruler Abdullah Saleh has maintained his grip on power through recourse to support from Saudi Arabia. He also comments on US president Barack Obama's latest speech on the Arab Spring and the supposed "differences" between Israel and the United States following the Hamas-Fatah accord.

Palestine Festival of Literature

Meena Alexander, Palfestblog, May 1, 2011

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At Palfest we have come as visitors, well wishers, writers come to a land that is undergoing great difficulty. I thought of the stumps of olive trees, a scarred field glimpsed out of the bus window one morning near Nablus. The Israeli soldiers had cut the trees because they were deemed to be a security risk. Whole families depended on the livelihood from the trees. 

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