Palestinian citizens of Israel
Discourse around the Wall
Aaron David Miller and Jimmy Carter both said on Diane Rehm today two things that made me cringe. You can listen here to the whole hour, they start talking about the Apartheid Wall about half way through. Both President Carter and Miller refer to the Wall as “impermanent,” and state that if it had been [...]
Palestinian Woman Pulls Israeli from Sea, Gets Jailed
(Sloppy Yousef News Agency) – Yesterday, an Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian woman to two years in an Israel jail prison for denying an Israeli national the right to suicide. The ruling was passed in favor of 23 year old Ari Gaal, who – after being saved from drowning – sued his hero for interfering [...]
More news from the only democracy in the Middle East
“Seven hundred protesters against the Israel Defense [sic] Forces operation in Gaza, mostly Israeli Arabs or residents of East Jerusalem, have been arrested since the operation began, and dozens have been indicted. The protesters, 226 of whom are still in custody, are suspected of involvement in disturbances, illegal demonstrations or stone-throwing, police said. Of the [...]
The Only Democracy in the Region Just Banned Arab Parties
A few days ago, Yaman wrote about the obvious contradiction between pro-Israeli propaganda proclaiming Israel’s belief in freedom of the press, while at the same time Israel denies journalists access to Gaza, killing journalists and bombing media building. The same propaganda campaign he cited faces another contradiction. Haaretz just reported that the Israel parliament, the [...]
Can’t even attend a funeral…
Today started in a somber fashion for me, with the news that a colleagues mother had passed away suddenly yesterday evening. Death and tragedy are universal, but nothing is quite ordinary when you live under occupation-whether it is driving from one town to the next, or trying to attend a funeral. The colleague in question [...]
What Better Way to Atone For My Sins Than Stoning You?
I was forewarned before Yom Kippur that if you drive anywhere in Israel on the Day of Atonement, people will throw rocks at your car. Apparently driving on Yom Kippur is also a good way to get yourself nearly killed in Akka. I am of the mind that this type of social behavior, the kind [...]
In-Depth Follow up on “A Nightmare Called Ramadan”
Hlehel: “I was pushed to resign” The article written two weeks ago by colleague Alaa Hlehel in Fasl al-Maqal provoked a sharp debate within the Balad party and extended further, to the point that the Islamic Movement demanded his resignation. How did the affair begin? How was the decision to put a “clarification” [to the [...]
Alaa Hlehel: A Nightmare Called Ramadan
Alaa Hlehel is one of the up and coming young Palestinian writers from inside Israel/Occupied Palestine, whom I had the opportunity to meet in Cairo this past May. He is also a journalist, founder-administrator of the Arabs48 website and until recently, the editor-in-chief of Fasl al-Maqal, the newspaper of (Azmi Bishara’s) Balad party, which calls [...]
Jalame is Open, but with Restrictions
Israel has opened Jalame crossing to Palestinian citizens of Israel for the first time since 2000. Jalame is located in the far northern tip of the West Bank. Since the wall has been completed in this area, the residents of West Bank villages, as well as of the Arab villages inside of Israel who are [...]
Young Palestinian Writers in Cairoٌ
I just attended a really cool talk the other day as part of the Spring Festival that gathered three young writers from Palestine, two of them Israeli Palestinians and one from Ramallah. They read short pieces from their poetry/short stories and then had a an articulate and charged discussion on the current generation of Palestinian [...]
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