Intermedio. La boda de Luís Alonso. J Gimenez. Lucero Tena
February 9, 2010 by bandannieTouring Israeli ballet company has no Palestinian dancers
February 9, 2010 by bandannieby Philip Weiss on February 7, 2010 · 18
Several BDS groups, including Adalah-NY here, have called for boycott of the Israel Ballet’s tour to Florida and the Northeast this month. The groups say that the ballet is part of the government’s rebranding campaign–
Israel: The Alternative
February 8, 2010 by bandannieBy Tony Judt
2003
The Middle East peace process is finished. It did not die: it was killed. Mahmoud Abbas was undermined by the President of the Palestinian Authority and humiliated by the Prime Minister of Israel. His successor awaits a similar fate. Israel continues to mock its American patron, building illegal settlements in cynical disregard of the “road map.” The President of the United States of America has been reduced to a ventriloquist’s dummy, pitifully reciting the Israeli cabinet line: “It’s all Arafat’s fault.” Israelis themselves grimly await the next bomber. Palestinian Arabs, corralled into shrinking Bantustans, subsist on EU handouts. On the corpse-strewn landscape of the Fertile Crescent, Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and a handful of terrorists can all claim victory, and they do. Have we reached the end of the road? What is to be done?
Britain, You Better Wake Up by Gilad Atzmon
February 8, 2010 by bandannie
The more I read about the Chilcot inquiry the more disturbed I am. The fallacy imbued in the heart of British ‘democracy’ is staggering. While some commentators are concerned with questions to do with the legality of the war, the most crucial issue here is actually the disappearance of ethical judgment from our public and political life. Rather than being concerned with morality and ethics British politicians are concerned with legalism. In other words, if someone would manage to prove that the war was ‘legal’ then the murdering of a million and a half Iraqis would be well justified. Let’s all face it, our politicians are corrupted to the bone.
US snow storm hits DC homeless
February 8, 2010 by bandannie
Cartoon of the day
February 6, 2010 by bandannie
Paris, rappel : 14 heures aujourd’hui
February 6, 2010 by bandannieManif Palestine, aujourd’hui samedi 14h pl de la république en direction de l’ambassade d’Israël.
De : CCIPPP
Encore la matinée pour appeler vos ami-es et continuer la mobilisation!
Il faut venir accompagné-e-s! Si vous ne l’êtes pas, vous ne vous sentirez pas tout-e seul-e non plus 
Les militant-e-s de la CCIPPP seront dans le cortège du pôle Palestine, juste derrière le carré de tête et le camion de tête qui partira à au niveau du numéro 13 du bd saint martin. Ambiance et détermination.
L’arrivée sera dans la place de l’opéra, une prise de parole est prévue au nom du collectif et sera portée par les représentants de la CCIPPP, l’AFPS et Génération Palestine.
à nous voir nombreuses et nombreux ce samedi.
les militant-e-s de CCIPPP.
http://www.protection-palestine.org
My Father was a Freedom Fighter- a book review by Gilad Atzmon
February 4, 2010 by bandannie
AuthorGilad Atzmon
Ramzy Baroud’s “My Father Was A Freedom Fighter” is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light the history of the Palestinian people and their battle with Israel and Zionism. Through the story of the Baroud’s family the book outlines every event in the history of the conflict and reflects on the way it transformed the Palestinian reality.
The book is a heart breaking depressing story of the Baroud family’s journey from paradise to hell. It is a flight that starts in Beit Daras, a small pictorial village in the south of Palestine. It ends in a Gaza refugee camp. It is a tragic journey of a rural self-sufficient population that is driven into total dispossession, humiliation and absolute poverty. And yet, there is a beam of light along the book namely resistance: Ramzy’s father Mohammed, was a freedom fighter. He didn’t win a single war, not even a battle, yet, against all odds, in spite of his poverty and illness, he managed to educate his children and to plant hope in their young souls, to fuel Ramzy with fierceness, which along the years transformed the young man into a monumental inspirational writer and an icon of intellectual resistance.
Dr. Norman Finkelstein at the University of Waterloo
February 3, 2010 by bandannie
The Inevitable Bi-national Regime
February 3, 2010 by bandannie
BenvenistiJanuary 2010
The article below, an extract from a longer book, was published today in the Hebrew edition of Ha’aretz. It did not appear in the English edition but has been translated by Profs Zalman Amit and Daphna Levitt and circualted by email.
Introduction to an interview with Benvenisti in Challenge magazine, # 99, September – October 2006
Meron Benvenisti’s unflinching analyses often cause squirming both on the Right and the Left. He served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem in the 1970’s, administering the city’s annexed Arab sections. In the 1980’s, before the first Intifada, he founded and directed the West Bank Data Project, an eye-opener with regard to the effects of Israel’s policies. His most controversial conclusion was that these policies amounted to de facto annexation. He claimed that because of the settlements (then a mere smattering compared to today), the situation had become irreversible. As a corollary, Benvenisti has long maintained that, given the realities of population and resources, the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean cannot accommodate two states.
