Days pass by here each one very unpredictable. Yesterday we heard significant complaints about the rumored plans by the accomodationist branches of Fatah for...
December 3, 2009 passes, just another day among 365 days of the year. But no day here is boring. I videotape at length (mostly for another project) but put a...
[Quote of the day] "The last thing that should interest us is the Palestinians' concern. Before the Palestinian issue, what should interest us is our friends...
Happy Eid AlAdha to all Muslim friends and Colleagues. May this holiday return to us with advance in justice and freedom and a retreat in the forces of...
(Two actions at bottom) Today over 150 Palestinians and internationals participated in an activity to reclaim and plant olive trees on a threatened hill in an...
(Action at bottom) Many years ago my son had two pet hamsters who took turns running on a metal exercise wheel without of course getting anywhere (but...
(brief video linked at end) I have not been to Beirut since I was five years old (but I do remember some things of it) and I was a bit nervous since much has...
One of these days, I would like to write a book to document the 1001 ways that Zionists use to take over land and distract attention at the same time. In...
Yesterday and while politicians fret over terms like "slow-down" or "restraint" on illegal settlement activities, the Israeli authorities demolished more homes...
It is not easy to remain a racist oppressor and it is getting harder to keep deflecting the critics by asking them to focus on nonexistent threats (like Iran)....
We see and meet the nicest people but we also see and meet the meanest people in Palestine. Every day here is an experience in extremes. We contrast an...
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom."...
My mother says I should have worn long sleeves for the Palestinian olive trees sometimes do not want to part with their fruits without a bit of resistance....
On 16 October 1935, a barrel marked "cement" fell as it was being unloaded from ships at the port in Jaffa. The broken barrel contained guns, grenades, and...
Netanyahu looked old, tired, and angry as he delivered his "speech" in front of the Knesset. He had nothing new to say so he regurgitated the old myths about...
Speech by President Obama delivered in Congress 2010 *My fellow Americans.* Millions of you and not special interest groups elected us to office on a platform...
It happened in October in Palestine (*) October 1920: The Zionist ruler of Palestine and British official Herbert Samuel issues decrees that facilitate...
This message will be rather short It is hard to describe our emotions in the past three days in Palestine since we heard of the Palestinian "leadership"...
In the last two days, I attended two conferences, one in An-Najah National University in Nablus on American Studies in Palestine and one at AlQuds University...
In today’s digest: 1) A 1918 statement on Palestine-Zionist conflict by President Woodrow Wilson that remains valid today, 2) a very important action call...
Comment on current events including the crash of an Israeli F-16 followed by commentary on colonial Tel-Aviv, a controversial bestseller shaking the foundation...
In this digest: Paul Kraig Roberts explains why Israel is pushing for conflict with Iran, the Late Shafiq AlHoot in a last interview about what transpired in...
In this digest: Pictures from Palestine before the British occupation of 1917, declaration by prominent artists and others including Dany Glover, Naomi Klein,...
In this digest, we start with an action item because Israeli authorities closed yet another radio station, then a few pictures by my wife of late summer fruits...
In this digest: We comment on the transformation of Palestine and the weakness of Palestinian leaders, describe events happening that you will hear little...
In this digest: I report on a 2002 Israeli admission that a pathologist in an Israeli hospital was harvesting organs without authorization, on the hopeful sign...
Our dear friend Saliba Rishmawi (father of George Rishmawi of Siraj and the Rapprochement Center) passed away of heart failure and we had his funeral...
There was this story about a farmer who went to the judge and complained that he and his family of 8 live in a two-room crowded place. The wise judge said I...