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Why Palestinians Have Continued to Lose Palestine to this Very Day - Undoing the Theft of Palestine

Open Letter to Palestinians, their supporters, their oppressors.

(LOS ANGELES) - Sun Tzu wrote in the Art of War some 2500 years ago:

'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.'

Settlers Attacking Palestinian Volunteers in Smoud Kindergarten

Issa Amro, Palestinian human rights defender, was arrested along with a 15 year old Palestinian boy because of violence toward the settlers as settlers claimed; video recorded of the incident tells a different story.

(HEBRON) - Settlers attacked Youth against settlements volunteers whilst they were working in Al Smoud kindergarten located near Shuhada Street and Beit Hadas Colony (Al Dbwieh area).

As usual settlers attempted to prevent us from doing our work in the kindergarten so they entered the kindergarten, a private area, owned by a Palestinian, and stopped YAS volunteers.

The Olive Tree

The still slow life is mine, my days are years.
Tied to the soil, I reach towards the sky,
as men rush by, so driven by their fears,
and with their fears intact pass on and die.
From Plato's Olive Tree

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - This is the olive picking season. Like other harvests, it should be a season of joy. However, the land-grabbing occupiers of Palestine have imbued Israeli youth with the destructive arrogance of conceited, swaggering, self-loving Jews.

“A group of extremist Israeli settlers set ablaze more than 350 Palestinian olive trees” reports the International Middle East Media Centre.

Human Rights: Being Positive

Today (Saturday 11-5) we met in Ramallah for a study day to work and organize for a positive future: one democratic secular state in historic Palestine.

(BETHLEHEM) - From now on our posts will have more positive than negative links/stories. But first an unclassified note (time will tell impact): Israeli warplanes attacked Syria.

The Palestinian negotiating team submitted its resignation following Israel’s announcement of building thousands of new Jewish colonial settler homes on Palestinian lands and its announcement of thousands of home demolitions for native Jerusalemites.

Gerald Clark`s Nakba is a Masterpiece for Palestine

This new album is a treat, and you should seriously consider adding it to your Jazz collection.

(LONDON) - The other day I learned that Gerald Clark, pretty much an unfamiliar name to me, was about to launch a Jazz suite dedicated to the Nakba and the Palestinian people. I was intrigued, I contacted Gerald and offered my help. A day later, the album found its way to my letterbox.

I am usually bored by ‘political music.’ Occasionally it lacks the necessary wit let alone a musical edge. But Clark’s Nakba is a masterpiece - music in its purest and most genuine form. It’s probably best described as a ‘Blue Note for Palestine’.

UK Government`s Devotion to Racist Israeli Regime Continues

... as new ministerial stooge is slotted in at the Foreign Office

(LONDON) - letter from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign recently flopped into my Inbox for forwarding to MPs, urging them to write to the Foreign Office and ask what action was being taken to address the growing humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

I edited it slightly and added, to my own MP, that we do mean 'action' not the usual mealy-mouthed drivel from Messrs Hague and Burt.

APN Denounces New Round of Settlement Approvals

"...he Palestinians’ ability to remain in talks under current circumstances depends more than ever on the United States and the international community." - APN President and CEO Debra DeLee

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Americans for Peace Now (APN) today denounced the government of Israel's actions to move forward with yet more settlement approvals in both East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

APN once again urged U.S. officials – President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry, and Special Envoy Indyk – to engage forcefully to convince Prime Minister Netanyahu to cease and roll back these reckless, destructive decisions.

American Police Now `Israeli-DHS Trained,` Precursor to Dictatorship

Slowly, every police department in the United States, at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security, is being trained by Israeli groups.

(CINCINNATI Press TV) - As part of this training, there is an increased move to use of military uniforms, armored vehicles, heavy weapons, illegal surveillance, lying to the people, press and courts and systematic interference in the electoral system.

They are becoming “Israeli.”

Congratulations to our American Truth-Telling Comrades

Our heartfelt congratulations to the winners: you are the pride of the United States and the whole world. At the same time, we cannot hide our disappointment at being left off the list. Our only consolation is that the winners were all US based.

(LONDON Redress) - It’s one of the highest accolades truth-telling fighters against racism and bigotry could hope for.

The Zio-cons of the ironically named “Anti-Defamation League” (ADL) have published a list of what it considers to be the 10 “most influential and active anti-Israel groups” operating in the United States, the Times of Israel reports.

One Minute to Midnight

We, the Palestinians, despite our lack of armies and resources, have been trying in vain to bring this destructive machine to a halt.

(LONDON) - The fast train that has been hurtling through our blighted land for the last hundred years is gathering momentum and reaching its final destination. Palestine. A Jewish state with no place for any Palestinian in it.

This tragic journey has continued unchecked and unhindered despite many UN resolutions over many years calling it illegal and against all known international law and conventions. Yet it thunders on.