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Fatima Hajj: Every Palestinian Woman

Fatima hoped one day the Palestinians will return and together all people will live in peace in Palestine.

(SHATILA CAMP, Beirut Lebanon) - Last May I attended the Nakba Day at Kass-Kass Park, just outside of Shatila Palestinian refugee Camp in Beirut.

I made a promise to a young Palestinian resident of the Shatila Camp who I interviewed earlier in the week—that I would attend the festival to see her perform her dance recital.

NYT to Obama v. Romney, `let`s you and him fight`

All each president can do it cope with the task at hand, a task that always includes having to deal with politicians ready to deal with anyone who will help them win a political fight.

(CHICAGO) - Scott Shane’s New York Times story Friday, linked President Obama to President Jimmy Carter. Shane maintains that Obama, like Carter before him, could also be a one-term president.

The New York Times must have gone into a panic mode for its editors to set Shane loose on such a comparison. There is a good reason for that panic.

World... Be Warned

A look at the road we are all travelling down...

(LONDON) - Here is the latest from Nahida Izzat, the Exiled Palestinian, who today lives in London but never travels a mile from Palestine in her heart.

Memo to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon: The Door on a Two-State Solution was Closed 45 Years Ago

Israel’s hawks proceeded with their colonial venture come what may, in determined defiance of international law and no matter what the organised international community said or wanted.

(LONDON) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told the General Assembly at the start of this week that “the door may be closing for good on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.”

He added: “The continued growth of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory seriously undermines efforts toward peace. We must break this dangerous impasse.”

A Final Call (WARNING: CONTAINS SOME DISTURBING IMAGES)

Clocks are ticking - retrieve your conscience, come running...

(LONDON) - Bani Israel
You've dug yourselves a hole
You keep digging... Fools
The flood is behind you
Tears and blood and floating body parts

Give up your guns
Give up your greed
Give up your arrogance
Give up your support of a doomed
ideology - join humanity

Only in Palestine

In Palestine, faith is ocean-deep; Patience knows no boundaries; Sincerity soft-tactile and hope... sky-wide...

(LONDON) - Again our writer and poet Nahida Izzat delivers a combination of words and images that defy our expectations, humble us in their reality, and motivate us in their meaning.

Children and women facing down heavily armed Israeli Defence Forces; fighting without weapons an enemy intent on killing them all with few exceptions; a cold hearted, poorly trained band of thugs who sickeningly call themselves 'the most moral army' and that alone makes me so committed to exposing their war crimes, that are all taking place by design...

Pashtun Awakening: Defeat the Taliban by Changing the Narrative

In order to accomplish this, NATO and ISAF should focus on unifying the Pashtuns through a grassroots information campaign - a path that will be much more effective than the military option.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The New World Strategies Coalition, a think tank founded by native Afghans which creates nonmilitary solutions for Afghanistan, released its latest policy brief today entitled, Pashtun Awakening: Defeat the Taliban by Changing the Narrative.

The policy brief outlines a solution for resolving the situation in Afghanistan by exposing how Pakistan has systemically weakened Afghanistan's sacred tribal structure via its Taliban proxy.

Israel, The Day After

It is down to world leaders to dismantle Israel and its powerful Jewish lobbies wisely and carefully, accepting all the time that we are dealing with a very lethal entity.

(LONDON) - Last week, an interesting article by Daniel Gordis appeared on Tablemag.com.

Gordis, a committed Zionist intellectual, is concerned about the inevitable collapse of the Jewish state and its impact on world Jewry in general and American Jews in particular.

Rwanda: 3 Opponents in Prison, Nominated for the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament 2012

Past winners of this award are including Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi.

(BRUSSELS) - Three opponents of the RPF regime currently in power in Rwanda were nominated by 42 MEPs for the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2012 of the European Parliament.

Umuhoza Victoire Ingabire, Bernard Ntaganda and Deogratias Mushyayidi, all three are currently imprisoned in Kigali and should know the result around 10 December.

APN Call to Action for the Jewish New Year

"This Year, for all the right reasons, let us make sure that our causes are larger and more vital than chocolate chips..."

(WASHINGTON DC) - Last spring, an event galvanized a segment of American Jews like no other. People knew it was going to change their lives and they wanted to stop it. There were weeks of Facebook comments decrying it.

Petitions were launched. The Jewish community became galvanized.