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Mahmoud Abbas: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Published on May 26, 2011

mahmoud abbas Mahmoud Abbas: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Sixty-three years ago, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was forced to leave his home in the Galilean city of Safed and flee with his family to Syria. He took up shelter in a canvas tent provided to all the arriving refugees. Though he and his family wished for decades to return to their home and homeland, they were denied that most basic of human rights. That child’s story, like that of so many other Palestinians, is mine.

This month, however, as we commemorate another year of our expulsion — which we call the nakba, or catastrophe — the Palestinian people have cause for hope: this September, at the United Nations General Assembly, we will request international recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 border and that our state be admitted as a full member of the United Nations.

Many are questioning what value there is to such recognition while the Israeli occupation continues. Others have accused us of imperiling the peace process. We believe, however, that there is tremendous value for all Palestinians — those living in the homeland, in exile and under occupation.

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Tags: Fertile Crescent, General Assembly, israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abbas, palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian people, Palestinian refugees, Proposals for a Palestinian state, United Nations General Assembly, West Bank, Western Asia.

Chas Freeman – Israel, Asset or Liability?

Published on March 26, 2011

chas freeman Chas Freeman Israel, Asset or Liability?

Is Israel a strategic asset or liability for the United States? Interesting question. We must thank the Nixon Center for asking it. In my view, there are many reasons for Americans to wish the Jewish state well. Under current circumstances, strategic advantage for the United States is not one of them. If we were to reverse the question, however, and to ask whether the United States is a strategic asset or liability for Israel, there would be no doubt about the answer.

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Tags: Congress, Foreign relations of Israel, israel, Israel – United States relations, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Nixon Center, Politics, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, United States.

History of the Jews and Zionism since 1900

Published on February 7, 2011

A short history of the Jews since 1900 and the beginnings of Zionism in the world.

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How Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons

Published on November 18, 2010

boycott combined How Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons

The Guardian had an exclusive story on how South Africa negotiated the purchase of nuclear weapons from Israel in the 1970s, and that there are documents that prove that Israel in fact had the weapons, which they have never confirmed or denied. The paper has three pages on the news plus an opinion piece by Gary Younge regarding the Israeli government’s attacks on Richard Goldstone over his UN report on Israeli behaviour towards Palestinians.

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Tags: Bantustan, israel, Israel and the apartheid analogy, Israel – South Africa relations, Israeli government, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, South Africa, South African government, The Guardian.

Let us talk about the Holocaust

Published on September 3, 2008

Kazi Mahmood

Fredrick Tobin, who has been jailed on the charges of questioning the holocaust, has said that the holocaust is supported by three claims: the claim that Germany under Hitler’s control systematically killed Jews, the claim of gas chambers, and the claim that 6 million Jews were killed. He said that none of these are true.

In 1945 after Nazi Germany was defeated by the allied forces a trial was ordered to punish the German generals, officers and those known to have cooperated with Nazi Germany and the third Reich of Adolf Hitler. The trial of Nuremberg as it is known in history was also to help the Jewish community get back at the Germans for what is called the “Holocaust”.

Text books tells us that 6 million Jews died as a result of the holocaust and that they all died in concentration camps and after torture, miseries and all kinds of punitive treatments given to them. They were men, women and children said to have been killed by the Germans under Hitler’s rule. There are however many other historians and university professors as well as Germans themselves and at times Jews who find it important to question the holocaust and the use of the holocaust by the Jewish community to gain sympathy 60 years after the events.

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