Ghazzawiyya غزّاوية
Gaza our South Africa Moment - Gaza our Guernica
Friday, November 16, 2012
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Blogging on Hiatus
Sunday, February 12, 2012
My article on singing, being 'civilized' and child murderers
Just a note that I am not blogging as much on here, rather I am doing that on my Facebook account.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
my article in Alquds Alarabi
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Gaza 2009 Commemoration
Hope to see all friends and comrades there. According to a facebook comrade "PLease bring an old shoe with you" :)
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Poverty in Lebanon
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Demonstration today, Egyptian Embassy, London
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Joseph Masaad speaks about the defeat of the Syrian revolution
My translation:
I am sure it is a multimillion industry
Amazing night in Tahrir yesterday continues today
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sectarian Democracy in Lebanon
Monday, November 7, 2011
More on Normalization
I really apprciate this attempt on behal of comrades in PACBI to define normalization thoroughly:"It is helpful to think of normalization as a “colonization of the mind,” whereby the oppressed subject comes to believe that the oppressor’s reality is the only “normal” reality that must be subscribed to, and that the oppression is a fact of life that must be coped with. Those who engage in normalization either ignore this oppression, or accept it as the status quo that can be lived with. In an attempt to whitewash its violations of international law and human rights, Israel attempts to re-brand [1] itself, or present itself as normal -- even “enlightened” -- through an intricate array of relations and activities encompassing hi-tech, cultural, legal, LGBT and other realms."
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Angry Arab writes about the oppositions in the Arab world
Review of Anonymous
Zionist crimes against humanity 27Oct-2Nov
Source: PCHR week of October 27- November 2 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
they even appropriated the Oud!
Th creative community for occupation and apartheid
Monday, October 31, 2011
9 Palestinians killed on Saturday evening Israeli bombings
1- Ahmed Khalil al-Sheikh Khalil, 36, from Rafah;
2- Mohammed Ahmed ‘Aashour, 26, from Khan Yunis;
3- ‘Abdul Karim Mousa Shatat (al-Masri), 30, from Khan Yunis;
4- Bassem Mohammed Abu al-‘Ata, 33, from Gaza City; and
5- Hassan Mohammed al-Khudari, 27, from Gaza City
6- Suleiman Mahrous Abu Fatma, 21; and
7- Sami Hamad Abu Sabt, 23, both from Rafah.
8- Mardi Nahidh Mohammed Hajjaj, 24; and
9- Suhail Ibrahim Jundiya, 27, both from al-Shuja’iya neighborhood in Gaza City.
Zionist crimes against humanity this week
Source: PCHR week of 20-26 Oct 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
why i hate the word 'humanitarianism'!
never to forget: Zionist crimes against humanity week of 13-19 October
IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- Dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation.
- 6 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, sustained bruises in
· IOF conducted 47 incursions into Palestinian communities in the
- IOF arrested 12 Palestinians, including two children.
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- Israeli soldiers arrested 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, at various checkpoints in the
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- The Israeli government plans to establish a new settlement neighborhood between
· IOF have continued settlement activities in the
- IOF razed 30 dunums of agricultural land to the east of Salfit.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian civilians and property in
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while cropping olives in the
cleaners at SOAS
not human beings
Friday, October 7, 2011
14th of March and the Syrian uprising
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Nour Merheb
This is his blog. And he writes on the very headline of the page that he writes (Arabic) in feminine because he refuses to use the masculine: one male replaces a thousand females, and he won't be part of it.
Nour probably planned this suicide to shed light on his situation and the extreme injustice of the military court. But, it still is a huge loss, Nour.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Zionist crimes against humanity week of Sept 8-14
- Two fishermen were wounded.
- IOF arrested and interrogated 8 fishermen, including two children, but released later.
· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation.
· IOF conducted 51 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
- IOF arrested 23 Palestinians, including 10 children.
- IOF arrested and interrogated 3 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, but released them later.
· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF arrested at least 3 Palestinian civilians at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank.
· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
- IOF demolished an under-construction house and shop of car parts in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.
- IOF handed notices to 8 Palestinian families ordering them to evacuate their farms in Hebron.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian civilian vehicles traveling on the main roads, and a Palestinian civilian was injured.
- Israeli settlers uprooted 222 trees.
- Israeli settlers attempted to burn two cars in Burqa village, east of Ramallah.
Source: PCHR, week of Sept. 8-14, 2011
Another black day for activists who fight or social justice
Monday, September 5, 2011
About the Hezbollah interview in the Time
Lebanese nationalism between romanticism and liberalism
Sunday, September 4, 2011
the faceless numbers
Feminist theory website
Saturday, September 3, 2011
The Syrian Social Nationalists divided
Ali Farzat
Zygmunt Bauman on Ghettoization in Palestine
Monday, August 22, 2011
Interview with Gilbert Achcar about growing impact of Chinese economy
Ghadhafi's out
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Zionism
Zionist crimes against humanity 11-17 August
- 4 Palestinians, including a child, were wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
- A Palestinian child was injured by the explosion of a suspicious object in the West Bank.
· Israeli warplanes bombarded a number of targets in the Gaza Strip.
· IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen and fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.
- A Palestinian fisherman was wounded in the northern Gaza Strip.
· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation.
· IOF conducted 27 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
- IOF arrested 10 Palestinian civilians.
· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF arrested 7 Palestinian civilians, including a woman and her baby, at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
- Israeli settler guards fired at Palestinian farmers north of Hebron.
Source: PCHR, week of 11-17 August, 2011
An excellent read on events in Syria
Sex according to the Lebanese state
Think 'consciousness industry'
This is what the culture industry is about profit, money making, and how to make people consume more of the product. Think mass astrology, music, films, ideas and food that'll fit well into the global market and the transnational elite class that dominates it. I like Harry Potter and think the themes are very important and politically relevant (Lord of the Rings on that note as well) as emphasized in the book, particualry at the beginning (anti-racism) but the more it has been commercialized and marketed in the aim to sell, it has lost much of it's thematic significance and molded to selling much of the toys, and sweets associated with it.
Ahmad al Shahaat
Every time there is a remarkably powerful protest against the usurping entity in our part of the world I get a flashback to when Walid Jumblat said, 'eventually we will have to recognize israel's existence.... So, why not contemplate the possibility of peace." How embarrassed and delegitimized must he be feeling. Mind you, this was also after the 2006 war on Lebanon!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Resuming
Many events I have not been able to cover on this blog since May, including the courageous and daring protests in Syria, the escalation of usurping Zionist entity's violence and terrorism against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza including the illegal settlement expansions, the protests (and I insist in calling them protests as opposed to "riots") in Britain, following up also on European and North American imperialist practices in Libya and their destruction of the country, their ever ending greed for the resources in the region and will to (so-called 'third world') domination. That includes the latest opinion, criticisms and op-eds by prominent activists and political analysts from the region and elsewhere (I would really hate to call them intellectual, as that, I believe, creates a gap between them and the people they are speaking about, who they are part of!) on the new Arab world and its intifadas.
All coming soon, and of course, we are witnessing the end of an era...after all J.K.Rowling ended her Harry Potter series, no?
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Zionist crimes against humanity, week of July 21-27
· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- A Palestinian civilian was wounded.
- IOF arrested 8 Palestinian demonstrators.
· IOF conducted 24 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.
- IOF arrested 9 Palestinian civilians, including two children.
· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF arrested 3 Palestinian civilians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
- IOF harassed 5 Palestinian children in Hebron.
· IOF resumed the construction of the annexation wall inside the West Bank territory.
- IOF razed large areas of Palestinian agricultural land in Bethlehem and uprooted at least 22 pine and olive trees.
· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
Source: PCHR, week of July 21-27, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Right wing extremism in Europe
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/27/before_death_acclaimed_girl_with_dragon
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Zionist crimes against humanity week of 7-13 July 2011
· A Palestinian civilian was killed by IOF in the north of the West Bank.
· A Palestinian woman was wounded by IOF the northern Gaza Strip.
· Israeli warplanes attacked a number of civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip.
- Two industrial workshops and a warehouse of fodders were destroyed and a number of civilian facilities and houses were damaged.
- A Palestinian woman was injured.
· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- A Palestinian child was wounded.
- Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear Gas inhalation.
· Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.
· IOF conducted 47 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited incursion into the Gaza Strip.
- IOF arrested 12 Palestinian civilians, including a child.
· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF arrested 4 Palestinian civilians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
- IOF demolished a workshop, an animal farm and a garage in al-Jeeb village near Jerusalem.
- IOF uprooted and confiscated 600 olive trees in Deir Estia village in the north of the West Bank.
Source: PCHR, week of 7-13 July, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
The Egyptian army was and is against the people from the start of the intifada
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=25418
"anarchy in paint pot, mutiny in brush"
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=25357
Murdoch sexism and homophobia
Sunday, July 10, 2011
when we stop dreaming, we die
If we stop dreaming, we die
If we insist, we can get through
If we make through, that's it
If we answer back to them, it's gone
Some patience, some excitement
The dream will vivid in sound and sight
I love it when he sings as if he predicts the events to come
Sa'id Akl; the Zionist
"شجبت مجموعة «شباب ضد التطبيع» التكريم الرسمي الذي أقيم منذ أيام للشاعر سعيد عقل احتفاءً ببلوغه المئة. وفي بيان أصدرته أمس، ذكّرت المجموعة بـ«مواقف سعيد عقل اللاوطنية التي عبّر عنها في مقابلة أجراها معه التلفزيون الإسرائيلي عام 1982». وطالبت المجموعة الدولة اللبنانية بـ«التراجع عن إنتاج الطوابع التي تحمل صورة هذا الشاعر العنصري اللاوطني» في إشارة إلى الطوابع التي أصدرتها وزارة الاتصالات منذ فترة وتحمل صور أعلام لبنانيين من بينهم صاحب «رندلى». وتنوي المجموعة إقامة وقفة احتجاجية بعد غد الاثنين في مكان سيحدد لاحقاً، يتخللها بث فيديو المقابلة التي أجراها صاحب «لبنان إن حكى» مع التلفزيون الإسرائيلي عام 1982"
the upcoming war, if it happens
"Lebanese citizens will begin stocking up on what they need to survive another war. Overnight, the country will experience shortages of cigarettes, vodka, whiskey, and other intoxicants."
Saturday, July 9, 2011
on the origins of racism
"Forms of slavery had existed in medieval societies all over the world. Between the 10th and 16th centuries, the chief source of slaves in western Europe was eastern Europe—the word “slave” comes from the word “Slav”." How predictable. Just another illness attributed to capitalism and the White man
discrimination against...war criminals
"The International Criminal Court has now officially made Qaddafi an internationally wanted felon, for Crimes Against Humanity" O really? What about NATO generals, Bush, Blair... and, o, yes, the British Empire of Terrorism? and lest we forget... the most dangerous of all...the Israeli Nazi state and its war mongers
the american ambassador and the French one too
youth subcultures in North Africa
, “Mohammed Bouazizi did not have to sacrifice his life to force the world to finally listen to us. We have been screaming exclusion all along … people do not grow ears overnight.”
"Syria and Hezbollah"
An incomplete revolution?
"Facile anti-Mubarakism should not be mistaken for democratization. On the contrary, selective populism without popular sovereignty is a quick route to post-Mubarak authoritarianism."
Zionist crimes against humanity week of 30 June- 6July
Two Palestinians were killed by an Israeli air strike in the central Gaza Strip.
- A third Palestinian was wounded in the same attack.
· A Palestinian civilian died of a previous wound in the West Bank.
· Israeli warplanes attacked a number of civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip.
- A store of fodders was bombarded and a number of civilian facilities were damaged.
· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear Gas inhalation.
- IOF arrested 4 international human rights defenders.
· Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.
- A fishing boat was damaged.
· IOF conducted 32 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
- IOF arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including a child.
· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF arrested two Palestinian civilians, at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
- IOF cut 11 olive trees in Kufor al-Dik village, west of Salfit.
- IOF prevented Palestinian farmers from working on their lands near “Sousia” settlement, south of Hebron.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
what world do these people live in?
siege and blockade of Gaza entering 5th year
"In the years he has been unable to work, Ramzi has noticed a big difference in his health. He says it used to keep him strong and happy because his job was physical. Now he doesn't get any activity. "If I went back to work now I know that I would feel younger again."
"a vehicle for freedom"
"Dozens of women have now got behind the wheel to drive forward reforms. Organisers claim inspiration from the uprisings across the region."
Zionist crimes against humanity, week of 16-22 June
Again, nowhere will you find these atrocities in newspapers near you
. A Palestinian was wounded and arrested by IOF in Qalqilya.
· Israeli warplanes bombarded a chicken farm in the central Gaza Strip, killing 3,500 chicks.
· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded.
- IOF arrested 6 international human rights defenders.
· Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.
- Two fishing boats were damaged.
· IOF conducted 38 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and two limited ones into the Gaza Strip.
- IOF arrested 12 Palestinian civilians, including two children.
· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF arrested two Palestinian civilians, at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
- IOF demolished 8 houses to the south of Hebron.
- At least 30 dunums of agricultural land planted with olives were burnt.
- Israeli settlers damaged two houses and a car in Kufor Hares village, north of Salfit.
- Israeli settlers violently beat a Palestinian civilian in Hebron
Source: PCHR, week of 16-22 June, 2011