Israel: in the death throes of a racist dream
Though traumatized and leaderless, Palestinians remain rebellious and resolute — we continue to act in concert, bound by a collective wound.
October 27, 2015
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Gaza – Destructive Reconstruction Part 4: Depoliticizing the Palestinian struggle
Gaza is not a natural disaster. It is man-made, the result of deliberate political choices. Chris Gunnes This is the final article in a series, which has analysed how the destructive aspects of reconstruction attempts in Gaza, are part and parcel
July 22, 2015
Gaza Destructive Reconstruction Series. Part 3: Funding the occupation
[I]nternational aid has rendered the occupation cost-free. It has even enriched Israel’s economy. Ghada Karmi The cost of and the responsibility for occupying the Palestinian territories is increasingly carried by other actors than Israel.
July 8, 2015
Gaza: Destructive Reconstruction Series. Part 2: Economic Dependence
The Palestinian economy remains captive to the Israeli market. Sansour and Tartir In the second instalment of this series of articles on the destructive consequences of reconstruction efforts in Gaza, I look at how humanitarian assistance and international aid create and
June 26, 2015
David Harvey: reclaiming the city from Kobane to Baltimore
David Harvey: “I think that the urban question is really becoming a central question today, and the qualities of urban life are moving to the forefront of what contemporary protests are about.” David Harvey visited Diyarbakir and talked with Sardar
June 17, 2015
Gaza: Destructive Reconstruction Series
“Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told a summit in Egypt cash was “insufficient” without a political solution. Israel, which has been fighting Gaza militants, refuses to allow building materials into Gaza for reconstruction. […] Hamas […] was not invited to attend
May 26, 2015
Palestine in Egypt: Common Struggle against the Status-Quo
Thank you [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, may God bless you and those like you so that you exterminate Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood traitors. Azza Sami, deputy editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram newspaper
December 28, 2014
Palestine in Egypt: From Solidarity to Fear to Common Struggle
“[N]o single issue has been as unifying over the decades for these people than their long intensely felt opposition to the injustice, suffering, and exploitation that the Palestinian people have endured for the past century as a result of the
December 11, 2014
Beil und Drohne: Ein Kommentar über “gezielte Tötung” im Anti-Terrorkrieg
Das Beil fällt. Der Henker trennt den Kopf vom Rumpf des Mannes. Der US-Amerikaner James Foley wurde gezielt getötet. Seine Unschuld sollte allerdings nicht weniger bedeutsam sein als die Hunderter “gezielt getöteter” Zivilistinnen und Zivilisten.
September 2, 2014
Revisionist und Demokrat: Reuven Rivlen wird israelischer Staatspräsident
Der neue israelische Staatspräsident Reuven Rivlin ist ein entschiedener Gegner der Zweistaatenlösung – eine schlechte Wahl ist er trotzdem nicht.
July 26, 2014
