Gaza in crisis: Reflections on Israel’s war against the palestinians By Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé
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On ne peut pas révolutionner un système autonome, une organisation qui n’a ni chef ni direction, ni sens. La société capitaliste publicitaire triomphante et mondialisée? Une machine avide qui tourne à vide. La seule révolution possible est extérieure à ce système qui s’autodétruit. Accepter ce monde, participer à la pub ou aux médias, c’est la certitude de mourir dans une gigantesque explosion sur CNN. Aujourd’hui, l’entrisme est devenu une automutilation. La vraie révolution c’est la disparition. L’essentiel, c’est de ne PAS participer. A la résistance passive, il est temps de préférer la désertion active. Le boycott plutôt que le squatt”.
Extrait de “Windows on the world” de Frédéric Beigbeder (via one-life-sample)
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RAMALLAH, April 14, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Saturday broke up with force a cycling tour around the Jordan Valley and assaulted the participants injuring and arresting a number of them, said a press release.
It said Israeli soldiers stopped the 250 participants at road number 60 in the West Bank village of al-Ouja and refused to allow them to start the bicycle tour, which would have taken the participants on a 25 kilometer tour of the Jordan Valley.
When the participants in the event sponsored by the youth group, Sharek, with the participation of water officials from the Water and Environmental Development Center of Al-Ouja Environmental Center, refused to obey orders not to cycle along the highway, the soldiers used force to disperse them.
A number of the participants were injured and taken to hospital in Jericho while others were arrested, Including international participants.
The tour was then canceled without the participants being able to complete their environment awareness tour in the Jordan Valley and Jericho area.
The events was intended to also draw attention to the water problems facing the Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley, which is gradually being taken over by Israeli settlers.
Vittorio Arrigoni was a hero. He claimed that it was in his blood to fight for freedom. He was apart of the International Solidarity Movement where he participated in Gaza and fought to end the blockade. He even acted as a human shield for Palestinian fishermen.
On April 15th, 2011, Vittorio Arrigoni, a pro-Palestinian Italian activist was killed by suspected members of the Tawhid Wal-Jihad.This act has been condemned by many Palestinian factions,
Ismail Haniyah, Gaza’s Prime Minister said that this murder ”does not reflect the values, morals, or the religion of the Palestinian people. This is an unprecedented case that won’t be repeated”
Mahmoud Abbas described is as “an act of treason”
Mustafa Barghouthi said it was “shocking criminal act”.
Although is it said that Arrigoni was killed by suspected members of the Palestinian Salafist group Jahafil Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad fi Filastin, there have been some people that blame Israel. German politician Inge Hoger believes that Arrigoni and Israeli actor Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was killed by gunmen in Jenin eleven days before Arrigoni’s murder, were actually killed by Israelis. She writes “The question one must pose is: Who profits from this terrible crime? First of all, now two of the activists most ‘dangerous’ for Israel, because they were the most engaged, well known and noted, are eliminated.”
This Sunday, April 15th, we remember Vittorio’s courage and bravery.
- Stay Human
Many Palestinians still carry around their neck the key to their homes in Palestine - homes that they were forced to leave and cannot return to.
Al Nakba is the name Palestinians give to 15th May, 1948 when the State of Israel established itself on the lands, homes and lives of the Palestinian people.
Al Nakba translates to “The Catastrophe”.
Al Nakba was the moment when the Palestinian people became a nation of refugees. 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and forced to live in refugee camps. Many who were unable to flee were massacred.
Al Nakba remains in the Palestinian consciousness as the time when their freedom was stolen and to this day it is yet to be returned.
Al Nakba is the soil in which many Palestinian stories are buried, and it is the aspiration of this project 1948 to bring some of these stories to the surface.
What has kept the Palestinians alive since Al Nakba is the dream of return to their land. It is their survival and determination that we also wish to celebrate.
This was last year’s project dedicated to the Palestinian Catastrophe.
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We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive as our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers… We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.
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