Category Archives: Social Justice

Let’s Say Things As They Are! Vladimir Putin

“Unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions have not resolved any problems. Moreover, they have caused new human tragedies and created new centres of tension. Judge for yourselves: wars as well as local and regional conflicts have not diminished. And even more … Continue reading

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Let our Children Live by Nurit Peled-Elhanan

“Neither Judaism nor Islam nor any religion for that matter are the cause for murder and terror. Racist education is. American imperialism is, and Israeli ruthless regime of occupation is….The people who are destroying the world today are not Muslim. … Continue reading

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Truth at last, while breaking a U.S. taboo of criticizing Israel by Professor George Bisharat

Some say that Palestinian citizens in Israel enjoy better circumstances than those in surrounding Arab countries. Ironically, white South Africans made identical claims to defend their version of apartheid. Americans owe a debt to former President Jimmy Carter for speaking … Continue reading

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Palestine is Dying by Sonja Karkar

Time and again, the bitter years have shown these courageous Palestinian men, women and children that no matter what they do, Israel does not want a Palestinian state, and the world, for all its fine talk will not lift a … Continue reading

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Pause for Peace by Ahmed Yousef

Gaza: November 1st, 2006. Ahmed Yousef, senior advisor to the Palestinian Prime Minister, speaks of the offer of a ‘hudna’, which is more than a ceasefire.  HERE in Gaza, few dream of peace. For now, most dare only to dream … Continue reading

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Israelis and Hezbollah Haven’t Always Been Enemies by Jimmy Johnson

The Israeli Mafia, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Sierra Leone and ‘Blood Diamonds’ – it sounds like the making of a good novel, but truth is always stranger than fiction! When Hezbollah operative and diamond trader Samih Ossailly was arrested in Belgium in … Continue reading

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Atrocities in the Promised Land Kathleen Christison

Former CIA political analyst, Kathleen Christison, sees Israel as having reached a state of moral collapse, though most Western nations refuse to recognise it. Words fail; ordinary terms are inadequate to describe the horrors Israel daily perpetrates, and has perpetrated … Continue reading

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The Age of Terror a landmark report by Robert Fisk

Reprinted from The Independent, October 8, 2006 A few days after Lebanon’s latest war came to an end, I went through many of the reporter’s notebooks I have used in my last 30 years in the Middle East. Some contained the … Continue reading

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Bishop Riah speaks out on Gaza by Rt. Rev. Riah H. Abu El-Assal

Dear Friends, For the past forty years we have been largely alone on this desert fighting a predator that not only has robbed us of all but a small piece of our historic homeland, but threatens the traditions and holy … Continue reading

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