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Robert Fisk: Secrets of Iraq’s Death Chamber
harmonicminor.com | October 8th 2008 by Kris Petersen
Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come. The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the pris read more
Louisa Waugh: Life Inside the Siege of Gaza
harmonicminor.com | September 26th 2008 by Kris Petersen
Karim, the Palestinian who drove me to the Gaza Strip, was very quiet. As we sped out of Jerusalem in his comfortable private taxi, he said very little, except to ask if I would give his friend Rami a box of cigarettes when I arrived. “I’ read more
Tariq Ali: Bush’s War Widens Dangerously
harmonicminor.com | September 17th 2008 by Kris Petersen
The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a long debate within, and on the periphery of, the Bush administration. Sen. Bara read more
Narratives Under Siege: Harvesting in Hope
harmonicminor.com | September 14th 2008 by Kris Petersen
On a hot afternoon during the month of Ramadan, there are few better places to be than resting beneath the shade of an orchard of guava trees, with the scent of fresh ripening fruit wafting around you. Farmer Sa’id Al-Agha sits quietly, his eyes re read more
What’s Wrong With the American “Left”?
harmonicminor.com | September 9th 2008 by Kris Petersen
Reading Eric Alterman’s recent article in The Nation magazine recently (Israel at 60: The State of the State), I began to consider the significant gulf that exists between ideology and practice among those on the American “left”. I read more
Russian troops continue to occupy Georgian territory
The 8th Circle | August 21st 2008 by The 8th Circle
Almost a week after Sarkozy brokered cease fire was signed by Russia and Georgia, the agreement seems to have led to nowhere. An initial diplomatic victory for France, which holds the EU presidency, is an empty accomplishment. Exploiting a loophole read more
Jeff Halper: An Israeli Jew in Gaza
harmonicminor.com | August 6th 2008 by Kris Petersen
In another few days, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which has plunged a million and a half Palestinians into wretched conditions: imprison read more
Saree Makdisi: End of the Two-State Solution
harmonicminor.com | July 29th 2008 by Kris Petersen
In order to try to create an exclusively Jewish state in what had been the culturally diverse land of Palestine, Israel’s founders expelled or drove into flight half of Palestine’s Muslim and Christian population and seized their land, th read more
Roane Carey: Dr. Benny & Mr. Morris
harmonicminor.com | July 21st 2008 by Kris Petersen
Is it possible for someone who matter-of-factly supports crimes against humanity to be a good historian? A startling and provocative question, no doubt, but one that inevitably arises upon consideration of the remarkable career of Israeli scholar Ben read more
Luisa Morgantini: Tony Blair Is Not Performing His Duty
harmonicminor.com | July 17th 2008 by Kris Petersen
It’s a very negative signal that the International Quartet Envoy Tony Blair’s planned trip to the Gaza was cancelled yesterday, Tuesday 15th July, following what was described as “specific security threats that made the visit imposs read more
Mohammed Omer Details Israeli Abuse
harmonicminor.com | July 9th 2008 by Kris Petersen
When I was coming back from my award ceremony and also a speaking engagement, I was stopped for nearly one hour and a half before an Israeli Shin Bet officer came to me and started collecting my bags, which were securely checked already. I kept waiti read more
My Friend, Mohammed Omer, Assaulted by the Israeli Occupation For…
harmonicminor.com | July 2nd 2008 by Kris Petersen
I would like to share some rather disturbing news regarding a friend of mine from Gaza. Mohammed Omer, an award winning journalist, was recently assaulted by the Israeli Occupation forces without justification as he attempted to return to Gaza via th read more
Narratives Under Siege: “We Could not Even Bury our Daughter”
harmonicminor.com | June 16th 2008 by Kris Petersen
On June 11, eight year old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in south eastern Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Less than a week earlier, eight year old Aya Hamdan Al-Najjar was killed by a rocket fired from an IOF hel read more
Donald Macintyre: Palestinians Barred from Dead Sea Beaches to …
harmonicminor.com | June 14th 2008 by Kris Petersen
Palestinians are being regularly and illegally barred from reaching Dead Sea beaches in the occupied West Bank, according to a Supreme Court petition filed by Israel’s leading civil rights organisation. The Association of Civil Rights (Acri) in read more
Eyad Sarraj
harmonicminor.com | June 13th 2008 by Kris Petersen
In the Gaza Strip, there are a vast number of inspiring individuals prepared to put their personal reputation (and even their own physical well-being) on the line for matters of conviction. Dr. Eyad Sarraj is one of the more prominent of these figure read more
Film Review: Control Room
harmonicminor.com | June 7th 2008 by Kris Petersen
Control Room, directed by Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, provides unique insights into the media dynamics on the eve of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. It primarily portrays the interactions between Al Jazeera journalists on the one hand read more
Barack Obama, the Zionist
harmonicminor.com | June 6th 2008 by Kris Petersen
Two evenings ago, speaking before the American-Israeli Pubic Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Barack Obama desperately attempted to win back his floundering support among the American Jewish community by demonstrating his hawkish, pro-Israel stance. This i read more
Remi Kanazi: Why a Cultural Boycott of Israel is Needed
harmonicminor.com | June 5th 2008 by Kris Petersen
Αt what point does rhetoric stop and effective action begin? For Palestinians, decades of dialogue and supposed peace overtures have proved fruitless, only serving to protect the status quo: sixty years of continual dispossession, forty years of occ read more
War Crimes, Inc.: Blackwater and the Occupation of Iraq
harmonicminor.com | June 3rd 2008 by Kris Petersen
By now the private security firm, Blackwater USA, has become a household name. The firm has been the subject of multiple investigations, lawsuits, and congressional inquiries—all leading to an obvious conclusion: Blackwater in Iraq has either acted read more
U.S. Reverses Fulbright Decision
harmonicminor.com | June 2nd 2008 by Kris Petersen
It seems the U.S. State Department has reversed the decision to deny the seven Gaza students Fulbright Grants. And while this is good news in principle, it should not be praised out of context—or too early. The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Min read more
Narratives Under Siege: Eighteen Years of Work Destroyed in Four…
harmonicminor.com | May 31st 2008 by Kris Petersen
“They came at four in the morning, with two bulldozers, and they left before 8am. I own this chicken farm with my three brothers, and we worked day and night for eighteen years to build up our business. The Israelis destroyed everything in less tha read more
Fulbright Grants Denied to Gazan Students
harmonicminor.com | May 30th 2008 by Kris Petersen
What better way to punish Hamas than by punishing Gazan students? The American State Department recently withdrew the Fulbright Grants for Gazan students hoping to pursue higher education opportunities in the United States. And on what grounds? Well, read more
That Much More of a Tragedy: On the Stupidity of Bush
harmonicminor.com | May 19th 2008 by Kris Petersen
When I reflect upon the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, I tend not to place so much faith in the rhetoric of change. Despite prevailing, popular attitudes here in Europe, I find it difficult to imagine anything but the most marginal change in do read more
PCHR: 60 Years of Ethnic Cleansing
harmonicminor.com | May 15th 2008 by Kris Petersen
May 15, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, when Palestinians were forced from their homes and ethnically cleansed en masse in a premeditated and organized campaign carried out by armed Zionist militia. Historical accounts indic read more
Arab News: 60 Years of Nakba
harmonicminor.com | May 11th 2008 by Kris Petersen
A lack of obvious accomplishments in talks US President George Bush began with lofty ideals six months ago could change as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the region yet again. She has visited the region nearly every month since the formal read more
Bradley Burston: Sixty Years of Nakba, 60 Years of Nothing
harmonicminor.com | May 10th 2008 by Kris Petersen
In a nation as coiled and embroiled as this, with a language fraught and zip-filed as the bible, it’s only fitting that a single daily newspaper headline will often say more than the thousands of words that follow. So it was, that on the day b read more
Six Decades of Nakba
harmonicminor.com | May 10th 2008 by Kris Petersen
This week, Israel turned 60 and with it came the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba—the destruction and systemic expulsion of the Palestinian community. No other event has so drastically altered the course of events in the Middle-East and th read more
Donald Macintyre: Our Reign of Terror, by the Israeli Army
harmonicminor.com | April 19th 2008 by Kris Petersen
The dark-haired 22-year-old in black T-shirt, blue jeans and red Crocs is understandably hesitant as he sits at a picnic table in the incongruous setting of a beauty spot somewhere in Israel. We know his name and if we used it he would face a crimina read more
Obama Defends Israel’s Right To Kill Civilians
harmonicminor.com | April 17th 2008 by Kris Petersen
The frontrunner for the Democratic U.S. Presidential nomination, Barack Obama, was apparently very impressed with the killing of Palestinian children and a Reuters cameraman yesterday. Obama voiced his support for Israel’s “right to defen read more
Gideon Levy: Palestinians Versus Tibetans (A Double Standard)
harmonicminor.com | April 13th 2008 by Kris Petersen
Israelis have no moral right to fight the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The president of the Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People, the psychologist Nahi Alon, who was involved in the murder of two Palestinians in Gaza in 1967 - as was revealed in Haa read more
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