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• Slideshow: Mr. Smith Goes to Sesame Street

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 148
  This week, "Sesame Street" kicks off its fortieth season on air. But the TV shows transition to middle age hasnt been entirely smooth. Conservative bloggers are blasting an episode in which Oscar the Grouch, who lives in a garbage can, described the fictional "Pox News" channel as "trashy." (Presumably he would ...
  19 hours ago

• Palestinian tears down Israeli wall of separation – Abbas to dissolve Palestinian Authority

  
  propaganda press! freedom now — Authority: 127
  A Palestinian demonstrator gestures atop the separation barrier, moments after knocking down a segment of the concrete wall, during a protest against the barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he does not want to run for ...
  3 days ago

• Ni’lin demonstrators topple 8 meter tall concrete wall

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  6 November 2009 20 years to the fall of the Berlin wall: Demonstrators toppled 8 meters tall concrete wall in Ni’ilin Three protest marches were held today in the West Bank to mark the 20th anniversary to the fall of the Berlin wall, which has been declared an international day of action against Israel’s ...
  5 days ago

• Inciting non-violence: support Bil’in’s struggle

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  Support Bil’in’s struggle “Just as a simple man named Ghandi led the successful non-violent struggle in India and simple people such as Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela led the struggle for civil rights in the United States, simple people here in Bil’in are leading a non-violent struggle that will bring them ...
  5 days ago

• From Berlin to Palestine: no matter where, no matter how tall, all walls fall

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  Bil’in Popular Committee 6 November 2009 The 20th anniversary to the fall of the Berlin Wall will be marked this Friday in mass demonstrations across the West Bank calling for an immediate dismantling of Israel’s wall and settlements Exactly twenty years ago, On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came ...
  5 days ago

• Education for the blind

  
  AxisMundi Jerusalem — Authority: 462
  Blind Palestinian children attend special schools in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Gaza.
  6 days ago

• Education for the blind

  
  Photographers — Authority: 515
  Blind Palestinian children attend special schools in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Gaza.
  6 days ago

• Abbas to step down as president of Palestinian Authority

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 74, has said he will not seek re-election in the elections he called for January 2010. He said his decision was not “a manipulation or a manoeuvre” in a speech from his headquarters in Ramallah, on the West Bank 5 November. He said he had had enough after years of ...
  6 days ago

• Mahmoud Abbas to step down as Palestinian leader

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will give a speech later explaining that he is frustrated by the impasse in peacemaking with the Israelis.
  6 days ago

• Give up on Obama, Disband the Palestinian Authority.

  
  Jefferson Corner — Authority: 403
  The issue of continuing and expanding Jewish settlements came back to haunt the Palestinian leadership that negotiated Oslo and continued to negotiate with Israel for the last 16 years while Israeli continued to build and expand its settlements, not to mention building the Apartheid Wall. Share This
  1 week ago

• Student Blindfolded, Handcuffed, and Taken to Gaza by Force

  
  israelity bites — Authority: 110
  This young Palestinian business student, pictured left, is not smiling anymore. Berlanty Azzam had a rough day yesterday, getting stopped at a military checkpoint on the way home from a job interview and then locked up. Wrong place, wrong time, no redress. She was not inside Israel at any time and posed no threat. ...
  1 week ago

• Bil’in demonstrates in solidarity with jailed activist: ‘We are all Adeeb Abu Rahmah’

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  Bil’in Popular Committee 30 October 2009 Adeeb Abu Rahmah was arrested on 10 July this year, and is still held in custody for taking part in organizing the village’s demonstrations. Demonstrators wore masks of his face and called for his release. Two protestors were injured today, while several suffered from ...
  1 week ago

• Israeli military negligence again exposes young Palestinian children to threat of attack from Israeli settlers

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT) 27 October 2009 For Immediate Release: TUBA – On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Palestinian school children from the villages of Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed did not attend school in At-Tuwani due to threat of violence from Israeli settlers from the Israeli settlement of Ma’on and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Israel rations Palestinians to trickle of water

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  Amnesty International 27 October 2009 Amnesty International has accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over the shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies. These unreasonably restrict the availability of water in the Occupied ...
  2 weeks ago

• Palestinian women weaving a living from homegrown art

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  In her sparselyfurnished home in a village outside the West Bank town of Ramallah Naama Asi embroiders dresses that fetch hundreds of dollars from Palestinians scattered around the world.
  2 weeks ago

• Clashes erupt at Aqsa compound

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  Al Jazeera 25 October 2009 Dozens of people have been wounded in clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in and around the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a flashpoint site holy to Muslims and Jews. The Red Crescent emergency service said at least 18 Palestinians were wounded in the violence on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Palestinian Call for Elections Deepens Divisions

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has signed a decree that presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on January 24. But the announcement has only deepened Palestinian divisions. The vote is supposed to take place in the West Bank, which is controlled by Mr. Abbas, and the Gaza Strip ...
  2 weeks ago

• Palestine vs Jordan One-Year Anniversary

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 140
  There are a handful of moments in the Madman’s life that I will always consider epic. As in, truly epic . The time I snuck into a Yucatan cenote during a hurricane, and had the whole cavernous underworld to myself and my imaginary girlfriend. Interviewing Iggy Pop by his backyard stream. Hitting 184 mph in a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dozens suffered tear gas inhalation at Friday demonstration in Bil’in

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  23 October 2009 Several demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation from canisters thrown at them by the Israeli occupation soldiers in their attempt to suppress the weekly protest of Bil’in citizens and solidarity groups. The demonstration was called by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and started ...
  2 weeks ago

• Peacefully Resisting Occupation: Teen Journalist Arafat Kanaan

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 552
  Palestine Monitor 21 October 2009 In this short video, produced with the support of the NoVA Center For Social Innovation, Palestine Monitor would like to introduce you to Arafat Kanaan: an inspirational 16-year-old non-violent activist and filmmaker from the West Bank village of Ni’lin. Every week, Arafat ...
  3 weeks ago

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