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Remembering Edward Said
Photo: Jeremy Pollard The end of September marks fourteen years without Edward Said, literary theorist and an intellectual of a wide range. Many of the
Photo: Jeremy Pollard The end of September marks fourteen years without Edward Said, literary theorist and an intellectual of a wide range. Many of the
Washington had explicitly guaranteed their safety—and recently declassified documents reveal that US diplomats were told by the Israelis what they and their allies might be
By Dr. Ang Swee Chai, published on Arab America This September will be the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Sabra-Shatila Massacre in West Beirut. Three thousand
It is shocking that this would have happened in Palestine within just a few years after the Nazi regime was defeated and all the prisoners including the large number of Jews in their concentration camps were freed. The following article by Yazan al-Saadi was published in Alakhbar on Monday, September 29, 2014.
In May 2012, Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) made an outstanding discovery, which had escaped scores of politicians, diplomats and experts for six decades. He discovered that the number of Palestinian refugees is not five million as United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) records show, but merely 30,000. The credit for this discovery goes to AIPAC and Israel as they had advanced this “discovery” for the last four months. Kirk “took the signal” and proposed a motion to the Congress which was passed after a mild amendment. Within a week, dozens of pro-Israel and Jewish sites in the USA, Canada and Australia reported the “discovery.” For them, defining away refugees is akin to an end-run on conflict and war. Dispossessed Palestinians will remain dispossessed Palestinians with no recourse. This interpretation is nothing more than a gimmick, which, if anything, will prolong the conflict and increase the suffering of millions of refugees.