Action: Committee for Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails and Popular Resistance committees in the Bethlehem area invite you to join us to stand in solidarity with Palestinian and Arab political Prisoners who are engaged in a hunger strike.
Where: South Entrance of Al-Khader Village, Al-Nashash near Hwy 60
When: Friday 4 April 2012, 2 PM
Why: Because the thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails are political prisoners who deserve protection and fair treatment in accordance with the 4th Geneva Convention.
Inspiring Video: Flagwoman protester raises Palestinian flag on Israeli military vehicle outside Ofer prison (she and other friends of ours are attacked and pepper-sprayed)
Reflection: This Week in Palestine" is in my humble opinion the best magazine in Palestine. Evey issue has a theme. This month it is the Nakba but it is with a positive spin, celebrating our resilience ansd success as a people despite the persistent efforts at ethnic cleansing over the past 64 years. Take time to browse the articles available on the internet at http://www.
A pattern repeats itself: Israeli forces kill and injure civilians. Media attention forces the Israeli authorities to start an investigation. Years later the case dies out quietly and no one is punished. The "international community" espeially the US governement provides a diplomatic cover and scuttles any international investigations. Is it any wonder that Israel continues to get away with it after nearly 100,000 Paestinian civilians killed via Israeli actions over the past 64 years? Is it anywonder that International law will not be enforced when it comes to the continuing ethnnic cleansing and refusal to allow nearly 7 million refugees and displaced their right to choose to go back to their homes and lands? In the latest atrocity and after over three years, the Israeli military closed the "investigation" into the murder on 5 January 2009 of 21 members of the Samouni family. The apartheid soldiers had ordered the family into the house that they then bombed and that they then investigated and found themselves innocent.
Book Review by Mazin Qumsiyeh. Gilad Atzmon, The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics (Ropley, Hampshire, UK: Zero Books, 2011). Pp.177. Paperback. ISBN-13: 9781846948756.
Holy Land Studies (cpyrighted material), May 2012, Vol. 11, No. 1 : pp. 99-101
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
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