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rahim

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  • L.A. Times: ‘Many’ Palestinians 'prefer the one-state solution'
    • rahim July 26, 2010 at 1:26 pm

      Well its an online poll, so take that with a grain of salt. You can't control who takes the survey, and you definitely can't assume its a proportional representation of Palestinians. But I for one hope its right.

  • an innocent in Israel
    • rahim January 8, 2010 at 5:19 am

      What an absurd question. Why push people out at gunpoint when you can shuffle some papers and bulldoze their houses "legally"? At its core, the treatment of Palestinians in Jaffa is no different today than it was in 1948. Palestinian houses are still being arbitrarily bulldozed, the municipality starts and abandons construction projects leaving the work half done and sewage running in the street, there isn't even basic public health enforcement to remove asbestos. And the municipal budget constantly discriminates against Palestinian communities in every way shape and form. Read some first hand reports if you'd like: link to yuditilany.blogspot.com

      And yes, Witty, some of these events happen in racist neighborhoods in the United States too. That doesn't make them any less racist or any less wrong.

  • Frank Gehry can't be found on controversial J'lem project's website
    • rahim January 6, 2010 at 7:02 am with 1 replies

      MRW - You're thinking of Saree Makdisi, Professor of English at UCLA (He's also the nephew of Edward Said). Here's a link to the lecture you were talking about:

      link to abc.net.au

      as well as a link to the video itself, with Antony Loewenstein introducing:

      link to abc.net.au

      Makdisi's lecture is really useful for understanding just how mendacious this "Museum of Tolerance" actually is.

  • Rep. Brian Baird to call for cutting US aid to Israel unless the blockade on Gaza is lifted
    • rahim December 30, 2009 at 4:30 am

      Just stop, Richard, just stop. International pressure is THE ONLY THING working in favor of Gazans right now. Without the Viva Palestina convoy and the Free Gaza Boats and the Gaza Freedom March, Hedy Epstein wouldn't get quoted in the NYT for trying to being pencils and paper into Gaza. Want more proof? Ha'aretz says it all:

      "However, this is the first time Egypt has presented its two conditions for opening the border crossings and has linked the Shalit deal to the Palestinian reconciliation agreement. Though Israel has not publicly committed itself to lifting the blockade if Shalit is released, it appears that international pressure will not let it continue the closure. And practically speaking, there would no longer be any point to doing so: If Egypt decides to open its border with the Gaza Strip following the Shalit deal, Israel will not be able to prevent it.

      Meanwhile, Egypt is suffering severe Arab criticism for having decided to put up a steel fence along its border with Gaza in order to prevent smuggling through the cross-border tunnels. Egyptian citizens in both parts of Rafah, a town that straddles the border, complain that fuel prices have already risen significantly and that without the tunnels, Gaza will suffer a serious shortage of fuel for heating during the winter. Some of the critics equate Egypt with Israel and accuse it of collaborating with "the Zionist state" against Gaza.

      Last week, Egypt gave its critics additional cause for complaint by not allowing an aid convoy led by British MP George Galloway to enter Egypt through the Nuweiba port on the Gulf of Aqaba. The convoy, initially comprising about 70 trucks, went through Europe to Turkey, where it picked up several dozen more trucks, and thence to Syria and Jordan. From Jordan, the organizers wanted to cross into Sinai and continue to Gaza. But Egypt said the convoy could come in only through the Mediterranean port of Al Arish.

      Galloway saw this as further Egyptian harassment of Gaza's residents and expressed his opinion of it in a letter to the Egyptian president. But Egypt was unmoved. Aid or no aid, "no convoy is going to dictate Egypt's decision on this matter," a Foreign Ministry spokesman asserted.

      Turkey then stepped in and offered to mediate. The outcome is that while the convoy will indeed not enter via Nuweiba, it will be able to go back through Syria and from there to Al Arish, where Egypt has undertaken to allow it in without difficulties."

      link to haaretz.com

      -Rahim

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