Archive for the ‘Palestine/Israel’ Category
Monday, March 9th, 2009
This is really disappointing. I've long respected Amira Hass' reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. And there's is no question that, as the only Israeli reporting regularly from Palestine these are historically important news reports, taking us through some of the darkest moments of the second intifada.However, in ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Hm. I'm in two minds about this one. Reading it, I couldn't shake the feeling that it was rushed out in the wake of the January 2006 Hamas election victory -- an attempt by Pluto Press to make a quick buck. It reads somewhat like a first draft in places, ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I seem to be somehow attractive to CNN. The producers of this three-part CNN documentary currently airing in the US bought the above photo of mine for use in the "Jewish Warriors" part which was on last night. I took the photo in Hebron back in 2005. You can read ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
UPDATE, August 14: Apparently, the August issue of NOX magazine finally published my article, so I'm publishing the full original text below, as well as changing the timestamp on this post to bump it up to the top. I have yet to see the finished version (with photos) since ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Another media commentary from me on American Hummus, this time on an Israeli government broadcast in which the spokesperson refers to the absolutist Saudi monarchy as "moderate".
American Hummus is quite a new project and we need your help. If you have a Palestine, Middle East or media related website, please ...
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
The recent hostilities between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah in Gaza and the West Bank have been presented in the media as a sort of small-scale Palestinian civil war, ending (for now) with a Hamas coup in the Gaza Strip.
It is far more accurate to understand it as a ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Another From The Archive post to American Hummus by me. Have a look at the videos of Israel's invasion of Nablus -- it shows the Israeli government's idea of the word "ceasefire".
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
I've begun to post on the excellent American Hummus blog. There are quite a few old videos in the backlog still worth posting and commenting on, so I begun today. Have a look at today's clip about Jimmy Carter.
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Friday, April 6th, 2007
Originally published in Palestine Times, April 5, 2007 (Health and Environment page).
by Asa Winstanley
"Our objective is to provide psychological and medical support to the victims of violence. To help people to survive -- more psychologically than medically in Palestine -- but to be able to survive and continue to ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
UPDATE, April 4: The site statistics I've seen are very good indeed: over 22,000 unique page hits in April SO FAR! I'm no advertising expert but that sounds pretty good to me -- Google AdSense ads will follow on the site soon...
Finally, my boss saw the light and made the ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
UPDATE: The excellent American Hummus video blog reposted this clip. It's a good job too, since the CNN version seems to no longer be available.
A TV crew from CNN International recently visited our office. Most stuff about this country I've seen on seen on CNN international has been unbelievably pro-Israel. ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
This article originally appeared as the lead headline on the front page of Palestine Times, March 21.
Tony Blair: 'East Jerusalem is occupied territory'
by Asa Winstanley
RAMALLAH -- In a private letter to Morocco's King Muhammad VI, British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his government "considers East Jerusalem to be occupied territory," ...
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