Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen performed to a sold out crowd in Israel Thursday night, despite many calls to cancel his show by Palestinian rights activists. It was 75-year-old Cohen's first Israel...
Pleased that my co-host of Israelseen is back from the U.S. and now has much to say about his impressions of President Obama and his realtionship with Israel. My views are pretty much in sync with his observation of the events currently unfolding. Enjoy. " “SAUDIS REJECT...
“Dance First. Think Later. That’s the natural order.” Ramallah Dance Festival 2009, made me think of Lucky's utterance in Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot”. In this case I was the lucky one, to...
created by Deir | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago 482 views | 38 recommendations | 31 comments
By Khaled Abu ToamehThis was written by one of the most respected Palestinian Journalists in the Middle East. I encourage everyone to read this piece because it is sanity in the midst of hatred. The bigots and haters of Israel in North America and around the globe have...
Is peace possible possible when the leadership of the so-called moderates deny Israel's existance? " Former Fatah security commander Muhammad Dahlan on Tuesday called on Hamas not to recognize Israel's right to...
" Khalid Amayreh It seems that one doesn’t have to wait four years to find out that Hillary Clinton is just a fraud, very much like her predecessor in the job, Condoleezza Rice. The infamous Rice paid 24 visits to Occupied Ramallah and Occupied Jerusalem, babbling about...
opinion by pakalert | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 169 views | 0 recommendations | 8 comments
" Medicine bottles, transferred to the Gaza Strip as humanitarian aid by Israel, were used by Hamas as grenades against IDF troops during Operation Cast Lead. Pictures of the grenades were obtained exclusively by...
While Israel has done much harm to Gaza the biggest enemy of the people of Gaza is Hamas "Yasser Abd Rabbo, an ally of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said at a news conference in Ramallah on Thursday that...
Hamas seems to be intenton establishing a one party-Hamas- state in Gaza. This is not the actions of a democratically elected government which supports civil human rights." Fatah officials in Ramallah...
“The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) is built on committed and continuous voluntary work by its members, staff and friends around the world. The PRCS nurtures the spirit of volunteerism, especially among...
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Frank Romano’s story of his adventure in a Moroccan mosque from where he was prevented from leavening.
An American teaching at the University of Paris, Frank was on his way to “Israel/Palestine” by way of...
A hopeful indication of the future?"Israel freed 198 Palestinian prisoners today amid scenes of jubilation in the West Bank as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew in to try and salvage a stagnating...
created by World_Groove | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 181 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
Acclaimed and exiled Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (see his biography on Wikipedia) will be buried in the West Bank on Wednesday. Darwish passed away this past weekend, at the age of 67, due to complications...
After months of writing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I decided that I need to visit some actual Palestinians, ones who are currently living in the West Bank. I realized that most of my information...
created by tomilaineclark | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 482 views | 58 recommendations | 12 comments
The Israeli-Gaza truce is a sort of ‘cooperation’ between enemies. But here, for a change, is a story of a cooperation between friends. Palestinians from Ramallah and Israelis from the town of Modiin works as...
created by korzac | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 331 views | 7 recommendations | 4 comments