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Elia Suleiman's "The Time That Remains" is a masterpiece of cinema!

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:33

Elia’s Suleiman’s latest film The Time That Remains set in Nazareth after 1948 is as close to flawless as a film can be.

Listen again: Lina Sharif, Fadi Quran, Ali Abunimah on Palestinian "unity" deal

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 16:29

EI’s Ali Abunimah, and youth leaders Lina Sharif in Gaza and Fadi Quran in the West Bank analyzed the Hamas-Fatah “unity” deal announced yesterday. The briefing was organized by the Institute for Middle East Understanding, and the guest host was Yousef Munayyer of the Palestine Center.

Questions about "Hamas-Fatah reconciliation"

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 17:44

Big news today about a reported “Hamas-Fatah reconciliation” deal. What does it mean? First, here’s what we know from Reuters:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement has struck an agreement with bitter rival Hamas on forming an interim government and fixing a date for a general election, officials said Wednesday.

At officially sponsored meeting, Israel's racist rabbis say ethnic cleansing working, call for more

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:08

In recent months, Israeli religious and political leaders have become more and more open about their anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism. The Israeli press is full of it. The Jerusalem Post for example reports on a conference of Israeli Jewish religious leaders and municipal officials at which Rabbi Dov Lior, a prominent settler leader from Kiryat Arba near Hebron makes this outright call for ethnic cleansing:

Pew poll: Majority of Egyptians want peace treaty with Israel canceled

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 20:54

More than half of Egyptians want their country’s peace treaty with Israel annulled. That is the finding of a new poll by the Pew Research Center’s Pew Global Attitudes Project. This will be a bitter disappointment for those who have been saying that the Arab uprisings have ‘nothing to do with Israel’ or would even be to the advantage of Israel.

Chicago event on Gaza & Goldstone with EI's Ali Abunimah, Mondoweiss' Adam Horowitz

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 16:55

On Tuesday, April 26, Adam Horowitz, co-editor of Mondoweiss and co-editor of the book The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Investigation of the Gaza Conflict and The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah, who is a contributor to the book, will speak jointly at The University of Chicago, followed by a Q&A. The event is cosponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and the American Friends Service Committee.

New York Times delusional call for resumption of dead "peace process"

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 16:02

A remarkable editorial in The New York Times this morning calling on President Obama to resume the “peace process” between Israelis and Palestinians (President Obama and the Peace Process). It’s remarkable for how detached it is from reality.

It is time for Mr. Obama — alone or, better yet, in concert with Europe, Russia and the United Nations — to put a map and a deal on the table.

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