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Khader Adnan, Dying to Live

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 23:02

This evening, twitter users saw it extremely necessary to raise more awareness on the deteriorating conditions of Khader Adnan, the hero of the battle of empty stomachs. Twitter users chose the hashtag #Dying2Live for this purpose, they succeeded in getting the hashtag to be on the top ten global trending topics for a short while. This blog will be solely narrated by some of those twitter users:

Khader Adnan, 50 days on hunger strike!

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 13:23

Khader Adnan; courageously fighting for dignity, employing his stomach as a weapon to call for justice, and fearlessly facing death.

Israeli army harasses press crew, beats a B’Tselem female volunteer, and lies to foreign media

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 14:07

Yesterday was another violent Friday in the village of Nabi Saleh as the weekly protests against settlement expansion continues. As always, the demonstration was met with tear gas, disgusting skunk chemicals and rubber-coated metal bullets. Disregarding cases of suffocation, 20 injuries were reported.

Raising a Palestinian flag in Acre

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 15:32
In a brave move by Ihsan Orabi from Tamra, the Israeli flag hung on Napoleon statue on a hill in Acre has been removed and replaced with a Palestinian flag. Ihsan Orabi has also sprayed “price tag” on the statue, as well as his name.

A salute to the revolution

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 22:41

I cannot believe it has been a year already, a year since the light of justice shined and revolution swept throughout the Arab world all the way from the Maghreb through the Fertile Crescent to the Arabian Peninsula. Tomorrow marks the first anniversary for the start of the Egyptian uprising which succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak’s 30 years rule on February 11th the same year, yet the revolution is not done. The streets of the Arab world haven’t settled down, and not for one minute. The people are holding on to their demand for justice and dignified living.

Despite video evidence, Israeli soldiers are never held accountable for their crimes

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 00:47
In every video you would see a brutal act by an Israeli soldier that requires accountability, but typically the act passes away at the end of the day without any of the soldiers being held accountable for their crimes

"There was no Israel in 1709" - Clip from TV's The West Wing highlights absurdity of US Palestine denial

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 21:32
A short montage from TV’s The West Wing, in which President Bartlett is given a map of the Holy Land from 1709, highlights real life absurdities of how US politicians deal with Palestine.

The cancellation of Sharif Dorzi's concert

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 11:48

I woke up this morning to read a distorted and misleading piece in The Washington Post, the headline reads: ”Palestinians block performance of Israeli Arab singer under pressure from boycott movement.”

Film footage from Palestine back in 1896

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 23:33

It is becoming a trend among influential GOP candidates to call out the Palestinian people as “invented” or even “non-existent”. First we had Republican candidate Newt Gingrich calling the Palestinians an “invented people”. Another rising star, Republican candidate Rick Santorum, has also said “There is no Palestine”.

Abbas: "Arab refusal of Partition Plan was a mistake"

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 15:24

This is the translated English version of عفواً، بس ليش خطأ؟ which appeared earlier in Arabic on Ma’an Arabic news service.

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