| Where there is a wall there are holes’: Issa Amro’s non-violence and Israel’s injustice | | David Lloyd -
Mondoweiss - Some encounters, however brief, remain unforgettable. My meeting
with the Palestinian non-violent activist Issa Amro in June 2016 was
one of those. It was the end of a long day in Hebron, where I had
gone with several colleagues to study first-hand the impact of the
Israeli occupation on Palestinian higher education. After our
interviews with faculty and students at Hebron University, a small
group of students had led us through the infamous “Area H2” of the
city, where a few hundred right-wing settlers have forced their way
among its Palestinian inhabitants and live under the constant
protection of the Israeli soldiers who are permanently stationed
there to protect them." ca
| 29/9/2017 |
| Three Years After the War: Gaza Youth Speak Out | | Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - “`At bedtime, I am afraid to turn the lights off. I
am not a coward, it is just that I worry that this bulb hanging from the ceiling is the
last light that remains (shining) in my life.` Soon after he penned these words,
Moath Alhaj, a young artist from a Gaza refugee camp, passed away in his sleep"
[ry] | 11/9/2017 |
