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ICC Rejects Palestine Bid
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[The following is a ruling from the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court] Situation in Palestine 1. On 22 January 2009, pursuant to article 12(3) of the Rome Statute, Ali Khashan acting as Minister of Justice of the Government of Palestine lodged a declaration accepting the exercise of jurisdiction by the International Criminal Court for "acts committed on the territory of Palestine since 1 July 2002." [1] 2. In accordance with article 15 of the Rome Statute, the Office of the Prosecutor initiated a preliminary examination in order to determine whether there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an ...
Keep Reading »شظايا ذاكرة: عن المكان في يوم الأرض
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نعود إلى الأرض مرة كل عام في يومها. منذ عام 76 نعود وكأننا نواسي أنفسنا في هذا اليوم (1) بمظاهرات كي نتذكر أننا ما زلنا على هذه الأرض، التي يسحقنا العيش فيها رغم جمالها. تضيق بي فلسطين وتتسع في ذات الآن. تضيق عندما أرى عيشنا فيها، وتتسع عندما أرى كم هي غنية وجميلة، هذه البقعة الصغيرة. وهي ليست أجمل بقاع الأرض، ولا أغناها، لكنها البقعة الأجمل في عينيّ لأنني أحبها بكل قباحتها التي أراها كلما عصرني شعور بالذل، وكلما شعرت بالغربة داخل بلادنا التي تمكنت من البقاء فيها، ليس لشيء ولكن لأن الصدف شاءت أن لا يكون أجدادي من الذين هُجروا عام 48. ضربة حظ لا أقل ولا أكثر! أو لعله سوء حظ، أن تولد في مكان لا تتركك ذاكرته بل تقبض على خناقك. ”وأنتِ ماذا تفعلين كي لا تكرهي هذا ...
Keep Reading »Area Code for the Heart
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It was a stupid idea. I woke up after a short sporadic sleep and decided that the smell of shaving cream might lessen the bitterness of yesterday’s news. How stupid! I was trembling in fear of what the process would entail: looking abject helplessness straight in the face. There, where the heart is, blood and limbs are everywhere. Their images flow out of my slick laptop screen onto whatever is left of my self-respect. I stand before the mirror but see no one. “Alright, trace the contour of your chin and shave quickly,” I thought. I rub in the cream and start with a stroke of the blade. I cut myself, and blood flows warm and steady. . . I look at the mirror again and I ...
Keep Reading »غزة والبديل الدموي
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هل استعاض نتنياهو عن مشروعه الدموي في ايران بضرب غزة؟ هل الاحباط الذي واجهه في واشنطن بسبب تريث الادارة الامريكية وعدم موافقتها على توجيه ضربة عسكرية لايران الآن، دفعه الى اشعال جبهة غزة؟ ماذا يريدون من غزة اليوم؟ ولماذا افتعلوا هذه المعركة الآن؟ من الواضح ان اسرائيل تجد نفسها في حيرة امام التغيير الذي يجتاح العالم العربي. صديقها المصري تهاوى، كما ان بدائله، رغم محاولات المجلس العسكري المصري التلاعب بالسلطة، ليست واضحة او مضمونة. كما انها تواجه الحيرة على الجبهة الشمالية. فالنظام السوري، على الرغم من وحشية آلته القمعية يترنح، والاسرائيليون يعلمون ان اي بديل لن يضمن لهم هدوء جبهة الجولان مثلما ضمنتها العائلة الأسدية. فكان مشروعهم البديل هو الهجوم على ايران الذي يحقق ...
Keep Reading »The Hunger Strike Defeated the Secret Evidence: The Case of Khader Adnan
![[Protester marching in support of Khader Adnan in Ni'ilin, West Bank,17 February 2012. Image by Friends123]](/content_images/3/sm_khaderadnanarticleasd.jpg "[Protester marching in support of Khader Adnan in Ni'ilin, West Bank,17 February 2012. Image by Friends123]")
With a hunger strike lasting 66 days, Khader Adnan, a Palestinian baker from the village of Arabeh in the West Bank, successfully undermined the seemingly incontestable system of administrative detention in Israel and revealed the injustice of secret evidence. Administrative detention, a form of punishment in which a person can be detained on the basis of secret evidence and held in prison without charge, is based on three sources of law: Military Order No. 1591 Regarding Administrative Detention – 2007 that applies in the West Bank; the Emergency Powers (Detention) Law - 1979 that applies in Israel; and the Internment of Unlawful Combatants Law - 2002. Most ...
Keep Reading »حلّ التواطؤ، أفق الخروج
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يسعى هذا المقال إلى إعادة فتح منظومة العلاقات بين فلسطينيّي 48 والنظام الصهيونيّ الاستعماريّ الذي يرزحون تحته منذ أن تَشكَّلَ كدولة عام 1948. وهو إذ يسعى في ذلك، سيقوم بفحص موقع الفلسطينيّين البنيويّ في هرميّة العلاقات الاستعماريّة، أي إنّ ما يهمّنا هنا هم الفلسطينيّون وورطتهم البنيويّة مع /في النظام الصهيونيّ. إنّ قراءة هذه الورطة لا يمكن لها أن تتمّ بمعزل عن سائر أجزاء المجتمع الفلسطينيّ، وإن كانت هذه القراءة، بحدّها الأدنى، ترمي إلى إبراز أوجه التشابه والاختلاف بينهم من حيث تَمَوْضُعهم تجاه النظام الصهيونيّ الاستعماريّ. ونودّ أن نبدأ هذه القراءة ممّا يبدو أنّه يميّز هذه الجماعة من الفلسطينيّين عن سائر المجتمع الفلسطينيّ، وهو التعلّق شبه التامّ المادّيّ الاجتماعيّ لهذه ...
Keep Reading »Saving Khader Adnan's Life Saves Our Own Soul
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The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze as Khader Asnan enters his sixty-third day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison being held under an administrative detention order without trial, without charges, and without any indication of the evidence against him. From the outset of his brutal arrest by scores of soldiers, featuring blindfolding, cuffing, and physical roughness in the middle of the night, a gratuitous ritual enacted in the presence of his wife and young daughters, Khader Adnan has been subject to the sort of inhumane and degrading treatment that is totally unlawful and inexcusable, and an assault on our moral justification. At present, ...
Keep Reading »Statement on Hunger Strike of Khader Adnan by Palestinian Human Rights Organizations
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[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations on 15 February 2011.] To: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights CC: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Khader Adnan at Risk of Death on 60th Day of Hunger Strike Urgent Call for Action 15 February 2012 As Palestinian organizations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), we reiterate our most grave concern about the critical health condition of Khader Adnan. Khader is now entering his 60th day of hunger strike in protest at his continuing administrative detention and ill-treatment at the ...
Keep Reading »مفتاح منطقة القلب
كانت فكرة حمقاء... استيقظت اليوم بعد نوم عسير قصير وقررت أن رائحة معجون الحلاقة قد تعينني على ما علق في النفس من قبح أخبار المجزرة. حمقاء أقول... ارتعدتُ مما تنطوي عليه العملية من ضرورة مواجهة عار العجز وجهاً لوجه . هناك حيث القلب، دماء وأشلاء في كل الجهات تفيض من شاشة كمبيوتري الصقيلة الأنيقة على ما بقي من احترام الذات. أقف أمام المرآة ولا أرى أحداً. "حسنٌ إذن... تحسس ذقنك واحلق سريعاً". أفرك الرغوة وأضرب الضربة الأولى... أُجرَح ويسيل دم... أنظر إلى المرآة فأرى نصف وجه دامٍ تفجرت ذقنه وتدلت نتف فمه وحنكه إلى ما تحت الرقبة... أولا يموت من قُصِف الفك منه؟ أي رب هذا الذي يمطمط في عذابات طفل علق بين مخالب الجزار! أفكر هل تعرف العربية عكساً لفعل ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Intellectuals to Syrian Regime: Not in Our Name!
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[The following statement was issued in Arabic by Palestinian intellectuals offering their solidarity with the Syrian people and applying for members to the newly established Syrian Writers Union. It was translated into English and published as such by/on Wadiqratiya. See also the Palestinian rights organization Adalah’s condemnation of the Syrian regime.] It is our honor, as Palestinian writers and signatories to this statement, to request as a group to be inducted into the Syrian Writers Union, which has been recently established by the free Syrian writers and intellectuals who stand with the people as they climb the ladder of freedom which has been ...
Keep Reading »The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts Both LGBTIQ and Anti-Occupation Activism
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Israeli democracy, through its promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a lecture in Tel Aviv at the Women’s Peace Coalition, I heard the strain in the voices of queer Israeli activists who are chafing under Israel’s progressive gay rights record. One activist stated, “Apparently, we have won all our rights. It is as if we should be grateful and keep silent about the injustices of the occupation. LGBT rights in Israel are conditional rights; we cannot openly support the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement without legal repercussions.” (See, for ...
Keep Reading »Beyond Sterile Negotiations: Looking for a Leadership with a Strategy
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In Search of a Collapsed Palestinian Leadership Palestinian leadership briefly returned to the weathered tables of diplomatic niceties to negotiate a path to negotiations. The return signaled an alarming regression from the confrontational stance the leadership made in September 2011, when it took its case to the United Nations (UN). Then, notably buoyed by President Mahmoud Abbas’s liberation message to the global community, Palestinians thought it possible that the leadership would remove its self-determination struggle from the sterile confines of bilateral negotiations and place it on an international stage. In the event, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ...
Keep Reading »How the PA Enriched an Elite and Normalized Occupation
Khalil Nakhleh, Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland. Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 2011. Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland explores the rise of a new Palestinian elite that works together with international organizations against the will of the majority of its compatriots. The book’s author, Khalil Nakhleh, worked in the development sector as director of the Welfare Association (a Palestinian organization) for more than a decade, as well as a ...
Keep Reading »The Problem of Privilege
“To believe in a democratic Jewish state today is to be caught between the jaws of a pincer,” writes Peter Beinart in his widely circulated and hotly debated op-ed. Indeed -- but it was ever thus. Today the pincer is not, as Beinart would have it, the incongruity of the “democratic Israel” inside the Green Line and the “undemocratic Israel” outside it. It is the discrepancy between the notions that Israel -- whether a Greater Israel encompassing West Bank settlements or the pre-1967 Israel for ...
Keep Reading »On Israeli Attacks and Gaza Ceasefires: Democracy Now! Interview with Ali Abunimeh
As Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip reportedly agree to a ceasefire after four days of cross-border violence, we speak with Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the online publication, “The Electronic Intifada.” Earlier today, an Egyptian official said both sides have pledged to end current attacks and implement "a comprehensive and mutual calm." Israel’s latest strikes on Gaza killed at least 25 Palestinians. At least 80 Palestinians were also wounded, most of them civilians. At least ...
Keep Reading »Occupy AIPAC Photo Essay
Sunday, March 4th was an action-packed day for Occupy AIPAC. From the early hours of the morning, protesters occupied the streets surrounding the convention center to greet conference attendees with signs, chants, artwork, song and dance, and in several instances, attempts to start a dialogue. Despite several hostile encounters with both AIPAC conference attendees and police officers, Occupy AIPAC seemed to only pick up momentum as the day progressed. In what was perhaps the most moving part of the day, ...
Keep Reading »Exploiting a Dynamic Law of Prolonged Occupation: The Israeli High Court of Justice and Israel's Quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
On 26 December 2011, the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) rendered its judgment in a case challenging Israel’s quarrying activities in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) filed by the Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din. The petitioners demanded that the activities be terminated since they violate Israel’s obligation to administer the OPT for the benefit of the local population. Israel started operating quarries in the OPT in the 1970s; today there are ten, eight of which are in operation. ...
Keep Reading »Searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah
A year has passed since Arab youth took to the streets demanding freedom and dignity, unleashing a long-awaited revolution. As authoritarian regimes fell in Tunisia and Libya, were shaken in Egypt, and are struggling fiercely in Yemen and Syria, I went searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah, looking for the reverberations of the Arab uprisings on Palestine. Euphoria as much as apprehension accompanied me as I looked for the promise of a revolution devoid of any grand ideology, a revolution about ...
Keep Reading »نداء الأسير خضـر عدنـان إلى العالم
نحوعمل تضامني دولي ينطلق في يوم الأسير الفلسطيني (17 نيسان/ أبريل) " أؤكد على أن إضرابي عن الطعام، ليس من أجل قضيتي كفرد، إنما من أجل قضية أبناء شعبي، ومئات الأسرى الإداريين المحرومين من أبسط حقوقهم". هكذا كتب الأسير خضر عدنان، في رسالة مناشدة أطلقها من على سرير مستشفى الرملة الإسرائيلي، في الحادي عشر من شباط/فبراير الجاري، وأضاف أنّ الجنود الإسرائيليين يسيئون معاملته، ويقيّدون أقدامه بالسلاسل الحديدية، ويشدّونها إلى قضبان السرير، وهو خائر القوى لا يقوى على الحِراك، في حين ينظر العالم إلى ...
Keep Reading »Palestine Diaries
When I told the Israeli border official who interviewed me that I was going to Ramallah, she sneered and wrinkled her brow: “okay.” Why would anyone go there, she seemed to say. There was no mistaking her disapproval. Looking at my US passport, she wanted to know about my family tree: my father's name and my father's father's name. “Tirlok Singh,” I recalled hesitatingly. "I was a baby when he died," I added with a bit more conviction. For a moment, she scrutinized my visage for some ...
Keep Reading »New Raw Deal for Israelis, Old Raw Deal for Palestinians: Labor Zionism and the Israeli Summer
The vision document produced by the organizers of last year’s “Israeli Summer” demonstrations laments how, “for a number of decades, the various governments of Israel have opted for an economic policy of privatization that leaves the free market without reins.” It called for “ending privatization; increasing rent stipends to those who are entitled to aid; lowering the number of pupils per class; and increasing doctors, hospital beds and equipment in the health system”—all characteristic of the Labor ...
Keep Reading »The Academic Boycott on Campus: Breaking New Ground, Gaining Momentum
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 3 February 2012.] In an open letter dated 21 October 2011, Palestinian students wrote to their counterparts across the world, “We hope you put Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) at the forefront of your campaigns and join together for Israeli Apartheid Week: the pinnacle of action across universities worldwide.” [1] The 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) ...
Keep Reading »Remapping Palestine and the Politics of Injury
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