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by Clive Hambidge
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
April 26, 2016
“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.” — Albert Einstein
The ship carrying the precious cargo of a Palestinian Statehood bid, intended for late 2017, navigates through the choppy waters of Israel’s polluted sea of propaganda, US obduracy and a forever abstaining UK, complicit to a universally recognized, unlawful and brutal Israeli occupation.
with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Dec. 14, 2011
Note: replaced the videos July 22, 2012.
“There’s room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.” — Aimè Cèsaire, Caribbean poet
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Recorded at the James A. Little Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 6, 2011.
Norman Finkelstein spoke about the occupation of Palestine in the context of the Arab Spring and developments regarding Palestine’s prospects for statehood and peace, Continue reading
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MrPro194 on Sep 23, 2011
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York
Abbas on Friday handed over a historic request to UN chief Ban Ki-moon asking the United Nations to admit the state of Palestine as a full member.
This is the first part of his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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With kind permission to republish from www.palestinechronicle.com
by Jeremy R. Hammond
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Foreign Policy Journal
Special to the Palestine Chronicle.
July 19, 2011
The U.S. has long opposed any “unilateral” action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is a very real threat that if the Palestinian Authority goes to the United Nations in September seeking international recognition of Palestinian statehood, the U.S. will respond by cutting or eliminating aid that the P.A. has come to depend on in order to function.
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by Noam Chomsky
In These Times
July 7, 2011
In May, in a closed meeting of many of Israel’s business leaders, Idan Ofer, a holding-company magnate, warned, “We are quickly turning into South Africa. The economic blow of sanctions will be felt by every family in Israel.”
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by Noam Chomsky
In These Times
Jan. 4, 2011
While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation”—that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of participation in them—and a parallel campaign of legitimation of Palestine.
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