In 2000, then education minister Yossi Sarid suggested including some of Darwish’s poems in the Israeli high school curriculum, but then prime minister Ehud Barak overruled him, saying Israel was not ready yet for his ideas in the school system.
RIP Mahmoud Darwish
August 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Ehud Barak · Fatah-Hamas war · Mahmoud Darwish · non-violent resistance · Occupation · Palestine · poetry · Yossi Sarid
Free Gaza
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Subject: Setting Sail on August 5th 2008 to Break the Siege of Gaza Press Release – Thursday 24 July 2008 The Free Gaza Movement UK For Immediate Release Setting Sail on August 5th 2008 to Break the Siege of Gaza Around 60 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals from 15 countries will sail to the Gaza Strip [...]
Tags: activism · Free Gaza · Gaza Strip · non-violent resistance · Occupation · Palestine
A Palestinian existence
July 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Occupation permeates every aspect of Palestinian life. Invariably, this makes the population acutely political in a way that is quite different from our blissfully apolitical Australian society.
Even in Ramallah, a liberal bastion for foreign aid workers and bureaucrats in the West Bank, you can see the ubiquitous sight of Israeli military outposts with their signature red and white communications towers. In Nablus, one of the centres of Palestinian militancy, several streets bear the imprint of Israeli tank treads. Not even the roads in Palestine have escaped the Occupation.
Tags: activism · Israel · non-violent resistance · Occupation · Palestine · rule of law