Fwd: [bangla-vision] Israel-Palestine: News & Reviews: Friday, 20 May 2011

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From: arif uk <pepper.buoy@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:21 PM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Israel-Palestine: News & Reviews: Friday, 20 May 2011
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#1
Robert Fisk: Lots of rhetoric – but very little help
Then we had to hear what America's 'role' was going to be in the new Middle East. We did not hear if the Arabs wanted them to have a role, more…
<http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-lots-of-rhetoric-ndash-but-very-little-help-2286711.html>
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#2
Nakba day: we waited 63 years for this
Karma Nabulsi: The remarkable bravery of refugees on Nakba day was the first act of a Palestinian summer, more…
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/19/nakba-day-palestinian-summer/print>
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#3
Israel and Palestine: Here comes your non-violent resistance
May 17th 2011, 2:09 by M.S.
FOR many years now, we've heard American commentators bemoan the violence of the Palestinian national movement. If only Palestinians had learned the lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we hear, they'd have had their state long ago. More…
<http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/israel_and_palestine_0?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/herecomesyournonviolentresistance>
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#4
The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé, Israeli Professor, over 400 villages burned off the map to be replaced with Zionists
Journal of Palestine Studies, issue 141, published in Fall 2006, more…
<http://ambient-palestine.blogspot.com/2008/11/1948-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine-by.html>
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#5
The aftermath of European Zionists burning over 400 Palestinian villages off the map, see this 1950 video is at:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6lIsl-pHU&eurl>
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#6
Two-State Peace?
Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation and Daniel Drezner of Tufts University debate Middle East peace. See at:
<http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/05/18/opinion/100000000825447/bloggingheads-two-state-peace.html?ref=opinion>
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#7
Harriet Sherwood: Historian writes of 'pleasure' at murder of pro-Palestinian activist
Author of op-ed article in Jewish Chronicle tells me he 'rejoiced' at death of Vittorio Arrigoni, more…
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/view-from-jerusalem-with-harriet-sherwood/2011/may/18/israel-palestinian-territories/print>
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#8
Obama Middle East speech: That was the easy part
By the Monitor's Editorial Board Thu May 19, 4:32 pm ET
In the Arab Spring, whose side is America on?
That question arose as the US backed – hesitatingly, at first – pro-democracy protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, yet seemed to go soft on the dictators of Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen. More…
< http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110519/cm_csm/385013/print>
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