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12 Articles

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Lecturing the Muslim world: An analysis of parts of Obama's Cairo speech
(1 comments) An Middle Ease perspective on Obama's Cairo speech.

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Ken Loach Open Letter to the Edinburgh Film Festival
(1 comments) Following an open letter from the Israeli film maker Tali Shalom Ezer (see below as well), here is Ken Loach's full reply. This was sent to Sunday Times but the newspaper never published this in full.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
Non Violence in Palestine: An Analysis
(4 comments) An analysis on the tactic of non violence in Palestine. Comments from Ramzy Baroud, Ray Zwarich, Raymond Deane and Frank Barat. Edited by Robert Stiver.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The death of Bassem Abu Rahme
On April the 17th, like any Fridays afternoon for the last 4 years, the small village of Bil'in, north of Ramallah, was preparing for the usual demonstration against Israel's annexation wall (some people call it apartheid wall or separation wall. The Israeli government refers to it as the security fence).

Friday, March 6, 2009
Launch of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
(2 comments) After the Vietnam one, here is now time for a Russell Tribunal on Palestine.

Monday, February 2, 2009
A charter issue?
(5 comments) Everyone talks about the Hamas charter, but analysis of the Likud charter shows that it prohibits peace between Likud and any Palestinian state.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The war to end all wars
Aren't all wars illegal?

Monday, January 5, 2009
The media assumes Israel wants peace. It does not.
(4 comments) Watching the coverage of the Israeli war in Gaza, one might assume that Israel has always wanted peace. Not only this is not true, but history has proven that it is totally the opposite.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
An Israeli in Gaza- Interview with Jeff Halper
(2 comments) An interview conducted in December 08 with Jeff Halper from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Interview with Norman Finkelstein-Sept 2007-by Frank Barat
(1 comments) ITV with Prof. Norman Finkelstein conducted by email in September 2007.

Friday, September 26, 2008
"The forgotten fighter" Nablus's will to live
(1 comments) An article about my experiences in Nablus, Palestine during 5 weeks this summer. I have interviewed about 20 people, Internationals and Palestinians during my stay. My question was "What is life under occupation". It's all on film, you can access the videos by checking my blog. Many thanks

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Noam Chomsky/Ilan Pappe Interview on Israel/Palestine
(4 comments) An interview conducted by myself (by email) this summer between Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe on the future of Israel/Palestine.