Tag: zionism

UK: Storm of student protest over Gaza gathers force

Posted on By 3arabawy

Sit-ins at 16 universities spell return to radicalism, fueled by social networking and blogs, the Guardian reports:

Over the last week, a storm of student protests has gathered over 16 universities across England, suggesting that students are awakening from the political apathy of which they are often accused. It’s enough to bring a tear to the eye of ageing sixties radicals.
Starting at the School of Oriental and African Studies, occupations in protest at events in Gaza spread to King’s College London and the London School of Economics (LSE), then out of the capital to Sussex, Warwick, Newcastle, Oxford, Essex, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan, Bristol, Nottingham, Salford, and Kingston.

Manchester University pro-Gaza student occupation, Photo by Alia Al-Rayani

The Arab regimes and Palestine

Posted on By 3arabawy

I agree:

Take this article by Michael Slackman. It contains the oft-repeated cliche that Arab regimes use and misuse the Palestinian question. Let us dispel this cliche once and for all. This was true back in the 1960s and early 1970s but not anymore. It is no more true that Arab regimes use the Palestinian question to divert the attention of the population. It is now the reverse: the Arab people insist on keeping the flame of the Palestinian problem alive, and the Arab regimes all want the issue to go away because any reference to the issue exposes Arab regimes’ incompetence, defeats, weakness, and duplicities. Arab regimes now focus in their media on sleaze, sports, and Danish cartoons. In other words, anything except Palestine. Get that?

Egyptian security interrogate Gazans in hospitals

Posted on By 3arabawy

Al-Jazeera Net is reporting that Egyptian security agents have interrogated injured Palestinians who were receiving their treatment in Egyptian hospitals, trying to extract information on Hamas, its leaders, and rocket launchers.

One Palestinian said his interrogator was “nice” until the former denied any knowledge of the resistance. That’s when the interrogator hit him where he’s wounded, saying “Don’t lie. You are in Hamas and the Qassam Brigades. If you don’t speak, we won’t allow you to continue your treatment and you’ll be thrown out like a dog.”