All posts for October 2008

Territories: Palestine in photography

October 7th, 2008 | Posted in Culture, Palestine

    MONDAY OCTOBER 27th 7h30.
    Concordia University
    room H-110. 1455 de maisonneuve
    metro Guy-Concordia

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Palestine: Tunnels feed besieged Gaza

October 6th, 2008 | Posted in Palestine

    Aljazeera. October 2008.

    Photo: Kris Petersen. Gaza Strip border wall.

Hundreds of tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt are keeping many of the Palestinian territory’s 1.5 million impoverished residents supplied with food and fuel.

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Learning from South Africa

October 4th, 2008 | Posted in Boycott, Palestine
    Savera Kalideen and Haidar Eid, the Electronic Intifada, 2 October 2008.

Photo: Anne Paq. Palestinian worshipers trying to reach Jerusalem during Ramadan.

The strategic value of international solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, refugees in the Diaspora and Palestinians in Israel raises some fundamental questions. The most immediate and urgent are: what the nature of international solidarity should be and how it can best support the Palestinian struggle for self-determination?

International solidarity needs, first and foremost, to address the ways in which colonial Zionism has followed and continues to follow the Bantustanization policy of apartheid South Africa. There is also an imperative to address the severe damage that the Oslo Accords have caused to the Palestinian struggle, given the degree of confusion that these accords have created in the international arena.

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