From: (Arne Hansen) Received: from dns2.fullrate.dk ([89.150.129.5] verified) by secureid.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 5291381; Sat, 10 May 2008 13:17:01 +0200 Received: from arne (3705ds1-fh.0.fullrate.dk [90.185.249.253]) by dns2.fullrate.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 593665DC36; Sat, 10 May 2008 13:16:02 +0200 (CEST) To: post@arnehansen.net Subject: Israel 60 + Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and human rights Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:16:04 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =46ra=20 May 9, 2008 Lund, Sweden The state of Israel turns 60 - some insights here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2008/israel_at_60/default= .stm So does the the 1948 Palestinian exodus also known as the Nakba which = refers to the refugee flight of Palestinian Arabs during the last 6 months of the = British Mandate and the First Arab-Israeli War. It is referred to by most = Palestinians and Arabs as the Nakba, meaning the "disaster", "catastrophe", or = "cataclysm." More than 700.000 refugees then, 60 years later over 4 million. TFF brings you relevant analyses, sharp journalistic texts and facts - = and stand up for people whose intellectual freedom is attacked while most Western = media and foreign ministries turn their blind eye. Jonathan Power, TFF Associate Looking at the end of Israel http://www.transnational.org/Columns_Power/2008/18.EndIsrael.html Vicky Samantha Rossi, TFF Board member UNRWA Commemortes 1948: Abu-Yaser recalls life in Tel el-Safir http://www.un.org/unrwa/48Commem/AbuYaser.html#up Richard Falk, TFF Associate Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust - a now famous article; see below. http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.= html Dennis Kucinich on Israel at 60... Rep. Kucinich=B9s statement from the Congressional Record on Israel and Palestinian human rights Impassioned and perhaps unprecedented in Congress in support of = Palestinian human rights. http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3D1628 If AmericansKnew.org If Americans - and the rest of us in the West knew..about the = Israeli-Palestine conflict And how misleading the media coverage generally is. All the facts with documentation and sources. 9 little-known statistics and facts http://www.ifamericansknew.org UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugess in = the Near East http://www.un.org/unrwa/english.html UNRWA commemorates 1948 "I come from there and remember" http://www.un.org/unrwa/48Commem/introduction.html And then two cases of what it costs to criticize not the Israelis but = Israeli policies - cases of human rights violations against intellectuals that = get extremely little coverage by Western mainstream media Arun Gandhi's case Jan Oberg The campaign against Arun Gandhi: Time to support him http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/profiles/blog/show?id=3D7805= 88%3ABlogPost%3A42013 Support page http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=3DArunGandhiCe= nsorship Richard Falk's case Haaretz.com Israel to deny UN official [TFF Associate Richard Falk] official entry = for comparing Israel to Nazi [which he does not...] http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972974.html UN Official [Richard Falk] urged Commission to study neocon role in 9/11 A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is = calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have = played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. http://www.nysun.com/news/foreign/un-official-urged-commission-study-neoc= on-role-911 Jan Oberg Israel denies visa to Richard Falk: Yet another Jewish fundamentalist = clamp down on intellectual freedom http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/profiles/blog/show?id=3D7805= 88%3ABlogPost%3A54983 Richard Falk, TFF Associate, on BBC's "Hardtalk" BBC's Stephen Sackur talks to Professor Richard Falk, the UN Rapporteur = on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, about his suggestion that Israel = has "genocidal tendancies". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DZfVaBevtlio TFF portal on the Middle East - wider perspectives http://www.transnational.org/Area_Index_MiddleEast.htm With kind & broader birthday greetings... 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