Gaza: Don’t hit her ~ Omar Ghraieb.

Gaza, December, We grow up being lectured about courage and taking risks and how exhilarating it is. They make it sound like the right thing to do. Until we become adults and we start getting lectured about not taking risks and hearing pro-cowardice sayings like this Arabic one that says: “Cowardice makes two thirds of…

Samah Jabr: The ‘invisible damage’ of life under the occupation ~ Emmanuela Eposti

“There is a wish for Palestinians to be stateless, but also faceless and voiceless.” Samah Jabr, one of Palestine’s first female psychiatrists and a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist, has spent her life witnessing and treating the psychological effects of the continued Israeli occupation on the Palestinian population. Not content to simply confine herself to medical practice,…

Convening for Palestine ~ Eva Bartlett.

Peace and anti-war activists from around the world gathered in Beirut to highlight Zionist crimes and consider ways and means to help the Palestinians end the brutal Zionist occupation. As the Zionist state increasingly and openly reveals its criminal, apartheid nature, more and more citizens from around the world are waking up and standing in…

Growing Old in Gaza.

Growing old in Gaza has another meaning… It means survival. It means you have lived through more death, destruction and terror than anybody else around you. It means living with memories that burn your soul and sear your heart. It means having endured loss, grief, sorrow. It means age withers your hope. It means dreaming…

Gaza’s Children Calling..

Every child in Gaza has a story of one war, many have stories from three wars.  As I look through the images that poured out of the last Israeli onslaught on the besieged enclave called Gaza I read the suffering hidden deep in every child’s eyes, the sadness behind the beaming smiles that would break…