Palestine Think Tank site is born today!

[mary <humdrum2 at libero.it>]

Haitham Sabbah, Mary Rizzo and Gilad Atzmon are very pleased to
announce their new site.
Palestine Think Tank. It
is a site containing news, analysis, art and more to further the cause of
justice for Palestinians. It concentrates on many aspects of the
resistance, but also focuses on the issues affecting the entire Middle
East. Please visit us at

www.palestinethinktank.com, share this news with those who might be
interested, and if you have a blog or site, consider linking to us. We
also have a forum for
those interested in interactive communication. 

Together with us are some of the most insightful and talented
writers, activists and artists around. Contributors include Khalid
Amayreh, Ramzy Baroud, Adib Kawar, Ernesto Paramo, Wael Al Saad, Nadia
Hasan, Iqbal Tamimi, Richard Jones, Nahida Izzat, Razan Al Ghazzawi,
Khaled Islaih, Steve Amsel, Ben Heine and many more.

www.palestinethinktank.com contains both original material and
material from other sources that we believe deserves to be
considered.

We are people from different backgrounds who live in different countries.
We speak different languages and believe in different religions, or even
believe in no religion at all.

These differences are not a problem to any of us.

Differences are what makes the world a wonderful place because everyone
is unique. It allows us the possibility to learn more about the world and
gain insights we would never have access to otherwise.

Celebrating our differences, we understand that there is a belief that
unites us and unites all the people involved in creating this website. It
is the belief that Zionism is wrong. Zionism is racism. For Zionism to
happen, it means the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of the
land of Palestine. We accept nothing about Zionism as being positive, yet
we believe there are some people who don’t know exactly what Zionism is,
and therefore assume it is something different than an ideology, and
therefore, is beyond criticism.

We wish to educate those who don’t know what Zionism is so that they are
able to see how damaging it is and how it is a just cause to stop it. We
hope

www.palestinethinktank.com will be a space for free discussion and
wide-ranging analysis.

We believe that the just struggle of the Palestinian people is the
greatest liberation struggle of our times, and we aim to render service
to their cause through presenting as many aspects of their history,
culture and struggle as we can. We intend to give space to many Arab
voices as well, since the full realisation of the potential of people in
the entire Arab world has been hindered for far too long by the
“International Community”. It is far easier to promote an idea of “the
Arab” that cleanses Israel and the West from all responsibility for the
instability and lack of progress that in some cases is evident than to
listen to the complex arguments and reasoning that people from these
countries and who understand the history of the Arab World are able to
present.

We hope to be able to provide a site full of valid content that is at the
service of the Palestinian people especially. Their steadfastness is an
inspiration to all mankind, and to those of us in particular who feel
close to their cause or are Palestinian, it is a message of love, hope
and humanity that we hope we are worthy of.

Content of

www.palestinethinktank.com is intellectual property of the authors.
All material that does not appear in this site as the original source
will always be credited for authors and source.

The material here may be reproduced elsewhere, but we request that you
kindly cite our source and post a link to the page on

www.palestinethinktank.com from where it was taken. We will also
build up our links and community as time develops, so that we can all
work towards our goal with the energy and imagination required.

www.palestinethinktank.com contains a
forum, which is a
space to discuss arguments related to the Middle East. We hope that it
will allow all of us to broaden our horizons, engage in constructive
debate and present a social network that will be useful to all of
us.

www.palestinethinktank.com will be in two languages, in English
predominantly, and Arabic.

We accept original articles as well as suggestions for material published
elsewhere.