Empowering the Palestinian voice, Obama, CUFI, Iranian & Egyptian dissent in the mass media, Christian Arabs, Bakri's Defence and more on PTT

[mary <humdrum2 at libero.it>]

another week of great material on PTT, but we would like to highlight 
a few items that we welcome you to read, republish, link, distribute 
to your lists.

Our highlighted piece is a VERY important analysis and call to action 
by Tariq Shadid. We have to take into account that the only thing 
that will truly serve the Palestinian liberation struggle fully is 
taking the muzzle off the Palestinian voice. Crucial and timely point of view.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/12/tariq-shadid-empowering-the-palestinian-popular-voice-the-first-step-towards-unity-and-liberation/

Ramzy Baroud writes another of his outstanding articles on President 
War. 100 days? 250 days? What does it matter when the agenda has only 
been to spread American imperialism?
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/12/ramzy-baroud-the-useless-logic-of-round-numbers-war-is-criminal-any-day/

Max Blumenthal is absolutely the king of the short clip and this one 
is probably his very best yet. He visits the Christians United For 
Israel convention. It is shocking, it is funny, it is a must see!
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/10/max-blumenthal-video-rapture-ready-the-christians-united-for-israel-convention/

Kawther Salam reports on the scam that was the Journalist Elections 
in the part of Palestine known as the Occupied Territories. All was 
done to prevent it from being truly representative of the 
journalists, so if you wonder why the news seems to be the way it is, 
even from Ramallah, here is one of the reasons.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/09/palestinian-journalist-elections-under-the-boots-of-occupation/

Mozhgan Savabieasfahani asks the freedom and democracy loving West 
just what they expect from Iranians and tells a thing or two to Obama 
about freedom.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/12/nonviolent-protest-continues-across-iran-as-people-chant-referendum-referendum-this-is-the-peoples-slogan/

As part of the Common Activist Errors Series Yousef Abudayyeh reminds 
us that it is unacceptable for solidarity activists to set conditions 
on Palestinians.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/01/yousef-abudayyeh-activist-errors-series-setting-conditions-on-solidarity/

Jack Shenker asks why the Western media simply ignores the Egyptian 
dissent and instead only shows Iranian dissent. There is logic behind 
that bias.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/10/jack-shenker-why-do-the-western-media-ignore-egyptian-dissent/

'Emad Nazzal-Pales writes a shockingly tragic poem asking just who 
the terrorist is.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/07/emad-w-nazzal-pales-as-they-say-were-terrorists/

Raid Khoury discusses the Christian Arabs, and shows us the very 
weird world of the Christian Zionist movement that tries to use 
Christian Arabs to attack Palestinians and Muslims. But, the majority 
isn't buying it.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/09/raid-khoury-christian-arabs-remain-the-best-situated-to-combat-the-demonization-of-islam/

Gaza in Plain Language, video by Anthony Lawson and Joe Mowrey... 
excellent presentation of what happened.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/07/gaza-in-plain-language-a-video-by-anthony-lawson-and-joe-mowrey/

Antoine Raffoul writes a statement in support of Mohammad Bakri, 
Director of Jenin Jenin, as he is being sued by ... Five Israeli 
Soldiers.... unbelievable.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/04/statement-of-support-for-mohammad-bakri-director-of-jenin-jenin/

and more new material by our featured contributors Latuff, Hart, 
Gates, and much more on www.palestinethinktank.com