Arab voices and views. New material on PTT

[mary <humdrum2 at libero.it>]

It's been a while since the last email update, so here are some
highlights of some of the most recent pieces, by no means
all-encompassing. Feel free to link, share, re-publish with credits,
translate, etc...

Qais Nawwaf, an Iraqi writer and activist living in the USA has come up
with something which quite possibly is the best reflection on the bit of
news causing a stir in the Arab-American and Muslim communities, the
victory of Rima Fakih in the beauty pageant "Miss USA". 

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/20/qais-nawwaf-you-and-i-and-they-and-rima-fakih-are-all-the-same/

Mohamed Khodr evaluates Obama and Elie Wiesel

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/12/letter-to-obama-youve-sold-your-soul-for-kosher-dollars/

powerful posters from PTT's contributing artist Farah
Filasteen

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/17/cartoon-of-the-day-farah-filasteen-2/

Translated into English by PTT's Adib Kawar, one of the Arab world's
most brilliant analysts, Samir Karam who talks about the true fear factor
that Israel has, which is precisely why it uses war to abate it, and in
the second piece, the situation in the Arab world where dissent is
allowed / yet punished severely. Both have the Arabic Original. 

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/17/samir-karam-the-other-face-of-israeli-fear-arabic-below/

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/12/samir-karan-what-is-behind-%e2%80%9cdespotic-tolerance%e2%80%9d-also-in-arabic/

Mohsen Saleh writes all about the TEN Israeli Negotiating Strategies.
Outstanding. 

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/10/mohsen-saleh-ten-israeli-negotiating-strategies/

PTT's Tariq Shadid writes a brilliant analysis of the "Proximity
Talks"

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/03/tariq-shadid-proximity-talks-the-continuing-story-of-the-pie-in-the-sky/

Kawther Salam on the Strikes against UNRWA repressive
policies

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/18/massive-strike-vs-unrwa-repression-policies/

Samah Sabawi's moving poetry

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/12/samah-sabawi-defying-the-universe/

and more:
Zahir Ebrahim's paper that explains why Shlomo Sand is helping the
Zionist project, the strategy of the Iron Wall by Jabotinsky and much
more. 

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/13/zahir-ebrahim-palestine-the-struggle-forward/

Elvis Costello's pulling out of his Israeli gigs, His Aim is
True!

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/19/elvis-costellos-press-release-on-his-cancelled-israeli-dates/

In our re-appraisal of important figures, the 1999 interview Laila
Khaled gave to Ibrahim 'Alloush

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/10/the-free-arab-voice-1999-interview-with-laila-khaled/

More on a lunatic who uses the Palestinian cause and her internet
addiction. Since the platforms are ones where identity theft (her fave
game) and information mining happen, all activists should be aware, most
already are, but for those who still don't get it:

http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/05/05/the-troll-stripped-bare-unmasking-deceptive-%e2%80%9cgenevieve%e2%80%9d-again/

3 articles on the Flotilla to Gaza, and the Turkish Charitable Org
IHH

and as always, lots of new content by Latuff, Ziabari, Amayreh,
Fernandez, Rizzo, Knott and many more of our regular contributors as well
as quite a bit more fresh material that you can find on

www.palestinethinktank.com

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