The Palestinian Times

As thousands of Palestinians throughout the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon commemorated the Nakba, or catastrophe on Thursday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas used the opportunity to emphasize the urgency of finding a solution to the conflict which has plagued the region for 60 years. A Palestinian boy, wearing traditional Arabic dress, holds a large imitation key symbolizing the issue of Palestinian refugees during a demonstration to commemorate the Nakba... Read Full Story

Events in Ottawa and Montreal All over the world this month at the same time that Israel celebrates 60 years of Independence, the resulting Nakba (catastrophe) that created hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees is being commemorated. (See media ad entitled: "We cannot celebrate") On May 8th, in Ottawa, about 80 people - Jews, Palestinians, and others - stood silently outside the Israel celebrations held at Lansdowne Park, dressed in black, carrying black balloons. A report and a video... Read Full Story

The San Diego Tribune Remembering the Palestinian Nakba By Nasser Barghouti and Bassemah Darwish May 7, 2008 Nearly 30 years since she had seen her Northern Galilee home in what she called “48 Palestine,” Rasmiya Barghouti was finally given a permit by the Israeli military authorities to visit. She decided to take two of her daughters and four of her grandchildren with her. It took less than three hours to reach Safad, renamed Tsvat by Israel after 1948. The van stopped in front of the... Read Full Story

Like many Canadians of my generation, I came of age in the 1960s, a time of great idealism and social upheaval. As a teenager living in rural Manitoba, my personal exposure to the great movements for social change was vicarious; my world view largely conditioned by what I could read, watch on TV and absorb from the movies. Looking back I am amazed at how easy it was to adopt completely contradictory political positions, for example, to cheer on American blacks in their struggle for civil... Read Full Story

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