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Joseph Dana
Joseph Dana is a writer based in Cape Town. Previously he worked across the Middle East.
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Palestinians take to the streets for Abbas’s speech
Palestinians poured into the streets of West Bank cities to watch and celebrate Mahmoud Abbas’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly. Earlier in the day, clashes erupted at the Qalandia checkpoint and the Israeli shot dead a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank village of Qasra Ramallah – Carrying Palestinian flags and portraits…
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Joseph Dana
September 24, 2011
WATCH: Against UN backdrop, violence erupts in West Bank
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mS8XzT7xV0[/youtube] Ramallah – So much attention has been focused on the question of whether violence will break out in the West Bank due the historic United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood. Yesterday, mass peaceful rallies were held inside West Bank cities such as Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron. However, late yesterday afternoon, clashes between stone throwing…
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Joseph Dana
September 22, 2011
PHOTOS: Ramallah rallies for a Palestinian state
At least 3,000 Palestinians took to the streets of Ramallah in support of the PLO’s statehood bid in the United Nations. The PA officially closed Palestinian schools in order to boost numbers of protesters. Roughly 80,000 PA employees were also given the day off in order to join the demonstrations. The demonstration took place in Clock Square…
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Joseph Dana
September 20, 2011
New song mocks PA’s statehood bid
Palestinian activists in Ramallah have created a new song which mocks the PLO attempt for statehood at the United Nations later this week. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1GQpwyPA2U[/youtube] The lyrics in English: The blue chair This is the story of a magical blue chair… A blue chair that will travel, soar and fly! It comes in dark blue…and in white,…
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Joseph Dana
September 17, 2011
The rhetorical abuse of unarmed Palestinian resistance by Mahmoud Abbas
My colleague, Dahlia Scheindlin, in her thoughtful analysis of PA president Mahmoud Abbas’s major speech on the Palestine statehood bid, notes, The non-violent approach [Abbas] emphasized in his speech is the revolution of political, cultural and moral identity the Palestinians have undertaken. Many have asked if they are inspired by the Arab Spring and I…
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Joseph Dana
September 17, 2011
Palestine statehood bid: is about rights or separation?
Last week, Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s ambassador to the U.S., was quoted by USA Today as saying total separation is needed between Palestinians and Israelis. The statement came during a press conference on the Palestinian statehood bid sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor in Washington. Areikat’s exact statement was, “I believe, as…
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Joseph Dana
September 17, 2011
The subtle reformulation of Jewish identity in America
Somehow, this short trailer fell through the cracks of my email and I forgot to post it last week. The film looks like yet another sign that a subtle reformulation of Jewish identity in the United States is well underway. An identity in which Zionism plays a small, if not insignificant role. An idenity which…
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Joseph Dana
September 13, 2011
Jenin’s Freedom Theatre premieres Waiting for Godot
Ramallah–During the first act of Samuel Beckett’s 1952 tragicomedy Waiting for Godot, one of the play’s protagonists, Estragon, turns to the other, Vladimir, and blankly notes to the audience, “Nothing to be done.” Vladimir returns, “I’m beginning to come round to the opinion.” Jenin’s Freedom Theatre Company, whose spirited performance of Beckett’s seminal work opened…
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Joseph Dana
September 13, 2011
Preparations for the statehood bid ignoring Palestinians
Ramallah–Despite its power and reach, the Palestinian Authority (PA) have made little effort to explain their controversial statehood bid in the United Nations to the rank and file living in the occupied West Bank. The plethora of opinion pieces, news articles and speeches by the Palestinian leadership on the statehood attempt have mostly ignored Palestinians…
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Joseph Dana
September 11, 2011
Israel approves plan to uproot 30,000 Bedouins
The approval of the ‘Prawer Plan’ concerning Bedouins in the Negev desert demonstrates that Israel’s principle of divide and rule, which has been perfected in the West Bank and Gaza, also applies to citizens of Israel living inside 1948 boundaries. Perhaps the most violent component of Israel’s control over non-Jewish inhabitants since the founding of…
By
Joseph Dana
September 11, 2011
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