Search Results: Palestine
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 22 August 2011
8 Comments
Walls are not merely concrete manifestations but cultural and psychological ones. One East Berlin native recalled his mother 'cried for hours when the Wall fell'. Israel, in constructing a wall around Jerusalem, faced a host of issues as complex as those that faced East Germany.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
I first saw Handala in a painting in the wretched Bourj al Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. In Palestine, Handala is loved and cherished as a symbol of steadfast resistance. But he transcends Palestine: he represents every suffering child.
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AUSTRALIA
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 25 May 2011
7 Comments
President Obama appears to have given in to domestic pressure for prompt withdrawal from Afghanistan. But a complete withdrawal could have major ramifications for the region and ultimately for US interests.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 20 May 2011
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 20 May 2011
The idea of establishing a university in Palestine was first mooted during the 1964 visit of Paul VI. Today Bethlehem University has 3000 students, and has had 12,000 graduates since its foundation. Current vice-chancellor Peter Bray is well placed to lead it through its next phase.
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INTERNATIONAL
- John Falzon
- 22 December 2010
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Dylan Thomas wrote that 'A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe.' Our 'good poem' is the listening to, and learning from, the people on the margins. But it will only be a 'good poem' if these whispers are translated into collective action.
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AUSTRALIA
- Philip Mendes
- 07 September 2010
14 Comments
International concern with Middle East refugees focuses on the approximately 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who left Israel
during the 1947–48 war. Far less attention has been paid to the nearly
one million Jews who left Arab countries in the decade or so following that war.
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AUSTRALIA
- Antony Loewenstein
- 03 September 2010
31 Comments
The Australian Jewish News has condemned the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) for calling on Australians to boycott Israeli goods made in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories. The NCCA is supporting a campaign of groups determined to act where western political leaders have failed. Leaders including Barack Obama, Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott refuse to acknowledge what they are backing when they declare they are ‘pro-Israel’.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 August 2010
1 Comment
Aaron initially rationalises his sexuality as
a test from God, a test that priveleges him, as it gives him an
opportunity to prove his resilience. Ultimately his affair with a younger man is rather more serious than
simply a rebellion against an oppressive ultra-orthodox society.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 June 2010
14 Comments
Public conversation about the military actions of Israel is always
noisy and combative. Large statements of principle, contradictory
stories and ad hominem arguments make evaluation difficult. In reflecting on the events of the past week I found myself returning to my first visit to Israel over 30 years ago.
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AUSTRALIA
- James M. Dorsey
- 19 April 2010
5 Comments
Boosted by technologies that facilitate mass
distribution without government control, the heavy metal and hip-hop music scene in the Middle East recalls the role
music played in the velvet revolution that toppled regimes in Eastern
Europe and Indonesia.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 09 April 2010
6 Comments
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