On the Ruwwad Youth Empowerment Project from The Common Language Project:
Many of the ideas for how the $25 million slated for the project would be spent were influenced by young Palestinians themselves who were brought together in Ruwwad’s Youth Forums. Omar Awartani and Zeina Amro, two 18 year old Ramallah natives, were both leaders of [...]
Here’s his Model Mayhem website.
He’s a model alright:
Last year, Osama Sabbah and Rasha Ali, 12th grade students from the Ramallah Friends School, proposed to the school administration that they be sent to Amman, Jordan as school representatives at the yearly Model United Nations (MUN) conference. It was approved as a pilot project with the understanding [...]
Ruth Tenne of The Palestinian Chronicle:
Western governments have so far refused to recognize the Palestinian Hamas government democratically elected in January 2006. Economic aid to the Palestinian government was curtailed and Israel is unlawfully withholding tax and customs revenue due to the PA (£35 million per month).
Likewise, foreign bank accounts and financial transactions by the [...]
“A Completely Free, Open Event in Greensboro, NC – February 9-11 – Guilford College”
Here’s the schedule.
Here’s info on the Yachting Club.
Khalid Amayreh via The People’s Voice on civil war:
A few months ago, the State Department announced plans to giver PA leader Mahmoud Abbas more than $86 million dollars to “strengthen his security forces against Hamas.”
Moreover, the US played a pivotal role in “smuggling” tens of thousands of rifles, mainly KA-47 into the Gaza Strip along [...]
Ali Abunimah via The Electronic Intifada on apartheid:
Millions of Palestinians around the world are forbidden from visiting or living in their country due to Israeli restrictions and laws that discriminate against non-Jews. A privileged few Palestinians have been able to do so, however, by virtue of their citizenship in the United States or European countries, [...]
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