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The Israeli occupation regime steamrolls on, as does the international community’s inaction to protect the rights of Palestinians.
Read MoreMats Svensson, a former Swedish diplomat working on the staff of SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, has been following the ongoing occupation of Palestine since 2003. He is the author of Crimes, Victims and Witnesses: Apartheid in Palestine (Real African Publishers) and the his latest Apartheid is a Crime: Portraits of Israeli Occupation (Cunepress, 2020). Visit his Facebook page and contact him at isbjorn2001@hotmail.com.
Posted by Mats Svensson | Jan 31, 2020 | Viewpoints, Palestine, Politics |
The Israeli occupation regime steamrolls on, as does the international community’s inaction to protect the rights of Palestinians.
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | May 8, 2015 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
She told me she longed to get away. Just for a few days. She had been invited to visit friends in...
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | Feb 25, 2015 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
The wall is not built up in Israel, and hardly not on the border between Palestine and Israel. It is built almost entirely on stolen Palestinian land.
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | Feb 24, 2015 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
Suddenly she asks, “What is apartheid?” She has probably heard me talking about apartheid a bit...
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | Feb 6, 2015 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
The terrorist strikes in the open. Four dead cousins on the Mediterranean shore…
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | Dec 8, 2014 | Culture, Palestine |
He doesn’t know why his friend is being forced away. All he knows is that the house will soon be razed to the ground.
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | Sep 4, 2014 | Culture, Palestine |
Why should one person’s past be forgotten, repressed, while the other’s story is continuously re-told?
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | May 29, 2014 | Palestine, Reviews |
The book “Crimes, Victims, and Witnesses” is an attempt to describe in pictures and words the crimes that are currently being committed in Palestine.
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | Feb 16, 2013 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
To ensure the marginalization of Hamas, the World Bank presented a proposal during the meeting regarding comprehensive budget support to the Palestinian Authority.
Read MorePosted by Mats Svensson | Sep 28, 2011 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
Today’s wall is longer and higher, and it does not stop terrorist activities inside the West Bank. Houses are demolished, land is destroyed, and people are dying. It is night. He is dark and it is dark. The fear comes out of his...
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