‘Recently I was someone, now I’m nobody.’
I have visited Muhammad around sixty times. But it is only now that we begin to really talk to...
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I am just wondering how you are doing
It is early evening in Ram, a neighborhood in the outskirts of Jerusalem. The workers are on their way home to their families. The queue is long. I am sitting in my Audi, in the diplomats’ queue. I am alone, there’s...
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Yesterday Communists, Today Islamists, Tomorrow We Fight?
The year is 1974. It is my second Sunday in Brazzaville. I am for the first time invited home to a...
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Apartheid on two continents
Tor Sellström has, in his work, documented what Sweden did to fight apartheid in southern Africa. South African researchers have now found signs of apartheid in Palestine. But how do we use this knowledge? How does the world react?
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“Comrades, your enemy is yourselves!”
The participant was silent when Mavivi as her last point spoke about the struggle in southern Africa and the need for unity, and unity behind a strategy. To work towards a common goal.
Read MorePlaying Beach Tennis While the Helicopters Pass By
We hear the sound of choppers. Three helicopters slowly approach us from the north. We see the couple playing beach tennis stop for a short while and look up at the three large birds, writes Mats Svensson in an eyewitness account from Tel Aviv.
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The Red and White Bird in Gaza
On the morning of the last day of the war, the soldiers stopped their heavy metal box and aimed the long cannon barrel at the house. That was the morning they didn’t just pass by.
Read More“I will never vote for corruption”
They defied the world, defied the donors, defied the World Bank, defied Arafat’s successor, defied Israel, defied the USA, defied the EU, and defied the peace process. Staked it all on one card.
Read MoreWho is a Terrorist?
President Mandela received the Nobel peace prize in Oslo but in Washington he was still a terrorist. The judgment today falls on the women and children in Gaza and on the West Bank.
Read MoreThe crimes have no period of limitation
I bet with my Israeli friend that the international community will ask Palestinians for forgiveness by the 90th anniversary of the Nakba, the large catastrophe when Palestinians were expelled from 418 villages.
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