![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Israeli Settlements Linked to Human Rights Violations and Delays in Peace by Marty Rosenbluth (2005) - Palestine Center
A 2005 Amnesty International (AI) report found that many human rights violations by Israel against Palestinians are directly correlated with Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. According to documentation compiled by AI and that of all Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations in the region, Israeli settlements are the causal factor most responsible for Israeli human rights violations and the staling of the peace process, said Marty Rosenbluth, Amnesty Internat...
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| A Storm from the East? Western Encounters with the Arab World by Milton Viorst - Palestine Center
At a 2006 Palestine Center briefing and book signing, journalist Milton Viorst presented his latest book, Storm from the East: The Struggle between the Arab World and the Christian West (Random House, 2006). He argued that the American leadership did not adequately understand Arab nationalism before its 2003 invasion in Iraq and that the war is subsequently the latest missed opportunity in the past century of encounters...
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| Atif Kubursi 9 May 1996 - Palestine Center
Atif Kubursi 9 May 1996 Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| Evaluating U.S. Policy toward the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Post-September 11 - John Duke Anthony (2005) - Palestine Center
“Evaluating U.S. Policy toward the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Post-September 11.” Report from a Palestine Center briefing by Naseer Aruri, Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., Edward S. Walker, Jr., and John Duke Anthony On 21 November 2001 the Palestine Center (Palestine Center) convened a panel of experts moderated by Professor Samih Farsoun, Professor of Sociology at American University and member of the Palestine Center Executive Committee, to discuss the implications of Secretary of State Colin Pow...
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| Azmi Bishara (26 October 1999) - Palestine Center
Azmi Bishara 26 October 1999 Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| "Palestinian Human Rights Today" by Laura Drake 18 July 1996 - Palestine Center
"Palestinian Human Rights Today" by Laura Drake 18 July 1996 Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| Peace Process Under Barak by Laura Drake (29 July 1999) - Palestine Center
Peace Process Under Barak by Laura Drake Palestine Center 29 July 1999 Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org Dr. Laura Drake, Professor of International Relations, American University and Member, Editorial Board, Middle East Affairs Journal, Washington
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| Q and A with Hanan Ashrawi (2005) - Palestine Center
Hanan Ashrawi Briefed the Palestine Center Monday April 11 Renowned Palestinian legislator and academic Dr. Hanan Ashrawi briefed and took questions at the Palestine Center from 1:00-2:00 on Monday, April 11, 2005.
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| Fawaz Turki 1991 - Palestine Center
Fawaz Turki spoke at the Center for PolicyAnalysis on Palestine (now, the Palestine Center) in 1991. Turki, Fawaz. The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian in Exile. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972. Turki, Fawaz. Exile's Return: The Making of a Palestinian American. New York: Free Press, 1994.
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| Mosaic Communities: Defying Institutionalized Racism by Fred Schlomka (16 July 2003) - Palestine Center
Mosaic Communities: Defying Institutionalized Racism by Fred Schlomka 16 July 2003 Palestine Center Washington, DC When people lose hope, they lose the will to survive and become self-destructive. The violence engulfing Palestinians and Israelis are symptoms of this loss of hope. Fred Schlomka, executive director of the provisional Mosaic Communities organization, wants Palestinians and Israelis to regain hope in the future and bolster their will to survive...
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| Anthony Coon 03 July 1991 - Palestine Center
Anthony Coon worked for Amnesty International. Coon previously worked for two years as an employee of the Palestinian rights organization Al Haq.
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| Fuad Foty performance and music lesson - Palestine Center
19 Noivember 2008
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| Gaza from the Ground: An Interview with Bait Lahia Teacher, Abu Mazin - Palestine Center
A 7 January 2009 phone call with Abu Mazin, a teacher in Bait Lahia, Gaza. He discusses the carnage around him during Israel's invasion of Gaza.
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| The Gaza Pullout: A Step Toward Peace or Occupation Repackaged? by Phyllis Bennis (2004) - Palestine Center
Speaking during an Intern Lecture Series* entitled, "Perspectives on the Gaza Pullout," at the DC-based Palestine Center on 20 July 2004, Bennis said Sharon's plan was a "diversion from the effort to end the occupation, stop the violence, and create a comprehensive peace." Sharon's plan, argued Bennis, simply turns the citizens of Gaza from an occupied people to a besieged people. 20 July 2004 www.palestinecenter.org
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| More Policy, Less Policing in M.E. Urged for Next U.S. Administration by Marwan Bishara (Oct 2004) - Palestine Center
Historically, American policy in the region focuses on the people active at the political extremes: American client states, and the groups that violently resist them. The United States interferes with the internal politics of Middle Eastern states to protect its clients and persecute their violent critics, while largely ignoring the “oppressed and passive” majority trapped between them, according to Marwan Bishara, author and lecturer at The American University in Paris...
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| A Palestinian National Unity Government, the Way to Move Forward by Haidar Abdel Shafi - Palestine Center
For ten years the Palestinian people have patiently waited to reap the benefits of the Oslo peace process. However, they eventually came to realize that the peace process had failed them and that Israel had been exploiting it for its own gains. The result was an emotional, spontaneous, and popular intifada by a people determined to fight for their rights. Unfortunately, explained Haidar Abdel Shafi, chairman of the United Palestine Appeal (UPA), the Palestinian Authority (PA) has failed to “ex...
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| Assisting Palestinian Development: Current Challenges by Larry Garber (2001) - Palestine Center
Larry Garber, mission director for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program for the Palestinians, told a February 15 Center audience that the Palestinian economy has been “devastated” since the intifada began. Their economy has lost over $1 billion since September 29, or 25 percent of the total Gross Domestic Product for 2000. Garber’s presentation focused on the work of USAID both before and after the intifada.
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| Syria and the United States after Iraq by Mourhaf Jouejati (12 May 2003) - Palestine Center
Mourhaf Jouejati 12 May 2003 Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org Syria and the United States after Iraq Report from a Palestine Center briefing by Murhaf Jouejati Despite the threats levied at Syria by members of the U.S. administration at the end of the U.S. military strike in Iraq, a Syrian foreign policy expert believes that there was never "much seriousness" to the question of whether Syria would be the U.S...
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| The Role of the Media in Shaping Public Perception by Stephen Pelletiere (2001) - Palestine Center
With a PhD in Political Science, a background in journalism, and a current position as professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Army War College, Stephen Pelletiere brought his expertise to a discussion of the media at a 13 September 2001 Center lecture. He focused on press coverage of Iraq, Palestine, and the current situation following the 11 September plane hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in the U.S.
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| The US Media and the Palestine Question by Edmund Ghareeb (2002) - Palestine Center
Edmund Ghareeb spoke at the Palestine Center about the Americasn media and their coverage of Palestine.
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| Derek Ward Pacific News 27 March 1991 - Palestine Center
Derek Ward Pacific News 27Mar1991
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| Don Peretz (16 February 1999) - Palestine Center
Don Peretz Director of the Middle East Program at the State University of New York, Binghamton 16 February 1999 Palestine Center www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| Egypt and Sharon's Gaza Disengagement Plan by Marwan Bishara (June 2004) - Palestine Center
The Gaza withdrawal plan mooted by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and warmly embraced by U.S. President George W. Bush is a distorted echo of the Oslo years' original 'Gaza First' idea threatens to "push the Palestinians national aspirations into settling for 'Gaza Last'," said political analyst and lecturer Marwan Bishara. The plan has been challenged by Arabs and Israelis for different reasons...
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| Future of the Peace Process by Walid al-Moualem (3 Feb. 1999) - Palestine Center
Walid al-Moualem Former Syrian ambassador to the U.S. 3 February 1999 The Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| Gaza from the Ground: Another Interview with Bait Lahia Teacher, Abu Mazin (2009) - Palestine Center
A 16 January 2009 phone call with Abu Mazin, a teacher in Bait Lahia, Gaza. He discusses the carnage around him during Israel's invasion of Gaza. He spoke about what he is seeing, the death of his niece by sniper fire, and how Gazans feel about the United States.
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| Hisham Sharabi (June 2003) - Palestine Center
Hisham Sharabi (June 2003) Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org Hisham Sharabi's bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisham_Sharabi
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| Hisham Sharabi Memorial (2005) - Palestine Center
On January 13, 2005, the international community lost a leading Arab and Palestinian intellectual and activist. Dr. Hisham Sharabi died in Beirut, Lebanon. He was 78 years old. The Palestine Center hosted a memorial for one of the founding members of the Jerusalem Fund, Professor Hisham Sharabi. The long-time Georgetown University professor was remembered by many of his friends at this 17 February 2005 event...
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| Interview With Fady Joudah - Palestine Center
Fady Joudah was the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for The Earth in the Attic. In his poems Joudah explores big themes—identity, war, religion, what we hold in common—while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Glück describes the poet in her Foreword as that strange animal, the lyric poet in whom circumstance and professionhave compelled obsession with large social contexts and grave national dilemmas...
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| Jerusalem Symposium 23 November 1993 - Palestine Center
Jerusalem Symposium 23 November 1993 Dr. Michael Hudson Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| Pro-Natal Policies and Nationalism: Israeli Strategies and Palestinian Responses by Rhoda Kanaaneh (2004) - Palestine Center
Bucking international trends towards family planning, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out in population policy, with implications not just for citizens' rights and the prospects for Middle East peace, but also for women and their bodies. Rhoda Kanaaneh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Washington DC, discussed the different strategies at a 23 February 2004 Palestine Center briefing...
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| The USS Liberty by Ambassador Jim Akins (29 September 1999) - Palestine Center
Ambassador Jim Akins 29 September 1999 Palestine Center Washington, DC www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| "US Policy on Lebanon, Syria, Egypt" by Michael Hudson - Palestine Center
A talk at the Palestine Center Conference, on 10 October 2008, in Washington, DC. www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| 2005 Palestinian Elections by Diana Buttu (2005) - Palestine Center
In a 01 October 2005 briefing, former PLO advisor Diana BUttu discussed the Palestinian elections. She discussed the voting process and what the significance of the elections are. www.thejerusalemfund.org
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| Historical, Logical, and Moral Arguments against Racial Profiling by Frank Wu (2001) - Palestine Center
Frank Wu, a professor at Howard University School of Law, discussed two “different but related topics” at a 31 October 2001 Palestine Center briefing: the U.S. internment of individuals of Japanese descent during World War II and the current treatment of Arabs and Muslims in the United States.
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| Israel's Policy of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing by Gabriel Piterberg - Palestine Center
" Israel's Policy of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing: The Closing Session of the Palestine Center Winter Conference ." Report from a Palestine Center briefing by Jennifer Loewenstein, Gabriel Piterberg, Ilan Pappe, and Amal Jamal Gabriel Piterberg, associate professor of Ottoman history at the University of California Los Angeles Piterberg agreed with Loewenstein that the two-state solution would be problematic but unlike Loewenstein, he does not advocate abandoning the idea...
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| America’s Asymmetrical Wars: Following a Failed Israeli Military Doctrine by Marwan Bishara (Jan 2004) - Palestine Center
Israel and the United States have always celebrated the many similarities between them and have taken pride in the strong relationship born out of those similarities. The “Americanization” of Israel over the past three decades, explained Marwan Bishara, lecturer at the American University in Paris, has made Israel a “client-state” of the United States. For a small country like Israel to be influenced by a superpower such as the United States is not a cause for concern...
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| A Palestinian Christian Analyzes the Psychology of the Violence Cycle by Rev. Mitri Raheb (2001) - Palestine Center
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the “longest ongoing conflict in modern history,” said Rev. Mitri Raheb at a 23 May 2001 Center briefing. Raheb, the pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem and general director of the International Center in Bethlehem, discussed the broader context of the conflict, the imbalances present, and some of the origins and realities of the current crisis.
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| Building on Shaky Ground: A Critical Economic Assessment of the West Bank First Strategy by Dr. Mohammed El-Samhouri - Palestine Center
The West Bank First strategy—or focus on the West Bank and leave Gaza behind for now type of thinking—made its debut as Gaza was falling to Hamas in June 2007. The underlying assumption behind this approach is that as the Strip experiences the full impact of abandonment and burden of economic strangulation under Islamic rule, the West Bank begins its journey toward stability and economic well-being under the Fateh-led government...
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| Competing Narratives of Israel and Palestine by Edmund Ghareeb (2002) - Palestine Center
Edmund Ghareeb spoke about Competing Narratives of Israel and Palestine 03 March 2002.
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| Dr. Amin Alkhatib 11 December 1991 - Palestine Center
Dr. Amin Alkhatib 11 December 1991
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![[movingimage]](/images/mediatype_movingimage.gif) | Fady Joudah Performance (2008) - Palestine Center
Fady Joudah was the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for The Earth in the Attic. In his poems Joudah explores big themes—identity, war, religion, what we hold in common—while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Glück describes the poet in her Foreword as that strange animal, the lyric poet in whom circumstance and professionhave compelled obsession with large social contexts and grave national dilemmas...
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| 'Gate of the Sun' Book Talk by Elias Khoury - Palestine Center
Elias Khoury is a Lebanese novelist, playwright and critic. His new book, Gate of the Sun. He briefed the Palestine Center 18 January 2006.
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| Hanan Ashrawi and Mamdouh Aker 19 December 1991 - Palestine Center
Hanan Ashrawi and Mamdouh Aker 19 December 1991
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| Israel's Policy of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing by Jennifer Loewenstein (2003) - Palestine Center
Israel's Policy of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing: The Closing Session of the Palestine Center Winter Conference ." Report from a Palestine Center briefing by Jennifer Loewenstein, Gabriel Piterberg, Ilan Pappe, and Amal Jamal "A Jewish state and a democratic state are fundamentally incompatible. What I would advocate instead is a transformation," explained Jennifer Loewenstein, senior lecturer in Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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| Memorial for Samih Farsoun - Palestine Center
In Memoriam Dr. Samih K. Farsoun With great sorrow and a deep sense of loss, the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem Fund for Education & Community Development announces the passing of Dr. Samih K. Farsoun, a long-time board member and former board secretary of The Jerusalem Fund and its educational program, The Palestine Center. Dr. Farsoun passed away this morning, Thursday 9 June 2005, in New Buffalo, MI...
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| Mountain Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture by Salim Tamari - Palestine Center
This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned (and defined) the peri...
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| Palestine in Comparative Context by Samih Farsoun (July 2002) - Palestine Center
Dr. Farsoun considers Palestine in a comparative context, namely the experience of being native in a settler-colonial project. This was given 9 July 2002 at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC
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| Separate Is Never Equal: Stories of Apartheid from South Africa to Palestine by Diana Buttu - Palestine Center
A national speaking tour featuring a South African reverend and Palestinian lawyer started off at the Palestine Center on Monday, 10 November 2008. The tour, sponsored by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, draws on the parallels between the South African and Israeli systems of apartheid.
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| Suheil Bushrui (17 November 1999) - Palestine Center
Suheil Bushrui 17 November 1999 Palestine Center Washington, DC Professor Suheil Bushrui, who held the Baha'i chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland
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| The Bush Legacy, Arab Loss and Nostalgia by Anthony Shadid - Palestine Center
Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Washington Post, talks about the legacy of the Bush administration in the Arab world. He shares stories in this poetic homage to Arab loss and the sense of nostalgia to which it gave way. He spoke at the annual Palestine Center conference, 10 October 2008 in Washington, DC. www.palestinecenter.org
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