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Nassar Ibrahim is a activist, book author, writer and specialist on Palestinian resistance. He was editor in chief of El Hadaf newspaper. In this blog, Nassar gives us the opportunity of an inside scope in the fight for justice and freedom.
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Written by Nassar Ibrahim, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
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Thursday, 28 September 2006 |
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 The national unity government is up against
major challenges on economic, social and political levels. Still, it
represents an opportunity to reevaluate the Palestinian situation and
to formulate a political, social and economic strategy that would allow
the Palestinian people to avoid internal strife and defend its basic
national rights.
If Fatah oversteps the Palestinian
political red lines, through the PLO using the national unity
government as a tool to meet Israeli and US demands, and offers
political concessions that undermine the Palestinian national
consensus, then resolutions to the political clash between Fatah and
Hamas will not last long and all players in the game will be returned
to square one, with the fundamental questions remaining.
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Written by Nassar Ibrahim, Alternative Information Center
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
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 “We are entering an open war. Our goal is to ‘change the rules of the game.’”
This was the declaration of
Israeli political and military leaders at the start of the Israeli
aggression on Lebanon. The Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan
Nasrallah responded, “If it is open war you want, then open war you
will get. You want to change the rules of the game, so let the rules of
the game change.” It certainly appears as if each party is aware of the
political and military contexts and objectives of this war, which have
now completely circumvented the issue of the captivity of the two
Israeli soldiers.
In reality, it is an open and all-out
war, the direct and long-term political goals of which are crystal
clear to those who analyze the overtures to the current confrontation
and the potential shape of things to come.
For the Israeli government and its chief
ally, the US, the war is aimed at altering the political reality in
Lebanon by direct force and the imposition of conditions for the
political situation in the region, according to a joint American and
Israeli strategy, as expressed by US Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice in her speech on a new Middle East.
This was originally published in News from Within Vol. XXII, No. 7, August Special Issue, 2006.
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Written by Nassar Ibrahim in News from Within
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Thursday, 17 August 2006 |
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 The mentality of power cannot fathom
that it is difficult to resolve a conflict between peoples by sheer force; that
weakening one side or people at a certain moment in history does not mean it is
weakened eternally. At a certain point, events will break free from the
seemingly static relation of strong to weak, and turn it into a cycle of
destruction, death and terror.
This fact brings us back to square
one, that force cannot not make peace or bring security. True, force can impose
submission or surrender, but only temporarily. Things will eventually go back
to an equation of confrontation and a balance of death.
In light of this explosive
situation, and barring the results that may come from this state of war, the
question remains: what next? Where do we go from here?
This article was originally published in News from Within, Vol. XXII, No. 6, July 2006.
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Written by Nassar Ibrahim
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Saturday, 04 February 2006 |
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The Palestinian Legislative Council's Elections: A New Stage and Old Questions
Some have called the results of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections, which took place on 25 January 2006, an Earthquake; others describe it as a "Hamas Tsunami," and still others have declared it a "comprehensive revolution." How do we evaluate the results of the elections in an objective manner, without emotion or ideology? What is the likely shape and scope of the coming phase?
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Written by Nassar Ibrahim
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Tuesday, 20 December 2005 |
Pic: AIC
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The Fourth Stage of Palestinian Municipal Elections: Hot Results and Hotter Questions!
The fourth stage of the Palestinian municipal elections, which were conducted on 15 December 2005, have come to an end. Both the political importance of the areas in which the elections were held and the broad participation that they drew highlight their significance. The elections-- which were conducted according to the relative majority system, or the ?list system?-- were held in four major cities of the West Bank: Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin and al-Bireh, as well as 35 towns in the West Bank and three towns in the Gaza Strip.
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