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A sign of optimism for Palestinian freedom
By Mustafa Barghouthi
2009-06-15 Throughout decades of struggle for Palestinian freedom, there has been little cause for optimism. Today, I am optimistic.
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Can Obama meet Netanyahu's challenge?2009-05-19 cannot recall a more important meeting between an American president and an Israeli prime minister than today's meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Will the Obama administration have the courage to challenge Netanyahu, or will all the talk of change dissolve in the face of a concerted one-two punch from Netanyahu and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee?
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America must find courage to stand up to Israel, injustice2009-03-14 During a recent visit to Washington, I met with several members of Congress to discuss the prospects for Palestinian and Israeli peace. This included a marvelous, unexpected introduction to Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the courageous civil rights advocate. The Palestinian National Initiative, which I head, works to emulate the nonviolent resistance to segregation that Lewis personified. For too long, however, our best efforts have been stymied by America’s lack of evenhandedness. Many people in Washington believe the main obstacle is AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby.
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salon.comSalon Radio: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Israeli elections2009-02-11 Glenn Greenwald: My guest today on Salon Radio is Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, who was a former candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority in 2005, finishing second to the ultimate winner, Mahmoud Abbas. He's also held various positions in the Palestinian Authority and is a physician as well. Dr. Barghouti, thanks so much for joining me today ... More |
The Nation
Dr. Mustafa BargouthiSteadfast Before Goliath 2009-02-07 When I am asked about Palestinian identity, one idea keeps coming to mind. I was told it would be translated into English as "steadfastness." I looked up what a steadfast person would be like and the dictionary says, "One marked by firm determination or resolution--not shakable--of firm convictions and strong resolve. A man of unbendable perseverance and unwavering loyalty." ... More |
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP “…and he stood steadfast before Goliath.”
2009-01-31 When I was asked about Palestinian identity, one idea kept coming to mind. I wondered how this idea would translate into English, and I was told that it would be steadfastness.” I looked up "steadfast" in the dictionary: “Marked by firm determination or resolution - not shakeable - of firm convictions and strong resolve; of unbendable perseverance and unwavering loyalty.” ... More |
CBS / 60 minutes Time running out for a two-state Solution?
2009-01-27 Growing Number Of Israelis, Palestinians Say Two-State Solution Is No Longer Possible. Getting a peace deal in the Middle East is such a priority to President Obama that his first foreign calls on his first day in office were to Arab and Israeli leaders. And on day two, the president made former Senator George
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Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa BarghouthiCall for Action2009-01-24 Only a few days after both Israel and Hamas declared unilateral ceasefires, the people of Gaza have awoken to the level of destruction visited upon their homes and lives. 1335 Gazans were killed; most of them civilians including 400 innocent children, and a further 5000 have been seriously injured. ... More |
Parliamentary Lists’ Representatives and PLC MembersStatement issued by:
Parliamentary Lists’ Representatives and PLC Members
2009-01-10 We, the PLC members and Parliamentary Lists’ representatives, affirm the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to express themselves including protesting and demonstrating in solidarity with our people in Gaza Strip in confrontation with the aggression, respecting freedoms and rights and not to violate them for any reason ... More |
The Guardian, By Peter Beaumont, Foreign Affairs EditorTo be in Gaza is to be trapped2009-01-07 Gaza. Always the suffering of Gaza, most potent symbol of the tragedy of Palestine. In 1948, during the Nakba – or "The Catastrophe" as Palestinians describe the war that gave birth to the state of Israel – 200,000 refugees poured into Gaza, swelling its population by more than two-thirds. Then Gaza fell under Egyptian control.
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Palestinian National Initiative Media should be allowed to shed the light on Gaza2009-01-07 Ramallah, 06-01-09: Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative strongly condemned this morning the Israelis refusal to allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza and report on the events. “This is a harsh violation of the Freedom of the Press”, he said. ... More |
CNNDuring an Interview with Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, with the CNN2009-01-01 SANCHEZ: And he said that most news organizations have ignored the possibility that the people who actually broke the ceasefire was not the Palestinians, not Hamas in Gaza. What he said -- in fact, let -- I think we've got it. Dan, play this, and then we'll give you some more information on it. Let's go ahead and go to that.
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Palestinian National InitiativeBeware the Israeli attacks2008-12-23 Even before the official end to the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israel began initiating a public relations campaign, aimed at both their own people and the international community, which would ‘prepare us all’ for the eventual military assault on the tiny, besieged Strip.
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UNITED NATIONSGaza: Silence is not an option2008-12-12 The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk, issued the following statement: ... More |
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP
Telling it as it is2008-12-05 Unless the Palestinians can speak effectively with one voice, the world won't listen, though Palestine is the core problem ... More |
Palestinian National Initiative
A Day of Victory for all Palestinians2008-10-29 The boat carrying supplies and a collection of Palestinian (including several who have lived abroad, one whom has not seen the shores of Gaza for forty years), Israelis, and international peace activists (among them a Nobel Prize winner and several European parliamentarians) has once more broken the siege on the Gaza Strip after speculation and hints from the Israeli authorities that they would not allow a repeat performance of the last successful voyage. ... More |
Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi defies Israeli threats and sails to Gaza2008-10-28 Today, the ’Hope’, the new Free Gaza Boat will set sail again for its journey from Cyprus to Gaza, regardless of Israeli threats to forcibly stop the boat before it reaches Gaza. Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, will once more participate as a crew member of the Boat that envisages to challenge the Israeli blockade on the Strip, to strengthen Palestinian unity and to present a geste of solidarity to the Palestinians living in Gaza. ... More |
Palestinian National Initiative
Demonstrators remove eight barriers around in Al Mazra'a village 2008-10-16 Hundreds of demonstrators accompanied by a group of foreigners and led by Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, and Walid Assaf MP, and Deputy Muhib Awad removed the eight roadblocks which have been in place for seven years preventing farmers from the Al Mazra'a village from reaching their lands and olive trees. ... More |
Palestinian National Initiative Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP on board of the "SS Hope" ship2008-09-23 Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, will participate as a crew member of the ’SS Hope’, the new Free Gaza Boat that will sail to Gaza on Wednesday the 24th of September to challenge the Israeli blockade on the Strip.
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Dr. Mustafa BarghoutiOlmert curbs Palestinian rights2008-08-30 Oslo has entered its final, tragic-comic stage. The onus now is to ensure Olmert's planned dénouement does not become a reality. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeResults of an Opinion Poll2008-08-20 The latest opinion polls, published in the Al Quds newspaper today, show that the latest developments in Gaza led to shifts in public opinion towards both Hamas and Fateh at the same time, confirming the fact that both factions are losing support in Gaza, especially Hamas. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeMustafa Barghouthi: “Child killed in cold blood by the Israeli army”2008-07-29 Ramallah, 29-07-08: Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, said "Ahmed Hassan Yousef Musa, the 10-year old boy from Ni'lin, was shot in the head at close range by the Israeli army while he was protesting in Ni'lin against the construction of the Apartheid wall ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeIsraeli army prevents weekly march against the apartheid Wall in Bethlehem2008-07-19 Bethlehem, 18-07-08 – On Friday the 18th of July, the peaceful weekly march against the apartheid Wall held in the town of El Masara, South of Bethlehem, was intercepted immediately after the participants reached the new section of the Wall, by a huge amount of Israeli occupation forces. The IOF prevented the peaceful demonstration and attacked the participants by using sound grenades and sticks. Clashes took place between the demonstrators and the soldiers.
Ni’lin: 65 actions of non-violent popular struggles in 80 days
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Palestinian National InitiativeMustafa Barghouthi shows support for city of Nablus2008-07-15  Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative visited Nablus for the second time on Monday afternoon to show support to the residents of the city after the recent Israeli raids on the city Mall and a number of mosques and charity organizations last week. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeIsraeli army prevents medical team from entering
Ni'lin
2008-07-12 Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP,Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, today condemned the detention of a joint medical team from the Palestinian Medical Relief Society and the Physicians for Human Rights at the entrances of the town of Ni'lin. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeAttempting on popular non-violent resistance against the apartheid wall
2008-07-09 MP Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initivative held a press conference on the eve of the 4th anniversary of the International Court Advisory decision that determined that the Wall is illegal under the international law and is not a security necessity. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeCollective Punishment Fails to Break Popular Non-Violent Struggle Against the Wall2008-07-05 "Collective punishment aimed at breaking the popular, non-violent struggle against the Wall," was how PNI Secretary General, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, today described the ongoing closure by the Israeli military of Ni'lin village, where peaceful demonstrations against construction of the Wall have been taking place since May.
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Palestinian National InitiativeIsrael Furthers Plans to Annex East Jerusalem through Ongoing Settlement Expansion
2008-06-14 The announcement by the Israeli government yesterday of plans to build a further 1,300 settlement units in the Ramat Shlomo settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, is "a further reflection of the Israeli government's strategy to de facto annex the city before a final status agreement can be reached," said PNI Secretary General Mustafa Barghouthi MP today. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeIsrael Undermining Success of Any Ceasefire Agreement before it Begins2008-06-12 "How can the Israeli government claim a genuine commitment to ceasefire talks when its military continues to kill Gazans – including children – on a daily basis, and while Israeli leaders continue to make preparations for a wide scale attack on the Strip?" said PNI Secretary General Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi today. ... More |
An interview with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti by Marian HoukGetting the Palestinian Legislative Council out of the freezer2008-06-10  "Executive authority, executive government cannot continue to function without control (checks and balances), cannot take on itself the responsibility of legislation, and substitute itself for the Legislative Council, and cannot continue to act without being accountable to the Legislative Council." ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeBarghouthi: Democracy is the Key to Restoring National Unity2008-06-10 PNI leader, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, today welcomed steps towards restoring national unity currently being taken by President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leaders, and stressed that this new initiative cannot be missed. He underlined that the democratic process – free and fair elections, respect for the separation of powers and the rule of law, and the equality of all Palestinians before the law - was the key to restoring national unity. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeAvoidable Tragedies: The Continuing Deaths of Gazan Patients2008-05-27 "The Israeli government is justifying what former US President Jimmy Carter recently described as 'one of the greatest human rights crimes on Earth' under the pretext of security," said Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative. "But tell me who is safer now that Mohammad, Hashim, Fayza, Sijoud, and many others are dead?" Are the lives of these children, these chronically ill people, worth less than any other human being? The Israeli government and military's clear and fundamental lack of regard for the basic right of Palestinians to life is racist and criminal," the MP stressed. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeSystematic Israeli Military Violence Attempt to Deter Solidarity with Palestinians2008-05-26 Scores of peaceful protestors – Palestinians, internationals and Israelis – have been injured in separate demonstrations in Bili’in, Hebron and Nil’in since Friday. Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the PNI, stated that "the daunting prospect of certain violence, no matter how non-violent the demonstration, is a carefully thought out policy to discourage solidarity on the ground and isolate the Palestinians, leaving them to face the Israeli military alone." ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeIsraeli Military Kills 16-Year-Old Palestinian Child at Checkpoint2008-05-20  Israeli soldiers shot 16-year-old Fihmeh Abd Al-Jawwad Ad-Dardouk at the notorious Huwwara checkpoint near Nablus at 20:30 on Monday night, and prevented ambulances and medical teams from reaching the boy as he lay bleeding to death on the ground. He died some 30 minutes later. The Israeli military held the boy's body for 2 hours after the killing, finally allowing Palestinian medical teams to access the site of the shooting at around 22:30. ... More |
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MPWe remain2008-05-17 Beyond all that hypocrisy, distortion of truth and self-deception, Israel’s triple-laurel, made up of the fastest ethnic cleansing operation, the longest occupation and the worst apartheid, has not only inflicted an unpardonable injustice on the Palestinian people, it has also inflicted an unforgivable offence against Jews themselves and against the memory of their suffering and persecution at the hands of the Nazis and in earlier chapters of history. ... More |
Palestinian National Initiative 1948-2008: From Palestinian Nakba to Israeli Apartheid2008-05-15  60 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their land. Thousands were killed while refusing to leave their villages behind or attempting to return. Refugees were dispersed all around the world, and the Palestinian Nakba began. ... More |
Palestine Solidarity Campaign15,000 demonstrate in London on 10 May2008-05-10  Dr Mustafa Barghouti, elected Palestinian Legislative Council member, told the rally of the situation of Apartheid existing in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: "Israeli citizens make 30 times what Palestinians do, settlers take 48 times the water of Palestinians, Palestinians are denied entry to Jerusalem..." He said that the 'peace process' of Annapolis was an illusion: "Since then Israeli attacks have tripled and even more checkpoints have been set up." He stressed the importance of re-establishing Palestinian unity and accused western governments of hypocrisy, in undermining democracy in Palestine, but supporting an Apartheid state. ... More |
Palestinian National Initiative"Who is safer now that Khadra Abu Moatiq and her 4 young children are dead?”2008-04-28  "A sickening tragedy" was how Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the PNI described the killing of a mother and her 4 children in an Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip this morning. The deaths have brought the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military since Annapolis to 418, including 59 children. ... More |
Palestinian National InitiativeIsraeli Government Seeking Destruction of Palestinian Society in Gaza says Barghouthi2008-04-24 "Thousands of lives are at stake in Gaza. Israel's siege is pushing a whole society towards collapse." This was how Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, today described the situation in the Gaza Strip, which has reached dramatic levels following the latest Israeli fuel cuts. Food assistance for 650,000 Palestinians is about to stop, 50,000 vaccines for babies are at risk of being spoiled, and sanitation services for half a million inhabitants have been halted. ... More |
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Palestinian National InitiativeThe choice of non-violence: Our strategy for Palestine2008-04-22 Sixty years after the Naqba, the catastrophe, Palestinians are still without a state. They are living under occupation, many are in refugee camps, others are scattered around the world, and a part of the Palestinian people are no more than second class citizens in Israel itself. ... More |
BY Henry SiegmanGaza: The Lies of Warþ
2009-01-24 Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce thatIsrael observed and then refused to extend it ... More |
Mairead MaguireI HOPE THE PALESTINIANS WILL USE NONVIOLENCE IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM2008-11-10 On 28th October, 2008, the Free Gaza Movement set sail in SS Dignity from Larnaca, Cyprus, for Gaza. On board were 27 Internationals from 13 countries, Including Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, five physicians, human rights lawyers, etc., I felt deeply privileged to be part of this group going to Gaza. On this the second boat journey into Gaza the siege-breakers brought with them 6 cubic meters of medicine, and their hope that by going to Gaza across the sea (only the second boat to do so in over 41 years) they would give hope to the people of Gaza and that the outside world would break its silence to the tragedy of Gaza’s suffering and act to get the siege lifted.
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