“the blockade is ongoing, no matter how you sanitize it linguistically.” -Haidar Eid

Haidar Eid (in Gaza): “Our message to the Palestinian negotiators in Cairo (trans. by Nada Elian): The fact that the six crossings [with Israel] and the Rafah crossing [with Egypt] are not permanently open, and the inability of a single person to leave whenever they want, and the shortage of medicine in pharmacies, and the lack… Read More “the blockade is ongoing, no matter how you sanitize it linguistically.” -Haidar Eid

August 18, 2014 Eva BartlettLeave a comment

Celebrating Palestinian Resistance and Resilience

(1st published at Global Research) —by Ali Mallah* and Eva Bartlett** With the passing of the 64th anniversary of the Nakba, (the establishment of the illegal Zionist state on the land and homes of Palestinians), should we mourn or celebrate? Professor Nurit Peled–Elhanan wrote of her mourning: “I will mourn on Nakba Day. I will… Read More Celebrating Palestinian Resistance and Resilience

June 4, 2012June 16, 2012 Eva Bartlett2 Comments

Mleeta: Lebanon’s Resistance Museum

Late afternoon sun highlights the oak trees I stand amidst, the utter quiet broken only by birds’ chirping. It is easy to forget that the southern Lebanese hilltop I’m walking on was once the base of intense resistance against the Zionist occupation forces with their bases on surrounding hilltops and occupying villages below. From 1985… Read More Mleeta: Lebanon’s Resistance Museum

April 24, 2012October 24, 2014 Eva Bartlett2 Comments

Picnics at the border: Hezbollah resistance in Bint Jbeil and Maroun ar Ras

*monument at Maroun ar Ras, site of Hezbollah defeat of Israeli army Some time after descending further south from the former Khiam prison, the fortified fence separating Lebanon and occupied Palestine appears, as do the red-roofed Israeli homes in the formerly mixed Palestinian and Lebanese town of Metulli: M notes that this town was an… Read More Picnics at the border: Hezbollah resistance in Bint Jbeil and Maroun ar Ras

April 17, 2012April 18, 2012 Eva BartlettLeave a comment

the Khiam prison is now open

*the thick fog in rural southern Lebanon hills was an ally to Lebanese resistance against the Zionist occupation soldiers in their hilltop military bases. I go south to stay with M and his family, and over the next week see a number of Lebanon’s significant sites of resistance and victory over the Zionist occupation of… Read More the Khiam prison is now open

April 15, 2012May 25, 2018 Eva BartlettLeave a comment