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My Blog List
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Thursday Rants and Rave: #S02EP03 Amira Amir’s Oedipus - Hello, and welcome back to a special episode of the Thursday Rants and Rave Podcast. This episode was recorded and edited before the war in Gaza in Septemb...
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Learning the hard way that a barn is better than a tent - Privacy is lost at a time of genocide.3 hours ago
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Twitter et Facebook obéissent au doigt et à l'oeil aux autorités d'occupation - Tweet bloqués : Twiter « collabore avec Israël dans la censure des messages venus de l'extérieur ». Dans ce qui est la dernière étape de la collaboration ...8 years ago
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Pope Francis: “I Think of Gaza, of so much Cruelty; of the Children Machine-Gunned” - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the Sunday before Christmas, Pope Francis said, “May the weapons be silenced and Christmas carols resound!” according to ...7 hours ago
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بصمات أصابع - حبيبتي رُغم أننا في نفس القارب نهاياتُ القصصِ أخذتْ تختلف أسبقُكِ ربما أو نُواصلُ معا طرقٌ يتحسّسُ الجسدُ فيه المزيدَ من الجسد قصدتُ الأرميني العجوز في م...
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Pour un service public des données - Bonne nouvelle pour ceux d'entre nous qui mettent en garde contre les dangers de « l'extractivisme des données » depuis des années : la méfiance envers F...6 years ago
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Once complicit in Germany’s genocide of Jews, the German Church now risks complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians - [image: EKD Council Chair Annette Kurschus addressing the the first plenary of the Synod of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD – Protestant Church...22 hours ago
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Returning to Hafiz al-Assad’s Syria: Bashar Heads Back to the Future in 2020 - President Bashar al-Assad was the main catalyst for reform in Syria’s economy and to a lesser degree in its political institutions before the 2011 uprisi...4 years ago
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Will US global hegemony last for another century? - My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "Will US global hegemony last for anther century"? (A critical review of Michael Beckley's new book from Cornell Universi...6 years ago
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Trump Advisors, Israeli Leaders Urge Iran Attack - After yesterday’s post reporting that the IDF is preparing battle plans for an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, The post Trump Advisors, Israeli Lead...1 week ago
About me
- Abu Pessoptimist
- This blogname was derived from a satiric Arabic novel by the Palestinian Israeli Emile Habiby. In the ''The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimist'' he uses absurdism as a weapon against the (ir)realities of daily life in Palestine/Israel. I consider it to be an example for how events in Israel/Palestine best can be approached. The subtitle is from a book by Dutch author Renate Rubinstein. In a way that is also still my motto. My real name is Martin (Maarten Jan) Hijmans. I've been covering the ME since 1977 and have been a correspondent in Cairo. In 2018, I concluded the study 'Arabic language and culture' at the University of Amsterdam. I started 'Abu Pessoptimist' in January 2009 out of anger about the onslaught of that month in Gaza. The other blog, The Pessoptimist, is meant to be a sister version in English. (En voor de Nederlandstaligen: ik wilde in november 2009 een tweede blog in het Engels beginnen en ontdekte te laat dat als je één account hebt, een profiel dan meteen ook voor allebei de blogs geldt. Vandaar dat het nu ineens in het Engels is... So sorry.)
Emil habiby
Renate Rubinstein
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