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Les vaches qui condamnent : Cherchez the Red Heifers’ animal rights - First , Chag Sameach On Sunday, scores of right-wing religiously fanatic Jewish Israelis began to flock to East Jerusalem in preparation for the celebrat...
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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 ...7 years ago
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No President of a Major American University has Deplored the Israeli Destruction of all Gaza Universities - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American campuses are being roiled by student and faculty protests against the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, which the...18 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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Morehouse College, get on the right side of history, rescind your invitation to President Biden - [image: Joe Biden speaking in 2019. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)]Faculty members are calling on Morehouse College to rescind its invitation to Joe Biden t...4 hours ago
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Why America and Israel need a new Iran strategy - Mobilization of Arab resources to crowd Iran out is more practical than using US power or Israeli covert ops to subjugate Iran or to coercively roll it b...3 years ago
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Migrated to Twitter - This blog has largely migrated to Twitter. You may catch me there @asadabukhalil5 years ago
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BREAKING: IDF and “Foreign Partners” Build Refugee Tent City, Rafah Invasion Imminent - The AP reports that satellite images show a large new tent city being built near Khan Yunis. An The post BREAKING: IDF and “Foreign Partners” Build Refug...13 hours 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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