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Les vaches qui condamnent : Cherchez the Red Heifers’ animal rights "Updated" - First, Chag Sameach On Sunday, scores of right-wing religiously fanatic Jewish Israelis began to flock to East Jerusalem in preparation for the celebrati...
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Fear of malaria rises in Rafah - Overcrowded, unsanitary refugee camps prove fertile breeding grounds for mosquitoes5 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 ...7 years ago
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German Far Right Leader on Trial for Nazi Slogan: “X” Marks the Spot - Halle an der Saale, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– On the morning of April 18, in front of the district court in Halle, it became eviden...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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20 Pomona College students were arrested over a Gaza sit-in, but it hasn’t slowed their campaign - [image: Hundreds of Claremont Colleges Students Rally for divestment after student arrests at Pomona College (Pomona Divest from Apartheid)]"We are organiz...1 hour 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, Egypt and UAE Build Gaza Refugee Tent City, Rafah Invasion Imminent - The AP reports that satellite images show a large new tent city being built near Khan Yunis. Israeli The post BREAKING: IDF, Egypt and UAE Build Gaza Ref...1 day 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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