<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8784734f-b6b6-45f1-b80c-6e67b5473594/863E593A-431E-4401-97B7-FA2B0A0A737F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.com/2007/03/sari-nuseibehs-new-book.html" href="http://arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.com/2007/03/sari-nuseibehs-new-book.html" style="font-size: 11px;">arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.com/2007/03/sari-nuseibehs-new-book.html"><DIV>One reason that it is not easy for Palestinians to engage in public criticism of themselves is that there are always those waiting to use these criticisms to further dismiss the Palestinians and question the justness of their cause.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.com/2007/03/sari-nuseibehs-new-book.html">The fact that Arafat was autocratic does not negate the fact that the Palestinians were displaced from their land and made into refugees. The fact that some Palestinians are shooting at each other does not negate the fact that the occupation and the settlements are illegal and have to go. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.com/2007/03/sari-nuseibehs-new-book.html"><DIV>The Palestinians, last time I checked, were no angels. They have never claimed that lofty status anyway. In fact, they have set their eyes on a more humble <SPAN id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">position</SPAN>: they've been clamoring to be treated as humans. Like all humans, they make mistakes, they disagree amongst themselves, they--gasp--blunder! But their blunders pale in the face of Israeli systematic policies of ethnic cleansing, occupation, and apartheid.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/863E593A-431E-4401-97B7-FA2B0A0A737F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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