Be the Palestine Review’s printing press

The first issue of Palestine Review, featuring Dr. Sara Roy’s excellent essay, A Jewish Plea, is ready for release and the printing press is your own personal computer printer. Click on the link and hit print. This simply laid-out periodical is meant for you to churn out, read at your leisure and leave at home, the office, coffee shops, the tube, the bus, your mom’s house or where ever you hang out. Mail copies to your congressional representative, community religious leaders, Caterpillar executives or anyone else you can think of.

Get the first Palestine Review here

Palestine Review is put out by John Harvey and myself in pdf format with the giddy hosting assistance of the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project. In each issue we compile and, with the direct consent of the authors, publish the best analysis and most thought-provoking, rational pieces on the conflict, the lack of a peace process and of course the long-running occupation and annexation of Palestinian lands. These are the writers and this is the news excluded from much of US media.

In this first issue we present A Jewish Plea, an in-depth, poignent article by Dr. Sara Roy that needs much wider distribution since it was first released in CounterPunch. It will also be published in The War on Lebanon: A Reader.

As Sara writes to friends and colleagues in this open letter, “I began writing it last summer. It is my response–from a Jewish ethical perspective–to Israel’s war on Lebanon and ongoing assault against the Palestinian people. The essay, which is entitled, A Jewish Plea, is directed at the larger, mainstream Jewish community but I hope it will speak to all of you as well”

Dr. Sara Roy is a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University where she completed her doctoral studies in international development. Trained as a political economist, Dr. Roy has worked in the Gaza Strip and West Bank since 1985 conducting research primarily on the economic, social and political development of the Gaza Strip and on U.S. foreign aid to the region. She also sits on the advisory committee for the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project.