georgephillip
Diamond Member
"Pamela Olson grew up in small-town Oklahoma and studied physics and political science at Stanford University, class of 2002.
"She lived in Ramallah for two years, during which she served as head writer and editor for the Palestine Monitor and as foreign press coordinator for Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi's 2005 presidential campaign.
"She's published stories and articles in CounterPunch, Electronic Intifada, Israel's Occupation Magazine, and The Stanford Magazine, among other publications, and she is a frequent contributor to Mondoweiss."
After a short stint working for a DC think-tank, Pamela became disenchanted with changing US policy toward the Middle East from the inside and wrote a memoir documenting what she believes are misconceptions all Americans receive about Israel's occupation of Palestine:
"Jews had lived in relative peace among their Muslim neighbors in the Middle East for centuries.
"But as waves of them began to immigrate to Palestine from Europe -- many of them desperately fleeing Nazi persecution -- Palestinians became worried that Britain, which held Palestine under Mandate authority after World War I, would make good on its promise to hand most or all of Palestine over to the newcomers.
"Between 1936 and 1939, Palestinians organized civil and armed resistance against repressive British land laws and European Jewish colonization in a conflict known as the Arab Revolt in Palestine.
"When the uprising was crushed, Palestinians were largely stripped of their arms and leaders, and the Jewish and Palestinian populations became further isolated and alienated from each other."
A Brief History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
"She lived in Ramallah for two years, during which she served as head writer and editor for the Palestine Monitor and as foreign press coordinator for Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi's 2005 presidential campaign.
"She's published stories and articles in CounterPunch, Electronic Intifada, Israel's Occupation Magazine, and The Stanford Magazine, among other publications, and she is a frequent contributor to Mondoweiss."
After a short stint working for a DC think-tank, Pamela became disenchanted with changing US policy toward the Middle East from the inside and wrote a memoir documenting what she believes are misconceptions all Americans receive about Israel's occupation of Palestine:
"Jews had lived in relative peace among their Muslim neighbors in the Middle East for centuries.
"But as waves of them began to immigrate to Palestine from Europe -- many of them desperately fleeing Nazi persecution -- Palestinians became worried that Britain, which held Palestine under Mandate authority after World War I, would make good on its promise to hand most or all of Palestine over to the newcomers.
"Between 1936 and 1939, Palestinians organized civil and armed resistance against repressive British land laws and European Jewish colonization in a conflict known as the Arab Revolt in Palestine.
"When the uprising was crushed, Palestinians were largely stripped of their arms and leaders, and the Jewish and Palestinian populations became further isolated and alienated from each other."
A Brief History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
