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Visit Palestine! | Sabbah's Blog Video — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:35:52 +0000

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By: Oh dear, i'm just walking through-cannot disclose name - prefer Anonymity

Oh dear, i'm just walking through-cannot disclose name - prefer Anonymity — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:24:30 +0000

Anyone volunteered as peace observer in Palestine/Israel?

Western blood is more expensive and brings attention, as many volunteers like Caiomhe Butterly presence protects children’s lives from triggerhappy soldiers.

I hope to visit Palestine in the summer.

I’ve bookmarked this great blog. Keep up the good work!

By: Saif

Saif — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:39:08 +0000

i didnt even watch the video coz i dont want to but i love palestine and i wanna serve the people of palestine and i wud love to die in palestine…………… someone temme the way to be there im from bangladesh>>>>>>>>>>>asaif_hossain@yahoo.com

By: angus

angus — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:54:09 +0000

this is an interview with rachel corrie in gaza: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3JI-axaRF4&mode=related&search=

By: kimmy

kimmy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:25:01 +0000

Robin and all reading this,
Please don’t get me wrong!
Hitler wanted to get rid of Zionists, not Jews! But he put both Zionists and Jews in the same package.
I lost Jewish relatives in Denmark during WWII before I was born.
Zionism and the Jewish faith were two different forms back then, but you couldn’t differencicate them back then.
What Hitler did was wrong!
What the Zionists are doing now is wrong. But they are playing with history to get more power using the Jewish faith!
This has come down to the argument of “my God tells me that I am right”, and atleast half of the time God should not have been involved in these arguments, but an understanding of the other persons views should have been!
I have learned to listen to other views and understand them.
As an example: I have a Jehovah Wittness customer who calls me for all service, even though he knows that I am a non-believer. Why? Because I tell him the truth. Because I can Quote the Bible as good as he can. Because I accept him for who he is and not what he is.
Our religious arguments were settled when my Bible quotes bettered his.
Haitham, that is why I am reading the Koran. To understand!
As I told my Jehovah Wittness customer when he asked me about my knowledge of the Bible, “know thine enemies”.
Funny part is that I have no enemies.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:58:30 +0000

Kimmy,
As a “believer”, I sit back and view both sides.
As a student of history, I search for the root of the problem.
As a “believer” I do not believe that any people are “chosen” due to birth or religious preference, but rather all have free will to live life humanely and treat all others with the respect they demand for themselves.
Zionism does NOT practice in this manner.
Therefore, I conclude, Zionism is the root of the problem because it is the Zionists who are in the position of power and therefor “own the outcome” of their policy.
Zionism by defintion is “the movement to establish a homeland for the Jewish people”
Zionism in practice was a war on the indigenous population of what is now the state of Israel and later the occupied territories, to drive them out of a land where they had lived for generations, killing thousands and creating almost one million refugees in 1948, now some roughly six million world wide. Israel is in violation of international law by beligerantly occupying territory for 38 years, and Israel proper is a state based upon racist policies which subjugate the non-Jewish population to a far lesser status, denying non-Jews the same human rights the government grants to it’s Jewish citizens.
To say, I sit back and view both sides is a good start to understanding, but a “viewer” needs to “view” the totality of the situation, NOT only the violence which has ensued from the root problem while ignoring the root problem itself.
To say “both sides hate each other” one needs to ask where the source of the hate is. The source of the hate is Zionism itself which self-elevates Zionists to a position of superiority and then PRACTICES it for 60 years (and prior to 1948 in the many massacres)

By: kimmy

kimmy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:34:08 +0000

angus,
You might be right. It doesn’t matter any more.
Israel does what it want’s to do.
She is one of the few to stand up to Israel. I truly respect her.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:02:02 +0000

what prompts a young, well-educated Westerner to risk life and limb as a peace activist in the Middle East?

A strong sense of justice and a deep feeling for humanity. See you in Palestine…..

By: angus

angus — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:20:05 +0000

Kimmy, don’t let yourself get fooled by claims of a religious war — it’s not about religion; it’s about racism — it’s about taking someone else’s land, and thinking one has a right to do so. this is a good backgrounder to the conflict: http://www.kibush.co.il/downloads/ProblemWithIsrael.pdf

I volunteered with ISM and it was a terrific experience, I highly recommend it.

By: kimmy

kimmy — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:01:04 +0000

Robin,
As a nonbeliever I sit back and view both sides.
I don’t hate either side. I only see hate from both sides, and neither side cares about life. They only care about control of their people and about their truth!
What is the truth? I don’t know and the people who do know aren’t talking!
A single loss of life to me is devastating.
What is happening all over the world with people being killed is hurting more than you can know.
These killings are being executed in the name of (their) God and power over their people.
We have regressed back into the Middle Ages. All in the name of (place your god here) God.