Following up on part 1 of this series, here is another tape recorded by a Palestinian family that shows another example of suffering Palestinians endure on daily basis from Jewish settler. This time from the settler kids. [Hat tip: shay]
shay said:
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3350884,00.html
this is the link to the Hebrew ynet which presents a squeal to the first [...]

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It’s been five years since the first detainee arrived at the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison on 11th January.
Here is a video put together by the public defenders office in Oregon, released on youtube, about their Sudanese client Adel Hamad, a hospital charity worker and ping pong player who sits in Guantanamo bay since 2002.
The lawyers [...]

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I know it is cold out there. In fact, this is one of the coldest years over here in Bahrain.
Anyway, here is a new idea to get you warm. This invention won the prize for “Best Dumbass Idea of the Year.” It is called “Date Palm Fireplace”:

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As you [...]

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Tape obtained by B’Tselem shows just one example of suffering Palestinians endure on daily basis from Jewish settler. [Hat tip: Wassim Al-Adel]
Warning: NSFW
Also available on YouTube!

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Via YNET:
The Abu- Aisha [...]

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Here is an interesting one:

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So the highest daily posting volume last year crossed 2.5 MILLION post a DAY during July/August 2006. The reason is simple to guess as this Technorati analysis graph shows. It is Israel war on Lebanon. Oh yeah, the world can burn in hell and hardly anyone will care [...]

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I am in a terrible “time-waste” mood these days, so have fun!
This is how illiterate miscalculate it:

and this is how the literate’s calculate it (more accurate to the target):

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This article is in response to the question posted by a new site just launched today - Love to Lead - where:
Each week for the next 16 weeks L2L will pose a question designed to stimulate debate between bloggers. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite article and the blogger whose post receives [...]

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Sometime, somewhere in the Arab World!

(source Unknown)
Update: H/T Bashir, here is the original photo:

(source: Sharif Bujanda)
So the photoshoped one is worse, or this one? Same irony (unlucky housemate)!

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This “cool tool” is all about the amount of Vanity Fair, GQ, and People Magazine covers I can score. No?
Ok, A-List Bloglebrity on the Internet, is all about the amount of link love you (I) can score. It is powered by Technorati records of the blog and some technical stuff, which I don’t [...]

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GEORGE W. BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The White House, USA
RESUME:
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

I ran for Congress and lost.
I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
I bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land [...]

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Maybe you got this by email sometime as I got it, but anyway, while cleaning the spam now I found this interesting piece. Interesting enough to share with others, so here it is:
Politics explained with two cow analogy:
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The [...]

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Little bit lengthy, but worth the time. And it is good read for people like, Dawn to learn something about the history of the conflict and the real obstacles for peace!
Hurricane Carter
by HENRY SIEGMAN - The Nation
[from the January 22, 2007 issue]
Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, provoked [...]

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It was July 2005 when first published some information about the deployment of a new weapon in Iraq called “Active Denial System weapon.” The weapon was deployed in Iraq for testing free-fresh-flesh-samples (to make “Fried Chicken”). This weapon fires a 95GHz microwave beam at “rioters” to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five [...]

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by ~Psychomind-studio
Is Israel an apartheid state? Here are two pieces to answer this question. One is from and American professor, another from ex Israeli Minister of Education:

Truth at last, while breaking a U.S. taboo of criticizing Israel
By George Bisharat
Americans owe a debt to former President Jimmy Carter for speaking long hidden but vital truths. His [...]

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2006 was a bad year for Israel PR. They saw the photos of their war crimes during the Lebanon war and war crimes against Palestinians flying all over the world minute by minute and reached everyone’s desk. Who can forget scenes of all these massacres and the infamous photos of the Israeli kids and men [...]

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This is very long article, if you don’t have the time to read it now, save it for other time as it is a “must read”!
The Problem with Israel
Jeff Halper
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Let’s be honest (for once): The problem in the Middle East is not the Palestinian people, not Hamas, not the Arabs, not Hezbollah [...]

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Nominations have opened for the 2007 Bloggie Awards (no, it’s not just another blog award*). Last year I was honored to be named a finalist in the “Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog” category, along with Baghdad Burning, Sleepless in Sudan, Mahmood’s Den and Subzero Blue. All terrific sites that I read regularly. The winner [...]

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