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{ Monthly Archives } September 2007

Miss Bahrain, Miss Arab World 2007 and Stereotypes

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I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.
Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain [...]

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Intellectuals urge Olmert to talk to Hamas

AB Yehoshua, Amoz Oz, David Grossman, Yehudit Katzir, etc. petition Olmert to talk to Hamas.

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Digital Resistance: Palestinian Youth Media

In January 2007, a group of media makers and youth organizers from NYC and the Bay Area traveled to Palestine and joined an intergenerational team of Palestinian facilitators to lead digital storytelling workshops with Ibdaa and Lajee, two youth centers in the Bethlehem area of the occupied West Bank.
Twelve youth from Aida and Dheisheh refugee [...]

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Go in Peace, Haidar Abdel Shafi

As most of you know, Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi died. Abdel-Shafi was the chief Palestinian negotiator at Madrid Peace Conference – 1991. At the time, Abdel-Shafi and the other Palestinian delegates had to participate as members of the Jordanian delegation, because Israel was then refusing to recognize that Palestinians exist and/or talk to the PLO [...]

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ACTION ALERT: From the Palestinian American Congress

According to news sources, Israel's cabinet took a decision to begin to apply large scale collective punishment on the people of the Gaza strip. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that any cutoff of vital services like fuel and electricity would violate international law and punish the already suffering civilian population. The Palestinian American Congress [...]

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For American Jews, Dissent Against Israel Has Become Mainstream

A MUST READ ARTICLE

The exceedingly narrow range of "correct opinion" on Israel for American Jews isn't holding together like it used to. Is a Jewish glasnost coming to America?
For American Jews, Dissent Against Israel Has Become Mainstream
By Tony Karon
[Via: AlterNet]
First, a confession: It may tell me that I hate myself, but I can't help loving [...]

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ACTION ALERT: Israeli authorities deny entry to clergyman

Israeli Authorities Deny Entry to Clergyman
Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), A Grassroots Campaign for the Protection of Foreign Passport Holders Residing in and/or Visiting the oPt.
In a continuing demonstration of Israel's arbitrary denial of entry policy and disregard for the Palestinian population's right to practice their religion and [...]

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Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby

Pressure Builds on University of Michigan
Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby
By ROGER van ZWANENBERG
About three weeks ago Pluto books and the University of Michigan Press – our US distributor – came under attack by Stand With Us (a Zionist lobby group) who were objecting to the publication of Overcoming Zionism by Joel Kovel which [...]

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How The Towers Fell

Richard Gage, member of the AIA and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, gave the following presentation to a packed house at the University of Manitoba on May 29, 2007.
Watch one of the best technical analysis of the World Trade Center "controlled demolition theory" on September 11, 2001.
Part 1:

Part 2:

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Dutch church to reexamine policy of solidarity with Israel

Via Haaretz: After 37 years of boasting of "inalienable solidarity" with the people of Israel, the Netherlands' second largest church plans to reexamine its stance this fall. A group of notables from the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN) warned last week that the organization, which has over two million members, is in danger of [...]

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Collective Punishment (Collective Complicity)

It's terrible if it' s done to Israelis (the world would be outraged!), but acceptable if the Israelis do it Palestinians (the world remains complicity silent.)?
Ministers declare Gaza 'enemy entity', vote to disrupt power, fuel
The security cabinet on Wednesday voted to declare the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity," approving among other things the disruption of [...]

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George Bisharat – Palestinian Children without Textbooks

A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East
By George Bisharat
Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land along the Mediterranean even after withdrawing its settlers from there in 2005, [...]

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We are not Israelis!

This is what the Israeli government IMPORTED:
Only a third of Israeli youths born in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) comprised of the former Soviet Union republics or whose families immigrated from there to Israel identify themselves as Israeli, according to a report published Tuesday…
"Most youths of families who arrived from the former CIS don't [...]

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Israeli Control of the Mass Media & the 9-11 Cover-Up

Arnon Milchan – Mossad's Man in the Middle
by Christopher Bollyn
1 September 2007

Photo: Arnon Milchan Mossad's man in the middle, between two of the architects of 9-11 and the War on Terror: Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu.
The government and controlled media have lied to the public about 9-11 for 6 years. Those who have discerned and [...]

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Saudi Arabia: Sex-segregated sidewalks and women's car driving

One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween:
Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks – Saudi Arabia's religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam's holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday.
The country's Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), [...]

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