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The last few weeks have been enlightening, although utterly depressing. If this sounds like a contradiction, all anyone must do to understand what I'm talking about, is [...]
A must read (Via: peacepalestine, hat tip: Nadia Hasan)
A Global Massacre Against Gaza
By Adel Samara
Note: I certainly need help in answering the following two questions:
- What is going on in the mind of a Palestinian infant in the last moments of his or her life when a US/Israeli rocket strikes him/her?
- What do Israeli military [...]
From the New Yorker's David Remnick: The Apostate
Excerpts:
Short of being Prime Minister, Burg could not be higher in the Zionist establishment. His father was a Cabinet minister for nearly four decades, serving under Prime Ministers from David Ben-Gurion to Shimon Peres. In addition to a decade-long career in the Knesset, including four years as Speaker, [...]
I've been thinking a lot about Nadia's post about sexual violence and historical trauma. In the post, Nadia states:
Reading this article makes me think about the types of historical trauma we as Palestinians, and Arabs in general, are carrying around with us. When Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart speaks about sobbing uncontrollably after viewing a [...]
Tagged Culture, Guest Blogger, Human Rights, Opinion, SabbahIf you read only one thing today, it must be this piece…
By Sara Roy
We have nothing to lose except everything. Albert Camus
[Image by bendib]
During the summer my husband and I had a conversion ceremony for our adopted daughter, Jess. We took her to the mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath where she was totally submerged in [...]
By Uri Avnery
31/03/07
CAN A pantheress turn into a pussycat? Impossible, a zoologist would say. But last week, we saw it happen with our own eyes.
Condoleezza Rice came here to teach Ehud Olmert, once and for all, who is boss. The President of the United States wants to make order in the Middle East, and the [...]
By: Dr. Azmi Bishara
[Via: amin.org]
According to the US and Israeli foreign ministers, the Arab peace initiative is a non-binding Arab position for which the Arabs deserve a pat on the back and a friendly nudge to modify it. The very quality of eliciting such encouragement is what keeps the initiative from being an initiative.
Evidently, the [...]
AIPAC and leadership of so called "mainstream" Jewish organizations (AJC, JF, ADL, and all the other of alphabet soup) are pushing for sanctions and confrontation with Iran and since Congress and the white house are Israeli occupied territories, US foreign policy is moving in that direction.
Here are some excerpts from an interesting article published by [...]
As a young person, I eagerly absorbed Jewish culture and values, harnessing the lessons of tikkun olum, the Judaic principle which translates to "repair the world." As I came of age, I became increasingly committed to this principle in my daily life as an activist for social change….
As a trusting and uninformed child, I never [...]
This is one of the most interesting polls I’ve read recently. A majority of people polled for the BBC World Service across 27 countries believe Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world with almost as many saying the same about North Korea and the United States.
Canada, Japan, the European Union, and [...]
The common enemy is violence and terrorism, not Muslims any more than Christians or Jews.
By Kenneth Ballen
Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria.
The survey, conducted in December [...]
The global public believes that tensions between Islam and the West arise from conflicts over political power and interests and not from differences of religion and culture, according to a BBC World Service poll across 27 countries.
While three in ten (29%) believe religious or cultural differences are the cause of tensions, a slight majority (52%) [...]
[Image by Ben Heine]
Crimes of genocide definition: Please read this international definition of crimes of genocide and think if this is applicable in Iraq or Palestine.
Dump the Dollar to Break American Power Reagan’s Former Assistant Treasury Secretary.
Afif Safieh in the Jewish Daily Forward “We Palestinians Will Honor Our Word.”
Calling for human rights: a new cell [...]
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Graphic images of crimes present disturbing, yet factual documentation of what terrorism is, and here, I’m not talking about Al Qaeda terrorist acts only, but terrorist acts such as those committed by Zionists in Palestine and US and its allies in Iraq.
The graphic images [...]
As we all expected, not only majority of Americans downgraded Bush and his negative policies, today, global view of the United States’ role in world affairs has also significantly deteriorated.
World Public Opinion published the results of BBC World Service poll which was conducted across 25 different countries around the world. The survey reveals that three [...]
