Right of Return Ring of Blogs 1-5-2006
Right of Return Ring of Blogs
1-5-2006
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umkahlil
Mr. Occupied Jerusalem
Teddy Kollek, an Ashkenazi Jew, born in Hungary, raised in Vienna, immigrated to Palestine in 1935, hyped in the press as "Mr. Jerusalem," while those Palestinians actually born in Al-Quds, which means God's Choice, are denied entry to the place of their birth and repatriation of their personal property.
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Screamer in the Matrix
Friday, January 05, 2007Jimmy Carter and Uncle Tom´s Cabin
I really do like the informed comments of blogger "Xymphora", when he is not busy taking aim at Christians, who he once believed were the main culprits in the sorry state of the world.
In his newest post he explains how extraordinary it is, that the mainline media discusses Jimmy Carter´s book.
Harriet Beecher Carter
The fact that Jimmy Carter is allowed to appear on the mainstream media and mention Israel and apartheid in the same sentence is something of a miracle, and represents a sea change in the representation of Israel in the United States (of course, as I’ve mentioned before, this comparison is unfair . . . to the white South Africans).
Until recently, you’d be more likely to see hard-core porn on the American mainstream media than you would be able to obtain a smidgeon of truth about Israel. Now that the American Establishment – you know, the guys Noam says rule the world – have belatedly awakened to the fact that they are on the verge of losing trillions of dollars due to American official support for the racist tribal policies of the Zionists who run Israel and have taken over the American government, the taboo on truth about Israel has been ordered to be at least partially lifted.
Will Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”, become the “Uncle Tom's Cabin” of the Palestinian people? It is commonly acknowledged now that the American Civil War was fought primarily for economic reasons, while justified on the moral grounds of eliminating slavery....more
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DesertPeace
Friday, January 05, 2007FAMILY NIGHT OUT IN PALESTINE
(Ben Heine © Cartoons)
I just received this letter from a dear friend, Sam Bahour. It says it all, I have nothing to add....
Dear Friends,
I wanted to write this last night but was exhausted from playing umpteen hands of the card
game UNO with my 6 year old daughter, Nadine (pic attached). Why this card frenzy,
especially given I hate playing cards? Well, we were in the center of Ramallah yesterday
afternoon, at 3:40pm when the almighty Israeli military decided, again, that it was time to
wreak havoc on our city. I should not really complain since what happened in Ramallah
yesterday happens across the West Bank and Gaza regularly. Nevertheless, I will make an
issue about it and urge every Palestinian, in every city, to make an issue about every Israeli
infraction on our lives.
Yesterday I was extremely busy all day and had a dinner appointment with a serious venture
capitalist in Jerusalem in the evening, so I agreed with my wife and girls that since I would not
be home all day and night, that I'd pick them up at 3:30 sharp and we would go for a late
lunch. We haven't been out much given all of the infighting lately so my girls were thrilled. I
rushed home at 3:30 to pick them up and found my daughters dressed to kill. To them, this
was a serious outing after a long holiday break which was spent mostly at home. The
restaurant they had as first choice was closed due to the holidays, so they reverted to their
favorite popular place, Angelo's Pizzeria, for those that know it.
Angelo's Pizzeria is on the main street in Ramallah, a few hundred meters from Lion's Circle,
the smack middle of town where you saw on the the news Israeli bulldozers destroying cars
last night. I parked on the Friends Girls School road which is behind the restaurant. As soon
as I exited the car I felt something was wrong....more
A YEAR WITHOUT SHARON~~ WHAT WOULD HE HAVE DONE?
Carlos Latuff
Today, the 4th of January, marks one full year since Ariel Sharon went into a coma. Reuters asks a question of its readers; 'What would Arik have done?'
I can honestly answer that in very few words, people on both sides of the wall are still suffering from the damage he did.... I wouldn't want to see what else he 'had up his sleeve'.
Read here to see what Reuters had to say..... make sure to read the joke at the end...
PALESTINE~~ THE YEAR IN REVIEW
It was a turbulant year. It was a year of violence, of destruction, of death. Take 3 1/2 minutes of your time to watch THIS video prepared by the Electronic Intifada.
Then take the next 365 days working to make sure the next year is a better one... for the entire world.
Now watch THIS to see how possible it is....
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American-Palestinian New Generation
Friday, January 05, 2007We need heros - A welcome story of an everyday hero
Its better than a purple heart in battle, as this man did not have to do anything to save the young man who fell onto the subway tracks. Mr. Autrey's valiant behavior is greedily sucked up by a media and a country thirsting for simplicity, honesty, and goodness. It deserves to be be front page news. Bravo Wesley Autrey!
Ah, the longing for Arik Sharon
In what might be perhaps considered a prescient eulogy, BBC's correspondent from Jerusalem, Katya Adler (already noted as a highly impartial reporter) practically goes gaga over the memory of Ariel Sharon. Evoking a bizarre sense of nostalgia upon this one-year anniversary of Arik's transition into purgatory, I can hardly keep up with my welling tears as Ms. Adler fawns over the "sleeping giant." "It is regarded by many Israelis as annus horribilis" she somberly expands. Heavens forbid we allow the current scandals of Israeli politicians to overshadow the tranquility of the past; oh such tranquil times as warrior Sharon's savagery on Arab villages from El-Bureig in 1951 and Qibya in 1953 to Sabra and Shatila in 1982; the provocation at Haram Al-Sharif leading to the Al-Aksa Intifada of 2000; and of course Sharon's stellar financial reputation. Yes, the narrow sentiment to beatify Sharon are best summed up in this quote by Daniel Ben Simon who says: "We cannot know what would have happened had Sharon stayed with us. But one thing is sure, he became a father figure." A more accurate picture of who Ariel Sharon was (he is a vegetable now with most certainly an anus horibilis) can be read in a prehistoric editorial from 2001 at CounterPunch.
Giuliani, McCain, the GOP and Jewish Money
Is former Mayor of NY Rudy Giuliani being sacrificed by AIPAC in favor of McCain? Its a little sketchy that the highly-favored former mayor is now out of the 2008 race based on a "leak" from a stolen book. Guess whose money and clout are behind both Giuliani and McCain? Big-time GOP fundraiser Lew Eisenberg, who on his trip to Israel with George Bush in 1998 said: "I had no inkling he would one day lead a global coalition to conquer terrorism..." [source]
Perhaps the Israeli lobby feels that Israel, in an era of American militarism, is better off with the soldierly McCain rather than the beauraucratic Giuliani, although RG is higher ranked as a good-for-israel president on the Israel Factor ranking of US politicians.
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Apartheid in Israel?
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 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid breaks the taboo barring criticism in the United States of Israel’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinians. Our government’s tacit acceptance of Israel’s unfair policies causes global hostility against us.
Israel’s friends have attacked Carter, a Nobel laureate who has worked tirelessly for Middle East peace, even raising the specter of anti-Semitism. Genuine anti-Semitism is abhorrent. But exploiting the term to quash legitimate criticism of another system of racial oppression, and to tarnish a principled man, is indefensible. Criticizing Israeli government policies - a staple in Israeli newspapers - is no more anti-Semitic than criticizing the Bush administration is anti-American....more
peacepalestine
Israel bought 10% of the Moon (the rest belongs to the Americans...)
Another promised land?? (Italian original underneath)Explosion of sales for pieces of land on our satellite that is up for private sale
For the company that is handling the offer, "It's an excellent occasion and a good investment."
"10 per cent of the Moon belongs to Israelis"
JERUSALEM - The fascination of outer space, with its promise of remote lands yet to be explored, remains undying. What to say then of the Moon itself, nothing short of irresistible. Especially for the Israelis, who own no less than 10 per cent of it. Giving the news of it is the Jerusalem Post: the Israelis are now owners of 10 per cent of the the satellite's territory put on sale for private ownership. It's a mania that was started on Internet, where it is possible to give the strangest of gifts such as donating to a newborn child a star that bears his or her name, or, as here, buying a piece of the Moon. For some it is only an extravagance, but many consider it to be a form of investment, that will allow them to appropriate terrain that will have a future value destined to go through the roof. ....more
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Annie's letters
- Miftah photo gallery: Then and Now
- Sprinting Gazelle
- Palestine: The Exodus and the Odyssey
- The Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Aliyah is.... Russian Smiles-Palestinian Grief
- letter to USA Today regarding 'Iraq's refugee crisis...
- The Palestinian Refugees INALIENABLE Right To Return
- Talking to Americans by George S. Hishmeh
- 8 Palestinians killed in clashes with Israel
- Hope flickers still in gloom of Bethlehem
- from THE pencil
- Jonathan Cook replies....
- Thomas Jefferson's Koran to be used for Ellison's Swearing-in
- Salwa Mikdadi: Bringing Palestinian art into the spotlight & more from IMEU
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Peace For Palestine
Saturday, January 06, 2007 True Flag of Israel...
Not hidden with lies!
Friday, January 05, 2007
"Sorry, Kid! I Can't Hear you...."
U.S. Government is in Israel
Our Real Government Is in Israel Sun Apr 13 2003
by Annie Oakley
I watched Colin Powell speaking to AIPAC (the Israeli lobby) on a morning C-Span show. I almost threw up. He announced that the U.S. is immediately giving Israel $1 Billion to assist their economy which this war has impacted. The Jews stood and applauded loudly. With a big smile, he said, "And that's not all. The president has asked for an additional $9 Billion in loan guarantees" (which means a non-repayable grant since the Cramden bill -passed some years back- guarantees adequate U.S. grants to pay any Israeli debt. Israel pays us back not one cent -- ever). Cheering and loud applause ensued from the audience.....more
Palestinian Disagreements?
A Political Wall
Surrounded by pressure from Israeli/American backhandness, with Abbas signing a devils pact bent on destruction or another Puppet government.
With Palestinian citizens caught in the middle.
Will the outcome be an attempt of complete annulations or is Mahmoud Abbas this naive?
Ellison Uses Qur’an in Swearing-In Ceremony
Barbara Ferguson, Arab NewsWASHINGTON, 5 January 2007 — Congressman Keith Ellison, D-Minnesota, the first Muslim elected to Congress, used a Qur’an once owned by President Thomas Jefferson, and now housed in the Library of Congress, at his ceremonial swearing-in yesterday.
The third US president, serving from 1801 to 1809, Jefferson was a collector with wide-ranging interests. His 6,000-volume library, the largest in North America at the time, became the basis for the Library of Congress.
It was acquired in 1815 as part of a 6,400-volume collection Jefferson sold for $24,000, to replace the congressional library that had been burned by British troops the year before, during the War of 1812.
The English translation of the Arabic, the library’s Qur’an was published in 1764 in London, a later printing of one originally published in 1734.
Ellison’s spokesman said Jefferson’s Qur’an dates religious tolerance to the founders of the country, and to make the point that “religious differences are nothing to be afraid of.”
“It demonstrates that from the very beginning of our country, we had people who were visionary, who were religiously tolerant, who believed that knowledge and wisdom could be gleaned from any number of sources, including the Qur’an,” Ellison told reporters on Wednesday. Ellison was born in Detroit and converted to Islam in college.
“A visionary like Thomas Jefferson was not afraid of a different belief system,” Ellison said. “This just shows that religious tolerance is the bedrock of our country, and religious differences are nothing to be afraid of.”
Some critics have argued that only a Bible should be used for the swearing-in. Members are sworn in to the US House of Representatives as a group with no Bibles or other books involved. But in a country where three out of every four people consider themselves Christians, the Bible has traditionally been used in ensuing unofficial ceremonies which, among other things provide each member with a photo opportunity for themselves and their constituents.
Ellison said an anonymous person wrote him about the Qur’an, and he arranged with the Library of Congress to use it. The chief of the Library of Congress’ rare book and special collections division, Mark Dimunation, walked the Quran across the street to the Capitol and brought it back after the ceremony.
“This is considered the text that shaped Europe’s understanding of the Qur’an,” Dimunation said.
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Today in Palestine!
www.TheHeadlines.Org
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Bonsoir...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 Carter: Israeli Apartheid Worse than South African
Last Word: Jimmy Carter , Revisiting 'Apartheid' Newsweek International
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
You know its Eid when....
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Jimmy Carter, Israel and Apartheid
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karmalised
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Body on the Line
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Blue Fog
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al-falasteenyia
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RAFAH TODAY
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Don't Foresake the Steed
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