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It's All About the Children
eileen fleming
[Tel Aviv, Israel June 6, 2009] Out of 120 seats in the Israeli parliament 11 are held by Arab-Israelis. One of them is Hannen Zoubi, the first woman representative of an Arab party to be elected to the Kennest. The outspoken advocate against the occupation of Palestine greeted the group from CODE PINK with, "It's a great pleasure to meet so many US citizens as most of our problems come as a result from USA policies. What we need is a direct relationship with all people of the world as we Palestinians daily struggle for human values, freedom and justice which are international values."
Regarding the proposal of a law by Avigdor Lieberman's party that would strip Israeli Palestinians of their citizenship unless they pledge loyalty to a Jewish state, "Lieberman did not say anything new and racism has become legitimatized. From 1948 until now, loyalty to Zionism was enforced by policy. With the introduction of the loyalty law, anyone who would say Israel is not a Jewish State and a democracy would be jailed for three years! But we are optimistic for just by suggesting such a law it indicates the crisis that after 60 years we will never forget who we are.
THE POET OF LOVE IS RUMI
Allen L Roland
The journey of my heart eventually led me to the mystic Sufi poet and celebrator of love ~ Rumi. Only those who have truly surrendered to love can fully understand the ecstasy of Rumi's poetry but others will still feel the deep stirring and forgotten rapture of a love that resides deepest within each one of us:
Why is a 13th century Islamic mystic Rumi the most popular poet in America? Because he celebrates love in a world seemingly devoid of love.
For eight hundred years, Rumi’s writings and poetry have enchanted, inspired, and enlightened Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists, by celebrating the sacred in everyday existence and, in the process, transcending boundaries of time, place, and religion.
No, Dan, America is not a Christian nation
Mary Shaw
A letter to the editor in Friday's Chicago Tribune has got my blood boiling.
In it, Dan Schuchardt of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, wrote:
I am getting tired of President Barack Obama's pandering to Muslims.
Despite his pronouncement America is not a Christian nation, the facts say otherwise. It's about time for Americans to wake up to the fact that Obama wants to change America into a secular nation, and the media is helping him accomplish that mission.
The 1967-war revisited - Part 1
By Khalid Amayreh
In June 1967, when Israel launched the 6-day-war on Egypt, Syria and Jordan, Khalid Amayreh was 10 years’ old. In the following two-part article, he recollects the war, whose outcome and ramifications continue to trouble Palestine, the Middle East and the rest of the world:
Even before 1967, the Israeli army had been carrying out routine incursions into the West Bank, destroying poor people’s homes and killing innocent civilians, very much like what Israel has been doing in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Lebanon recently. I still vividly remember how the Israeli army, including tanks and warplanes, attacked the small nearby town of Sammou’, 25 kilometres south-west of Dura, in November 1966, destroying the town, virtually completely, and killing many civilians. You see the condescending Zionist mentality. They are never interested in genuine peace and coexistence with the peoples of the Middle East, but are only intent on subjugating and tormenting people with brute force. This was as much the case 40 or even 60 years ago as it obviously is now.
Obama‘s reception in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley
Franklin Lamb
Near the Syrian border northeast of Baalbek
This observer had not planned to watch Obama’s Cairo speech on June 5, since he had an appointment in the plush Bekaa Valley, near Baalbek-Hermel with Shaykh Subhi Tufayli one of the founders of Hezbollah and its first Secretary General.
Shaykh Tufayli, still a revered cleric, was a participant in the August 1982 First Conference for the Downtrodden, which this observer argues in a forthcoming volume was the essential organizing event at which Hezbollah can be said to have come into existence.
MEMO TO GEORGE W BUSH - FROM DICK CHENEY
Allen L Roland
As President Obama unshackles the leg irons of the Bush administration's failed Middle East policy with his moving speech to the Muslim world ~ Dick ' the natural state of man is war ' Cheney squirms nervously in his seat increasingly aware that his politics of fear is becoming irrelevant in a world that seeks to cooperate and unite:
MEMO TO GEORGE W BUSH
FROM DICK CHENEY
Look George, why are you not returning my calls ~ it's important we get our stories straight before a truth commission or another 9/11 commission questions us again.
God Blessed America
Gilad Atzmon
I am very lucky to be in America this week, to watch a place being transformed, to smell the refreshing scent of restored liberty, to glance at the euphoric rise of hope. When I visited America two years ago it was a different place. There was fear in the air, the country was terrorized by its own lethal retribution. The gigantic American flags that were waving from every corner had a rather threatening impact on me. And now somehow, seeing exactly the same flags evokes sympathy and trust in me.
Three days ago, at 5 am, still in my London home, while waiting for the airport cab service, I caught Justin Webb’s BBC interview with President Obama. I will be honest and say, as much as I wanted to love Obama like the rest of humanity, I was very suspicious of the man. I remembered him rushing to appease AIPAC within minutes after he secured his Democratic Party nomination. We all knew about his first appointee Emmanuel Rahm, we obviously learned quickly who Rahm was and what he was affiliated with. In case we failed to see it, we had Rahm’s father to remind us http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1037256.html.
The Binary Fallacy and The End of Both Parties
(Wash., DC) The results of eight years of Bush-Cheney at the helm make the demise of the Republican Party an easy call. Our financial system is on life support. The major banks are insolvent, according to banking and legal authority William K. Black. If they're not, they're in intensive care. No matter how many trillions of dollars worth of infusions they receive, they're not making loans. The economy is in a free fall with growth down 6% a quarter and job losses running at nearly 600,000 a month. We're stuck in two catastrophic wars. Despite President Obama's election, we're viewed with suspicion and disregard throughout the world.
The public knows which party bears the primary blame for all of this and they're not about to forget any time soon. The Republican Party is headed for the political graveyard.
They're not going to rely on past achievements though. Through their self-proclaimed national leader, the odious Rush Limbaugh, they've chosen to attack the first Latino nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, for being a "racist." Former Oxycontin addict Limbaugh said, "She brings a form of bigotry and racism to the court." He went on to say that nominating her was like nominating Klansman and Aryan Nation advocate David Duke for the highest court.
Weaponized Education: Controlling Tomorrow With The Youth of Today
by Amy de Miceli
There has been and continues to be an effort by some of the worlds most elite families to establish a global community, with a global government, some call it the new world order. The plan always benefits them at our expense, and they beleive as long as we show no opposition they can retain control. The massive goal is to bring the global populace into harmony, but it is an impossibility unless family loyalty is dissolved and individuality is eradicated.
Obama Administration Targets Environmental and Animal Rights Activists as Eco-Terrorists
by Stephen Lendman
What began under George Bush continues under Barack Obama - targeting dedicated activists with "one of today's most serious domestic terrorism threats," according former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of Counterterrorism John Lewis before a Senate panel in May 2005. Called "eco-terrorism," it grew out of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that created the federal crime of "domestic terrorism" and applied it to US citizens as well as aliens.
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