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Oranges and Olives (25 unread)

• December 26, 2009
• 16:47

  a sense of purpose

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  Um Salamona is a village south of Bethlehem can be seen en route to Hebron surrounded by the settlement of Efrata and an Israeli industrial park built on its land. The village faces yet another threat of being shrunk by the relentless Israeli appetite to confiscate more and more land. Half a mount is under threat of confiscation by the Israelis, under the claim that it should be government land, which would then be allocated to yet more settlement growth. The people of Um Salamona petitioned...
  
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• December 22, 2009
• 3:25

  The story of Samarah

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  This is a story from a friend of mine about her daughter trip to Palestine/Israel. As you know she is a British subject who wanted to spend a couple of weeks Christmas holiday. seeing friends and family in Jerusalem and Haifa to “have a bit of fun” as she puts it. She arrive Sunday at 3:30 pm at Tel Aviv airport not expecting any problems . Sammarah is 17 years of age and is in year 12 of school in a school in the UK. What she went through from the moment she arrived at the airport...
  
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• November 07, 2009
• 12:54

  It is possible!

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  The Wall. The symbol of Apartheid in Palestine. I always believed it must fall. I thought of a million ways to bring it down. A bulldozer, and excavator, bombs, earthquakes... a million other ways. Aparently, all it has ever needed is a handful of committed individuals. Now that's easy to find, isn't it?
  
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• October 30, 2009
• 8:17

  Taking it Global

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  The Palestinian cause is currently succeeding in mobilising international grassroots support around the world. It would have previously been unthinkable to, for example, see people in America standing up so courageously against a War criminal like Olmert. Now this is becoming a growing trend. The British UCU has time and again discussed the boycot of Israeli institutions. So has many other European, American, Canadian institutions. The Trade Unions movement is also leading BDS effort around the...
  
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• March 27, 2009
• 16:25

  Jerusalem

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  Jerusalem… There is not a single Palestinian who can imagine or think of Palestine without Jerusalem. I have more reasons than one to think the same. The Israelis on the other hand say that Jerusalem is Jewish, has always been and will always be. Of course an idiot can identify the fallacy in that argument. In the first place, a city can never belong to a people in the manner these people are claiming. Second, Jerusalem has been there long before David ever made it the capital of his kingdom,...
  
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• March 22, 2009
• 4:34

  A place among enlightened nations

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  This week was eventful. Israel launched its Farsi radio, beginning its broadcast with Nairuz greeting by president Peres, who urged the Iranian people 'to reclaim their place among enlightened nations'. It must be a twisted definition of enlightened that he refers to. Forget the masccares he orchestrated and led in his career, for on the same day we were destined to learn of a new fiasco with Israeli army recruits at its centres. It appears that these young, brainwashed boys tend to celebrate...
  
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• March 07, 2009
• 4:59

  ICC

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• January 22, 2009
• 5:28

  Miracles

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  Palestinian nationalism might be recent phenomenon, But so is Jewish nationalism. Despite finding its roots the 3000 year old history of the Jews, this form of nationalism only started as a real movement in the late 1800. It wasn't this history that made the Jews a single nation, Jews around the world never identified with Zionism. That's why the state had to carry out its aliyah programmes to bring in Jews from Africa, the Middle East, central Asia and elsewhere (ah! BTW this is not a miracle...
  
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• January 20, 2009
• 5:51

  Jerusalem

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  In response to quoting Psalm 137 in my previous post, I got this reply. Our ancestors composed this tearful lament over 2500 years ago. Exiled from their beloved land, they sat down and mourned by the rivers of Babylon. The Jewish people never forgot Jerusalem. 3 times a day, we pray in the direction of Jerusalem and ask G-d that "our eyes may behold in mercy Your return to Zion". For 2000 years, 3 times a day without fail, we looked towards Jerusalem and prayed for its rebuilding. We observe...
  
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• January 18, 2009
• 18:27

  O Jerusalem

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  1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. 2 There on the poplars we hung our harps, 3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" 4 How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill . 6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember...
  
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• 3:10

  Marketing

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  After the cannons have hushed down a little, it is time to inspect the damage in Gaza. Initial estimates say that Israel have bombed Gaza with around 1000 tonnes of bombs. This is a little less than half of the tonnage dropped by the Brits on Dresden during the Second World War. Allegations of war crimes have evidence from all around Gaza with Red Cross testimonies and evidence in support of these allegations. The world voiced its concerns against what was happening throughout the past three...
  
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• January 09, 2009
• 4:38

  As you sow, so shall you reap

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  I stopped watching news on TV. I could not go on with this feeling of guilt that haunts me every time I see a new report. I don't understand how thousands of houses can be destroyed like that, living tens of thousands of Palestinians with no refuge. I can't comprehend how the dead cannot even get the least they deserve, a decent burial, as their bodies lie in the streets and under the rubble. However, this didn't stop the images of the attacks in Gaza finding their way to me. The hardest is too...
  
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• December 28, 2008
• 12:56

  Surrealism

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• December 27, 2008
• 15:44

  tragedy

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• June 18, 2008
• 4:50

  Just getting married

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  Getting married is not any easy thing. There is too much planning to be done, finding the right place for the party, arranging the other requirements, organising the new house, in country with no professional wedding planners it is really hectic. But in Palestine, it is different. A young man from Wadi Rasha just south of Qalqilia is planning to get married. Wadi Rasha is a little different from other villages in the world because it has been sent to the middle ages. With a fence around it,...
  
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• June 05, 2008
• 15:55

  Back!

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  It has been over 2 months since I have last written here. Since then, I have been travelling around the Middle East on work doing evaluation research for regional projects. While this has been a very nice opportunity to get to enjoy some of the most beautiful countries of the region, it has been exhausting, and the amount of work I am expected to do still is yet more overwhelming. However, I intend to go back to writing more frequently since I am more or less settled down.
  
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• March 10, 2008
• 7:53

  Never again

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  Yes, I know, I always use this title. That's because I really believe in it. When we say 'never again', we mean never again to any actions like the Holocaust regardless of the scale, or, more importantly, the victims. However, when the State of Israel says 'never again', it seems they only mean that the world should not kill Jews ever again. Killing others is fine, and if they happen to be Palestinian then that's even encouraged and promised. When the deputy defence minister promises Gazans a...
  
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• March 08, 2008
• 11:52

  Me vs. the occupation

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  For a while I dealt with this conflict as if it was far away...as if it was a series of events that touched other people and not me. I would get depressed when I feel its impact on me: when I drive down one road which I might not be able to drive through again; or, when a roadblock stops me from getting home. Through all of that, I thought my personal safety was always protected. I thought that the peaceful little town I live in will shield off all those stories I read so frequently. It is not...
  
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• February 14, 2008
• 6:10

  Arabs agree on something

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  Arab information ministers met in Cairo last week and agreed, and they rarely agree on anything, on a new convention that would severely restrict the freedom of satellite channels. The convention comes because "Some satellite channels have strayed from the correct path" as phrased by the Egyptian minister. His country indicated it is very keen on adopting and implementing the convention after its government has become subject to scrutiny by numerous channels due to its records of human rights...
  
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• February 12, 2008
• 12:22

  discourse analysis

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  I don't know if it was intended or not, but the above image is a screen print from Maan News Agency website. If we were to run a simple discourse analysis based on this image we will have a strange result. Primarily, the Palestinians are divided: One front, two players (sounds like a one country two systems). The PA, represented by the president and his government, seems to act as a passive observer to a war that is being waged on part of its land. Eirikat, in this article asks the...
  
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• January 31, 2008
• 11:07

  Winograd-Abdul Rahim

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  Two events took place within one month of each other. In the 13th June 2007, Hamas took over the Gaza strip in an unprecedented coup in the PA. On the 12th of July 2007, Israel started a full fledged war against Lebanon, which has failed miserably. In both cases the governments of the PA and Israel, respectively, commissioned an investigation into the factors and actors that played a role in both events. The Palestinians appointed Tayeb Abdul Rahim, a close aid of Abbas, who received a BA in...
  
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• January 27, 2008
• 19:21

  "Menachem Mazuz said there was insufficient evidence ...

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  "Menachem Mazuz said there was insufficient evidence to pursue a prosecution against officers who opened fire during anti-government riots." says the bbc 13 Dead bodies, how about that as a proof? aren't thirteen bodies enough proof that something wrong has happened? it is amazing that a guy in such a position in a "democratic" country can come up to such an opinion!
  
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• January 26, 2008
• 13:24

  Warsaw to Gaza

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  On the day the world marks the third International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Gaza goes into its 10th day of complete siege. Don't take the news of the biggest jail break in history too seriously, The siege is still on, fuel, food and medicine are still low. "Let us never take our human rights for granted," says Ban Ki-Moon, the UNSG. True, and let us, on this day and everyday, think about those who's cannot enjoy these most basic rights. Since the siege was established, more than 70 persons...
  
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• January 21, 2008
• 3:49

  Never before

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  Never before in contemporary history has there been a siege on more than one and a half million people, A siege that can put at danger their lives, and the world has stood there and watched. What is being allowed to happen in Gaza is an unprecedented. To let this happen, in the twenty first century is just an indication of how morally corrupt the world is. In Gaza the main power generator engine has shot down. The second and last is due to shot down in few more hours. All of Gaza will go into...
  
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• January 08, 2008
• 4:28

  Mr. President

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  President of the Palestinian Authority Chairman of the PLO and all the other names and titles you claim for yourself! Your excellency, You once said, at the height of the PA's financial crisis that bread is more important that democracy. few months later, Hamas rebelled against the democracy that brought it to power. You, on your end, rebelled against Hamas. A few more months down the road, we don't have democracy anymore, we also don't have bread. You honourable government is doing nothing to...
  
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