Israeli occupation forces murdered our friend Aqel Srur (age 35) yesterday in the nonviolent demonstration in Ni’lin the day after many people showed excitement about Obama’s "peace" speech without carefully analyzing it (see below).
Israelis get four-fifths of scarce West Bank water, says World Bank. Palestinians losing out in access to vital shared [sic] aquifer in the occupied territories
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/27/israel-palestinian-water-dispute/printObama's speech shows little real change. In most regards his analysis maintains flawed American policies
By Ali Abunimah 4 June 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/04/barack-obama-middleeast
Yet, and as is expected people who are 98% supportive of Israel will be attacked for not being 100% supportive (remember the Pope’s visit?). So in this Video we see young people in Jerusalem express their opinions (this is not just revealing about Obama but about racism in general)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxt9HwfPwPoA Palestinian friend reacted to this footage thus: “Within the Palestinian Community, I can say that these attitudes translate into an evil apartheid system that has destroyed our communities and our livelihoods and that continues to perpetrate enormous violence on defenseless civilians. 80% of Israelis supported the recent bombing of Gaza, and that 80% support comes out of attitudes that are shown in this footage. These attitudes also explain how and why Avigdor Lieberman has risen to power in Israel today.”
"Israeli education ministry" worried about the few teachers who might (God forbid) let students know a tiny bit of the suffering of Palestinians http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090345.html
Action: Break the siege: Schedule in Palestine (both sides of the green line)
http://www.radicalendar.org/calendar/all/all/display/85240/index.php?view=event&fulldate=2009-06-05
Silence is complicity
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
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Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer. Rabindranth Tagore
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SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) “Either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; OR, the VICTORY OF SOCIALISM, that is, the conscious struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism.” Rosa Luxemburg
Saturday, June 06, 2009
"Obama's Speech Followed by A Murder" Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
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