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Palestinian Christians
I have been living in the Old City of Jerusalem for about a month now, and in the last week I discovered that the two streets by Jaffa Gate have business' which are owned by "Palestinian Christians" During my time here I have realized how easy it is to spot the Muslims and the Jews, but so har... Read more ...
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Living in Jerusalem
Life in any other city...is easy I believe compared to the intensity of living in this volatile place. I have lived here before at different times in my life, but this time every emotion seems heightened, like when you are watching a dramatic movie and you are on the edge of your seat wait... Read more ...
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Palestine
I have grown up in the United States and never realized that getting three meals a day and having a full refrigerator were uncommon. I thought that having countless outfits and 10 pairs of shoes was nothing out of the ordinary. Traveling to Western Europe in my late teens I thought t... Read more ...
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Short Novel: Bauhausler, Chapter 6
Please read Introduction first. Masasko was surprised to know Marcus was Jew. She never thought he was. "Marcus, have you ever heard of the legend that some of your people also migrated to our country, Japan?" "What are you talking about?" said Marcus. He seemed to be surprised with her react... Read more ...
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Amnesty International Pulls out of Concert Fund
Amnesty International Withdraws from Leonard Cohen's Israel Concert Fund by PACBI & NYCBI ( info [at] nycbi.org ) Tuesday Aug 18th, 2009 1:58 PM Amnesty International has announced today that it will abstain from any involvement in the Leonard Cohen concert in Tel A... Read more ...
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The Haj
Be warned, this book may ignite racial discrimination. The story is about Haj Ibrahim al Soukori al Wahhabi, a Muslim tribe leader living in Aqbat Jabar in the Palestine, who was caught in a conundrum between his ancient Arab roots and the Jews. It covers what happened in Palestine befor... Read more ...
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The Boss Has Gone Mad
By: URI AVNERY 169 years before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title “To Edom”. The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe. This is what he wrote (in my rough translati... Read more ...
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Who calls the shots in America?
BY: BRIAN CLOUGHLEY “Peace for all children,” said Obama. But does he include Palestinian children? Will he continue to stand with Israel, the country that has laid waste a land and murdered or maimed hundreds? Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt were pretty cl... Read more ...
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Yidnfragen?
While I don't agree with everything it says, this piece on the ethics (moral, religious, and otherwise) of conflating Judaism with unquestioned support of every action Israel takes is worth a read. Israelis question, debate, and even satirize their government's and military's decisions; why can... Read more ...
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”Holocaust” in the Middle East?
400 people were killed in Gaza in Palestine by the air raid from Israel. Aren't they the people who experienced genocide like that? Why are they making this place like Ghetto or Auschwitz? Very few Jews in Israel overlap their anscestry experience with Palestineans. That is why Iranian pres... Read more ...