Category: Palestine

Downhill from here

Smelly, Hairy and Covered in Hay Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Saturday, 24 December 2011 … It’s the scene every expectant mum looks forward to. The baby – all screwed up like a raisin, sure, but definitely adorable. The husband standing by, awe-struck by the miracle that has happened so many times since a mutant duck-billed …

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Choose your theocracy

Ultra-Orthodox spit on “immodest” 8-year-old girl in Beit Shemesh By Ami Kaufman, Sunday, December 25 2011 … Naama Margolis, an 8-year-old from Bet Shemesh, is the most famous girl in Israel today… …   …read entire story at +972 Magazine: http://972mag.com/watch-ultra-orthodox-spit-on-immodest-8-year-old-girl-in-bet-shemesh/31268/ or http://bit.ly/tdyQMV   And why is that? Well, on Friday evening, Naama told her …

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These champions of Zion

How I became a ‘terrorist’ By Abdelrahman Al Ahmar, 02:47 23.12.11 … The first time I was attacked by an Israeli settler, I was 14 years old. I was walking to school when an armed man wearing a skullcap, standing near some Israeli soldiers, pulled my pack off my back and threw it in the …

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One name is unavoidable

Page by page, Marwan Barghouti’s anti-war tome walked out of prison By Joseph Dana, December 23 2011 … Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza celebrated the return of their loved ones last Sunday as the final wave of prisoners were released in an exchange between Hamas and Israel. However, one prisoner was notably absent. …

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Ours will be the same

As the Arabs see the Jews By His Majesty King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein (1882-1951), The American Magazine November, 1947 … I am especially delighted to address an American audience, for the tragic problem of Palestine will never be solved without American understanding, American sympathy, American support. So many billions of words have been written about …

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Sansour censored

Nation Estate (2012) Photo and video by Larissa Sansour … The Nation Estate project is a sci-fi photo series conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for nationhood at the UN. Three preliminary sketches have been developed especially for the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011 – an award I was nominated for until Lacoste decided …

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Approaching the birth

Why we’re celebrating hope this Christmas By Victor Batarseh, Thursday 15/12/2011 … It all started in Bethlehem. From here, the Christmas message was revealed to mankind; a message of joy, love and peace. And here we are today, after more than 2,000 years, reviving this eternal remembrance in faith and love, happily cheering and singing …

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