134 Articles

Sunday, July 13, 2008
Jews and Christians Unite against the Empire of Neo-cons and 'Christian' Zionists
(8 comments) Many 'Christian' Zionists fail at the commission to love all, and they seek to convert the Jews to their narrow small god or see them left behind in a nuclear holocaust that they erroneously believe they will be raptured/lifted out of.

Friday, June 20, 2008
"If it keeps on raining the levees are gonna break"
(7 comments) If it keeps on raining, the levee's gonna break If it keeps on raining, the levee's gonna break, Some people are still sleeping Some people ARE WIDE AWAKE.-Bob Dylan

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Vanunu nails Iran and democracy
(2 comments) "I am not at all supporting this Ayatollahs regime in Iran. This regime should be ended and replaced by freedom and democracy for all Iran people. The same goes for Israel too, which is only a democracy if you are a Jew."-Vanunu

Thursday, June 19, 2008
16 Days in Israel Palestine
(3 comments) Three years ago at this time, I was in the midst of my first of five trips to Israel Palestine. Everything that follows actually happened, but as I was writing fiction in 2005, my experiences are told through Jack, Terese and Jake. Everyone else is exactly who they are...

Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Beat from Bil'in and Belfast
"This year the State of Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary. I recognize the right of all people including Jews to a peaceful existence.I also recognize the State of Israel, but reject its domestic and foreign policies some of which are Racist and uphold an apartheid system."

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
CZ: The Fastest Growing Cult in USA
(2 comments) Jesus taught that the only way to resist evil is with good and he modeled that one must always work for peaceful resolutions, even to the point of returning violence with compassion and forgiveness. Jesus did just that, even after being mocked, whipped and nailed to a cross for he prayed: "Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing."

Sunday, June 1, 2008
WWDDS? What Would Dorothy Day Say?
Dorothy Day lived a diverse 83 years that culminated in 1980. She spent her youth amongst anarchists and bohemians, in bars and through unhappy love affairs. She ended life with a mile high FBI file and a paper trail that testifies that what she wrote, she believed, she did and lived.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
My Dog, Your Child and BEWARE of Tick Paralysis this Year
(7 comments) Children aged 1-5 years are most commonly affected and the tick is usually found in the scalp, often behind the ear. Usually an unsteady gait precedes an ascending, symmetrical, flaccid paralysis. Death from respiratory failure can result if the tick is not removed.

Friday, May 2, 2008
IMAGINE: One World Without Nuclear Weapons
(1 comments) All we are saying is give peace a chance...All you need is love...Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
April 9, 2008: Remembering What NOT Many of We the People Ever Knew about Deir Yassin, 9/11 and Israel Too
Shortly after my first of five trips to occupied Palestine, in 2005, a USA Episcopal priest and I exchanged a few emails before he left America to work with Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem Holocaust memorial, where the world is taught to "Never Forget."

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
April 1, 2008: No joke; that really was me on PRESS TV, from Tehran, Iran Sunday 2-3PM EST.
(2 comments) We the people in the land of the free and home of the brave, have it in our power for a very brief moment before we elect a president who will maintain the status quo... Yeah, we can do that, we can elect a politician beholden to the Military Industrial Complex, or we can say, no, not this time.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The Walid Shoebat Show and "America is Beautiful, but she has an ugly side"-Neil Young
(6 comments) Nearly every one of the 2,000 seats at The King Center in Brevard County was filled with fannies attached to American fundamentalists [a fundamentalist is anyone who has quit thinking] who paid $18.00 for a seat and upwards of $1,000.OO to attend the pre-show meet and greet with the 'three stooges' of fundamentalism at the "WAKE UP AMERICA! Confessions of 3 X-Terrorists" show.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Gaza: Where the children are forbidden happiness
"The children go to school but they are not cheerful. You can see it in their eyes something is very wrong. When the boys play, they play war games and fight each other pretending to be Hamas or Israelis..They are forbidden happiness..."-Guss in Gaza

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Vanunu: A Man without a Country has a Local and Global Community
13 Minutes with Vanunu on Video taped Jan. 2008, because "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." -Article 19, UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Happy Valentines Day, -XOX, The New Body of Christ:
(3 comments) Christianity was founded by rebels, revolutionaries and dissidents, not conservatives or neo-cons. And neither were these United States.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
USA Air Force Academy Feb. 6, 2008: A Failure of Intelligence to Support the Troops
(9 comments) The infamous darling of fear filled fundamentalist Christians and Jews of the cult spewed by the likes of John Hagee and the idiot wind blown on FOX's Hannity & Colmes, Bill O'Reilly and Neil Cavuto show, will be show boating at the annual political forum at the US Air Force Academy on Feb. 6, 2008.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
"Seven Hours of Terror" in the Little Town of Bethlehem: January 28, 2008
(5 comments) [Bethlehem, January 28, 2008] "We have yet to begin to IMAGINE the power and potential of the Internet."-Charlie Rose, 2005

Saturday, January 26, 2008
A Greater Awakening: 21st Century Letter to the Churches in the USA:
(22 comments) Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be The way things are going They're gonna crucify me. -John Lennon

Friday, January 18, 2008
The Stages of the Soul and How Religiosity: Fundamentalism is holding up Evolution
(2 comments) Part Two in a Continuing Series: "We have it in our power to begin the world again" -Tom Paine

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
WAKE UP Hillary and Bush: 21st century democracy and USA tax dollars at work
By 2002 the costs to American Taxpayers because of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict was already $3 Trillion. The U.S. government's financial support to Israel for the construction of the wall is $1.5 million per mile.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
"We have it in our power to begin the world again.'-Tom Paine
The First in a Continuing Series about The Mystery we call God, for lack of a better word.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Vanunu's 'Secret'
All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth I've had enough of reading things By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Thanksgiving Day: JFK, Tom Paine and Doing Something
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger...The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavour will light our country...ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do..."-Pres. JFK

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Children of the 'Holy' Land
Since the beginning of the second Intifada in September 2000, over 4,000 Palestinian children have been arrested..."The methods and photos from Abu Grahib and Guantanamo were no shock to any Palestinian who had been in prison between 1967 and the '80's. All the methods used in Abu Grahib were normal procedures against Palestinians."

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Zion's Zealots
(1 comments) "From Moses to Jeremiah and Isaiah, the Prophets taught...that the Jewish claim on the land of Israel was totally contingent on the moral and spiritual life of the Jews who lived there, and that the land would, as the Torah tells us, 'vomit you out' if people did not live according to the highest moral vision of Torah."-Rabbi Lerner

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Taking It To The Streets and Getting Sen. Mike Gravel's Irish UP!!!
(9 comments) In healthy democracies the government is afraid of the people!

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Censoring Gravitas, Blowing Out the Doors and Tearing Down Walls
(2 comments) "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack-'and censor you'-that's when you win."-Gandhi slightly paraphrased

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
What happened on October 13, 2007 in California and SEEKING JUSTICE for USS LIBERTY
(5 comments) "The nation which indulges toward another...is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils."-President George Washington's Farewell Address, September 17, 1796

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The Censoring of Bishops and Whistle Blowers
(4 comments) "If governments do not report the truth, if media does not report the truth, all we can do is follow our conscience. Daniel Ellsberg did, the woman from Enron did, and I did. The USA needs to wake up and see the truth that Israel is not a democracy unless you are a Jew."

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
John Lennon would have been 67...
(3 comments) John Lennon would have turned 67 on October 9, 2007. Although he hasn't spoken in 27 years, he has not been silenced.

Saturday, October 6, 2007
Free Radicals
Keren and I have both been questioned regarding our eye witness reports from occupied territory. We both have been accused of being 'used' by Palestinians. Keren remarked, "As if I am not capable of clear and independent thought and assessment! As if what I saw and experienced was not valid or were "merely" aberrations. As if the Israeli soldiers were only "acting" in a play produced by Palestinians!

Monday, October 1, 2007
At the Crossroads in the Middle East: Will the Prophets Prevail?
(5 comments) "On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel...

Friday, September 28, 2007
The Political Question and Moral Accountability
(3 comments) "My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." ~ Unamuno, wall graffiti in Paris, May 1968

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
THAT DAY and This 9/11
(3 comments) Up until THAT DAY we call 9/11, I was your typical self-satisfied, self-centered, uninformed, misinformed comfortable American.

Saturday, September 8, 2007
The Power of Nonviolent Persistent People and the Yin and Yang of Anarchy
(6 comments) Anarchy is best understood as Rebellion against UNJUST laws. The Yang [male positive force] of anarchy resists authority and causes disorder and is socially and politically incorrect by the norms of the status quo for it seeks the higher ground of justice. The Yin or feminine passive force of anarchy births a new order out of the chaos and chaos is creativity in action.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
God Bless America with many Royal PIA's
PIA: Pain in the ass...God Bless America indeed with a people who will be a royal PIA!

Thursday, August 30, 2007
Sentinels, Hurricane Kat and Iraq
Homeland Security should protect the homeland, but the War in Iraq costs American taxpayers two million a day on top of the $135 Billion the 'war on terror' began with.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
What CNN Left Out and Olmert and Abbas Ignore
If it took 3,000 Israeli soldiers to evict two families of the 800 illegal squatters from Hebron, how could it ever be possible to evict 275,000 settlers who now inhabit Palestinian territory?

Sunday, August 26, 2007
More Powerful than Bullets and Bombs
(2 comments) Ever since I returned to America I have been haunted by the memories of Palestinian children who only know Israelis through the barrel of a gun or through their bullet proof glass tombs at the hundreds of checkpoints in Palestine. That is, until I received an email from thirty-four year old American Lebanese Christian Ali Elhajj...

Friday, August 24, 2007
Mother Teresa's Very Long Dark Night of the Soul and Rose Gardens
Most all theologians agree that the opposite of faith is not doubt; but fear!

Thursday, August 23, 2007
The American Idol Crap Shoot and Growing Up in America
(1 comments) Only fifteen aspirants had passed the first round of the crap shoot, all were females, except for two young men; one in a Superman costume and the other decked out in a purple pimp suit with a matching broad brimmed hat.

Monday, August 20, 2007
Vanunu's Other Woman from Florida
Beginning this September, Mordechai Vanunu will be back in court fighting a six month sentence behind bars because he opened his mouth in Israel.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Raised To Be A Racist, Medicine in Memphis and New Orleans: 1954-1964
"Somewhere out there in America are dozens of 48 year old Positive Wassermanns, Esophagus Lees, Vulva Jeans and Vagina Maries."

Monday, August 6, 2007
Messages to America: From Refugees and a Reverend of the Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory
"Where do you think Hamas learned to torture? In Israeli prisons from their captors!"-Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb,

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 9/11 and Jesus Christ!
2,000 years ago, "the cross...was neither a religious icon nor metaphor for personal anguish or humility. It had only one meaning: that terrible form of capitol punishment reserved by imperial Rome for political dissenters.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
ZZ Top, Gone Fishing and Emma Goldman.......
(1 comments) "If I can't dance; it's not my revolution."

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
"Preach to Your Own People"
(6 comments) "There's a very clear and powerful connection between how much time you serve in the territories and how F#%@&D in the head you get." -Former Israeli Soldier

Monday, July 30, 2007
Telling the Truth at Ben Gurion
(13 comments) Ben Gurion security returned my passport with a round blue sticker and the number 78 on the back cover. The sticker marks one as being with a Palestinian and triggers a more in-depth interrogation inside the terminal.

Sunday, July 29, 2007
How the Most 'Moral' Army in the World Treats the Little Children of Palestine
(1 comments) Dr. Yousef: "Three days ago, I had a critical cardiac patient that required transport to Israeli hospital, as we do not have the facilities or specialists here to treat critical cases. I had to apply for a permit; permission to travel with the child in the ambulance to Jerusalem, but was refused as the Israelis claimed I was a security risk; a threat to the state of Israel." Dr. Amro: "Yes, a threat with his stethoscope!

Saturday, July 28, 2007
The Long Winding Way to My Interview with Members of the Underground Fatah Resistance Movement
We are not violent people, but we do resist the occupation, as is our right. What if Russia came to occupy American, wouldn't you fight?"

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Another Day in Ramallah
(6 comments) "Everything being done to us today is an accumulation of external factors going on for decades...When Bush announced the $191 million assistance, nobody here got excited as this was already money allocated; it was not new money."

Monday, July 23, 2007
Wake Up Time from the Holocaust Hangover
(6 comments) "There is a time for everything; a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace." –Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 7, 8

Saturday, July 21, 2007
Collapse/Revival of Palestinian Economy and a Way Out
(4 comments) "We need large thinkers and risk takers. How do we succeed in getting Hamas to fail on its own and the West Bank to prosper?" -Gershon Baskin

Thursday, July 19, 2007
There's No Place Like Home
IBDAA is Arabic for "to create something out of nothing" and the people of the Dheisheh refugee camp; a five minute taxi ride from the Church of The Nativity in The Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory have!

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
We all need a psychiatrist, but we cannot afford one, so we do activism."*
(3 comments) "We are here because we are embarrassed and ashamed of our government. A decent person cannot handle what this government puts innocent people through. We are doing this for both sides; for the innocent families and to keep the moral values of Judaism alive."

Saturday, July 14, 2007
"Do you want to be healed?"
(7 comments) "The Peace of the world begins in Jerusalem." -Reverend Theodore Hessburgh, President Emeritus University of Notre Dame, Jerusalem

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Here's to my 5th!
(9 comments) On the third day, God said, "Let the land produce vegetation; seed bearing plants." And it was so. The land produced plants bearing seed...And God saw that it was good.-Genesis 1: 11-13

Monday, July 2, 2007
Be A Counterweight and The Change You Want To See in the World
"The influence of the Israel lobby...is not some omnipotent force that can turn the world's sole superpower against its own perceived interests. The lobby derives its strength, in some measure, from being largely unopposed in Washington."

Monday, July 2, 2007
FREEDOM OF SPEECH DENIED WITH JAIL TIME IN MID EAST 'DEMOCRACY'
"I've always believed a journalist has a duty to keep tracking the truth even when it tracks into unpopular territory."-Charley Reese, July 29, 2001

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Agitating Comfortable Christians: All You Need is LOVE
One hundred years before Jesus walked the earth as a man, Rabbi Hillel understood that the Hebrew understanding of Hokema; Holy Wisdom; The Feminine Divinity was the same as the Greek understanding of The Logos: The Word.

Saturday, June 30, 2007
Godspeed on The Evolution Revolution
(3 comments) "These are the times that try men's souls...I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy...The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."-Tom Paine

Friday, June 29, 2007
The Resurrection of the Fourth Estate and The Way to Heal the Holy Land
(4 comments) "Israel will not survive unless it does justice! All we are asking for is that they honor International Law!"-Reverend Naim Ateek

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Hearing Voices: Part Two
(1 comments) "If governments do not report the truth, and if the media does not report the truth, then all we can do is follow our consciences. Daniel Ellsberg did, the woman from Enron did, and I did."-Mordechai Vanunu to me, June 2005.

Sunday, June 17, 2007
Do You Ever Hear Voices?
(2 comments) On June 13, 2007, on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed the author of Muses, Madmen and Prophets, Daniel B. Smith who spoke about how hearing voices is not always psychotic and could actually be a good thing.

Saturday, June 16, 2007
A Few, Thoughtful, Committed Citizens Who Are Out To Change The World
Can a few, thoughtful, committed, unarmed civilians break the seige of Gaza? They are going to try!

Friday, June 15, 2007
From Gaza with Love and Words Sharper Than a Two-Edged Sword
(5 comments) ""Whenever I think of Palestinian children and their lives under occupation, I always think of the Israeli children. As adults, we have a commitment to both sets of children to provide a safe environment for them to live peacefully. It is not the occupation or the wall or the ongoing aggression against my people that will bring safety or security for Israeli children, only peace that is based on justice will do so."

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The Jewish Presence at the March to End the Occupation of Palestine
"The occupation will end when we free Jewish hearts of fear and liberate their minds of propaganda."

Monday, June 4, 2007
Apartheid by any other name is still: Apartheid
(3 comments) "Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice...If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land."-Desmond Tutu

Saturday, June 2, 2007
Bush and Hillary: "Willing Collaborators"
(3 comments) "Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control...It is apartheid and Bush and Hillary are both willing collaborators."

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
The "A" Word
"We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them. We'll insert a strip of Jewish settlement, right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years time, neither the United Nations, nor the United States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart."-Ariel Sharon told Winston Churchill III in 1973.

Monday, May 28, 2007
Memorial Day Manifesto, 2007
(2 comments) "Our purpose here...should be to look to the well-being of the United States, craft a policy which is good for this country. And that policy can only be one which is good for Israel and for the Palestinian people, one which is fair to all, one which puts the United States as a friend and an honest broker of peace to both parties where we can be so accepted..."

Monday, May 28, 2007
Report from Gaza on This Week's Violence
(2 comments) Mohammad Omer, international independent reporter and correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, spoke from Gaza with Arab Talk Radio in San Francisco as events unfolded in the Gaza Strip this week.

Saturday, May 26, 2007
Oprah's Going to Israel, Will She Go To OPT?
(4 comments) Oprah is going to Israel for a solidarity visit. Will she go to the Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory and bear witness to what the INDIGENOUS people of The Holy Land have suffered after 40 years of OCCUPATION.

Friday, May 18, 2007
So, This Is 53...
For my 53rd birthday I took up Pilates.

Saturday, May 12, 2007
Mother's Day Manifesto, 2007
Mother's Day Manifesto, 2007: Not of Caesar: But of God!

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The Summer of 2007: People Power Verses the Empire
Olmert and Bush share historically low popularity and a lack of trust from their respective citizens. The good news is, that global nonviolent support is growing and in the summer of 2007, we the people of the world for justice and peace are rising up [intifada] and doing something.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance
The Declaration of Independence gives the power to we the people, that when a government becomes destructive of basic human rights it is the duty of the people to "altar or abolish it."

Thursday, April 26, 2007
The A,B,C's of Home Demolition in Israel
The Arabyia Home/Peace Center is also at the cornerstone of the Anata and the Shufat refugee camp, in the very area where the prophet Jeremiah in the 6th century B.C. critiqued the violent conflicts in the Mid East, which were already old news: "I hear violence and destruction in the city, sickness and wounds are all I see." [Jeremiah 6:7]

Thursday, April 5, 2007
Good Friday Mohammed, Peace Be Upon him and all prophets
(1 comments) "Blessed are the Peacemakers: They shall be known as the children of God."-Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:9

Sunday, April 1, 2007
Birth Pangs of a new Middle East : Heavy Labor is Upon Us
(4 comments) Last week, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was unequivocal in his message to the world, to the region and to Israel , that the Arab world wants peace and justice; and that requires all parties adhere to international law.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
It's Their Land
This March 30th marks the 31st year Palestinians throughout the world remember Land Day or 'Youm al-Ard' in Arabic. On March 30, 1976, in the Galilee, during a peaceful protest, six unarmed Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army and police, who also injured 96 others and arrested over 300.

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Condi's Delicate Condition but Hope is on the Horizon
Rice has stated the U.S.A.'s desire is to "establish that we have now a common approach to moving forward on developing, articulating a political horizon" which can only mean an independent state to offer frustrated Palestinians in this the 40th year of their occupation, Condi has been frustrated at home.

Monday, March 5, 2007
'Chatting' With President Ahmadinejad
"The absence of dialogue has made no sense on any count -- strategic, human, historic, political, cultural. It has complicated our relationships with every other country in the region." -- Bruce Laingen, former Iran hostage

Monday, February 26, 2007
Senator Clinton's ILLEGAL Apartheid Colony of Gilo and George's Ancient Indigenous Christian Village of Beit Jala
(2 comments) On February 1, 2007 Senator Clinton's delusional remarks to AIPAC/ American Israel Public Affairs Committee, prove she has never outgrown her favorite movie, for she remains a resident in the land of Oz.

Monday, February 19, 2007
The Arrest and Convictions of My Favorite Anarchist
(1 comments) Anarchy is best understood as Rebellion against UNJUST laws.

Friday, February 16, 2007
The Democrat Demimondaine and Consummate Pandering Politician: Hillary Clinton
(28 comments) Do you know why Israel does not want to become America 's 51st state? Because then they would only have two senators!

Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Way: Truth, Hope and Solidarity Against the Empire
Within walking distance from The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a few hundred thoughtful, committed citizens of the world gathered with hope to make a difference in Palestine-Israel.

Sunday, February 4, 2007
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee's Freedom of Speech Trial
Annually, for the last twenty years Mordechai Vanunu has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This year, Vanunu has been nominated by Bishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Prize in 1984, for his courageous and fearless opposition against the South African apartheid system.

Thursday, February 1, 2007
They Know NOT What They Do
(7 comments) Christofacists are also neo-Christians. Just as neo-cons are NOT true conservatives, Christians that seek empire through violence are NOT true Christians. They also tend to believe God is in the real estate business and may have no clue as to what some members of Congress are doing this Valentines Day.

Thursday, January 11, 2007
Dear President Bush and Congress
(2 comments) Dear President Bush, I was grateful you admitted you made mistakes as we all know you had unintelligent intelligence and have been poorly guided.

Thursday, December 14, 2006
STOP the Destruction of Lives and Homes in the Holy Land
Orwell's "1984" nightmare has become reality in 21st century, for Big Brother spins the language and the limp MSM spits it back out...

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
So, What's a Nice Irish American Girl Like Me Doing in Occupied Territory?
(3 comments) When the author was a kid, she wanted to grow up and be Brenda Starr: the red-headed ace investigative journalist of the Sunday comics.

Friday, December 1, 2006
Give the Gift of Hope to Israel-Palestine
Plant a tree of peace, receive a great read, and a tax deduction.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
We Stand at the Crossroads
Social critic Naomi Wolf thinks it's time for a mass movement that "confronts theocracy" and that has "tremendous potential to take back the country."

Saturday, November 18, 2006
The Problem with USA Churches Is...
(2 comments) "With the Western Christian churches being informed by the fundamentalist Christian Zionist mind set that insist all of Palestine belongs to the Jewish people and views the indigenous Palestinian people as usurpers: they fail us. "The right of return for refugees raises problems the USA churches want to avoid. What must be looked at is the legitimacy of Israel and its exclusiveness policies."-Alain Epp Weaver

Friday, November 17, 2006
I Predict: 110th Congress Can DO SOMETHING
There can be no remedy, no winning any war on terrorism without going to the root: the history and suffering of both people must be addressed and only with an honest third party seeking justice will there ever be security and peace in the world.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Holy Bridges vs Apartheid Walls
"Anyone who talks security for Israel should understand about the Green Line and The Wall in Aboud has been built 6 kilometers from it. If Israeli's want security they should stay on their land and off of ours. It's all about justice and injustice is all we receive."-Father Aridah in the West Bank

Saturday, November 11, 2006
From Jerusalem to Gaza
(1 comments) On the second day of Sabeel's 6th International Conference in Jerusalem Sabeel's Founder and Prophet, Rev. Naim Ateek firmly stated, "Israel will not survive unless it does JUSTICE! The situation is deteriorating and we must frustrate Israel's plans and action because they are not built on JUSTICE! All we are asking for is honoring International Law!

Friday, November 10, 2006
Friday Ritual in Bilin: Occupied Territory
(2 comments) Billin, West Bank-Largely unreported by the media, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis and Internationals have been waging a major grassroots nonviolent campaign of resistance to the construction of Israel's Wall in the Occupied Territories...Anarchy is best understood as Rebellion against UNJUST laws...

Thursday, November 2, 2006
Whose Land?
(9 comments) "The Palestinians who did not leave in '48 but remained here still have lost their land. They can't get permits to build... I am opposed to the occupation and as an Israeli Jew I want to see justice for all...and I refuse to be enemies with anyone."

Monday, October 30, 2006
Prophets and Peaceniks
(1 comments) "Israel is a not a theocracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control."-Jeff Halper, Founder and Coordinator of ICAHD/Israeli Committee on House Demolitions www.icahd.org and a Noble Peace Prize Nominee for 2006.

Friday, October 27, 2006
Democracy in Name Only
(2 comments) "The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." -- The Declaration of the establishment of Israel, May 14, 1948

Thursday, October 26, 2006
My Sermon on the Mount
(2 comments) He sternly admonished me, "God gave this land to the Jews! The Bible never mentions Palestine, and that is that! God gave this land to the Jews and that is that!"

Monday, October 23, 2006
Hearts and Minds in Ramallah
"We are in desperate need of a viable peace process and need international intervention to control Israel...Unless the world enforces International Law and the Declaration of Human Rights there will be increasing violence and instability." -- Dr. Hanan Ashwari, Secretary General of Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy/MITFAH in Ramallah, March 2006.

Sunday, October 22, 2006
My Day in Jerusalem
(2 comments) I was astounded to learn that in Natna, the Jerusalem refugee camp has The Wall butted up to the boy's high school. The 'playground' where 780 adolescents gather is in reality a cement ground about the square footage of a basket ball court. A refugee tells me, "The world is sleeping; the world is hibernating and is allowing this misery to continue."

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Nonviolent Solidarity : Sometimes we win, sometimes we die
"When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel that into more work...[the]fact is that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible."- Rachel Corrie

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Anarchist or Prophet?
(1 comments) "There is no price too great to pay for freedom, and nothing will deter us from achieving this goal."

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Education or mind infection?
The human psyche...has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.

Monday, September 25, 2006
The essence of peace is to connect two opposites.
"In order to prove the lack of reason in Islam, the Pope asserts that the prophet Muhammad ordered his followers to spread their religion by the sword. According to the Pope, that is unreasonable, because faith is born of the soul, not of the body. How can the sword influence the soul?"

Monday, September 25, 2006
Birth Pangs of a Third Awakening
(1 comments) After Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's remarks at the U.N....

Sunday, September 17, 2006
Feminists Respond to Pope's Faux Pas
(2 comments) Within theological feminism, a distinction is made between revolutionary and reformist feminists. Revolutionary feminists find the Christian tradition irredeemably patriarchal and oppressive and looks to other traditions or to new theologies.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Irish Truthteller in Jerusalem
"We wait in hope that we may yet see JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM."-Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate

Sunday, September 10, 2006
9/11, Bob Dylan, a beautician and me
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of THAT DAY we call 9/11, I recall two things...

Sunday, September 3, 2006
This week in Israel..... Behind the news with Gershon Baskin
Get prepared for elections for a new President. It seems more likely than ever that Moshe Katzav will be forced to resign. According to the press and leaks from the police, an indictment against the President is on the way...

Thursday, August 31, 2006
Empire vs Liberation
(2 comments) At the beginning of the 21st century, all living beings are threatened with death and destruction. "The powers and principalities of this world" - with a comprehensive destructiveness in the form of the global empire – are causing "all of creation to groan"-Romans 8:18-39,

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
The Spirit of the Antichrist
(2 comments) The term "antichrist" only appears five times in the Bible, but a cult not based on sound theology has created an urban legend that seeks Armageddon.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
"The Peace of the World begins in Jerusalem"
"The root cause of this war and everything else is the Israeli Palestinian conflict...

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
The Cult of the Antichrist
Over the past months, the White House has convened a series of off-the-record meetings about its policies in the Middle East with leaders of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a newly formed political organization that tells its members that supporting Israel's expansionist policies is "a biblical imperative."

Saturday, July 29, 2006
A Confrontational Conversation
In a few weeks my first novel, will be in available in print. KEEP HOPE ALIVE is based on the memoirs of a 1948 Palestinian Muslim refugee who realized the American dream and a career with Top Sectret Clearance in the Defense Industry during the Cold War, became entwined -due to the events of 9/11-with my journey as a child of the '60's who has never been satisfied with easy answers...

Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Tom Paine, Dan Brown and Mohammad Ali
"Soon after I had published the pamphlet Common Sense, [Feb. 14, 1776] in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion... The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."-Tom Paine

Sunday, July 2, 2006
Mystics in the Marketplace
(2 comments) It has been said that evolution is being held up by fundamentalism and the surge of fundamentalism throughout all faith paths sends shivers through cynical atheists and mystics alike.

Sunday, June 11, 2006
They Thirst for water and justice
(2 comments) Olmert’s realignment plan will bring about an Israeli withdrawal from some parts of the West Bank while it strengthens Israeli settlements in other parts of the West Bank.

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Church, State and the Philosophy of Christ
What Christ was on about was confronting the empire with words and NOT a sword. He didn't give a flip about most of what USA Christians go on and on about in the 21st century. Imagine a world when everyone who claimed that they are a Christian actually did what the Master taught.

Monday, June 5, 2006
WHO's on first with we the people
Health care is NOT a commodity. The facts on the ground are that the richest country in the world has 46 million uninsured and many millions more that are underinsured.

Sunday, June 4, 2006
Gutting Net Neutrality can happen next week
(1 comments) Next week, House members will be voting on a law governing our nation's communications policy... CALL CONGRESS: CALL CONGRESS: 202-224-3121 Tell your Rep. to Vote NO on the COPE telecom law if it doesn't protect Net Neutrality.

Sunday, June 4, 2006
Spiritual Progressives Unite to confront the Religious Right, the Anti-Religious Left, and the Empire
During the third week of May, in Washington D.C. over 1,200 patriotic Americans of all faiths and the spiritual but not religious came together for the second conference of The Network of Spiritual Progressives/NSP and to lobby Congress. The activists are challenging the misuse of religion, God and spirit by the Religious Right and the anti-religious and anti-spiritual biases within the Liberal Left.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
HR 4681Palestinian "Anti-Terrorism Act" -- Fighting Terrorism By Creating More Desperation
HR 4681 is euphemistically called the "Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act"-but in reality is masterful Orwellian doublespeak, for its only possible fruit, would be to create more terrorists. HR 4681 imposes draconian economic and diplomatic sanctions against Palestinians just because they exercised their democratic rights and voted for the candidates of their choice.

Saturday, January 21, 2006
A Blessing in Disguise?
(1 comments) “Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran” recommends that the U.S. encourage Israel to “mothball” its Dimona nuclear reactor and agree to international monitoring."

Saturday, January 14, 2006
Jewish Road Warriors and Big Brother
Before the Chicago mob with badges clobbered the heads of the children of the ‘60’s, Abbie stood at a microphone and quoted Christ: "I send you out like little lambs into a wolves den. Remain as harmless as doves and cunning as snakes."

Thursday, January 12, 2006
Three Good Jews and One Christian in Jerusalem
Next to the McDonald’s in West Jerusalem is the office of Jeff Halper, Coordinator of ICAHD: The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.

Sunday, January 8, 2006
The Wall and Nonviolent Resistance
On The Wall that tourists see at the checkpoint from Jerusalem into Bethlehem a hundred square foot sign from The Minister of Tourism hangs and it proclaims: "Peace, Peace, Peace." "'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace."-Jeremiah 6:14

Friday, January 6, 2006
From an eye witness in Billin: the other side of the story
Billin, a village near Ramallah where villagers and Internationals have been nonviolently and creatively resisting The Wall, Occupation and the fact that more than half of their land has been illegally annexed by the Israeli government.

Saturday, December 31, 2005
Eye Witness Report from Bethlehem: 12/30/05 Holy Land Trust's Solidarity Walk to The Wall
The walk began near the Church of The Nativity, the recognized place of the Prince of Peace's birth. Over two hundred Internationals, Israeli Jews, Palestinian Muslims and Christians walked in solidarity against the Israeli occupation and in support of The Univesal Declaration of Human Rights.

Sunday, December 4, 2005
Free The Christian Peacemaker Team Hostages In Iraq
(1 comments) The kidnappers call them spies. Here's who they really are and what they do.