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Friday, August 22, 2008
American-Irish/Iranian/Israeli Boat Warriors against the Israeli Siege of Gaza
(2 comments) Morning's light of August 23, 2008 is expected to illuminate the convergence of the SS FREE GAZA, SS LIBERTY, twenty odd fishermen from Gaza and the Israeli Occupying Naval Forces, upon the Mediterranean Sea.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
New Video + Photo by-and a Postcard from Vanunu with a report of a Failure to Report by the New York Times
On August 7, 2008, Vanunu wrote:See in the photos they are dancing with large keys; this is the new way to bring the Palestinian message to the world; by culture, not bombs!... Here is my Hiroshima video Message...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Under Served of New Orleans: Part Two in a Continuing Series
"The saddest part now is the way they dole out the money to the needy. We got a lot of thieving politicians and the government money hasn't all filtered to the people...we all know, you just can't trust the government."

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
How Vanunu Harms Israel: BAD PR!
On July 8, 2008, instead of ending Mordechai Vanunu's freedom of speech trial which began in January 2006, the three Judges have put off their decision until September. His brother Meir has predicted, "So we wait to September, and then I bet it will be another postponed hearing."

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Patriot Follows the Money and Exposes Foreign Agents
Patriot and author, Grant F. Smith, Director for the Institute of Research Middle East Policy publication, Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal, exposes how US Middle East policy has been formulated and thrives due to the dearth of relevant reporting on AIPAC's activities.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Vanunu on Faith before Final Court Date of 2 ½ Year Long Freedom of Speech Trial
[East Jerusalem] On July 8, 2008, the final act in Mordechai Vanunu's current trials plays out, when Israel either puts Vanunu behind bars for six more months, or "something else" as Vanunu wrote. On July 1, 2008, I received an email reply from Norway regarding a hoped for "something else"...

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Alternative to Mid Life Crisis: Find Your Voice Inspired by the Dreams of Others and Muses
Some comfortably well off empty nester baby boomers may obtain the car of their dreams or have an affair as the means to inspire passion...

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Israeli Government: "Immoral, Unethical And Illegal"
(6 comments) " This behavior is immoral, unethical and illegal and the Israeli Government should be held accountable, by the International Community, for its abuse of the rights of the children to safety and education."-Maried Corrigan-Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate speaking from Hebron, June 5, 2008

Saturday, June 7, 2008
Tear Gas And Bullets In Bil'in VS International Nonviolent Solidarity
(1 comments) [Bil'in, West Bank] On June 6, 2008, Vice President of the European Parliament Luisa Morgantini and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Maried Corrigan-Maguire were assaulted by Israeli Forces with tear gas during the weekly Friday afternoon nonviolent protest against the wall and military occupation in Bil'in.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Vanunu: Almost Free and at Home in Norway
The Norwegian Lawyer's Petition of May 15, 2008, calls on the Norwegian government to urgently implement the following three-point action plan within the framework of international and Norwegian law to grant Vanunu permission to work and stay in Norway, based on his need for protection (on humanitarian grounds), with the intention to offer Vanunu asylum upon his entry into Norway.

Sunday, May 18, 2008
Open Letter to Mr. Bill O'Reilly and Sean
as you two are such good Catholics-and I once was- I ask you once again to report on the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land. As I am an unrepentant divorced woman and deemed unworthy by the Institution to receive holy communion in the One Holy Roman and Only True Church, I no longer attend. But I too pursue fair and balanced reporting

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Church of the Nativity in the Little Town of Bethlehem: Today, 2007 and 2002...
(2 comments) "We watch on TV the great support Israel is receiving from the Jewish people in the United States. If they only knew what this government is doing to the Palestinian people, they would repent in dust and ashes."

Sunday, May 11, 2008
MOTHER'S DAY UPDATE! This Press Release Made Mine
"...the peace process' of Annapolis was an illusion:Since then Israeli attacks have tripled and even more checkpoints have been set up"...-Dr Mustafa Barghouti, elected Palestinian Legislative Council accused western governments of hypocrisy, in undermining democracy in Palestine, but supporting an Apartheid state.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Lay Wreaths and a Confrontational Conversation: UPDATE 6:30 PM
(2 comments) Carter's passion for peace, his intellectual and political sincerity, his ethical values or his integrity as a man of principle and profound faith. Since he left office, he never refrained from involving himself in sound causes, as he never slowed down his mission for a safer and better world. It is ridiculous to think that he is meeting "terrorists"

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Vanunu's Fifth Year of Restrictions Begins and Norway Caves
(1 comments) [East Jerusalem] On April 7, 2008 Mordechai Vanunu, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for the last twenty-two years learned that Israel has continued the restrictions against his right to leave the state or to speak with human beings if they are not Israelis. On April 9, 2008 it was reported that now Norway has joined Sweden, Canada and Denmark in refusing asylum to Vanunu.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
UN expert stands by Nazi comments
Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatment of Palestinians with the Nazi record of collective atrocity, because of what he described as the massive Israeli punishment directed at the entire population of Gaza.

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Zakariya Zubeidi, Number One Most Wanted: Then and Now
[Jenin, West Bank] My chance to interview Zakariya Zubeidi, commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Jenin, was nearly nine months ago. On April 4, 2008, Haaretz reported their interview with Zubeidi:

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Jeff Halper: American Israeli Arrested for the 8th Time in Jerusalem
"Do you know why Israel does not want to become America's 51st state? Because then they would only have two senators!"

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Land Day: March 30, 2008; Looking Back and Moving Forward
"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."

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Orwell meets Vanunu and The Industrial Military Media Security/Surveillance Complex
"If you thought George Bush was bad when it comes to the use of military force, wait 'til you see John McCain." ......."In 2007, Naomi Klein, in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, argued that at the height of the 2003-07 economic boom, the military industrial complex was driving...

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Happy Birthday Israel: Company is Coming Carrying UN Flags!
As candidate McCain pandered to militants and fundamentalists during his trip to Jerusalem...Ziad Abu Ein, Deputy Minister for Prisoners' Affairs in the PA, offered the world a plan for Civil Obedience to UN Res. 194

Saturday, March 22, 2008
NONVIOLENT American Citizen Assaulted, Harassed, Arrested and Deported by USA's Best Friend
(3 comments) On March 14, 2008, twenty-five year old USA citizen, Blake Murphy, from Boston, Mass. was targeted, assaulted, pepper sprayed in his eyes, hauled off and arrested, by the Israeli Special Undercover Unit/ISUU, because of his nonviolent volunteer work with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the West Bank.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
PA urges Palestinians to Return Home on Israel's 60th Birthday
The initiative is the first of its kind and is clearly aimed at embarrassing Israel during the anniversary celebrations by highlighting the issue of the "right of return" for the refugees by enacting Resolution 194.

Monday, February 4, 2008
This American Girl spoke with Gus in Gaza on Superbowl Sunday
Gus, a civil engineer in Gaza spoke to me in Florida from his cell phone in Gaza by candlelight last Saturday night and Super Bowl Sunday afternoon.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
The Vanunu Saga: 2008
(5 comments) [Jerusalem] On July 2, 2007, the whistle blower of Israel's WMD Program, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to six more months in jail for interviews he gave foreign media in 2004. On January 7, 2008, the day before his appeal was to begin; Israel re-sentenced him to six months of community service instead.

Saturday, January 12, 2008
The "O" Word and Jesus Christ!
(2 comments) On January 10, 2008, when President George W. Bush said, "There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967," a surge of hope inflamed me.

Sunday, January 6, 2008
Babies Up Against the Occupation
On January 3, 2008, I received the following email from the Little Town of Bethlehem in Occupied Territory:

Saturday, November 24, 2007
Apartheid in Israel Palestine! Viability in Annapolis?
Will the fruit of Annapolis reap justice which is the way to security and peace in the Holy Land? Or will American Israeli peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize Nominiee, Jeff Halper's prediction come true?

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Realizing God's dream for the Holy Land
(2 comments) God has a dream for all his children. It is about a day when all people enjoy fundamental security and live free of fear. It is about a day when all people have a hospitable land in which to establish a future. More than anything else, God's dream is about a day when all people are accorded equal dignity because they are human beings. In God's beautiful dream, no other reason is required.

Saturday, October 20, 2007
Waking Up from the Holocaust Hangover
(18 comments) "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you; and that's when you win."-Gandhi I am so very grateful for all the cyber attacks coming at me these past few days, and so am rerunning the following report from 7/22/07 [Jerusalem, July 22, 2007]I had no clue when I gave 'birth' to my website, exactly two years ago to this day, what I was really doing, but, after my first of five journeys to Israel Pa

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Seeing Elephants is a Matter of Conscience
On September 30, 2007, Daniella London-Dekel's political cartoon ran in the Hebrew [but not English edition] of Ha'aretz, depicting men carrying stretchers of wounded and dead in Gaza on a television set. At the other end of the room, a man with his back to the TV held a newspaper and apparently completely oblivious/unconscious to the scene in Gaza, says "Poor Monks in Burma."

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Israel declares Gaza 'enemy entity' and the Blowback Begins
The "enemy entity" designation could open the way for the most severe retaliatory measure yet..."declaring Gaza a "hostile entity" within a "conflict short of war" – has absolutely no standing in international law."

Friday, August 10, 2007
Rapture Ready Armageddon Seeking Demon Behind Every Tree Seeing Cult Warriors...
(2 comments) The popularity of Max Blumenthal's Rapture Ready: The Christians United for Israel Tour on Youtube, gives me hope that the sleeping Body of Christ in America will wake up and realize that the fastest growing cult in America, John Hagee's Rapture Ready Armageddon Seeking Demon Behind Every Tree Seeing cult warriors continue to be the only voices of Christianity heard in all the nation.

Monday, July 9, 2007
UK's Rev. Sizer's U.S.A. Tour: The Right Christians Versus the Christian Right
Florida, 9 July 2007, [Arabisto.com ] Internationally renowned expert on Christian Zionism, Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer recently completed a whirlwind ten day odyssey through America speaking to hundreds of concerned, committed, thoughtful Christians in Seattle, Peoria, Fort Lauderdale, New Smyrna Beach and in a soon to be broadcast Tampa radio interview before returning to the UK on July 4, 2007.

Saturday, April 28, 2007
Nonviolent Activism Gathers Steam in Southern Bethlehem
The southern villages of Bethlehem have been organizing weekly nonviolent resistance activities to the building of the Apartheid Wall that will ultimately separate the farmers from 70% of their agricultural land. The activity this week witnessed an evolution of size and strategy. VIDEO too!

Monday, April 16, 2007
OpEdNews Bookmark
On Friday the 13th of April, 2007, Mordechai Vanunu was informed that the Israeli government has continued his house arrest in Jerusalem and has renewed all the restrictions against him, for the fourth time and third year of captivity in east Jerusalem. On January 25, 2006, Vanunu's freedom of speech trial began, he will learn on 4/30/07 if he returns to jail for expressing freedom of speech in ME democracy.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
The Iran-Qaeda Scandal
(1 comments) Cheney's redirection of America's strategy contradicts Washington's dictum by inciting foreign wars and campaigns of terror against America and its allies - a flagrant violation of America's original military and diplomatic traditions, says Michael Carmichael, historian author, and the founder and Chief Executive of Planetary Movement.

Thursday, March 1, 2007
West Bank Land on Sale in New Jersey
(3 comments) Teaneck synagogue may become a flashpoint this weekend in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Congregation B'nai Yeshurun will host a real estate fair aimed at persuading American Jews to buy property in the disputed territories of the West Bank. ...critics say such land sales would inflame the conflict by bringing more Jewish settlers to the predominantly Palestinian territories.

Friday, January 5, 2007
Words and Images VS Guns and Bombs
(3 comments) 22 year old Palestinian Journalist speaks at the Palestine Center in Washington, D.C. His lecture tour is sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine-the premier news journal on the Mid East.

Friday, December 15, 2006
UPDATE: Gila, Gaza and You
(3 comments) On November 24, 2006 I posted Gila's email message of that day on Opednews.com Yesterday she emailed the following update and what follows her words from Jerusalem, are two reports from Peace Activists who spoke out in Tel Aviv during the December 2, 2006: World Wide day of Intifada/RISING UP to STOP THE SEIGE IN GAZA! + END THE WAR! report on 12/07/06 WAWA BLOG:

Sunday, November 19, 2006
Carol's Tomb Next Door To Rachel's Tomb
(3 comments) Bethlehem-In February 2003, Carol and her family of fourteen members were informed by that The Wall would soon be coming to their neighborhood. The home the family moved into in 1967 was next door to Rachel's Tomb with views of open green space, but it has now been walled in by 25-30 feet high slabs of concrete which have cut off access to the families thriving business and has isolated and imprisoned them from the rest of

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Crossing Paths with a Whistleblower
(3 comments) Just before my first journey to Israel and Palestine in June 2005, a Palestinian American warned me, "Don't visit Vanunu, if you see him, don't speak to him. He's not allowed to speak to foreigners and you could cause him trouble." I responded, "OK, I won't track him down, but Jerusalem is a small town and if our paths cross, I will speak to him. What kind of government is that, that will tell a human being who they can...

Monday, October 9, 2006
"Made in USA"
(3 comments) Because of the borderless world on the Internet, people who would never have crossed paths due to distance, now cross paths all the time via the World Wide Web. All life is interdependent and interconnected and the Internet is visible reality of this open mystery...which leads me back to the 30th day of December in 2005 and my second visit to George of Beit Jala.

Friday, October 6, 2006
Bad Faith and the Destruction of Palestine
(3 comments) "Since the Palestinian elections six months ago, Israel's policies towards Hamas have succeeded in achieving one end: the weakening of the group's moderates, especially the newly elected politicians, and the strengthening of the militants......Hamas comprises a militant wing, a political wing and a network of welfare charities. Hamas has multiple identities in the same way the Irish Republican Army did.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Anarchists Against the Wall Go to Court
(3 comments) On February 23rd, 2004 the International Court of Justice in The Hague began its proceedings on the legality of the wall Israel is building in the West Bank. That same day we...

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The Silence of the Synagogue: The Enduring Legacy of Rabbi Reuben Slonim
(3 comments) "We have to treat the local population with love and respect, justly and rightly. And what do our brothers in the land of Israel do? Just the opposite. Slaves they were in their country of exile and suddenly they find themselves in a boundless and anarchic freedom as is always the case with a slave who becomes a king and they behave toward the Arabs with hostility and cruelty..." -Ahad Ha'am (d.1927)

Sunday, September 24, 2006
A New Work of Creative Spiritual Literature by Eco-Feminist
(3 comments) Imagine giving the Palestinians something to do on TOP of the land and the opportunity to feed their families. Imagine making true the words Tom Paine penned, "we have it in our power to begin the world again." A new book by OpEdNews writer Eileen Fleming

Monday, September 18, 2006
'WALK FOR PEACE' and HR 3760 S 1756
(3 comments) On September 16, 2006 over 80 cities throughout the country hosted the 'WALK FOR PEACE' to raise awareness of legislation, HR 3760 and S. 1756 which is currently before the House and Senate. This bill seeks to create a cabinet-level U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence.