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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Yes Virginia: Bob Dylan is a Santa Claus, Rachel Corrie a Light unto the Nations and The Wall Must Fall
Yes, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist"

Monday, November 9, 2009
The Walls of Berlin and Bil'in
A wall twice as high and five times as long as the one that fell in Berlin on Nov. 9, 1989, is close to completion in the West Bank. One of the chants I learned during one of my four visits to the agricultural village of Bilin, was "The wall will fall in Bilin; the wall will fall like in Berlin".

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The Obama Memo, Moyers, Abbie, Jon and back to Goldstone
President Obama just signed a presidential memo eliminating a tariff on Israel that protected American dairy farmers and that raised money for the American economy.

Sunday, October 18, 2009
Names and Photos of Israeli War Criminals in Gaza
(3 comments) Some names and photos of the Israeli military personnel who participated in “Operation Cast Lead”, the offensive launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip between 27 December and 18 January 2009, which killed 1,400 Palestinians and utilized USA Made for Destruction Weapons.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Responding to Stephen Colbert and Justice Scalia
On a segment called "Symbol Minded" Stephen Colbert analyzed the Supreme Court's recent consideration of the case of an 8-foot cross erected as a memorial to World War I veterans on a federally-owned Mohave National Preserve. "Our tradition of separation of church and state too often separates church and state."

Sunday, October 4, 2009
When Leaders Fail; People Must Lead
President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old "secret" understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections..."what we really want at a minimum may be just to keep Israeli possession from becoming an established international fact."-Kissinger, 1969. It became an established international fact in 1986 via Vanunu's testimony and photos of the Dimona.

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Obama, Ahmadinejad, Gaddafi, Empty Chairs and Two Thomas's
I only caught the last few minutes on CNN of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN on September 23, 2009. What I witnessed on CNN in those last few minutes was the scroll that Canada and "US delegates walked out over hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric." What I heard in those last few minutes was his references to the prophets, about spirituality, justice, human rights, love, global reform...

Friday, September 18, 2009
BDS: The Winds of Change Blew from the UK and the Blow Back
Three presents for Palestine this Eid: 1. UK Unions representing 6.5 million workers voted YES to boycott, sanction and divest to pressure Israel to END the Occupation of Gaza Palestine. 2. The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation's 300 member groups Voted YES to an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. 3. The Brazilian Parliament's decision added an enormous blow for Israel's economy and foreign relations.

Sunday, September 13, 2009
President Obama's Nuclear Opportunity: Dialogue with Iran and Blow Israel's Ambiguity
(2 comments) The wind from Iran changed on September 12, 2009, when Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced that he welcomes broad talks with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council [America, Russia, France, Britain, China, and Germany] and he offered the olive branch of "comprehensive, all-encompassing and constructive" talks on a range of security issues, including global nuclear disarmament

Monday, September 7, 2009
It's NOT Labor; If You LOVE What You Do
(1 comments) "Love is not the starving of whole populations. Love is not the bombardment of open cities. Love is not killing......Our manifesto is the Sermon on the Mount, which means that we will try to be peacemakers."

Sunday, August 30, 2009
Message to President Obama and Americans with a Conscience
"Every single Palestinian home in Jerusalem has a demolition order. The entire West Bank has been zoned as agricultural land by Israel, and that will also be re-zoned again for more settlements."-Jeff Halper, Founder ICAHD Under international law all the settlements are considered illegal colonies-but they are spun as "neighborhoods" by politicians and a limp and lazy media. "Conscience asks the question...

Thursday, August 27, 2009
Teddy, Bobby, Jimi, saints and sinners
I was just a kid in 1969, when Teddy drove into Chappaquiddick, but I remember images of him and how grief stricken he looked... I felt as bad for him as I did for Mary Jo Kopechne and her family and friends, for being a kid, I knew how easy it was to do something stupid and selfish... I also recalled a song Jimi Hendrix did at Woodstock that very same year...

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Why it is Apartheid in Israel Palestine
(2 comments) "The most accurate way to describe Israel today is as an apartheid state," Neve Gordon, an American-born Jew who has lived in Israel for nearly 30 years and teaches political science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, recently wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed. "An apartheid society is much more than just a ‘settler colony'. It involves specific forms of oppression...

Friday, August 21, 2009
The "Big Get" Don Hewitt and "60 Minutes" Didn't Get
"Back in the days when television was in black and white, Don Hewitt was creating and producing the world's first taste of "news at the dinner hour" "Big event television news? Hewitt birthed it. The anchor on location for the big story? Hewitt birthed that too. "And then there was the 'big get.' Hewitt pioneered that too. Or at least the concept." In 2006, I mailed Mr. Hewitt a DVD copy of my "30 Minutes with Vanunu"

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Prince of Darkness and The Wall
(1 comments) The pugnacious political columnist, Robert D. Novak, nicknamed "the prince of darkness," who died at 78 on August 18, 2009, was the first mainstream media reporter to shine a light on the "Michshol Hafrada" which is Hebrew for the "Separation Wall" which translates to "Apartheid Wall" in Afrikaan.

Monday, August 17, 2009
Intifada
Intifada is Arabic for "rise up and shake/cast off." What follows is a wake up call for an "American Intifada" and a Christian one.

Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Many Layers of Nahalat Shimon beg the question: Where's the money coming from?
Last Sunday morning just before sunrise, Israeli forces evicted seventy more Palestinians from their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah... "They are building 200 settler units and an American Israeli company named Nahalat Shimon Builders is behind it." ...Nahalat Shimon is also the name of a settler group and a real estate company...

Thursday, July 30, 2009
All About Rachel: The Mother of the New Fourth Estate
(1 comments) I credit Rachel Corrie as the first of the New Fourth Estate- an activist reporter-and my reasons WHY follow an email From Jewish Peace News which follows Paul Larudee's [co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement, organizer International Solidarity Movement] report about the new documentary film "Rachel" screened at the Castro theater in San Francisco on July 25, 2009, as part of the Jewish Film Festival.

Sunday, July 26, 2009
What the "Stupid" Media Got Right
While the media was making a big deal over President Obama's "stupid" remark regarding the Cambridge Police, I wondered how many of them had ever passed judgment on a story they only knew one side of, or a person by their ethnicity or dress, or even a book by its cover. However, this weekend, the media also got something very right- that music unites humankind.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Freedom of Conscience and Expression under Criminal Investigation
Rela Mazali spoke in Tel Aviv regarding the criminal investigation of New Profile-an open, feminist movement of resistance to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine- and freedom of expression-they were accused of "incitement" by Israel with Related Links: Israel's Future Leaders, Orwell meets Vanunu and The Industrial Military Media Security/Surveillance Complex

Monday, July 6, 2009
Injustice in Israel: Restrictions on Vanunu continue
Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish, admitted Vanunu's "case is still generating great interest, like any other security-related case. The media's attention he gets is proof of that." THAT Media attention is about Vanunu as a human person with RIGHTS and his FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial which can be read and Vanunu seen in 2005, 2006, 2008 videos at VANUNU ARCHIVES: http://www.wearewideawake.or

Sunday, July 5, 2009
Another letter from an Israeli Prison and Nobel Laureate on Hunger Strike
On June 30, 2009, while in international waters 23 miles from Gaza, the Israeli Naval Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY and abducted and imprisoned the 21 human rights workers aboard, including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire who is fasting for an end to the siege of Gaza and more.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Independence, Interdependence and HUMANITY
"It appears as though the Israeli government is drilling for natural gas in the buffer zone. That gas belongs to the people of Gaza. It seems to be one of their reasons for stopping us, perhaps they're worried that we may go back and tell the world what we have seen."-Captain Denis of The Spirit of HUMANITY

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Gaza NOW and what I predicted in 2005
Israeli forces have so far deported two and still hold 19 nonviolent internationals who sailed upon the Spirit of HUMANITY...A collection a photos from CODE PINK delegation who entered Gaza through Rafah and built playgrounds, investigated the tunnels and destruction and what I wrote in 2005 about the 'disengagement' and the powder keg we call Gaza.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The Spirit of Humanity's 21 and the Spirit that Preceded it
Gaza/USA- On June 30, 2009 around 3:30 PM, 23 miles off the coast of Gaza, Israeli Naval Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY and abducted 21 human rights workers representing 11 countries. Noble laureate Mairead Maguire was on board for her second time as was former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney who just prior to her kidnapping remarked,

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Have a cup of coffee with Vanunu
Mordechai Vanunu can be found most any day from 3-5 PM, having coffee in the garden restaurant of the American Colony, in occupied east Jerusalem.

Saturday, June 13, 2009
MasterCard and the Extremist Settlers of Silwan
Last week, holders of an Isracard and/or MasterCard credit cards in Israel received an offer for a "City of David tour" with "attractions for the entire family" - which makes no mention of the fact that the tour is to be conducted by the Elad settlers. On June 8, 1998, under the cover of darkness, members of the fundamentalist nationalistic settlement group Elad, entered four Palestinian homes and raised the Israeli flag.

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Winning the War of Legitimacy
"Do you know why Israel does not want to become America's 51st state? Because then they would only have two senators! "Congress has always been Israel's trump card and the democrats have been more pro-Israel than the republicans. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are the problem, not Netanyahu."-Jeff Halper, American Israeli, Founder and Coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Monday, June 8, 2009
Israel's Future Leaders
(1 comments) You don't grow up in Israel without being filled with fear...we grow up with a conception that we are at war with all Arabs and if we let go, the Holocaust will happen again." "Israelis did not focus much attention on the Holocaust in the first decade or so after 1948 and they showed surprisingly little sympathy for the survivors who came to Israel after the war. But all that changed in the 1960s...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Traveling with Hope: And the day I got close to President Abbas
Rafiq Husseini, chief of staff to President Abbas said, "President Abbas is a very bad politician; he does not lie! He is ready to move on from the past. We have quit crying over our losses; we must move on. Live and let live is the motto of this administration. We can not carry on a battle; it must stop. Peace can only happen with peace, not force...We need America to help us...

Monday, June 1, 2009
The week that was; The week a'coming
On June 4, 2009, President Obama will speak on the world stage from Egypt hoping "to use the occasion to deliver a broader message about how the United States can change for the better its relationship with the Muslim world." He began last week, when Hillary Clinton announced in front of Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, that the Obama administration...

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Homeland Security targets Nobel Peace Prize Laureate who fired back
Mairead Maguire was shot by Israeli forces during a nonviolent demonstration in Bil'in in 2007, but it was USA Homeland Security who judged her a criminal in May 2009, for being a nonviolent resister of war and occupations. June 4-10, 2009, millions will be united in prayer and hundreds will be creatively disturbing the status quo with acts born of nonviolence, truth, love, courage and hope.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Memorial Day Manifesto: 2009
A new Zogby poll shows "Obama would have strong support for a US diplomatic effort to forge an Israel-Palestine deal, even if it means tough pressure on Israel. "Authentic faith should be a unifying force instead of a divisive one...The choice for America has always been between inclusive pluralism and exclusion."

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Nobel Peace Prize Laurette VS Homeland Security
(1 comments) Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate, was detained on her entry into Houston Airport, by Homeland Security. Maguire was held for two hours, questioned, fingerprinted and photographed. She said: "They questioned me about my Nonviolent protests in USA against the Afghanistan invasion and Iraqi war. They insisted I must tick the box admitting to criminal activities. ..my nonviolent [actions] are acts of conscience"

Saturday, May 23, 2009
Hope for Gaza: Send in the Clowns
United Nations human rights investigators announced this week that they intend to enter Gaza in early June to hold public hearings on whether war crimes were committed during Israel's invasion on Gaza which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians-over 900 were civilians- and destroyed over 4,000 homes and buildings and displaced over 50,000. "There ought to be clowns. Quick, send in the clowns. Don't bother - they're here...

Friday, May 22, 2009
Wake Up Obama: We the People already know The Truth
"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."-John Lennon, 1971 "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."-John Lennon, 1971

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Expressions of Nakba on the 61st anniversary
(3 comments) Expressions of Nakba was an international competition and exhibition that commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Nakba: the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. The online gallery showcases the winning entries from the competition range from visual arts, poetry, essays, music, video and digital media.

Thursday, May 14, 2009
On Politics, Popes and Reasons to still Hope
Beneath a brutal history of centuries of doctrinal polemics, Crusader massacres, forced exiles of Jews and a Church that did not recognize the State of Israel until 1993, simmers the effects of forty-two years of military occupation and the negation of the human rights of the indigenous peoples of the Holy Land by the Jewish State.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Open Letter to the Mossad
On Mother's Day I mailed the following letter to Cindy/Cheryl Hanin Ben Tov, the Mossad agent that befriended and then trapped Mordechai Vanunu in 1986. As Cheryl lives an hour's drive away and I printed my home address on the outside of the greeting card envelope, I go public today...

Saturday, May 9, 2009
Mother's Day Manifesto 2009
In 1999, the UN dedicated the first decade of the 21st century to Create a Culture of Nonviolence for All Children of The World. America is on the record in the UN as stating: "We cannot support this initiative as it will make it harder for us to wage war." So far, 4,284 American's who went to Iraq will never see their mother again. 1,320,110, Iraqis have also been slaughtered.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
A Nuclear Free World is a Matter of Conscience and/or Faith
(1 comments) On May 5, 2009, Vice President Biden reassured AIPAC/American Israel Public Affairs Committee that while USA foreign policy will change, America remains committed to the peace and security of the state of Israel but that the election of President Obama was a call "to change the trajectory that the world was on...All the good intentions of the last decade have not resulted in a more secure, more stable Middle East."

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Close Encounter with a Gator and the Violence Within
(2 comments) As soon as I turned the corner of Caya Costa that led into Pelican Bay, all I could see were mangrove trees in front of me. I wondered why my husband said I could walk around an island without sand on one side, and I was still clueless to the fact that I had treaded into brackish water-where salt and fresh unite.

Monday, May 4, 2009
The Irish lead the way: Open Letter to President Obama
(2 comments) "At the Bilin Conference an Israeli asked me 'how can we touch the hearts of the Israeli people' so they can change their Government's policies?'...there is so much fear amongst the Israeli's of ethnic annialiation but this fear can be dissolved by the politics of the heart...I appeal to you President Obama..."-Mairead Maguire,Nobel Peace Laureate

Friday, May 1, 2009
What MLK might say regarding the 61st Anniversaries of Israel and Nakba
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever and if repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history."-Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16 1963.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Failures of Intelligence has reaped the Militarization of Christianity
(1 comments) Fundamentalist/evangelical Chaplains joined the military in droves during the Vietnam era and aligned themselves with the Industrial Military Complex. Today, more than two thirds of the military's active-duty chaplains are affiliated with fundamentalist/evangelical denominations and freedom of conscience- and what Jesus was all about- is under attack in America's military.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Let Vanunu go
This week Home Front Command, one of the authorities dealing with Vanunu's case, called in his attorneys Avigdor Feldman and Michael Sfard to tell them that the warrants restricting Vanunu's freedom of movement and speech...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
What Jesus Might Tell the Pope Regarding Gaza
(2 comments) Pope Benedict announced that he would visit the Holy Land this May to pray "for the precious gift of unity and peace for the Middle East and for all of humanity," but he would not be going to Gaza...Prayer without action is hypocrisy and faith without works is dead...

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Mitchell in the Middle and the Obvious Way to Peace
Charlie Wolf/Stephen Linskey, an American radio show talk host based in Britain, with a neoconservative Zionist agenda, got my Irish up on live TV when he referred to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire, and I as two well meaning ladies living in a fantasy world for calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine through dialogue and nonviolent reactions to violence. View Show @

Saturday, April 18, 2009
Messing with the Mossad because Big Brother won't RSVP
Vanunu says that he would like to meet his "honey trap", Cindy/Cheryl to have a coffee and to chat about how their lives turned out...The St. Petersburg Times, located her in Fl. and reported that she continues to work for the Mossad. It is illegal under American-Israeli diplomatic protocols for the Mossad to operate in America...I live an hour away from Cheryl's gated community and I know her home address...

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Mitchell must talk with Hamas and Israel must recognize Palestine's right to exist
(6 comments) In the past the U.S. and EU have refused to deal with a coalition government until Hamas agreed to recognize Israel. Times have changed and Hamas is not going away, so Mitchell must talk with them and they should be allowed the opportunity to participate in a coalition that would recognize Israel as a state while upholding their right to not accept "the right of any power to rob our land and deny us our national rights."

Saturday, April 11, 2009
A defiant spirit
(3 comments) As the fifth anniversary of Vanunu's release from prison approaches, he remains captive, under the ever watchful eye of the Shin Bet, his movements are restricted...Vanunu fears that he will shortly be sent back to prison...Vanunu genuinely fears for his life. He knows he is being watched and says he has a feeling that something will happen to him...

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Resurrections, Revolutions and Making Christ Contemporary
(1 comments) "The struggle is in the mind. We must bury our own monsters and stop condemning people. We are all Christ and Hitler. We want Christ to win. We're trying to make Christ's message contemporary. What would he have done if he had advertisements, records, films, TV and newspapers! Christ made miracles to tell his message. Well, the miracle today is communications, so let's use it."-John Lennon

Friday, April 10, 2009
"Never Forget," Deir Yassin, 9/11 and Israel Too
(1 comments) Deir Yassin was once a peaceful Palestinian village on the west side of Jerusalem. On April 9, 1948 the lives of over 100 innocent men, women, and children ended by the hand of Jewish terrorists from the Irgun and the Stern Gang. Deir Yassin is 1,400 meters to the north of Yad Vashem, the most famous Holocaust memorial, where the world is taught to "Never Forget."

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Giving Peace a Chance
(2 comments) On Arpil 5th, 2009, President Obama stood on the world stage amongst thousands of flag-waving Czechs and spoke of good humor, home town Chicago, the will of the people over tanks and guns, old conflicts, revolution, moral leadership as the most powerful weapon, iron curtains that fell and the state of 21st century nuclear weapons.

Friday, April 3, 2009
A Response to Offensive Ego and States of Deficiency
(1 comments) Once upon a time in Moldova, Avigdor Lieberman was employed as a night club bouncer. Today he is Israel's latest foreign minister and the leader of the hard-line party Yisrael Beitainu and national movement following in the path of Revisionist Zionism.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Brenda Starr+Dorothy Day=Citizen Journalist
On March 28, 2009, ABC Evening News reported on my muse; Brenda Starr, the fictional red headed ace investigative journalist who was laid off due to the economy. When I was a child my dream was to grow up and become Brenda Starr, but I had forgotten all about that dream until it resurrected in June 2005 as a desire to follow in the footsteps of Dorothy Day, who agitated church, state and media in the 20th century.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Dali dreams, John of the X and what does it mean to be a Christian?
(1 comments) Salvador Dal� painted a dream he had that was inspired by a drawing by the 16th century Spanish mystic poet, Carmelite brother, John of the Cross...The ancients understood that God spoke to them in their dreams and visions... "Where there is no vision, the people perish."-Proverbs 29:18

Monday, March 23, 2009
Land Day 2009 and BDS Global Week of Action March 28-April 4, 2009
The Global Week of Action; a call for BDS/Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions begins March 28th through April 4, 2009. March 30, 2009 will commemorate the 33rd annual Land Day calls for nonviolent solidarity actions.

Monday, March 23, 2009
A Most Immoral Army
"There is a very clear and powerful connection between how much time you serve in the territories and how f%$#&d in the head you get."

Thursday, March 19, 2009
A response to the LA Times duo of op-ed essays by two American Jews with diametrically opposed views of Zionism
The topic was Zionism and anti-Zionism. What both sides missed was the need to move beyond the ideological regurgatative arguments that have resulted in blindness to the brutal reality of terror known by every child, mother and innocent one caught in the crossfire of violence. The debate itself was a red herring; a diversionary tactic that ignored many human dimensions, such as...

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
American Activist Critically Injured By Israeli Military
American Tristan Anderson, was hit in his forehead by a new type of high velocity, extended range teargas projectile. The impact of the projectile caused numerous condensed fractures to Anderson's forehead and right eye socket. During the operation, part of his right frontal lobe had to be removed...soldiers at the Ni'lin checkpoint had prevented the Red Crescent ambulance from taking Tristan directly to the hospital...

Friday, March 13, 2009
Rachel Corrie: Child Dreamer and Mother of the New Fourth Estate
(2 comments) An American girl, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by Israeli forces beneath an American made Caterpillar army bulldozer on March 16, 2003. As a child she dreamt of giving the poor a chance; as an adult she birthed The New Fourth Estate: citizen journalists who leave their comfort zones to go-seek-report motivated by the pursuit of justice, driven by childhood dreams and a passion for the truth.

Monday, March 2, 2009
Vanunu Writes to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee: "I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Shimon Peres"
[Occupied East Jerusalem, March 1, 2009] Mordechai Vanunu wrote to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo:

Monday, February 23, 2009
The Battle for Bil'in
(3 comments) The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that The Wall in Bil'in must be moved and the stolen land restored to the Bil'in villagers; but civil and military authorities have not complied and last week, night time raids by Israel escalated.

Friday, February 13, 2009
The Bell Tolls: A Review of We can have Peace in the Holy Land, by Jimmy Carter
With "the fierce urgency of now" Jimmy Carter writes of reasons why recent "public opinion polls in the Arab world revealed that the United States was seen as a greater threat than Iran, and a successful peace effort in Palestine could be the most important factor in improving its citizens' opinion of America."

Saturday, February 7, 2009
The Disseminator Offers the First Face Book: NOT a GROUP! And Only for SUPPORTERS of Vanunu
On February 3, 2008 I had this Face Book chat with Vanunu, just hours before he deleted his Face Book account...

Saturday, January 31, 2009
Calling for Regime Change in Israel
A regime change from the current Jewish state to a truly democratic pluralist equalitarian society whose polity would not be prey to any sectarian, ethnic, racial, or gender interests... the destruction, replacement, dissolution of the present Jewish State to be replaced by a sovereign political entity that embraces and is emblematic of unlimited constitutional democracy.

Monday, January 19, 2009
In honor of King and with Hope for Change
"Peace for Israel means security, and we stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality."-Martin Luther King

Sunday, January 11, 2009
Welcome to Occupied Orlando
(1 comments) The area we were consigned to was 'roped' off with one strand of plastic tape that a baby could break. 150 police officers attempted to justify the waste of man power by checking bags and denying fluids to travel into the taped off area. I solved my dilemma at the Orlando Police Checkpoint in the Park by ducking under the tape thirty feet from 'Security's' back.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Message to Hillary and USA Christians
The Times They Are a'Changin'- FREE Vanunu Mordechai! Now! Began on Face Book on November 15, 2008 with a vision for a Global V Day. The groups objective is "to help VANUNU enjoy in full his human right and to promote confrontation and a new mental approach toward the Palestine tragedy. Open your minds, stop hate."

Friday, December 12, 2008
Shministim: Leader's in the Way to a New Israel
Shministim means "twelfth-graders" in Hebrew and military service is mandatory upon graduation from Israeli high school. The Shministim are Israeli youth of conscience who refuse to serve in the Israeli Army because it is the force that enforces Israel's 40+-year occupation of indigenous Palestinians.

Sunday, December 7, 2008
Being HOPE and Change
(2 comments) "HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."...When I received a call for change from Change.org...

Sunday, November 30, 2008
Quit Breakin' my Heart Obama: This Time it's with the Democrat Demimondaine
Do you know why Israel does not want to become America's 51st state?...Because then they would only have two senators!

Friday, November 21, 2008
What do Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea and Israel have in Common?
They are the ONLY states in the world that deny international media and humanitarian aid workers access.

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Looking Back and On My Way to Israel Palestine for the 6th time
If all goes as planned, I will be in Israel and occupied Palestine three days from now. What follows are a sampling of reports from my first five trips which began in June 2005:

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
IMAGINE: Media as a Sanctuary for Dissent
"It is the responsibility of journalists to give voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken and beaten down by the powerful. It is the best reason I know to carry our pens, cameras and microphones out into the world. The media should be a sanctuary for dissent. It is our job to go to where the silence is." -Amy Goodman

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The Will, The Way and Chesapeake Bay
Every saint has a past; Every sinner a future- Imprinted on T-shirt sold at Co Co's, clothing store in St. Micheal's on Chesapeake Bay. Part 1: Family and saints

Friday, September 19, 2008
Passion, Activist Burnout and US
(1 comments) Discerning ones inner calling requires being open to all of ones emotions, being open to all the people one meets, being fully present in every situation with a trust that the power of one can make a difference in our dysfunctional world that cries out for Tikkun; which is Hebrew for heal, mend and transform the world.

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Lunch with Amy Goodman, the last time I saw Nick, and a Letter on Vanunu's Behalf
Nick honored his mother's request and moved back to her home town in Syria, just a few weeks after we met with Amy Goodman for lunch, in April of 2007. He phoned last night from his roof top apartment in Latakia, which overlooks the Mediterranean...

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.