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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

When injustice becomes law…Gaza teaches Resistance as the only law.

نادية حرحش

I have always loved this quote : ” When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance becomes Duty ” .
Thanks to Gaza , it became worthy of stating again .
Despite all the murders ,
the destruction.
The unprecedented failure of humanity,
yet again.
Despite the conspiracies of the world,
east and west.
The treason of brothers,
the treachery of the beloved.
Gaza managed to stand up and alone.
Defeating the defeat of humanity .
Retaining the courage of the cowardice world.
Proving once and again ..
that Resistance is an obligation
when injustice is the law.

Resistance!!!!

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My name is Adam: A reflection with Elias Khoury

Great writing comes out of pain, love, joy, loss, discovery – and – getting lost and found again in the story.

نادية حرحش

I still feel mesmerized by this meeting. This is the first thing that comes to my mind. How blessed I am.

It also feels kind of weird, the whole feeling of being blessed is a bit of not a familiar feeling. So many windows of blossoming blessing have been opening to me lately.

I have spent the last few weeks literally mesmerized by reading the renowned novelist new book “My name is Adam- sons of the Ghetto”. It is one of those books that I am reading with so much passion and eagerness from one side, and somehow I am afraid to finish. A real masterpiece by all definitions.

Sometimes it happens that you fall into such a masterpiece especially after some not very best choices of a sequence of reads, which makes it even more valuable, and you might think this is why it is capturing your attention.

This…

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‘Get the baby out of here’: Trump ejects crying infant from rally | US news | The Guardian

“Don’t worry about that baby – I love babies,” the Republican candidate said, to the mother of a baby that had started crying during his stump speech. “I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it. What a baby, what a beautiful baby. Don’t worry, don’t worry. The mom’s running around, like, don’t worry about it, you know? It’s young and beautiful and healthy and that’s what we want.”The audience laughed and clapped politely.Later, when the baby continued crying, however, Trump was a little rougher.“Actually, I was only kidding – you can get the baby out of here,” Trump said firmly. “That’s all right, don’t worry. I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking. That’s OK. People don’t understand. That’s OK.”

Source: ‘Get the baby out of here’: Trump ejects crying infant from rally | US news | The Guardian

FBI employee admits to feeding confidential information to Chinese official for cash and prostitutes: Shanghaiist

The “spy vs. spy” saga between the US and China has been escalated in recent years, with both countries trading accusations of clandestine attempts to steal sensitive information — from the arrest of an ex-NASA contractor to the conviction of two men for stealing Oreo’s precious recipe. Last year, the US charged six Chinese nationals with economic espionage. Meanwhile, to help catch agents operating inside its country, China has enlisted help from the masses with a nationwide hotline.

Source: FBI employee admits to feeding confidential information to Chinese official for cash and prostitutes: Shanghaiist

If I was the President …. or in his position .. I would ….

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In my last interview with Mossi, in All for Peace, he asked me what seemed a provocative question, knowing well he didn’t have the intention to provoke when he said: I am meeting your president next week, what do you want me to tell him? While trying to make the question more appropriate with my sense of reaction, Mossi, ended asking me what would I want to tell the president, and to make the discussion less serious he said: what would you do if you were the president.

Regardless the Q and A game that took place, what continued to irritate me was the fact the Mossi, the Israeli, can meet the president and I, the Palestinian cannot.

I forgot about it, and I saw today on the news headlines talking about the meeting of the president with a delegation from Meretz. At the beginning I felt the same stirring…

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Mother of service member booed over Khan question at Pence rally – POLITICO

Barbara Weisenthal, 56, said she was among those booing and that Khizr Khan did not have the “right” to say what he did about Trump at the DNC. His speech “was almost like slander,” she said.Of the woman who asked the question, Weisenthal said it was “probably not the best place to do that.”Jack Christenson, himself a veteran, said the questioner may have had the right to ask her question of Pence, but not “to violate everyone else’s rights,” which he said she did by speaking out at the event.“She was claiming that Trump was somehow insulting the veterans,” said Roen Horn, 29. He called that idea “a bunch of crap.”“She was politicizing the veterans,” she said. “She had an agenda.”

Source: Mother of service member booed over Khan question at Pence rally – POLITICO

Frida Berrigan: “Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!” – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

We know where that problem ends, but it starts somewhere, too. One place to begin to look, at least, is at how our kids—particularly our boys—play, and how they are nurtured (or not), and taught to express their emotions (or not). It is, at least in part, up to us, their parents, to decide whether they are going to be the ones who help repair our society and reorient us (or not). And it begins with the kinds of care and love they receive, the kinds of conversations they are invited into, the kinds of expectations they are given about behavior and relationships.I don’t want to raise Seamus, Madeline, or Rosena in the austere, ripped from the headlines of horror, polemical atmosphere that was the essence of my own childhood. But I don’t want them to get comfortable with killing either.I want so much more for, and from, my little boy than “Pow, pow, yous are dead now!” And that starts with taking the gun or the stick or the rainbow flag out of his hands, sitting him down, and having a hard conversation about what guns actually do to people– and how much killing hurts us all.

Source: Frida Berrigan: “Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!” – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

Egyptian Aak 2016- Week 30 ( July 25-31)

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Top Headlines

  • IMF mission arrives in Cairo to discuss Egypt’s loan request
  • Al-Azhar rejects Egypt government decision to standardize Friday sermons
  • Egypt has not received political asylum request from Turkish cleric Gulen
  • Central Bank of Egypt decided to leave its benchmark interest rates unchanged
  • Egypt appeal court upholds 1-year sentence for TV host Behery in contempt of religion case
  • Israel’s Netanyahu celebrates Egypt National Day

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In the name of Brutality : The world mourns Cecile “the lion” , and in Palestine we mourn “Laith” a Palestinian Youth.

no words from me can ease the pain – work for peace to save life.

نادية حرحش

It is impossible to see the video of a woman bidding a final farewell to her child , who yet didn’t become a man and remain silent .

Silence and blindness towards this brutality that continue to shatter mothers’ hearts . the world has joined in solidarity last week with a lion who was hunted brutally by a human that the world agreed he was a savage and a psycho . the scenes of the poor lion dead were heart-breaking ,and the campaign against the killers was just and important .

Today , Laith ( a lion cub in Arabic) , 17 years old was murdered by a bullet shot from the back to stop his heart forever.

We may not have witnessed the grieving of Cecil the lion’s mother over the loss of her cub. But laith’s mother was there to mourn her lost forever cub.

My heart mourns…

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Pope Francis says it is ‘not right’ to identify Islam with violence | World news | The Guardian

Pope Francis has said it was wrong to identify Islam with violence and that social injustice and idolatry of money were among the prime causes of terrorism.“I think it is not right to identity Islam with violence,” he told reporters aboard the plane taking him back to Rome after a five-day trip to Poland. “This is not right and this is not true.”

The pope was responding to a question about the killing on 26 July of an 85-year-old Roman Catholic priest during a church service in western France. The attackers forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat. The killing was claimed by Islamic State.“I think that in nearly all religions there is a always a small fundamentalist group,” he said, adding “We have them,” referring to Catholicism.“I don’t like to talk about Islamic violence because every day when I look at the papers I see violence here in Italy – someone killing his girlfriend, someone killing his mother-in-law. These are baptised Catholics,” he said.“If I speak of Islamic violence, I have to speak of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent,” he said.He said there were various causes of terrorism.“I know it dangerous to say this but terrorism grows when there is no other option and when money is made a god and it, instead of the person, is put at the centre of the world economy,” he said.“That is the first form of terrorism. That is a basic terrorism against all humanity. Let’s talk about that,” he said.

Source: Pope Francis says it is ‘not right’ to identify Islam with violence | World news | The Guardian