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Plant an Olive Tree from Palestine

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Plant an Olive tree from Palestine

Last year, while I was chatting with my Syrian friend, the long-time star in Syrian Drama, Jehad Sa’d. He suddenly jumped off his couch and said: ” I have a splendid idea. Why don’t we plant olive trees from Palestine everywhere in the world? Israelis uproot your trees, and you can plant them all over the world, not just in Palestine. The Palestine olive tree will be everywhere, at the UN, the Vatican, in parks … ”
Last month, a friend of mine who works for Al Ta’awon, the Welfare institution that works for projects in Palestine, launched the same idea. I thought they stole our idea ). But I was so proud that someone took this to an actual level of implementation.
As Al Ta’awon launched its campaign, I call all those who dream of peace for the people of the uprooted olive…

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A journey inside the General’s Son Miko Peled

Finding peace and understanding is hard but worth the effort – sometimes it is really hard but Nadia makes it easier.

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A journey inside the General’s Son Miko Peled.
The answers have changed.

“If you knew what I know, if you saw what I saw, you would do the same. The pain of knowing what I know is a pain so sharp that sitting around and doing nothing stopped being an option for me a long time ago.”

I am not sure from where to start. I know, however, this will be long. How lucky I am to encounter yet another great experience between a book and its author. I should be damn lucky.
However, yet, there is more. This is not just another book, and the author is not just another writer. Moreover, of course, yes, it is the Israel-Palestine enigma. It is the cause that only its people can relate to with such “narcissist” dogma, which somehow identifies what it means to be Palestinian and Israeli. It is all…

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A journey inside the General’s Son – Miko Peled | Nadia Harhash

The General’s Son is a book that Israelis should read as much as Palestinians. Needless to say, it is a book that is so enlightening in the inner depths of one man . It is a book about spiritual purification, enlightenment, and honesty. A path human beings are meant to take .. but mostly never do. Like Einstein, he believes, that the answers have changed. It is no longer one state, two states or three states.

Source: A journey inside the General’s Son Miko Peled | nadiaharhash

Going Under the Knife, With Eyes and Ears Wide Open – The New York Times

 

Patient satisfaction, however, tends to be high. Ms. Voynow did not need a preoperative physical exam, blood work, an I.V. drip or even an attending anesthesiologist. As nurses wheeled her on a gurney out of the O.R., she looked pleasantly surprised. “I’ve had root canals that were worse,” she said.Scarcely a half-hour after the surgery, she drove herself home, using her right hand, which had just been operated on. By contrast, if she had been given general anesthesia, she would most likely have needed several hours to recover, possibly had side effects like dizziness and nausea, and required someone to drive her. An anesthesiologist would have been necessary throughout the operation. And billed accordingly.“If I want sedation, I’ll have a beer,” said David S. Howes, who has had several awake procedures (and who is himself a doctor, an emergency physician in Chicago). During his awake colonoscopy, he discussed fly-fishing with the gastroenterologist. He had two total knee replacements with only regional nerve blocks.

Donald Trump’s dizzying Time magazine interview was ‘Trumpspeak’ on display | Douglas Lawrence | Opinion | The Guardian “I lie to advance myself!”

Finally, Trumpspeak is transactional. It places no independent value on truth. The value of speech is to be measured exclusively in terms of its effects. If a statement gets me closer to my goal, then it is valuable; if it does not, it is worthless. Valuable statements, then, are true by virtue of the fact that they advance my interests. Statements that fail to do so are worthless and thus false. I was elected president, so that means that every statement that got me here has validity.This does not claim to be an exhaustive list of the principles of Trumpspeak. Nor do I mean to suggest that Trumpspeak is a conscious construct of the president. In the Time interview, Trump describes himself as a “very instinctual person”, and however we parse this obscure characterization of self, we should acknowledge the president’s peculiar gift at concocting verbal mayhem.

Source: Donald Trump’s dizzying Time magazine interview was ‘Trumpspeak’ on display | Douglas Lawrence | Opinion | The Guardian

Donald Trump’s dizzying Time magazine interview was ‘Trumpspeak’ on display | Douglas Lawrence | Opinion | The Guardian #3 type lie

In Trumpspeak, truth is not factual, it’s imagistic (this is related to point 2). Truthful statements do not necessarily offer an accurate account of events in the world. They provide an approximation or exaggeration of something that might, in theory, have occurred. Whether a terror attack in Sweden ever took place on the night named by the president is irrelevant. Nor should we care that the riot was not massive and there was no death. Close and maybe are good enough.

Source: Donald Trump’s dizzying Time magazine interview was ‘Trumpspeak’ on display | Douglas Lawrence | Opinion | The Guardian

Donald Trump’s dizzying Time magazine interview was ‘Trumpspeak’ on display | Douglas Lawrence | Opinion | The Guardian – lie-type  #1

“I didn’t say that. I was referring to … a newspaper story with … a picture of Ted Cruz, his father, and Lee Harvey Oswald, having breakfast.”In Trumpspeak, a speaker can never be accused of lying if he’s simply repeating the statements of others; it is the responsibility of those who make original claims to check for the accuracy and truthfulness of their assertions, not the person who repeats them – even if that person happens to be the most powerful person and speaker on the planet.

Source: Donald Trump’s dizzying Time magazine interview was ‘Trumpspeak’ on display | Douglas Lawrence | Opinion | The Guardian

ثكلت قلوبنا يا ام الشهيد

نادية حرحش

اجمل الامهات التي انتظرت طفلها …وعاد مستشهدا

لا…. انها ليست اجمل الامهات ، هي اكثر نساء العالم حزنا وصدمة …هي تلك المثكولة المفجوعة ،المتألمة الى الأبد.

كيف يكون للجمال مكانا مع حزن سيعلم ملامح الوجه وصدمة لن تستيقظ منها الا بصيحة في كل لحظة سترافقها الى نهاية عمرها …الذي انتهى.

ام الشهيد هي تلك … ام محمد الحطاب بالامس ، وام كل شهيد لا نري دموعها ونفرض عليها الزغاريد ..لان ابنها صار شهيدا .

كيف لنا ان نقنعها انه استشهد ولن يعود . كيف لنا ان نفسر لها ان ابنها هو قربان في طريق الحرية ؟ يف لنا ان نواسيها وشهداؤنا تغتسل بهم تربة هذه الارض التي دنسها خنوعنا نحن الشعب ، وتلك القيادة التي تبيع ترابنا المتطهر بكل هذا الدم من اجل مد نفوذ وتواجد لا معنى له .

كم حرقتنا بدموعك يا ام الشهيد ؟

فكيف ستكون حياتك بعد اليوم . اذا ما اشتعلت دموعك المذروفة نارا في…

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Richard Gere on segregation in Hebron: It’s exactly like the Old South | +972 Magazine

In the report, broadcast during the prime time evening news hour Wednesday, Gere responds to what he sees in blunt terms. He compares occupied Hebron to the Jim Crow era in the southern United States.Looking around, Gere says to his guides, and to the television camera, “It’s exactly what the Old South was in America. Blacks knew where they could go: they could drink from that fountain, they couldn’t go over there, they couldn’t eat in that place. It was well understood — you didn’t cross over if you didn’t want to get your head beat in, or you get lynched.”

Source: Richard Gere on segregation in Hebron: It’s exactly like the Old South | +972 Magazine

‘Racial self-interest’ is not racism: populist correctness gone mad?

A duck, is a duck, is a duck. Call it a non-turkey but it is still a duck.

Media Diversified

by Rima Saini 

A UK-based think tank has published a report claiming that the ‘racial self-interest’ of white majorities in the UK and US should be seen as distinct from racism

Areport published this month by British centre-right think tank Policy Exchange, claims that people of all races in the UK believe that in seeking to reduce immigration to maintain population share, the white majority is displaying ‘racial self-interest’, not racism.

Speaking of racism as something which can be defined differently depending on political stance, of structural inequalities as ‘competing ethnic interests’, and through an irresponsible use of data, ‘the UK’s leading think tank’ has chosen the perfect moment for a clickbait report that will undoubtedly be used by some to legitimate the increasingly intolerant views that have flourished since the beginning of the Brexit campaign.

Headed by Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, and using…

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