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Novel about Jewish-Palestinian love affair is barred from Israeli curriculum

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Government accused of censorship after reportedly saying the award-winning Borderlife by Dorit Rabinyan risked damaging the ‘identity of the nation’

A novel about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man has been barred from Israel’s high school curriculum, reportedly over concerns that it could encourage intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews.

The rejection of Dorit Rabinyan’s novel Borderlife, which was published in 2014, created an uproar in Israel, with critics accusing the government of censorship.

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Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Impossible Desire

I want to be born again,
in a place where there is peace.
I want to born again where I could live more simply;
where I would know the route for my life—
where I would be able to laugh and get excited
to ride a bicycle in the road,
in the rain.
I want to be born again;
and live like a bird, fly over the blue sky
free from every bond.
I want to be a singer
shouting my pain out of my heart.
I want to be a painter with a paintbrush in my hand,
painting the oldest tree of the city,
or a rainbow after rain.
I want to be a poet
disappearing in the world of words,
or in the village with small garden,
with a gray cat lying under sun.
But I know I will not be born again…
I was born in the shadow of war and
I will die in the shadow of war.

By Farida

Photo by Argya Diptya

Source: Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Impossible Desire

2015 Year in Pictures: Part II

Photographs from July – December on a range of topics from arouund the world. ( see Part I )

By Lloyd Young
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Pensioners try to get a number to enter inside a bank in Athens, on July 1. About 1,000 bank branches around the country were ordered by the government to reopen to help desperate pensioners without ATM cards cash up to 120 euros ($134) from their retirement checks.

(Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated Press)

Mimi Writes…….: New Year’s Eve 2015 ~ Praying In The Parking Lot

We illuminate our paths with decorations of peace.Whether or not that’s what we call it, that’s what it is. There’s much more good going on in the world at large than we give ourselves credit for. Keep lighting up your world, your windows, your gatherings. Make a pew anywhere you land.And pray wherever you sit. My New Year’s Peace Prayer was different this year.But I wasn’t alone.And neither are you. I’d say that’s just about perfect.

Source: Mimi Writes…….: New Year’s Eve 2015 ~ Praying In The Parking Lot

Martyr’s funeral postponed till his corpse defrosts

PNN/ Nablus/
The family of martyr Baseem Salah (38) from Nablus on Tuesday night decided to postpone the funeral of their son until his body defrosts, since he was kep in a refrigerator since 29 November, preventing any chance of his burial.

IOF handed the corpse back to the family through the Huwwara checkpoint south of Nablus city, after over a month of detention.

According to the family, the martyr’s gestures were changed and his body was bended. His feet were bended some one meter above the ground, and so he could not be buried under any circumstances.

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Even though Israeli restrictions dictate that the martyr be buried within one hour of returning the body at night, the family refused to bury him in this condition, saying that he deserves a respected funeral.

Salah was shot dead in Jerusalem last month, under alleged stabbing of a soldier.

Human Rights organizations have exposed that Israeli Occupation Authorities keep the corpses of the martyrs in refrigerators that reach -80 Celcius degrees, in order to prevent any anatomy investigations.

Israel has been accused of harvesting organs and operating other violations. 

Israel has retunred several bodies of martyrs that they willfully killed in the past few months, and still retains some 50 bodies, refusing to give them back.

The bodies are handed back to their families under strict conditions that include time, place, and number of people in the funeral.

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Palestinian child was beaten to death after shot by IOF, says Qaraqe’ 

 

Winona LaDuke Confirms She Will Run for Chair of White Earth Nation

Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke

Published December 30, 2015

WHITE EARTH INDIAN RESERVATION— According to Minnesota Public Radio, well-known American Indian activist Winona LaDuke will run for chair of the White Earth Nation, located in White Earth, Minnesota.

LaDuke confirmed her plans in an email to MPR on Tuesday.

“Basically I want to put my money where my mouth is, she wrote in the email. “I think we can make a great future for White Earth.”

LaDuke is the executive director of Honor the Earth, an organization she co-founded with Indigo Girls in 1993. LaDuke served as Ralph Nader’s Green Party running mate for president in 1996 and 2000.

The White Earth election for chair is scheduled for June 2016. However, given a power struggle the current chair of White Earth is in currently, the position may be open sooner than next June.

The White Earth Nation has over 19,000 scattered throughout the world.

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