Category Archives: Viva!

News Analysis: As U.S. Exits Syria, Mideast Faces a Post-American Era

for now and with this isolationist fool of a President The pending withdrawal from Syria is the latest example of a broader American disengagement from the Middle East. Russia and Iran are filling the void.

A proud moment …Congratulation love…Hiva

نادية حرحش

I am unable, not share this overwhelming moment of my life. The year started with some exciting encounters, that included the finding of the woman whom I am named after Nadia. Zoe, our beloved dog, almost disappeared and was found by the tremendous efforts of my darling brother.


As life moves on, and my children are stepping out to their future, I felt as if a journey of life just rewound itself as Hiva stepped in her first career. Somehow all those challenges, trembling threats, unbearable difficulties, almost impossible attempts to make it amid storms of turbulence. Sounds of insistence that I will not make it … we will not make it. Somehow as Hiva is entering her own “I” definition of her universe, I feel this moment untie me from that chain of us into a new chain of Hiva’s own path.
I feel as if God finally smiles…

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As government shutdown drags on, where is Senator McConnell? | Reuters – House should propose $2.5 billion for increased border security to move forward and get government back to work…

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who helped negotiate an end to an earlier shutdown, said this of McConnell’s absence from negotiations: “Basically, that’s what’s holding everything up.” Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, is passing shutdown-ending spending bills in her chamber, including one on Friday. If McConnell would only put those measures on the Senate floor for a vote, Democrats argue, senators from both parties would support them. That would then pressure Trump, according to the Democrats, to sign the bills into law and reopen government, even if the measures lacked the $5.7 billion in wall funding he is demanding. McConnell has made clear this will not happen.

Source: As government shutdown drags on, where is Senator McConnell? | Reuters

‘Irish history is moving rapidly’: backlash to abortion law fails to emerge

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Besides a fleeting protest in Galway, abortion has become available in 22 of Ireland’s 26 counties with barely a fuss

Ireland voted by a landslide to legalise abortion – but turning that social revolution into medical reality has fallen largely on the shoulders of just 200 GPs.

Related: Apprehension on all sides before launch of Irish abortion services

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Britons make 170,000 antisemitic Google searches a year, study finds

by how many people – would give us better information.

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Research shows 10% of these searches involve violent phrases such as ‘Jews must die’

At least 170,000 antisemitic Google searches are made in the UK every year, with 10% of them involving violent phrases such as “Jews must die” or “kill Jews”, research has revealed.

The analysis for the Community Security Trust (CST) showed that while most of the searches are for jokes mocking Jewish people, the most common negative stereotypes claim Jews are “evil” and “racist”.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic Colleagues Seem Pretty Scared of Her 

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Conservatives are not the only ones who are collectively losing their goddamn minds over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, turns out. According to Politico, Ocasio-Cortez is “already making enemies in the House Democratic Caucus,” and “some of its members are mounting an operation” to bring her “into the fold,” which I…

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الشعب الفلسطيني بين وهم الاستقلال وأكذوبة الوطنية

نادية حرحش

هناك أربع مشاهد تتصدر الساحة الفلسطينية مع بداية هذا العام.

-الحرب الكلامية يحتد وطيدها بين شطري الانقسام، وإسرائيل تقصف أو لا تقصف غزة، فشأن غزة لأهلها، الا عندما يتعلق الموضوع بمسيرة لفتح، فقمع فاعتقالات.

مسيرات بعشرات الالاف في رام الله تنديدا ورفضا لقانون الضمان الاجتماعي، ولا من سامع ولا من حكومة تهتز أو تهتم. فلا حراك بالستر الصفراء او البرتقالي سيغير من موقف حكومة وجدت من معاشات المواطنين قطرات تحلب منها أموالا جديدة.

-رامي ليفي، يفتتح متجرا في وسط مغتصبة بالقدس ويتدافع المواطن المقدسي للتبضع، غير مبالي لكون المتجر ينتج ويبيع من بضائع المغتصبات ولا من كون وجود المتجر وسط مغتصبة في أحيائه. المتجر يحقق ملايين الشواكل في الساعات الأولى من افتتاحه (على حسب المصدر الإسرائيلي )، يتصدر المتسوقون الاخبار الإسرائيلية لهول الحدث حتى بالنسبة للاسرائيليين، والمدافعين والمهرولين في نفس صف التبرير، المواطن مسكين والسلطة باعت البلد فلا تأتوا على المواطن الغلبان. وكأن التاجر الفلسطيني مرابي يهودي من العصور الوسطى…

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