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How ridiculous is the General Strike today?

“We were a typical outcome of a proverb we were taught as children ” empty vessels made the great noise.” I have to admit that with the silence of the atmosphere as a result of the Jewish holidays, our voice is also making an echo!” too convenient – no power.

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Today, 1st of October, the last day of the Sukkot holidays. The day the Jewish people in Israel close their religious holiday with a final redemption.

The Palestinians, everywhere, announced a general strike, that was initiated by the Arab parties inside Israel, to condemnrefuse…the new national law, that declares Israel as a state of the Jewish people.

Was it pure negligence from the side of the organizers to decide this specific day as a day to demonstrate by strikingly striking the streets of Israel in a complete shutdown …while everything in Israel is closed?

Alternatively, is it a complete submission and fear from consequences, as well as abiding with the easiest to declare a strike in a day that is a holiday within the overall Israeli places?

If this is a problem, the fact that the call was responded with “joy” from the Palestinian territories who happened to have a normal working…

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Turkish citizenship is for sale, but will Arabs buy in?

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Turkish citzenship sale

If you are rich and want to acquire Turkish citizenship, then congrats, your wish has come true. Turkey has significantly eased requirements for acquiring Turkish citizenship. The new regulations reduce the limits for fixed capital investments to acquire Turkish citizenship, reducing the investment from $2 million to $500,000. Additionally, foreigners who own real estate in Turkey worth a minimum of $250,000, instead of $1 million, can also acquire Turkish citizenship.

The aim of the amendment is to attract foreign investment after the collapse of the Turkish lira and the real-estate sector. House sales across Turkey have declined 12.5 percenton a yearly basis in August with a more than 67 percent yearly decrease in mortgage sales. Morover, the Turkish central bank’s total foreign currency reserves have fallensince April 2010.

Taking a look at the International Classification of Passports around the world, there is one clear conclusion: the new Turkish nationality…

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An ‘Ancestral Memory’ Inscribed in Skin – The New York Times

These tattoos were traditionally inscribed on women’s skin by women’s hands to commemorate various achievements and points in a woman’s life, such as one’s first menstrual period, the mastery of a new skill and childbirth. But as Western colonization swept Alaska in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the establishment of boarding schools where indigenous languages would not be spoken, many Alaska Natives were prohibited from practicing the rituals that had bound them to one another. Tattooing was one of those traditions. In the last decade, women in Alaska and other areas of the circumpolar north have been working to revitalize the tattooing tradition. For them it is a response to the long-ago efforts to wipe out cultural practices and entire populations of people, and a celebration of cultural resilience.

كيف يغيب عن العالم ما يجري في الخليل

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نادية حرحش

كيف يغيب عن العالم ما يجري في الخليل؟

الحقيقة ان الجواب واضح وبسيط: غياب السلطة وانعدام الدبلوماسية المزعومة!

 لا أفهم كيف لا يتم استخدام ما يحدث في البلدة القديمة في الخليل كنموذج حي لتجسيد كل جرائم الاحتلال.

الامر لا يتطلب شيئا، سوى المشي في تلك الشوارع المعزولة المفصولة “المطهرة” من السكان الأصليين.

٢٣٠ ألف انسان يعيشون في حالة عزل وقمع ورعب وتهديد من قبل ٨٥٠ مستوطن مسعور.

يتساءل العالم عن نظام الفصل العنصري، وكل ما يحتاجه رئيس السلطة الفلسطينية هو ان يجعل الوفود الزائرة للمقاطعة بالمرور او محاولة المرور من تلك المنطقة.

ولكن ما يؤرق الرئيس والسلطة غير هذا….

والعالم ينظر ….

والسلطة تبكي حالها من بعيد….

كيف لا تقوم وزارة السياحة بعمل زيارات وتعبئة دائمة لتلك الجرائم المرتكبة يوميا في الخليل؟

كيف لا تكون الخليل عنوان كل اشتباك دبلوماسي؟

يكفي ان تقف في مكان ما هناك لترى المستوطنين المسعورين والجنود المستذئبين والضباع من أطفالهم والجيف من نسائهم ومسنيهم.

كيف…

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The warm glow of kindness is real, even if there’s nothing in it for you

The warm glow of kindness is real, even if there's nothing in it for youPsychologists at the University of Sussex have confirmed that the warm glow of kindness is real, even when there’s nothing in it for you. In their study, published in NeuroImage, they undertook a major analysis of existing research showing the brain scans relating to over 1000 people making kind decisions. For the first time, they […]

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