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Christian Palestinians not welcoming Mike Pence threatening to receive him with shoe

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Christian Palestinians, along with Muslims held a protest in front of Nativity Church after Sunday prayers, To express there rejection of US President Donald Trump’s decision to consider Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The protesters assur that  they would not meet his deputy Mike Pines because of his US administration pro-Israel  positions.

 Participants also raised Palestinian flags and slogans in English and Arabic denouncing American decision on jerusalem and warning against  US Vice President’s visit to the city.

George Zina who spoke on behalf Palestinian factions, Follow – up Christian Committee and Christian institutions in Bethlehem, stressed the popular position that rejects USA Vice President visit to the city, which carries the meaning of war and aggression.

Zina added that Trump decision to consider Jerusalem as the capital of Israel harms Palestinian Christians and Muslims he said also that US president have no right to forget religious and historical significance of the city and its indigenous inhabitants.

He assur that Trump decision is against international laws and conventions and will not change the Christian and Islamic reality of the city.

He called on international community to challenge this American arrogance and pressure Trump to withdraw his decision on Jerusalem adding that the Christian in the city is not welcoming US  Vice President Mike Pines visit.

Revolutionary Council member of Fatah movement, Mohammed Lahham, called for not receiving the US Vice President in Bethlehem.

He said: “We will receive US vice president with shoes and more.”

He added that Mike Pines unwelcome person and would be expelled from Bethlehem.

On Thursday, senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub said that Pence was “unwelcome” in Palestine.

“In the name of Fatah I say that we will not welcome Trump’s deputy in the Palestinian Territories.

He asked to meet (Abbas) on the 19th of this month in Bethlehem, such a meeting will not take place,” Jibril Rajoub  stated.

On response for the reports that Palestinians not meeting and welcoming Mike Pence a spokesperson for Vice President said that by refusing to meet the latter during his upcoming trip to the region, the PA was turning its back on a dialogue about the future of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

It is unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region, the White House lamented in a statement released Sunday evening.

Pence is expected to visit the region later this month. He is set to travel to Israel and to the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

It was not clear what Rajoub’s remarks meant for the West Bank portion of Pence’s trip, but Politico reported Thursday that Pence “still intends to meet with Abbas and Palestinian leaders and thinks any decision to pull out of the meeting would be counterproductive,” a White House official was quoted as saying.

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‘Alabama deserves better’: Republican breaks with party to denounce Moore

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Richard Shelby, Alabama’s senior senator, refuses to fall in line with Trump and Republican National Committee’s endorsement: ‘I couldn’t vote for Moore’

Alabama’s senior senator has rebuked Roy Moore, the Republican candidate in Tuesday’s special election who has been accused of molestation and sexual misconduct by eight women, including several who were underage at the time.

In doing so, Richard Shelby refused to fall in line with Donald Trump, who was endorsed Moore, and the Republican National Committee (RNC).

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‘Pak-origin sex gangs target white girls in UK’

Times of India is now publishing “fake news” produced by right-wing organizations posing as research organizations – http://ift.tt/2ycrgjR Gangs of Pakistani-origin men lure white girls with alcohol and drugs before raping and sexually abusing them as they fail to integrate within British society due to their Asian heritage, an anti-extremism think-tank has said in a new report.

Conference tweets: what’s your aim here?

There are many lists detailing what you need to consider when you use Twitter and Tweet stuff during a conference. Mine is below. But before we get to that, ask yourself this: what am I aiming to do here? It’s a pretty simple question but one that you may not have asked yourself before you decided to share your thoughts with the the world.

I’m assuming that you understand that when you Tweet, you’re not emailing friends or talking on the phone or just to a select few sciency mates; this is worldwide communication. 

But before that list, here’s a short pre-list checklist of things…

  • Why do I want to Tweet?
    Gonna stick to 20-year old in-jokes and name drops for your hardcore science krew or try to breakdown complexity, explain the science, descrrbe the talk, engage the public and advertise your expertise?
  • Who am I tweeting for?
    Think about your intended audience(s). It may be that you could just talk to those people at drinks or lunch?
  • Have I checked with the organizers that tweeting is okay and made sure there are no “don’t tweet this” signs on the slides? 
    Some people like to show their unsubmitted-data-for-future-publication to a room full of competitors but not to the internet. Or something.
  • Have I looked for Twitter handles beforehand
    Help out a presenter – use their handle and get them some more love (or maybe a collaboration or two)!
  • Make sure your Twitter account has a good photo (whether a headshot, lab photo or a graphic-it’s going to be your brand for a while) and a relevant bio
    Mention your role(s), passions and home city at least. 
  • Do I have the time to do this usefully and the skills to do it professionally?
    If you’re tweeting because “shiny new social media thing” or “My University says I have to communicate” but you don’t really know what that means then perhaps sit this one out. A lot of people aren’t that good at communicating clearly, quickly or outside their nerd herd. Perhaps just sit back and observe what’s going on around you in the conference twittersphere. Join in later maybe. Or maybe it’s just not for you.

Tweetings from meetings…

  1. Use the conference hashtag in every tweet
  2. Apart from live-tweeting the presentations, Tweet info about the host city, restaurants, public transport, good coffee spots, cheap eats etc.
    Be helpful and useful. Maybe even call for company for morning coffee or shout out to form a group around a topic and have dinner together
  3. Identify the speaker (always give credit) – name, Twitter handle (see above), talk subject in first Tweet
    After that just refer to last name or leave it out entirely if you are confident you can thread the tweets about each talk
  4. Add some detail about the talk in a follow-up tweet…or 2…or 3
    “Bob talking about Protein-X “….WHAT about Protein-X? What’s Bob saying? Has Bob made a good point? Is there some info to share? 
  5. If you want your Tweet to get noticed and to spread around, make sure it has context – why is work/research cool and what will it lead to? 
    Why should I care about your tweet or Bob’s work or Bob or you? These are mini-stories-don’t just flash up the cover, overview the book. This applies if tweeting just for you peers or for the wider world 
  6. Take and share slide photos – but good quality ones, not blurry or unzoomable nightmares 
    Presenters have put time and effort into conveying their data to their audience – you are now expanding their audience to dozens or thousands of extra seats, so do them justice
  7. Check the hashtag during the meeting – retweet other Tweets, comment on their comments
    Engage, follow, laugh, enjoy, expand and curate on your networks; it is social media after all
  8. Try and work in some humour
    Who doesn’t like a laugh? Be interesting and engaging.
  9. Try and find some data to quantify the reach and impact of your tweeting
    For the Masters. Symplur’s free monitoring of healthcare conference hashtags is a good start to see who is doing well. But look at the numbers of your retweets and engagements via Twitter analytics too. Talk about it. It’s an output and its quantifiable

Remember you are tweeting to the world as well as to scientists. This is a great opportunity to test out your communication skills and to inform those who will ultimately benefit from (and often fund) your contribution to the history of science – the public.

Having a Twitter account is one thing. Using it to science is entirely another.

 

 

Basel Jubran…An Arab that represents me

نادية حرحش

Amid all the disgusting reality around us as Palestinians specifically. Basel Jubran, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Lebanon, is a proud representative of what an Arab, a Palestinian should be.

Unlike the weak, disgraceful, shameful representatives of the PA …to start with the President and to follow with his foreign minister, who in their most represent an echo to Israel and the U.S.

Part of his speech  :

” Jerusalem is not for a Jewish god that expels a Christian god. And it is not a place for the struggle of gods on the ground. Our God is one and for all. Jerusalem cannot be a state for one side. And there is no place for unilateral among us. Jerusalem is for the jews, Christians, and Muslims. And we, the sons of Ibrahim and Isa and Mohammad, will all pray in Jerusalem. We cannot imagine that we allow Israel to…

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Basel Jubran…An Arab that represents me

Amid all the disgusting reality around us as Palestinians specifically. Basel Jubran, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Lebanon, is a proud representative of what an Arab, a Palestinian should be.

Unlike the weak, disgraceful, shameful representatives of the PA …to start with the President and to follow with his foreign minister, who in their most represent an echo to Israel and the U.S.

Part of his speech  :

” Jerusalem is not for a Jewish god that expels a Christian god. And it is not a place for the struggle of gods on the ground. Our God is one and for all. Jerusalem cannot be a state for one side. And there is no place for unilateral among us. Jerusalem is for the jews, Christians, and Muslims. And we, the sons of Ibrahim and Isa and Mohammad, will all pray in Jerusalem. We cannot imagine that we allow Israel to prohibit us from praying Jerusalem. Therefore, I am not here today , in the name of Lebanon to condemn an operation of theft , and not to remind of an Arab identity that we  have created , and not to modify about a belonging that is intended to allude us into a struggle that is meant to divide us into religions and sects, into tribes and families, and transform us into a broken nation that can be easily humiliated and violated , instead of being participatory with its understandings and shared resources and sciences. I am not here to call for an announcement of a symbolic condemnation that will be mocked and erased … we are here because our Arab-hood does not give up on Jerusalem . and we in Lebanon we do not run away from our destiny in confrontation and resistance. … we carry Jerusalem identity; we don’t live except as free people. And we will revolt in front of every occupier and conqueror. Golda Meir wanted us to be a sleeping nation when the Aqsa was burnt in 1969, and we became a defeated nation, and some wanted us to be an absent nation and nonexistent, as a result of our lack of shared visions and the absence of an open ideology that unifies us. A nap that we do not accept, but we insist to awaken it within a unique Lebanese and connect it with an expanded orient. And we look forward a unified Arabism. We are from the Jerusalem identity. Our Arab-hood cannot be touched, and our status cannot be changed. …

We are here to regain our lost Arabism between Shiite and Sunni. And lost between west and east. and distracted inside an Arab Persian struggle, and pushed by illusion towards a common Muslim Christian fear while the Pope Shenouda and Mutran George Khider, father Wakeem Mubarak ( and other names) have carried the Arabism as their life plight …….the Arab patriarch realized that those wars.

All that is happening is a distraction from the Palestinian cause, from Arab spring to Shiites Sunni fights, and excommunicating and takfir, and exploiting minorities when we are all minorities in a way or another. Wars were created, and revenge was after that defeat in a transfer of an embassy and Judaizing of Jerusalem.

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we did not come here to commiserate one another …. we are here to regain ourselves instead of losing it . and to restore our primary cause, the Palestinian cause. The Palestinian cause with Jerusalem as its capital, we should not just accept the recognition of Palestine as a state, or the diplomatic moves to continue attention, and not only to work for a Palestine that is with full membership in the UN. We have to submit immediate complaints about the SC, and each country among us should do what is needed to devote Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine. I will, in the name of Lebanon submit to the PMC in Lebanon to call f….. we need to have a unified Arab decision against the move of the embassy of this country and others that recognize this. Starting with strategic actions and ending with sanctions

if anyone is asking about the effectivity of such a move, it is enough to remind the world of the Saudi Iraqi declaration in 1981 to stop dealing with the US on oil which forced them to stop all the moves to move the embassy to Jerusalem.

To regain the Arab pride and the revolutionary breath against oppression, and have one uprising in all the Arab countries. I don’t imagine a single Arab nation that will not come along this call. Our governments have gone ahead of us, and we became Arab systems that are so degraded that our countries don’t respect us. This uprising should not stop except with the full application of the Arab initiative peace.

Brothers,

I am here today, as the Christian by faith, lebanese by identity, the oriental with my belonging, the Arab with my identity and belonging. I stand here and call for a reconciliation of Arab Arab to regain our dignity and strength….

I call for

without Jerusalem there is no Arab and no Arabism…., let’s avoid the curse of history and avoid questions of our grandchildren