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Breathing in a new life in 2015 and Exhaling 2014 with a Deep Sigh

December 29, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming The first thing we take in life is a breath and the last thing we give up is a breath. But unlike any other function of the body, breathing relies equally on the voluntary and involuntary nervous systems. In the West, most of us never focus on even one of the 20,000…

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ISIS will not negotiate with Jordan to free captured pilot.

December 25, 2014December 26, 2014 Ali Younes No Comments

By Ali Younes According to New York attorney Stanley Cohen, the Islamic State or ISIS will not be interested in negotiating with the Jordanian government to free its captured Jordanian pilot. Not any time soon at least. This is because, he argues, the way Jordan handled the negotiations to save American aid worker Peter Kassig. Jordanian…

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Gaza students call for speedier repair and rebuilding of schools

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 Mohammed Asad No Comments

By Mohammed Asad Students in the Gaza Strip held protests this week to urge a speedier repair and rebuilding of the dozens of schools that were destroyed by Israel’s military this past summer during its assault on the civilian population. More than 2,200 people were killed with more than 90 percent civilians, including about 500 children,…

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Israel’s Wall in the Little Town of Bethlehem

December 18, 2014October 9, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming Banksy, the graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter depicts 21st century Bethlehem reality onto holiday greeting cards and informational cards with this message: Towering walls and militarized fences now encircle Bethlehem, turning the 4,000-year-old city into a virtual prison for its Palestinian Christian and Muslim citizens. Bethlehem has…

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Exclusive: Hamas leader Meshaal: Israel risks religious war over Jerusalem

December 17, 2014December 18, 2014 Ali Younes No Comments

By Ali Younes For Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, this year was an emotional roller coaster that had the potential to destroy his fledgling and increasingly powerful organization or make it even more powerful and relevant than ever before. Speaking to chairman of Hamas political Bureau in the Qatari capital, Doha last week on wide range…

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The Thousand Lights and a Light in Paris

December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

By Abdennour Toumi Paris, France — Paris, known world-wide as La Ville Lumière, is a name well-earned and valid, not only for its fame as a center of intellectualism since the Age of Enlightenment, but also as the seat of inspirational education for students the world over. Countless lights shine to illuminate this sparkling city at…

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Israeli Spies and YouTube Gift from Vanunu Mordechai

December 8, 2014August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming After nearly a year of silence, Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, ‘spoke’ on Wednesday through the uploading of Freedom Now First at his YouTube Channel. Vanunu adds no description, explanation or translation to the nine-minute Israeli TV report which aired on 23 May 2010, just prior to Vanunu returning to 78 days…

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UN Resolution Israel Must Renounce Nuclear Arms and USA Media remains MIA

December 4, 2014August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday, ABC NEWS filed the AP Report UN Resolution: Israel Must Renounce Nuclear Arms: The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight. The resolution, adopted in a 161-5 vote, noted that Israel is…

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Taybeh Continues to be the Light

December 1, 2014December 1, 2014 Maria Khoury No Comments

By Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. As I woke up to heavy rain and severe wind storms in one of the highest mountain regions in Palestine, I gave glory to God to be alive for another day and continue to keep my hope that all people of this region will learn to love humanity. The…

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The Wife of Jesus: Ancient biblical fragment a historical truth or clever forgery?

November 30, 2014December 1, 2014 Ali Younes No Comments

By Ali Younes Did Jesus have a wife? or he didn’t in according with official teachings of the Catholic church which holds that Jesus remained celibate all of his life on earth which later became the foundation for the Catholic Church . A notion that later obligated the pope and persists to live the way…

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The Body @ Gallery One-Palestine

November 30, 2014November 30, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

The Body @ Gallery One-Palestine By Yousef Khatib Since Prehistory, not only has mankind been attempting to achieve a better understanding of the various components of the universe, but also been creatively seeking different media to demonstrate and communicate found results and outcomes. Experts and scholars to communicate with the public such significant achievements have…

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Jon Stewart’s next movie: Vanunu Israel’s Snowden and Photographer WMD Facility?

November 24, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 3 Comments

By Eileen Fleming Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic and the cure for that is journalism and expression Jon Stewart has reiterated regarding why he produced “Rosewater” which is based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari, which recounts Bahari’s 2009 imprisonment by Iran, after an interview with Jason…

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Ex- Al Qaida Fighter: Al Qaida plans to attack the US on September 11 were public, CIA did noting to stop it

November 23, 2014March 6, 2026 Ali Younes No Comments

By Ali Younes A former Al Qaida fighter who was present in Afghanistan before and during the September, 11 attacks, said that he is convinced today that the CIA had prior knowledge of the impending attacks on the World Trade Center and on Washington and they did not nothing to prevent it. He recounted to…

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Israel Palestine Religion VS Spirit and Imagination

November 20, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming Sixty-six years of political conflict in Israel Palestine, the so-called Holy Land has focused on borders, settlements, checkpoints, terrorism and human rights has now morphed into Debates over access to sites in Jerusalem’s Old City, where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven and where Jews believe their holy ancient temples…

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Living in Urban Palestine

November 19, 2014November 23, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

By Yousef Khatib Camillo Sitte believed that there is an art in the planning of cities; so then that would define the “city” an urban landscape, a defining measure of cultural value. Various historical and contemporary critics of urban landscapes, express that architecture and urbanism have always been products of social, cultural, political, economic and…

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Daily Kos Censorship and Apartheid Israeli Style

November 18, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

By Eileen Fleming The Daily Kos promotes itself as a weblog with political analysis on US current events from a liberal perspective. Seven years after my first banning at the Daily Kos which I documented here: It Sure Smells Like a Right Wing Zionist Cabal at The Daily Kos , I returned on Sunday with: Charlie…

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Weather brings more challenges to victims of Israeli war crimes

November 18, 2014August 20, 2019 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Winter weather brings harsh conditions for the Palestinian victims of Israeli war crimes and the delayed process of providing relief and reconstruction for civilian residents of the Gaza Strip including in Shujaiyya, one of the targets of Israeli military terrorism this past summer By Mohammed Asad The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to face hardships…

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Netanyahu Seeks Nation-State of the Jewish People – EU Proposes Sanctions

November 16, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming On Sunday in Jerusalem at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would push forward the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People” the most extreme of a series of similar legislative proposals that have been raised this year. Netanyahu said, “The justice…

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