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The life and works of Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi will be celebrated in London at the Shabbak Festival featuring his films and the films of others. Khleifi produced the West Bank’s first documentary film in 1980 “Fertile Memory” For many years, Michel Khleifi was the ultimate voice of Palestinian cinema. Emerging from the ashes of PLO…
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While the dynamics of the Middle East conflict continue to change, one question continues to surface: Can there be peace in the Middle East? The answer is yes. But peace requires that the world recognize that the true obstacle to peace is rising extremism in Israel, and the need for Israelis to finally recognize the right of Christians and…
Israel’s lobby and other programs organize trips to take Jews only to Israel hoping to “educate” them on the country, such as Birthright, while closing doors to the reality of the Israeli government’s and military’s brutal oppression against Palestinians, including the discrimination against Palestinian “citizens” of the State By Dezeray Lyn It was 5:30am when…
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The Taybeh Brewing Company, the first Micro-Brewery in the Middle East is planning its annual OctoberFest which will be held this Fall in September. Despite the oppression of Palestinians, the Festival will continue to bring people together to celebrate a German tradition that is popular throughout the world, especially in the village of Taybeh, which…
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One year since the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip and the massacre of more than 2,200 Palestinian civilians including more than 500 children, the destruction of more than 10,000 homes, and destruction of 50,000 more, Palestinians paused to celebrate the Islamic holiday marking the end of Ramadan. The Muslim World has seemingly abandoned the…
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This week AIPAC’s executive director, Howard Kohr ordered his staff to cancel their summer vacations in response to the Iran Deal which has been welcomed by the International community except for Israel. By Eileen Fleming On Monday, the U.N. Security Council is scheduled to vote on a resolution circulated to council members Wednesday…
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The latest witch-hunt to discredit Alison Weir, [founder and executive director of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest] is disgracing her attackers as it underscores the dire need to educate Americans: In particular our elected representatives regarding Israel’s attack on the USS LIBERTY; which this activist reporter contends is…
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In 2005, inspired by Jon Stewart, the Daily Show Correspondents, Brenda Starr, Dorothy Day and Mordechai Vanunu, my childhood dream of becoming a Reporter became reality. On Wednesday Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower wrote: Vanunu Mordechai is ready to leave israel for ever and ever,after 18 years prison+11years in east jerusalem.FreedomNow. Time come to start new Life,in…
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Former Israel Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is the point person in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hate campaign against President Barack Obama, and against the movement to bring peace. Oren’s attacks are a sophisticated strategy to broaden the assault against both Obama and peace, and cast critics of Israel’s extremist policies as “anti-Semites”…
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In July 2014, Israel intentionally provoked a war against Hamas, as it has done several times since 2008, designed to punish Palestinian civilians by targeting their children, their homes and their infrastructure to discredit Hamas. Thousands of civilians, including children, were murdered by heavily armed Israeli soldiers who defended the huge civilian deaths by asserting that…
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical…It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. – Thomas Jefferson, 1787 By Eileen Fleming On his tombstone, Thomas Jefferson expressed that he wanted to be remembered…
Having gained the magic 3% of the vote for its Resolution at GE and Intel, Holy Land Principles Inc. is giving concentrated attention to Cisco. The giant high tech company will have its annual meeting in the Fall, when Holy Land Principles, Inc. will present its Resolution, urging Cisco to sign the Holy Land Principles….
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By Eileen Fleming Every day in Gaza at least one person attempts suicide. In the USA someone dies by suicide every 12.8 minutes. Last week the Palestine News Network reported that the suicide rate in the Occupied Territories jumped 68.4 percent last year. The Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, which was destroyed during last summer’s…
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By Eileen Fleming Israel’s former ambassador to Washington, USA born Michael Oren exemplifies the latter and Kameel Nasr from Lebanon and Boston the former. Oren served as Israel’s ambassador in Washington from 2009 to 2013 and is now a Knesset member in Israel’s center-right Kulanu party. Launching his new book “Ally: My Journey Across the…
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By Eileen Fleming Everything is connected and when it comes to Israel Palestine: America is deeply connected! The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-Gandhi Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense and lets go of negative…
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To normalize or not to normalize. How much is too much or too little? There is an in between called compromise.It’s clear that the direction most Israelis and Palestinians are headed is away from peace and actions that might help end the conflict. When the brutality of the Israeli occupation increases, the thought of reaching…
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By Eileen Fleming USS LIBERTY survivor Joe Meadors is a former U.S. Navy signalman who exemplifies the USS Liberty Survivors’ Creed: I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength…
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Book Release: Former Saudi Ambassador Robert W. Jordan published a new book Desert Diplomat on Saudi Arabia after 9/11. An inside look at US-Saudi diplomacy at a crucial time in American history In the spring of 2001 George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. After the attacks…
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