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huraok

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• A Lebanese shepherd looks at the land of Palestine
  • huraok December 8, 2011 at 3:03 pm with 1 replies

    As a Palestinian from a village in the Galilee, I'm touched by this story. Thank you for sharing.

• Lauren Pierce needs a history lesson
  • huraok November 19, 2011 at 5:43 pm with 2 replies

    Walid is referring to Joseph Massad's article "Truths, facts and facts on the ground" in Al Jazeera English. Here's Massad's claim:

    "It is Israeli laws that restrict access to Israel's lands to its non-Jewish Palestinian citizens, even though 90 per cent of that land was confiscated from the Palestinian people. It is also Israeli cities that remain Araberrein; indeed, as many observers have noted, Tel Aviv is the only Western city that does not have any Arab or Muslim inhabitants.

    If any racist laws are being evoked here, they are evoked by Israel's own racist laws and practices, not by Palestinian anti-colonial resistance."

    link to aljazeera.com

• 'So you come to take Amina' -- a loving Syrian father saves his gay blogger daughter from the security services
  • huraok April 29, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    She has a good memory then. In such a tense situation, one can recall the details. It isn't implausible.

• What is the left's answer to military intervention in Libya?
  • huraok February 25, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    No to foreign intervention. Any leftist should be concerned that sanctions can be used by the United States as blackmail in a post-Gadhafi Libya so that the country "reforms" based on American wishes. American "standards" not met = sanctions still in place.

• Trainwreck in Boston: Dershowitz calls a Palestinian novelist a bigot and a Holocaust-denier
  • huraok October 17, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    I laughed out when he complained that the audience applauded for her opening remarks and not his. Poor Dershie and his hurt ego.

• How Marty Peretz misrepresented Cordoba in Muslim history
  • huraok September 5, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    Check out this blog post on the Cordoba matter back when Newt made the same anti-Muslim argument.

    link to gotmedieval.blogspot.com

• Bigot or colorful activist? Washington Post is neutral on Islamophobes
  • huraok August 19, 2010 at 12:12 pm with 5 replies

    Geller does not have a job. She's an unemployed harpy whose living off the money of her criminal ex-husband.

• Finkelstein hits the silver screen
  • huraok August 3, 2010 at 1:26 am

    "American Radical, the movie about Norman Finkelstein, showed at the Michael Moore film festival this weekend, in Michigan."

    Will Michael Moore ever make a documentary on Israel/Palestine? Or is he another disappointing progressive?

• the battlefield of public opinion is a psychological minefield
  • huraok August 1, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    I think it's this one.

    link to anniesnewletters.blogspot.com

• Hearts and minds, and tumors
  • huraok July 26, 2010 at 4:45 pm

    The inhumanity of it all. For many people, this won't affect them one bit.

• 'Times' prints call for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
  • huraok July 7, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    Why do some synagogues invite truly vile people like Geert Wilders or Wafa Sultan to speak?

• Israeli ad looks for help sabotaging upcoming flotilla
  • huraok June 22, 2010 at 10:37 am

    Funny you should bring that up. The US is on record saying that the Uzbek refugees have the right to return to their homes. Why not the same standard for the Palestinians?

• Can the Israel government maim Americans with impunity?
  • huraok June 3, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    Funny comment at Balloon Juice.

    "Joe Lieberman has just introduced a bill to take away the citizenship of any Americans killed by Israel."

• New Yorkers join worldwide chorus of condemnation over Israeli attack on flotilla
  • huraok June 1, 2010 at 11:44 am with 1 replies

    It will be re-uploaded. Just keep on eye on this channel.

    link to youtube.com

    Their comment:

    "We've taken down the two films 92 A & 92 B and will upload one film: 92 after removing the segment about Sheikh Raed Salah in which Ashira is worried about his fate. The film had been finished before knowing that Sheikh raed is fine. This is important because Sleepless films will be used in future by many and we shouldnt leave confusion."

  • huraok June 1, 2010 at 12:02 am with 5 replies

    Check out some Israeli mob reactions from the youtube show "Sleepless in Gaza".

    link to youtube.com

    "You know what the Israeli army is guilty of? It's not whipping of the whole ship and killing everyone."

• 'NYT' grants East Jerusalem to Israel
  • huraok May 11, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    False and absolutely irrelevant.

• Desch: Bloom misses the historical shift re anti-Semitism
  • unverified__300h43c2 May 9, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    Citing freerepublic? LOL

    Unlike Deir Yassin massacre deniers, pro-Palestinian activists fully acknowledge that the 1929 massacre in Hebron was a tragedy. A few points on the massacre since it is often used to justify Zionist oppression in Hebron (and elsewhere) today:

    1. Some Palestinians risked their lives defending their Jewish neighbors, hiding them in their homes until the mobs left (they received certificates of appreciation from Jewish organizations for their actions). Of course moral degenerates like you who use past suffering to justify oppression will never mention this. Innocent Arabs also died in the '29 riots.

    2. Contrary to the Zionist claim that the massacre was organized internally by Hebron Arabs, many of whom lived in peace with their Jewish neighbors, the belligerents mostly came from neighboring villages.

    3. Would this attack have occurred if Zionists had not made clear their intention of taking over Palestine? Weeks before, Zionists raised Jewish flags in Old Jerusalem. Like it or not, Zionists planted the seeds of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

    4. It is unclear how involved the British were in the attack.

    5. As much as you would like it to, the death of Hebron Jews in 1929 does not give moral cover for Israel to kill Palestinians today. And it certainly did not give Zionists the right to massacre Palestinians at Deir Yassin. If you're consistent, you should oppose all acts of aggression and terrorism.

    It's also ironic that Hebron Jewish settlers, who invoke the 1929 massacre to justify their "right" to the land, hail Baruch Goldstein as a hero for killing 29 Palestinians in a shooting rampage in Hebron 1994. I suppose only Jewish life matters to them?

• AIPAC would marry apartheid
  • huraok May 14, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    Read Massad's piece in Al-Ahram. Very thorough.

    "The Language of Zionism"

    link to weekly.ahram.org.eg

    "Colonialism is peace; anti-colonialism is war." This is the unalterable equation that successive Israeli governments insist must determine the basis of all current and future relations between Israeli Jews and the Palestinians. Indeed, the deployment of the rhetoric of peace between Palestinians and Israeli Jews since the 1970s has been contingent on whether the Palestinians would acquiesce in this formula or insist on resisting it. The Oslo Accords were in large measure a ratification of this formula by the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Nonetheless, Palestinian resistance, violent and non- violent, to understanding "colonialism as peace" never fully subsided, even as the Palestinian Authority insisted that it become the law of the land.

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