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Ten Ways to Make Sure That Peace Stays Dead

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:41:24 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks:

Too many people on each side see the other as wholly culpable. Too many people on each side see themselves as wholly innocent, wholly victimized, ill-served by the well-meaning, abandoned by former allies, betrayed by the media, misunderstood by people who should know better, forgotten by the world.

Too many people on each side see only the suffering that has been caused them. Too many people have learned to wall themselves off from the suffering that they have caused.

Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

Ten ways to make sure that peace stays dead

By Bradley Burston

1. There is only one side to any story. My side.

2. The people on the other side, children included, are undeserving of sympathy.

3. Even the maimed and the dead on the other side are undeserving of sympathy.

4. The term massacre may only be used to describe casualties on my side.

5. The automatic fire, bombing, shelling or other lethal action taken by my side are acts of self-defense. If there are fatalities as a result of fire by my side, whether intentional or incidental, they deserved to die.

6. The concept of drawing comparisons of moral equivalency or mutual responsibility for violence is, in all cases, obscene, disgraceful, artificial, mendacious.

All political, military, social and religious modalities can be reduced to pure victims and pure villains, which is to say, Us and Them, which is to say, Us and animals/murderers/mass-murderers/racist genocidalists/Nazis/Hitler.

Option 7A: The goal of the left, the center, this newspaper, its writers, even some of its readers, is the destruction of the State of Israel.

Option 7B: The destruction of Israel is a worthwhile goal.

8. If I am a pro-Israel extremist, responding to a pro-Israel moderate, I should attack and dismiss the writer as a whiner, a crybaby, a defeatist, a moron, a wimp, an imbecile, a self-hater, an extreme leftist, naïve, brainwashed, a pipe-dreamer, duped by the pro-Arab bias of the mass media, a traitor.

9. If I am a pro-Palestinian extremist, responding to a pro-Palestinian moderate, I should immediately dismiss the writer as a sell-out, a fool, misguided, an Uncle Tom, unaware of the real facts, duped by a the pro-Israel bias of the mass media, a traitor.

10. The depth of my conviction, that is, the degree of my extremism, is directly proportional to the distance from my home to the Holy Land. The farther away, the more foaming-at-the-mouth my fanaticism.

Tags: israel, palestine, palestinians, israelis, middle east, war, terrorism, peace, list, suffering, victimization, vengeance, revenge, compromise, enemy, sympathy, fanatacism, extremism, dead, politics

WW1 photos - unusual

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:24:01 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Senegalese soldiers have found billets in a shack

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A group of Spahis, Algerian soldiers

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

North-African soldiers

In total the French colonies donated 587,000 soldiers to the warfare

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Impetuous Algerians

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Operating Room

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Horse Shoe

ilitary smithy in the Netherlands

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Austrian prisoners-of-war, Russia, 1915

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

On a handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway, Russia, 1915.

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Parade

The Australian Light Horse Brigade on parade in a Palestinian desert, 1918.

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A soldier of the Australian Light Horse Brigade gathers anemones

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Camel Ambulances

Another Palestine picture

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A welcome stop for the Imperial Camel Corps

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

You can almost hear the sound of this French gun

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

French soldiers on bivouac near a shallow stream

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Wounded Brother

Frères d'Armes, brothers in arms, is the text on this French postcard

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Flying Pig

Anzac soldiers

loading a trench mortar

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Heavy Fight

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A German Feld Lazaret (field hospital)

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

One-handed

English prisoners-of-war at work

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A Belgian woman is cooking for the soldiers during a pause in the fighting

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Ambush

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Spy

Tags: war, history, photos, ww1

THE WALL

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:04:04 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: "It was meant to keep people apart,
now it also brings people together"

Clip Source: www.sendamessage.nl

1) You pay (€ 30), Palestinians spray
2) You get 3 digital pictures by e-mail
3) Pictures can also be sent to a friend

Clip Source: www.sendamessage.nl

Your text written on this Wall

Clip Source: www.sendamessage.nl

It was meant to keep people apart,
now it also brings people together

From here, follow 620
kilometers of fence
& Wall to get to the
left side of this picture.

Who will get your message? Order now

Clip Source: www.sendamessage.nl

PFF, Ramallah

Meet our first partner, the PFF (Palestinian Peace and Freedom Youth Forum) . You can see Diana, Sophia, Faris, Yousef, Dalia, Nora and others at work for Sendamessage.nl in this video.

About PFF, Ramallah, Palestine

For a complete overview of what the PFF tries to achieve, see their website www.pff-pal.org .

The PFF inspires and helps to keep hope alive, by working towards a democratic, fair and pleasant Palestine. With all this, the PFF not only wants to show how difficult life is for young Palestinians, but also wants to show their talents, optimism and lust for life.

Clip Source: www.sendamessage.nl

www.sendamessage.nl

Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2005

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:51:22 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Remarkable maps

Clip Source: attendingtheworld.wordpress.com

Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2005

Joseph Weitz, Director of the Land Department of the Jewish National Fund, 1940:

“It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples… The only solution is a Land of Israel, at least a western land of Israel, without Arabs… There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, to transfer all of them, save perhaps for Bethlehem, Nazareth, and the old Jerusalem. Not one village must be left, not one tribe… There is no other solution.”

Dr. Salman Abu-Sitta, Author of Palestine Right Of Return, Sacred, Legal, and Possible, 1999:

“The Palestinian Holocaust is unsurpassed in history. For a country to be occupied, emptied of its people, its physical and cultural landmarks obliterated, its destruction hailed as a miraculous act of God, all done according to a premeditated plan, meticulously executed, internationally supported, and still maintained today…”

Tags: israel, palestine

Israeli and Palestinian soldiers form peace group

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:20:21 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: This is the kind of very brave thing that can stop wars. Read the article, it's heroic.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

we decided that it’s important to refuse, but just refusing to be part of something illegal and immoral and just refusing to be part of war crimes is not enough. You have to try to fix the wrongdoing that you were part of. And then, with many other people who refused to military service and to be part of the occupation in the Israeli side and Palestinian ex-fighters in the Palestinian side, people who were many years in Israeli prisons, we formed this group, which we called “Combatants for Peace.”

I know the name is a bit militaristic itself, but the idea is that we are going to have a joint struggle this time. And, in a way, the Israelis who woke up, the ex-fighters, are joining the Palestinian nonviolent struggle for liberation. And this is something that didn’t happen before. We have a lot of organizations of Israelis and Palestinians that are struggling together against the occupation, but not as former fighters.

Tags: israel, palestine, soldiers

Sickening. Not after food

Sun, 18 May 2008 06:41:23 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.sott.net

"We Created Terror Among the Arabs"

On April 9, 1948, members of the underground Jewish terrorist group, the Irgun, or IZL, led by Menachem Begin, who was to become the Israeli prime minister in 1977, entered the peaceful Arab village of Deir Yassin, massacred 250 men, women, children and the elderly, and stuffed many of the bodies down wells. There were also reports of rapes and mutilations.

Begin said at the time, "We created terror among the Arabs and all the villages around. In one blow, we changed the strategic situation."

Begin was the leader of the Irgun. That group regularly assassinated English soldiers in Palestine and frequently hung their booby-trapped bodies in public places

blew up the King David Hotel

killing 97 British civil servants

assassinated the U.N. representative to Palestine, Count Bernadotte

"The children were killed by breaking their heads with sticks

sealed in houses, as the village was systematically razed

hundreds of children died in the march, from dehydration

Tags: 1948, massacre, idf, arabs, terrorism, un, assassination

Anti-Bush Graffiti From 25 Countries

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:22:29 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Reviled, as he should be, around the world.

Clip Source: matadorpulse.com

Curitiba, Brazil

Granada, Spain

Lisbon, Portugal

London, England

Sofia, Bulgaria

Berlin, Germany

War is terror

Colonia, Uruguay

Your dead, hungry, unemployed, disappeared [illegally imprisoned], lying cronies salute you.

Durango, Mexico

Wellington, New Zealand

Gullbringusysla, Iceland

San José, Costa Rica

Mentally ill in service of capital

Rome, Italy

Melbourne, Australia

Rosario, Argentina

Mito, Japan

Johannesburg, South Africa

Israel

Bangkok, Thailand

Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine

Riga, Latvia

Victoria, BC, Canada

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Wrocław, Poland

Styria, Austria

Zanzibar, Tanzania

Bush mzushi, loosely translated: Bush is a rumormonger.

List of unrecognized countries

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:54:11 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Partially recognized states with de facto control over their territory

Republic of China, which governs only Taiwan

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Unrecognized states with de facto control over their territory

Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan

Somaliland (since 1991). Located in northwest Somalia.

Unrecognized states with partial control over their territory

Abkhazia in Georgia

Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka

Transnistria is a de-facto independent country

South Ossetia in Georgia

Partially recognized states largely under military occupation

Western Sahara

Palestine

Internationally administered territory

Kosovo,

Partially unrecognized states

People's Republic of China

Israel

Vatican City -

Tags: unrecognized, countries, politics, separatism, religion, nacionalism

Graffiti on a wall in b/n Israel and Palestine

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:28:03 GMT

clipped by: axelsenzon

Clip Source: bestyoulike.com

Graffiti on a wall between Israel and Palestina

Tags: art, urban, design, israel

Ancient Egyptian city unearthed in Sinai

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:02:21 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Another "Breaking News" story from Zahi Hawass... Hmm...

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed 3,000-year-old remains from an ancient fortified city, the largest yet found in Egypt, antiquities authorities announced Wednesday.

Among the discoveries at the site was a relief of King Thutmose II (1516-1504 B.C.), thought to be the first such royal monument discovered in Sinai, said Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. It indicates that Thutmose II may have built a fort near the ancient city, located about two miles northeast of present day Qantara and known historically as Tharu.

A 550-by-275-yard mud brick fort with several 13-foot-high towers dating to King Ramses II (1304-1237 B.C.) was unearthed in the same area, he said.

The ancient military road, known as "Way of Horus," once connected Egypt to Palestine and is close to present-day Rafah, which borders the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

Tags: egypt, archaeology, sinai, new kingdom, zahi hawass

Dissenting at Your Own Risk

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:37:43 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: Many times I have been around people who stomped out any discussion of Palestine's plight. Essentially, if you brought it up, people call you Anti-Semitic or they look at you like you just endorsed child abuse.

Clip Source: www.counterpunch.org

Dissenting at Your Own Risk

By CECILIE SURASKY

Why is Israel's increasingly brutal 40-year occupation of Palestinian land regularly debated in the mainstream media abroad, including in Israel, but not here? And why is there an almost total lack of discussion among presidential candidates about the dollars that subsidize this occupation and the American diplomatic support that makes it possible?

Non-Jewish critics, even former President Carter, are denounced as anti-Semites. Special ire is reserved for Jewish dissenters, who are branded as "self-hating" or "marginal," while Muslim and Arab-Americans are easily smeared and even criminalized with charges of supporting terrorism.

Many groups

fighting real anti-Semitism now rely on anti-Semitism to insist that to show one's love of Jews, one must offer uncritical support to Israel. They are especially displeased by Jews who believe that enabling Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights is not good for anyone.

Tags: dissent, israel, zionism

History: The Revenge of 9/11 ?

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:56:52 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: CIA. "It is fair to say that this $50 billion a year a intelligence organization, supposedly the most competent in the world, was amazingly unaware of the plans or derelict in delivering intelligence. It is fair to say the CIA was guilty of neglect, incompetence and/or active participation with the government and all the usual suspects in coordinating an effort to create 9/11. This in order to bring about a coup of our “democratic” government. As a result, this same cadre declared war on Afghanistan, part of their larger "War on Terror," only days later, without any further investigation to determine “whodunit,” railroading a fearful Congress into agreement."

Clip Source: onlinejournal.com

9/11

1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, the world’s first democratically-elected Marxist president, died

in a coordinated revolt by army leaders

Pinochet’s regime in fact exercised its brutal muscle during his reign to torture and murder some 3,000 souls, jail 27,000 more without trial, and send thousands more fleeing the country for asylum

the Chilean coup was engineered by Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon and Richard Helms’ CIA. The CIA admitted as much on September 11, 1998, another coincidental 9/11

CIA funded, trained, and armed the Mujihadeen jihad, including Osama bin Laden

the CIA was guilty of neglect, incompetence and/or active participation with the government and all the usual suspects in coordinating an effort to create 9/11

911

“the assassination of Allende

British Mandate in Palestine

U.S. invasion of Honduras

defeat of the Ottoman armies before the gates of Vienna

1683

post World War II, a war in which America was seen as a liberator not an oppressor,

Truman

Eisenhower

ohn F K

Cartoons from the Middle East (16 pics)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:47:53 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: In conjunction with the British Council, the Guardian Foundation presents a showcase of cartoonists from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Here are just a few of the selected cartoons
... Guardian

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Jalal Al-Rifai is a renowned Jordanian writer and cartoonist.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Jalal Al-Rifai

Dictatorship

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Lebanon

Armand Homsi, b 1966

Graduation, Al-Nahar newspaper, 2007. University students have no future in Lebanon, so they leave as soon as they graduate

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Armand Homsi

Landmarks, AnNahar Newspaper, 2008. Beirut’s ‘landmark’ has become a bomb explosion. (Cartoon to be read from right to left.)

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Palestine

ZAN Studio

Peace sign x-ray, poster for streets of Ramallah, 2007

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

ZAN Studio

Palestine’s Summer, poster for streets of Ramallah, 2006

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

ZAN Studio

Wall on the Green Line, book cover, 2007

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Children and housemaids, Al Watan newspaper, 2004. Saudi children spend more time with their housemaids than their mothers

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The difference in donating to a belly-dancer and to the poor

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Ali Ferzat, b.1951

Syria

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Ali Ferzat

Untitled

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Ali Ferzat

Untitled

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Unemployment, Al Akhbar newspaper, 2007

Egypt

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Mustafa Hussein

I can’t live without queues – please doctor prescribe me a queue, any queue!”

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Jordan

9/11 fifth anniversary

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Emad Hajjaj

TV, 2007

Tags: m-east, humour

Clipmarks | abailart's 'palestine' clips

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

Ten Ways to Make Sure That Peace Stays Dead

WW1 photos - unusual

Impetuous Algerians

Operating Room

Horse Shoe

Parade

Camel Ambulances

Wounded Brother

Flying Pig

Heavy Fight

One-handed

Ambush

Spy

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

THE WALL

Let him write your text on this Wall

Your text written on this Wall

It was meant to keep people apart, now it also brings people together

Who will get your message? Order now

PFF, Ramallah

Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2005

Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2005

Joseph Weitz, Director of the Land Department of the Jewish National Fund, 1940:

Israeli and Palestinian soldiers form peace group

Sickening. Not after food

Anti-Bush Graffiti From 25 Countries

Curitiba, Brazil

Granada, Spain

Lisbon, Portugal

London, England

Sofia, Bulgaria

Berlin, Germany

Colonia, Uruguay

Durango, Mexico

Wellington, New Zealand

Gullbringusysla, Iceland

San José, Costa Rica

Rome, Italy

Melbourne, Australia

Rosario, Argentina

Mito, Japan

Johannesburg, South Africa

Israel

Bangkok, Thailand

Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine

Riga, Latvia

Victoria, BC, Canada

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Wrocław, Poland

Styria, Austria

Zanzibar, Tanzania

List of unrecognized countries

Graffiti on a wall in b/n Israel and Palestine

Graffiti on a wall between Israel and Palestina

Ancient Egyptian city unearthed in Sinai

Dissenting at Your Own Risk

History: The Revenge of 9/11 ?

Cartoons from the Middle East (16 pics)

It was meant to keep people apart,
now it also brings people together