Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai
Israel has killed 66 Palestinians so far in its latest assault on Gaza which started on Wednesday, 24 of whom were babies and children. The death toll for Israel’s last major assault on Gaza was 1,400, over 300 of whom were babies and children.
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I am without a doubt so proud of this man. Well done. You did not use derogatory speech or violence and the simple act of your defiance is loud and clear for the nearly 2 billion lives.
Mashallah.
Chills. This man is amazing.
(Source: cheerstothebullshit, via livelovepalestine-deactivated20)
Palestinian Olympic Swimming Team Trains Without Pool
Palestinian Athlete: Olympics are Affirmation We Exist
For Palestine-Israel, Olympics Are Not Just a Game
Palestinian Olympic Team Given Warm Welcome at London City Hall
Nora Lester Murad’s blog has a few different related posts, including an interview with Amani Awartani (Swim Team Coach).
(Don’t know what I’m talking about? Read this.)
Especially when ISRAEL is the one supposedly rooting for the 2-state solution. Ahem. A little bit hypocritical, aren’t we?
Come on Israel, grow up. You illegally annexed Jerusalem anyway….
![israelfacts:
A paid advertisement displayed at the Chappaqua Metro-North train station, New York, July 10, 2012. The signs, which cost $25,000 to run at up to 10 Metro-North stations for 30 days, were paid for by an 84-year-old ex-Wall Street financier.
“If the facts are inflammatory then they are inflammatory,” said Henry Clifford, the chairman of a 10-member group called the Committee for Peace in Israel/Palestine. “All of the Middle East is infected with the virus of the Arab-Israeli conflict. People need to know the truth of the matter.”
The posters have been strategically placed as he was targeting “high IQ readers”. They have been seen in Westchester, Chappaqua, Mount Kisco, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and White Plains.
“My audience is people who have the intellectual curiosity to have an open mind, whether they agree with it or disagree with it,” said Clifford.
Photo credit: Seth Harrison
Read also:
NY ads depicting Palestinian dispossession are termed anti-Semitic by ‘Jewish community’
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“I have received nothing but positive responses with two exceptions [by email],” said Clifford, whose email address hcliffordws@aol.com, is on the ads. “This has produced an overwhelming response.”
Over the years Clifford and his group Committee for Peace and Palestine have run ads and written countless letters to newspapers with nothing like this impact, he said. It never got covered. Last year he put up billboards in New Haven and Old Saybrook, CT, asking Americans about the $30 billion in aid pledged to Israel over ten years, “Can we afford this?”
“The response was really pitiful,” he said.
The commuter platform ads seem to have struck a nerve, he said, because they are in the heart of New York’s media zone, viewed by movers and shakers, the affluent and the educated.
There have already been threats to take the ads down, he said. A Brooklyn religious Jewish group went to the MTA to demand that the ads be pulled. “To their everlasting credit, they said, These ads were brought to us by CBS Outdoor, a reputable company. They screened them, they approved them. It is not our job to censor them.”
But CBS Outdoor folded on less-provocative billboards put up around Los Angeles a month back, and tore them down. What’s to stop these ads from being ripped down?
“They can’t. I have a contract. The ads are there and have been paid for. I can take legal action if they fail to abide by the contract.”
I said the success of the ads indicates a shift in public opinion. Clifford said he wasn’t sure about that. “I really don’t see that the American people are any better informed than they were a year ago about this matter. There is a great amount of lack of knowledge, misinformation and even lack of interest. They think, ‘Oh it’s a mess over there,’ and then they yawn. We are trying to spread the word.”
Clifford’s Committee for Peace and Palestine has tried to stir a change in US policy for over ten years.
I asked him about the charge that the ads are anti-Semitic.
“My response is that maps are historically and geographically the truth. You cannot make a map anti-Semitic. Either it’s accurate or inaccurate. Those who disapprove of these ads, if they want to show they’re inaccurate, they should bring that proof forward.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m73u7ntAf91qkc59eo1_500.jpg)
A paid advertisement displayed at the Chappaqua Metro-North train station, New York, July 10, 2012. The signs, which cost $25,000 to run at up to 10 Metro-North stations for 30 days, were paid for by an 84-year-old ex-Wall Street financier.
“If the facts are inflammatory then they are inflammatory,” said Henry Clifford, the chairman of a 10-member group called the Committee for Peace in Israel/Palestine. “All of the Middle East is infected with the virus of the Arab-Israeli conflict. People need to know the truth of the matter.”
The posters have been strategically placed as he was targeting “high IQ readers”. They have been seen in Westchester, Chappaqua, Mount Kisco, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and White Plains.
“My audience is people who have the intellectual curiosity to have an open mind, whether they agree with it or disagree with it,” said Clifford.
Photo credit: Seth Harrison
Read also:
- NY ads depicting Palestinian dispossession are termed anti-Semitic by ‘Jewish community’
- Backer of NY ads exposing Palestinian land-loss says response has been ‘astounding’ and news ‘coverage is pouring in’
“I have received nothing but positive responses with two exceptions [by email],” said Clifford, whose email address hcliffordws@aol.com, is on the ads. “This has produced an overwhelming response.”
Over the years Clifford and his group Committee for Peace and Palestine have run ads and written countless letters to newspapers with nothing like this impact, he said. It never got covered. Last year he put up billboards in New Haven and Old Saybrook, CT, asking Americans about the $30 billion in aid pledged to Israel over ten years, “Can we afford this?”
“The response was really pitiful,” he said.
The commuter platform ads seem to have struck a nerve, he said, because they are in the heart of New York’s media zone, viewed by movers and shakers, the affluent and the educated.
There have already been threats to take the ads down, he said. A Brooklyn religious Jewish group went to the MTA to demand that the ads be pulled. “To their everlasting credit, they said, These ads were brought to us by CBS Outdoor, a reputable company. They screened them, they approved them. It is not our job to censor them.”
But CBS Outdoor folded on less-provocative billboards put up around Los Angeles a month back, and tore them down. What’s to stop these ads from being ripped down?
“They can’t. I have a contract. The ads are there and have been paid for. I can take legal action if they fail to abide by the contract.”
I said the success of the ads indicates a shift in public opinion. Clifford said he wasn’t sure about that. “I really don’t see that the American people are any better informed than they were a year ago about this matter. There is a great amount of lack of knowledge, misinformation and even lack of interest. They think, ‘Oh it’s a mess over there,’ and then they yawn. We are trying to spread the word.”
Clifford’s Committee for Peace and Palestine has tried to stir a change in US policy for over ten years.
I asked him about the charge that the ads are anti-Semitic.
“My response is that maps are historically and geographically the truth. You cannot make a map anti-Semitic. Either it’s accurate or inaccurate. Those who disapprove of these ads, if they want to show they’re inaccurate, they should bring that proof forward.”
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France summons Israeli ambassador after an IDF airstrike on the Gaza Strip injured France’s Gaza consulate, along with his wife and daughter.
Truly saddening. Good ‘ole Israeli respect for civilians and women and human rights and all that…
It’s just a shame that it only makes the news, and becomes a diplomatic issue, when the blood of foreign envoys are injured/killed… yet the Palestinian who DIED in the attack makes but the sub-headline; the same as all the other Palestinians killed and injured and whose families are torn apart every week. Yet one foreign envoy of a western developed nation gets injured - and it’s all over the news. Makes you wonder what makes someone’s blood more valuable than another.
The air-strikes, and the continued Israeli blockade/occupation overall, do nothing for long term peace in the region.
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This makes me so sad, all the time. All sorts of things are happening every day to Palestinians, and so many people just don’t even care. I can just imagine the reactions of some people I know to hearing even this news. They probably wouldn’t even be moved by the damage done to these people, because their ignorance is just so deep. They would blame these “foreign envoys” as it was put, for being in Palestine at all, because Palestine is just such a hotbed of criminal activity.
I wonder, honestly, how can people with so much hatred in their hearts live? What do they tell themselves to make them feel okay?
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UN cultural body admits Palestine as full member despite US threat to cut off tens of millions of dollars in funding.
i should’ve posted this before that last one… this is awesome! :)
(Source: andrewblogstoomuch, via livelovepalestine-deactivated20)
You can only appreciate the absurdity of the United States when you understand that Palestinian acceptance at UNESCO is largely symbolic and means almost nothing on ground on top of the fact that the U.S. should just keep it’s fucking nose out of everyone else’s business and stop violating a people’s right to self-determination.
I’m America, wah wah wah wah
Ugh seriously, I am so ashamed. My mother taught me to not behave like this when I was 5 …
Sabra and Shatila is a memory that will never be forgotten nor forgiven.
Really not that complicated. You’d think the people WHO construct these high tech killing machines can grasp onto such a simple concept.
the fact that this concept is so hard to grasp, by all parties who cannot understand it, is literally pure and blatant racism.
