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Protesters in Jaffa accuse the Israeli leadership of lending tacit support to the practice of “price-tagging” – meaning random acts of vandalism by Jewish settlers against the Palestinian population to “exact a price” for any measures taken against settlement expansion.Protesters in Jaffa accuse the Israeli leadership of lending tacit support to the... more
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Clinton said that the Obama administration would work with the ascendant Islamist parties in Tunisia and Egypt if they played by the rules of the political gameClinton said that the Obama administration would work with the ascendant Islamist... more
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In September of 2011, the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to relocate up to 30,000 Bedouin from unrecognised villages in the Negev. A national strike is planned in Israeli Arab areas in protest at this move.
The Bedouin are the indigenous owner-occupiers of the Negev – they have been there for thousands of years. Since 1948 Israel has built dozens of Jewish towns, villages, kibbutzim and farms while pushing the Bedouin into ever smaller enclaves. In Rahat, for example, there are 52,000 Bedouin living on 21,000 acres, while the regional council of Bnei-Shimon covers 440,000 acres and is home to just 6,000 Jews.
Watch the video and read the article in its entirety.
http://equalitynow.blog.com/2011/10/17/evicting-the-bedouin-people/In September of 2011, the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to relocate up to 30,000... more
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The Druze village of Hurfeish seems as pastoral as the rural north of Israel can be. Sitting on the northwestern slope of the Meron Mountains amid a national park, the centuries-old settlement of about 6,000 residents looks like an image taken from a tourist postcard: green, beautiful, serene.The Druze village of Hurfeish seems as pastoral as the rural north of Israel can be.... more
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Remember all those cases of fake terrorism, FBI infiltration and entrapment of Muslims from last year?
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Muslims in southern California claimed they have been unfairly targeted because of their religion. Now they are taking on the FBI with a new lawsuit, which they hope exposes violations of the US Constitution.
As American Muslims prepare for prayers, a fear remains that the worshiper next to them may be a spy.This is especially true in Southern California, where paid FBI informants have fractured the cohesiveness of a law abiding community.
Now the American Civil Liberties Union and the Council of American Islamic Relations are teaming up against the FBI suing the agency for what they say is its attempt to incriminate people based simply on where they pray.Something they consider a violation of the US First Amendment freedom of religious worship.
The FBI insists that it does not ask its informants to target people for their religious affiliations.Something Muslims are finding hard to believe.Remember all those cases of fake terrorism, FBI infiltration and entrapment of Muslims... more
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Michel Warschawski: I'm concerned that Israel will stage an attack on Gaza or Lebanon as a diversion.Michel Warschawski: I'm concerned that Israel will stage an attack on Gaza or... more
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Don't like being fondled at the airport by people who could barely get through high school? Don't want to be radiated and photographed naked every time you fly?
Well the Israeli Military Security Industrial and Espionage Complex has the solution for you!
The mainstream media is promoting Tel Aviv's EL Al Bolshevik Communist-styled airport security as the model for airport security worldwide.
The various checkpoints, 'behaviour pattern analysis,' racial profiling, and discrimination and humiliating treatment of Arabs and blacks with Muslim names are just a few of the security measures that all travelers can look forward to.
Or you can just purchase called a package from an Israeli security company, Trust Based Security, to get you past this humiliating process of screening!
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The security checks at Ben Gurion, Israel's main international airport near Tel Aviv, are intense. But they are surprisingly discreet. There are no groups of armed police patrolling through the concourses (though if necessary, of course, they will appear very rapidly).
The new intrusive body scanners that reveal naked bodies beneath clothing - recently introduced in America amid passenger resentment - are not in use. Instead, Ben Gurion's critical line of defence consists of polite, highly trained agents, most of them women. Fluent in several languages, they will speak to every passenger while they wait to drop their luggage or check in.
'We operate on the principle that it's much more effective to detect the would-be terrorist than try to find his bomb,' says a senior Israeli official.
'The system you have in Europe and America is bull****. Unless you adopt an approach that actually works, whatever technology you care to use will make little difference. The terrorists will always be one step ahead,' says Rafi Sela, a top Israeli security consultant. Through his firm, AR Challenges, he is in charge of marketing the automated Israeli method to Europe and America as a complete package - what he calls Trust Based Security, or TBS.
http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/the-arabs-run-hollywood-and-i-can-prove-it/Don't like being fondled at the airport by people who could barely get through... more
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Helen Thomas said on a radio show that aired Tuesday that the Jewish- run harrassment group, the Anti-Defamation League, was intimidating her. The journalist defended comments she made last Thursday in Dearborn.
"I just think that people should be enlightened as to who is in charge of the opinion in this country," Thomas, 90, told the Marion, Ohio, radio station WMRN-AM.
The ADL has called on groups to remove honors in her name. Hours later, Wayne State University pulled an award in her name.
Thomas, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, grew up in Detroit and graduated from WSU.
"I'm going to tell the Anti-Defamation League to back off," Thomas said. "They think they have the right of intimidation." "They already got my job. They want to get my honorary degrees."Helen Thomas said on a radio show that aired Tuesday that the Jewish- run harrassment... more
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Why is the Middle East Problem so intractable? Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated talk show host and best-selling author, answers that question and gets the facts straight.Why is the Middle East Problem so intractable? Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated... more
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The Local reports that Germany’s commissioner for integration, Maria Böhmer, said that Berlin officials should deal with anti-German views among immigrant students. Böhmer was responding to recent reports of Germanophobia in schools
Two teachers from a Kreuzberg (Berlin) school recently wrote in the GEW Teachers' Union paper of the anti-German harassment some German students experience in schools. They wrote that German students are threatened and bullied, and that the non-German students often receive help from relatives or friends in conflicts. The German students are asked what they are doing there.
Berlin youth coach Oliver Lück (44) says such incidents happen every day. For years he's been working with bully-victims and with the harassers. He told BILD of three cases which particularly moved him:
• Dennis (14) from Reinickendorf - a quiet boy with glasses and pale skin. The problems started once there were more and more foreigners in his class. They called him a wimp. they wanted him to smoke with them, which he didn't want to do. Dennis was pushed around and beaten. They could do whatever they wanted with him, and he had to pay protection money to the older foreign students. In the end, he couldn't take it anymore and thought of suicide. Finally, his parents helped him.
• Lena (15) from Schöneberg - a confident teen, she died her head red and wore black clothes. When she came to the school, she was a foreigner among the other girls, who wore a headscarf. The girls whispered about her, they laughed at her and caller her the 'fire alarm'. Lena began to smoke, and later started up with alcohol and harder drugs.
• Kevin (16) from Neukölln - There were hardly any Germans in his school. The Arab guys provoked him, first with insults, then tripped him and pushed him. At some point, he fought back, and found himself facing twelve boys, relatives of the attackers, who beat him up. From that point on he started dressing like his tormentors and imitating their language. He wasn't beaten up anymore, but had to run errands for the others.
BILD also brings the story of Domitian E. (15), from Berlin-Charlottenburg. He was an outsider from the beginning, since he lighter skin and hair, spoke standard German and respected his teachers.
In August Domitian E. changed schools due to his poor grades. It was supposed to be a new beginning, but it became the worst time of his life. "I was harassed because I speak German," says Domitian.
"Altogether we were 29 students in the class, and besides me there was only one other German student," he says. "The rest were mainly Arabs and Turks."
From the first few days he was discriminated against, harassed and insulted. "They asked me what I wanted here. Since I cam from a gymnasium, I didn't belong." he says that they cursed him behind his back since he came from a 'smart' school, and that his classmates often accosted him in groups, asking him why he didn't speak like they did.
His classmates spoke "Kanake German" (German with a foreign accent and foreign terms). Domitian says he didn't want to speak that way. He avoid the other students and tried not to respond to them. Eventually, he avoided school and became increasingly sick.
Domitian says he was often sick and constantly threw up when he came home from school. He had stomach pains and severed colds. His teachers couldn't protect him from his classmates and nobody listened to him.
When his mother noticed how much he was suffering, she decided to send him to another school. In a few weeks he'll move to a different school where there are more Germans, and where, he hopes, he won't be harassed.The Local reports that Germany’s commissioner for integration, Maria... more
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An Iranian gang who tried to sell young female virgins to wealthy Arabs charging up to £150,000 a girl, was jailed for sex trafficking and prostitution today.An Iranian gang who tried to sell young female virgins to wealthy Arabs charging up to... more
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The Arab lobby and most particularly the Saudi lobby, one of the strongest in America—even stronger than Israel’s, according to a controversial new book penned by an American expert on the Middle East.
Mitchell Bard's "Arab Lobby" was written as a sort of response to those who warn of AIPAC's influence over Washington. Bard, who serves as executive director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), claims that "one of the most important distinguishing characteristics of the Arab lobby is that it has no popular support. While the Israeli lobby has hundreds of thousands of grass root members and public opinion polls consistently reveal a huge gap between support for Israel and the Arab nations-Palestinians, the Arab lobby has almost no foot soldiers or public sympathy. It's most powerful elements tend to be bureaucrats who represent only their personal views or what they believe are their institutional interests, and foreign governments that care only about their national interests, not those of the United States.
"What they lack in human capital in terms of American advocates, they make up for with almost unlimited resources to try to buy what they usually cannot win on the merits of their arguments," he writes in the book.
Due to this lack of support, according to Bard, "The Saudis have taken a different tact from the Israeli lobby, focusing a top-down rather than bottom-up approach to lobbying. As hired gun, J. Crawford Cook, wrote in laying out his proposed strategy for the kingdom, 'Saudi Arabia has a need to influence the few that influence the many, rather than the need to influence the many to whom the few must respond.'"
Attorney Alan M. Dershowitz wrote about Bard's book in The Daily Beast: "The primary means by which the Saudis exercise this influence is money. They spend enormous amounts of lucre to buy (or rent) former state department officials, diplomats, White House aides, and legislative leaders who become their elite lobbying corps. Far more insidiously, the Saudis let it be known that if current government officials want to be hired following their retirement from government service, they had better hew to the Saudi line while they are serving in our government.
"The former Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar, who was so close to the President George H.W. Bush that he referred to himself as 'Bandar Bush,' acknowledged the relationship between how a government official behaves while in office and how well he will be rewarded when he leaves office. "If the reputation then builds that the Saudis take care of friends when they leave office, you'd be surprised how much better friends you have when they are just coming into office," the lawyer wrote.
Bard concludes that "given the potential of these post-retirement opportunities, it would not be surprising if officials adopted positions while in government to make themselves marketable to the Arab lobby."The Arab lobby and most particularly the Saudi lobby, one of the strongest in... more
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The Ittie Bitties foretold of important happenings current to our world now. This may be just blow your mind. Love the IBs.The Ittie Bitties foretold of important happenings current to our world now. This may... more
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Come on all you guys, hasn't any of you ever fibbed a little to make yourself more palatable to the opposite sex?Come on all you guys, hasn't any of you ever fibbed a little to make yourself... more
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This Arab Sheikh constantly throws bricks of cash–handed to him by two of his servants–at the immodestly dressed (by Muslim standards) singer, while he whispers all kinds of sweet nothings in her ear as she screechily “sings” some air-splitting noise. Note that at 6:50 in the video, the sheikh burns a $100 bill.This Arab Sheikh constantly throws bricks of cash–handed to him by two of his... more
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Mayor Nir Barkat discussed the municipality's response to illegal building in Jeruaslem at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 20, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYpp63CUu1MMayor Nir Barkat discussed the municipality's response to illegal building in... more
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The Arab and Muslim worlds are gloating that a giant group of Lebanese chefs recently beat Israel’s Guinness World Record for the largest serving of hummus. Big deal.
Where it Counts, Israel is the Never-Beaten Hummus Champ, Even Among Muslims
Yes, these mostly Hezbollah supporting Lebanese chefs made the world’s biggest serving (for now). But where it really counts–who is selling more–Israeli wipes the floor with all Arab and Muslim nations. And that’s worth a lot more than bragging rights.
On the international market, Israel’s Sabra is the world’s largest seller of hummus. As I’ve noted, it dominates the market and, even more embarrassing to these Muslims, their own countries prefer Sabra Salads hummus to their own. Despite the Arab boycott of Israel, Sabra sells more hummus in the Islamic world than any other brand does.
Oh, and don’t forget that the previous record for the world’s largest serving of hummus was set by Israel–by Israeli Arabs of Abu Ghosh.
The thing is, unlike the Lebanese, the Israelis produce many more products the world values other than IEDs, Hezbollah and Fatah terrorists, and a giant vat of hummus. And that’s what galls them. They hate that Israel really couldn’t care less about hummus, the least of its products. Israel produces so many important innovations in computers, cellphones, medicine, science and other areas, it doesn’t need a giant vat of ground chick peas and tahini to be taken seriously.
some clueless Lebanese businessmen are seeking to patent hummus as Lebanese. But chummus, as it is called in Hebrew, originated in Israel and was invented by the Jews, not the Arabs as is conventionally assumed.
It’s bad enough they want to steal Israeli land. Now, they want to steal its food.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/21670/dont-believe-the-hype-israel-still-winning-hummus-war-where-it-counts/The Arab and Muslim worlds are gloating that a giant group of Lebanese chefs recently... more
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This fascinating essay, written by King Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In the article, King Abdullah disputes the mistaken view that Arab opposition to Zionism (and later the state of Israel) is because of longstanding religious or ethnic hatred. He notes that Jews and Muslims enjoyed a long history of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East, and that Jews have historically suffered far more at the hands of Christian Europe. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/344-as-the-arabs-see-the-jewsThis fascinating essay, written by King Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah,... more
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By Tim Padgett / Miami
Monday, Mar. 29, 2010
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1975883,00.html?hpt=T2#ixzz0jb4TX5XM
Hispanic advocates often tell the story of a Census Bureau worker who visits a Puerto Rican household in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood. Seeing the family's caramel complexion, the Census taker asks which race he should put down for them — white or black. To which the family answers: "Puerto Rican."
The story could substitute a Mexican-American family — or Colombian- or Nicaraguan-American ones for that matter — but the gist would be the same. Many, if not most, Hispanics in the U.S. think of their ethnicity (also known as Latino) not just in cultural terms but in a racial context as well. It's why more than 40% of Hispanics, when asked on the Census form in 2000 to register white or black as their race, wrote in "Other" — and they represented 95% of all the 15.3 million people in the U.S. who did so. (See the 25 most influential Hispanics in America.)
An even larger share of Hispanics, including my Venezuelan-American wife, is expected to report "Other," "Hispanic" or "Latino" in the race section of the 2010 census forms being mailed to U.S. homes this month. What makes it all the more confusing if not frustrating to them is that Washington continues to insist on those forms that "Hispanic origins are not races." If the Census Bureau lists Filipino and even Samoan as distinct races, Hispanics wonder why they — the product of half a millennium of New World miscegenation — aren't considered a race too. "It's a very big issue," says Angelo Falcón, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy in New York City and a community adviser to the Census. "A lot of Hispanics find the black-white option offensive, and they're asserting their own racial uniqueness." (See the making of Sonia Sotomayor.)
Nor are they alone. Arabs, who would seem to have an even stronger race claim than Hispanics do, are trumpeting their own write-in campaign because the Census by default counts them as white — and the bureau announced this week that it has no intention of changing that policy in 2010. Incredibly, the term Arab doesn't even appear on the census form, though other Asian ethnicities, like Indian, are listed as races. (Ironically, part of the problem is that Arab immigrants a century ago petitioned the Federal Government to be categorized as white to avoid discrimination. Today, Arab-American leaders realize how much that move has cost their community in terms of federal aid and legal clout.)
It's not easy being the Census agency for America's baroque melting pot. And to be fair, Falcón notes, the Census hasn't slighted Hispanics in this year's count. On the contrary, as if acknowledging that Hispanics are now the nation's largest minority, the bureau has given the group its own "Hispanic Origins" section. It even precedes the general race section on the questionnaire and, advocates say, promises to yield a more comprehensive tally of Hispanics for purposes of federal aid and civil rights protections. But many Hispanics are nonetheless irked when they go to the next section and find, yet again, that they're asked to identify themselves racially as white or black. (The other racial designations are Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander.)
Census officials say they're simply adhering to race-category standards laid out for all federal agencies in 1997 by the White House Office of Management and Budget, criteria they confirm will be re-evaluated before the 2020 census. (The Census that year will also be unlikely to retain Negro as a designation for African Americans; it is still on the 2010 form, a fact that has led to repeated apologies from the Census chief.) And Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group in Washington, D.C., says the Hispanic race question so far "has been hard to reconcile scientifically."
Still, Maria Teresa Kumar, executive director of Voto Latino, a Hispanic civic organization based in Washington, D.C., worries because most Hispanics who do choose between white and black select white. That "risks leaving a mistaken impression that they enjoy certain socioeconomic opportunities we associate with whites in this country," says Kumar, "when in reality [Hispanics] are near the bottom in areas like education and upward mobility." As a result, groups like Voto Latino are encouraging Hispanics to write Hispanic or Latino in the "Other" space for race.
While Kumar, like Falcón, applauds the Census Bureau for the 2010 form's prominent Hispanic-origins feature, she feels the feds still fail to understand "how layered the Latino self-identity is" beyond just language. North Americans call Oct. 12 Columbus Day, but Latin Americans call it Dia de la Raza — Day of the Race — a recognition that 1492 began a commingling of primarily Iberian, native American and African blood that in turn produced a new race, sometimes called mestizo. That process was perhaps deepest in Mexico — and because Mexico is the origin country of almost two-thirds of U.S. Hispanics, that's a big reason why Washington needs to rethink its definition of race. (Comment on this story.)
Many feel the Census also needs to fine-tune its idea of what is and isn't Hispanic. It tends to define Latin America as just the Spanish-speaking countries of the western hemisphere, when the term also encompasses Portuguese-speaking Brazil. It also includes Spaniards in the "Hispanic Origins" box, when in fact a Spaniard is a European, not a Hispanic.
All of this should prod the Census Bureau to simplify things for future counts. The Hispanic-origins and race sections should be combined into one, less confusing section that asks folks what ethnic and/or racial group they belong to: white, black, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander or Hispanic. It should (as it already does for some groups on the form) provide space for designating subgroups — like Arabs, for example. (Many Jamaican- and Bahamian-Americans also feel the Census should list their Caribbean origins as a black subgroup.) And it should make clear that respondents can check more than one group. That matters in cases like that of blacks from Hispanic countries. Those Afro-Latinos have produced a video urging each other to check the black entry and not "Other" in the race section to ensure that Washington logs that reality as well as their Hispanic status.
Accommodating, if not promoting, multiple ethnic identification seems especially important at a time when a growing number of Americans — including their President — have mixed-race parentage. For our children's race, my wife and I simply write in Mixed for want of any better option on the census form. But in the 2020 census, we'd like them to be counted more precisely as progeny of both the Anglo race and the Latino raza.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1975883,00.html?hpt=T2#ixzz0jb4bPzwXBy Tim Padgett / Miami
Monday, Mar. 29, 2010
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A three hundred year old ritual bringing young boys into manhood in Kuwait is presented here. Before the oil economy young teen aged Kuwaiti boys were shown how to dive for oysters and precious pearls.A three hundred year old ritual bringing young boys into manhood in Kuwait is... more
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