In
this week’s digest, further tree uprooting and destruction in Walaja, upcoming
Friday Demonstrations, the death of Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple and son of
a Syrian immigrant to America), home demolitions increased five folds, Israel
police turning a blind eye to lynching, "anti-Semitism" in the occupy
Wall street movement, where did Palestine come from, and two opinion pieces
(one on biology of religion and one on the Palestinians next move).
The
media, the Palestinian political leadership, and the public is not rising to
the challenge as life is destroyed. A good example is the village of
Al-Walaja: this week another 100 olive and other trees were uprooted by the
Israeli apartheid system just before the olive harvest season begins next
week. See here some comparison pictures (pictures taken on 28.09 and
then 03.10 of the same area):
more
pictures can be seen here:
Another
example is the lack of media attention to the thousands of political prisoners
illegally held by Israel. Many prisoners
are engaged now in a hunger strike after Israel removed some of their basic
rights. So join us for Friday gatherings, vigils and demonstrations in
several villages with emphasis on the issue of Palestinian political prisoners
and land destruction. Gather after Friday Prayers 12:30 in front of
mosques in Al-Walaja (Bethlehem District), Susya (Yatta area, Hebron District),
Nebi Saleh, Ni'lin, Bil'in (Ramallah District) among others. Join us
also Saturday at 1 PM in Beit Ommar.
I
used computers since 1979 at the University of Connecticut and I bought my
first Apple IIe computer in 1984 shortly after Time Magazine declared the
computer as machine of the year in place of its "person of the year".
Since then I have been an Apple computer fan. The death yesterday of
Steve Jobs, a cofounder of Apple was sad for me. He was born in San
Francisco to Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant and Joanne
Schieble. His parents separated and he was put up for adoption and
was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian, Armenian). Unlike others who connect
to tribalism, Jobs believed in humanity and wanted to show that he, an
individual can achieve by shedding any cultural and religious baggage. He stated that
people should never stop learning and should voraciously open their minds to
new ideas. Here is Steve telling stories about Connecting the Dots, Love and
Loss, and Death:
Demolitions
by Israel increase fivefold, says new UN report: In
the first six months of 2011, OCHA reports that the Israeli authorities
demolished 342 Palestinian-owned structures in Area C, including 125
residential “structures,” displacing a total of 656 Palestinians, including 351
children — almost five times as many demolitions and people displaced as during
the first half of 2010.
Israel
police turned a blind eye to a lynching: What
happened at the entrance to the settlement of Anatot was a
pogrom, a lynching. Media outlets that don't see fit to report a pogrom of this
magnitude are partners in the policy, or the sins of omission, of abandonment.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-police-turned-a-blind-eye-to-a-lynching-1.387997
On
charges of anti-Antisemitism in the "Occupy Wall Street Movement"
Note:
In my upcoming book about life and activism in the USA, I go in detail
about how Zionists tried (many times successfully) to infiltrate all leftist
and peace movements in the US to prevent any criticism of their beloved idols
(Zionism and Israel). To be with these movements, they can talk
about repression everywhere in eth world and about economic or other
exploitation at home but Israel becomes a taboo subject. And when
logic cannot work for them, they hurl the change of anti-Semitism, the weapon
of last resort (sometimes first resort) to try to scare good meaning activists.
But the trend in history is now clear and this will no longer work because
Zionism is the antithesis of universal humanism and basic human rights (as I
discussed in detail in my 2004 book "Sharing the Land of Canaan").
The
Department of Corrections: Ben Hur, the LA Times and a place called Palestine
Opinion:
Science and religion-- God didn't make man; man made god. In recent
years scientists specializing in the mind have begun to unravel religion's
"DNA." J. Anderson Thomson and Clare Aukofer
Opinion:
The Palestinians' Next Move by Prof. Rashid Khalidi
Mazin
Qumsiyeh, PhD
http://qumsiyeh.org
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