You are all beautiful You are all courage You are all awareness You are a force wrapped in Grace. A light tinged with sadness. A comfort edged with knowledge. History touched by wisdom. Insight driven by intuition. Intelligence beside humour. Bright eyes washed by tears. Nature and nurture side by side, you are the first,…
I was diagnosed with breast cancer April 2013 in Gaza, after days spent wrestling with over exuberant porters, Egyptian Intelligence and army at the Rafah border, this was not the outcome I expected. Two ultrasounds and a rather barbaric mammogram later i wandered out of the clinic in Gaza, bemused and dazed. I sat on the…
Ramallah, June 8, 2015–Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) is deeply troubled by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s decision not to include Israel’s armed forces in his annual list of groups that commit grave violations of children’s rights. Each year, the UN Secretary-General submits a report on children and armed conflict to the UN Security Council…
Reports have come out that the UN was considering adding Israel to the list of “grave violations against children in armed conflict.” As detailed below, Israeli army and Israel’s state policies are systematically violent against Palestinian children. A recent Independent article noted that [Special Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict Leila]“Zerrougui’s draft report cited IDF…
“Arsal is a small Lebanese village. It was just a tiny farming town. When the Syrian crisis began, someone (probably in SNC) decided to build a Syrian refugee camp there. As you know, these refugee camps are powerful political tools for the west, the MSM, and the various enemies of Syria. It was important to…
Day in the Life of the Boat People. More than 5,000 migrants trying to reach Europe have been saved from boats in distress in the Mediterranean between May 29 and June 2 The floating black hole: Astonishing images show more than 1,000 migrants, including 200 children, squeezed onto two levels of rescued boat in Mediterranean…
Originally posted on The Feministahood:
Ruthless people love euphemisms because they obscure the truth. So the inevitable and predictable deaths of civilians and the destruction of civil amenities in war are hidden behind the innocuous term “collateral damage” and genocide is hidden behind the bland “ethnic cleansing” and so on. Euphemisms are dangerous because they…
Recently the Pentagon admitted to killing two Syrian children in a drone attack last fall when they bombed a group of al Qaeda fighters in the suburbs of the Syrian city of Aleppo. At the time they claimed this group was a critical target because they were high level operatives associated with Al Qaeda who…
“Drawing Mohammed? “It’s real simple… “While the US & the rest of NATO arms & funds Al Qaeda all over the planet, while also propping up regional state sponsors of terrorism like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey (who is also a NATO member btw), they are also stirring up racism & bigotry back at home…
This is a war between a state that has popular support and an insurgency that doesn’t, and therefore the causes of the violence are ongoing attempts by anti-government insurgents to overthrow the state. A large proportion of casualties have been Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers, their military allies, and their opponents among the insurgents. Civilians have…
The Wall Will Fall 