Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Catching Up With Desert Peace

I look at and read his site everyday, folks, but it is difficult to copy and paste his posts.

Still, you must see some of the TREMENDOUS ARTWORK from these blog posts, as well as read the articles, especially since he is in the middle of the 'celebration" or Nakba!

Here's a taste and tease
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"CONTROVERSIAL DEATH MY EYE!"

"Does a man who adores his wife and children plan a suicide so as to never see them again?
I THINK NOT...."

"A REALISTIC REPORT ON THE MOSSAD/FBI MURDER VICTIM"

"The press has been harping at suicide in the MURDER of Riad Hamad. Some of his own so called supporters are even swallowing the lies put out by the local police."

"PALESTINE REMEMBERED ~~ 60 YEARS LATER ~~ PALESTINIAN IDENTITY BEFORE AND AFTER THE NAKBA"

"Nobody is more tired of this conflict than the Palestinians. But many of us don’t have the luxury of flipping the channel or ignoring what is happening to our relatives and friends."

What an excellent analogy contained in the drawing, 'eh, readers?

This next one, too:

"A LATE PASSOVER OR AN EARLY RAMADAN?"

"APARTHEID…. complete separation of the Palestinians from the Israelis

SEIZURE OF GAZA
…. Israel’s way of ethnic cleansing the population of Palestine

A land without food, a land without medical facilities, a land without water, a land in darkness…. AND A WORLD THAT WATCHES THIS SILENTLY!"

And this next post has an incredible drawing with it
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"OVERHEARD IN JERUSALEM ~~ “THIS IS MY HOUSE!”"

"Eighty-year-old Beatrice Habesch sobbed when she caught sight of her father’s house in Jerusalem on Sunday and remembered how it was taken over by Jews in 1948."

Same with the next post. What tremendous drawings!!!!

"PALESTINE REMEMBERED ~~ 60 YEARS LATER ~~ NAKBA QUOTE OF THE DAY"

"“We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we dare to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and trying to undo some of the evil we committed … we justify our terrible acts and even attempt to glorify them.” -- – Nathan Chofshi; cited in The Other Exodus by Erskine Childers.

"RACISTS FACING A DILEMMA IN ISRAEL"

".... This ‘chosen people’ syndrome is also becoming a disease…. it leads only to the growth of racism and hatred. I’m sure that was not the intent when the phrase was coined. What’s left now is how to combat that, and thereby stopping the virus in its tracks.

The world we share today is small, the countries within it even smaller. Within the countries there are cities and within them there are neighbourhoods. Let’s start at the smallest denominator and see how far we can spread our anti virus…. IT CAN BE DONE!"

Remember to click on links for more, readers
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"PALESTINE REMEMBERED ~~ 60 YEARS LATER ~~ REFUGEE STORY OF THE DAY"

".... Her name was Umm Ibrahim [the mother of Ibrahim]. And she just had one cow in the family. Once she went to check the cow. In her way were some Israeli soldiers. They threw a tear gas grenade at her. And she died from this tear gas.

In her heart she had mercy for everyone, even for her enemies… those same enemies who ended up killing her and her people, and stealing her land. But this didn’t do her any good - this mercy. She was killed by the Israelis...."

"NAKBA EVENTS NEAR YOU…."

"THE NAKBA OF TODAY"

"The Nakba of 1948 was a disaster for the people of Palestine…. The Nakba of today is…..

‘A disaster for everybody’
"

The next photo is gruesome
:

"BLOOD DRENCHED RED CARPET ROLLED OUT IN JERUSALEM"

"A carpet red with the blood of the Palestinian people is being rolled out to welcome the visiting dignitaries coming to ‘celebrate’ 60 years of ethnic cleansing in the Holy Land.

Leader of the pact is the President of the United States. At his side will be the first lady Laura Bush. She has intentions of visiting children’s facilities in the Jerusalem area. If she drives about 20 minutes due south to Hebron she can witness the orphanage recently closed by Israeli troops…. but needless to say she won’t.

Neither will she be attending the funerals held in Gaza or in the Occupied West Bank of children murdered in cold blood by Israeli soldiers.

No, she nor the others in her group are here to celebrate those ‘victories’ of zionism, not to mourn with Palestine the loss of their land and homes 60 years ago....

Complicity is a bad enough sin committed by the West, endorsement of those genocidal policies is even a greater sin."

Agreed!