tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post4798254869654265711..comments2023-10-25T08:34:59.128-07:00Comments on Iraqi <i>American</i> Mojo: Conservative American blogger justifies Norwegian terrorist's attackIraqi Mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-42588791802748334662011-08-11T21:27:21.703-07:002011-08-11T21:27:21.703-07:00"The key here is the "jewish" thing...<i>"The key here is the "jewish" thingy."</i><br /><br />That had been around for a long time before 48.madtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609777902535328244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-11636076461184315882011-08-10T21:50:13.235-07:002011-08-10T21:50:13.235-07:00Probably would have refused the partition.
It de...Probably would have refused the partition. <br /><br />It depends on how many Palestinians would have been expelled from their homes, maybe. <br /><br />'The 1948 Palestinian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus" rel="nofollow">exodus</a> (Arabic: الهجرة الفلسطينية, al-Hijra al-Filasṭīnīya), also known as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة, an-Nakbah, lit. "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"),[1] occurred when approximately 711,000 to 725,000 Palestinian Arabs left, fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Civil War that preceded it.[2] The exact number of refugees is a matter of dispute.[3] The causes remain the subject of fundamental disagreement between Arabs and Israelis.'Muhannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398084977566355395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-62928385348488071272011-08-10T21:17:08.204-07:002011-08-10T21:17:08.204-07:00I'd like to post a what if question to the gro...I'd like to post a what if question to the group.<br /><br />What if back in 48 instead of the modern state of Israel, there would have been installed a new Jewish king of Israel, A royal family of the House of David as absolute ruler, rebuilt a new temple and named a new high priest and established religious state akin to KSA, Jordan or Morocco. <br /><br />My question is would the Arab states have gone to war, would the Arab states have all refused the partition, or would they have accepted the new Jewish Kingdom?madtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609777902535328244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-80916172021923444282011-08-10T20:17:35.801-07:002011-08-10T20:17:35.801-07:00For those who don't know Ralph Schoenman:
&q...For those who don't know Ralph Schoenman: <br /><br />"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Schoenman" rel="nofollow">Ralph Schoenman</a> (born 1935) is an American left-wing activist who was a personal secretary to Bertrand Russell and became general secretary of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. He was involved in a number of projects supported by Russell, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), the Committee of 100 and an unofficial war crimes tribunal to try American leaders for their conduct in the Vietnam War. Shortly before his own death in 1970, Russell publicly broke with Schoenman."Muhannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398084977566355395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-78606507609844873702011-08-10T20:11:26.709-07:002011-08-10T20:11:26.709-07:00For those who don't know Jeff Halper:
'J...For those who don't know Jeff Halper: <br /><br />'<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Halper" rel="nofollow">Jeff Halper</a> (born 1946[1]) is an anthropologist,[2] author, lecturer, political activist, and co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). In 1997, Halper co-founded ICAHD to challenge and resist the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories, and to organize Israelis, Palestinians and international volunteers to jointly rebuild demolished Palestinian homes. He has created a new mode of Israeli peace activity based on nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience in the Occupied Territories.[1] Halper was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee for his work "to liberate both the Palestinian and the Israeli people from the yoke of structural violence" and "to build equality between their people by recognizing and celebrating their common humanity".<br />Halper has written several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is a frequent writer and speaker about Israeli politics, focusing mainly on nonviolent strategies to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.'Muhannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398084977566355395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-34571656963020070852011-08-10T20:05:06.826-07:002011-08-10T20:05:06.826-07:00For those who don't know Norman Finkelstein:
...For those who don't know Norman Finkelstein: <br /><br />'<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein" rel="nofollow">Norman Gary Finkelstein</a> (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and, most recently, DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007.'Muhannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398084977566355395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-65744804163076263122011-08-10T20:01:48.316-07:002011-08-10T20:01:48.316-07:00For those who don't know Chomsky:
'Avram...For those who don't know Chomsky: <br /><br />'<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" rel="nofollow">Avram Noam Chomsky</a> ( /ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, computer scientist, philosopher,[2][3] cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) of in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT.[4] Chomsky is widely described as the "father of modern linguistics"[5][6][7] and a major figure of analytic philosophy.[2] His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology.[8][9]'<br /><br />The man is a legend in academia.Muhannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398084977566355395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-51907414228344531372011-08-10T16:35:40.014-07:002011-08-10T16:35:40.014-07:00And they're anti-semitic! And I'm racist!
...And they're anti-semitic! And I'm racist!<br /> <br />LOL!<br /><br />I have great respect for Jews. In my post <a href="http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2008/09/arabs-and-muslims-need-education.html" rel="nofollow">Arabs and Muslims Need Education</a>, noted are the many educated and influential Jews in the history of the modern world: <br /><br /><br />Movers of Recent History<br /><br />o Albert Einstein, Jewish<br /><br />o Sigmund Freud, Jewish<br /><br />o Karl Marx, Jewish<br /><br />o Paul Samuelson, Jewish<br /><br />o Milton Friedman, Jewish<br /><br /><br />Medical Milestones<br /><br />o Vaccinating Needle, Benjamin Ruben, Jewish<br /><br />o Polio Vaccine, Jonas Salk, Jewish<br /><br />o Leukemia Drug, Gertrude Elion, Jewish<br /><br />o Hepatitis B, Baruch Blumberg, Jewish<br /><br />o Syphilis Drug, Paul Ehrlich, Jewish<br /><br />o Neuro muscular, Elie Metchnikoff, Jewish<br /><br />o Endocrinology, Andrew Schally, Jewish<br /><br />o Cognitive therapy, Aaron Beck, Jewish<br /><br />o Contraceptive Pill, Gregory Pincus, Jewish<br /><br />o Understanding of Human Eye, G. Wald, Jewish<br /><br />o Embryology, Stanley Cohen, Jewish<br /><br />o Kidney Dialysis, Willem Kloffcame, Jewish<br /><br /><br />Nobel Prize Winners<br /><br />o In the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 180 Nobel prizes whilst 1.5 billion Muslims have contributed only 3 Nobel winners<br /><br /><br />Inventions that changed History<br /><br />o Micro- Processing Chip, Stanley Mezor, Jewish<br /><br />o Nuclear Chain Reactor, Leo Sziland, Jewish<br /><br />o Optical Fibre Cable, Peter Schultz, Jewish<br /><br />o Traffic Lights, Charles Adler, Jewish<br /><br />o Stainless Steel, Benno Strauss, Jewish<br /><br />o Sound Movies, Isador Kisee, Jewish<br /><br />o Telephone Microphone, Emile Berliner, Jewish<br /><br />o Video Tape Recorder, Charles Ginsburg, Jewish<br /><br /><br />Influential Global Business<br /><br />o Polo, Ralph Lauren, Jewish<br /><br />o Levi's Jeans, Levi Strauss, Jewish<br /><br />o Starbuck's Howard Schultz, Jewish<br /><br />o Google, Sergey Brin, Jewish<br /><br />o Dell Computers, Michael Dell, Jewish<br /><br />o Oracle, Larry Ellison, Jewish<br /><br />o DKNY, Donna Karan, Jewish<br /><br />o Baskin & Robbins, Irv Robbins, Jewish<br /><br />o Dunkin Donuts, Bill Rosenberg, Jewish<br /><br /><br />Influential Intellectuals/Politicians<br /><br />o Henry Kissinger, US Sec of State, Jewish<br /><br />o Richard Levin, Pres. Yale University, Jewish<br /><br />o Alan Greenspan, US Federal Reserve, Jewish<br /><br />o Joseph Lieberman, Jewish<br /><br />o Madeleine Albright, US Sec of State, Jewish<br /><br />o Casper Weinberger, US Sec of Defense, Jewish<br /><br />o Maxim Litvinov, USSR Foreign Minister, Jewish<br /><br />o David Marshal, Singapore Chief Minister, Jewish<br /><br />o Isaacs Isaacs, Gov-Gen Australia, Jewish<br /><br />o Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman, Jewish<br /><br />o Yevgeny Primakov, Russian PM, Jewish<br /><br />o Barry Goldwater, US Politician, Jewish<br /><br />o Jorge Sampaio, President Portugal, Jewish<br /><br />o Herb Gray, Canadian Dep-PM, Jewish<br /><br />o Pierre Mendes, French PM, Jewish<br /><br />o Michael Howard, British Home Sec, Jewish<br /><br />o Bruno Kriesky, Austrian Chancellor, Jewish<br /><br />o Robert Rubin, US Sec of Treasury, Jewish<br /><br /><br />Global Media Influentials<br /><br />o Wolf Blitzer, CNN, Jewish<br /><br />o Barbara Walters, ABC News, Jewish<br /><br />o Eugene Meyer, Washington Post, Jewish<br /><br />o Henry Grunwald, Time Magazine, Jewish<br /><br />o Katherine Graham, Washington Post, Jewish<br /><br />o Joseph Lelyyeld, New York Times, Jewish<br /><br />o Max Frankel, New York Times, Jewish<br /><br /><br />Global Philanthropists<br /><br />o George Soros, Jewish<br /><br />o Waltewr Annenberg, JewishMuhannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398084977566355395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-36011637333110435262011-08-10T16:22:24.753-07:002011-08-10T16:22:24.753-07:00So Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Ralph Schoenm...So Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Ralph Schoenman, Jeff Halper, and even Jeremy Ben-Ami, who was President Bill Clinton’s Deputy Domestic Policy Adviser, are all liars? LOLMuhannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398084977566355395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-2621604614373003692011-08-10T14:32:49.716-07:002011-08-10T14:32:49.716-07:00Muhannad, with all due respect, you just proved my...Muhannad, with all due respect, you just proved my point.<br /><br />I work with arabs. From Jaffa, Lod (your Lydda, I guess) and Tira, mostly. Teachers, assistants, drivers, kids. Acre had been the theater of clashes between jewish and arab residents couple of years ago, over arab drivers endangering the children on the streets by recklessly driving on Yom Kippur. Honor killings are the plague of Lod, and it's not a jewish custom. I know that Ralph Schoenman is lying.<br /><br />You don't love jews who tell the truth. You love jews who tell you what you expect to hear. That's racist.<br /><br />Please understand that this is in no way an ad-hominem attack. I'm just trying to show you why you shouldn't believe everything bad you read about Israel. <br /><br />Some jews care enough about their jewish brethren to point out the wrongdoings in the hope that solutions will be found. I think that Lisa Goldman is in this category.<br /><br />Others, however, are eager to tell any lies to make their fellow jews look bad. Like Finkelstein, Chomsky, Jeremy Ben-Ami. The "asajew"s, who got this nickname because they start their vitriolic rants with what in their eyes should be the authenticity stamp -"I, as a jew".<br /><br />There are a number of theories as to why those jews are doing everything they can to demonize their own people. They have something in common - leftist ideology. To me they look like suicide bombers. They attack jewish identity itself, loosing theirs in the process. Their version of the 72 virgins is the love they receive from people like you Muhannad, the brown therefore oppressed. For the black (like in Somalia) they don't care much, since their misery cannot be blamed on jews. Their "asajew"s credentials only go that far.<br /><br />To answer your question:<br />"There are many anti-Semitic Jews out there, huh?"<br /><br />Of course there are. Leftist ideology is anti-semitic at its core. Jewishness itself is a threat, as judaism survived every horror thrown at it, therefore threatening to overcome ideology by dint of its incredible strength. Dissention must be ruthlessly crushed, by all means. The left is dictatorial.Pisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554577425918829516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-17343170085474450492011-08-10T12:01:01.406-07:002011-08-10T12:01:01.406-07:00"The main reason I keep coming back to your b..."The main reason I keep coming back to your blog is that you always question everything. I mean, with such sources, I would expect a dialogue between us to be almost impossible. However, you keep an open mind, unlike those mentioned above. There is still hope for you ;)"<br /><br />Amen, ditto, and LOL @ Pisa.AGAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-39772767842881383182011-08-10T10:59:58.453-07:002011-08-10T10:59:58.453-07:00"And yes, they are very anti-semitic."
..."And yes, they are very anti-semitic."<br /><br />There are many anti-Semitic Jews out there, huh?<br /><br />Is Ralph Schoenman also anti-Semitic because he wrote the truth?<br /><br /><br />"The seizure of <a href="http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/ch05.htm" rel="nofollow">Palestinian</a> property was indispensable to make Israel a viable state. Between 1948 and 1953, 370 Jewish towns and settlements were established. Three hundred fifty were on "absentee" property. By 1954, some 35% of Israel’s Jews lived on property confiscated from absentees and some 250,000 new immigrants settled in urban areas from which Palestinians had been expelled. Entire cities had been emptied of Palestinians, such as Jaffa, Acre, Lydda, Ramle, Bisan and Majdal (Ashqelon)."Muhannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398084977566355395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-91972757495705890512011-08-10T04:30:47.609-07:002011-08-10T04:30:47.609-07:00Muhannad, you raise several issues which I would l...Muhannad, you raise several issues which I would like to address.<br /><br />"I love Jews who tell the truth". <br /><br />This is a very racist statement. It implies that you hate jews who don't tell the kind of things you wanna hear.<br /><br />Who gets to determine the truth? How do you know that what you read on Mondoweiss is true, since you have nothing to compare it with? Some of it might be, some of it surely isn't. And yes, they are very anti-semitic. I've enough experience with anti-semitism to be able to tell.<br /><br />Re palestinian christians. This is one story unconfirmed by other sources (except for Wikipedia, which mentions 30-40 trees uprooted, not hundreds). The article in the Washington Post is no longer there, so I can't tell you if this is true or not. Even if it is, it's still a local event that doSen't justify blaming the flight of palestinian christians on Israel.<br /><br />By the way, this flight began in the 19th century, long before the evil-zionists-lives-saving barrier.<br /><br />If I'm accused of spreading hasbara, at least I'll do it properly. <a href="http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2006/08/123-israeli-children-killed-by.html" rel="nofollow">They</a> would still be alive today if it was a barrier back then.<br /><br />Re education. My kid being in school, I'll try to ask him about this. I'm not sure he'll cooperate, since the subject isn't exactly what a teenager is interested in.<br /><br />I have to emphasize a small aspect that had evaded the scrutiny of both Peled-Elhanan and Mr Barghouti. Arabs themselves and their deeds are likely to have a greater impact on our views than textbooks.<br /><br />When ny kid was 5-6 years old, long before being subjected to the Likud-sponsored brainwashing, I took him to the mall. A risky business back then, before the christian-cleansing barrier. We sat down to eat at Burger Ranch. A family of arabs arrived and sat at a table next to us. My kid asked me to move to another table because he was afraid to sit so close to arabs. Truth to tell, I was undecided myself, since back then some arabs had the bad habit of suddenly blowing up with no regard for other people's body parts. Between fear of death and fear of nurturing a little racist, I had a long look at that family and decided they just came to enjoy junk-food as everyone else, so we didn't move. I still have second-thoughts accompanied by "what if" flashes about this. What's preferable - a dead innocent child or a live racist one?<br /><br />Re Rachel Corrie. I never said she wanted a jews-free Middle East. Frankly, I don't know. I talked about people who wouldn't risk their own behinds but are sending young idealistic fools to further their agenda. Rachel Corrie, as far as I know, was such an idealistic fool.<br /><br />Try some pro-Israel sites for balance. There is <a href="http://www.camera.org/" rel="nofollow">CAMERA</a> - Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. There is also the <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/" rel="nofollow">Index of Myths</a>. Maybe <a href="http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/" rel="nofollow">this</a>, too.<br /><br />The truth is usually caught somewhere in the middle.Pisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554577425918829516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-44713895210832717312011-08-09T23:18:25.148-07:002011-08-09T23:18:25.148-07:00In Iran the people are divided between Islamic fun...In Iran the people are divided between Islamic fundamentalist and relatively liberal. Hundreds have died since 2009. For decades liberal Iranians have been imprisoned or killed for their views. <br /><br />In Pakistan, liberal politicians have been assassinated by conservatives. Benazir Bhutto was a liberal politician. The people who killed her were conservative. <br /><br />In Algeria, liberals have been attacked for decades. The Algerian Civil War was largely between secular and fundamentalist. <br /><br />Among the Palestinians, there are liberal forces (Fatah, PLO) who have fought conservatives (Hamas). <br /><br />In Iraq in the 60s, liberal politicians and military leaders took over. The Baathists, who were more conservative, overthrew the communist liberals. <br /><br />Since the 70s there has been a general shift towards conservatism in the Arab and Muslim world, but liberalism is not dead. In Iraq today, there is Al Iraqiya, a secular party, more liberal than Maliki's group. There are many liberal Iraqis who would like to see an end to political Islam. Liberals in Iraq have to stay low to avoid being killed by militant conservatives. <br /><br />Tensions between liberals and conservatives exist in just about every Muslim country.Iraqi Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-44279549217885388402011-08-09T22:53:11.239-07:002011-08-09T22:53:11.239-07:00I wrote "Zakaria Zubeidi was a leader of the ...I wrote "Zakaria Zubeidi was a leader of the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade"<br /><br />WAS a leader, madtom. <br /><br />"He co-founded his theatre with Zacharia Zubeidi, <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/18557289" rel="nofollow">once</a> the military head of the al-Aqsa Brigades, whom he had inspired to turn away from violence."Iraqi Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-1169741511249199472011-08-09T22:48:23.446-07:002011-08-09T22:48:23.446-07:00"has been ongoing for decades."
That al...<i>"has been ongoing for decades."</i><br /><br />That all looks like propaganda from here. Shades of green. mostly to support the regimes and royal families and the elites. Nothing more, nothing real. If it were real schools, universities and Mosques and Ayatollahs would have burned.<br /><br />I am open to being educated, I want to learn more, it's why I come to sites like yours, to learn from those that close to the truth. Teach me.madtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609777902535328244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-31774173415948190022011-08-09T22:42:09.002-07:002011-08-09T22:42:09.002-07:00"Or Glen Beck"
Try the lady herself, it...<i>"Or Glen Beck"</i><br /><br />Try the lady herself, it was in her interview, I read it.madtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609777902535328244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-13430433902715200732011-08-09T22:40:27.089-07:002011-08-09T22:40:27.089-07:00"So Juliano Mer-Kahn's theater was fundin...<i>"So Juliano Mer-Kahn's theater was funding terrorism?"</i><br /><br />You just said that a high ranking member of the brigade was a partner in the theater, what do you think the brigade does with it's money? Or maybe the Brigade was subsidizing the theater...lolmadtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609777902535328244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-20217732425086421012011-08-09T22:39:22.812-07:002011-08-09T22:39:22.812-07:00The war between liberal Muslims and conservative M...The war between liberal Muslims and conservative Muslims has been ongoing for decades.Iraqi Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-27219484756713963842011-08-09T22:32:25.505-07:002011-08-09T22:32:25.505-07:00"There have been civil wars"
But most o...<i>"There have been civil wars"</i><br /><br />But most of those have been about food shortage, mostly brought about by socialist government, very little to do with supposed conservative/liberal divide.<br /><br />The liberals in the Egyptian rallies were raping female journalist while the crowd cheered on the whore getting what she deservedmadtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609777902535328244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-91936712790205970662011-08-09T22:20:46.838-07:002011-08-09T22:20:46.838-07:00So Juliano Mer-Kahn's theater was funding terr...So Juliano Mer-Kahn's theater was funding terrorism? madtom, you are not getting it. lol<br /><br />But if your theory is that fundamentalist Islam is incompatible with a democracy in which non-Muslims live, I would probably agree with you.Iraqi Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-79024876419604162952011-08-09T22:17:49.790-07:002011-08-09T22:17:49.790-07:00There have been civil wars all across the Muslim w...There have been civil wars all across the Muslim world, madtom.Iraqi Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-5874566257958719172011-08-09T22:17:04.762-07:002011-08-09T22:17:04.762-07:00" It drew audiences from Ramallah, Bethlehem ...<i>" It drew audiences from Ramallah, Bethlehem and even Israel,"</i><br /><br />You see, just like I said, money and connections. And where did that money go? Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade?<br />How many suicide vest do you think it paid?madtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609777902535328244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-5355897326049165692011-08-09T22:09:25.038-07:002011-08-09T22:09:25.038-07:00"conservative Muslims"
Do you think the...<i>"conservative Muslims"</i><br /><br />Do you think there is a real difference between conservatives, moderates, and liberals?<br /><br />All we see are shades of green, the main difference is the conservatives would put a knife to your neck right away, and the other ones might give you three steps towards the door.<br /><br />If there were real differences there would be civil war all across the Muslim world.madtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609777902535328244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-25410900804387265672011-08-09T22:00:56.896-07:002011-08-09T22:00:56.896-07:00It's that kind of comment in which you jump to...It's that kind of comment in which you jump to conclusions that makes me think you are a conservative, madtom. It's obvious Zakaria Zubeidi was a friend of Juliano's, like many Palestinians were. <br /><br />"His Freedom Theatre, set up in 2006 to replace his mother’s workshop (bulldozed by the Israelis four years earlier), was the first acting school in occupied Palestine. It drew audiences from Ramallah, Bethlehem and even Israel, bused in semi-secretly through the mountains. By 2009 <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/18557289" rel="nofollow">700-800 children</a> attended every year, including many girls. There was a waiting list. They acted “Alice in Wonderland” and a Palestinian version of “Animal Farm” in which the children, in their pig masks, learned to speak Hebrew and dared to suggest that fighters in their own intifada might become like their oppressors. In the battered cement labyrinths of the camp, where the only entertainment came from TV or mobile phones, the theatre was Mr Mer-Khamis’s seeding ground for a brand new and liberated Palestinian identity."<br /><br />Zakaria is probably still mourning his brilliant friend and business partner, who was evidently making things better for Palestinians.Iraqi Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.com