TweetTens of thousands Palestinians flooded across the breached border crossing from Gaza into Egypt parting the wall separating the besieged city from Egypt, thousands of years after the Jews fled oppression and persecution in Egypt crossing the sea to the wilderness, It is ironic to see the new exodus of the Palestinians crossing into the same wilderness of the Egyptians desert escaping the oppression of the descendants of the ancient Hebrews. Israel’s decades of subjugation of the Palestinians left them living on a life support system that is extended from Tell Aviv; water, border crossing, fuels, electricity, food and other basic necessities are squeezed in by the Israeli siege as…
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Top ten traveling advisories for Arab/ Muslim Americans
TweetTop ten traveling advisories for Arab/ Muslim Americans For a safe flight please 10. Have a clean shave 9. Don’t ask for a helal meal 8. Leave the Qur’an at home, there is another holy book in every hotel room, same stories. 7. Don’t listen to Arabic music on the flight 6. If they ask you to take your shoes off, this is not time to pray. 5. If there is an emergency landing, chanting “Allahu Akber, could be deadly. 4. If someone ask you how was your flight, it is not necessary to mention hell. 3. Don’t ever go to the bathroom, just sweat it out. 2. Don’t travel…
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Turn the setlements down…
Tweet Desperate hope from a desperate president! Many Americans are currently affixed to their YouTube and TV sets desperately trying to figure out which presidential candidate will inspire them to hope, watching staged debates and manufactured emotion that allows each candidate to define his/her version of real hope. Away from all this political hope business, the incumbent president himself, President Bush – the one who for seven years has taken the American people into a post 9/11 bunker mentality devoid of any hope – went to visit the Middle East to give the peace process and the Palestinian people some hope. Sounds familiar. This strategy has become part of the…
