Just like during the war, the names of the dead slowly appeared as I descended the gentle slope to the black granite wall and then suddenly the scope of the carnage overcame me as scores of names became hundreds and then thousands and finally over 50,000 and the brutal truth of this unnecessary tragedy overwhelmed me as I slowly and somberly climbed back into the sunlight.
Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance, burying in laughter the suffering screams of those displaced and destroyed, furiously hiding forgotten faces framed in fear from mocking the glorious dance should they be awakened once more by the reverie.
“A Church that is not ready or willing to hear the voice of the oppressed and stand with justice is out of sync with the will of her Head and Maker.”-Rev. Alex Awad
“When Hillary Clinton visited Jerusalem and said the wall was not against the Palestinian people, she killed us too! Christians who do not care kill us too!”
The good news is that the restrictions that have denied Mordechai Vanunu his inalienable human rights expire before June 1st, but the bad news concerns continuing failures of Corporate Media to report on Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower.
Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped.
What a bizarre circumstance this is. The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably. The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily.
The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that it is now legitimate for police to strip search any person, regardless of the reason for the arrest. Under the pretext of security concerns, U.S. capitalism is using all the tools at its disposal to attain full control of its population.
A few hours after “21 April 2012: Global Call to Free Mordechai Vanunu, Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower and a New York Event” PRWEB Press Release went live, I received my first of the usual cyber attacks that have come at me since I went online in 2005, and I seize this opportunity to address them once again.
CUFI now has as much influence with our Republican Congress as does the Jewish Zionist lobby, AIPAC.
From 1904 until 1950, facsimile copies of “THE JEFFERSON BIBLE: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French and English” were distributed to every newly elected member of the Senate on the very day they swore their oath of office.
In 1989, when Radio Free America was into it’s first full year of broadcasts one of the themes most gripping to a new audience for the new medium of anti-fascist statism, sometimes called ‘populism’ Was the forum promoted around the great work of Dr. Thomas Sczaz author of ‘the myth of mental illness.’
“What I did was sacrifice my life for the truth. In prison I really began to feel like Jesus and Paul. When Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple, it was like me in Dimona exposing the Israelis dirty secrets. I felt like Paul being thrown in prison for speaking the truth…”-Mordechai Vanunu
Today, Jesus would be considered not only a rebel, if not a terrorist, and most definitely a threat to the establishment and the status quo and the humanizing of Jesus is an essential step in the journey towards taking responsibility for that same love deepest within us all..
Palm Sunday is referred to as “Passion Sunday” and it marks the beginning of Holy Week, which concludes on Easter Sunday…2,000 years ago the cross had no religious meaning and was not a piece of jewelry.
On March 16, the White House released the “National Defense Resources Preparedness” which gives the President the ability to impose martial law in case of a war or national emergency.
What would happen if we intercepted a report from an intergalactic space probe expedition that has been collecting data on Planet Earth for some time?
This article was published first at my site, which was founded in July 2005; three weeks after my first of seven trips to Israel Palestine.
“I said, you are gods: you are all children of the Most High God.”-Psalm 82:6…The first mention of Israel in the Bible is in Genesis 32, when Jacob wrestled, struggled and then clung to the Divine being and was then renamed Israel.
When the recent cyber attack against Gilad Atzmon began, I could only sigh and a sigh is a silent prayer. Then I said aloud, “Jesus have mercy on us all” as I recalled what Ken O’Keefe said regarding WHY we activists have not been able to end the military occupation of Palestine; because of the failure to “Check the ego at the door.”
Last Sunday’s “60 Minutes”, featured a Lesley Stahl interview with Meir Dagan, who admitted that bombing Iran now is “the stupidest idea” he’d ever heard. A few other ‘stupid ideas’ out of Israel follow…
Nothing is more powerful than a truth whose time has come. In a world that is increasingly interconnected and viral, the search for the ultimate truth is accelerating.
Amnesty International is celebrating fifty years in support of free speech at a comedy show on March 4th in New York City with the import of The Secret Policeman’s Ball.
“All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth. I’ve had enough of reading things by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians. All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.”-John Lennon, 1971.
It takes a deep faith in Jesus to speak the truth about Jesus, and only one with the deepest of faith will dare to speak the truth that Jesus spoke.
From time to time you may feel lonely but you are never alone. Humanity and humanism are there at your side – for all time.
As our civil liberties slowly erode with a corporate state under control of the Military/Industrial complex and global elite ~ there will come a time when we all must take a stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause or some great truth.
People ask me all the time why I went to occupied Palestine [7 times since 2005] and why do I care so much about such a small plot of real estate. I reply, that I went the first time to meet a little boy of Beit Jala, which is a suburb of Bethlehem for he irrevocably changed my life.
The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone.
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