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What do you do now (1995)
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When you stand by the window
And outside life goes by
And people are just shadows
Of a dirty lie
When your heart is exploding
Will you let it burn
And you look around
There’s no return

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By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh – Bethlehem

When I look out the balcony of the faculty lounge at Bethlehem University I hear the constant hammering of the construction in the settlement that separates us from Jerusalem and I see Israeli settlements built on Palestinian lands surrounding Bethlehem on three sides. Every two weeks, Jewish settlers “visit” the hill on the fourth side (called Ush Ghrab) that they have set their eyes on. Yet, I hear the US media is focused on other things including the weighty matter of dodging shoes.

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by ISM Media Group
22 December 2008

Neta Golan, an Israeli citizen and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), has been arrested by Israeli police while attempting to leave Gaza through the Erez border crossing.

Neta Golan, 38, arrived Gaza on the 20th December, along with 17 human rights observers on the SS Dignity, the fifth boat to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, organised by the Free Gaza Movement.

She will be taken to court tomorrow (23rd December) in Kiryat Gat.

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by Steven Salaita, Antiwar.com, 22 December 2008

Barack Obama’s choice of Pastor Rick Warren of Orange County’s Saddleback Church to give the invocation at his inauguration has sent the liberal blogosphere into a frenzy of apprehension and indignation. Warren is an advocate of Proposition 8, the measure that repealed gays’ right to marry in California. It is no doubt a poor choice by Obama, but the outrage arising from the liberal-Left misses a number of crucial points, primary among them the fact that Obama’s selection of Warren may be in poor taste but it is in no way a betrayal.

In fact, none of Obama’s Cabinet or advisory selections have been betrayals, although such an accusation is in vogue among increasingly jittery liberals. “Now it has officially gone too far,” declares Sarah Posner in the Nation, displaying a bit of the ceremonial righteousness that only the pious can muster. Warren is “a poster boy for kinder, gentler 21st century bigotry, and Obama shouldn’t validate him with this lofty symbolic role,” notes Joan Walsh at Salon.com.

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