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The Arab Young Generations are Awakened and they will Win
It is true that until the day Tunisia was liberated from Dictatorship, the Arab peoples were living in a stage that can be named “Dark Ages” but since Boazizi made his first move and started the flame of liberty, the Egyptians went out into the streets and ended the days of a dictator, the Bahrainis stood up and said no for Injustice and the Syrians started a fight for justice that continues until this moment…everything changed.
The days of the weak Arab states that were born out of colonialism and given to Individuals to control the destiny of all of those who lived on their lands ended. The Young generations are enlightened and thirsty for justice, Democracy and expressing themselves because of the light they see…a light that
Netanyahu decides: To change the conditions of the Palestinian Prisoners
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated today that the Palestinian prisoners conditions would not stay the same. The Israeli decision includes preventing [singlepic id=567 w=320 h=240 float=right]more than 7000 Palestinian prisoners from applying to learn for an Academic title in the universities. The Israeli decision comes as an added punishment to the Palestinian prisoners that are involved in a political conflict.
Formerly there were many recommendations that were made by the Freedman committee that asked to decrease the allowed visits for the families of the
Top Five Israeli and Palestinian Myths
We began this myth exercise several days ago by identifying myths 1 through 4.25 — peace isn’t possible, “their” violent culture is so different from “our” [singlepic id=430 w=320 h=240 float=right]peaceful culture that we can never have peace, the Israeli government doesn’t really want peace as much as they want to expand settlements, Hamas’s reconciliation with Fatah prevents Israel from discussing peace, and Israel’s 1967 borders are indefensible.
Why 4.25 myths? Unfortunately, we were forced to halt our progress just as we were about to move all of the way to five.
The Young Arab and Palestinian Generations, the coming change and Israel’s Plans
The Palestinian struggle started many years ago and it continues until today to get the Palestinians their rights back. The whole story started simply by taking a land by force and ignoring the presence of those who were living on it. Until today there are many who try to deny the existence of the Palestinian people and its history but for their bad luck reality proves something else.
Following a long armed struggle the Palestinians agreed on letting the gun down and holding the olive tree branch as a sign of peace. Negotiations continued for more seventeen years, Palestinian compromises were given and security was maintained but the only reaction from the Israeli side was more occupation,
FPC Tour: After it, the Next Step and Lessons
The Foreign Press Center Tour that was made by the U.S Department of State was a success: I succeeded in sending out a message about the reality of the Palestinian Case, met amazing people who I shared with them a lot of similarities and learned a lot about their purposes, met officials and asked them direct questions about the government policy and learned a lot about the American society.
One of the most important outcomes of the tour was the decision that was taken by the twenty International Bloggers to start a Global Foundation named:
الميدل ايست بوست يشارك في مؤتمر دولي عن “ربيع الثورات العربية” و استخدام الانترنت في واشنطن و مينابوليس
[singlepic id=564 w=320 h=240 float=right]اشترك مؤسس موقع الميدل ايست بوست زياد خليل ابو زياد في مؤتمر دولي اقيم برعاية الولايات المتحدة الامريكية حيث اشترك به اكثر من 20 صحفي و بلوغر على الانترنت , و مثل ابو زياد موقع الميدل ايست بوست عن الاراضي الفلسطينية الذي ينشر تحليلات و مقالات عن الوضع السياسي في الشرق الاوسط و خصوصا الصراع الفلسطيني الاسرائيلي حيث التقى العديد من الصحفيين الذين اتوا للمشاركة في المؤتمر من انحاء العالم مثل البحرين و مصر و افغانستان و باكستان و المغرب و المانيا و البرتغال و عمان و العراق و كردستان و الصين و كزغستان و تركيا و غيرها. و شمل المؤتمر جولة الى كل من واشنطن حيث التقى الصحافيون نائبة سكرتيرة الخارجية هيلاري كلينتون و العديد من المسؤولين عن قسم الصحافة و الانترنت في وزارة الخارجية الامريكية. كما زارت مجموعة الصحافيين جامعة مينسوتا المعروفة بكلية الصحافة الافضل في العالم.
TOP 4.25 ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN MYTHS (PEACE TALKS VERSION)
Your myth may be my truth (and vice versa), but then that’s the essence of the Israeli and Palestinian saga, so let’s plunge into the certitude abyss. Today’s [singlepic id=557 w=320 h=240 float=right]top 4.25 myths (and maybe your 4.25 truths) include my personal top three and 1.25 others courtesy of various emailers.
Some emailers (and one old-fashioned pen on paper geezer) have been kind enough to maintain issue consistency in their disagreement(s) with my previous articles; however, the ones who have been more pedantic have tended to be more entertaining and descriptive in trying to teach me the past, present and future. However, please allow me to suggest that if “self-hating” is the best you can do to describe your disagreement, you need to ”google” Mort Klein or go to his ZOA site so you can borrow his more reliably histrionic material.
