Gaza Bombarded-2

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you [...]

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Gaza Bombarded-1

Even before the present Israeli blitzkrieg, Karen Koning Abu Zayd, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), asserted that, “Gaza is on the threshold of becoming the first territory to be intentionally reduced to a state of abject destitution, with the knowledge, acquiescence and – some would say – encouragement of the [...]

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Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—12

Inside this new love, die.
Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone
suddenly born into color,
Do it now.
You’re covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign
that you’ve died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.
The [...]

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Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—11

Voluptuousness
Tender lovers, bravely face your suffering.
The god who gives you these bonds,
Must come to your aid in the end;
The least favor
That love provides
Is able to atone for the troubles that he makes us suffer.
Far from this place, sad wisdom,
Should one forbid youth
Forming these delightful bonds?
What madness,
When from its love
A young heart loses its sweetest moments!
—Elisabeth-Claude [...]

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Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—10

The method of conferring the precepts is what Tendai called “imposed poison,” which is the active conferring of precepts to unwilling recipients. It benefits recipients by provoking anger in their hearts and minds, eliciting from them verbal abuse as well as aggression with swords, knives, and sticks. This act sows the seed of Buddhahood, which [...]

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Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—9

Chiefs of staff, prime ministers, ministers and generals are not the only ones responsible. Anyone who theoretically objects to oppression, discrimination and expulsion, but does not actively take part in the struggle and in creating a constant popular resistance to topple the apartheid regime we have created here, is responsible.
—Amira Hass (Israeli journalist)

Tommy Sands

From my [...]

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Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—8

The method of conferring the precepts is what Tendai called “imposed poison,” which is the active conferring of precepts to unwilling recipients. It benefits recipients by provoking anger in their hearts and minds, eliciting from them verbal abuse as well as aggression with swords, knives, and sticks. This act sows the seed of Buddhahood, which [...]

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Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—7

Gandhi’s and King’s successors in the twenty-first century have carried out further experiments in the power of nonviolent truth to achieve justice and peace in every corner of the world—including, in the last two months, Gaza.  The Free Gaza Movement has succeeded in breaking the siege of Gaza by nonviolent direct action.
—Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann

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Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—6

I’m here for other children.
I’m here because I care.
I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.
I’m here because those people are mostly children.
We have got to understand that the poor are all around us and we are ignoring them.
We have got to understand that these deaths [...]

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