Saturday, July 25, 2015

My letter to the NYTimes RE Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East?

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Bethlehem Behind the Wall RE: Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East? Dear Editor, Israel's decades long r...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

I expect Israel to respect and protect the rights of all children, Palestinian and Israeli.... Urge your Members of Congress to join Representative Betty McCollum in signing the letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking the State Department to make the human rights of Palestinian children a priority in the United States’ relationship with Israel.

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Urge Your MoC to Sign the Letter on Palestinian Children in Military Detention In February UNICEF shared the details of their...

My letter to the Guardian RE A cross to bear: the vanishing Christians of the Middle East

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A funeral in Deir Abu Hennis, Egypt, where many of the inhabitants have never left the village (July 2012). Photograph: Linda Dorigo RE...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

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A century on, the debate over the killings continues. Patrick Chappatte for The New York Times

Boycotting Israel's Anti-Palestine War Games in the West Bank

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"... a settlement boycott—and not just a refusal to buy settlement-produced goods but a prohibition on investing or financially underw...
Friday, April 17, 2015

My letter to the NYTimes RE U.N. Calls on Western Nations to Shelter Syrian Refugees

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Syrian refugees waiting for transportation to a shelter after crossing into Turkey. Nearly four million refugees have...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

My letter to the NYTimes RE A Tiny House in Seattle

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A hemmed-in house has become Seattle’s shrine to defiance. Photo Credit Ian C. Bates for...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

April: Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month with Ibtisam Barakat's Tree Day Celebration

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in Growing Gardens for Palestine For this poem and 155 more (all in English AND Spanish), order your own copy of The Poetry Friday An...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Comment I posted RE Hussein Ibish: The tragedy in Yarmouk

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NOW: A man stands inside a demolished building in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on 6 April 2015. Ar...
Monday, March 16, 2015

AP Photo in a field of flowers: “My father and one of my brothers are refugees in Lebanon's camps, my other three brothers are refugees in Turkey and I am, with my husband, a refugee in Jordan,” she says. “The war ripped everything from us. All I wish is to be reunited with my family back in our village.”

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FILE - In this Monday, March 9, 2015 file photo, Syrian refugee Montaha Ali hangs her laundry near her tent at an informal tented settlem...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

"The position of the United States with respect to our long expressed hope, the Republicans and the Democrats alike (and) many presidents of the last 50 years or more, has always been for peace and President Obama remains committed to a two-state solution," Kerry

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference at an economic conference, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Saturday, March...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

My letter PUBLISHED in the New York Times: Suffering in Gaza: Who Is to Blame?

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Gaza Strip - Times Topics - The New York Times : World news about the Gaza Strip. Breaking news and archival information about its peop...