Global Pacification, the Matrix of Control and Other Nasties…
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Bethlehem
A family says goodbye to a ‘martyr’ in Bethlehem [VIDEO]
Mutaz Zawahra was having the time of his life in France on a youth program with two other friends when he got the news that his oldest brother had fallen dangerously ill. His brother, Ghassan, was on hunger strike in Israeli prison protesting his internment without trial or charge, and family members told Mutaz that his older brother may not make it through his strike alive.
Shot dead in a school uniform
Mourners carry the body of 13-year-old Abdulrahman Shadi Obeidallah during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on 6 October. Muhesen AmrenAPA images
Re-enactment of Murderous Israeli Siege on Christian Holy Site
A play that re-tells one of the most shameful episodes in the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestine had its premiere this week at The Lowry in Salford, Manchester. It is called The Siege.
The Freedom Theatre company, which produced the play, had traced exiled Palestinian resisters scattered across Europe and collected their accounts of that infamous event.
The day I shook hands with Pope Francis I — Samia Khoury
Unfortunately the people in Jerusalem were not privileged to be on the streets to welcome Pope Francis . The Israeli Police closed all the roads that led to the areas which he was going to visit, and turned the city into a ghost town.
Papal Tour a Fizzer
What a feather in the Zionist cap! A Catholic pope honouring Herzl the Zionist atheist! Francis’ rabbi friend, Abraham Skorka was spot on when he noted that it ‘could be understood as a nod to Zionism’. It was much more than a nod. For the gleeful Netanyahu gang, it was an imprimatur on the expansionism of Greater Israel negating Francis’ two-state solution.
Christians: Israel violates Palestinian religious freedoms each Easter
Ma’an - April 6, 2012
BETHLEHEM – A group of Christians from East Jerusalem on Sunday said that Israel’s restrictions on Palestinian mobility resulted in violations of religious freedoms.
The statement, signed “Palestinian Christian Organizations in Occupied East Jerusalem,” complained that Christians are often denied access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Easter holidays.