Posted on August 26, 2009 by Madronna Holden
“There is a Palestinian saying that all the politicians should be sent to the moon so that they can look back and see that we all live on one world”– a Palestinian-American teacher at BirZeit.
During the recent US election, Canadian Sabina Lautensach observed in her editorial in the Journal of Human Security that those [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2008 by Madronna Holden
January 22 update.
Temporary ceasefire in Gaza.
Now there is a chance for the US as mediator to help broker in a fair peace in this area, but only if the media tells the truth and US government representatives know it. When I lived under the Occupation, I was subject to the pressure of the Occupation to [...]
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Posted on December 21, 2008 by Madronna Holden
What Makes a Hero? A Letter to Israel’s Minister of Defense
To Mr. Ehud Barak:
You should be proud indeed that you have young people such as the Shminitism to secure the future of Israel. These young men and women poised on the edge of adulthood have the uncanny ability to discern and destroy the enemy, even [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2008 by Madronna Holden
11,000 years ago the country where modern Iran is today was a “paradise”, according to the archeologists currently investigating the world’s oldest Stonehenge-type religious site there. This site is thousands of years older than the famed one in the British Isles. In the most recent issue of the Smithsonian, archeologists speculate that the landscape filled [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2008 by Madronna Holden
“Whenever something makes us happy, something else makes us sad again.”
–Palestinian girl growing up under Israeli Occupation
“If you have been enlightened enough to take the side of the Palestinians – oh bless your hearts – take our sides, because for once you will be on the right side, right? But if taking [...]
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