Saturday, September 26, 2009

JUST IN & Recent: The Latest News from the US, Israel and Palestine


See reference to The Parents Circle below news items.

2 hours ago: Michael Oren still 'enjoying every minute' as Israel's ambassador to Washington Twitter here

From The American Palestinian Public Affairs Forum Please go:
here

Cape Town to host Palestinian Struggle and Human Spirit Film Festival:
Channel 4 Network SA, a Cape Town-based international news network and syndication company, will be hosting a Palestinian film festival from 2-4 October 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. GO: here

A report of apparent double-standard on dating and marriage along with other concerns between Palestinians and Jewish coupling "Anti=Assimilation" Report by Jonathan Cook on Inter-racial dating and marriage: here
This one may be more complete: here and one more here

High Holy Workbook from American Jewish Tikkun (for Jewish and Non-Jewish):
here

Interview with Israeli Rami Elhanan and Palestinian Bassam Aramin from Circle of Bereaved Parents: Israeli Rami Elhanan and Palestinian Bassam Aramin have both lost daughters in the conflict between their peoples. But instead of demanding revenge, they are working together for peace and reconciliation. Rami and Bassam are part of a 500 strong group called The Circle of Bereaved Parents. Their stories are told in a book called "Nine Lives." here

OBAMA: you need to talk with Hamas! Levy on Haaretz - Haaretzonline/Twitter here

GIDEON LEVY'S EMAIL: levy@haaretz.co.il

2 comments:

CN said...

SUNDAY 5-7 PM ET FireDogLake
Book Salon: Swanson With Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald will introduce and moderate an online discussion with David Swanson about his new book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union."

Please go to FireDogLake ahead of time and make sure you have a username and password so that you can ask questions: http://firedoglake.com

CN said...

Law and Order VS John Yoo (75 + comments)

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/26/law-and-order-versus-john-yoo/