Peace in the Middle East?

“UEFA president Michel Platini says he believes football can play a role in bringing about peace in the Middle East.”

Please, spare me your football. And lets not forget that while that Zionist gang was destroying Palestinian villages, the Lebanese army played a football match with that Zionist army.

If you mention boycotting that apartheid state, then i’d take you a bit more seriously.

Israel police

“Jerusalem District Police Chief Aharon Franco said on Monday that the city’s Muslim inhabitants were “ungrateful,” referring to recent violent clashes between Arab rioters and the police near the Temple Mount.” No shit.

Twitter

Why do I have a strange feeling that this blog will slowly turn into my personal twitter account?

Thoureau on representations

“Methinks it would be some advantage to philosophy if men were named merely in the gross as they are known. It would be necessary only to know the genus, and perhaps the race or variety, to know the individual. We are not prepared to believe that every private soldier in a Roman army had a name of his own — because we have not supposed that he had a character of his own. At present our only true names are nick-names. I knew a boy who from his peculiar energy was called “Buster” by his playmates, and this rightly supplanted his Christian name. Some travellers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit. It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.”

From his long essay Walking. Click here to read the full thing

Deep Ecology

Thought I would share an article on “Deep” Ecology by Murray Bookchin. Click here

Burning Trees

“Millions of trees, especially from the developing countries of the South, are being shipped to Europe and burned in giant furnaces to meet “green energy” requirements that are supposed to combat climate change.

At least another 1,200 megawatts of wood-fired energy plants, including the world’s largest, in Port Talbot, Wales, are already under construction.

Those energy plants will burn 20 to 30 million tonnes of wood annually, nearly all imported from other regions and equivalent to at least one million hectares of forest.

“Europe is going to cook the world’s tropical forests to fight climate change; it’s crazy,” Simone Lovera, of the non-governmental Global Forest Coalition, which has a southern officed in Asunción, Paraguay, told Tierramérica.“

Full article here

From Occupied Palestine

“But Abu Wael never gave up. He fought for his land with each seed he planted that next year. In 2006 he planted watermelon. He cared for the plants and they grew well. It was time to harvest again.

Once again, there would be no harvest. Over the border came the bulldozers and they destroyed in a few violent moments what took so much effort and time to grow.

And they never stopped. During last winter’s massacres in Gaza the Israeli army destroyed Abu Wael’s land again. It was planted with cabbage and other vegetables. They destroyed the whole land as well as the irrigation system. So now the farm is nothing. Abu Wael cannot plant because there is no water to irrigate the fields with.”

Full story here. As Murray Bookchin writes, “the domination of nature by man comes from the real domination of human by human”. This is a story you will never hear from Israeli media, even that Haaretz newspaper. They will always be there to protect their state’s criminal acts against Palestinians.

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Ive been too busy lately. I totally forgot that the internet exists. My bad.. I am back

Gaza Sewage

Just read this article headline “Gaza sewage ‘a threat to Israel’”.  Am I supposed to care now because it is a threat to Israel?

Toronto International Film Festival

“ Several Canadian filmmakers plan to withdraw their movies from next month’s Toronto International Film Festival to protest a weeklong cinematic homage to Tel Aviv.”

Kudos to all those who take a stance against praises of a state that commits apartheid policies and brutal occupation against the Palestinian people.