Monday 4 August 2014

palestin

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." (Mark Twain)
América Latina: Gracias, te queremos!
oh wow: "I will do such things—What they are yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth." what a useless calamity is this UN--spineless Kafkaesque good for nothing bureaucrats!
Is the term "apartheid" applicable to Israel? From the former US President Jimmy Carter to current US Secretary of State John Kerry have either used it for Israel or else warned abut its pending applicability. Read here Saree Makdisi's argument for its applicability to Israel. Saree Makdisi is a Palestinian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)--he is the author of, among other books, "Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation" (2012) --here is the link to that article--published in LA Times on 17 May 2014: 

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-makdisi-israel-apartheid-20140518-story.html
"Gaza Sky, 2011" by Gaza native Palestinian artist Laila Shawa--

to learn more about her work visit this gallery site: http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/artists/shawa/
Peter Paul Rubens, "Massacre of the Innocents" (1636-1638)--based on a Biblical story--who will tell the story of the massacre of innocents in Gaza 2014? Who will draw, paint, write, sing, dance, film, stage, or recite it?
Iranian artist Golrokh Nafisi --drawing pictures and writing the names of perished Palestinian children in Gaza--during a rally in Holland--

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