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WAWA/WeAreWideAwake is my Public Service to America as a muckracker who has journeyed seven times to Israel Palestine since June 2005.
WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
truth.
We who Are Wide
Awake are compelled by the "fierce urgency of Now" [Rev MLK, Jr.] to raise
awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
day: the state of our Union and in protection of democracy, what life is like
under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
and spirituality-from a Theologically Liberated Christian Anarchist
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The Blues Brothers "Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils."
George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796 "My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast."
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John Lennon "If enough Christians followed the gospel, they could bring any state to its knees."
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Tom Petty
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that, among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. -July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence |
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Home  Blog April / May 2012 April 25, 2012: Thank 60 Minutes via Jewish Voice for Peace and Related Links
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April 25, 2012: Thank 60 Minutes via Jewish Voice for Peace and Related Links |
April 25, 2012: Thank 60 Minutes via Jewish Voice for Peace and Related Links
Dear Eileen,
This week, something
rare happened: A major U.S. media outlet actually showed the effects of
the Israeli occupation on Palestinians.
But the candid
reporting by "60 Minutes", America's most respected news program, has
unleashed a furious response from major Jewish and right-wing Christian
groups. They've generated over 29,000 letters of complaint — many before
the episode even aired.
Unless we push back
now -- and thank "60 Minutes" -- real journalism like this will become
even more rare. Can you sign our petition to thank "60 Minutes"?
Click here: http://www.ThankYou60Minutes.org
I'm sure you'll agree that now they need to hear from you and others who
support their courageous and sadly all too accurate report about the
Palestinian Christian exodus from cities like Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Under Israeli
occupation, Palestinians have endured decades of unlawful home
demolitions, checkpoints, land confiscation, detentions without charges,
and much more. That's primarily why Palestinians are leaving, and why
Palestinian Christians issued a call to Christians in other lands to
help create pressure on the Israeli government through divestment
campaigns.
In response to this call, this week the United Methodist
Church is considering a historic vote to begin phased divestment from
companies that profit from the occupation. The "60 Minutes" segment, which you can watch on our petition page, explains clearly why church divestment is the right thing to do. The occupation dehumanizes Christians, Muslims and Jews.
Please, take a moment to sign the petition and share this link, http://www.ThankYou60Minutes.org, with your friends. Don't let "60 Minutes" back down. We need more fair and truthful reporting, not less.
Thank you,
Cecilie Surasky
Jewish Voice for Peace
The "Big Get"
Don Hewitt and "60 Minutes" Didn't Get-But It's Never Too Late
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...The Beit Arabiya Peace House, is at the
crossroads of Areas A, B and C and the home has become a symbol of
nonviolent persistent resistance and a meeting place for Israelis,
Palestinian and International peace activists at the intersection of
Areas A, B, and C. The smallest of the three is Area A, which is under
Palestinian authority. Areas B and C are under Israeli control. Since
1967 over 18,000 Palestinian families in the occupied territories have
been left homeless due to home demolitions and at this moment 22,000
more homes have demolition orders, which includes a third of all the
homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions has determined the
reasons Israel demolishes Palestinians homes is purely political: to confine the 3 ½
million residents of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza into small,
crowded, impoverished and disconnected enclaves; bantustans.
When
I visited the Beit Arabyia home there was a mural painted on the outer
wall by the North American Workers Against the USA occupation of Iraq
and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The mural depicted Rachel
Corrie, the American who was run over by a USA made Caterpillar
bulldozer in Gaza when she stood up to defend the home of a pharmacist
with five children just a few days before Bush began bombing Baghdad.
Also depicted was a pregnant Palestinian woman of ten who also was run
over by a Caterpillar in Gaza. The angelic images of the two women
floated above a depiction of a USA made Caterpillar bulldozer that had
tipped to one side and was flanked by tanks and images of weapons of
destruction and many people along a railroad track-a reminder that prior
to 1948, Jews and Palestinians had worked together in peaceful
solidarity to build a railroad.
The Arabyia home/Peace Center is
at the cornerstone of the village of the Anata and the Shufat refugee
camps, in the very area where the prophet Jeremiah in the 6th century
B.C. critiqued the violent conflicts in the Mid East, which were already
old news: “I hear violence and destruction in the city, sickness and
wounds are all I see.” [Jeremiah 6:7]
Mohammad Alatar, film
producer of “The Iron Wall” addressed my group after we broke bread and
ate a typical Palestinian feast prepared by the Arabiya family: “I am a
Muslim Palestinian American and when my son asked me who my hero was I
took three days to think about it. I told him my hero is Jesus, because
he took a stand and he died for it. What really needs to be done is for
the churches to be like Jesus; to challenge the Israeli occupation and
address the apartheid practices as moral issues. Even if every church
divested and boycotted Israel it would not harm Israel. After the USA
and Russia, Israel is the third largest arms exporter in the world. It
is a moral issue that the churches must address.”
THANK YOU CBS + more from Claire's Tomb + Vanunu Mordechai
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"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine
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The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway. © 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith " In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
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“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946 |
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The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright |
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"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
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