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West Bank draws Canadian entrepreneurs - The Globe and Mail
“I’ll never forget sitting in [a] sketchy warehouse in Tel Aviv, with $50,000 on my lap, my lawyer by my side and the shipping company on standby waiting for us to make the exchange,” he recalls.
Starting and running a business in a conflict zone comes with its own set of hurdles: political tensions, bureaucracies, trade barriers, checkpoints, telecommunications obstacles, along with many of the other usual difficulties of working in foreign countries.
They add to the challenge for young entrepreneurs already on a steep learning curve.
But Mr. Al Sabawi, who launched the first geothermal energy company in the Middle East, is among the Canadians who have decided to try their hand at setting up business in the West Bank and Gaza, believing in the need to strengthen the Palestinian private sector. They are also savvy enough to know a good market opportunity when they see it.
Strong, beautiful women.
(via In Pictures: Women of Gaza - In Pictures - Al Jazeera English)
scince : 15.5.1948
Al-Nakba,the catastrophe of the Palestinian people who were ethnically cleansed from their homes, lands, and villages by the
Zionists before and after the creation of the State of Israel on May 15th 1948! More than 750,000 Palestinians were made
homeless refugees, forced to live in inhumane conditions and squalid refugee camps that were set up by the UN. These refugee
camps were only supposed to serve as a “temporary” solution until the refugees were permitted to go back home according to
UN Resolution 194 (The Right of Return), The Geneva Conventions regarding refugees, and other Internationally Recognized
Laws! Now after more than 63 years, the Refugees are still living in camps while Israel continues to ignore countless UN
Resolutions. In fact, till this very day, Israel continues to create yet more homeless refugees in Palestine, some for the 3rd and
4th time in their lives!
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Cyprus recognizes Palestinian state || Thank You Cyprus
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Cyprus has recognized a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, the official Palestinian Authority news agency said Sunday.
President Mahmoud Abbas received a letter from his Cypriot counterpart Dimitris Christofias informing him of the recognition, WAFA reported.
According to the report, Christofias highlighted the historic relationship between Cyprus and Palestine, and expressed his hopes that a peace agreement would be finalized to secure the establishment of an independent, democratic and sovereign Palestinian state.
Christofias also wrote that Cyprus would not recognize any unilateral changes to the internationally recognized borders set before the six-day war in June 1967. He stressed that a Palestinian state must be geographically contiguous, with East Jerusalem as its capital, WAFA said.
The Cypriot leader added that Israel’s settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories was a serious obstacle to comprehensive peace in the Middle East, the report said.
A wave of Latin American countries have recently announced their recognitions of Palestine, most recently Paraguay.
The PA’s diplomatic efforts have focused on international recognition, particularly since peace negotiations with Israel collapsed over settlement building in late September.
this is huge.
Palestine, 1920. A Palestinian Mother Smiling with her child in her arms.
I mourn the days when Palestinian mothers would smile for their newborns, not cry for their buried.
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Street scene, Jerusalem, 1934 | via onenightinpalestine,twelvebells,through their eyes
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RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2010 - A Palestinian schoolgirl walks past Israeli Occupation Forces -IOF- soldiers on her way home from school during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian stone-throwers in the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem March 16, 2010. [Reuters]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcypxwHb7m1qbczcco1_500.jpg)
RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2010 - A Palestinian schoolgirl walks past Israeli Occupation Forces -IOF- soldiers on her way home from school during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian stone-throwers in the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem March 16, 2010. [Reuters]
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muzings: Palestinians should withdraw from the Peace Talks
Yesteday’s announcement by Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel will not extend its settlement freeze in lieu of ongoing peace talks with the Palestinians should come as no surprise to anyone. Israel has walked into these talks half-heartedly, eager to satisfy US demands that it do the needful to…
Uzair is spot on. this is a definite must-read.
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“ Now is the time for leaders of courage and vision to deliver the peace their people deserve.”
Barack Obama on the recent re-initiated Mideast peace talks between Israel and Palestine.
At first I didn’t know which leaders he’s talking about. Then i saw the image below and it was a picture of Obama and a white, decrepit elderly male (Netanyahu) with their backs to the camera and with hands on eachothers backs and then i immediately understood. For one thing, Abbas is something else to be discussed, but Netanyahu and the other Israeli leaders are something entirely different. “Leaders of courage and vision?” Really now? Sometimes i wish Obama would drop his flowery rhetoric and just say what he really wants to say. Sigh, and i was hoping i’d find some nice commentary of today’s events but 25 pages into my dashboard and i can’t find much. I’ll probably see it tomorrow, for now i sleep. Even though there isn’t much that’s new to say, i may write something unique tomorrow about all of this.
A young Palestinian Muslim girl walks in an alley of Jerusalem’s old city holding a traditional Ramadan lantern while celebrating with other children the announcing of the holy month of Ramadan on Tuesday, Aug. 10 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Palestinian children return back to school but not all of them made it. The signs are the names of those who were killed by Israel during the most recent war on Gaza. (2009)
“ Americans think that we hate them. We don’t. We, like you, are very well aware of what it is like to have your will hijacked by a government.”
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TV cameras have captured the distressing moment a five-year-old Palestinian boy sees his father arrested for stealing water.
Khaled Jabari wails in torment and confusion as Israeli soldiers drag away his father Fadel in the West Bank district of Hebron.
Walking barefoot, the youngster becomes hysterical as he pleads with the troops not to take his father away.
One of the soldiers picks up the lad and removes him from the scene before Fadel is driven away in a four-wheel-drive.
After watching the footage, Hashem Abu Maria, of the Defence For Children International charity, said it was obvious the child thought his father would never return.I understand that perhaps in Western society it is undoubtedly wrong to walk into a convenience store and grab several bottles of water and walk out.. But I find such a situation as this to be far different, and barely worthy of being labeled as “stealing” or anything theft related. Thus such a situation should not merit the arrest or removal of a kids father infront of his own eyes. I’m going to assume his mother was not around, with that, do you not possess any moral sense whereas taking a kids father away from him and leaving him alone is unjustified?? And all because he took water, likely due to necessity for his families well being. Since when did water become a privilege? We cannot treat it as though it is a material possession. No matter who you are or where you are from, it’s a necessity for our survival. One of the few resources on this planet that we cannot afford to lose, that make up the very means of our existence.. You could argue that perhaps he was provided with a rations of water previously, ofcourse. In regards to that, unless he was outside using it to water his plants, the rations couldn’t be of fair proportions if a man feels the need to “steal” more, but rather the rations are probably lacking and inappropriate. But whatever…
Palestinian man “steals” water for his survival and gets arrested; Israel continually steals land and the livelihood of palestinians daily in an attempt to wipe out all Palestinian arabs in their borders and nobody puts israel on trial. Welcome to illegally-occupied Palestine.
