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“Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings From India and Iran”
11Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
India, Iran

“Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings From India and Iran”

By Barbara G.B. Ferguson Emperor Jahangir Embracing Shah Abbas of Persia. (All images courtesy Freer Gallery of Art) The sumptuous exhibit at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC, "Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings From India and Iran," marks the first time the lavish manuscripts of the Timurids of Central Asia and Mughals of India have been publicly displayed together. These great Mughal and Persian paintings are "completely intertwined. The challenge is that we have two incredibly rich traditions and collections," said the Sackler curators of the exhibit, Drs. Massumeh Farhad and Debra Diamond, during a recent press tour at the museum, located on the National Mall. "The Mughals were the apogees of sophistication in the Islamic world, and they create...
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Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea
11Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea

By Thomas Suarez, Olive Branch Press, 2022, paperback, 470 pp. MEB $25 Reviewed by Steve France  IN HIS NEW BOOK, Thomas Suarez draws on years of research deep in the bowels of British and U.S. archives, sifting through little known or recently unsealed records. From this haul he presents vivid documentation of the 1948 terror against—and ethnic cleansing of—Palestinians, as well as records of systematic atrocities that consolidated Zionist control after Israel became a state.  But it is in bringing to light the pre-1948 story of Israel’s founding that the book delivers unprecedented detail on the layers of Zionist deception and aggression. Readers encounter the incessant Zionist lies, machinations and terror unleashed against the Palestinians, but also ag...
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Goodbye 117th Congress and Hello to the 118th House Members
11Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

Goodbye 117th Congress and Hello to the 118th House Members

JULIA PITNER Newly elected members of Congress pose for the 118th Congress member-elect class photo on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Nov. 15, 2022. (BILL CLARK/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES) 1111111111  Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 26-28 Congress Watch By Julia Pitner IN ITS CLOSING DAYS, the 117th Congress passed H.R. 2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2023, which was signed into law by President Biden on Dec. 29, 2022. Among the pieces of legislation that were not included in the Omnibus bill were H.R. 9691 “requiring investigation into all non-natural deaths of journalists in a foreign nation, who are U.S. citizens or working on behalf of a U.S.-based news media entity,” H.R. 9697 ...
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Zionism’s Original Sin: Ignoring the Fact That Palestine Was Fully Populated
11Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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Zionism’s Original Sin: Ignoring the Fact That Palestine Was Fully Populated

ALLAN C. BROWNFELD View of the City of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives in 1753. (PHOTO BY FINE ART IMAGES/HERITAGE IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2021, pp. 12-13, 21 Israel and Judaism By Allan C. Brownfeld AS THE WORLD is increasingly focusing its attention upon Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem and its continuing violation of the rights of Palestinians, there is a growing realization that Zionism is guilty of an original sin—namely ignoring the fact that Palestine was fully populated when the Zionist enterprise began. From the beginning, Zionism was a minority movement among Jews. It was created, notes Israeli peace activist Jeff Halper, by “…Jews with little k...
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Nazi Regime Bounces Dead Cats at U.N.
11Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Palestine Affairs, UN, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi Regime Bounces Dead Cats at U.N.

Israel Bounces Dead Cats at U.N. IAN WILLIAMS Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, speaks during an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, on Jan. 5, 2023, regarding the controversial visit by extreme-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 18-19 United Nations Report By Ian Williams BINYAMIN NETANYAHU celebrated the inauguration of the most reactionary government in Israel by re-endorsing Israel’s U.N. envoy Gilad Erdan in the position he himself had once held. Netanyahu’s first big step into the limelight was to lie aggressively from the General Assembly podi...
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Issa Amro: “This Government Is the Real Face of Israel”
11Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Issa Amro: “This Government Is the Real Face of Israel”

IDA AUDEH Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 47-48 Waging Peace DURING THE LAST weekend in January, Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro spoke to audiences at Busboys and Poets and Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, DC. Amro, a 42-year-old engineer and activist in Hebron, is a cofounder of the Youth Against Settlements organization, which works with Hebron’s residents to resist the violence of the Israeli settlers living in their midst.  Hebron’s Jewish settlements spawned two of the more openly fascist members of the new Israeli government. Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist party, is finance minister and oversees the Civil Administration, which approves settlement building and c...
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The Paradoxical Borders of the Right to Freedom of Speech
10Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Egypt, Human Rights

The Paradoxical Borders of the Right to Freedom of Speech

 Feminist Protests in Ramallah, 2018. Credit: Takatowat (Arabic feminist organization) Shahd Hammouri reflects on the paradoxes of how freedom of speech is curtailed in certain contexts – thinking about critiques of neoliberalism in Jordan, critiques of settler colonialism in Palestine, and critiques of patriarchy by Arab feminists. TWAILR: Reflections #45/2022 oh father, my tongue is a horse who threw me overIt has worn me out a lot, but it has guided meit has led me and taken me as it told storiesas per the whim of my heart~ Ahmad Fouad Nijm, As per the whim of my heart (sang by Sheikh Imam) Ahmad Fouad Nijm was an iconic Egyptian poet, known for his revolutionary spirit and literary talent. From a small room on the rooftop of a hou...
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Former President Carter Addresses The Times
10Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

Former President Carter Addresses The Times

To The New York Times, March 28, 1990 Since returning recently from an extensive trip through the Middle East, I have been disturbed by highly biased attacks on both me and President Bush in columns by A.M. Rosenthal ("Silence Is a Lie," March 22) and William Safire ("Bush Versus Israel," March 26). Mr. Rosenthal insinuated (or stated) that I was a liar by commenting publicly on human rights abuses by the Israeli authorities in the West Bank and Gaza while not simultaneously making similar public criticisms of Syria. Mr. Safire wrote that President Bush, Secretary of State James A. Baker, III and their top associates are anti-Israel, have shut their eyes to Arab terrorism, are acting to prevent Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, attempt to cut aid to Israel, wa...
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Former President Jimmy Carter Speaks in Iowa City
10Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

Former President Jimmy Carter Speaks in Iowa City

FORMER PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter spoke to an audience of more than 7,000 about his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and about peace in the Middle East, at an April 18 appearance at the University of Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena. “The main reason I wanted to come to Iowa is to make sure that you realize that you can shape the outcome of the 2008 presidential election,” Carter told an audience that included a large percentage of students. Carter, who negotiated the 1978 Camp David Accords, asked his audience to require each party’s presidential candidate to take a pledge regarding peace efforts in the Middle East. “If they won’t make this pledge to you, do not support them,” Carter urged. “This is it: ”˜If elected president I will do everything possible to promote ...
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Rehabilitating Jimmy Carter’s Middle East Policy
10Mar By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Middle East, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Rehabilitating Jimmy Carter’s Middle East Policy

WALTER L. HIXSONWAGING PEACEPOSTED Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2021, pp. 55-56 Waging Peace As a result of his determined efforts at the Camp David summit in 1978, President Jimmy Carter successfully negotiated “a rational path forward to Palestinian autonomy and a two-state solution,” but he was betrayed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who reneged on the deal. Distinguished historian Kai Bird, the author of a new biography of Carter, offered the above assessment in a June 17 Brookings Institution webinar conducted by Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the think tank. Contrary to the argument that Carter settled for a separate Israeli peace with Egypt, thereby abandoning the Palestinian cause, Bird’s research reveals that Beg...
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