Dear Friends of Saint George Taybeh, May you have a blessed Holy Transfiguration Day. Our church celebrates 13 days later on the Old Calendar. We hope the love of God will help to transfigure the total hate that is in the air right now in Israel/Palestine. This horrific attack on Gaza has created a new generation of hate. What can these thousands of children who …
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Solidarity between the Christian minority and Muslim majority is growing in Gaza as both suffer under the Israeli offensive, with churches sheltering all religions and prayers being offered up on all sides Mohammed Omer Wednesday 30 July 2014 GAZA CITY – Without prior warning, an Israeli missile hit the house of the Ayyad family last Saturday. The Ayyads, who are …
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GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH PROVIDES REFUGE TO PALESTINIANS 600 people are being cared for by Archbishop Alexios in downtown Gaza 23 Jul 2014 A Greek Orthodox church in Gaza is providing refuge for dozens of Palestinian families fleeing Israeli bombing. The church in downtown Gaza City is hosting about 600 people in total and only two out of all the families …
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CARTOON ABOUT GAZA DENOUNCED AS “ANTI-SEMITIC” AND RETRACTED BY NEWSPAPER By Michael Hoffman www.revisionisthistory.org ZIONIST THOUGHT COPS REDUCE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER TO QUIVERING BOWL OF JELLY Sydney Morning Herald can’t apologize enough for editorial cartoon and accompanying column “We apologize unreservedly for this lapse and the anguish and distress that has been caused….It was wrong to publish the cartoon in its original …
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He was warned not to go out onto the street, even for the weekly shop, but his brother laughed and enjoined him to stop fretting like an old woman. Confidently, they walked out of their house and proceeded down the block, when suddenly they were set upon by masked men. They kicked them into a kneeling position and held their …
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ISLAMIC STATE DEFIED OVER IRAQ’S CROOKED MINARET IN MOSUL July 29, 2014 Residents of Mosul have watched helplessly as extremists ruling the northern Iraqi city blew up some of their most beloved landmarks and shrines to impose a stark vision of Islam. Next up for destruction, they feared: the Crooked Minaret, a more than 840-year-old tower that leans like Italy’s …
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The photographs accompanying this diatribe were taken last year by Turkish photographer Bastermur Bilal. They depict a couple of semi-nude stick figures attempting to assume languid attitudes of sensuous nonchalance. As such, they could be dismissed as yet another accretion to the derivative drivel that poses as art, if it were not for the context in which these were taken. …
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May 27, 2013 At least that was what her former husband Christopher Hitchens called her. THEO PANAYIDES meets a feisty lawyer with an ambivalent relationship with Cyprus As I sit in the waiting area I can hear a lawyer talking on the phone – a middle-aged woman, crisp and authoritative. “You’ll have to close up the building,” she tells her …
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NO HEGEMONIC PEACE IN CYPRUS By Marios L. Evriviades VOLTAIRE NETWORK | ATHENS (GREECE) | 5 APRIL 2014 If NATO today trots out the principle of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty to condemn Russia, how come it doesn’t condemn Turkey when it comes to the territorial integrity and sovereignty that Cyprus is equally entitled to? Professor Marios L. Evriviades revisits the Turkish plan …
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THE RED LINE AND THE RAT LINE by Seymour M. Hersh VOLTAIRE NETWORK | LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM) | 12 APRIL 2014 In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.