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News
Tehran, Iran 26-1-2009
January 26th, 2009, posted by: maartje nevejan
So I am here, or there. Elsewhere starts here.....
Iran. I am here 12 hours now, and changed hotels already.
I am here because o the Fajr festival: the big theater and filmfestival.
In a few hours I will start watching the shows.
Meeting the beloved opposite. Wanting to know whether the axis of evil
really exist or if it is a propaganda thing.
Already my hejab is making me crazy, not outside: it is cold. But it feels so hot, unhandy and uncomfartable inside...bookmark:
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Tarik talks Gaza
January 16th, 2009, posted by: Tarik
We have this certain secretary of state here in the Netherlands. His name is PH Donner. He once gave this interview in a major Dutch newspaper in which he stated that Sharia law should be instated in our country IF the majority of the population voted FOR Sharia law. Because that is the essence of democracy, he stated. As you might understand: an‘effin’ riot ensurged in our tiny western little country because of this theoretical exercise... Why am I saying this? Because I am standing on the verge of doing this myself: a theoretical exercise that is! About the Israel/Palestinian conflict; yes, yes a touchy subject. So perhaps lil ‘ol me might be in the eye of the (sh*t)storm very soon...
It is very much clear that the world is in shock because of the military actions by the Israeli army in the Gaza strip. Leaders from countries such as Egypt and France and the entire UN are turning and twisting themselves into many possible directions in order to bring the Israeli’s and Hamas’ (and it’s military wing Izedin al Qassam) to a cease fire. No succes yet. I thought it was quite a noble thing to take an initiative such as this but others such as our correspondent Moh the Gazan...
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About Music for Gaza
January 14th, 2009, posted by:
I do not know.
I always get a strange feeling being at a fundraising party.
I think Merlijn is a hero, and Paradiso is great,
this project is fantastic
and the war is awful
and yes I am angry too.But everyone in the building with the same opinion is to much for me.
I miss the other
the other opinion, the other side, the beloved enemy
my best opponent...
Hamas is using human shields: now that is a crime against humanity as well.I ...
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Debate
Letters between Israeli Artists Noa, singer and Udi Aloni, filmmaker.
January 13th, 2009, posted by:
Internationally renowned Israeli singer Noa writes letter appealing to Palestinians in Gaza
Dear Palestinian brothers,
It is with a heavy heart I write to you today. Gaza is burning. The
border with Israel is under fire. Children on both sides of the fence are terrified, traumatized for life, wounded in body and soul. Life!! Life is lost. Blood flows! Pain and tears and anguish abound.
How familiar it all is, my brothers? How well we know these images, th...bookmark:
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News
12-1-2008, Moh the Gazan
January 12th, 2009, posted by: maartje nevejan
12/1 Morning.
I won?t talk about the war and the Israeli oppression and the systematic international ignorance against Palestinians beside the fake face for the European political system and the non stop support to Israel mentally and financially. Israel believes that it is a natural normal extension for Europe. Europe has been always trying to be a role model for the world and many European nations have led revolutions demanding justice and freedom. European nations must stand all in...
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10-1-9 Moh the Gazan
January 10th, 2009, posted by: maartje nevejan
Finally Moh the Gazan succeed in going to an internetcafé in Gaza and sent this mail.
NeilBegin forwarded message:
Dearest Neil
i really want to thank you so much for giving me a voice here, and i promis you that every single word is tru, and nothing is made up and me and Alberto have loads of photos and videos supporting these crimes
we believe that there is a new Sabra and Shatella in Gaza mainly in Al Attatra in the Beit Lahia and Al Z...bookmark:
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Film
Text-messages from Moh the Gazan in Gaza
The collected SMS-messages from Moh the Gazan during the war in december and january 2009 in Gaza, a young translator and friend of our reporter Neil van der Linden.
8/1 evening
Imagine a five months baby burned and killed and left in the middle of the street for 4 days then dogs came to eat both legs. It was more than enough for me to see this baby helpless and dead. I don’t blame Israel because international community is stand still so I will blame the EU, UN and all human rights organisations around the world. Another 3 years old boy was killed on the 6 of Jan and you know what? 3 years ago he was born at the same date to leave his twin sis...
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6-1-2009 about Gaza
January 6th, 2009, posted by: maartje nevejan
So here we are, in icy Amsterdam and we are stunned again, as we were a few years ago when the war in Iraq started, that now hundreds of people are killed and again the Media make us believe it is a cleaner war than it is. Journalists want to go in to Gaza, but it is impossible to go there. War censorship.
We feel that the Israeli side of this conflict is well covered, but the Palestinian side is not.
Couscousglobal wants to encourage people to speak whose voices are not heard. Bec...bookmark:
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An excellent 2009!
December 31th, 2008, posted by:
Is this to small for you...well, here you can read the same article but then BIGGER!!!!
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Digital Meditationsz
December 10th, 2008, posted by: Tarik
A thought struck me the other day and it goes like this. The past few months have been very political in this joint. And with joint I mean website. Just so you know. I wasn't aware of that (let's call it blindly staring into the void called politics) untill a few weeks ago. One of the students @ Inholland brought this to my attention when he was pitching a communication plan to us he and his fellow students had written as an assignment. Whatever happened to pop culture? Why not use that, he asked us? The guy had a point. So: the time has come to chat about that.
He used the example of a game that wasn't released very long ago: Fallout 3. It takes place in post-apocalyptic Washington DC round 2213. As you can guess the city has been torn to shreds by war. It turns out that the game also features a nuclear bomb. A bombs called 'Fat Man'. Right! Just like the bomb that fell on Nagasaki in World War 2.
Is that unfriendly towards the Japanese people? ...
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