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- English, Italian (can read Spanish and French... studied German for 5 years but you'd never know it!)
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- Art Restorer, Professional Translator and editor, Volunteer for Immigrants' aid as linguistic and cultural mediator
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- history, art, writing, friendship, music, psychology, debunking hasbarists full time
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- lives in Italy, restores art, translates, writes, blogs for Palestine.
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- same day as Iqbal's but one year later!
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4-July-1976
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Israeli sub crosses the Egyptian Suez Peninsula.
Reuters reported that a Dolphin Israeli submarine crossed the Egyptian Suez Peninsula last month during a Navy drill. ...Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back home
Israeli sources reported that senior officials of Bahrain arrived in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back to the country after they were detained by the Israeli Navy following its attack against the Free Gaza Movement ship. ...Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year
The Israeli National Water Company has cut off the water supply to two Arab Druze towns inside Israel. While water cut-offs by Israeli authorities are common within the Occupied Territories of Gaza and the West Bank, they are fairly unheard of within Israel itself. ...© 2009 Created by Iqbal Tamimi on Ning. Create Your Own Social Network
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how lovely to have your hands in the rich umbrian soil...how fortunate you are ....and I only wish that I'd started earlier with hands in soil and the sweet smell of damp earth in my nose....but I grew up on concrete --inner city and thought weed clumps were flowers when a kid...but I found my way to building a garden when I lived in an Austin house...finally, in my late 40s and began building raised veggie beds companionate planting with herbs in between certain vegs...dill among the tomatoes or cucumbers...but I guess my all time favorite relationship iwht a plant had to be when I met my first growing Okra bush...she was a beaut!.what blossoms.and I was in my Louisiana Cajun cooking period...in which okra and tomatoes played a big role.
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And speaking of a 'beaut'! there's Gilad...what can I say? jazz came early into my life...growing up inner city of Boston, it was the sound of a city..Jazz spoke to me...about the american truth that no one in power spoke back then..nor recognized..black people and racist bias...as rife there in boston as it was ever in Selma alabama...and lucky me grew up wiht friends who included me in their family life...black people who enabled me to see america 'thru the window' and there was a shift in how I saw the world as a result...that was when Malcolm was still a young preacher and had a tv program on saturday afternoon on local boston tv..and I would sit and listen to that man transfixed..his voice and his fire and his understanding of how this country worked....I was 12...then later Haley's biog of Malcolms life when I began imagining maybe I could do a hajj....so all of these loose threads became part of a tapestry for me...Palestine....seeing life thru another's perspective...seeing a TRUTH that only needed to be pointed out...and feeling the pain and indignity of a life repressed...all these threads woven together...in which Palestine becomes the centerpiece for all people who long for connection in the human family...
i lived and breathed jazz, Parker and post bebop where I found a 'home'...and for about 6 yrs now..I've gone to sleep playing Gilad --
to actually have sat in the same room with him playing live ..was mind blowing...heart stopping and foot stomping powerful...but that he brought the MESSAGE..not only the MUSIC made it ever so more moving to me...I felt like pinching myself...and then later when we were all sitting around the 'dinner' table at 2 am...and there he was next to me I found I could not even form words to speak. PARTLY because my new friends there in Houston who'd supported my idea to bring Gilad there to play and immediately underwrote all the expenses who made me feel like I'd invented sliced bread for inviting him to play in their city.....and partly because I was sitting next to him...listening to his stories and insights...needed to pinch myself...that this gift he has...to breath music into our ears and souls and to speak truth in to our hears and spirits...to rip the veils off of our eyes and scream the reality thru that horn...I was unable to speak.. sat next to him for ? 2 hours and could only soak it up...such relief to hear his words...his voice-his clarity... the only time I've ever felt both that moved and silent was when I was in hebron. To know that a person like Gilad lives and breaths on the planet --so down to earth...approachable...AND makes such music.. So I am sharing this with you, because i am sure you know what I mean...and you've known him for years..and you have made his writings accessible on that beautiful blog....thanks mary for your warm welcome....and let me know in what way I can help ---if there is something that I can do..? now or in future...well, my eyes are getting heavy....near midnight --will say buon notte...! ciao bella...mimi
Mepeace Neri reads your page and spit some guile my way aftewr I posted there so it seems plausible that he is not just Neri but a team of follow ups who check progressions of peoples work. Also the site posted an offering of a senior analyst position with an NGO based in Jerusalem which after application and a full divulging of ones assets and connections they will, "let you know" I didn't bite but have seen this before and know from whence it hails,
I decided to go there and engage the site, neri, and the rest with some psychosynthesis, hopeing to moderate the views of the zionists in house. Who knows, i'm a praying man and was called to the front lines to make peace, so I do it, but the site's cadres are indeed sometime irritating and make me feel like I;m chewing on tinfoil talking to some of them, but a journey of a thousand miles does begin with such a step in the right direction. As for Mossad or Hasbara, in my experience they are spread very wide throughout the web and as lobg as I know big brother is watching I can talk to them as well. Thanks for the insight and as always I am in awae of your work and see how loved and respected you are, I join those who love Mary Rizzo, Peace, love and Palestine, jerry
Anyway, after hearing that Neri had called Nahida a "bad Palestinian♠, or something like that, I checked him out and find him to be one of three moderators who post and also delete posts on the same thread, which is troublesome if true conversation is to lead to new understanding, censors with a heavy hand steer a certain course, their course,.
Your name is yet mentioned there and the memory seems to be a lasting one, I would love to get some perspective from you about what happened there and why Nahida has disowned me as a friend. I am depressed about his and cannot understand how, after such a long relationship of supporting Palestine, I fell from grace and am shunned. You are wise, but I know very busy, if you have a minute, I am confused and you may be able to clarify some things, If you feel awkward, just ignore this, but know that I am concerned about mepeace being an information and archive of Palestinian activists for Hasbara, intelligence is gathered there and followed up by investigations by Mossad, I have some evidence of this and wonder what you think.♠♠
just catching up here! Yes, haha, let us call it intuition :) How is it going?? I understand where your daughter is coming from as I get questions like that from other family members-like why not Dafur or...fill in...but like you said-we each have a missive of love in our souls and blood for a particular cause which we are called to - ISA all efforts will pay off sis for our Palestinian sisters and brothers, as I tell Angel, every voice counts...ahhh I have not seen the video John Halaka did on Rana Bishara...I must tho!! Will google it-it sounds gr8! Am looking to move (again) as we have outgrown this space n the girls are at odds constantly in close quarters..so to ease fiances as well as tensions I am looking more towards Oakland which is cheaper n you get more apt. ISA.. Hope you and family are well and happy sis! Sending you much love n hugs...
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Hope you have a relaxing weekend-its my feeling you are working 2-7!! :)
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