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Global Crier
12/21/06, 09:10 pm
During the religious Holy Days remember how the reality on the ground is today in the Holy Land. Today you cannot walk or drive a car from the Old City of Jerusalem to Bethlehem without going through a wall and many Israeli checkpoints. A wall is being built dividing the two Holy cities creating a prison for those Palestinian people surviving within the wall. The Jewish settlements in the West Bank are growing by leaps and bounds as are the destruction of Palestinian homes. For over sixty years the foreign Jewish people have tormented the native Palestinian people.

Living conditions for the Palestinian people and for that matter Iraqi people have not been worst in modern times. The Lebanese people who have made great strive forward since their last attack and occupation by the Israeli’s military forces. The regional civil unrest is growing out of control as the day-to-day living conditions worsen for the majority of people. Unemployment is 40% to 60% with almost every person in the region knowing at least one person if not a whole family that has been killed by an American and or Israel bullets or bombs.

The amount of bloodshed that has taken place in the Holy Land since 9/11 is a crime against humanity that the United States and Israelis have brought onto the world. For there to be peace in the Middle East, the United States and Israel have to make radical changes to their policies and actions in the region. Today because of Israel-United States policies and actions the Israeli people are in an ever growing more dangerous position. The days a wall can protect a kingdom are in the past. Only by talking and negotiating with your adversaries will they not become your enemy in war. Only with a balance and rational approach to the problems of the region will the answers be found.

MAGI
12/22/06, 07:47 am
Only with a balance and rational approach to the problems of the region will the answers be found.

Indeed, I truly agree with you, Global Crier!

Global Crier
12/22/06, 11:38 am
Alternate Focus is a platform for the other side of the stories that are rarely seen or heard in the American Mainstream Mass Media. More American people need to hear the other side of the stories whether they agree with them or not, beyond the thirty-second time bite somebody like Mr. James Zogby might receive. Alternate Focus is a tool that more American people need to know about. Here is a link to their home page Alternate Focus http://www.alternatefocus.org

Here are links to two Alternate Media presentations that are very worthwhile watching. Too often it is only the chorus that hears the song. Please take time to try to understand the other side.

The Mess We Are In
The words of James Zogby
http://alternate-focus.blip.tv/file/85846/

Wall of Shame
http://alternate-focus.blip.tv/file/85659/

Only with more American people taking responsibility for their government’s Middle East policies and actions will we find peace, prosperity and security in the world. Alternate Focus is a tool you can educate yourself as well as those people around you. The Internet is your link to the truth whether you like it or not.

Jane of Arc
12/22/06, 04:12 pm
:sunny: Welcome to POL Global Crier! :sunny: Two excellent posts! I love it when someone joins with something to say. :thumbup:

FDRfollower
12/22/06, 05:52 pm
Hello Global Crier. Welcome and PLEASE stick around and chat with us. I hope you will not be like the recent spate of spammers who just come here to advertise and never say anything else. thumbs-down

If you are a member of Alternate Focus, I'd like to know what difference there is, say, between your group and organizations like "If Americans Knew", since I see your organization is in Berkeley Ca too, and you seem to have the same modus operandi.

Global Crier
12/22/06, 08:21 pm
No, I am not a member of Alternate Focus, at least not yet. They are both great groups working for a good cause. My Blog www.globalcrier.blogspot.com