Cat versus Man

May we all be as considerate as that cat

(BETHLEHEM) - I have comments and news after watching accidentally two videos of cats and
men:
1) A cat dealing with a dead cat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlTWpn136k
2) Men proud of suffering and death of fellow men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldOQLC7WIg

While we should not generalize about either cats or men, increasingly some of us question the self-destructive nature of people on this earth. What does keep us optimistic is that some groups of humans actually work to change the behavior in a positive way. Millions do that.

I was proud to watch the great reception of the South African team which achieved several medals at the Olympics. They were of mixed background: white and black, and various religions.

The all Zionist, all Jewish Israeli team were losers (and I am not speaking here of medals but of principles) who returned here without fanfare to an apartheid state reminds us that this cannot last.

But I dreamt of living to go welcome at the Lod Airport a winning Palestine Olympics team that includes Jews, Christians, and Muslims. I know that this future of one democratic state is coming.

The example of South Africa is worth looking into. Much struggle remains to be done in South Africa to achieve equality especially in economic issues. But we are long past the days when leaders of Apartheid South Africa met and collaborated in developing nuclear weapons and modes of repression with Jewish state leaders.

On Thursday settlers tossed a Molotov cocktail at a Palestinian car carrying a family from Nahhalin. Six civilians sustained first, second, and third degree burns: They were a mother, father, and two children and two other relatives. On Friday, Israeli Jewish colonial settlers attempted to lynch young Palestinians in Jerusalem leaving one critically injured. Settler attacks thus continue despite the repeated assurance that "perpetrators will be found", the Israeli government is not really exerting any effort to do so as they failed to do previously with thousands of other cases.

http://www.imemc.org/article/64081 (text in English on the burning incident)
http://www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=513099 (text in Arabic but
with several pictures of the victims)
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=513216 (on the attempted
Lynch)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/in-suspected-jerusalem-lynch-dozens-of-jewish-youths-attack-3-palestinians.premium-1.459002
When settlers attack.  A sobering study of the skyrocketing Jewish colonial settler attacks on native Palestinians
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/a/GetDocumentAction/i/32678

Also on Thursday, Al-Araqib village in the Negev was destroyed for the 41st
time. Background information
http://wwww.972mag.com/photo-essay-al-araqib-bedouins-ongoing-struggle-for-their-land/52687/

Also on Thursday, Israeli forces attacked media professionals trying to
cover a story in Kufr Qaddoum.
Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uymV3EHLAY

Israel releases latest plan for Wall that will choke and encircle the
Bethlehem-area village of al Walaja and drive its remaining inhabitants out
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/news/4948-israel-releases-latest-plan-for-wall-around-bethlehem-area-village-of-al-walaja.html

*Books *I read recently and recommend
1) Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
and How it Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Midnight-on-the-Mavi-Marmara

2) Freedom Sailors (the story of attempts to breach the siege on Gaza)
http://freedomsailors.com/

3) Born in Jerusalem Born Palestinian: A memoir, Jacob J. Nammar, Olive
Branch Press
http://jacobnammar.com/

My comment: May we all be as considerate as that cat

Mazin Qumsiyeh
http://qumsiyeh.org

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD - Popular Committee to Defend Ush Ghrab (PCDUG) "A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Mazin has been an Associate Professor of Genetics; Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory at Yale University School of Medicine since 1999. He previously held a similar position at Duke University. Professor Qumsiyeh has authored over 110 scientific papers in areas of mammalogy, biology, and medicine including mammalian biology and evolution, clinical genetics, and cancer research. He has published over 100 letters to the editor and 30 op-ed pieces in International, national, regional and local papers on issues ranging from politics to environmental issues. His appearances in national media included the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC, among others. He is the founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-President of the Middle East Genetics Association, and Prof. Qumsiyeh won the Jallow activism award from the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is author of “Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle” and just published “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment.” Visit Mazin Qumsiyeh's amazing and informative Website to learn more: qumsiyeh.org.