A web initiative to support a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state now !

Please read this and sign for support in the comment section.

Palestinians looking for UN support to unilaterally declare state within 1967 borders

And Jerusalem for Capital.
This is excellent news. After years of dithering and bending to USrael's demands and conditions, the PA is retaking the initiative. Any respectable government will not refuse its support to this initiative which is in line with UN resolutions. I applaud the initiative and hope that the PA will be consistent in pursuing and implementing it.

Read here the early reactions...

UPDATE: somehow, as expected from Fatah and the PA, they seem to be cowing back...A pity...They don't need anybody to declare unilaterally a state of their own. Is Israel asking for permission to build settlements ?

Israel 'personally attacking human rights group' after Gaza war criticism

"We are going to dedicate time and manpower to combating these groups; we are not going to be sitting ducks in a pond for the human rights groups to shoot at us with impunity," he said.
Elie Wiesel, concentration camp survivor, Nobel laureate, and humanist only when it comes to the rights of zionists, is up to his neck in these attacks. Which means that Israel and its zionist defenders are exploiting the Shoah and the Nobel, and every living and non living entity and memory on this earth in order to justify the brutality and illegality of he Israeli occupation...

The New Report Of The International Crisis Group On Palestine

A harsh assessment of Fatah.

But if Fatah did not create its own predicament, it has been remarkably uninspired in seeking to overcome it. The movement allowed its institutions to wither and rank-and-file militants to drift, as its elite sought perks and privileges of government positions. It sought hegemony over the PA even as it paid lip service to pluralism. It did not bring its political agenda up to date or adapt it to a shifting environment. It resisted renewal of its leadership, marginalising generations of activists and depriving the movement of necessary lifeblood. Worst of all, it failed to respond to or learn from a long list of devastating setbacks: the second intifada and the ensuing devastation of the PA; Hamas’s electoral victories, beginning with municipal elections in 2004 and 2005 and culminating with the parliamentary elections of 2006; the Islamists’ takeover of Gaza in 2007; and the bankruptcy of the peace process.

Another wall fall to celebrate: Palestinians and Israeli activists bring down a piece of the Apartheid wall

Des Palestiniens ouvrent une brèche dans le mur de séparation
LEMONDE.FR | 06.11.09

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The Fort Hood Tragedy: A convert to Islam was a close friend of the shooter

First: A touching testimony from a soldier about the psychological effects of war.

While the authorities say they cannot yet tell us why an Army psychiatrist would go on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, we do know the sorts of stories he had been dealing with as he tried to help those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan readjust to life outside the war zone. A soldier’s mind can be just as dangerous to himself, and to those around him, as wars fought on traditional battlefields.

However, the disinformation machine has started. Nothing can excuse the actions of this miserable man but we will be unable to learn from this multifaceted tragedy because the disinformation machine will get us away from the truth. Including this piece of hypocrisy from this unkown convert who was too close to this miserable man, so close that he saw it coming and he didn't do anything...
Islam's Achille's heel is its proselytism. Keep the door open to converts exploiting psychologically vulnerable people and you can be sure of more tragedies to come...