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Normally the Thanksgiving week is a quiet one for the think tank community. However, the Israeli war on Gaza has caused most of the think tanks to provide some analysis. Since the ceasefire was announced Wednesday afternoon

August 21, 2012 “Times of Israel” — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is determined to attack Iran before the US elections,” Israel’s Channel 10 News claimed on Monday night, and Israel is now “closer than ever” to a strike designed to thwart Iran’s nuclear drive.

Ikhras is pleased to announce the winner of the Muntadhar Zaidi Shoe of the Month Award for March, 2012 is Dr. Mustafa Barghouti. The well-known public activist, former candidate for the presidency of the collaborationist Palestinian National Authority, and head of the Palestine National Initiative earned the prestigious ikhras shoe award by traveling from occupied Ramallah to Washington, DC to attend J Street’s 2012 annual gala.

which is now a reference to many changes in the Arab World

was a total surprise to many of us ,

to the educated and the lesser educated,

to the pessimists and to the lesser optimists

to the fatalists and even to the leftists.

Approximately 1,000 protested at the «Israeli» Embassy in solidarity with the Global March to Jerusalem against the destruction of Palestinian life and culture by Israeli expansion. Opposing them were a small group of people waving «Israeli» flags.

For the second year running a unique event took place in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem this week. Christian evangelicals that many consider as most ardent supporters for Israel (often more so than many Israelis) were guests of a Palestinian Christian gathering.

n the eighth of March, the world celebrates International Women’s Day, which was first observed as a popular event after 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited Member States to proclaim the eighth of March as the UN Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace.

At noon today, Israeli air raids killed Aadeel Saleh, 52 years old, near “Tunnel” street in the centre of Gaza city, and Ayub Aamar Aasaliya, 12 years old, in Jabalya, north of the Gaza strip. Two other persons were injured in the air strikes, among them a child.

Lately I’ve been going to Jenin every two or three weeks with family members. We usually do our vegetable shopping in the city market. Last Saturday, on our way back from Jenin to Nazareth, we were surprised to find a new technology to check “suspicious” cars at the Israeli checkpoint.

It snowed in Palestine and the heavy rain washed away many things but not human sins. I thought of the huge amount of water running by friends of mine in Al-Auja near Jericho whow ere prevented from capturibng that water while colonial illegla settlers get all the water with all the infrastructure they want.