The Palestinian call for boycott, divest and sanctions
The US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (USCACBI) has an article at the link about the impact of cultural icon Alicia Keys' Fourth of July performance in Israel, despite the many pleas for her to cancel.
It is believed by many that the BDS campaign is bearing fruitful results, especially in comparison to three years ago. Not many socially conscious, moral performers will perform in Israel and Miss Keys had a reputation for her work for children....just not Palestinian Children, in my opinion.
The link is very detailed and can tell the story and context more precisely than I can do.
Today's personal pain is wondering what evil, wicked people threatened her with. Most definitely the mysterious "they" will have warned her that her career can be **quashed and her own person harmed either physically or through the Israeli-firsters' efforts, a la Helen Thomas.
My message today is a plea to our Almighty Creator to strengthen my will to make difficult moral decisions and to guide me on a moral path.
Alhamdulillah!
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Alicia Keys on wrong side of Apartheid?
ReplyDeleteMost of the world has always been on the wrong side of Apartheid as they TALK and do practically nothing, yet we see them always COLLABORATING with the Devils!
BAFS
QUOTE: Soumaya Ghannoushi, a writer and expert in Middle East politics, says that Gaza is being starved by design. This is not a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate extermination, carried out through siege, blockade and bombardment. She describes it as the world’s first televised extermination, a concentration camp under constant aerial assault. She says Israel bombs bakeries, flattens farms, shells aid convoys and blocks food. Hunger is being used as a weapon to kill not only bodies but the will to live and resist. Thousands of children are malnourished, families are starving, and even journalists are hungry. This is not war, Ghannoushi adds, but annihilation, choreographed and prolonged. Israel carries it out, the US funds it, and Europe enables it with silence and trade. Arab regimes, particularly Egypt and Jordan, act as jailers and enforcers, blocking aid and crushing solidarity. Diplomacy has failed, she says, turning food into a bargaining chip. Humanitarian access is not a favour but a legal obligation. The world did not simply fail Gaza; it abandoned it. Gaza is a mirror, Ghannoushi concludes, and in its reflection we see our unvarnished shame.
ReplyDeleteHow the West Destroyed Libya - Dr Vernon Coleman
ReplyDelete"In 2011, the US, Britain and France launched a NATO attack on Libya. They captured, tortured and killed Colonel Gaddafi and then destroyed Libya. The country’s gold reserves were stolen and the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, gave Libya’s arms to ISIS fighters so that they could attack Syria and Iraq. The aim was to prevent those countries from using their own oil to develop and grow stronger.
NATO attacked Libya because Colonel Gaddafi wanted to seek independence from America’s control of Libyan oil. He wanted to use his country’s oil to develop a proper educational system and a national social-welfare system. More dangerously for the US he wanted to create a gold backed African currency, throw out American military bases and obtain loans for construction from China instead of the World Bank. Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa and Gaddafi was sharing the revenue from oil sales with the country’s citizens. "