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I definitely believe that there are terrorists as well as terrorist states. In fact I find the latter more dangeorus than the former. For instance, you cannot compare the scale of individual terrorrists with those of Nazis. Similarly, American ter...
I don't understand something here, Ali.
Are you saying that just because GW Bush might have used illegitemate and/or illegal tactics,
and poor terminology, there are no terrorists?
I do not see how this..."Once the whole truth is uncovered and m...
Secret Anti-Terror Bush Memos Made Public by Obama
http://www.truthout.org/030309K
Thanks!
I was really happy when I found out that Obama was planning to close Guantanamo, but I heard that the prisoners may not be put on trial! I hope that they get a fair trial
Hi Stephanie,
To tell the truth, I even did not expect this one, not because Obama doesn't want to do it, but because he won't be able to do much due to the power of the establishment (i.e. the "powerful interests that want to cover up the truth" ...
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- At 11:01pm on January 16, 2009,
Jill Harrison said… - I am curious about the process of creating Peace? There is a 'Restorative Justice' (for lack of better description) program in my town that brings people together to mediate conflicts. it's very successful & a powerful thing to witness - but the process is extremely simple - all parties in the conflict are brought together - the 'offending party' (this isn't always clear - but getting at the 'truth' of the matter is not the aim of the meeting) describes what happened as the offense was committed - then all other parties affected by this are given a chance to say how they were affected. in this process all parties present express what they were thinking & feeling as this 'offense' came to be committed. this is where the shift in peoples attitudes occurs - then an agreement is arrived at and all parties sign off as to how to prevent future problems...
i know this sounds very simple - but it is amazing to see the shift in people when their concerns are heard. i wonder if something so simple as being heard & understood by the community is the major foundation for creating peace?
- At 8:23am on December 9, 2008,
Mor Harnik Blum said… - Hi Ali,
I am not sure yet what I want to learn and when I want to start.
I guess it will be something like political sience, philosophy, history....maybe law school. I really don't know. Any suggestions?
Your life sounds great! I bet Geneva is peacefull and quiet. I wish I'll get there some day.
Where did you travel lately?
yours, Mor
- At 11:18pm on December 8, 2008,
Mor Harnik Blum said…
- HI Ali,
Well, I am very busy lately in school so basically I don't read much right now...
It has been a while since our last conversation.
How are you? and the teaching? and life?
Hope everything is fine,
great night
- At 11:40pm on December 7, 2008,
Seniye Tilev said… - Bu durumda iki sefer "estağfirullah" diyorum... biri "hoca hanım" için diğeri de "kusura bakmayın" için... :) evet hoş bir grup ama ben şöyle bi bakınmaktan öte pek istifade etmedim henüz, sadece Kudüs'ü hatırlatıyor olması bile yetti. Dil problemi pozitif bir problem olsa gerek, zorunluluk meraktan sonra en güçlü itici güç olabiliyor çoğunlukla. Tabii yine de kolay gelsin.
Aynı kolaylık bana tez konusu belirlemede de gelir umarım :)
Bu vesileyle arefeniz ve bayramınız mübarek olsun demek istedim. Gurbette buruk geçmemesi temennisiyle birlikte :)
Seniye.
- At 1:17pm on October 8, 2008,
Seniye Tilev said…
- Merhaba,
Yüksek Lisans başvuru döneminde tanışmıştık belki hatırlarsınız... Istanbul olarak arama yaptığımda isminizi gördüm. Umarım iyisinizdir ve Cenevre ümit ettiklerinizi karşılıyordur. Ben de burada Hazırlık Okulu'nda göreve başladım bir yandan da tez konusu düşünüyorum sanırım yarım kalan masterımı tamamlayabileceğim...
Kolaylık ve başarı dilerim.
Selamlar,
Seniye.
- At 2:08am on September 1, 2008,
Yahya Merchant said… - Assalamu alaikum Ali,
You are welcome to any help I can give you. Last Wednesday I preached a sermon on Ramadan in one of the local churches here and have to do so again at another church later in October before the end of Ramadan!
- At 3:53pm on August 29, 2008,
Yahya Merchant said…
- Nice to know somebody in Stamboul
- At 8:35am on August 29, 2008,
Neri Bar-On said… - hy Ali,
Great to have philosophers around here.
- At 4:19pm on August 10, 2008,
Max S said… - Hi there Ali happy birthday! I hope you are having a good time in Istanbul. I have never been but I have a Turkish friend from my student days who has promised to show me around one day.
- At 6:09pm on May 30, 2008,
Rob Schrama said… - The ‘Big Hug’ and the future of Jerusalem
The sting of all problems between Israeli and Palestinians lays in the Old City of Jerusalem. Her status has to be solved in such a way, that all parties fighting for control over her can agree upon.
On June 24, the ‘Big Hug’ will be hold in Jerusalem. Light workers from Israel, Palestine and from all over the world, ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’, will come together to bring warmth and energy to this city, embracing holding hands the Old City. If we bundle all our positive energies and bring these to Jerusalem, we can create peace to this exceptional place.
We are organizing the Big Hug to make the people aware –especially the Israeli and Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem- that there is a very shaped perspective for the city of Jerusalem as a city of peace: a new, undivided Jerusalem, as the capital of Palestine, Israel and at large.
Let go of the conflict concerning her command and dedicate the city to the Omnipresent. The Old City as a whole is His Temple. To give the walled Old City free to God, as a "Status Apart”, as an independent city, will be the most feasible way to come out the current impasse.
The Old City of Jerusalem must become an open city; a House of Prayer for all the Peoples. This perspective is written down in the Holy Books, this is the perspective we, as ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’ embrace as well as solution. But how many people does already notice this hopeful point of view?
What I saw in Jerusalem and also everywhere else where I meet Islamic and Jewish people is, that not so many persons really think about a future for Jerusalem. Most of the time, they stick with old ideas that the Old City of Jerusalem will always remain a part of Israel, or in opposite, that it will be absolutely a part of a new Palestinian state, as stolen land that has to be given back. With these visions, a future Jerusalem will be a divided city with an East Palestinian and West Israeli part, with barbed wire and checkpoints in between, like the situation of the city from 1948-1967. Or, coming closer to an agreement, people suggest -like proposed in the “Geneva Accord” in 2003- to make a complicated dividing of the Old City in a Israeli and Palestinian part. That will mean that the small alleys will be split by walls and barriers too. The idea that a future Jerusalem will become a divided city, is something that we have to prevent.
There are living about 250.000 Palestinian and 500.000 Israeli rather close together in one city. Do they want to make a separation of Jerusalem in parts or do they choose, deep in their hearts, for unity? So my best friends, it is our task to inform the whole city that there is an alternative for the Jerusalem of today.
All lovers of a united Jerusalem will come together to encircle and embrace the Old City of Jerusalem with love and devotion. We have to encourage all inhabitants of Jerusalem to join the coming Big Hug, with the idea of a New Jerusalem that might be realized with their support.
Rob Schrama Phone:0031-646608660 www.loversofjerusalem.org
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- Istanbul
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- My personal story:
- A lecturer of philosophy (teaching philosophy of history, ethics and political philosophy)
Currently I am in Geneva, Switzerland as a post-doc fellow on interreligious and intercultural dialogue.
- Why I want peace:
- because it is a necessity of being human.
- Interests and activities:
- pluralism, dialogue, travelling.
- Something you didn't know about me:
- I confess that I was a fencer :) but I always fenced peacefully !!!
- How I found mepeace.org:
- Through Eyal's message.
- What I want to achieve here:
- Extending my network of friends who would like to contribute to the global peace.
Ali Caksu's Blog
Tell the truth about the War on Terror
Let's find out the truth!
This week the US government is debating whether to set up a Commission of Inquiry to look into Bush's 'War on Terror' tactics. But there are powerful interests that want to cover up the truth about torture, secret detention and other unlawful abuse.
Key US Senators, leading this call for justice, desperately need a massive global endorsement to ensure that the Commission is set up and has teeth. Once the whole truth is uncovered and made public a new era of global rela… Continue
This week the US government is debating whether to set up a Commission of Inquiry to look into Bush's 'War on Terror' tactics. But there are powerful interests that want to cover up the truth about torture, secret detention and other unlawful abuse.
Key US Senators, leading this call for justice, desperately need a massive global endorsement to ensure that the Commission is set up and has teeth. Once the whole truth is uncovered and made public a new era of global rela… Continue
Posted on March 3, 2009 at 1:04am — 7 Comments
Conflict analysts offer advice to Obama
It's about Gaza
Conflict analysts offer advice to Obama, open letter to US President Barack Obama from Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring Security:
http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=24737&lan=en&sid=1&sp=0&isNew=1
Conflict analysts offer advice to Obama, open letter to US President Barack Obama from Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring Security:
http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=24737&lan=en&sid=1&sp=0&isNew=1
Posted on January 28, 2009 at 3:54pm —
Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Architecture and politics
Another important work by another Jewish author (or perhaps “a self-hating anti-Semite”? :))
More about the author:
http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2006/05/congrats-to-eyal-weizman.html
Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Author: Eyal Weizman
Edition: illustrated
Publisher: Verso, 2007
ISBN 1844671259, 9781844671250
318 pp.
A groundbreaking expose of Israel's terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and… Continue
Another important work by another Jewish author (or perhaps “a self-hating anti-Semite”? :))
More about the author:
http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2006/05/congrats-to-eyal-weizman.html
Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Author: Eyal Weizman
Edition: illustrated
Publisher: Verso, 2007
ISBN 1844671259, 9781844671250
318 pp.
A groundbreaking expose of Israel's terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and… Continue
Posted on January 27, 2009 at 4:24am —
A Jewish Hitler? The rise of Avigdor Lieberman
The recent survey in Israel shows what and what kind of people the Gaza attacks have served:
Lieberman gained most from war, surveys say
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292920382&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Who is he? According to the Wikipedia entry, the leader of the Israeli Beiteinu party has served as the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Strategic Affairs, Minister of Transportation, and Minister of National Infrastructure in Israel. So he was not an i… Continue
Lieberman gained most from war, surveys say
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292920382&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Who is he? According to the Wikipedia entry, the leader of the Israeli Beiteinu party has served as the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Strategic Affairs, Minister of Transportation, and Minister of National Infrastructure in Israel. So he was not an i… Continue
Posted on January 27, 2009 at 4:04am — 5 Comments
Breaking the Silence
Another website working for peace:
http://www.shovrimshtika.org/about_e.asp
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah. Soldiers who serve in the Territories are witness to, and participate in military actions which change them immensely. Cases of abuse towards Palestinians, looting, and destruction of property have been the norm for years, but are stil… Continue
http://www.shovrimshtika.org/about_e.asp
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah. Soldiers who serve in the Territories are witness to, and participate in military actions which change them immensely. Cases of abuse towards Palestinians, looting, and destruction of property have been the norm for years, but are stil… Continue
Posted on January 27, 2009 at 3:54am — 5 Comments
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lindsey,
when people wish to link historic event in interpretative way that make them paint reality in a way it support their political view is normal. The pro-Israelis are doing it and the pro-Palestinians are doing it.
the way we can include t...
Dear Dalia,
Thank you for the interview and I wish to ask you for few things
1) I am bringing "normal life" pictures from Gaza and post them in "Gaza Today" I do that to keep the siege in our consciousness so I would be happy to post picture fro...
http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2009/11/life-under-blockade-gaza.html
I agree Oliver. It is interesting that honest attempts at communication are often greeted in places like this with jeers and patronising and derogatory presumptions about the perceived other's "real" intentions.
Yes, Paul, communication is crucial indeed. "Simplistic slogans" won't help in the long term, that's clear. But honest and clear communication requires courageousness on all sides. Slogans are, in my view, often (as you also imply above) an 'indiv...
Neri is right in pointing to the "root causes of the action". What is defined as 'terror' has diverse such root causes - religion/religious fundamentalism being one of them. And yes, Ahmed, fundamentalisms exist in a plethora of religions - Christ...
hello friend to be ...nissim dahan your so blessed for being you, but in your issue about your new blog we all the people born in denial in my own opinion cause every one of as lies and lying is the number word using of its people who need to lie ...
hello friend i agree for your issue cause upon i observe in this setuation in middle east or even in any part of the world eve been obsreve that there is always a big descremination for the islam between the christian yes its true cause in any ter...
hello genevieve how are you hope that you will be my friend in this organization you join your welcome and blessed cause you are now a good peacemaker ..for your blog upon your heart , your heart has a good heart too cause i know if you just have ...
"we are the equivalent of black people of the 1950s in the US South"
No, you're not. Please don't make such a link, it's highly inaccurate.
a.) Arabs living in Israel have equal rights. Regardless of what you might think, this isn't apartheid. W...
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