This blog site is for the free-minded who want to think outside the policy imposed box of the global media. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/language/en-US/Default.aspx en-GB admin@domain1227954.sites.fasthosts.com admin@domain1227954.sites.fasthosts.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:07:51 GMT Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:07:51 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.2.0.29758 Since the pages have turned in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, do new headlines and reports covering stories other than Palestine suggest that its business as usual in Israel? http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/107/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/107/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=107 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:05:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=107 Don't ask for what you never had,' is the underlying message made by supporters of Israel when they claim Palestine was never a state to begin with. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/106/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/106/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=106 Tue, 20 May 2008 08:29:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=106 After 60 years it seems that the collective memory of the West is in danger of fading. Much worse is that concurrently, the West desires that the collective memory of the entire world also evaporates. This is wishful thinking simply because the world is aware that what the West hopes for is driven by a need to erase its guilt in the criminal dispossession of Palestinians six decades ago. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/105/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/105/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=105 Tue, 13 May 2008 08:58:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=105 We waited breathless. Breathing heavily was hazardous under these somewhat exceptional circumstances. The army, my father often advised, was sensitive to the slightest movements or sounds, including a whisper, a cough, or God forbid, a sneeze. Thus we sat completely still. Muneer, my younger brother was entrusted with the mission of peering through the rusty holes in the front door. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/104/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/104/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=104 Thu, 08 May 2008 09:17:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=104 THEY do say that Tinsel Town, home of the fabulously rich, famous and beautiful people is the place where dreams come true. But I think that Hollywood should now be renamed Follywood to reflect the actions of some of its residents. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/103/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/103/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=103 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:31:00 GMT 1 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=103 Just days after the Hamas-Fatah clash last June in Gaza, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looked firm and composed as he shook hands with members of his new emergency government. He made sure his move appeared as legitimate as possible, issuing decrees that outlawed the armed militias of Hamas, and also suspended consequential clauses in the Palestinian Basic Law, which had thus far served as a constitution. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/102/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/102/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=102 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:24:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=102 Will pious pontification by Western nations ever be replaced by an acknowledgement that short of decisive action, such pompous speeches will remain no more than that? http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/100/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/100/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=100 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:28:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=100 Why did Israel attack Gaza with such brutality? Did Israeli officials think, even for a fleeting moment, that their army's attacks could halt, as opposed to intensify, Palestinian rockets or retaliatory violence? Indeed, was Palestinian violence at all relevant to the Israeli action? Was the Israeli bloodletting in Gaza solely relevant to the Gaza/Hamas context, or is there a regional dimension that is largely being overlooked? http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/99/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/99/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=99 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=99 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently stated that he would like to see Guantanamo Bay closed down as soon as possible. But lawyers and human rights campaigners accused him of double standards claiming the British Government is running its own Guantanamo Bay, hidden away in leafy Worcestershire. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/98/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/98/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=98 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:24:00 GMT 1 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=98 Should citizens of the world be startled that there is such controversy and ill hype surrounding Barack Obama’s links to the Islamic faith? http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/97/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/97/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=97 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT 34 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=97