'Welcome to Palestine', Kairos Document and More

Several updates and actions slated for coming days in Occupied Palestine.

'Wall Flowers' -Banksy West Bank, from a 2011 article by Dr. Qumsiyeh published by palestinechronicle.com

(BETHLEHEM) - *In this message you will find notes on the Syrian situation, comment on the situation in Azerbeijan, the good news on the formation of Kairos US (Christian support), call to join the next Welcome to Palestine Campaign (August 23-31), and more*

First a follow-up: It turned out that the settlers of the illegal colony of Susya who regularly attack the native Palestinian population of the South Hebron hills are not Ashkenazi Europeans. They are *Afrikaaners* who, after the end of apartheid in South Africa, moved to the last apartheid

state on earth and converted to Judaism to settle Palestinian land so that they can continue to practice their racist ideologies (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHP_KS5FenU). This explains the viciousness of their attacks as when they got masked and attacked an elderly couple with clubs. *You are invited Friday June 22nd starting at noon to come help the villagers of Susya defend their lands against further theft. *Two days ago and right after our visit to Susya, we were prevented from entering the Northern Parts of the Jordan Valley where a similar situation exists.

ON SYRIA: I spoke via Skype a short while ago with many genuine Syrian activists interested in true democracy in Syria, a democracy that is the will of the people to also resist imperialism and Zionism. Not the sham Syrian Free Army and the political prostitutes of the US and NATO. Their struggle is not easy. Both the regime and Western Backed thugs are engaged in propaganda but the amount of garbage coming out from the well-funded PR machine of the thugs claiming to represent the “Syrian revolution” far eclipses anything the government can put out.

Meanwhile the Syrian people are caught in the middle. This is not a civil war. Like Libya, it is a shameful attempt by Zionists and their Western Puppets to break-up Syria and make it compliant. The stakes here are much bigger though. While Syria has little oil, it is a vital link between Iran and Lebanon in an area otherwise dominated by puppets stretching from Afghanistan to Morocco. That is why China and Russia correctly insist on not allowing Israeli-occupied Washington to get all the cards and thus allow unquestioned Israeli hegemony.

First let us learn about Syrian history: The history of Syria in 5,000
words ('Le Mourre') http://www.ufppc.org/book-notes-mainmenu-36/11040/
Then look into the current situation
Hidden US-Israeli Military Agenda: "Break Syria into Pieces" By Prof.
Michel Chossudovsky
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31454
Detailed analysis on Syria. Over 30 chapters, available from Global
Research at no charge:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29234.

The article linked below about Azerbeijan hit home with me. I visited this oil-rich country and noted corrupt, western-supported dictatorship that horrified me (like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in many ways). Its corrupt dictator still courts NATO and Israel while Azeri people (kind, simple) suffer incredible pollution, health crisis, and poverty. Killings, Cancer, Corruption and Azerbaijan: Eurovision in the Islamic Republic of BP http://www.nationofchange.org/killings-cancer-corruption-and-azerbaijan-eurovision-islamic-republic-bp-1338216584.

US response to the Kairos Palestine document
http://www.kairosusa.org/

B*IENVENUE PALESTINE AUGUST 2012: Please join the new Welcome to Palestine
mission that will take place from 24 to 31 August 2012. This time visitors
will try to arrive in the West Bank through Jordan and the land crossing
bridge
More information about this initiative on http://www.bienvenuepalestine.com
!
if you can join, write to contact@bienvenuepalestine.com*

Israel asks Arab visitors to open emails to search
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Israel-asks-Arab-visitors-to-open-emails-to-search-3608208.php#page-1
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/story-of-forced-searches-of-travelers-emails-goes-viral.html

*Action*: Tell State Department: End Discrimination against U.S. Citizens
Abroad; to sign go to:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/641/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10792


Israel to try to block registering the Church of Nativity under Palestine!
(the absurdity of this attempt shows the arrogance and the chutzpa of the
apartheid state)
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273666

You may rob me of the last span of my land
You may ditch my youth in prison holes
Steel what my grandfather left me behind:
Some furniture or clothes and jars,
You may burn my poems and books
You may feed your dog on my flesh
You may impose a nightmare of your terror
On my village
Enemy of light
I shall not compromise
And to the end
I shall fight….
–Samih al-Qasim

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
Bedouin in Cyberspace, Villager at Home
http://www.qumsiyeh.org

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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD - Popular Committee to Defend Ush Ghrab (PCDUG) "A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Mazin has been an Associate Professor of Genetics; Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory at Yale University School of Medicine since 1999. He previously held a similar position at Duke University. Professor Qumsiyeh has authored over 110 scientific papers in areas of mammalogy, biology, and medicine including mammalian biology and evolution, clinical genetics, and cancer research. He has published over 100 letters to the editor and 30 op-ed pieces in International, national, regional and local papers on issues ranging from politics to environmental issues. His appearances in national media included the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC, among others. He is the founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-President of the Middle East Genetics Association, and Prof. Qumsiyeh won the Jallow activism award from the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is author of “Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle” and just published “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment.” Visit Mazin Qumsiyeh's amazing and informative Website to learn more: qumsiyeh.org.