First up, the case of Mohammed Omer. This Palestinian journalist writes for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and was going home to Gaza last week after accepting the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (which he shared with Dahr Jamail). He was strip-searched at gun-point and physically abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby Border crossing as he tried to enter the West Bank from Jordan. You can read details about his experience here. You can sign a petition protesting Israel's treatment of journalists here. Omer is presently hospitalized in Gaza with cracked ribs and other injuries.
I owe a debt of thanks to bookish for getting me off my duff and on with this blog. Please go pay him a visit and ask him what the teapot looks like!
Thanks for visiting. I hope you'll come back soon.
20 comments:
A pleasure to find you've started your own blog, Laura!
Great start Laura!
Hi Laura! Adding you to my fave bookmarked places :-)
way to go, Laura! I'm glad you're doing this. Blessed are the peace-makers.
Yay, Laura! Go for it!
Hmmm....what was in the anaesthetic from your hand surgery that resulted in a brand new blog?
Nice hand work, Laura. /s
I do hope you are recovering quickly with as little pain as possible.
woohoo and welcome to the blogosphere. i'll be sure to add ya to my blogroll, laura, and have bookmarked ya.
Wowie Zowie - you never fail to inspire! Now off to bookmark your brand new JustPeaceNow blog. So happy your recovery is underway and in such fine style. npbrat
Hi, Laura. Congratulations on your blog. Will look forward to seeing what you have to say.
Woot woot! Nothin' but good times ahead.
I'm so delighted you've got this up & running - congratulations (& I've bookmarked you).
WOW..Congratulation
I'm very happy you have started blogging... and very glad to be the one who made it happened so. (or is it the teapot?) LOL
I'm quit sure that we will like your posts.
well, you have beat me and moved faster than I expected. I am obliged to post the photo now.
God bless you and all the peace makers.
Good luck and best wishes.
Congratulations Laura, and many many more -- posts!
what a nice start!
Woot!
Thank you Laura for letting us share you your wonderful thoughts....
I'm proud of you, Lefty.
Welcome to blogging, Laura! A nice start, I must say
Dahr was a rock of solid info when I first started getting out information on the reaity in Iraq. He covered Iraq and Juan Cole offered the history and background. Dahr and I lit candles and prayed for the safe return of the 4 hostages in Iraq, but later Tox Fox was killed. The five of them had had Thanksgiving dinner together before they had been abducted. The other three were finally released. You will find more information than you can digest on both of their sites. Another source of on the ground reality was Riverbend, an Iraqi girl who I believe has taken up refuge in Jordan. To understand the brutality of Gaza is beyond the pale. Thank you for anything you do
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