23/01/2009 / PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
I took these photos on Tuesday in Jabalia,
north Gaza
Strip. The area had been targeted from the beginning. As soon as the residents
heard the news about the ceasefire, they came back, at daybreak, to see what
was left of their homes. They were all completely demolished, there was hardly
anything left. I went there to see the families and listen to them. They didn't
know what to do. I saw their children in the middle of the rubble, and their
parents making tea, in the ruins. Some were using firewood to make fires, to
cook. But they didn't even know where to start. The only thing they knew was
that they had to get home. I'm going to go back this afternoon, to see how
they're getting on. They told us it's good to have someone to talk to. Despite
everything, it's motivating to be of some use."
In the ruins of Jabalia
Members from the pro-Palestine NGO ISM are still in the Gaza Strip. One of them tells us about photos she took in the heavily-bombed northern town of Jabalia at the start of the week. On her blog she explains "the devastation stretches as far as the eye can see".
"The only thing they knew was that they had to get home"
Sharon Lock is a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. She blogs from the Gaza Strip, where she's been since arriving on the "Free Gaza" boat since August.
I took these photos on Tuesday in Jabalia,
north Gaza
Strip. The area had been targeted from the beginning. As soon as the residents
heard the news about the ceasefire, they came back, at daybreak, to see what
was left of their homes. They were all completely demolished, there was hardly
anything left. I went there to see the families and listen to them. They didn't
know what to do. I saw their children in the middle of the rubble, and their
parents making tea, in the ruins. Some were using firewood to make fires, to
cook. But they didn't even know where to start. The only thing they knew was
that they had to get home. I'm going to go back this afternoon, to see how
they're getting on. They told us it's good to have someone to talk to. Despite
everything, it's motivating to be of some use."
Photos by Sharon Lock.
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NOBEL PRIZES
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Sun, 25/01/2009 - 18:40.The Nobel Prizes are awarded by the Nobel Foundation of Sweden to men and women who have rendered the greatest service to humankind. Between 1901 and 2008, more than 750 Nobel Prizes were handed out. Of these, at least 165 are Jews and 6 are muslims.
MUSLIM NOBEL PRIZES:
From a pool of 1.3 Billion Muslims which are 20% of the world's population (2 out of every 10 people).
Literature
• 1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
• 1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
• 1994 - Yasser Arafat *
• 2003 - Shirin Ebadi
Chemistry:
• 1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Physics :
• 1979 - Abdus Salam
Medicine : none
* NOTE: Norwegian, Kaare Kristiansen, was a member of the Nobel Committee. He resigned in 1994 to protest the awarding of a Nobel "Peace Prize" to Yasser Arafat, whom he correctly labeled a "terrorist."
JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS :
From a pool of 14 million Jews which are 0.002% of the World's Population (2 out of ever 1,000 people).
Literature :
• 1910 - Paul Heyse
• 1927 - Henri Bergson
• 1958 - Boris Pasternak
• 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
• 1966 - Nelly Sachs
• 1976 - Saul Bellow
• 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
• 1981 - Elias Canetti
• 1987 - Joseph Brodsky
• 1991 - Nadine Gordimer
• 2001 - Imre Kertesz
• 2005 - Harold Pinter
World Peace :
• 1911 - Alfred Fried
• 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
• 1968 - Rene Cassin
• 1973 - Henry Kissinger
• 1978 - Menachem Begin
• 1986 - Elie Wiesel
• 1994 - Shimon Peres
• 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
• 1995 - Joseph Rotblat
Chemistry :
• 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
• 1906 - Henri Moissan
• 1910 - Otto Wallach
• 1915 - Richard Willstaetter
• 1918 - Fritz Haber
• 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
• 1961 - Melvin Calvin
• 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
• 1972 - William Howard Stein
• 1977 - Ilya Prigogine
• 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
• 1980 - Paul Berg
• 1980 - Walter Gilbert
• 1981 - Roald Hoffmann
• 1982 - Aaron Klug
• 1985 - Herbert Hauptman
• 1985 - Jerome Karle
• 1989 - Sidney Altman
• 1992 - Rudolph Marcus
• 1998 - Walter Kohn
• 2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
• 2006 - Roger Kornberg
Economics :
• 1970 - Paul Samuelson
• 1971 - Simon Kuznets
• 1972 - Kenneth Arrow
• 1973 - Wassily Leontief
• 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
• 1976 - Milton Friedman
• 1978 - Herbert A. Simon
• 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
• 1985 - Franco Modigliani
• 1987 - Robert M. Solow
• 1990 - Harry Markowitz
• 1990 - Merton Miller
• 1992 - Gary Becker
• 1993 - Robert Fogel
• 1994 - John Harsanyi
• 1997 - Myron Scholes
• 2001 - Joseph Stiglitz
• 2001 - George A. Akerlof
• 2002 - Daniel Kahneman
• 2005 - Robert Aumann
• 2007 - Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin & Roger Myerson
• 2008 - Paul Krugman
Medicine :
• 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff & Paul Ehrlich
• 1914 - Robert Barany
• 1922 - Otto Meyerhof
• 1930 - Karl Landsteiner
• 1931 - Otto Warburg
• 1936 - Otto Loewi
• 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
• 1944 - Joseph Erlanger
• 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
• 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
• 1947 - Gerty Cori*
• 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
• 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
• 1953 - Hans Krebs & Fritz Lipmann
• 1958 - Joshua Lederberg
• 1959 - Arthur Kornberg
• 1964 - Konrad Bloch
• 1965 - Francois Jacob & Andre Lwoff
• 1967 - George Wald
• 1968 - Marshall Nirenberg
• 1969 - Salvador Luria
• 1970 - Julius Axelrod & Bernard Katz
• 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
• 1975 - David Baltimore & Howard Temin
• 1976 - Baruch Blumberg
• 1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow & Andrew V. Schally
• 1978 - Daniel Nathans
• 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
• 1984 - Cesar Milstein
• 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown & Joseph Goldstein
• 1986 - Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi-Montalcini
• 1988 - Gertrude Elion
• 1989 - Harold Varmus
• 1994 - Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
• 1997- Stanley B. Prusiner
• 1998 - Robert Furchgott
• 2000 - Paul Greengard & Eric Kandel
• 2002 - H. Robert Horvitz & Sydney Brenner
Physics :
• 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
• 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
• 1921 - Albert Einstein
• 1922 - Niels Bohr
• 1925 - James Franck & Gustav Hertz
• 1943 - Otto Stern
• 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
• 1945 - Wolfgang Pauli
• 1952 - Felix Bloch
• 1954 - Max Born#
• 1958 - Igor Tamm & Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank
• 1959 - Emilio Segrè
• 1960 - Donald A. Glaser
• 1961 - Robert Hofstadter
• 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
• 1963 - Eugene Wigner
• 1965 - Richard Feynman & Julian Schwinger
• 1967 - Hans Bethe
• 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
• 1971 - Dennis Gabor
• 1972 - Leon Cooper
• 1973 - Brian David Josephson
• 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
• 1976 - Burton Richter
• 1978 - Arno Penzias & Pyotr Kapitsa
• 1979 - Stephen Weinberg & Sheldon Glashow
• 1988 - Leon Lederman & Melvin Schwartz & Jack Steinberger
• 1990 - Jerome Friedman
• 1992- Georges Charpak
• 1995 - Martin Perl & Fredrick Reines
• 1996 - Douglas D. Osheroff & David M. Lee
• 1997 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
• 2000 - Zhores I. Alferov
• 2003 - Vitaly Ginzburg & Alexei A. Abrikosov
• 2004 - H. David Politzer & David Gross
• 2005 - Roy Glauber
*Converted to Catholic (to flee the rising anti-Semitism during the WWII)
#Converted to Protestant (to flee the rising anti-Semitism during the WWII)
Les juifs ne manifestent pas dans les rues exposants leurs cadavres, criant et chantant pour demander revanche.
Les juifs ne pratiquent pas le lavage de cerveau de leurs enfants dans des camps militaires, leur enseignant à se faire exploser en causant le maximum de morts parmi les non croyants.
Les juifs ne prennent pas les avions en otage, ni ne tuent les athlètes des jeux olympiques.
Les juifs ne font pas la traite des esclaves, et n\'ont pas de leaders appelant au Jihad et à la mort de tous les infidèles.
Les juifs n\'ont pas de ressources économiques dans le pétrole.
Peut être que les musulmans du monde devraient considérer investir plus dans l\'éducation de leurs enfants plutôt que de blâmer les Juifs comme la cause de tous leurs problèmes....
Quelles que soient vos ressentiments vis-à-vis de la crise entre
Israël et les Palestiniens et les pays arabes voisins, même si vous pensez qu\'il y a plus de culpabilité du coté Israélien, les deux phrases suivantes parlent d\'elles-mêmes :
Si les arabes du monde déposaient leurs armes aujourd\'hui, il n\'y aurait plus de violence !
Si les Juifs déposaient leurs armes aujourd\'hui, il n\'y aurait plus d\'Israël !
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alfred hobel invented to dynamit, for what?
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Sun, 25/01/2009 - 22:48.yes 1.3 billion muslim, it is a big population, I think I know why 14 million jews's military killed 1.3 thousand innocent people, children, women and men in a few weeks in Gaza! I can not imagine if jews' population became 1.3 billion in this world what would they do!
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YOU'RE WRONG
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Mon, 26/01/2009 - 00:34." I can not imagine if jews' population became 1.3 billion in this world what would they do!"
during the world war 2, 6 million jews have been killed.... did they hurt anybody?? they were INNOCENT, such as the thousands of israelis whom have been killed or wounded by the hamas' rockets, by the suicide attacks and others. Did you protest against it?? did you support israel??did you say anything while seeing a palestinian chil brainwashed and bearing an AK-47 in his hands?? did you protest when hamas killed his muslims brothers from fatah????
I think you didn't do anything, but when israel tries to protect itself, everybody blames it.
Above all, on the 1300 killed palestinians, the're werent only civilians, and above all, when hamas uses people as human shields, I din't see anybody protesting in the great capitals of the world....... DID YOU???
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Bravo France
Submitted by Jordan Stefanov (not verified) on Sat, 24/01/2009 - 13:32.I can't believe, France is sending its militery might, to prevent the Palestinian People from rearming. This is not the France I ever knew.
France, that use to describe it self as "THE CRADLE OF THE LIBERTE"
No thing is further from the truth!
How the French People would feel if the Jewish State take a huge chunk of lend from France and claim, it is their Gods promised land with honey and milk, because they are the Gods Chosen Nation?
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