Kindergarten Hope
Source: Israeli television Channel 2 comedy show "Eretz Nehederet" ("Wonderful Country"), Season 8, Episode 1, skit "Kindergarten Hope".Gaza's Youth Manifesto for Change
We, the youth in Gaza, are fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights, and the indifference of the international community. We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice, and indifference; scream with all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that consumes us because of the situation we live in. We are like lice between two nails living a nightmare inside a nightmare, no room for hope, no space for freedom. We are sick of being caught in this political struggle; sick of coal dark nights with airplanes circling above our homes; sick of innocent farmers getting shot in the buffer zone; sick of bearded guys walking around with their guns abusing their power, beating up or incarcerating young people demonstrating for what they believe in. We are sick of the wall of shame that separates us from the rest of our country and keeps us imprisoned in a stamp-sized piece of land; sick of being portrayed as terrorists, homemade fanatics with explosives in our pockets and evil in our eyes; sick of the indifference we meet from the international community, the so-called experts in expressing concerns and drafting resolutions but cowards in enforcing anything they agree on. We are sick and tired of living a shitty life, being kept in jail by Israel, beaten up by Hamas, and completely ignored by the rest of the world.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113803372021733
US green light to Israeli settlements
A cable from the US Embassy in Paris just released by WikiLeaks reveals that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak had told French officials in Paris on 15 June 2009 that the Israelis had a "secret accord" with the US to continue the "natural growth" of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. This was only days after US President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo, in which he said that the US did not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. Meanwhile, French President Nicolas Sarkozy had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris that "there was a single door [in the peace process] and that it was imperative to move through it now." French diplomats said Sarkozy had three things to say to Netanyahu: "you think you have time, but you do not"; "you think you have an alternative solution, but you do not"; and "you think you are stronger than the Palestinians, but you are not". http://wikileaks.fi/cable/2009/06/09PARIS827.html
Finland least peaceful Nordic country
New Zealand is the most peaceful nation on Earth, according to the 2009 Global Peace Index released Tuesday by an Australian-based research group that counts former President Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner and the Dalai Lama among its endorsers. After New Zealand, next on the list are Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Austria, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Finland and Slovenia. In the bottom ten are Zimbabwe, Russia, Pakistan, Chad, Congo, Sudan, Israel, Somalia, Afghanistan and, in last place, Iraq. The US is 83rd on the list, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace that rated the relative tranquility of 144 nations according to 23 indicators, including gun sales, the number of homicides, the size of the military, terrorism, and the number of people in jail. Germany is at 16 on the list, Australia at 19, Spain (28), South Korea (33), Britain (35) and Italy (36). Libya, Nicaragua, Jordan, Cuba, China, Peru, and Ukraine all are rated more peaceful than the US. Rwanda is rated 86, Syria 92, Iran 99, and Mexico 108.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/03/new-zealand-rated-most-peaceful-us-83rd/
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