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The Giving Tree
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Salt Of The Earth
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Rain, Rain, Go Away
Sometimes It Feels Like Somebody's Watching Me
Excess Baggage
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HereComesMyBaby
11/04/09

In reply to House & Home
There's a protest tomorrow morning against this in Sheikh Jarrah. PM me if you need the info! #sheikhjarrah
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daradoodle
11/04/09

@HereComesMyBaby: Yell extra loud for me please, I wish I could be there. #sheikhjarrah
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HereComesMyBaby
11/05/09

@daradoodle: Well, I can't actually GO to the protest. I'm too busy working for The Man. But I also wish I could go! #sheikhjarrah
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Fizzy77
11/04/09

In reply to House & Home
Im confused as how the settlers could have "hurled the family's belongings out onto the street" since the previous occupants left in November 08...[www.jpost.com] #sheikhjarrah
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deeemer
11/04/09

@Fizzy77: That was in a different area. This is the Al Kurd's home. Frankly, they should have left long ago. #sheikhjarrah
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Fizzy77
11/05/09

@deeemer: Missed you Deemer!

The article clearly says that the Al Kurds moved out Nov 08. So of course they werent throwing out the families belongings. Just rumors being reported as fact. #sheikhjarrah
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sybann
10/29/09

In reply to The Giving Tree
Olive this. #oliveharvest
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zoethebitch
10/26/09

In reply to The Door Stoppers

Much different than the common wall paintings in Bhutan (click for full view). #alaqsamosque
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NotMandatory
10/26/09

@zoethebitch: That sperm is disturbing. Mostly because I'm now imagining a Space Invaders-style game on the side of this wall. #alaqsamosque
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NotMandatory
10/26/09

In reply to The Door Stoppers
Wow, those wall paintings are beautiful. It's just a shame that they grew out of this situation. #alaqsamosque
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JinxyMcDeath
10/26/09

@NotMandatory: But, you don't even know what they mean... #alaqsamosque
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sequined
10/15/09

In reply to Salt Of The Earth
If that's what salt looks like in Abu Dis, I'm not sure how it'll fit into my chocolate chip cookie recipe. #abudis
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Kivrin
10/15/09

In reply to Salt Of The Earth
Lovely photo, although I hate olives. (So does my dog. She will eat a soggy, two-day-old French fry off the sidewalk, but olives? Spits 'em right out. Good dog.) #abudis
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
10/15/09

In reply to Salt Of The Earth
At first glance I was hoping they were green peanut M&Ms. #abudis
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Kivrin
10/15/09

@Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: My first thought was edamame. #abudis
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Red-headed bookworm
10/15/09

@Kivrin: I thought maybe it was coffee berries, but that's probably because I am freezing and need more coffee. #abudis
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bluebears
10/12/09

In reply to Habitat For Humanity
heart = broken.
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LaComtesse
10/12/09

In reply to Habitat For Humanity
Can we please get this girl a pink house with blue gables stat? (This looks like the house I made for my favorite troll doll when I was 7.)
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GreyCat
10/12/09

In reply to Habitat For Humanity
Little pink houses, for you and me.
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Triphena
09/16/09

In reply to Sometimes It Feels Like Somebody's Watching Me
Oh, Nate Archibald, what hijinks have Blair and Dorota roped you into this time?
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Ailatan
09/15/09

In reply to Excess Baggage
She seems to be carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders.
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KiddyKat
09/04/09

In reply to Checks & Imbalances
Wait, so why is she crying?
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
09/04/09

@KiddyKat: it's probably a scary, intimidating and all around overwhelming experience for a child to be searched by armed soldiers just to be able to go worship with her family. That's just a guess though.
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podbaydoor
09/04/09

@Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: Yes, if only people would stop running around with bombs on them, blowing up buses, shopping malls, or hospitals. Or running around with axes and axing down innocent children. Or shooting down children at a school. Or using a forklift running into people, and killing them. None of these "scary", "intimidating" searches would have to be necessary, and this beautiful girl would be able to worship with her family at a mosque, not broken down after the conquer, on Israeli ground in peace.
Because no Jewish Synagogue, or any Jewish housing, has been kept in one piece once taken over by Palestinians.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
09/04/09

@podbaydoor: WTF?! I wasn't making any sort of judgment call, just saying it's got to be scary for a kid to go through that, whether it's necessary or not. It's tragic that innocent children have to put through that and both sides are to blame in their own ways. Calm the fuck down.
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joops
09/05/09

@podbaydoor: Wow. Like this little girl is responsible for those acts. That means she deserves to be harassed and abused by the IDF like so many Palestinians at checkpoints? She doesn't have the same freedom of movement as most people in the world because she is Palestinian, nor does she have the same access to - let's see - health care, education, water, LAND, as Israelis. Maybe something to keep in mind.

You know, it would be helpful if pro-Israeli commenters would read about how BOTH Palestinian and Israeli children experience high levels of trauma/PTSD from the violence in the region.
[www.sos-usa.org]

And it would be helpful if people didn't use terrorism as an excuse to justify the human rights abuses by the IDF. It's a completely disproportionate, not to mention often illegal, response. The use of checkpoints is a way to frighten, harass and subdue a population. Not ok!
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podbaydoor
09/05/09

@Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: Honey, you need to calm down.
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podbaydoor
09/05/09

@joops: "Like this little girl is responsible for those acts. That means she deserves to be harassed and abused by the IDF like so many Palestinians at checkpoints?"
Yes, THATs exactly what I was saying. Comprehensive reading much?
And I DO know what's going on with Palestinian and Israeli children. Unlike you, I actually volunteer working with them.
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joops
09/05/09

@podbaydoor: Rude & sarcastic. Nice contribution.

I think I understood the point of your first comment quite well. I don't think we will see eye-to-eye on this one. Let's just agree to disagree, shall we?
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podbaydoor
09/25/09

@joops: Please don't pretend you have manners, shall we? You clearly hate Israel. At least I care about Palestinians and Israelies alike. But you wish Israelies dead, using your own logic.
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Sophie needs to study...damn
08/21/09

In reply to Starry Night
Yay Ramadan! I'm fasting right now, which oddly feels a lot like regular life--I never have money for food anyway. After work, I'm putting on my "Insta-Muslim" robe, heading to the mosque and will pray for the first time in months (yes, I'm a baaad Muslim). No pre-marital sex, alcohol or weed for me this month. Nosiree, I'm a Real Muslim (at least during Ramadan)
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joq8
08/21/09

@Sophie needs to study...damn: Ramadan Kareem, Sophie
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badmutha
08/21/09

@Sophie needs to study...damn: So is it like a cleansing thing? You abstain from anything that is considered sinful? I am interested.
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YorubaGirl
08/21/09

@Sophie needs to study...damn: Hello, fellow muslim! And Ramadhan Mubarak to you!
I always thought I had coined the term "Insta-Muslim", but I'm pleased to see it's already out there in the ether. I shall be going to the East London mosque for the first time in... ever? And of course, no bad haram stuff for this month. We'll work on it for the other months...
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LadyFabulous
08/21/09

@Sophie needs to study...damn: Ramadan Mubarak!

We're starting tomorrow over here.
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Sophie needs to study...damn
08/21/09

@badmutha: Yeah, kind of. Ramadan, among of things, is kind of a month to be the best person you can be. To focus on something of than your own desires, to reflect on how to be a better member of your religious and civil community, better family member, better person. Fasting is but one way to focus one's attention on self-reflection because the hunger, the absention from food and drink, is a constant reminder throughout the day of your committment to better oneself for God, family, community, yourself, etc..
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Mad May
08/21/09

@Sophie needs to study...damn: I thought it started tomorrow? Ramadan Karim anyways
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SunburnedCounsel
08/21/09

@Mad May: depends where you are time-zone/moon wise.
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