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With reference to the song lyrics in the above post, you can find the full finished verson here
http://www.seizetheday.org/music.cfm?albumID=4&trackID=52I met them at the Big Green Gathering three years ago, they are an inspiration
trish123: below is a little snippet of history that I like;
Many people argue that Arabs and Jews can never live together, and claim there is a long tradition of enmity between the two people. But this is not borne out by history.
The roots of the current hostility are very modern, stemming from the Zionist colonial movement that seized Palestine. But prior to that every Arab capital had a community of Jews living alongside their Muslim and Christian neighbours.
Jews have been an important part of life in Jerusalem, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Rabat and Baghdad and other Arab cities since the beginning of recorded history.
There are hundreds of Jewish names on the memorial to Iraqis who died fighting British colonialism in the 1920s. They were an important part of the nationalist and left-wing Arab movements that grew in the 1920s and 1930s in the struggle against imperialism.
This all changed after the establishment of Israel. Arab Jews were forced out of their homes by the Arab dictators and kings put in place by the West. This process was encouraged by Israel.
These Arab Jews became second class citizens within Israel. They have never been welcome at the top of Israeli society. Many have clung to their Arab culture – and to the dream of returning home one day.
As in so many other regions of the world, the divisions, discord and hatred between people in the Middle East are a bitter legacy of Western imperialism.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=16790 I'm not a big fan of Soialist Worker's rants however what is written above rings very true with the documentary that was made at the 2000 Camp David negociations with Clinton, Arafat and Ehud Barak.
They very nearly have an accord, however at at the last minute we have footage of Arafat almost in tears saying "They are trying to get me to give up soverignty of the Dome of the Rock if i do that i will be assassinated".
This man did not fear for his life, if he was assassinated, any deal he made would be worthless, but in his words are the unspoken underlying causes of this conflict.
We have a lot of history about palestine during the development of Islam, people in the region could write and they did. Herod's Temple was in ruins and the temple based religion that gave the Levites a free life, living off the backs of the other 11 tribes of Israel was over, having given way to Rabbinical Judaism where any Jewish man could study and become a Rabbi, where as a Rabbi he was expected to support himself, unless his community decided of their own accord to support him in any way they saw/see fit.
Palestine as an area was no longer a very pleasant place to live central government had collapsed there was no rule of Law and within that, a young man, led by 'the spirit of the oneness that binds all life' decided one day to sit on the ruins of the holy of holies, of the temple and meditate, he found himself doing this for some time as in weeks or months and during that period he 'recieved' words which collectivly bound in a book are now refered to as 'The Koran.'
The Zionist Goal is the re-establishment of the State of Israel and the Temple of The Lord, this goal cannot be achieved whilst the Dome of the Rock still stands.......................
The destruction of the Mosque built on the place where Mohammed recieved the Koran will result in carnage.
If Iran has nuclear capacity they would at that point use it. If Iran goes nuclear positive it is the end of the Zionist dream
Makes you think eh?