Showing posts with label Olive Trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olive Trees. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 July 2011

SO RICH IN TREES ~ PALESTINE WAS A DESERT THAT BLOOMED

 
Once almost all of Palestine was green like this

In Gaza

.Last week I did a post on civilized Palestine when, according to Jewish braggadocio, it was a desert begging the Zionists to civilize and bring into lush farmland. The land of milk and honey. 

What a disgusting deathly chaos zionists leave in their wake. Palestine, this once pastoral paradise that fed its people well and kept Europe in exported fruits, has been churned, ploughed, bombed, poisoned, and starved into a land that can no longer support its people let alone full time commercial land production. 

The brutal zionist fist now kills Palestine, tree by tree, grove by grove, turning the land into the barren desert they claim it was when they first descended upon it like the plague of locusts they are.

Gaza, a city so rich in trees as to be like a cloth of brocade spread out on the sand.

The other night I was flipping through Mahfouz’s Palestine: A Guide, by Mariam Shahin. In my browsing, I came across two different references to Gaza’s former fertility, so lavish that I had to note them, as one would today believe these were lies.

The second:

Beit Lahiya (in Roman times): Then its sweet water nourished delicious fruits and beautiful gardens. It once looked like a forest, with many apple, fig, peach and orange trees.

I try to imagine the flourish of green with flowering buds… but can’t.


There are trees in Gaza, sparsely pitched and stunted by water shortages or re-planting after Israeli bulldozing.

But since I first came here in November 2008, every time I’ve gone to border regions, I’ve been told by proud locals: this was the most beautiful area of Gaza, people used to come from all over with picnics, to enjoy the trees, the birds, the flowers…

Beit Hanoun and Faraheen locals rival with their memories, and surely all along the Green-Line border separating Gaza and Israel there were such bounties of green.

*destroyed agricultural land, Wadi Salqa, eastern central Gaza.

I photographed Wadi Salqa in late 2009, after much of its farm homes and crops had been destroyed, bulldozed, churned into useless, difficult to plow land.

*Abu Ahmed walks through Beit Hanoun farmland which once flourished with a variety of trees (looking for his dead son, left 54 days in the border region because no one could retrieve the body)

A roughly 15 metre wide track clawed into the land by Israeli military bulldozers and tanks. Photographed in May 2010, while accompanying farmers onto their near-barren land.


East Beit Hanoun farmland, well, motor destroyed by Israeli soldiers. The re-planted (formerly bulldozed) lemon trees were stunted due to dehydration for want of a water source.

*Palestinian youths on formerly lush Beit Hanoun farmland during Land Day


































Thursday, 24 February 2011

ORDER OUT OF CHAOS......

An ancient olive tree growing in Crete

This, dear readers, is a must-read post. 

I have been posting for weeks about the riots and revolutions that are rocking our world. They have been presented to you with insight, analysis and clarity not found in most web sites ~ the over all picture.  

Now, please read this summation of events by The Olive Farmer.  This is, to be honest, one of the most terrifying things I have posted, simply because it hits home and it is a truth I have long known about. It frightens me to be honest.

To contrast yet afirm the thoughts of the Olive Farmer, I have started off with a quote from Albert Pike, circa 1871. It is Part three of his description of and purpose for  The three World Wars planned to bring about the  dark and medieval Luciferian world which the Freemasons (primarily 33rd DegreeKabalist Talmudic Jews) wish to bring about. Yes, I refer to the New World Order.
 
On August 15, 1871, Albert Pike, 33 degree Mason, one of the founding fathers head of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Grand Commander of North American Freemasonry and s a top leader in the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said:

"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World.

The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other.

Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…

We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.

Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view.

This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.

February 25, 2011
 
February 25, 2011, an insightful blogger named  The Olive Farmer
posted:  I wrote this a while back:

“The plans of the global scum elite have been long in the making. Their objective has been to export manufacturing to cheaper labour countries, (done), create mountains of debt out of thin air, (done), impose stringent IMF dictated financial cutbacks in order to pay this fictional debt, (done and continuing), then create the triggers for revolution that will be fed by the unrest already caused (about to occur).

Why revolution? Because it is out of revolution that a new world order will be born. It is out of revolution that the western world can be further enslaved. It is out of revolution that the evil can be most gratifyingly extended.

It is in post revolutionary regimes where the most significant culling of the human race can happen, because revolution always leads to totalitarianism, to mass fear, to the free operation of murder squads, to death camps, to the most fun for the most evil, to the great blood offerings for the god of the shapers of the false reality.

One of the triggers will be the likely revolutions in countries which have a history of civil unrest.”


Oddly, go back to the beginning of this blog and you'll see the whole thing unfolding, piece by piece.



Beware of the deception that is being played out before us across the globe right now and has been long in the making.

The global wave of revolution now under-way
is not the spontaneous uprising
of bitter and angry peoples,
now in the Arab nations,
soon in a country near you.

It is one of the final acts in a long strategy of the ruling elite.

This current and soon epidemic up-welling of chaos
has been ordained, planned for,
promulgated and engineered in every detail
to create the destruction of
the current paradigms of “civilisation” worldwide
in preparation for the “new” world order,
also known as the old world order in a brand new package.

What is happening can be briefly described.

They are engaged in the destruction
of everything that humanity believes in.

Even the stuff they made us believe in.


All change is unsettling
and change in the power paradigms
is the most unsettling of all.

As Shakespeare said,
“Nature abhors a vacuum”
and into the vacuum of power
created by revolution
will step, as history shows in every instance,
the ready-made demagogue straight out of the Luciferian factory.

Firstly they have undermined the belief in and confidence in “Democracy”.

Aided and abetted by the “truth and consciousness” movement that they created (the needle that is a lie is best hidden in a haystack of truth), the majority of people, even those who have swallowed whole the lies of the main stream media, even those “sheeple”, now understand that their politicians are liars, their politicians are puppets and co-conspirators, that their Government is engaged in the wholesale fleecing of the flock.

This is more obvious to the inhabitants of false democracies or states in the hands of demagogues (as we are now witnessing in the Arab nations), but will very rapidly become the common understanding in the western democracies as the juggernaut of planned revolutions bulldozes its way across Europe and then into China, the US, everywhere.

Don't get excited just yet.
This is not the longed for awareness
and new consciousness of humanity.
This is the deliberate creation
of chaos out of which order will arise.

Secondly, by the grand theft of trillions in the global banking scam, they are creating the circumstances which will destroy humanity's belief in the system of exchange that has served us so badly for all of known history.

This “money”,
this thing that divides us so effectively
one from another,
that creates the jealousy,
unhealthy desire,
planet wrecking greed,
inequality and unnatural disparity
between we members of the family of humanity
has been around for so long
that we cannot think of a system that could exist
without it.

We'll have to, because they plan to destroy it, paving the way for more chaos, to which they will of course provide the answer.

Their agents in the Aquarian truth movement wait in the wings with the ready made solutions that will take what's left of us into perpetual scientific imprisonment and slavery.

This writing is on the wall
for all who can see to see.

Belief in government,
belief in money, what's next?
The third stage is the belief in security.

The loss of money will be a major part of this. The idea that you can plan your life, buy a home for yourselves and your family, work hard and save for a pleasant retirement in the bosom of your family and the security of a calm and ordered world.....

Forget it, if you haven't already.

This is a dream that we can and will eventually achieve, but the troubled waters have to be crossed first, the ones approaching fast.

This loss of a sense of security, of the rocks that can be clung to in the maelstrom of existence will vanish completely in the coming months.

They have been weakened for decades.
This is what has been behind the destruction
of the family, of community, of fellowship,
of unity, a steady and relentless weakening
of the structures of true power
amongst humanity,
our real strength
which came from unity
and is now on the verge
of complete destruction.
This is the third stage.

Do you expect to live in peace for the rest of your life? This expectancy is now under severe attack. From the false and engineered revolutions will emerge both civil strife and military intervention that will see father turned against son, brother against brother, neighbour against neighbour, nation against nation.

They have feigned the belief that guns should be taken from citizens. They want you to have them so that you can start shooting each other in the struggle for food or to defend yourselves from marauders.

From such strife
new leadership will emerge,
leadership bathed in blood,
the cruelest and least human
to the fore.
It has ever been so.

Then will they destroy for countless millions their belief in a religion, to which so many will turn in this hour of need.

This basic need of the human psyche,
this most manipulated tool of the governance of the soul,
this tool that misdirects those that seek good
and peace and love
and twist this beautiful yearning
into enmity and hatred
and killing and torture and perversion.

Even these great falsehoods will be destroyed 
in this great paradigm shift.

To shatter into nothing thousands of years of lies (and buried amongst these lies, thousands of eternal truths). This will be the great unsettling.

In a world bereft of all of the anchors of life, from family to security to government and law to money and then to religion all of the basic tenets of our lives will be whipped away as the rug is pulled from under us.

This is now inevitable.

The New World Order is a grand plan.
It's intention has been and is
to destroy everything,
to wipe the slate clean
and paint a new future
on the blank canvas
of the wretched remnants of humanity.

They need such an overwhelming construct to replace the crumbling instruments of authority and manipulation that are outdated in this technological age.

The cleverness of their plan beggars belief.
Its intention has ever been driven by their awareness
that, sooner or later and at about this time
humanity in its vast numbers
will discover the full truth of its circumstance.

To misdirect this apocalypse (from the Greek”apocalypse”, the lifting of the veil, the revelation of the mysteries), is fundamental to this plan.

It needs all the “shock and awe”
at their disposal to distract us.

If they fail,
a new species of humanity will emerge.

New ideas and systems and leaders apparently in opposition to the NWO are, instead, agents of the same Luciferian cabal. They don't just throw these things together.

Believe nothing.
Check everything
and still don't believe.

Of course, U.F.O.'s are a part of this.

And the new “Christ” Maitreya of whom I've written many times.

And the amazing gifts of technology that will change the world (but are the product of humanity's ingenuity, stolen and stored for these times).

And, regrettably, something “Biblical” in Israel, a place created by the global elite, a people twisted into ugliness and shame by the same elite, a place where the spark that will ignite the great conflagration will be struck and where will appear, as planned, the false salvation intended to bring us to our knees in wonderment.

The old one's are the best.
Aren't they?

Though the great plan is certain to continue unfolding
it's outcome is not certain.

How humanity react is not inevitable,
though it may seem so.

Free will is everything
as this tale unfolds.

Underpinning that is love.

There we find our god.

Inside ourselves and the knowledge of love.

The very soul and essence of true humanity
and the greater truths that we will discover.

Creatures fit at last
to enter the universe
and take part in its bounty and joy.

There is good out there, and it approaches and watches, waiting for the rebirth of our species, a rebirth and evolution that we will create for ourselves from the chaos that evil is propelling us into.

We've had enough of all that.

Evolution is preferable to engineered revolution.

Time for the near 7 billion of us to cry aloud

“Enough.
No More.
Let's start again.”?

Love to you all.
Olive Farmer



Through the shade cast by the leaves of the olive tree here in Crete fall the rays of light that warm and feed the soul. I hope you will all share in this warmth and nourishment. xxx xxx xxx

Thursday, 14 October 2010

THE OLIVE HARVEST: SEASON FOR SETTLER VIOLENCE


An Israeli volunteer assisting Palestinians from the village of Jayyus harvesting their olive trees. People who call such as me an anti semitic, that useless word, do not seem to "get" the fact we are against criminals who slide by posing as Jews not those like this young Jewess who is defying her state and most likely family and friends to counteract evil.

October 13, 2010
By JoUsef

There are somethings we can be certain of. The sun will come up tomorrow. What goes up, must come down. But it is safe to say we can add to these reliable astronomical and physical certainties the fact that Israeli settlers will attack Palestinian civilians and their olive groves during the annual fall olive harvest. Sadly, like clockwork, we are witnessing this again.

The New York Times and the Washington Post both ran stories about this today. Micky Rosenfeld, a spokesman for the Israeli police, is quoted in both articles. Here is an excerpt from the Post piece on what he said:
Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said that the damages and theft of olives were "not a phenomenon" that was widespread and that there had been similar complaints by settlers reporting property damage by Palestinians. He said that investigations had been opened and several suspects questioned and released, but that no one had been charged.
Rosenfeld's suggestion that such attacks are not a widespread phenomenon does not jive with the recorded facts. I've have authored a few posts on settler violence recently. 

Earlier this month I wrote about the use of arson as a settler tactic after a mosque was set on fire. Then, only last week when video surfaced of two Palestinian children being hit by an Israeli settler in a car, I wrote this post on how often Palestinian civilians become victims of vehicular assault. Our settler violence database allows us to also take a closer look into attacks around olive trees, the harvest and civilians during the harvest.

When I first presented the data in September, I mentioned how a spike in the violence occurs during the olive harvest and expected similar increases in violence this year. Below is a graph which shows this spike in the period just before to just after the olive harvest in 2009. 

What you are looking at is the number of attacks per week across the different governorates. 

Week 1 on the X-Axis corresponds to 9/15/2009-9/21/2009 and Week 9 corresponds to 11/10/2009 - 11/16/2009. The spike, which looks like a mountain in this instance because it is increased violence over a protracted period of time, reaches its peak during week 4, (10/6/2009-10/12/2009) almost exactly one year ago today. 

Also, you can clearly see that targets are located in various areas throughout the West Bank, with the heaviest volume occurring in Nablus and Qalqilya. Clearly, to say this is not a widespread phenomenon is to ignore reality. It is in fact a systematic, predictable, widespread phenomenon.


But I'd be wrong to suggest that settler violence targeting Palestinian civilians and their olive treas or other crops only occurs during the olive harvest season. Rather, attacks by settlers on Palestinian olive trees occur year round. What we see during the olive harvest is increased attacks against Palestinians who are out in the groves collecting olives. 

Often in vulnerable, rural areas where Israeli settlers can attack with little fear of being caught or stopped, Palestinian civilians fall prey to settler attacks more in this period. 

But when we look into attacks on the crops and trees themselves, we see that this is not limited only to the period of the harvest. In fact, when look at our data which covered 18 months from Jan. 2009 to Aug. 2010, only about 30% of attacks on olive trees and groves occur during the harvest (late Sept to early Nov). 

The rest of the attacks are distributed across the remainder of the year with a remarkable concentration in June and July, when 40% of attacks occur. Approximately 10% of all acts of settler violence captured in our database are against the olive trees and occasionally other forms of agriculture. 

With over 100 attacks on trees in an 18 month period, this comes out to an average of approximately 5.5 attacks on trees per month.

The attacks on the trees, a source of pride and livelihood for Palestinians, are perpetrated using different tactics. Arson is one, and it is involved in nearly half of the attacks on the trees. The other half is dominated by uprooting, which involves physically removing the trees from the earth using bulldozers.

Here are some examples:

On June 22rd, 2009, as the sun was coming up, Israeli Settlers from the Bat Ayin settlement set fire to land belonging to the village of Beit Ummar that was filled with fruit bearing trees. They also cut an additional 150 trees. This was one of three different settler attacks that day.
    On October 3rd, 2009, at about 1P.M., settlers entered the land of the village of Qaryut in the Nablus governorate and set fire to land with fruit bearing trees. When Palestinians came to douse the flames, the settlers opened fire, preventing them. As a result, 150 trees were destroyed. This was one of two different settler attacks that day.
      On Feb. 8th, 2010, at about 4P.M., settlers entered the area of Al-Baqa'a east of Hebron, cut down 80 trees and destroyed wiring and shacks on about 5 dunums of land belonging to a Palestinian civilian. This was one of four different settler attacks that day.
        We know settlement of origin in about 43% of these cases. Settlers from the settlements of Ariel, Bat Ayin, Bracha, Eli, Elon Moreh, Hagai, Halmish, Havat Gilad, Kedumim, Kfar Etzion, Kfar Tappuah, Maon, Ma'ale Levona, Negohot, Sassia, Shavei Shomron, Shilo and Yitzhar have been involved in destroying Palestinian olive trees during this period. Those in bold have been most active against Palestinian olive trees.

        The trees in or around 46 different Palestinian villages have been targeted during the period we analyzed, and they are too many to list here, but Jit, Khirbet Safa, Qaryut, Burin and Luban Ash-Sharqiyya are among the most targeted. A chart below shows the distribution of settler attacks against olive trees and groves across governorates.

        So anyone who is trying to tell you that these attacks are isolated incidents, like the spokesman for the Israeli police, is probably trying to hide the fact that they are failing miserably, perhaps intentionally, to do their job in protecting Palestinian civilians and their property by preventing settler attacks. 

        Settler violence prevents Palestinians from reaching significant portions of their most important agricultural product, and continues to be a threat to Palestinian civilians on each and every day of their lives.

        Thursday, 2 April 2009

        PALESTINE ~ BEFORE THEIR DIASPORA

        Palestinian/German artist Anis Hamadeh
        working on his new Liverpool series
        .

        With the emphasis on the horrors of life in Palestine over the past century, what has been forgotten is the artistic expression and vital vibrant art of these amazing people. The event now referred to as Nakhba in 1948, gave Palestinian more depth, a different focus, and a unifying message shared by all Palestinians, no matter where in the world they now reside. This message of determination and hope is for the

        SURVIVAL OF THE PALESTINE PEOPLE AND
        RETURN OF THEIR RIGHT TO LIVE AGAIN
        ON THEIR OWN SOIL FREE OF OPPRESSION.

        To remember the past there are many great artists who have and do create vital paintings of traditional Palestinian culture, keeping the memories alive so that they are not lost to history. These powerful beautiful works, sold around the world, teaches others of the peaceful pastoral life currently being decimated and stolen by the aggressors and Occupation to be replaced with trials, tribulations and deprivations of the worst sort. So such art is very important.
        Also born as a result of Naqba and the Occupation was the extremely potent and viable Resistance Art that keeps these amazing people strong; it also reminds the world constantly of what is being done by the dark forces of Zion. There are many great resistance artists in the world today, notably Carlos Latuff and Ben Heine, both dearly loved and highly regarded in Palestine. But people often do not see the art of the local Palestinians because they have not access to the same international resources to get their work out. I have been using Latuff and Heine for years in my blogging. See my PALESTINE ~ GUERNICA for a small taste of Palestinian resistance art.
        The brilliantly coloured work of the following artist, Anis Hamadeh. caught my eye a few days ago and completely captivated me. Anis is an internationally famous artist of German/Palestinian lineage. His work is like nothing else I have ever seen and I advise you to see these pieces in their full glory by enlarging the thumbs. There is NO comparison once they are larger, the detail is just amazing. Included are his Twelve Palestinian drawings as well as other works he has done. I particularly enjoy his piece of the CodePink activist confronting Condoleezza Rice and the interview to which I provide a link. Anis Online Art Club is a good site to see more of his work. with text in German, French, Arabian or English.



        Harvesting olive pickers, melon sellers, a monastery, the Via Dolorosa, a water mill, a traditional soap factory, fishermen from the Sea of Galilee ~ the twelve exhibits the"Before their Diaspora" series shine in glossy colors. The 42 cm x 29,5 cm drawings trace back to photos from a richly annotated illustrated book of the same title. Internationally noted Palestinian historian, Professor Walid Khalidi, created this book to document the everyday life and the history of the Palestinians from 1876 until 1948.

        "I wanted to bring new colour to the black-and-white shots, so I used shining Copic Markers to resurrect them," Anis said in an interview with the British newspaper Metro. Until today the Palestinian refugees are the largest group of refugees in the world, now with more than five million people concerned. On the second drawing one can see how locals in Jaffa were literally driven into the sea. "The media often talk about Arabs wanting to drive the Jews into the sea. The only photo on the subject shows exactly the opposite case, this is why I chose the motif", explains Anis whose father was born in the West Bank.


        All subtext to the Diaspora paintings are from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi.
        Anis says he kept thinking of the Jerusalem photo and wondered how it would look if he infused it with colour and glory. The photos seemed dead and far away to him and he wanted to breath life into them, make them sing to the eyes. So he set to task on the Jerusalem photo and a week later had the results you now see. Again I remind you to PLEASE enlarge the thumbs to become enthralled by these beautiful pieces of art.

        VIA DOLOROSA (DIN A3) © Anis 2007
        "The Via Dolorosa, Fifth Station of the Cross,
        in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, Jerusalem."

        FISHERMEN of the Sea of Galilee (DIN A3) © Anis 2007

        MONASTERY (DIN A3) © Anis 2007
        "The Christian monastery of Mar Saba, commemorating a Byzantine
        ascetic of this name who died in A.D. 531. The monastery is located
        in the wilderness southeast of Jerusalem. Mar is the Arabic word
        for "saint". Many Palestinian Muslim shrines
        honor Hebrew prophets and Christian saints."

        HILLS OF BETHLEHEM (DIN A3) © Anis 2007
        "The hills of Bethlehem. Note the traditional headdress."

        SOAP FACTORY IN NABLUS (DIN A3) © Anis 2007
        "The ancient craft of soapmaking ... Palestinian traditional industries,
        particularly the production of edible oil and the manufacture of soap,
        were vigorous, and Palestinians were increasingly active in
        the tobacco, textile, wood products, cement, and paper industries."

        COURTYARD OF IBRAHIMI MOSQUE (DIN A3) © Anis 2007
        "Muslim dignitaries conferring in the courtyard of the Ibrahimi
        (Abraham) Mosque, Hebron, 1947. The mayor of Hebron,
        Shaikh Muhammad Ali al-Ja'bari, is on the right."

        MELONS (DIN A3) © Anis 2007
        "Palestinian Agricultural Production: Contrary to prevailing opinion
        in the Western world, the Palestinians were responsible for the bulk of
        agricultural production in the country during the British Mandate.
        Melons: of 125.979 dunams planted with melons, the Palestinians owned
        and cultivated 120.304 dunams."
        (one dunam = one thousand square meters)

        OLIVES (DIN A3) © Anis 2008
        "Palestinian Agricultural Production: Contrary to prevailing opinion
        in the Western world, the Palestinians were responsible for the bulk of
        agricultural production in the country during the British Mandate.
        Olives: of 600.133 dunams, 99 percent was
        Palestinian-owned and cultivated.
        " (one dunam = one thousand square meters)


        EASTER IN JERUSALEM (DIN A3) © Anis 2008"Christian Orthodox procession on Easter Day (note the lighted candles)
        from the Greek Patriarchate to the Holy Sepulchre

        in the Old City of Jerusalem, ca. 1910."
        WATER MILL (on the Auja River near Jaffa) (DIN A3) © Anis 2008

        INTO THE SEA (DIN A3) © Anis 2008
        "Palestinians driven into the sea at Jaffa Harbor, late April 1948.
        With the land routes cut off by the Haganah, tens of thousands
        of the citizens of Jaffa and neighboring villages fled by boat to Gaza
        and Egypt; scores were drowned. Jaffa was to have been the main port
        of the Palestinian state envisioned in the UN partition

        recommendation of 29 November 1947."

        NAHR AL-BARID (DIN A3) © Anis 2008
        "A typical Palestinian refugee camp at Nahr al-Barid in
        northern Lebanon, winter 1948."
        Background: "The First Palestinian Diaspora. By 15 May 1948
        hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from scores
        of Palestinian towns and hundreds of Palestinian villages
        had been scattered to the four winds in the neighboring Arab
        countries. On 5 June 1948 David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary:
        'We must make immediate preparations for settlement of
        the abandoned villages with the assistance of the Jewish National Fund.'"

        THE CODE PINK PAINTING/INTERVIEW
        CODEPINK is a women's initiated grassroots organization dedicated to ending the war in Iraq and preventing war in Iran. Personally, I am a huge supporter of CODEPINK. Their methods are peaceful, outrageous, brave, dangerous, effective, outspoken, controversial, ethical, educational and most important of all ~ PASSIONATE , all of which are beautifully captured in the photo below. The reptilian chill of war criminal Rice has rarely been more starkly contrasted against the raw passion of a brave peace lover.
        On October 24, 2007, CODEPINK activist Desiree Fairooz walked up to Condoleezza Rice during a Congressional hearing and displayed her hands covered in a blood-like liquid. She yelled "war criminal" as Ms. Rice prepared to testify and was dragged out of the room by the police. The pictures and story went all over the world. See video, photos and read news stories here: www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=3587
        The subsequent interview with Desiree can be found here.


        THE FREE GAZA ART FESTIVAL SERIES
        AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

        FREE GAZA (DIN A3) © Anis 2008

        FREE GAZA 2 (DIN A3) © Anis 2008

        FREE GAZA 03 (DIN A3) © Anis 2009

        FREE GAZA 04 (DIN A3) © Anis 2009

        Fishermen of Galilee

        Tuareg

        The Lion and the Lamb


        LIVERPOOL CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2008

        LIVERPOOL (1): OTTERSPOOL (DIN A3) © Anis 2008

        LIVERPOOL (2): CHINESE GATE (DIN A3) © Anis 2008


        LIVERPOOL (04) (DIN A3) © Anis 2009