http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2009/05/19/73278.html

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/05/21/73395.html

When Israel’s only official coexistence soccer team visits Germany next week, its goal will not be just to score big on the playing field; it will also aim to showcase a successful model of cooperation and tolerance between Arabs and Jews, fostered through sports for the past five years between two neighboring towns just outside Jerusalem.

The Hapoel Abu Ghosh Mevaseret Zion soccer team works to promote coexistence between the two communities.

As guests of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Hapoel Abu Ghosh-Mevaseret Zion’s youth team will visit Berlin to present the club’s unique model of mutual acceptance and coexistence to the German public – and, of course, to play two matches, one against Hertha BSC Berlin’s youth team and one against the Jewish team Maccabi Berlin.

“Our project is not only about playing soccer. More importantly, it’s about improving relations between two communities who live side by side in Israel,” the club’s Jewish president, Alon Liel – a former Foreign Ministry director-general and a resident of Mevaseret Zion – told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

“It’s also about fostering understanding and accepting each other’s culture,” stated the club’s Arab chairman, Muhammad Jaber, who also manages the community center in the mostly Muslim Abu Ghosh.

He added, “This is a special team that has been playing and training together for the past five years. The players have grown up together, and while there were some clashes between them at first, all of them are now very proud of their Jewish-Arab team.”

Hapoel Abu Ghosh-Mevaseret Zion’s adult team currently plays in the country’s Southern Regional League and hopes to advance to the National League next year.

While Jews and Arabs do play together on other Israeli soccer teams, Hapoel Abu Ghosh-Mevaseret Zion is the only club that strictly adheres to joint and equal Jewish-Arab management – three from each town – and has a clear aim of promoting coexistence between the two communities. Its main goal is to show how playing soccer can help bridge cultural, linguistic, ethnic and religious divides.

“Football unites people,” said Stephan J. Kramer, secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, which will oversee the visit of the 21-member delegation. “However, it also can cause animosity, and in extreme cases, football stadiums can become an arena for racism and violence.”

Kramer explained to the Post that in Germany, such behavior at soccer events has become increasingly commonplace.

“The [Hapoel Abu Ghosh-Mevaseret] team shows how common ground can be found between two populations of different backgrounds and how neighbors can become friends,” he added.

“There is a lot of racism in football today, and the situation in Israel is especially difficult,” said Liel, pointing to recurring incidents between players and fans of the country’s premier league teams. “We hope that our approach will help encourage change and acceptance, because sports cannot be a place where racism is allowed to grow.”

The youth team’s manager, Eldad Hayet, whose son, Or, plays on the team, said that like any soccer team, this one also had its disagreements. However, “they are never based on the player’s cultural or religious differences,” he said.

“In a country with so many problems, I am proud that we can show how Jews and Arabs can work together in such a positive way,” he added. “This proves that if two communities want to work with each other, then it is possible.”

During its visit to Germany, the 16 team members and its five managers will also meet with German politicians and media representatives to demonstrate how they have used the popular sport to build bridges between the communities.

except it suits hamas to abuse its own people for propaganda purposes so that useful idiots like you can bleat on and on and on about it

I agree with your details. I know about that. In my message I only wanted to tell readers on DV that Iran is not the last heaven of freedom. If you are not a clergy man and open your mouth against the regime, you will find yourself in a dark prison and will probably not walk out, unless you have some western citizenship. Nevertheless there is no reason to nuke or attack Iran. The alleged Iranian threats are Zionist distortions to justify an attack against Iran and thus protect imperial hegemony in the region. This is unacceptable and the Iranians do have the right to defend themselves. But they would fail to tell us that the Iranian regime were free and life friendly. That is why I was irritated when you mentioned “missing” freedom of speech in Germany. Do you have any better freedom of speech in Iran? Criticizing Zionism and U.S. Imperialism does not mean freedom at home.Thank you.

A list of goods that the Zionist terror state is not allowing into Gaza.

Sunday, 17 May 2009
Sausages, tea, coffee, semolina… Weapons of mass consumption?
Israel bans books, music and clothes from entering Gaza
By Amira Hass

Israel allows only food, medicine and detergent into the Gaza Strip. Thousands of items, including vital products for everyday activity, are forbidden. Altogether only 30 to 40 select commercial items are now allowed into the Gaza Strip.

Gaza merchants are forbidden to import canned goods, plastic sheeting, toys and books, although the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and other aid organizations are permitted to bring them into the strip.

The few items merchants are allowed to trade in are divided into three categories: food, medicine and detergent.

Everything else is forbidden – including building materials (which are necessary to rehabilitate Gaza’s ruins and rebuild its infrastructure), electric appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, spare machine and car parts, fabrics, threads, needles, light bulbs, candles, matches, books, musical instruments, crayons, clothing, shoes, mattresses, sheets, blankets, cutlery, crockery, cups, glasses and animals. Many of the banned products are imported through the tunnels and can be found in Gaza’s markets.

Tea, coffee, sausages, semolina, milk products in large packages and most baking products are forbidden. So are industrial commodities for manufacturing food products, chocolate, sesame seeds and nuts.

In the past, Israel allowed wood for home furnishings to be brought into Gaza for some time, but not wood for windows and doors. Now Israel has resumed the ban on wood for furniture.

The ban on toilet paper, diapers and sanitary napkins was lifted three months ago. A little more than a month ago, following a long ban, Israel permitted the import of detergents and soaps into Gaza. Even shampoo was allowed. But one merchant discovered that the bottles of shampoo he had ordered were sent back because they included conditioner, which was not on the list.

Five weeks ago Israel allowed margarine, salt and artificial sweetener to be brought into Gaza. Legumes have been allowed for the past two months and yeast for the past two weeks.

The number of items changes according to what is determined by Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. COGAT refuses requests for an updated list in writing of the items permitted into Gaza, and passes the information only via the telephone.

Read article in full… http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1241/27/
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Perhaps a viewing of this tragic video might wipe the smirk off the faces of Israel’s supporters. This beautiful young mother loses her first baby Firas. Tomato paste indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSviZs1gDMo

Tomato concentrate in pill form can significantly reduce blood pressure, according to research by Prof. Esther Paran, head of the hypertension unit at Soroka University Medical Center and the Ben-Gurion University Health Sciences Faculty in Beersheba.

The latest issue of the BGU newsletter Alef Bet Gimmel reports on her research, which should be a lifesaver to hypertension patients whose blood pressure has not dropped enough even while taking several medications. Excessively high blood pressure raises the risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and other disorders. Hypertension is defined as having readings over 140/90, but doctors now recognize the condition pre-hypertension as anything over 120/80, which is the normal level. Those with pre-hypertension are at higher risk of these diseases and should be treated.

Research has shown that antioxidants – which fight oxygen free radicals in the body – reduce high blood pressure. Carotenoids have been linked to oxidation-preventing mechanisms. Among the substances with the most antioxidants are carotenoids, which are organic pigments in foods, especially fruits and vegetables. But Paran has found that concentrated tomatoes (a major source of the prostate-cancer-fighter lycopene) is the most effective carotenoid of all.

She conducted an eight-week study of hypertension patients who have high blood pressure despite taking two different medications. In the controlled experiment, those who took tomato-concentrate pills had a significant drop in blood pressure and didn’t have to take a third medication. It has also brought pressure down in people who had not yet begun taking medication. As a result of this proof, BGU and Soroka screened faculty and other staff members for high blood pressure and gave tomato-concentrate pills to those who needed them.

Several tomato-concentrate pill brands are sold in pharmacies and health food stores. A month’s supply is NIS 80.

Also known as Noam Chomskyism.

So you would think that the White House and the American press would be moving heaven and earth to support a reformist candidate like former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi right now if it means denying “Hitler” four more years to advance his alleged “plan.” And there is an actual chance that Mousavi could beat him.”
I think that that Hossein Moussavi is free to criticize Ahmadinajad in Iranian newspapers and seam that he sees a total other way for Iran.I remember the “confronting” between Sarkozy and Segolene Royal at the last elections in France on foreign policy.The issues debated where:the genocide in Darfur and the Iranian danger.About US i remember the vote in Congress which justified the Israel action in Gaza:396 -4.

Yes Germany is pro Israel. But it is ridiculous that a Shabnam from Persia tells us about freedom of speech. The point is, The Iranians are no threat for the Western World and there is no justification to nuke them. No more and no less.

http://www.france24.com/en/20090504-thedebate-how-far-should-freespeech-go-1

The Zionists who deny that Al Nakba took place go free of course.

Thank you for your post. You are absolutely right in what you are saying. They have many Zionist puppets in the office in western capitals. By the way the Russians also are siding with the Zionists. Don’t be a fool when Russian diplomats first disagree with the puppet of Jewish lobby, the president, in Washington. The events in the past have shown that Russians always sided with these criminals but first they say NO to squeeze the biggest concession out of Washington with the help of the Zionist lobby.
America is dominated and run by a fifth column the Jewish Lobby. Jane Harman who made a deal with a fifth Colum, the Jewish Lobby, to let the Zionist spies go free with the help of a puppet, Barak Obama, the black Jewish president, while Larry Franklin, the other spy in this case, convicted and received more than 12 years in prison under George Bush but the Zionist Jews, Rosen and Weismann let free. It is obvious that Obama has much less power to prevent the Jewish Lobby interference in the writing of foreign policy.
This video shows how the Jewish lobby wants to bring Iran down. Jane Harman who helped the Zionist spies, where in the other country would have been removed from the job and put on trial as a traitor, where in some country is punishable by death, tells the AIPAC audience about passing a law to block the import of refined petroleum product to Iran to create riots for regime change. In addition she clearly wants to implement ODID YINON, the Zionist journalist who wrote ‘Israel strategy in the 1980’ where gave instruction how to realize ‘The greater Israel’ in the region, a preliminary step towards “world Government.” She is talking at the AIPAC, a fifth column, telling the spies we have to create more destabilization in Iran so we can divide the country to many pieces, all these act is against the international law.
Since a liar does not remember all she has said, tells the audience WE ARE NOT AGAINST IRANIAN PEOPLE where she is seeking the partition of their country. SHAME ON AMERICA that allows a fifth column liar runs the foreign policy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1oon3KNXag&feature=related

I see that in Germany anyone who dares to speak out about Zionism or the holocaust is locked up and their living taken away. So much for freedom of speech.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=38848&sectionid=351020604

And in France any ‘anti-Zionist’ is not going to be allowed to stand for election to the EU parliament if Sarkozy gets his way.

http://www.france24 .com/en/20090504 -dieudonne- anti-zionist- candidates- possible- ban-european- elections- claude-gueant

israeli gang may be dishing out money to or have the nerve to lecture US gangsters. Some of the ‘jewish’ gangsters may believe that they are light onto the world; thus are entitled to ‘teach’ even US pols.
and US pols play dumb while being dined and wined and not to mention getting ‘jewish’ votes.
tnx