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	<title>Goals for Americans &#187; GFA</title>
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		<title>Freedom FROM ISRAEL for PALESTINE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The executive team at Goals for Americans has presented their ultimate formula for creating the new country of Palestine! This is the ultimate solution to counteract the constant 30-year delaying process that Israel has cunningly utilized to prevent this day from ever happening&#8230; We present to you NOW what we have sent to every member [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3708" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 183px"><a href="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/literature/freedom-from-israel/"><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Freedom_from_Israel_Page_01-173x225.jpg" alt="Freedom from Israel for Palestine" title="Freedom from Israel for Palestine" width="173" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-3708" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Click Above to <br />View and Turn the Pages!</p></div>
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The executive team at Goals for Americans has presented their ultimate formula for creating the new country of Palestine!</div>
<p>This is the ultimate solution to counteract the constant 30-year delaying process that Israel has cunningly utilized to prevent this day from ever happening&#8230; We present to you NOW what we have sent to every member of the negotiating team convening in Washington D.C. Thursday 9/2/2010.</p>
<h2>This is one of the ultimate<br />
Goals for America to achieve</h2>
<p>President Obama must now out-do our previous Presidents in &#8220;Getting This Job Done!&#8221;<br />
The creation of these &#8220;10 vital ACTIONS&#8221; and the following 10 New Commandments are the Framework to solve this Nagging problem in spite of Israel&#8217;s Constant Delaying Actions!</p>
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<div style='font-size:26px;font-weight:bold;color:#002077;margin-bottom:10px;'><span style="text-decoration: underline;">GOODBYE</span> &#8211; to the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">OLD</span> &#8220;Israel/Palestine Two&#8209;State&nbsp;Solution&#8221;</div>
<div style='font-size:30px;font-weight:bold;color:#BE0C0C'><span style="text-decoration: underline;">HELLO</span> to the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NEW- <br />&#8220;PALESTINE FREEDOM&nbsp;PLAN&nbsp;!!&#8221;</span></div>
<div style='font-size:30px;font-weight:bold;margin-top:10px;color:#002077;'>&#8230;Giving <span style="text-decoration: underline;">FREEDOM FROM ISRAEL&#8230;<br />&#8230;TO</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">PALESTINE&#8230;</span> <span style='color:#BE0C0C'>Finally!</span></div>
<div style='font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;'>We welcome you and have the answers to many serious problems around the world.  For many years we have confronted the Israeli-Palestinian problem, and right now we are dealing with the aftermath of the horrible &#8220;Freedom Flotilla&#8221; massacre.  The Flotilla was an honorable attempt to bring humanitarian aid to the suffering people of Gaza.  Please read on and help us force the FINAL SOLUTION to lasting FREEDOM &#038; JUSTICE for the Palestinians, both in the West Bank and Gaza, and the ACTIONS to Make it&nbsp;Happen!</div>
<p><a href="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Free-Palestine-ad-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[pal-freedom-plan]" title="Free Palestine 1"><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Free-Palestine-ad-1-500x647.jpg" alt="Freedom from Israel for Palestine" title="Free Palestine 1" width="500" height="647" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3505" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Free-Palestine-ad-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[pal-freedom-plan]" title="Free Palestine 2"><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Free-Palestine-ad-2-500x647.jpg" alt="The Palestine Freedom Plan" title="Free Palestine 2" width="500" height="647" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3504" /></a></p>
<p><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/free-nation-of-palestine-500x272.jpg" alt="Creating The New FREE Nation of Palestine!" title="Creating The New FREE Nation of Palestine!" width="500" height="272" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3548" /></p>
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		<title>Our Reaction to Israel&#8217;s Attack on&#160;the&#160;Flotilla</title>
		<link>http://www.goalsforamericans.org/2010/06/17/our-reaction-to-israels-attack-on-the-flotilla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please, Witness this Horrible Catastrophe – An Outrageous Example of &#8220;Blind Feelings of Superiority&#8221; by Israel! Read about it!]]></description>
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<div style='font-size:22px;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:50px;'>Please, Witness this Horrible Catastrophe – An Outrageous Example of &#8220;Blind Feelings of Superiority&#8221; by Israel!</p>
<p style="margin-top:20px;"><a href="http://goalsforamericans.org/literature/israels-crimes/">Read about it!</a></p>
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		<title>Israel proves itself a CRIMINAL SLAVE-MASTER&#160;NATION</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Based upon the latest news reports from the Associated Press and the New York Times! &#8211; 5/31/10 Three Israeli warships (paid for by America!) have attacked a small humanitarian Flotilla of Europeans, bringing aid to the starving and deprived people in the huge Israeli prison in Gaza.   These humanitarian rescuers include a Nobel Peace [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ship-explosion-225x159.jpg" alt="" title="Ship Attack" width="225" height="159" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3412" /><em><strong>&#8230;Based upon the latest news reports from the Associated Press and the New York Times! &#8211; 5/31/10</strong></em></p>
<p>Three Israeli warships (<strong>paid for by America!</strong>) have attacked a small humanitarian Flotilla of Europeans, bringing aid to the starving and deprived people in the huge Israeli prison in Gaza.   </p>
<p>These humanitarian rescuers include a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a Holocaust Survivor!</p>
<div style='font-size:28px;line-height:1.1em;font-weight:bold;color:#BE0C0C'>This Israeli attack has killed at least 10 of these noble humanitarians already.</div>
<p>If anyone had any doubts about Israel having become a CRIMINAL-NATION, these doubts are now wiped out by this brutal demonstration that Israel has become more vicious and more deadly than the Nazi&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Stay tuned to find out what America will do to counter this vicious inhumane action by a country they have helped to create and supported with &#8220;no questions asked.&#8221;</p>
<div style='font-size:22px;line-height:1.1em;font-weight:bold;color:#BE0C0C'>All honest patriotic and humanitarian Americans must &#8220;turn our government around!&#8221;</div>
<p>Under Bush and Cheney we became &#8220;worse than ever&#8221; &#8211;  and now, under Obama, all bets are off! &#8230;BECAUSE he is being led to lead the destruction of America by allowing our country to be &#8220;taken over&#8221; by Israel&#8230; and by supporting ALL of Israel&#8217;s criminal ACTS as they continue to be the Vicious SLAVE-MASTERS of PALESTINE&#8230; in both GAZA and the WEST BANK.</p>
<div style='font-size:28px;line-height:1.1em;font-weight:bold;color:#002077'>LET US TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!</div>
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		<title>Dennis Kucinich an American Patriot!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 19:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read his speech now! Goldstone Said It&#8230; The “HOUSE” Rejected It! Kucinich to the Rescue! Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement on the House Floor about H. Res 867, which condemns the ‘Goldstone Report:’ “Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is [...]]]></description>
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<h2>Read his speech now!</h2>
<h2>Goldstone Said It&#8230; The “HOUSE” Rejected It!<br />
Kucinich to the Rescue!</h2>
<h3>Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement on the House Floor about H. Res 867, which condemns the ‘Goldstone Report:’</h3>
<p><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_check_red.gif" alt="" title="bullet_check_red" width="90" height="61" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2315" />“Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is <span style="background:#ffff00;">covering up war crimes</span>, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist.</p>
<p><sup>1</sup> “Because <span style="background:#ffff00;">behind every such deception is the nullification of humanity</span>, the destruction of human dignity, the annihilation of the human spirit, the triumph of Orwellian thinking, the eternal prison of the dark heart of the totalitarian.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_red.gif" alt="" title="bullet_star_red" width="90" height="90" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2371" />“The resolution before us today, which would reject all attempts of the Goldstone Report to <span style="background:#ffff00;">fix responsibility of all parties to war crimes</span>, including both Hamas and Israel, may as well be called the “Down is Up, Night is Day, Wrong is Right” resolution.</p>
<p><sup>2</sup> “Because if this Congress votes to condemn a report it has not read, concerning events it has totally ignored, about violations of law of which it is unaware, it will have <span style="background:#ffff00;">brought shame to this great institution.</span></p>
<p><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_check_blue.gif" alt="" title="bullet_check_blue" width="90" height="61" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2370" />“How can we ever expect there to be peace in the Middle East if we tacitly approve of violations of international law and international human rights, if we look the other way, or if we close our eyes to the heartbreak of people on both sides by <span style="background:#ffff00;">white-washing a legitimate investigation?</span></p>
<p>“How can we protect the people of Israel from existential threats if we hold no concern for the protection of the Palestinians, for their physical security, their right to land, their right to their own homes, their right to water, their right to sustenance, their right to freedom of movement, their right to the human security of jobs, education and health care?</p>
<p><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_blue.gif" alt="" title="bullet_star_blue" width="90" height="90" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2316" /><sup>3</sup> <span style="background:#ffff00;">“We will have peace only when the plight of both Palestinians and Israelis is brought before this House and given equal consideration in recognition of that principle that all people on this planet have a right to survive and thrive, and it is our responsibility, our duty to see that no individual, no group, no people are barred from this humble human claim.”</span></p>
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		<title>NETANYAHU – TRY TO BE HUMAN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Vital Message from Citizen Paul about the Entire Secretive Government of Israel and the Tragedy They are Bringing Down&#160;Upon&#160;the&#160;Jewish&#160;People Listen here or read below&#8230; On Monday evening, March 22, you, Mr. Netanyahu, will address the AIPAC policy conference in Washington DC. Your address will be significant because you are coming on the heels of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>A Vital Message from Citizen Paul about the Entire Secretive Government of Israel and the Tragedy They are Bringing Down&nbsp;Upon&nbsp;the&nbsp;Jewish&nbsp;People</h2>
<h2>Listen here or read below&#8230;</h2>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3079" title="Netanyahu" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/netanyahu-art-183x225.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="225" /><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3280" title="AIPAC Conference" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/APACCONFERENCE-225x162.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="162" /></p>
<p style="margin-top:162px;">On Monday evening, March 22, you, Mr. Netanyahu, will address the AIPAC policy conference in Washington DC. Your address will be significant because you are coming on the heels of a disastrous week in Israeli/U.S relations. The “JERUSALEM FIASCO” is of your own making, either out of incompetence or cold-hearted calculation. The insulting announcement of settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, while Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel to announce a new peace initiative, was a provocation and slap in our face that you, Mr. Netanyahu, must bear all responsibility for.</p>
<p>Your duplicitous Interior minister sabotaged the peace process before it even got started. And you allowed it!</p>
<p>While the dust settles from this diplomatic fiasco, we have a challenge for you, Mr. Netanyahu. Since you’re coming to Washington, where I’m sure you expect to be treated with the dignity you denied Vice President Biden while in your country last week, we have the following suggestions for you, in the form of simple challenges.</p>
<p><strong><div id="attachment_3276" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/yishai-150x225.jpg" alt="" title="Eli Yishai" width="150" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-3276" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Eli Yishai, Israeli Interior&nbsp;Minister</p></div><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2316" title="bullet_star_blue" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_blue.gif" alt="" width="90" height="90" />WE CHALLENGE YOU</strong>, Mr. Netanyahu, to first of all apologize to the American people for insulting and embarrassing our vice president while he was a guest in your country.  We expect to hear you say that treating a loyal and steadfast friend with such casual disregard and condescension is a breach of trust, and that you apologize to each and every one of us. When you insult our leaders, you’re insulting all of us as well.</p>
<p>With that said, here’s the hard part. Here’s the real challenge. You’re coming to address AIPAC, your bullies-in-residence in our country, but you’re also coming to mend fences. You need us and our money and our military muscle. You also need the AIPAC crowd and the zealots of the settlement community who helped put you in power.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2371" title="bullet_star_red" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_red.gif" alt="" width="90" height="90" />WE CHALLENGE YOU</strong>, Mr. Netanyahu, to come down off that fence you’ve been straddling forever and take a courageous stand for peace and justice, once and for all. It’s time to stop trying to have it both ways. That game is over. Your stupidity and insensitivity last week in Jerusalem ended that charade forever.</p>
<p>You’ve been ‘talking the talk’ forever about wanting a just and lasting peace settlement with the Palestinians, but you’ve never actually ‘walked the walk.’ Now is the time. We’re calling you out once and for all.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_3302" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><img src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Israeli-East-Jerusalem-Settlements-225x146.jpg" alt="" title="Israeli East Jerusalem Settlements" width="225" height="146" class="size-medium wp-image-3302" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Settlements in East Jerusalem</p></div><strong>WE CHALLENGE YOU</strong>, Mr. Netanyahu, to reject the destructive and barbaric policies of your ultra-orthodox coalition partners and the settlement movement, and their relentless, illegal and rapacious hunger for Palestinian land.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2371" title="bullet_star_red" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_red.gif" alt="" width="90" height="90" />WE CHALLENGE YOU</strong> to immediately end the inhumane blockade of Gaza! The GOLDSTONE REPORT has revealed the brutality your forces inflicted on those impoverished people a year ago, and the punitive blockade you’ve had in place ever since has only worsened their plight. Open the borders and let them rebuild!</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2316" title="bullet_star_blue" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_blue.gif" alt="" width="90" height="90" />WE CHALLENGE YOU</strong> to put the long-term security of all Israelis above your own political survival. By embracing the two-state solution, and the land-for-peace arrangements it would require, you will no doubt be hounded and rejected by your hard-line coalition partners and your government will collapse. So be it. Doing the right thing for Israel and the Palestinians will, in the long run, be the most honorable thing you have ever done. The end of your political career will become your historical salvation.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2371" title="bullet_star_red" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_red.gif" alt="" width="90" height="90" />WE CHALLENGE YOU</strong> to freeze all settlement construction indefinitely, and to move forcefully to dismantle all illegal outposts in the occupied territories.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2316" title="bullet_star_blue" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_blue.gif" alt="" width="90" height="90" />WE CHALLENGE YOU</strong> to remove the humiliating and debilitating network of checkpoints throughout the West Bank, which enslave and harass the Palestinian people at every turn of their daily existence. Stop treating them like cattle to be herded.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2371" title="bullet_star_red" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_red.gif" alt="" width="90" height="90" />WE CHALLENGE YOU</strong> to dismantle the security wall, which ultimately serves only to wall you off from the rest of the civilized world and your own humanity.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2316" title="bullet_star_blue" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bullet_star_blue.gif" alt="" width="90" height="90" />WE CHALLENGE YOU to stand before the AIPAC crowd and say these words.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>“From this night going forward, I pledge to you that Israel, under my leadership, will tear down the barrier to peace and will work tirelessly to reach an honorable and just accommodation with our Palestinian brothers and sisters. My days as prime minister may be numbered, but my determination will be relentless. It is my intention to take Israel to a new level of prosperity and security by working to create the independent state of Palestine.  It is my intention to atone for our past behavior, which we cannot change, by guaranteeing a better tomorrow – a future we will share with our Palestinian brethren.”</strong></p>
<p>What will be the destiny of your own choosing, Mr. Netanyahu? Will you go down in history as a mediocre and visionless prime minister or will you find the moral courage within yourself to do the hard and honorable things while there is still time?</p>
<p>We’ll all be listening to your AIPAC address for the answer.</p>
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		<title>ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:  It’s Time For The U.S. To Respond To Israeli Insults</title>
		<link>http://www.goalsforamericans.org/2010/03/11/enough-is-enough-respond-to-israeli-insults/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, a top-level American diplomat, while visiting Israel, has been insulted and embarrassed by the host country, and it’s time for the White House to push back! In 2008, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, while visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to discuss the stalled peace process, was blindsided by an Israeli announcement of [...]]]></description>
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<p>Once again, a top-level American diplomat, while visiting Israel, has been insulted and embarrassed by the host country, and it’s time for the White House to push back!</p>
<p>In 2008, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, while visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to discuss the stalled peace process, was blindsided by an Israeli announcement of expanded settlement construction – the most inflammatory issue of the day.  Bush never made Israel pay a price for such insulting diplomatic behavior from one ally to another.</p>
<p>This time, they have blindsided and sandbagged Vice President Joe Biden, who is in the area this week promoting the just-announced informal peace talks that Israel and the Palestinians will resume, thanks to the tireless diplomacy of George Mitchell.</p>
<p>After spending the day lavishly reassuring Israel of our commitment to their security and our willingness to broker the coming peace talks, Biden was rewarded with a diplomatic insult: Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai announced that 1,600 new homes would be built in the ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem enclave of Ramat Shlomo.</p>
<p>Biden offered friendship and reassurances and Israel slapped him down! Perhaps this kind of outrageous treatment was acceptable to the Bush administration but it should not be acceptable to Obama, not if he ever wants to be taken seriously and treated respectfully by the Netanyahu government!</p>
<div style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;"><strong>Now is the time for the U.S. to say, “Enough is enough!” Now is the time for Israel to pay a painful price for the luxury of insulting visiting American diplomats.</strong></div>
<p>Biden responded to the insult by arriving 90 minutes late to a dinner with Netanyahu, and publicly said “I condemn the decision!” But that’s not nearly enough!</p>
<p>Netanyahu, reeling from the diplomatic uproar he had just created, claimed he was unaware that his own minister was planning on making the settlement-expansion announcement, but that won’t fly! He’s in charge, and he should take the full blunt of the blame for this shameful treatment of a loyal and generous ally – us!</p>
<p>Biden has made his anger known; now it’s President Obama’s turn! If Netanyahu and Eli Yishai thought they could insult us to the point where we walked away from the peace talks, they thought wrong! Obama and Mitchell must now demonstrate the tenacity of a pit bull. They have to slap back by getting the Netanyahu government to the peace table, even if they have to be dragged kicking and screaming.</p>
<p style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #BE0C0C;">America will not tolerate this selfish and demeaning behavior from Israel anymore!</p>
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		<title>WHERE DO THEY GO FROM HERE?  The Iraqi Parliamentary Election And The Formation Of A New Government</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news is that the Parliamentary elections finally came off in Iraq. The bad news is that voting was down from the 2009 Provincial elections, and that deadly violence continues to plague and terrorize Iraqi society. But now the true test begins! In the weeks and months ahead, the two winning alliances in this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3205" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 425px"><img class="size-full wp-image-3205" title="Electoral Workers" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/62410.jpg" alt="" width="415" height="297" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Electoral workers carry ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad on Monday, March 8, 2010. It could be Days until returls come in, and after that, months to form a government.</p></div>
<p>The good news is that the Parliamentary elections finally came off in Iraq. The bad news is that voting was down from the 2009 Provincial elections, and that deadly violence continues to plague and terrorize Iraqi society.</p>
<p>But now the true test begins! In the weeks and months ahead, the two winning alliances in this election will have to work together to form a coalition government – and the sooner the better. The longer the al-Malaki government is in limbo, and his status as prime minister is uncertain, the more time Iraq has to fragment once again.</p>
<p>Al- Malaki’s STATE OF LAW party apparently split the majority of votes with former prime minister Ayad Allawi’s secular coalition, THE IRAQI NATIONAL MOVEMENT. Al-Malaki has successfully held off the more sectarian Shiite coalition, THE NATIONAL IRAQI ALLIANCE.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>We now have the forces for democratic reform, openness and true reconciliation – Allawi’s coalition – in a strong position to wrest significant power from the corrupt and dictatorial Shiite-dominated government of Nuri al-Malaki. </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>The question thus becomes, will al-Malaki allow it? Will his Shiite government, and their supporters in the military, bow to the will of the voters or will they manufacture any excuse to suspend the democratic process and the election mandate?</p>
<p>Al-Malaki’s tenure as prime minister is very much in doubt, even within his own limited coalition. His reckless and transparent endorsement of the illegal disenfranchisement of over 500 candidates from this election made him new enemies.</p>
<div id="attachment_3206" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/080724_allawi.jpg" rel="lightbox[3203]" title="Ayad Allawi"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3206" title="Ayad Allawi" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/080724_allawi-225x150.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ayad Allawi</p></div>
<p>If the forces for peace, justice and honest government are successful, Ayad Allawi will emerge as the most respected and logical candidate for prime minister within these two coalitions.  All other arrangements and power-sharing decisions will flow from this one. Al-Malaki has accumulated much power within the office of the prime minister, and he will not give it up without a struggle, especially to Allawi, who has spoken out forcefully over the years in favor of a government free from religious dominance and influence.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>The next few weeks and months will define Iraqi democracy once and for all.  The strong showing by THE IRAQI NATIONAL MOVEMENT means that the Shiite stranglehold on power is seriously threatened. </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>We know from experience that elections alone do not guarantee democratic outcomes. The forces of tyranny can ride into power on the back of a democratic election, then undermine and corrupt that very same process so as to guarantee their lock on power.</p>
<p>The true test of any democratic election is whether or not a transition of power can take place peacefully and honestly while the institutions of government continue to function.</p>
<p>We’re going to see, for better or worse, if Iraq can accomplish that difficult but essential goal. The Shiite-dominated al-Malaki government has been in power since 2005. With this election, Sunnis in exile and within the country have joined with secular Shiites and Christians to challenge the status quo and to stake their rightful claim to share in the decision-making processes of the central government.</p>
<div id="attachment_3207" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/539wiraqelecrionsearch.jpg" rel="lightbox[3203]" title="Polling Center"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3207" title="Polling Center" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/539wiraqelecrionsearch-225x136.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="136" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A policeman frisked a man in line to vote at a polling center in Basra, Iraq. At least 38 were killed in Baghdad.</p></div>
<p>In 2005, we had thousands of troops in Iraq to guarantee an orderly transfer of power to the newly elected parliament and their new prime minister. This time around, we won’t be there in great and powerful numbers to enforce anything of a sort, which is why these coming weeks and months will be perilous.</p>
<p>This time around, Iraqis will be making all the hard but critical decisions and compromises necessary for an orderly realignment of power. If they fail in this test, and power ultimately ends up in the hands of those with the most brute force, then this experiment in Middle Eastern democracy will have failed completely.</p>
<p>If this happens, we will be held accountable.</p>
<p><strong>At GOALS FOR AMERICANS, we call on the Obama administration to apply all the influence at our disposal to insure an honest, peaceful and equitable transfer of power from the former Iraqi government to the new one to come! </strong></p>
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		<title>THE IRAQI ELECTIONS 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HOPE OR DESPAIR: The Iraqi Parliamentary Elections Are Now Upon Us “What will matter most is the acceptance by the Iraqi people of the election results.” Ad Melkert, U.N. Special Representative to Iraq Today the first voters go to the polls in Iraq in what many consider to be a make-it-or-break-it time for Iraq’s embattled [...]]]></description>
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<h2>HOPE OR DESPAIR:<br />
The Iraqi Parliamentary Elections Are Now Upon Us</h2>
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<h3><em>“What will matter most is the acceptance by the Iraqi people of the election results.”</em></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: right;">Ad Melkert, U.N. Special Representative to Iraq</h3>
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<p>Today the first voters go to the polls in Iraq in what many consider to be a make-it-or-break-it time for Iraq’s embattled attempts to move beyond sectarianism and violence.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the majority of the approximately 19 million registered voters will go to one of 50,000 polling places across the country to vote for members of Parliament that now has 325 seats up for grabs. Iraqi exiles will be able to vote as well, and that final tally could be anywhere from 300,000 to 3 million. Approximately 180,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), within the country, driven from their homes because of sectarian warfare within their communities over the past year, will also be voting.</p>
<div id="attachment_3186" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 210px"><img class="size-full wp-image-3186" title="Ad Melkert" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/admelkertm.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ad Melkert, U.N. Special Representative to Iraq</p></div>
<p><strong>We want to salute the brave men and women of the U.N. ASSISTANCE MISSION FOR IRAQ (UNAMI), especially the Electoral Assistance Office, for the tireless and dedicated work they have done in working with the Iraqi High Electoral Commission to insure a fair, honest and successful election. U.N. Special Representative to Iraq, Ad Melkert, has directed these efforts.</strong></p>
<p>The U.N. is fighting an uphill battle in this effort because this election is essentially under Iraqi control. The U.N. will have 13 teams of poll-watchers – not nearly enough with the thousands of polling places, each mandated to only handle a few hundred local registered voters. The international community will field approximately 600 monitors, and the EUROPEAN UNION will have 126 ‘observers’ in 14 provinces.</p>
<p>The Iraqi political parties and alliances will do their own monitoring. Fraud, abuse, vote-rigging and voter intimidation are expected, but on what scale remains to be seen. Violence has already increased, with the terrible bombings that occurred within the past days, targeting governmental buildings, civilians and voters on Thursday.</p>
<p>U.S. Embassy Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) have assisted the High Electoral Commission in advising and training election workers, in anticipation of this critical parliamentary election cycle. The U.S. military will stand by to assist the Iraqi security forces when help is requested, but our role and flexibility has diminished considerably since the last election. It’s a wait-and-see mission for us right now.</p>
<h2>WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE THE 2005 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS?</h2>
<div id="attachment_3189" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3189" title="Iraqis" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/iraqi-crowd-225x119.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="119" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Some Iraqis have demonstrated against what they describe as Kurdish influence in Mosul, the Capitol of the Northern province of Nineveh, and the proposed Kurdish constitution.</p></div>
<p>For better or worse, the political landscape in Iraq has changed dramatically, and this election will be historic in ways that will either be successful or disastrous! Unlike the 2005 parliamentary election, this time the Sunnis will be actively engaged, with their own parties, alliances and candidates. If this election produces a wave of fraud and corruption charges, and Sunnis decide they have been cheated out of their rightful place within the government, the Sunni-led insurgency could be re-ignited in short order, and that would most likely plunge Iraq back into the kind of sectarian warfare that terrorized the country in 2005 and 2006.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/kirkukterritories.gif" rel="lightbox[3180]" title="Kirkuk Territories"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3190" title="Kirkuk Territories" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/kirkukterritories-141x225.gif" alt="" width="141" height="225" /></a>The unresolved questions concerning KIRKUK and the disputed northern territories has disrupted the politics of Kurdistan, and greatly increased the tensions between Kurdistan and the Iraqi government. Were it not for U.S. forces in the area, most everyone believes that major clashes would have broken out between Iraqi Arab security forces and Kurdish peshmerga militias. The Kurdish vote will be unpredictable.</p>
<p>The Shiite community is now split down the middle!  Unlike 2005, when the vast majority of Shiites voted for the united alliance that won a majority in parliament and appointed al-Malaki as prime minister, this time they are lining up behind two major alliances and smaller Shiite/Sunni groups. This fracturing will prove to be critical in the coming weeks because it will insure that there are no major winners, and that new alliances must be forged before a functioning government can be formed.<br clear="left" /></p>
<div id="attachment_3184" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3184 " title="Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/nouri_al-maliki-225x225.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki</p></div>
<p>Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki has split off with his STATE OF LAW party, which is aligned with the Anbar Salvation Front, a Sunni party.</p>
<div id="attachment_3187" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 167px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3187" title="Ahmed Chalabi" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ahmad-chalabi-157x225.jpg" alt="" width="157" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ahmed Chalabi</p></div>
<p>His menacing rival is the NATIONAL IRAQI ALLIANCE, which includes the Badr Brigade, Sadrists, the Islamic Virtue Party (Fadhilah) and the nefarious opportunist, Ahmed Chalabi, the career liar who feed the Bush administration the WMD disinformation that the Bush administration used to justify the war.<br clear="left" /></p>
<div id="attachment_3188" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 211px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3188" title="Ayad Allawi" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ayad_allawi-201x225.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ayad Allawi</p></div>
<p>The greatest hope for democracy, secularism and sanity in Iraq is the IRAQ NATIONAL MOVEMENT, led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.</p>
<p>It is predicted that no alliance will win enough of a parliamentary majority to form a government. The ensuing negotiations and maneuvering will drag out for weeks and weeks if not months, which is just what happened after the 2005 elections. The civil war broke out during those months of governmental paralysis, and it could happen again!</p>
<p>This time, there won’t be thousands of U.S. forces in the cities to insure some degree of security. This time the forces of sectarian violence and intimidation will have free reign to use violence to distort and manipulate the ultimate outcome of the election.</p>
<p>If al-Malaki is rejected as the next prime minister, will he go quietly, or will he resist, thus jumpstarting a Constitutional crisis? Will the security forces back him or remain neutral? Will the Sunnis reject the election results and take up arms again?</p>
<p>This election is a watershed moment for Iraq. Their future begins right now. Will democracy survive, or will sectarian and tribal violence once again rule the day?</p>
<h2>Will 2010 be a year of hope for the Iraqi people, or a return to despair?</h2>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now you can listen to Citizen Paul&#8217;s message directly to Mr. Netanyahu! The Final Solution for Israel and Palestine can only happen with your help — but you will bring never-ending shame and sorrow to all of the Jewish people throughout the World if you do not act on this plan to demonstrate that Israel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Now you can listen to Citizen Paul&#8217;s message directly to Mr. Netanyahu!</h3>
<p><strong><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3080" title="Citizen Paul" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/citizen-paul-art-199x225.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="225" />The Final Solution for Israel and Palestine can only happen with your help — but you will bring never-ending shame and sorrow to all of the Jewish people throughout the World if you do not act on this plan to demonstrate that Israel is and can act in a Human way toward other human beings.</strong></p>
<p>As the year 2010 begins, one year into the Obama presidency, prospects for a just and sustaining resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians seem more hopeless than ever. This is the harsh reality we all face! But for the Palestinians in the West Bank and especially Gaza, this hopelessness is a slow-motion death sentence – the death of a better future!</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3079" title="Netanyahu" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/netanyahu-art-183x225.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="225" />When Obama was elected, moderate Israelis and all Palestinians in the occupied territories dared to envision the resumption of serious negotiations leading to a lasting peace, and the most audacious thought imaginable — the establishment of a Palestinian homeland. Obama represented a fresh and vigorous new beginning – a new American president who would champion the Palestinian Cause as a moral imperative.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3095" title="Olive Branch" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Olive65facingleft-80x53.jpg" alt="" width="80" height="53" />Obama represented the end of our duplicity and the beginning of our national redemption! His election represented a new beginning for Israel as well!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Obama is discovering that the generation of Israeli leaders now in power – including you, Mr. Netanyahu – lack the spiritual courage to right this historical wrong – to negotiate and conclude an honorable peace settlement with your Semitic Palestinian brothers and sisters, who are Semitic just as you are, Mr. Netanyahu. You lack the moral imagination to step out from behind your insular shield of victimhood and to see clearly and appreciate the legitimate anguish of your perceived enemies, the Palestinian people. You have sacrificed your collective humanity on the altar of entitlement. You have become inhuman and have become a disgrace to noble American Jews like Anna Baltzer who we feature in our book, and to all Americans for whom I speak.</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3080" title="Citizen Paul" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/citizen-paul-art-199x225.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="225" />Mr. Netanyahu, this has been your duplicitous history – your government’s history – right up to the present. You offer vague assurances and desires for peace that ring hollow, then crush any hope for optimism by demonstrating just the opposite. Recently you announced that 700 more apartment units would be constructed in east Jerusalem, in the three Jewish enclaves that have been relentlessly strangling the Arab neighborhoods for years.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3096" title="Olive Branch" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Olive65facingright-80x53.jpg" alt="" width="80" height="53" />The Palestinians, as you well know, claim east Jerusalem as their own, and want it for the future capital of an independent Palestine. Israel annexed the entire city following the 1967 bogus war which you started by bombing the Egyptian and Jordanian air forces on the ground when “negotiations” were still going on, in violation of international law — while a woman Mossad agent kept President Lyndon Johnson busy in her own White House bedroom while your secret prewar bombing surprise attack took place. Your successive governments have been developing, stealing and encroaching into Palestinian communities ever since.</p>
<p>This gross disrespect, and the criminal seizure of the property of your fellow Semitic Arab citizens of Jerusalem, represents the perfect metaphor for Israeli aggression throughout the West Bank. It is emblematic of your blind sense of entitlement, and complete void of honor and humanity, Mr. Netanyahu. It represents who you have been, who you are and what you stand for!</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3079" title="Netanyahu" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/netanyahu-art-183x225.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="225" />But it doesn’t have to be this way in the future, and it doesn’t have to represent your history in Israeli politics. There is another way, and there is another path for you to take as Prime Minister – a path that can bring redemption to your legacy.</p>
<p><strong>With profound hopelessness comes the opportunity for greatness – for you and the state of Israel! You can break all of us out of this cycle of despair and failure. You can provide the Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem and the West Bank with a future. You can save Israel from itself!</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3095" title="Olive Branch" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Olive65facingleft-80x53.jpg" alt="" width="80" height="53" />The subjugation and domination of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip have always been predicated on the tragically false notion that the security of Israel required it, and that your historic “religion” falsely allowed you to desecrate your humanity … by killing the native population of Palestinians whose land it really belonged to! If you should somehow succeed in this vile inhumane effort, you and Israel and yes – Jews worldwide will be damned forever more. This has been based on the inhumane and irrational notion that the Palestinian people are the natural and inevitable enemies (and inferiors) of Israel — and that you are entitled to forcibly remove them from the West Bank — and destroy them in Gaza because of your “Religion.”</p>
<p>What Religion would approve of that?</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3080" title="Citizen Paul" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/citizen-paul-art-199x225.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="225" />This fallacy – this endless tragedy – has corrupted the moral foundation of Jews and Israel worldwide for far too long. It is time for Israel to radically change course. It is time to remove this poison from your society once and for all. It is time for the Palestinians to be accorded the respect and dignity they have so long deserved. It is time for Israel to begin the road to redemption by doing all that is necessary to establish an independent Palestinian state!</p>
<p>You must belatedly accept that all human beings have Equal Rights!”*</p>
<p>As the Prime Minister of Israel, you alone are capable of moving this process forward. We understand that you would come under criticism starting with political fire from your base, the settlement community and the right wing of the Likud (formerly Irgun) Party that put you back into office. You might very well not survive politically, as fragile as your coalition is. A sincere peace and reconciliation effort on your part might quickly collapse and die under an onslaught from the opposition – from your very allies.</p>
<p>But such an effort is the one true hope if the security of Israel is to be achieved — if Israel is to have any respect throughout the world.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3096" title="Olive Branch" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Olive65facingright-80x53.jpg" alt="" width="80" height="53" />Mr. Netanyahu, you can immediately begin this process by removing the inhumane barriers and strangling restrictions that make Gaza a living hell for its impoverished residents. This deplorable situation is reminiscent of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, where Jews were surrounded, terrified and starved by the Nazis.</p>
<p>Gaza represents a grotesque contradiction to the principles that Israel and America stand for in so many other ways. The Gaza Blockade – this horrible blight on Israel’s soul – must end now, and it is within your power, Mr. Netanyahu, to do it!</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3095" title="Olive Branch" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Olive65facingleft-80x53.jpg" alt="" width="80" height="53" />End this travesty and allow humanitarian and reconstruction aid to pour into that beleaguered area. Your redemption can begin with this single act of political courage – and we will stand with you against the outcry that would surely come from within your own radical party personified by Avigdor Lieberman, your own Foreign Minister — imported from Soviet Moldova! The international community of free nations will stand by you and work with you as well.</p>
<p>Great leaders make courageous decisions that often go against the grain – decisions that shape a better future. You can be such a leader Mr. Prime Minister.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3096" title="Olive Branch" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Olive65facingright-80x53.jpg" alt="" width="80" height="53" />The ultimate security for Israel lies in your resolution of the Palestinian Question.</p>
<p>The renewal and elevation of Israel’s moral standing lies in that resolution as well.</p>
<p>Thank you for heeding what I am saying. I speak for all knowledgeable and responsible American Citizens of all Religions and Ethnicity.</p>
<hr /><em>* Please read our copy of the <a href="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/literature/human_rights-2008-09">UN Declaration of Human Rights</a>. This is what we all believe!</em></p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2031" title="Citizen Paul" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/citizenpaulsignature-225x96.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="96" /><br />
Citizen Paul, President and Founder<br />
Goals for Americans Foundation</p>
<div id="attachment_3082" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 234px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3082" title="Israeli Bomb" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/israeli-bomb-224x225.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">An Israeli shell or bomb explodes on a target in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 13, 2009.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_3081" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3081" title="Palestinian Woman" src="http://www.goalsforamericans.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/palestinian-woman-son-225x205.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="205" /><p class="wp-caption-text">A Palestinian woman holds up a portrait of her son, Nedal, one of 29 members of the Samuni family killed during Israel’s ‘Operation Cast Lead’, as UN lead investigator Richard Goldstone arrived to inspect destruction at the Samuni family home in Gaza City on June 3, 2009.</p></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We received this video from The Never Before Campaign based in Beirut, Lebanon. Through its videos, it presents an authentic picture of the horrific conditions that Palestinians must endure under Israeli occupation. Its goal is to reach people all over the world who will speak up and take action to bring peace and justice to the Palestinian people.</p>
<h3>Watch their movie Palestine: Israeli Love Song below.</h3>
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<p style="font-size:18px; line-height:1.2em; margin:0px 0px 10px 0px; padding:0px; color:#002077;"><strong>See this dynamic series of movies from Beirut Lebanon from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/neverbeforecampaign" target="_blank">The Never Before Campaign</a>.</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Oqx3gRxNY" target="_blank">Palestine: Israeli Love Song</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU5Wi2jhnW0" target="_blank">Gaza Lives On</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9esPiCxLDZk" target="_blank">Christmas in the Holy Land &#8211; 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6edg7OjLyw" target="_blank">Israeli Confessions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFI4VHp0S9w" target="_blank">An Idea Whose Time Has Come</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWGqdyFII_s" target="_blank">I Resist</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frm8xv5wuvs" target="_blank">What it&#8217;s all about</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTimj1Dc2mo" target="_blank">Shameless and Deluded</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1xN_ZSB898" target="_blank">Make the Lie Big</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dk9aCGmszY" target="_blank">I Take Justice into My Own Hands</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iplwg842mk8" target="_blank">Like Never Before</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aSBn6Qq1o0" target="_blank">Today I Stand Up</a></li>
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