First Sign of No Change: Obama hires his Chief of Staff, by Mazin Qumsiyeh (occupied West Bank)

http://onlinejourna l.com/artman/ publish/article_ 3975.shtml

http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=14355

Action 1: Write Obama and tell him how disappointed you are that his first appointment shows no change: Demand real change! Use this link to write his transition team http://change. gov/page/ s/contact

Action 2: At 3:30 AM last night, the Israeli apartheid forces evicted a Palestinian elderly couple (Al-Kurd family) from their home in Sheikh Jarrah area of Arab East Jerusalem. They also arrested several International solidarity people who were having a continuous presence at the house to prevent such action. This after they already removed their son’s family from the neighborhood. Speak out against the continued ethnic cleansing of native Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem by writing to your media and ask Obama to get involved to stop this. To learn more about this particular area in Jerusalem, see http://www.sheikhja rrah.com and http://www.palsolid arity.org/ main/

The fourth Free Gaza boat arrived safely in Gaza but as we speak, some of the Internationals who joined Fishing boats are being subjected to attack by Israeli navy using water cannons and machine gun fire http://www.freegaza .org/

Mazin Qumsiyeh will be in the US and the first few days in December for a short visit but he is available to speak around the 5-9 December (Universal Declaration of Human Rights day, his book was subtitled Human Rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle and he has a lopt more stories to tell before returning to Palestine). For a recent report by a UN commission about Israeli violations of basic human righst in the occupied areas (and for the first time calling for sanctions), please see

http://domino. un.org/UNISPAL. nsf/361eea1cc083 01c485256cf60060 6959/67e4d253498 74535852574dc004 be8e4!OpenDocume nt

In good news, the settlers who were supposed (according to their website) to come to Ush Ghrab in Beit Sahour Sunday did not show up. IMHO, our collective previous civil resistance activities including planned ones here were significant. On this day we had dozens of children flying kites and having music etc (thanks to all the local and international volunteers). It was a sight to see at the liberated military camp (latest video http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=FnkdCPT3lPI and google videos on Ush Ghrab).

Mazin Qumsiyeh

Having ”joyful participation in the sorrows of this world”

In Beit Sahour, Palestine
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