Kawther Salam

Hello, welcome to my Blog, I hope that you will find it informative. Besides this Blog I also have a picture gallery with thousands of pictures relating to the occupation and many personal pictures - see under ‘Sites of Interest’ on the right side column.

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War in Iraq, war in Palestine, war in Lebanon, war in Afganistan. Shootings, killings. And the destruction of villages and cities with tons and tons of bombs. Nail bombs, chemical bombs, cluster bombs, bigger bombs, smaller bombs, fragmentation bombs, uranium bombs. Thousands of bombs made in the U.S.A and used by Israel to destroy the [...]

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About 2 weeks ago, President Bush of the U.S.A. came to Vienna. This supposedly so powerful man was so scared that he brought along with him about 1000 agents to protect him, the Austrian government provided 3000 police to protect him at a published cost of about 1 million Euro. The road to and from [...]

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We were in the western part of Zeeland, at the Brouwersdam restaurant. He hid a deep sadness within. He asked why I had not written about the official delegation from the U.S. who had visited the Netherlands after the Katrina disaster. “Always I read your reports, always I guess that your new article is about [...]

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This article was written by Isabel Olesti and originally published in spanish in the Catalunya edition of the newspaper El Pais on April 5, 2006. A scan of the original(345KB PDF file) from the print edition was provided by Pen Catalá. A shorter version of the article was posted to the El Pais site, here. [...]

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Rafida Thaer Bader, RIP
At age 3, Rafida Thaer Bader was a beautiful child. She shined like a flower in spring, the rays of the sun reflected on her blonde hair, the red of her dress gave her round face a beautiful hue. April 23, 2006 was the day [...]

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This interview with David Caminada from the newspaper Avui from Barcelona took place at the localities of the Catalan PEN Club at the Ateneu in Barcelona on March 24, 2006,, and was published in their print edition on March 28, 2006 on page 16. Avui is the main newspaper appearing in Catalan language in the [...]

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