Sign the petition !! http://www.perdana4peace.org/ Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) strongly disapproves and condemns the closure of the Rafah border. Freedom of movement is an inalienable basic human right and must never be made subservient to political considerations, particularly since Rafah Border is the only lifeline the Palestinians of Gaza have to the outside world. PGPF is therefore, shocked and appalled that the Egyptian government claims the closure of the Rafah border is necessary to prevent activity by armed militants. The closure has in fact resulted in collective punishment of the entire population of 1.7 million which is ironically the exact same treatment Palestinians are experiencing at the hands of Israel. Gaza has been dubbed the largest open prison in the world due to the blockade. Apart from the mobility for the purpose of having economic activities with neighbouring Egypt, citizens and refugees within Gaza are not able to access much needed health care. The consensus on damages of such measure is clear and overwhelming as restriction to health access violates basic human rights guaranteed by international humanitarian and human rights law. The Palestinian Minister of Health in Gaza reported that hospitals throughout the Gaza Strip are running dangerously low on lifesaving medications and equipment. A report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revealed that Egypt’s security concerns have managed to limit education of Palestinians wishing to study abroad. Electricity production of a Gaza power plant is at risk of shutting down operations due to a trickling effect of fuel shortage coming from Egypt. "An estimated 600,000 people within the Gaza Strip may not have access to adequate and safe water and sanitation services as a result of increased power outages and lack of fuel," stated the report. For the sake of peace and humanity, the Palestinians of Gaza must be allowed to travel. PGPF calls upon all to join this movement to pressure the Egyptian government to reopen the border permanently. The following has been demarcated by the international community in support of opening borders between Gaza and Egypt: 1) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 13 affirms: "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and return to his country." 2) The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [Article 5 (d)(ii)], states: "State parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination on all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, color, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of ... the right to leave any country, including one's own, and to return to one's country." 3) The International Convention on Civil and Political Rights [Article 12(4)], states: "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter his own country." The continuing acts of 'genocide' against the Palestinians continue. It is unconscionable to remain silent. We call upon all people of conscience to unite & condemn this heinous act of modern day barbarism. We appeal to you to sign this petition and disseminate it to everyone.

Travelling in united states for a month on the road makes me feel like bani israeli as when ever i wish for food, I see readymade food in shape of mcdonalds, burger king, wendys, Taco bell and kfc but now I am praying for garlic, onion and spicy filled desi food. Rehan Allahwala

A great post by Anwer Mansur WHY SECTARIAN VIOLENCE ALL AROUND THE MUSLIM WORLD THESE DAYS? In recent years the Muslim world is going through an extreme wave of sectarian violence. Ruthless killings of innocent people from one sect to another, each sect calling other sect “non-Muslim”, each sect call themselves, either Sunni, Shia, Deo Bandi, Barelvi, Wahabi and so on. It is hard to keep even a track of all of these sects. What we do not hear is these words “I am a Muslim, a Submitter to God alone and I follow only one teaching of God alone, which is Quran. Non sense killing of other human beings without provocation is a gross sin. The only killing justified is in the course of war where people could not practice their religion freely and are being oppressed, and only if the other part has aggressed against the believers. Under no other circumstances a murder of an innocent person is justified. Quran: [5:32] Because of this, we decreed for the Children of Israel that anyone who murders any person who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people. And anyone who spares a life it shall be as if he spared the lives of all the people. Our messengers went to them with clear proofs and revelations, but most of them, after all this, are still transgressing. Not having the knowledge of Quran in Muslims lives is the main cause of these horrendous crimes being committed by so called Muslim Ummah. They are not following God’s laws, they are following only conjecture,. The most important Book for this humanity has been kept on shelves and to be recited in Arabic alone like a parrot, without understanding anything. GOD CALLS SECTS NON-MULIMS IN QURAN [6:159] Those who divide themselves into sects do not belong with you. Their judgment rests with GOD, then He will inform them of everything they had done. [30:32] (Do not fall in idol worship,) like those who divide their religion into sects; each party rejoicing with what they have. [42:14] Ironically, they broke up into sects only after the knowledge had come to them, due to jealousy and resentment among themselves. If it were not for a predetermined decision from your Lord to respite them for a definite interim, they would have been judged immediately. Indeed, the later generations who inherited the scripture are full of doubts.

Dear friends from Pakistan, in absolute numbers, you have more people connected to internet then Israel, we all have access these days to knowledge and information, a huge revolution is taking place in 3D printing that will totally changing the world of production. Its up to you, each individual with connection to the internet to become a world expert in this field!! start with learning how to design in 3D, there are free softwares and plenty of great tutorials on Youtube. I have learned to master the 3D software Sketchup by myself in three weeks! I'm sure you can do it as well, don't wait for anyone to support you, take the initiative! lead the revolution! learn and adopt this new technology, all the knowledge is there just waiting for you to master it!! God bless you! My name is Arnon Katz and I am from #Israel

I condem the Killing of the 3 Israeli Children, I appreciate Hamas codemings the same. Let's use this opportunity to sit down & collaborate for coexistence of our childrens. # InstituteofPeace.org

Are jews choosen people ? - By Rabbi Gershon Steinberg-Caudill By Rabbi Gershon Winkler Regarding the question about the Jews claiming to be the chosen people, and how that has led to antisemitism: my feeling is that we never claimed to the world to be the chosen people. We claimed it to ourselves, no less and no more than did the Celts claim that they were the chosen ones, or the Hopi Indians, or the Lakota Sioux or the Egyptians, or the Greeks. It is not our fault that Christianity TOOK our personal diary from us and published it all over the world. It is the early Church in its claim to be the only true religion that used our scriptures to prove this by quoting about how we were chosen by God, so that by replacing us, they became automatically the NEWLY chosen ones. But we Jews never publicized to the world that God had chosen us over any other. On the contrary, throughout the Tenakh we were reminded again and again that we are not THE chosen people, but A chosen people, meaning a people chosen amongst many others. Here are a few examples from the Tenakh, the private diary of the Jewish people: "In that day shall Israel be third alongside Egypt and Assyria, as a blessing on earth; for God will bless them, saying: 'Blessed be my people Egypt, my handiwork Assyria, and my inheritance Israel'" (Isaiah 19:24). "Are you not just like the Children of the Ethiopians unto me, O Children of Israel? Did I not bring out Israel from the Land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caf'tor, and Aram from Kir?" (Amos 9:7). From the Talmud: "It is written, 'There never again arose among the Israelites a prophet as great as Moses' (Deuteronomy 34:10) --among the Israelites there never again arose a prophet as great as Moses, but amongst other peoples, it is certainly probable!" (Midrash Bamid'bar Rabbah 14:19). Martin Buber put it this way: "As a historical people, Israel enjoys no precedence over any other. Like Israel, the other peoples were all wanderers and settlers; they came 'up' from a land of want and servitude into their present homeland. The one God, the Redeemer and Leader of the peoples, strode before all of them upon their way -- even the hostile neighboring peoples -- protecting them by His might. He guided their steps, gave them power, let them 'inherit' the soil of a people that had been ruined by its sins and abandoned by history." (From "Martin Buber On the Bible", edited by N. Glatzer [Schocken Books, 1982], p. 80). I believe that we believe that God does not discriminate between one people and another. That God loves the Palestinians as much as [God loves] the Israelis. Sort of like a mother who writes six letters to her six children, and in each letter she writes "You are my favorite. I love you more than anything in the world!" This is why we never went out missionizing to people. We believed every-one had their own divine revelation and each their path is sacred as long as they don't use it to destroy others. A tzadik (righteous person), the Talmud teaches, is not someone who is a holy Jew, but someone of ANY faith or [ANY] people who is righteous by their actions. A tzadik is not determined by belief or religious affiliation but by how they live their life. So, no we are not any more chosen than the aboriginals of Australia. We are equally chosen. And when we say "asher bachar ba'nu mee'kol ha'ameem" (who chose in us from all the nations) we mean that we thank God for choosing us, too, from among all the other nations, meaning from among all those other peoples who were chosen long before we were. Of course the average traditional Jew will think about this differently. I believe that is because we have as a people been persecuted for so long that our religious teachers kept impressing upon us how precious we were to God in order to lift up our downtrodden spirits. A people oppressed for close to two thousand years needs to hear that they are important, chosen, the highest of the high. But theologically it is totally incorrect. We are different than most, yes. But we are not more important to God than most. God likes us because we are funny. We gave the world more comedians than anyone else. We are not hated because we claim to be chosen. We are hated because of the venom spread against us by the New Testament story of the Jews calling for the crucifixion of Jesus, which has been proven again and again as historically and theologically fictitious, but it is already a poison well-entrenched in every-one influenced by the Church, whether Christian or not, which is practically the entire world today. I think another factor of this chosen people problem is not anything we say or said to the world as much as what the world assumes we say about ourselves or think about ourselves, because the world sees us as uncompromising, tenaciously clinging to our peculiar and often politically-incorrect ways, even when those ways clash with the rest of the world. We have always been different, and always refused to conform to the religious and cultural ways of those who have conquered us, whether Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Christian, etc. which led them to assume that we thought ourselves special. Why don't the Jews give in? They couldn't understand it. Everyone else who was conquered adopted the conqueror's ways. Everyone but the Jews. Which may naturally lead people to think that we think we are too special, chosen by God or the gods. Our crime was our stubborn refusal to compromise our beliefs and our ways, and so we chose death more often than any other conquered people, rather than conform or convert. Our crime was not our claim to be chosen. Our crime was our claim to the right to believe as we wished. And for that we have paid dearly.

#Gaza is being attacked by #Israel - Make a facebook friend in Israel on Facebook or Twitter & ask them why !!

Looking for country manager for #Elance in Israel and for Palestine

So Palestinian and Israeli want Peace ! - What does this peace looks like to you ?

Imagine there is peace in Palestinians and Israel. Now please add 10 israeli and 10 Palestinian on your facebook and give each other a hug.