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Frontier Fool—America’s Priceless ‘Master Bubble’
Happy May Day—and in Massachusetts, Happy Thomas Morton Day too! Here’s a hope that you’ll raise a rowdy Maypole, join hands with neighbors, kick up your dancing feet and hoist some “excellent beer”...
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58 Seconds of a Giant’s Good-Humored Humility
Not sure who’s done more in our lifetime for every kind of human freedom—So what does Noam Chomsky think he knows? Always wondered how NC would put his answer to The Question— WHAT HAVE I LEARNED? —but...
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‘Epiphany’ of Earth Mother: Sanctity, Well-Being & The Garden
In desperate and disrespectful days, acts of memory, healing and affirmation can evoke the revolutionary. Where people are demoralized—numbed beyond caring for the present, or the future—a...
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LOCKDOWN & LIBERATION (?)
Mortality is the mother of transcendent vision. When life puts us truly face-to-face with death, the scales of our workaday illusions fall from our eyes, and we realize (too often too late) what was...
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PANDEMIC & MAY DAY: REMAKING THE WORLD
How America’s first English poet pulled a vision of compassion & hope from the ruins of transatlantic “plague” Wishing you and all the best possible May Day 2020! This missive marks the...
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A New Palestinian-American Partnership Starts to Speak
Muhammad Jihad Ismael, Palestinian writer, with his son Jihad (or “JoJo”) living in Deir el Balah in The Gaza Strip Back in 2017 I published People of the Sea: A Novel of the Promised Land, about the...
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Now & Tomorrow: An Interview with Palestinian Writer Muhammad Jihad Ismael
Palestinian writer Muhammad Jihad Ismael and son Jihad or ‘JoJo’ in Deir el Balah, May 2021 Muhammad Jihad Ismael is a Palestinian living with his family in Gaza. At 36, he is a popular...
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HORIZONS OF HOPE: NEW ELECTIONS & LEADERS FOR PALESTINE
writer Muhammad Jihad Ismael of Gaza on New Palestinian Elections, Leaders & Allies (edited in English by Jack Dempsey) JD: Hello again, Muhammad. Events of early 2021 clearly worsened the lives...
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PETITION—Please Sign & Share for 3 Palestinian Steps Forward!
https://www.change.org/DemandThreeStepsForwardForPalestinianPeople Clearly, the people of Palestine need a fresh new start and point of power to negotiate a peaceful coexistence with Israel. This...
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Road of Loss, Ground of Hope
Muhammad Ismael is a writer, historian and Palestinian family man trying to survive his and their 14th year of collective imprisonment in the devastated districts of Gaza. We’ve been working together...
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VISIONS OF JUSTICE
Three Poems Introducing Palestinian Writer Saleem Al Naffar The sound of the Muslim muezzin or call to prayer resonates over the world: a voice dignified, solemn, and as expressive as a...
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WINTER IN GAZA
A Year’s Three Reports on Israeli Apartheid Have Yet to Relieve Palestinian Deprivation & Suffering by Muhammad Jihad Ismael, edited in English by Jack Dempsey Come and see how we Palestinians are...
View ArticlePALESTINIAN GAZA: RIGHT NOW, & WHAT’S NEXT
How are Palestinian families coping with Israeli apartheid and mass imprisonment—and what comes next as of Spring 2022? Hope you’ll watch, discuss and comment! PEACE!
View ArticlePALESTINIANS UP AGAINST THE WALL—Spring 2022
As The West agitates “for human rights and a people’s right to self-determination” in Ukraine, Palestinians find themselves up against seeming-impossible walls of closed-off hopes. What is to be done?...
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EVE updated: and a Cosmic Kiss?
42 years finally solve the murder of Eve Wilkowitz. Today (along with “Eve, Spring, Flowers” here at WordPress) brings her story back better online at my professional site Ancientlights— and by chance...
View ArticleENDURING DARKNESS—Palestinian Gaza April 2022
Crisis shortages of water, food, medicine, electricity for Palestinians (not far from Israeli nightclubs with swimming pools)—on top of despair and endless provocations—may compel us to ask why the...
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