The reality of Palestinian-Israeli History

"It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world through one of the most used Web 2.0 applications (Google Earth claims to have more than 350 million downloads and counting).

"... However, my happiness did not last for long when I discovered that NONE of the Palestinian refugee camps within the Occupied Palestinian Territories are published there (see map below). So, even if you 'Sit in front of your computer', with a few clicks you can 'see, hear and develop an emotional understanding of what it is like to be a refugee', but not the Palestinian refugees' experience. They don't exist!

"... It is disturbing to see such a horrible mistake (intentional or unintentional, we need to know) spread by a UN agency which claims to be taking care of refugees all around the world. The UNRWA lists the name of all the refugees camps in West Bank (19 camp) and Gaza (8 camps) and their population (West Bank 486,479, Gaza 478,272, total 964,751). Not only that, but they also have location maps for these refugees camps on their website ...

"The question is, how can UNHCR ignored a total of 27 Palestinian refugee camps in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, populated with almost one million inhabitants?

"... This is not acceptable."

Full story at source: Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on UN-Google Earth Map, By Haitham Sabbah ? Apr 11th, 2008

"... those Israelis who are mistreating the Palestinians."
-- Andrew Panken --

"... Americans never mistreated ... American Indians. All land and property in the US was properly obtained and never seized at the point of a gun from the rightful owners.
-- Andrew Panken --

"... I can't hear one word from people such as yourselves, about giving reparations to Americans who were wronged."
-- Andrew Panken --

This is a Ron Paul board. If you want to make policy, consult the campaign. What about African Americans and American Indians right here in the US who were driven off their land and enslaved. You are obsessed with Anti-Zionism. Your goal is to attach it to the Ron Paul campaign. I can't hear one word from people such as yourselves, about giving reparations to Americans who were wronged. No, you would be against that because our problems here with minority groups were settled years ago. Oh, I understand perfectly now!! American is perfect, it's just those Israelis who are mistreating the Palestinians. Americans never mistreated any Blacks or American Indians. All land and property in the US was properly obtained and never seized at the point of a gun from the rightful owners.

"If Americans Knew was originally founded by an American freelance journalist, Alison Weir*, who traveled independently throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip in February and March of 2001. Ms. Weir found a situation largely the reverse of what was being reported by the American media. Upon further examination of this issue ? she read dozens of books on the topic ? she found that the U.S. press portrayal was significantly at odds with information being reported by media throughout the rest of the world.

"Disturbed that American citizens were being misinformed and uninformed on one of the most significant issues affecting them today, and discovering the problem to be systemic, she founded an organization to be directed by Americans without bias and ethnic ties to the region who would research and actively disseminate accurate information to the American public.

"Since that time, If Americans Knew has begun producing informational materials, assisted in organizing public forums, produced media studies, and provided speakers and written materials to hundreds of venues across the United States, among them Harvard Law School, Stanford, Columbia, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, The University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University, The Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, The National Press Club, The Naval Postgraduate School, and numerous other university campuses, churches, libraries, and civic organizations in every region of the United States.

"In March of 2004, Ms. Weir was inducted into honorary membership of Phi Alpha Literary Society, founded in 1845 at Illinois College. The award cited her as a: ?Courageous journalist-lecturer on behalf of human rights. The first woman to receive an honorary membership in Phi Alpha history.?"

Source: If Americans Knew About Page.

This is a Ron Paul board. If you want to make policy, consult the campaign. What about African Americans and American Indians right here in the US who were driven off their land and enslaved. You are obsessed with Anti-Zionism. Your goal is to attach it to the Ron Paul campaign. I can't hear one word from people such as yourselves, about giving reparations to Americans who were wronged. No, you would be against that because our problems here with minority groups were settled years ago. Oh, I understand perfectly now!! American is perfect, it's just those Israelis who are mistreating the Palestinians. Americans never mistreated any Blacks or American Indians. All land and property in the US was properly obtained and never seized at the point of a gun from the rightful owners.

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