01/12/2014
Chania, Greece, November 2014 (UNHCR)* – Nineteen-year-old Doaa al Zamel fled her home in Syria in the hope of finding safety and a better future; she ended up desperately fighting for her life in the Mediterranean Sea and losing her fiancé.
© UNHCR/L.Kolokythas | Doaa was one of only 11 survivors from a trawler rammed at sea while it was carrying more than 500 people. The 19-year-old Syrian was badly sunburned and her face still shows the marks.
She still relives the trauma of September 10, when an unidentified vessel rammed into the smuggler’s trawler that was carrying Doaa and more than 500 other people, including many women and children, who dreamed of reaching Europe. The vessel quickly sank off the east coast of Malta; there were just 11 survivors.
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01/12/2014
Human Wrongs Watch
By Uri Avnery*, November 2014, TRANSCEND Media Service
Uri Avnery
THE PRESIDENT of Israel was aghast.
Ruvi Rivlin, who was recently elected to the high but largely ceremonial post, is far from being a leftist. On the contrary, this scion of a family that has been living in Jerusalem for seven generations, believes in a Jewish state in all the country from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan river.
But Rivlin is a true liberal. When he read The Poem he was shocked to the depths of his soul. Then he remembered that the writer of this masterpiece had been invited to the President’s residence to read from his works. He was promptly disinvited.
For this the President was attacked from many quarters. How dare he? What about artistic freedom?
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 