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Posts Tagged ‘palestine’


Gaza protest in SL – conflict resolution in virtual worlds?


virtual worlds like Second Life are places, where intercultural dialogue is happening every day. In the case of the response to Israel’s Gaza offensive, targeting Hamas installations in December 2008, SL residents engaged in heated discussions on the Middle East issue and many avatars were protesting the reported human rights violations by Israeli soldiers. Draxtor [...]

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Roots of Conflict in the Middle East

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on the historical roots of modern-day conflicts in the Middle East. —– Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as part of The Long Now Foundation’s Seminars about Long-term Thinking. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. [...]

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Israeli Palestinian Conflict-Peace propaganda & the Promise Land 1/8

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites–oil, and a [...]

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(Part 1) Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict

End the bloodshed in Gaza, please sign this petition: http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_time_for_peace/?cl=161680453&v=2605 Note: this video was created by Israelis Please do not comment until you have watched the whole thing. If you fail to comply, I will just disable comments. Information: Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage [...]

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