Today (December 31, 2010) is the last day of 2010. There are now 3 hours and 40 minutes left in this year. Often people make New Years resolutions such as wanting to do better in school or excersize more. My New Years resolutions are to keep my room clean and to be more organised in school and at home. It's strange to think that this time tomorrow will be 2011!

Crazy Christmas lights!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0s3sQt-mmA&feature=related

holiday song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeJgDpixjqc

Dear Jonah and Ronan,

today in journalism we decided that we would be doing holiday hobits. Robin and Desiree will be participating. please bring in a present for the pool. it should be something that you got and never really liked. everyone will be getting a number for the order that you pick a present from the pool. i emailed you but im not sure if it got to you. thank you! i hope this reaches you.

-sammy

banned books

click here

and

here

http://www.highlands.edu/academics/library/banned/books.htm
http://www.abffe.com/

Banned Books

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/29/the-11-most-surprising-ba_n_515381.html#s76417

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

This is a good place for banned books.

Banned and Challenged Books:
100 most challenged books
another 100 most challenged books
another 100 most challenged books
These are some links to the 100 most challenged books, I don't know how reliable they are.
Sophia

banned books

http://hunch.com/banned-books/?SEMref=google&kw=banned%20books&gclid=CMiRu_X44aUCFUmo4AodnQqQ2A

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html

Banned Books

http://www.banned-books.com

This website is really good for finding banned books!!

lucy sophia and sammy

here is a good blog about Bonnie's banned reviews. it is really cool

Where's Waldo

After researching why the book Where's Waldo was banned, i found it was because on one page, showing a beach, you can see several women with no shirts on.

A Light in the Attic

I had no idea why a light in the attic was banned. this is the reason. it seems kind of stupid, especially the supernatural part. I dont understand why good book like these were banned because some people think that they portrayed something inappropriate.

Attempts have been made to ban the book from some libraries, parents claiming that the poem "How Not To Have To Dry The Dishes" encourages messiness and disobedience.^[1] The poem "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" led to more criticism for describing the death of a girl after her parents refuse to buy her a pony. This led the book to be banned by the Fruitland Park Elementary School in Lake County, Florida.^[2] The decision, however, was later reversed by an advisory committee of parents and teachers.^[3] Other complaints included the mention of supernatural themes, including demons, devils, and ghosts.^[3]

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Light_in_the_Attic

Reason's why books were banned

the reason "where's waldo?" was banned is because some person saw a woman's breast in one of the picture's also adding to what ronan said about "where the wild things are" it was banned for really no reason in paticular people just they just kinda didn't like it some the reasons people listed was the way max threw a tantrume and that his mom sent him to bed without dinner and people considered that to be cruel also just the way that he went to the island and was really wild with all the creatures.

where the wild things are

i think the reason my book was banned was because max revolts against his mother

Pinkerton, Behave!

I also did the book Pinkerton, Behave! Which I couldn't find anything that said that it was banned but it did say it was challenged for being a little to graphic because a burglar comes into Pinkertons house and puts a gun to a little girls head.

When I researched the reasons that Babar was banned I found that most people said it was becaues of racism. I also found that I tended to agree more with the people commenting on the website then the authors (such as the person who said the Little House on the Prairie was "absolutely based on the author’s personal happenings" wich is the point of the story). I think that the people who challenge these books are either over protective parents or have some personal reason for wanting books banned.

We found out that the thing that all of the books we read had in common were that they all have been banned from libraries (not necessairly from all libraries). I read The Story of Babar which doesn't seem like it should be banned. I think that the reason it was banned might be because it inplies that after living in the city Babar is better that the other elephants and because two elephants died (Babar's mom and the king of elephants).

The Family Book

It was banned because it showed young children many ways of being different. one of them was showing little children about family's maybe having either, 2 Mommy's, Or 2 Daddy's.

where the wild things are

where the wild things are is about a boy whose room turns into a forest with creatures that have amp just like him

To Kill a Mockingbird

I know we are talking about picture books that have been banned but one novel that I really love is To Kill a Mockingbird which was banned from being read by high school students because of racism which I think is a little ridiculous because I know a lot of people that are like 12 that have read it and it's my favorite book in the world!!

The Giving Tree

Another book, another one that I loved, was The Giving Tree, by Shell Silverstein. It was banned for the same reason the Lorax was.

The Lorax

The book that I was assigned to read was the Lorax, by Dr. Suess. This was a book that was banned for a ridiculous reason. I had no idea why, and i thought about it for a while. I researched why it was banned and it was banned in many parts of the US, but mostly in California because it was about "criminalizing the forestry industry." Which I think is absurd. But hey, all it takes is one persons opinion.

Ok so I was wrong about why my book was banned. It turns out its partly because it supposedly gave kids nightmares and the other reason is because it at one point portrays police as pigs.

So today we found out how all those books are related and it turns out it because all of them were banned from at least one library. I did two books my first one was Sylvester and the Magic Pebble I think that it was banned because the story may be to scary and sad for young kids.

Why The Rabbit's Wedding was banned.

The Rabbit's Wedding was banned because it was felt that it encouraged and had a theme of innterracial marrige. It was published in 1958. It created controversy. It was removed from the alabama public library system.

Why I think that The Rabbit's Wedding was banned.

I think that The Rabbit's Wedding was banned because it was about a white rabbit and a black rabbit getting married. The book was written before the Civil Rights Movements so a black and white couple could not get married in some states. I do not think that it should have been banned.

The Rabbits Wedding

This book is about two rabbits that play together in the meadows every day. One of them is black and one of them is white. The black rabbit stops their games and looks sad and the white rabbit says what's the matter? and the black rabbit says that he is just thinking. And then the black rabbit says that he wishes that the white rabbit was all his. And they deside that they would be each others forever and always. And they get married. And the last line of the story is "And the little black rabbit never looked sad again." It is written and illustrated by Garth Williams. I think that it was a sweet, charming and lovely story book.

The amazing bone

the amazing bone is about a piglet who one day after school instead of going home decides to go hangout in the woods and while she's in the woods she a bone starts talking to her and she picks up and so starts and adventure of her the bone making there way home on her journy she encounters robber's and a sleazy fox

RONAN BARRY

yo every one this is ronan,


His height is 5"3" he was eleven when we did this interview but now he's twelve he is 95 pounds. for hobbies, sports or his freetime in general he likes sleeping. the weirdest thing he's done is shoot right next to a squirls tail to scare it up a tree. he's lived in wood stock since he was born. he doesn't know which person he admires most or why. he thinks love is more important than money. he doesn't know what he'll be doing when he's thirty years old. he hopes to get a good job. he doesn't know which animal he would want to be. and that is ronan for you.

In The Night Kitchen

This short picture book by Maurice Sendak depicting a small child, Mickey who is mistaken for milk, in a world of his dreams where everything is monstrous, and baked into a cake. In the end of the book, in which Mickey is completely naked, he get the milk out of the jug and pours into the batter. He ends up in bed because it is all just a dream.

Today in Journalism we had a bunch of books that all had something in common and we don't know what it is. This book is one of them.

In journalism we are working with Robin. So today she read us a bunch of different books that all relate somehow but they didn't tell us how. Then she put a bunch of other books in a pile and then we had to choose one and read it. My book is Sylvester and the Magic Pebble which is about a young donkey who find a magic pebble and then accidentally turns himself into a rock and has to figure out how to turn back into a donkey.

In journalism we are going to be working with Robin to combine our journalism class with the library. Today we started by reading books with a common theme and trying to figure out what the theme was (so far no one figured out what the theme was). We read some books as a class and then each read our own book. The book I was reading was The Story of Babar (about an elaphant named Babar, who after his mother dies goes to the city where he meets an old lady and goes to school then goes back to the jungle to rule over the other elephants after the lod king dies). Tomorrow I belive we are going to discuess this more and talk about the theme that all the books have in common.

Tessa
Tessa is thirteen years old and doen’t know her height or weight. She likes to “sing dance act and ice skate”, though she said that “I do not have free time”. Tessa tries not be weird. Before living in Woodstock were she has lived for six years, Tessa lived in Brooklyn. Tessa admires her cousins Celeste and Celina because “ they are very kind and they listen to her”. Tessa says she “barely cares about money and she wants to fall in love one day” so love is more important to her than money. By the time she is thirty Tessa hopes to be raising her children. Tessa says that she hopes the “get all A’s in school so that I can have a social life”. And that is Tessa.

Meet Lily!

Lily is a 5’ 3” twelve year old.  Her favorite hobbies are playing soccer, reading, and playing any kind of sport. When she is 30 she hopes to be married and doing something that she loves. She also hopes to go to college. The people that she admires most are her brothers. Sometimes she does weird things like prank calling people on two different phones and putting them on speaker so that they could hear each other. They were arguing about who called because they didn’t know it was a prank. If Lily were an animal, she would be a dog because she likes dogs even though she is allergic to their fur.

Thanksgiving

Since I was sick and didn't know about this homework I am gonna do it now.

Every Thanksgiving I am at my moms house. In the morning my brothers and me and my mom watch the parade and then after we start to cook. Basically we cook all day and then we eat and my dad usually comes at some point during the day. Sometimes my Grandfather comes up from New York City to visit. This year my mom, my brothers and I are going to the city to visit my grandfather and his apartment is right on the parade route so we get to see it when its happening!!

Sammy

Sammy is 12 years old and she is around 5 feet tall. Sammy likes to play soccer, cook, ride horses, listen to music and read. The weirdest thing that she has ever done is jump of a cliff because she wanted to take a risk.  Sammy admires her dad just because he is her dad. When asked whether she thinks love or money is more important she said love because there would be no money without love. Sammy hopes that when she is thirty years old she will own a bakery that she wants to call Sunrise Bakery. She also hopes that she will be able to go to college when she is older. The animal that Sammy would be is a Zebra because they are her favorite. And that's Sammy!

Chogyi

Chogyi is 12 years old, he is 103.9 pounds and he is 5 feet 1 inches tall. His interests include wearing hats, skateboarding. snow boarding, b-ball, bombing, facebook, eating, prank calling, making out with chicks, wake boarding, football and a lot of other things. The weirdest thing he has ever done is knocking on a person's door, waiting until the answer and then throwing eggs at them.  His role model is Mike Mo Capaldi. When i asked him the question what do you think is more important money or love, he said love. In 30 years chogyi says he thinks he'll be skateboarding and he want so win the lotto. If chogyi had to choose 1 animal to be, he would choose a human. Thats chogyi for you!

Thanksgiving

Ever year for thanksgiving, we have family visit. I sit upstairs and watch football the entire time.

Thanksgiving

Every year, me and my family have a big dinner and invite like 15 people over to our house. Family, friends, everything. My mom and dad cook, (yum), we have a big turkey. And we watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving every year.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068359/

http://abc.go.com/shows/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving/

THANKS GIVING

Ok do to me messing up on a couple of the links I'm just gonna write what I do for thanksgiving.
usually me and my family go to my grandparents house and somtimes my cousins go to and we eat thanksgiving dinner and spend the night there.

THANKS GIVING

… that’s the days until November 25th – Thanksgiving 2010.

thanks giving

http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=woodstockhomeschoolers&sort=relevance

Thanksgiving

On thanksgiving it all changes i mostly have a big meal and watch tv

Thanksgiving:
On Thanksgiving my family goes to one of my grandparents house, it rotates every year. My family, my grandparents, my aunt, and sometimes our friends spend Thanksgiving with us. We usally turkey (I am a vegatarian so I don't eat much of this), quiche, potatoes, pie along with other dishes. Last year my family ran in a 5K in New Plaltz, which we are going to do again this year.

http://www.newpaltzturkeytrot.com/

Thanksgiving traditions

Every year when i was little we used to go to Mahopac to eat dinner with my Aunt. She would gather up her two older kids and we would all eat a delicious dinner on a table clothe that everyone signed every year. It was always a great way to spend Thanksgiving until the year my aunt decided to go on a cruise. We were all uncertain of what to do. I don't really like to break traditions so it was a very new thing to have to do something else. we went up to Lake George the first year and for a couple of years after that. Last year we went to a house in Killington VT and we spent Thanksgiving there. It was great, My aunt came up afterwards and spent the day after thanksgiving with us. This year my parents wanted to go to the JETS game but i like to cook so i convinced them to go up to VT.

I have a Great Aunt named Julia and when my dad was little she used to make potato balls for thanksgiving. My mom got the recipe so now every year we scoop mashed potatoes into balls and bread and fry them(Sometimes we add a little cheese!). they are the best and least healthy food ever. My mom always tries out a new kind of turkey that we don't really dig into until the day after with the leftover stuffing and two good slices of bread. Yuuuum.

I love thanksgiving because you get to sit around and appreciate the fact that you can eat all the wonderful food. it is my favorite holiday. It wouldn't be the same without all the food and family. I have everything that i could want. What cant i be thankful for?

Thanksgiving

What I am doing this Thanksgiving List:

1. My family is going to our family friends Marianna and Mimi's house in Connecticut. Their daughter is named Helena. She is 6 and is my sister Frida's friend. We will be eating a turkey (yay!) and some kind of vegetable stir-fry that Marianna will make. Most of my family are vegetarians, only my dad and I are not. This may be my first time eating a Thanksgiving turkey. I want to help make the turkey. I will make a pumpkin pie/and or a apple pie and sweet cornbread. Every year we have a big feast for dinner and then we talk and spend time together. I make all the children that are around make a list of what they are thankful for. I am the thankful police and by Thanksgiving we are already in the Christmas spirit and so they write thankful letters happily and then play. This is our first time going to Mimi and Marianna's for Thanksgiving. Usually we do it with our other friends Elizabeth (my mothers friend) and Marco (my friend.) We watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade from their big windows in the living room while eating breakfast (scones,muffins). We have not for a few years though. Other times we go to my Aunt Sandra's (and Greta's) house in Putnam County. Sometime my grandmother is there, and her twin sister, Aunt Louise. Usually Aunt Pamela, and her daughters Celeste and Celina are there. The kitchen is occupied all day. There is a big meal with the good china and memories and thankfulness and family. On the TV we watch the parade in our pajamas and I see my couisins! I have to go.....I must stop writing!

TRIPPY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5i7t2v07Is&NR=1

idk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htP53EwTbjg&feature=related

rambow horror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDkiE_rTCSs&feature=related

billionare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw

PEOPLE have problems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSE

Somewhere Someone…

Somewhere someone…

Is walking 5 miles for

Water from a well.

You are lucky my friend.

Oh

Yes you are.

Somewhere Someone…

Is harvesting all their food

They planted themselves

Hoping

It’s enough

You are lucky my friend.

Oh

Yes you are.

Somewhere Someone…

Is building their house out of mud

And all sorts

At midday

You are lucky my friend.

Oh

Yes you are.

Somewhere Someone…

Is just about your age

Younger than 10

Cooking dinner and lunch

If they have enough food for that today

You are lucky my friend.

Oh

Yes you are.

Harvesting, Getting water

Building their houses and more.

Yet so different

Yet so same

We are equal

Hand in hand

And for the last time

I will say

You are lucky my friend.

Oh

Yes you are.

-anonymous

Isn't this great?

awesomeness

Ham

Cat Costume

This is my sister at four years old (the same year I was 6).

Princess Costume

This was my Halloween costume when I was 6 years old.

Questions for our student teacher blog post

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS:
What class are you in?
What grade is this?
Who is your teacher?
What are you working on?
Why are you doing this?
What do you want to tell the universe?

my type of halloween YAYUH

that must have been fun

devil cows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY

gummy bear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJnD-P7Gfs4

Cute Pictures

Here are some very cute baby / toddler costumes!

Cutest Nacho Libre Ever!!!

This little boy is so cute!

Here is a picture of a pumpkin.

Halloween Prank

http://www.whatishalloween.com/pranks.php this link is gonna be funny because someone gets pranked but remember kids it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt... then it's just funny

Halloween

Top Halloween Costumes

Most cruel costume EVAR!

This costume is easily the most cruel I've ever seen, but at the same time its almost funny.

Halloween costumes

here is where I get all my halloween costume ideas!

Halloween Cookies

Here is a link to allrecipes.com on a page about Halloween Cookies. If I could I would make many cookies and Halloween treats this year and here are some good recipies.

http://allrecipes.com//HowTo/halloween-cookies/Detail.aspx

Halloween

This video is so adorable!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKgdnkZ61c

And this site has really cool costumes http://www.extremehalloween.com/tophalloween.htm

Halloween Costumes For Dogs

These are links to websites were you can buy Halloween costumes for dogs. They are not exactly scarry but they are Halloween realated.

http://www.spoiledrottendoggies.com/costumes.htm

http://www.ohmydogsupplies.com/dog-supplies/dog-costumes/

do you think people go too far with halloween decorations?

this is a picture of a house covered in halloween
decorations:
I think that people spend too much money on stupid decorations on your front yard that will only stay there for a few days.

i felt like it

me skateboarding agian

video of me cuz i was bored

blaaahhhh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

Meh, i was bored

A stop motion film,

POEM

every place has death

but the death in this place

is alive

and when people die

they don’t just

die

they only

become

not alive

-lucy

is facebook too addicting?

http://models.king.net/video/Addicted-To-Facebook


I think this is relevant to people our age because about everyone in the journalism class has a facebook and its starting to get really addictive

noob

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/06/texas.execution.probe/index.html

noob

For the Love of Mathematics

This is an article that my "papa" wrote for the news paper of which he is editor Las Noticias. I know that you wont read it but this is the only thing I could think of to post as a link. Thank you Sammy for helping me put it as a link.
http://www.lasnoticiasny.com/articles/2010/10/06/comunidad/doc4cacee4f1d7bd487053172.txt

For the love of mathematics


Compiled by Antonio Flores-Lobos News

OK, OK it is understood that not many are fans of mathematics, and some even fear they have. For some students, the kind of "mate" is the one that gives them headaches. But that has to be, because the math teacher at Bard College, Japheth Wood (arrives) and a team of future teachers of mathematics at the university mentioned, have brought "The Math Circle" in Kingston, to transform mathematics in a fun activity for everyone, especially for students in 5th through 8th graders. The meetings of the Circle are the second Saturday of the month, from 1 to 3 pm, at the Kingston Library, located at 55 Franklin Street. The next meetings of the "Circle" are on Saturday October 9, 1913 December and 11 December.

The Math Circle Bard College is an educational program of enrichment to promote interest in mathematics among students in elementary, middle and high schools. Wood Master, and his team work with interesting problems and issues not typical, Puzzles, games, math problems, and activities! So you know, do not let your child have anxiety with mathematics, do not let it fail the exams at one of the most important kinds of education. More information by contacting the Master Wood via e-mail: jwood@bard.edu>.

Listen

Read phonetically

Article

this article is relevant to kids because most kids have always wanted their to be life on other planets.

Relevant Artical

I think that this article is relevant to kids our age because we are in to technology and most of us have had or has a iPod, which is from the company apple, and there company is expanding and with the new iPod touch, you can have games, video chat a camera and internet all in one! It's pretty cool!

Click here for apple news!

And here!

Here is the link I found for homework. It has to do with kids our age because if you really want a cell phone and you're our age but the bills are too high then you can change you i pod touch into a phone in wi-fi. It saves you a lot of money and it has a good service. We are also the new generation with all the technology and a lot of us have phones or i pods.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/turn-an-ipod-into-an-iphone/?src=me&ref=general

La Opinion

By Antonio Flores-Lobos
News Editor
The massacres, wars between Jews and Muslims by the piece of land called Palestine and Israel, surely will continue for generations, thanks in large part to the intransigence of Israel and the weakness of the United States to say no to state Jewish.

The Israelis can not understand that in signing a long and genuine peace, the "Holy Land", especially Jeruzalem, must be shared between Muslims and Jews. It's that simple! Not to recognize the undeniable right of the parties, Israelis, Palestinians and Americans will be plowing in the sea.

The latest negotiations are on track to fail because Israel continues to build Jewish settlements on land that belongs to the Palestinians.

The policy of the United States government with regard to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is kidnapped by the "Lobby" Jew in this country. And therefore, the United States keeps sending billions of dollars in loans that, in most cases, Israel did not have to pay. This money is used, directly or indirectly to finance the settlements themselves which are boycotting the "negotiations" for peace.

For illusions that there will be peace in Israel and Palestine, or the Middle East, if you are not negotiating in good faith, is not negotiating with any Palestinian. The Palestinian Authority is not the government of the Palestinians. To negotiate seriously, you have to include the Hamas government which was elected in the polls, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Peace is negotiated with enemies, not friends.

It is a shame to lose let opportunity after opportunity, because the common people of both sides of the Israeli wall crying out for peace. Nobody wants their children grow up in a state of war and uncertainty.

The Jews have been persecuted and for many centuries and the Palestinians have seen their land occupied and for several decades. Where are the thought-leaders that are indexed to display a real peace.

The Middle East is a powder keg that can explode if politicians do not solve the conflict. In recent days the Atomic Energy Agency, the UN approved of (reluctantly) a resolution that Israel did not have that cliff to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which would have forced the Jewish state to reveal the nuclear arsenal that the community International thinks he has.

United States, by tradition, (or because it is forced) supports keeping secret Israeli nuclear weapons, while invading countries (read Iraq) in search of "weapons of mass destruction, or threat to Iran, saying it has all cards on the table, including bombing and invasion if the country persists not desist from continuing its nuclear program ... which, according to the "ayatollahs" is for peaceful purposes.

Not be amiss to say that negotiations with Iran, including negotiations with the Palestinians, are not being conducted in earnest, or goodwill.

A negotiation should include something for every part of the conflict. But if the Palestinians do not get their independent state, free of Jewish settlements will be very difficult to reach peace.

In the case of Iran, which is surrounded by Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey and the Persian Gulf, areas where the United States has countless military bases, where their ships and aircraft walk around with the most sophisticated arsenal (nuclear or no), there is a legitimate safety concern pore.

2-sided policy of the United States, to tell Iran not manufacturing a nuclear bomb, while helping to finance (or conceal) the Israeli nuclear arsenal does not work now, nor work in the future.

It's time to create a realistic, neutral and without government interference or "lobby" of Israel. Otherwise, continue on the same, or rather worse, because no one eternindad occupation lasts, no one who's staying power. Amen!

Antonio Flores-Lobos is the editor of "The News." Contact him at (845) 331-5000, Extension 412 / 79 Hurley Avenue, Kingston, NY 12401 / Aflores-Lobos@Freemanonline.com

cool music vido for kids our age

here is a cool music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1uUQmAynP0

Paz en Israel ... Medio Oriente, que va?

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Por Antonio Flores-Lobos
Editor de Las Noticias

Las matanzas, guerras entre judíos y musulmanes por el pedacito de tierra, llamado Palestina e Israel, con seguridad van a continuar por generaciones, gracias, en gran parte, a la intransigencia de Israel y la debilidad de los Estados Unidos para decir NO al estado judío.

Los israelies no pueden comprender que para firmar una paz larga y verdadera, la llamada “Tierra Santa”, sobre todo Jeruzalem, debe de ser compartida entre musulmanes y judíos. Asi de sencillo! De no reconocer ese inegable derecho de ambas partes, israelies, palestinos y estadounidenses estarán arando en el mar.

Las últimas negociaciones van rumbo al fracaso porque Israel sigue construyendo asentamientos judios en la tierra que le corresponde a los Palestinos.

La política del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, con respecto al conflicto israelí-palestino, sigue secuestrada por el “Lobby” judío de este país. Y por lo tanto, Estados Unidos se mantiene enviando billones de dólares en prestamos que, en la mayoría de los casos, Israel no tiene que pagar. Este dinero se usa, directa o indirectamente para financiar los mismos asentamientos que están boicoteando las “negociaciones” de paz.

Para que ilusionarse de que va a haber paz en Israel y Palestina, o en el Medio Oriente, si no se está negociando de buena fe, no se está negociando con toda Palestina. La Autoridad Palestina no es el gobierno de todos los palestinos. Para negociar con seriedad, se tienen que incluír al gobierno de Hamas, el cual fue electo en las urnas, por los palestinos de la Franja de Gaza. La paz se negocia con los enemigos, no con los amigos.

Es una lástima que se deje perder oportunidad, tras oportunidad, porque la gente común de ambos lado del muro israelí claman por la paz. Nadie quiere crecer a sus hijos en un estado de guerra, de incertidumbre.

Los judíos han sido perseguidos ya por muchos siglos y los palestinos han visto su tierra ocupada ya por varias décadas. En donde están los líderes pensantes que puden visualizar una paz verdadera.

El Medio Oriente es un polvorín que puede explotar si los políticos no solucionan el conflicto. En días recientes las Agencia de la Energía Atómica de la ONU aprovó (a regañadientes) una resolución para que Israel no tuviera que aderirse al Tratado de No Proliferacíon de Armas Nucleares, cosa que hubiera forzado al estado judío a revelar el arsenal nuclear que la comunidad internacional cree que tiene.

Estados Unidos, por tradición, (o porque es forzado) apoya el mantener en secreto las armas nucleares de Israel, mientras invade paises (léase Irak) en busca de las “armas de destrucción masiva”, o amenaza a Irán, argumentando que tiene todas las cartas sobre la mesa, incluyendo bombardeo e invasion, si el país pérsa no desiste de continuar con su programa nuclear ... el cual, según los los “ayatolas”, es para fines pacíficos.

No está por demás decir que las negociaciones con Irán, como las negociaciones con los palestinos, no están siendo conducidas con seriedad, ni buena voluntad.

Una negociación debe de incluir algo para cada parte del conflicto. Pero si los Palestinos no obtienen su estado independiente, libre de asentamientos judíos, va a ser muy dificil que se llegue a la paz.

En el caso de Irán, que está rodeado por Afganistán, Paquistán, Kuwait, Irak, Turquia y el Golfo Pérsico, áreas en donde los Estados Unidos tiene inumerables bases militares y donde sus barcos y aviones se pasean con el más sofisticados arsenal (nuclear o no), hay una legítima preocupación poro su seguridad.

La política de 2 caras de Estados Unidos, de decirle a Irán que que no fabrique su bomba nuclear, mientras ayuda a financiar (o encubrir) el arsenal nuclear israelí, no funciona ahora, ni funcionará en el futuro.

Es hora de crear una política realista, neutral y sin interferencias del gobierno o “lobby” israelí. De otra manera, seguiremos en las mismas, o mejor dicho peor, porque no hay ocupación que dure una eternindad, ni nadie quién la aguante. Amén!

Antonio Flores-Lobos es el editor de “Las Noticias”. Contáctelo al (845) 331-5000, Extensión 412 / 79 Hurley Avenue, Kingston, NY 12401 / Aflores-Lobos@Freemanonline.com

Flooding in the Hudson Valley,

This is taking place near where we live or where we live. The Onteora schools were closed because of flooding.

http://www.news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?regionId=6&articleId=262553&position=1&news_type=news

http://www.lohud.com/article/20101001/NEWS01/10010370/-1/newsfront/Worst-is-over--but-floods-on-Hutch--Saw-Mill--Bronx-River--Taconic-I-87--8-000-without-power

This is me when i was 8 in NYC at a fashion show in the lower east side!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRyF2G5iRvo

and this was from last year at my school's lip sync

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eljFqqE9usg

Check this out!!!!

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