The blog has been a complementary blog to the diaries I published on Daily Kos. Now I have been banned from DKos (bojo'd as Kossacks call it) because of my last diary which had a video of a student group of the PFLP working on the land & planting olive trees near Bilin. The PFLP is listed as a terrorist group by the US State Dept., just as the Provisional IRA, the African National Congress, & the MEK once were. The PFLP hijacked quite a few airliners in the early '70s, & staged suicide bombings in Israel from 2000-2004. I got banned for 'supporting' a terrorist organization. No, I was trying to show what is happening in the West Bank. I don't think the people of Bilin think of the PFLP as a terrorist organization. They are glad for their support against the Occupation.
But the people of Bilin don't own & run Daily Kos, Markos Zúniga, or kos, does. It's his site, & his rules. If he wants to ban me for something I think is BS, well, he can. I'm just taken aback by the process. I don't know if I ran afoul of kos himself or the Israel/Palestine moderator. The first I found out I was banned was when I saw the red advisory telling me I was in trouble. Maybe I didn't read it fully. I thought it was just a warning. Of course, if the moderator had posted a comment telling me to take down the video on the PFLP, I would have taken it down (& left it up here.)
The big regret I have is the audience I will miss at DKos. A few people did appreciate the videos presented. But there is a way to continue Israel/Palestine News on Daily Kos. Someone else can do the diaries. Contact me at poeducker@gmail.com & I'll e-mail you the list of videos.
I'll continue doing my version here.
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