 | Linguistic Quiz, Christmas 2007 Huliganov hosts a seasonal quiz for those interested in things linguistic. In case you cannot hear or understand all the questions and options properly, I'll write them here. This will also be the place I explain the answers once someone has answered all the questions properly. Q1 What is the highest number of strokes in a kanji character used in Modern Japanese? a 13, b 23, c 33, d 43 Q2 What is the number of cases in Modern and Ancient Greek, respectively? a. 4,5 b. 4,6 c. 3,5 d. 3.6 Q3. Rank these languages by the combined GDP of the speakers, in descending order: a) Japanese, Chinese, German b) Chinese, Japanese, German c) German, Chinese, Japanese d) Japanese, German, Chinese Q4 Which of the following languages is usually written in a non-Latin-based script? a. Albanian b. Armenian c. Malay d. Tagalog 5. What was the name of the place where, according to the Book of Genesis, linguistic diversity began among mankind? a. The Garden of Eden b. Babylon c. Pentecost d. Babel Q6. Which of the following fairytale writers was also a leading expert in historical linguistics? a. Aesop b. Lafontaine c. The Brothers Grimm d. Hans-Christian Andersen Q7 Which of the following fantasy writers was/is also a scholar in Medieval languages? a. H. G. Wells b. J.K. Rowling c. Ray Bradbury d. Tolkien Q8. Which of the following word trios in English do not all share a common root? a. creative, cretin, recreation b. cordial, hearty, cardiac c. monitor, admonition, Monica d. hello, whole, hale Q9. Which of the following statements about Russian is true? a. Every word needs to contain at least one vowel b. The stress always takes the same syllable in a noun, regardless of the conjugation? c. More that 3 consonants cannot be found side by side in a Russian word without a consonant breaking them up d. There is a vocative case in Russian, but only a few words still get declined in it. Q10. Which of the following statements about Arabic is NOT true? a. Arabic uses substantially the same alphabet today as at the time of writing of the Koran. b. The Arabic alphabet contains no vowels, but vowels can be added as diacritic marks above or below the consonants. c. There are many ways to form the plurals of nouns in Arabic, so the beginner needs to learn the plural form with each new noun he or she learns. d. Arabic is quite closely related to Hebrew. About 4,000 years ago they were even the same language. Good luck. Please place your answers in the comments area. I will only tell the total number of correct answers, until someone gets all 10. One entry per person per day, please. Further attempts by the same person within the same day will not receive a response until the next day. |
 | Jesus Christ Worshipped Allah and Prophecized the comin of Prophet Mohammed Peace be upon them both. DISCLAIMER: this video uses a clip from the passion of christ, it is a christian video. Muslims dont believe that jesus got crucified. According to us jesus peace be upon him did not die! he is still alive. Arabic and Aramaic are both semitic languages that share many linguistic features. As shown in the video from the movie,the passion of christ,the word manahma is used by jesus peace be upon him to refer to the praised one. ei: the one who will come after jesus peace be upon him to reveal the truth about god. Manahma is the syriac pronunciation of ahmad which means the praised one in arabic. Mohammed means the most praised. Ahmad and Mohammad have the same triliteral root of HMD (ie: ''praise'' as a root) If you refer to Song of Solomon in Hebrew scripture, the name 'Muhammad' also mention there, please read Song of Solomon 5:16, it looks like this: "Hikow mamtaqiym wkulow ''mahamadiym'' zeh dowdiy wzeh ree`iy bnowt yruushaalaaim." what about Muhammad? We find that his coming was foretold in clear and precise terms not only by Jesus himself but by Moses and other Biblical prophets as well. In fact it seems from whatever words of Jesus are available to the world, that the bringing of glad tidings of a great coming prophet was one of the chief objects of his mission. Again and again Jesus said that he was sent to the world only to give as much guidance as the people of his own time could bear. As for complete teaching which would stay forever with mankind, he said: But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14-26) Only the prophet of Islam could have fulfilled this prophecy of Jesus. Muhammad was truly sent in his name because he bore testimony to his truth. The Holy Quran says: The Messiah, son of Mary, was a messenger, "surely messengers like unto him had passed away before him" (The Holy Quran 5:76) The Holy Quran reports that the angels told Mary: Surely Allah gives you good news with a word from Him of whose name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, worthy of regard in this world and hereafter. (The Holy Quran 3:46) The Holy Prophet testified to the truth of Jesus as a divine and honored Teacher and Prophet, and declared them mistaken and misguided who thought him accursed. The Holy Quran described his teachings as "guidance and light ."Further elaborating the same prophecy, Jesus said: Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will sent him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. ... I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. How be it when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak.. and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. (John 16:7-14) This prophecy clearly lays down that: The Comforter will come after the departure of Jesus. When the Comforter comes, he will reprove the world of sin, truth and justice. He will guide the world into all truth. The book revealed to him will contain no human word. He will foretell things to come. He will glorify Jesus and clear him of all charges. Now when we take this prophecy point by point, it is unmistakably proven that it applies to none else but the Holy Prophet Muhammad. He came after Jesus. The Comforter was supposed to reprove the followers of Jesus. Obviously, he could not be a Christian or a Jew .The prophecy must relate to one who would belong to another people but should respect Jesus and promote reverence for him. The Holy Prophet was neither Jew nor a Christian. He was an Ishmaelite. But he defended the honor of Jesus. Thus says the Quran: [The Jews] slew him not, nor crucified him, but he was made to appear to them like one crucified, and those who differ therein are certainly in a state of doubt about it: they have no definite knowledge thereof, but only follow a conjecture; and they did not convert this: conjecture into a certainty; on the contrary, Allah exalted him to Himself (The Holy Quran 4: 158) Here the Holy Quran specifically says that Jesus was saved from that accursed death designed for him by his enemies. However, they only suspected that they had succeeded in crucifying him. But Allah had not only saved him but admitted him to the circle of His favored ones. Of the promise, "He will show you things to come", we need only say that no prophet has told the world of things to come as much as has the prophet of Islam. |
 | Is "greek" or ALBANIAN - 2° part Is "greek" or ALBANIAN - 2° part! Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Linguistic PhD, Pennsylvania State University USA: "In 3200 BC, there were many, many languages spoken besides Sumerian and Egyptian, but they were not fortunate enough to have a writing system. These languages are just as old. To take one interesting case, the Albanian language (spoken north of Greece) was not written down until about the 15th century AD, yet Ptolemy mentions the people in the first century BC.* The linguistic and archaeological evidence suggests that Albanians were a distinct people for even longer than that. So Albanian has probably existed for several millennia, but has only been written down for 500 years. With a twist of fate, Albanian might be considered very "old" and Greek pretty "new". http://www.linguistlist.org/ask-ling/oldest.html Lets look at something we already KNOW! English= (to) Know Ancient "Greek"= (γι) γνος Albanian= (e, te) njoh Its out of dispute that the root of the word KNOW in together English, Albanian, and Acient "Greek" is the [{kno~ /gno]. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=know&searchmode=none In Albanian the cluster *gn is equal to 'nj'. The cluster gn is typical in Ancient "Greek" and Latin/ Neolatin languages. We have in "greek" another word which is exactly the oppossite of 'know'- àγνοέω- not perceive, be ignorant, be unaware of. This word, like easily noticed is formed from à (a negative prefix)+gnoeo(know, first person). The verb 'know' in Ancient "Greek" is one of the noun components in the word foreigner(stranger). A stranger is a not known person or a phenomenon, or a person that we do not know. The word ksenophobia = kseno(stranger) + phobia(fear) = fear from people you don't know. The consonant ξ is considered a double consonant formed from the smoth κ and the spirant σ (ς). Therefore the word ξένο is pronounced kseno. Kseno = ks(a negative double consonant) + e(conjucture article) + no(the primitive root for 'know') MEANING: Kseno = stranger a person (I/we/you) do not know. In Albanian:do not know=që se njoh The short form in albanian is: do not know= q'se njoh~ q's'njoh Now let replace 'njoh' with the primitive root no=know. The result would be: do not know= q'seno The evolution of the smoth consonant K in Albanian is: k(voiceless velar plosive)-c -ç- q !! . |
 | Latvia: Summer Solstice (Jani) 2006 with Skandinieki In Latvia, the biggest summer holiday, and arguably the most important of all yearly holidays, is the Summer Solstice or the Feast of St. John the Baptist. The territories that today form the Baltic States were the last to be Christianized in Europe, with the majority of the population "professing" the new faith not until the late medieval or early modern period. The original, pre-Christian manner of celebrating what later became Christian holidays never died out and lies very close to the surface of things—and many in Latvia to this day stick as close to the pre-Christian traditions as possible. I was able to perform for a year with the folklore group Skandinieki, one of Latvia's most beloved folk ensembles and one that was part of the folk revival movement that began in the 1970s and that grew, by the late Soviet period, into a national movement for Latvian independence and cultural reawakening (a phenomena that took place in "captive nations" throughout the former USSR). What you see here is how the serious folklorists of Skandinieki celebrate the Summer Solstice. For my audience that is mostly interested in things Ukrainian: This is the same holiday as our Den' Ivana Kupala, just in its Baltic-Latvian variant. "Janis" is Latvian for "Ivan" (Engl: John). The making of head-wreaths and garlands are as much an important part of the celebrations as they are in Ukraine--and "vinok" is in Latvian "vainags," which any linguist will recognize as coming from the same root as the Ukrainian word. Interestingly enough, in the Latvian celebration men also wear a head-wreath made of oak leaves; though I will not say that this is never done in Ukraine (I have not seen it, but that doesn't mean that the making of oak-leave wreaths for men does not take place somewhere) what is relevant is the traditional reverence of the oak tree in both cultures. (Also, both cultures have a traditional reverence for the linden tree: "liepa" in Latvian, "lypa" in Ukrainian.) Then of course note the central importance of fire in this holiday. And just to be clear: I am not making any claim that either the Latvian or Ukrainian traditions or words are more original. What I do believe is that there existed a common Balto-Slavic linguistic and cultural community—a proto-Balto-Slavic language as well as culture—that was the direct ancestor of both the Slavic and Baltic languages in prehistoric times. To my mind the shared traditions of the two generally Slavic and Baltic cultures and the similar grammar and lexicon of the two language families can not be merely result of close cultural and linguistic contact. HOWEVER, this is NOT to say that it is at all legitimate for one group to argue that it has carried-on either the ancient language, traditions or culture in a more original form in these modern times; furthermore, this is NOT to say that one group, claiming such an authentic role, has the right to gather up all the modern-day Balts and Slavs into one whole and return them to the ancient, original Balto-Slavic past. For one thing is for certain: whatever existed back then in the Balto-Slavic prehistory is totally, irrevocably gone, and each descendent culture is, well descendent, changed, a "derivative" of that so-called "original" or "authentic" culture. To put it bluntly: Russian culture has no more--and by the same token, NO LESS--authenticity than any of the other Baltic or Slavic cultures, and there is no legitimacy to chauvinism and expansionism of any kind! WHICH ALSO MEANS that it is also totally specious or dubious to resist such chauvinism and expansionism by arguing that such and such a culture is, in fact, in opposition to Russian culture, the more genuinely original or authentic! That is, neither Ukrainian nor Latvian culture are in any way more original, either vis-a-vis Russian culture or the other Slavic and Baltic cultures. This entire debate is, to put it bluntly, f'ing bogus!!!! I will never forget the argument I once had with a Latvian-Canadian young man who declared that sometimes, it is necessary to put patriotism before truth! Such a notion is only necessary if one accepts and argues on same the field where the rules state that there is one modern culture and language that is more original and less derivative. But if that entire way of thinking is dubious, then truth is still--always!--more important than so-called patriotism! |
 | Finnish grammar 1: verbs Some who have learned Finnish words from Sulkasiipi seem to be serious about learning Finnish and would want to learn grammar as well. I wish to contribute to their studies a little bit. Finnish has a complicated grammar, but you got to start somewhere - e.g. here. The good news is that the endings presented in this video apply to all verbs, only 3.person singular is slightly irregular. The root changes, however, are numerous; this is just a small fraction of the variety. |
 | 'Rune' Promo As Strother Martin and Paul Newman both say in COOL HAND LUKE "What we have here...is a failure to communicate." In religion & relationships, business & politics, isn't this simple fact at the root of most of our conflicts? RUNE, a new film by Arayna Thomas and S.E. Kenlon asks, "What if you could do something about it?" What if there was a way to break down language barriers & enable all people to understand each other's words regardless of their native tongue? This tantalizing prospect is about to cost linguist Anna Russeau all she's worked for and quite possibly her life in this smart, brooding film noir. Premiering on 10/10/06 only on the iPod. |
 | Becca 2 Shes really gay In languages with a literary tradition, there is interrelation between orthography and the question of what is considered a single word. Word separators (typically space marks) are common in modern orthography of languages using alphabetic scripts, but these are (excepting isolated precedents) a modern development (see also history of writing). In English orthography, words may contain spaces if they are compounds or proper nouns such as ice cream or air raid shelter. Vietnamese orthography, although using the Latin alphabet, delimits monosyllabic morphemes, not words. Conversely, synthetic languages often combine many lexical morphemes into single words, making it difficult to boil them down to the traditional sense of words found more easily in analytic languages; this is especially difficult for polysynthetic languages such as Inuktitut and Ubykh, where entire sentences may consist of single such words. Logographic scripts use single signs (characters) to express a word. Most de facto existing scripts are however partly logographic, and combine logographic with phonetic signs. The most widespread logographic script in modern use is the Chinese script. While the Chinese script has some true logographs, the largest class of characters used in modern Chinese (some 90%) are so-called pictophonetic compounds (形声字, Xíngshēngzì). Characters of this sort are composed of two parts: a pictograph, which suggests the general meaning of the character, and a phonetic part, which is derived from a character pronounced in the same way as the word the new character represents. In this sense, the character for most Chinese words consists of a determiner and a syllabogram, similar to the approach used by cuneiform script and Egyptian hieroglyphs. There is a tendency informed by orthography to identify a single Chinese character as corresponding to a single word in the Chinese language, parallel to the tendency to identify the letters between two space marks as a single word in the English language. In both cases, this leads to the identification of compound members as individual words, while e.g. in German orthography, compound members are not separated by space marks and the tendency is thus to identify the entire compound as a single word. Compare e.g. English capital city with German Hauptstadt and Chinese 首都 (lit. chief metropolis): all three are equivalent compounds, in the English case consisting of "two words" separated by a space mark, in the German case written as a "single word" without space mark, and in the Chinese case consisting of two logographic characters. [edit]Morphology Main article: Morphology (linguistics) Further information: Inflection In synthetic languages, a single word stem (for example, love) may have a number of different forms (for example, loves, loving, and loved). However, these are not usually considered to be different words, but different forms of the same word. In these languages, words may be considered to be constructed from a number of morphemes. In Indo-European languages in particular, the morphemes distinguished are the root optional suffixes a desinence. Thus, the Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dhom would be analysed as consisting of *wr̥-, the zero grade of the root *wer- a root-extension *-dh- (diachronically a suffix), resulting in a complex root *wr̥dh- The thematic suffix *-o- the neuter gender nominative or accusative singular desinence *-m. [edit]Classes Main article: Lexical category Grammar classifies a language's lexicon into several groups of words. The basic bipartite division possible for virtually every natural language is that of nouns vs. verbs. The classification into such classes is in the tradition of Dionysius Thrax, who distinguished eight categories: noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, adverb, conjunction, interjection. In Indian grammatical tradition, Panini introduced a similar fundamental classification into a nominal (nāma, suP) and a verbal (ākhyāta, tiN) class, based on the set of desinences taken by the word. |
 | History of Hungarians The word "Hungarian" is thought to be derived from the Bulgar-Turkic Onogur, possibly because the Magyars were neighbours (or confederates) of the Empire of the Onogurs in the sixth century, whose leading tribal union was called the "Onogurs" (meaning "ten tribes" in Old Turkic).[12][13] The "H-" prefix in many languages (Hungarians, Hongrois, Hungarus etc.) is a later addition. It was taken over from the name of the "Huns", a semi-nomadic tribe that briefly lived in the area of present-day Hungary and, according to legends originating in the medieval period, was the people from which the Magyars arose. The identification of the "Hungarians" with the "Huns" has often occurred in historiography and literature. Even today, Hun names like Attila, Réka, and Ildikó are popular among Hungarians. This identification began to be disputed in the late nineteenth century, and is still a source of major controversy among scholars who insist that there could be no direct connection between the two. "Magyar" is the term Hungarians use, in their own language, to refer to themselves or to their language, . The English equivalent for the word would be "Hungarian". However the word "Magyar" is frequently used in English context. In most cases it is used when referring to Hungarian nationality, ethnicity and, in a broader context, when describing the medieval nomadic Hungarian/Magyar tribes.[14] Some sources[15] claim "Magyar" to be the proper form instead of Hungarian, although "Hungarian" is the form that took root in the English language over the centuries. Many theories exist on the origins and meanings of the word "Magyar""[16], although the etymology of the word Hungary/Hungarian is accompanied by less debate. In Old slavic texts Hungarians were referred to as Ugors or Ogurs (Ugri), in Byzantine and early Latin texts uniguri, Ungri words were used, presumably from the Turkic word On ogur, meaning ten arrows, i.e. ten tribes (the traditional Hungarian tribes (Megyer, Jenő, Keszi, Nyék, Kér, Tarján, while Kürt and Gyarmat merged into one tribe making it seven total) joined by three Kabar tribes whose names are not known for sure (with the usual suspects being Ság, Ladány, Berény, Tárkány). Later, from the Unugor form evolved the words Ungarus, Ungar, Venger. In the middle ages the Latin Ungarus, Ungaria words changed to Hungarus, Hungaria, that also referred to the Hungarians being related to the Huns, a common belief until the 19th century.[17] This finally was the base for many languages' word for Hungarian/Hungary. [edit] Ethnic affiliations and genetic origins Main article: Hungarian prehistory The origin of the Hungarians is partly disputed. The most widely-accepted Finno-Ugric theory of origin from the late nineteenth century is based primarily on linguistic and ethnographical arguments[18]. Contesting these, the theory is criticized as relying too much on August Schleicher's Stammbaumtheorie of historical linguistics, and some cite that Finno-Ugric-speaking peoples have a wide range of cultural, ethnic and genetic variation.[19] It should also be noted that though old and modern-day Hungarians have a predominantly European genetic makeup, one research states that about 13% of the population have retained their Uralic genes, while another sees no genetic continuity.[20][21] There are also other theories stating that the Magyars are descendants of Scythians, Huns and/or Avars. These other theories tend to be based upon unsound critical methodology, especially in regard to existing linguistic evidence, so most scholars dismiss them as speculation. Based on linguistic research the closest related Finno-Ugric groups to the Hungarians are the Khanty people and the Mansi people (or Voguls)[22]. |
 | Occupation 101 Movie Trailer 1 Occupation 101 Movie Trailer 1 Movie clip from award-winning documentary film 'Occupation 101.' For more info or to purchase the DVD please visit: www.occupation101.com. A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets. The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy. Featured Interviews Occupation 101 features a leading list of some of the most credible Middle East scholars, historians, peace activists, journalists, and humanitarian workers. Dr. Albert Aghazarian Director of Public Relations at Bier Ziet University. He is the most prominent Palestinian Armenian figure -- Headed press centre during Madrid conference. Ambassador James Akins Former (1963-1965) Attache at the US Embassy in Baghdad; Former (1973-1975) US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Rabbi Arik Ascherman Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights - an organization of Israeli rabbis committed to defending the human rights of all people in Israel and in the territories under Israeli control. Dr. William Baker Former Professor of Ancient History and Biblical studies. Founder of Christians and Muslims for Peace. Bishop Allen Bartlett, Jr. Assisting Bishop (2001-2004) of the Diocese of Washington. The Episcopal Diocese of Washington comprises 93 Episcopal congregations in the District of Columbia and the Maryland counties of Montgomery, Prince George's, Charles and Saint Mary's. Phyllis Bennis Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. An author, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues. Helped found and co-chairs the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. Peter Boukaert Director of Emergencies at Human Rights Watch -- the largest human rights organization based in the United States. He has conducted extensive fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in the West Bank (Israeli Occupied Territory). Sharon Burke Former Advocacy Director with Amnesty International -- a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave human rights abuses worldwide. Noam Chomsky Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An Author and Analyst of Global Affairs including, US foreign Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Author of "The fateful triangle: the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians." |
 | THE HOLY QURAN ON "THE MOUNTAINS FUNCTION" Mountains in the Qur'an: The Qur'an speaks about mountains in 49 different verses. In one of these verses the Qur'an describes mountains as pegs or pickets. "And the mountains as pegs (awtaadaa) (78:7). If we take any scientific or linguistic dictionary of today and look for the meaning of mountain, we will find that scientists define mountains as high elevations on the surface of our planet. Elevations that exceed 610 m in height are called mountains and anything below this is regarded as a hill. However, in many of the American references, elevations above 300 meters are considered mountains. The Qur'an that was revealed more than 14 centuries ago describes mountains as pegs or pickets. If we look at a tent's peg, we find that most of its length, is buried in the ground, its smallest part crops out on the surface of the ground and its function is fixation. Scientists have now come to realize that mountains are not just surface elevation into the ground, and these are called mountain roots. Mountain roots were never known to scientists before the turn of this century and they were highly debated until recently. A peak like Mount Everest, which is almost 9 km above the ground's surface, has a root that develops for more than 125 km inside the Earth's outer rocky layer. Just as the peg or picket's function is mainly to hold the tent solidly to the ground, so too is the exact same role of mountains. We have come to know that the outer rocky layer of the Earth is fractured by faults into plates that float on molten magma. With the earth's rotation around its own axis, these floating plates would have been rapidly moving had it not been for the stabilizing influence of mountains. No soil could have accumulated, no water could have been stored in the soil, no plant could have germinated, no road constructed, no house could have been built, and life would have been impossible on our planet. For this reason Allah showered his bounties on man by fixing the earth with mountains. Mountains act like pegs or pickets that hold the continental masses down and stops them moving. |
 | The Devil Probably (Robert Bresson, 1977) Opening Opening scenes from Le diable probablement (The Devil Probably)(1977) a film by Robert Bresson. From The Devil, Probably: Young Man: In losing my life, here's what I'd lose! [He takes out a piece of paper from his pocket and begins to read from it] Family planning. Package holidays, cultural, sporting, linguistic. The cultivated man's library. All sports. How to adopt a child. Parent-Teachers Association. Education. Schooling: 0 to 7 years, 7 to 14 years, 14 to 17 years. Preparation for marriage. Military duties. Europe. Decorations (honorary insignia). The single woman. Sickness: paid. Sickness: unpaid. The successful man. Tax benefits for the elderly. Local rates. Rent-purchase. Radio and television rentals. Credit cards. Home repairs. Index-linking. VAT and the consumer... [He crumples the paper up and throws it with disgust into the fireplace.] Psychiatrist: Loss of appetite often accompanies severe depression. Young Man: I'm not depressed. I just want the right to be myself. Not to be forced to give up wanting more . . . to replace true desires with false ones based on statistics... [The pyschiatrist starts on his diagnosis of the young man's condition.] Psychiatrist: . . . would impede your psychological development and would explain the root of your disgust and your wish to die. Young Man: But I don't want to die! Psychiatrist: Of course you do! |
 | Intro (first 4 mins of Occupation 101) Intro (first 4 mins of Occupation 101) Movie clip from award-winning documentary film 'Occupation 101.' For more info or to purchase the DVD please visit: www.occupation101.com. A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets. The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy. Featured Interviews Occupation 101 features a leading list of some of the most credible Middle East scholars, historians, peace activists, journalists, and humanitarian workers. Dr. Albert Aghazarian Director of Public Relations at Bier Ziet University. He is the most prominent Palestinian Armenian figure -- Headed press centre during Madrid conference. Ambassador James Akins Former (1963-1965) Attache at the US Embassy in Baghdad; Former (1973-1975) US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Rabbi Arik Ascherman Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights - an organization of Israeli rabbis committed to defending the human rights of all people in Israel and in the territories under Israeli control. Dr. William Baker Former Professor of Ancient History and Biblical studies. Founder of Christians and Muslims for Peace. Bishop Allen Bartlett, Jr. Assisting Bishop (2001-2004) of the Diocese of Washington. The Episcopal Diocese of Washington comprises 93 Episcopal congregations in the District of Columbia and the Maryland counties of Montgomery, Prince George's, Charles and Saint Mary's. Phyllis Bennis Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. An author, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues. Helped found and co-chairs the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. Peter Boukaert Director of Emergencies at Human Rights Watch -- the largest human rights organization based in the United States. He has conducted extensive fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in the West Bank (Israeli Occupied Territory). Sharon Burke Former Advocacy Director with Amnesty International -- a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave human rights abuses worldwide. Noam Chomsky Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An Author and Analyst of Global Affairs including, US foreign Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Author of "The fateful triangle: the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians." |
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