{"id":271161,"date":"2024-08-12T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=271161"},"modified":"2024-08-08T06:28:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:28:25","slug":"purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/08\/purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We can help without interfering<br \/>\nIn the fate unfolding<br \/>\nNot to fashion a destiny<br \/>\nneither to act in enmity<br \/>\nBut to enjoy and aid<br \/>\nnature&#8217;s evolving cascade<br \/>\nnot to breach<br \/>\nneither to beseech<br \/>\nto act without destroying<br \/>\nto build without obstructing<br \/>\nLooking inward is key<br \/>\nto future living free<br \/>\naid the natural blooming<br \/>\nof life&#8217;s miracles growing<br \/>\nand unfoldig a better future<br \/>\nfor every living creature<\/p>\n<p><em>20 Apr 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mazin-Qumsiyeh.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mazin-Qumsiyeh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a> Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine, is founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-president of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Raymond Jallow Activism Award from the national Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is co-founder and national treasurer of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and has written extensively about the Middle East. Qumsiyeh is a member of the<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, author of <\/em>Sharing the Land of Canaan<em> and <\/em>Popular Resistance in Palestine,<em> a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem.<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/palestinenature.org\/\" >http:\/\/palestinenature.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can help without interfering<br \/>\nIn the fate unfolding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[427,868],"class_list":["post-271161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-palestine","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271163,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271161\/revisions\/271163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}