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Rainbow~
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posted July 31, 2006 08:53 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I know you admire Queen Noor as much as I do, so just thought I'd tell you she is going to be on Larry King Live tonight at 9pm est....(which is momentarily...I just found out)

If you miss it...they will repeat it at midnight...and also at 3am....

...that is on CNN

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Rainbow~
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posted July 31, 2006 09:13 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am in the process of watching this show...

Queen Noor is such a brilliant lady...

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Rainbow~
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posted July 31, 2006 11:48 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Queen Noor was not the sole guest on Larry King's tonight......she was part of a panel......but it's always a delight to be able to see this intelligent and insightful woman when she has something to say....

Because Queen Noor is not only refined, cultivated and gracious.......she's astute, rational and perceptive.

A most remarkable woman....

....and seeing her tonight was not a disappointment...she presented herself as I anticipated she would...

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lotusheartone
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posted July 31, 2006 11:50 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
perhaps..it's all in the training???

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Mirandee
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posted August 01, 2006 12:21 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Perhaps Bush could use the same trainer?

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DayDreamer
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posted August 01, 2006 12:36 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi Rainbow,

I don't have CNN I will check their website and see if they might have anything from the lastnight's show.

Who was on Larry's panel, and what were they speaking about?

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DayDreamer
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posted August 01, 2006 12:51 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Because Queen Noor is not only refined, cultivated and gracious.......she's astute, rational and perceptive.

This is what sets her apart from other queens of this time.


Here's the transcript from last night's Larry King Live:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/31/lkl.01.html


QUEEN NOOR:

quote:
...And you cannot bomb groups out of existence. They can be bombed out of power or their military equipment degraded, but they can't be bombed out of the region. These are two groups, Hezbollah and Hamas in the Palestinian territories, that were born out of Israeli occupation of Lebanon and of Palestinian lands. They're considered resistance movements. And they will operate underground, even if, you know...

KING: I've got to...

QUEEN NOOR: ... this current campaign succeeds against them. They will still be a presence in the region, and they will still operate to scuttle any progress on a great many fronts if we don't address the root cause of the problems -- again, the Palestinian- Israeli conflict.


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Rainbow~
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posted August 01, 2006 02:54 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for the transcripts DayDreamer...I didn't get to tape it....but I've watched it twice....

I thought this was interesting....

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KING: Do you fault the administration, say, for being against a cease-fire?


QUEEN NOOR: I've been stunned that - the international community has not achieved a cease-fire within the first few days of this conflict......

Stunned at the extent of the violence, of the impact on Lebanese infrastructure, on civilians, on the -- those who are the only partners for peace in our communities in the region are being -- their voices are being drowned out. I think that Jan Egeland, the U.N. human rights -- the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator, put it very well. He said, there's something fundamentally wrong with a war where there are more dead children than armed men. And I cannot understand why a cease-fire has not been committed to by the international community long before now.

(bold letters, mine)

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She didn't seem as composed as she usually is. There was a certain "uneasyness" about her, for a woman with her usual comliness....

She was very beautiful as always, but there was a certain sadness in her face....in fact, she looked as though she had been crying....

******

Her Majesty
Queen Noor

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Mirandee
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posted August 01, 2006 11:51 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
She is indeed very beautiful and very intelligent as well.

She represents a voice of reason in an otherwise insane world which seems to just grow nuttier and nuttier by the day.

You can train behaviorial graces into a person but you cannot train reason,logic and common sense into them.

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Rainbow~
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posted August 01, 2006 11:04 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Queen Noor was on Larry King Live again tonight - but I missed it (was outside messing with the sprinkler).....

I did catch the last couple minutes and was surprised to see her two nights in a row....

I know they will repeat it again at midnight, so Mirandee, you might want to catch that show...

...and DayDreamer...you can probably get another transcript..

Just thought I'd let you know....

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cancerrg
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posted August 02, 2006 08:37 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"BEAUTY WITH BRAINS " !

didn't know about her ! seems interesting!

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and
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posted August 02, 2006 08:41 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well Queen Noor is half Lebanese so I can understand why she'd seem sad and upset considering her parent's homeland is being bombed to shreds...

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

-Khalil Gibran

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Rainbow~
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posted August 02, 2006 04:15 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From Cancerrg....

quote:
"BEAUTY WITH BRAINS " !

Oh indeed, Cancerrg!

From And...

quote:
Well Queen Noor is half Lebanese so I can understand why she'd seem sad and upset considering her parent's homeland is being bombed to shreds

Yes And....

......and for those of you who are not familiar with this extraordinary lady....I'm posting a little info...

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Rainbow~
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posted August 02, 2006 04:17 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
HER MAJESTY QUEEN NOOR OF JORDAN

Her Majesty Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on 23 August 1951, to an Arab-American family distinguished for its public service.

***Queen Noor's paternal grandfather, Najeeb Elias Halaby, was a Syrian immigrant of Lebanese descent***

She attended schools in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Concord Academy in Massachusetts, before entering Princeton University in its first co-educational freshman class.

After receiving a B.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton University in 1974, Queen Noor worked on international urban planning and design projects in Australia, Iran, the United States, and Jordan from where she traveled throughout the Arab World to research aviation training facilities. Subsequently, she joined ‘Royal Jordanian’ airline as Director of Planning and Design Projects.


Their Majesties, King Hussein and Queen Noor, were married on 15 June 1978.


They have two sons: HRH Prince Hamzah (born 29 March 1980), and HRH Prince Hashim (born 10 June 1981), and two daughters: HRH Princess Iman (born 24 April 1983), and HRH Princess Raiyah (born 9 February 1986). Their family also included the children of His Majesty’s previous marriage: Ms. Abir Muheisen, HRH Princess Haya, and HRH Prince Ali.

Since 1978, Queen Noor has initiated, directed, and sponsored projects and activities in Jordan to address specific national development needs in the areas of education, culture, women and children’s welfare, human rights, conflict resolution, community development, environmental and architectural conservation, public architecture, and urban planning. She is also actively involved with international and UN organizations that address global challenges in these fields. Queen Noor has played a major role in promoting international exchange and understanding of Middle Eastern politics, Arab-Western relations, and humanitarian and conflict prevention, and recovery issues throughout the world, such as youth drug abuse, refugees, and disarmament.

More here...
http://www.noor.gov.jo/personal_profile.htm


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Rainbow~
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posted August 02, 2006 04:27 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote


Queen Noor and daughter
Rayiyah



Their Majesties the late King
Hussein I and Queen Noor of
Jordan.


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Rainbow~
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posted August 03, 2006 02:13 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A Speech Made by Queen Noor at a Salvation Army dinner gala, in Tulsa, Okalahoma, in 2004

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Thank you for inviting me to join you this evening.

It is inspiring to be here among people devoted to giving of themselves to help others in the most fundamental ways-- “to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.”

That kind of tolerance and genuine charity are what we need most desperately in the world today.


Charity — we know it means love of our fellow human beings.

It is that kind of love that drew me, at the very beginning of my political awareness, to march with Dr. Martin Luther King in Washington.

It was that kind of love, the language of the heart, that allowed me, as an untrained, inexperienced, volunteer teacher to communicate with struggling students in Harlem ghetto schools in New York in the 60s.

It was that kind of love that guided me toward one of my original career goals — in the Peace Corps.

And it was that kind of love — along with a more personal kind — that led me to take a leap of faith, and join in marriage a man who shared that ideal of human charity.

My husband and I were drawn together by a mutual devotion to public service, of giving back to society.

In my case, it was crystallized by the first real adult conversation I had with my father, when he had recently given up a lucrative career in the private sector to head the FAA under President Kennedy.


He confided his worries about failing to make ends meet on a government salary, but he also shared with me that he was far more fulfilled in public service than by merely achieving for himself.

In my husband’s case, his sense of responsibility to others grew naturally from his Muslim faith and Hashemite heritage as senior direct descendent of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and his position as King, leader and father-figure to the entire Jordanian family.

The sources were worlds apart.

The feeling was the same.


You’ve probably heard of the phrase “the clash of civilizations” It first appeared in an essay by Samuel Huntington in the summer of 1993, describing what the author saw as looming, inevitable strife.


Today the phrase has become shorthand for a complicated history and a multi-faceted conflict.

To deny a cultural aspect to the differences between the Middle East and America, of course, would be plainly wrong; but to reduce the clash to simplistic formulations is to miss an important opportunity for the kind of deep understanding that would invite the first steps to rapprochement.

As someone with roots in both East and West, who has spent most of her adult life trying to build bridges between Arab and American culture, I have come to phrase the debate differently – not as a clash between Islam and Christianity, or between East and West, but between the forces of intolerance and the forces of understanding.

In my work with the United Nations and human rights groups, I have time and again seen that the clashes that impede progress begin with those who insist their way is the only way; who paint the world in black and white.

No one culture has a monopoly on either virtue or intolerance; such qualities are not apportioned geographically, or by religion.

Advocates of compassion and peace can be found in all houses of worship.

I should know — my Grandfather was an Eastern Orthodox Christian Arab who emigrated to the United States and converted to Christian Science when he married my Grandmother.

I was raised by my parents to find my own path, and converted to Islam when I married.

But I also know that a great gulf exists between those who are genuinely willing to listen to and empathize with others, and those who are not.


The greatest oppressors are those who feel entitled to impose by force their idea of what is right.

The greatest injustices in human history occur when people believe so strongly in their own ideology that they are willing to hurt others in its name.

The ideology can be one of self-preservation and lust for power, as with dictators. It can be paternalistic, viewing the oppression of women, minorities, and the otherwise disenfranchised as “for their own good.”

Or, it can be a so-called defensive policy that targets all dissent as a threat that must be dealt with preemptively. All of these arguments have been used in one way or another to justify injustice and conflict.


Faith, we all know, remains one of the most compelling wellsprings of human action, and so, tragically, the justification for political coercion is often cloaked in the language of religion.

We have seen how the perverted actions of a violent fringe have hijacked the great faith of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) for its own ends.


And yet Islam has no monopoly on radical fundamentalism.

Sadly, Christianity, too, has been used as a pretext for “Holy War” — not the Salvation Army’s war on want and despair, but violent conflict from the Crusades a thousand years ago, to “ethnic cleansing” in the Balkans in the last decade.

Jewish extremists also use violence to further their distorted aims; one of them killed Itzhak Rabin for daring to contemplate peace.

As you know all too bitterly here, terrorist threats in America come far more frequently from Aryan-rights fanatics spouting twisted Christian dogma than from Arabs or Muslims.

But to single out a religion because it is used as a cover for evil is exactly the kind of black-and-white thinking that gives rein to the abuse in the first place.


for the rest of her most inspiring words....click below..

http://www.noor.gov.jo/Speech_Details.asp?SpeechID=178&CatId=1

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Rainbow~
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posted August 03, 2006 02:22 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
She will be on Larry King Live on CNN again tomorrow night....

9pm EST

(three times this week)

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cancerrg
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posted August 03, 2006 12:37 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
thanks Rainbow . that was as beautiful as her !
thanks for it !

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Rainbow~
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posted August 03, 2006 02:17 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cancerrg....

You are most welcome....

I am happy to share news about Queen Noor...

I think she has sort of been a hidden gem for a long time.

Such class!

Such beauty!

Such intelligence!


It's kind of a mockery that the one who is in charge of our country (mine), by comparsion is so stupidd!

Sorry....

I can't put it any other way...*sigh*

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Rainbow~
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posted August 03, 2006 08:22 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Tonight....

CNN 9pm EST....

LARRY KING LIVE.....

The brilliant Queen Noor...

What a refreshing breath of fresh air she is...

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Rainbow~
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posted August 03, 2006 11:45 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The wise queen will be on Larry King Live again Sunday night....

I think Larry recognizes the substance there.....

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Rainbow~
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posted August 06, 2006 02:42 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Her Majesty Queen Noor to be on LARRY KING LIVE again tonight at 9pm...est....

That's CNN

I am happy to see her making so many appearances.....

The woman makes an awful lot of sense...

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Rainbow~
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posted August 06, 2006 02:50 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
....for those who have ears to hear....

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Rainbow~
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posted August 06, 2006 08:09 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
BUMP....

Less than an hour away....

(but two more repeats should you miss it)....

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DayDreamer
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posted August 06, 2006 09:31 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi Rainbow...

that was a great speech...

quote:
No one culture has a monopoly on either virtue or intolerance; such qualities are not apportioned geographically, or by religion.

quote:
The greatest oppressors are those who feel entitled to impose by force their idea of what is right.

The greatest injustices in human history occur when people believe so strongly in their own ideology that they are willing to hurt others in its name.

The ideology can be one of self-preservation and lust for power, as with dictators. It can be paternalistic, viewing the oppression of women, minorities, and the otherwise disenfranchised as “for their own good.”

Or, it can be a so-called defensive policy that targets all dissent as a threat that must be dealt with preemptively. All of these arguments have been used in one way or another to justify injustice and conflict.


quote:
Faith, we all know, remains one of the most compelling wellsprings of human action, and so, tragically, the justification for political coercion is often cloaked in the language of religion.

We have seen how the perverted actions of a violent fringe have hijacked the great faith of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) for its own ends.


And yet Islam has no monopoly on radical fundamentalism.

Sadly, Christianity, too, has been used as a pretext for “Holy War” — not the Salvation Army’s war on want and despair, but violent conflict from the Crusades a thousand years ago, to “ethnic cleansing” in the Balkans in the last decade.

Jewish extremists also use violence to further their distorted aims; one of them killed Itzhak Rabin for daring to contemplate peace.

As you know all too bitterly here, terrorist threats in America come far more frequently from Aryan-rights fanatics spouting twisted Christian dogma than from Arabs or Muslims.

But to single out a religion because it is used as a cover for evil is exactly the kind of black-and-white thinking that gives rein to the abuse in the first place.


Almost quoted her entire speech...oh well.

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