A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT AN UPCOMING EVENT
The "Arab" Summit Convenes March 27-28
Appeal to 400 Million Arabs:
Please Don't Flush At The Same Time.....
You Would Cause a Tsunami.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Saudi Arrested in South for Collaborating with Israel
Al-Manar
"18/03/2010 The Lebanese daily Annahar reported Thursday that a police unit in the southern town of Marje’youn had arrested Saudi national Jawad Bin Fahed Al-Issa for collaborating with Israel. According to Annahar, the police patrol was on the main road in the town, adjacent to the barbwire separating Lebanon from occupied Palestine, when officers noticed a man hiding behind a rock on the Lebanese side and talking to an Israeli occupation patrol commander on the Palestinian side. The report added that once the man spotted the Lebanese patrol, he took off to the other side as Israeli soldiers were facilitating his access. However, the daily said, Lebanese patrol members managed to arrest him after he destroyed his mobile phone and some of his personal belongings.
Preliminary investigation results showed that the Saudi man had came from Jordan a week ago...."
"18/03/2010 The Lebanese daily Annahar reported Thursday that a police unit in the southern town of Marje’youn had arrested Saudi national Jawad Bin Fahed Al-Issa for collaborating with Israel. According to Annahar, the police patrol was on the main road in the town, adjacent to the barbwire separating Lebanon from occupied Palestine, when officers noticed a man hiding behind a rock on the Lebanese side and talking to an Israeli occupation patrol commander on the Palestinian side. The report added that once the man spotted the Lebanese patrol, he took off to the other side as Israeli soldiers were facilitating his access. However, the daily said, Lebanese patrol members managed to arrest him after he destroyed his mobile phone and some of his personal belongings.
Preliminary investigation results showed that the Saudi man had came from Jordan a week ago...."
Obama Stresses US Support of Israel, Condemns Palestinian “Riots”!
Al-Manar
"18/03/2010 US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that Israeli plans to build more settler homes in occupied Jerusalem were not helpful for the Middle East peace process, but he said the issue had not led to a crisis with one of the United States' closest allies.
"Israel's one of our closest allies, and we and the Israeli people have a special bond that's not going to go away," Obama told Fox News Channel. "But friends are going to disagree sometimes," he added.
Amid suspicious Arab indifference and Palestinian anger, Israel announced during a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden that it planned to build 1,600 more settler homesin Al-Quds, creating a spat with the Obama administration.
The Obama administration had previously described Israel’s decision as an “insult”.....
Obama described the Palestinian reaction to Israel’s opening of a synagogue near the holy Aqsa mosque as ‘riots’ and condemned them.
"Yesterday when there were riots by the Palestinians against a synagogue that had reopened, we condemned them in the same way because what we need right now is both sides to recognize that is in their interests to move this peace process forward," he concluded....."
"18/03/2010 US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that Israeli plans to build more settler homes in occupied Jerusalem were not helpful for the Middle East peace process, but he said the issue had not led to a crisis with one of the United States' closest allies.
"Israel's one of our closest allies, and we and the Israeli people have a special bond that's not going to go away," Obama told Fox News Channel. "But friends are going to disagree sometimes," he added.
Amid suspicious Arab indifference and Palestinian anger, Israel announced during a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden that it planned to build 1,600 more settler homesin Al-Quds, creating a spat with the Obama administration.
The Obama administration had previously described Israel’s decision as an “insult”.....
Obama described the Palestinian reaction to Israel’s opening of a synagogue near the holy Aqsa mosque as ‘riots’ and condemned them.
"Yesterday when there were riots by the Palestinians against a synagogue that had reopened, we condemned them in the same way because what we need right now is both sides to recognize that is in their interests to move this peace process forward," he concluded....."
Al-Jazeera Cartoon
Negotiations.....Colonization......Negotiations....Colonization.....
So, This is How the Tennis Match is Supposed to Proceed....
Got it Arabs??
Arabs had no reason to be angry! Duh!
"The land of Israel is not small at all, if only the Arabs will be removed, and if its frontiers would be enlarged a little; to the north all the way to Litani [River in Lebanon], and to the east including the Golan Heights . . . . while the Arabs be transferred to northern Syria and Iraq. . . . From now on we must work out a secret plan based on the removal of the Arabs from here . . . to include it into American political circles. . . . today we have no other alternative. . . . We will not live here with Arabs."
Yosef Weitz, head of the 'transfer committies' wrote in his diary, quoted by Benny Morris in 'The Expulsion Of The Palestinians', page 134.
Yosef Weitz, head of the 'transfer committies' wrote in his diary, quoted by Benny Morris in 'The Expulsion Of The Palestinians', page 134.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Palestinian Leprechaun
Here it is, Molly....
Happy St. Patrick Day to All, especially to Carlos Latuff!
Happy St. Patrick Day to All, especially to Carlos Latuff!
Holocaust denial and Nakba denial
"I started to wonder what it would be like for Jews if Holocaust denial were not restricted to marginal figures, as it is now, but were widely accepted in the society in which they lived. This is what it is like for most Palestinians in Western countries, who live in a world dominated by Nakba-denial. I can only imagine what a difference it would make to Palestinian consciousness throughout the world were Israel to proclaim, 'yes, we drove you out, and that was an egregious wrong, and we want to make it up to you.' "
Joseph Levine, History Matters; Boston Review, Sept/Oct 2008.
Joseph Levine, History Matters; Boston Review, Sept/Oct 2008.
Israeli educational system : an instrument of memoricide
"When I talk in civics class about the Arab minority, and about its uniqueness in being a majority that became a minority, my students argue and say it's not true that they were a majority. When I go to the history teacher and ask her why the students don't know that in 1947 there was a certain number of Arabs here, and in 1948 there was a different number, she becomes evasive and says it's not part of the curriculum..."
Miriam Darmoni-Sharvit, Israeli civics teacher.
Miriam Darmoni-Sharvit, Israeli civics teacher.
The truth they try to obfuscate :
(Palestinian Government-LIFE magazine)
Zionist lie no.1 ; "There is no such a thing as Palestinian people"
Photo: Fatima Yousif Sayed-Ahmad, a 68-year-old Palestinian refugee, points at her birth certificate which was issued by the Palestinian Government in 1937, in her shop, May 15, 2005 in the Zaytoon refugee camp, located within Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. (Photo By Abid Katib/Getty Images)
Quote of the day
"Through the political debate taking place within Israel, we discover time and again that many Israelis refuse to reconcile themselves to a basic historical truth, which apparently threatens the sense of national justice many of them were raised and educated with: "The Palestinians are natives of this land and have been living here for generations( Actually for 1400 years at the very least-TGIA comment), while the vast majority of Israelis are the descendents (sic) of immigrants who arrived here under various circumstances over the slightly more than past 100 years.
Dror Etkes; Ynetnews, 10 April 2007.(Why can Jewish National Fund land be leased to non-Jewish immigrants, but not to Arabs?)
Dror Etkes; Ynetnews, 10 April 2007.(Why can Jewish National Fund land be leased to non-Jewish immigrants, but not to Arabs?)
Nobody - With The Possible Exception Of Hannah Arendt - Could Have Predicted
..that forcibly establishing a Jewish state in Palestine against the wishes of its pre-existing non-Jewish majority - a state which would be surrounded by 200 million Arabs and one billion Muslims who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the plight of the pre-existing population, and which would require for its continuing existence the repeated involvement of those Western powers who engineered its creation in the first place - would turn out to be a source of perpetual grievance and escalating instability that threatens regional war involving the countries of the entire Mid East and far beyond...
"In ‘Zionism Reconsidered’, she (Arendt) calls ‘absurd’ the idea of setting up a Jewish state in a ‘sphere of interest’ of the superpowers. Such a state would suffer under the ‘delusion of nationhood’: ‘Only folly could dictate a policy which trusts a distant imperial power for protection, while alienating the goodwill of neighbours.’ On the one hand, she is clearly anxious to find ways for Israel/Palestine to survive; on the other, she predicts that the foundations proposed for the polity will result in ruin. ‘If the Jewish commonwealth is obtained in the near future . . . it will be due to the political assistance of American Jews,’ she writes. ‘But if the Jewish commonwealth is proclaimed against the will of the Arabs and without the support of the Mediterranean peoples, not only financial help but political support will be necessary for a long time to come. And that may turn out to be very troublesome indeed for Jews in this country, who after all have no power to direct the political destinies of the Near East.’
In 1948, after the UN had sanctioned the state of Israel, Arendt predicted that ‘even if the Jews were to win the war [of independence], its end would find the . . . achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed . . . The “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defence to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities.’ She stated once again that partition could not work, and that the best solution would be a ‘federated state’. Such a federation, in her view, ‘would have the advantage of preventing the establishment of sovereignty whose only sovereign right would be to commit suicide.’"
(via Lawrence of Cyberia)
"In ‘Zionism Reconsidered’, she (Arendt) calls ‘absurd’ the idea of setting up a Jewish state in a ‘sphere of interest’ of the superpowers. Such a state would suffer under the ‘delusion of nationhood’: ‘Only folly could dictate a policy which trusts a distant imperial power for protection, while alienating the goodwill of neighbours.’ On the one hand, she is clearly anxious to find ways for Israel/Palestine to survive; on the other, she predicts that the foundations proposed for the polity will result in ruin. ‘If the Jewish commonwealth is obtained in the near future . . . it will be due to the political assistance of American Jews,’ she writes. ‘But if the Jewish commonwealth is proclaimed against the will of the Arabs and without the support of the Mediterranean peoples, not only financial help but political support will be necessary for a long time to come. And that may turn out to be very troublesome indeed for Jews in this country, who after all have no power to direct the political destinies of the Near East.’
In 1948, after the UN had sanctioned the state of Israel, Arendt predicted that ‘even if the Jews were to win the war [of independence], its end would find the . . . achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed . . . The “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defence to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities.’ She stated once again that partition could not work, and that the best solution would be a ‘federated state’. Such a federation, in her view, ‘would have the advantage of preventing the establishment of sovereignty whose only sovereign right would be to commit suicide.’"
(via Lawrence of Cyberia)
Do You Want a Big Laugh? Read This.....
Dahlan to Hamas: Join forces against Israel
"Fatah strongman, considered bitter enemy of organization controlling Gaza, calls for joint struggle in order to 'defend the holy sites, in light of the attack on Jerusalem'. Negotiations with Israel ended before they even began, he adds....."
"Fatah strongman, considered bitter enemy of organization controlling Gaza, calls for joint struggle in order to 'defend the holy sites, in light of the attack on Jerusalem'. Negotiations with Israel ended before they even began, he adds....."
Mariam Said: I beg to differ
A Good Comment by Angry Arab
"Edward's thinking about the conflict evolved over the years. In the end, no matter what the solution is, both peoples will have to live together. To do so we need to talk to the enemy and to break the wall that separates us. To him the WEDO was an experiment that broke down barriers of hatred and allowed the participants to get to know the other. It was also an educational project where music was taught on a sophisticated level to musicians who had talent. Today, it remains a humanistic endeavor whose results will bear fruit in the future." Yes, Mariam. Edward's views evolved over the years: they became more radical. I remember in New York City in 1993 after he attended my debate with Judith Miller when we were walking outside, he told me: I have changed. I am now leaning more toward your side and the rejectionists against the two-state solution, or words to that effect. And I beg to differ: this orchestra is indeed a form of normalization. And let us not forget that Israeli musicians, as nice as they may look on the stage playing the violin or dirbakkah or whatever, they also serve in the Israeli occupation army. And it is doubly bad: the second reason is that this piano player is an awful human being whose stances, especially in the war on Gaza, have basically whitewashed the Israeli war crimes. Don't get me wrong: after Palestine is liberated, Barenboim can play with the Palestinian National Orchestra somewhere in the new Palestinian state that will allow all religions and factions to exist but without occupation or usurpation. Also, Mariam: I am afraid that your words above sound almost exactly like the words of Anwar Sadat when he was justifying his trip to Jerusalem. "
"Edward's thinking about the conflict evolved over the years. In the end, no matter what the solution is, both peoples will have to live together. To do so we need to talk to the enemy and to break the wall that separates us. To him the WEDO was an experiment that broke down barriers of hatred and allowed the participants to get to know the other. It was also an educational project where music was taught on a sophisticated level to musicians who had talent. Today, it remains a humanistic endeavor whose results will bear fruit in the future." Yes, Mariam. Edward's views evolved over the years: they became more radical. I remember in New York City in 1993 after he attended my debate with Judith Miller when we were walking outside, he told me: I have changed. I am now leaning more toward your side and the rejectionists against the two-state solution, or words to that effect. And I beg to differ: this orchestra is indeed a form of normalization. And let us not forget that Israeli musicians, as nice as they may look on the stage playing the violin or dirbakkah or whatever, they also serve in the Israeli occupation army. And it is doubly bad: the second reason is that this piano player is an awful human being whose stances, especially in the war on Gaza, have basically whitewashed the Israeli war crimes. Don't get me wrong: after Palestine is liberated, Barenboim can play with the Palestinian National Orchestra somewhere in the new Palestinian state that will allow all religions and factions to exist but without occupation or usurpation. Also, Mariam: I am afraid that your words above sound almost exactly like the words of Anwar Sadat when he was justifying his trip to Jerusalem. "
Current Al-Jazeera (Arabic) Online Poll
This poll asks:
Do you consider the current rift between the US and Israel as divergence of their positions?
With over 1,500 responding, 93% said no.
Do you consider the current rift between the US and Israel as divergence of their positions?
With over 1,500 responding, 93% said no.
Report: Petraeus Warns Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mullen That Israel Is Jeopardizing U.S. Security Interests
Democracy Now!
With Amy Goodman
"Veteran military and foreign affairs analyst and author Mark Perry reports that CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus dispatched a team of senior military officers in January to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Perry reports that the briefers told Mullen, that “Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region.”....."
With Amy Goodman
"Veteran military and foreign affairs analyst and author Mark Perry reports that CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus dispatched a team of senior military officers in January to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Perry reports that the briefers told Mullen, that “Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region.”....."
Al-Jazeera Video: Palestinian anger spills onto East Jerusalem streets
"Palestinian protesters have flooded into East Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank to vent their anger over the restoration of a historic synagogue.
They claim Israel's work is endangering the al-Aqsa mosque - one of their most important sites.
Israel's annexing of two other holy sites last month plans to build more Jewish settlement homes have further angered Palestinians.
Sherine Tadros reports from occupied East Jerusalem."
Brazil steps between Israel and Iran
By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
"Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week made the first official visit by a Brazilian president to Israel. Brazil is emerging as a potential "bridge" between Iran and those countries that seek to punish Tehran over its nuclear program. Lula stepping into this arena is a further instance of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) acting as a new rival power to an increasingly disoriented US, as well as to Washington's ally, Israel....
The BRICs also know that the US and Iran are able to collaborate on thorny dossiers - such as over Afghanistan.
That leaves the strategic agenda of the proverbial elephant in the room - Israel - on the table. So it's time for the BRICs to call Israel's bluff.
If the Netanyahu government in Israel can humiliate both Obama and Biden on expanded Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, it's fair to assume it could ignore the pleas of the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, who has warned that an attack on Iran would be a "big, big, big problem for all of us".
Israel (as well as Washington) may simply want regime change in Iran by any means necessary. Israel may go nuclear - using bunker-busting tactical nukes to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. Israel may be ready to unleash preventive war - a staple of Israeli policy fully adopted by the George W Bush administration. And Israel certainly counts on the US for logistical and political support......"
Asia Times
"Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week made the first official visit by a Brazilian president to Israel. Brazil is emerging as a potential "bridge" between Iran and those countries that seek to punish Tehran over its nuclear program. Lula stepping into this arena is a further instance of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) acting as a new rival power to an increasingly disoriented US, as well as to Washington's ally, Israel....
The BRICs also know that the US and Iran are able to collaborate on thorny dossiers - such as over Afghanistan.
That leaves the strategic agenda of the proverbial elephant in the room - Israel - on the table. So it's time for the BRICs to call Israel's bluff.
If the Netanyahu government in Israel can humiliate both Obama and Biden on expanded Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, it's fair to assume it could ignore the pleas of the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, who has warned that an attack on Iran would be a "big, big, big problem for all of us".
Israel (as well as Washington) may simply want regime change in Iran by any means necessary. Israel may go nuclear - using bunker-busting tactical nukes to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. Israel may be ready to unleash preventive war - a staple of Israeli policy fully adopted by the George W Bush administration. And Israel certainly counts on the US for logistical and political support......"
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