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Newer »With the death toll of Lebanese reaching over 900, More than 3,000 have been wounded and 1million - or a quarter of the total population - has been displaced. A third of the casualties in the conflict are children under 12……..
With that cheerful news in mind, lets take a look at what Human Rights Watch has to say about all this:
“Since the start of the conflict, Israeli forces have consistently launched artillery and air attacks with limited or dubious military gain but excessive civilian cost. In dozens of attacks, Israeli forces struck an area with no apparent military target. In some cases, the timing and intensity of the attack, the absence of a military target, as well as return strikes on rescuers, suggest that Israeli forces deliberately targeted civilians.”
And…
“By consistently failing to distinguish between combatants and civilians, Israel has violated one of the most fundamental tenets of the laws of war: the duty to carry out attacks on only military targets. The pattern of attacks during the Israeli offensive in Lebanon suggests that the failures cannot be explained or dismissed as mere accidents; the extent of the pattern and the seriousness of the consequences indicate the commission of war crimes.”
hmmm, so what about certain documented cases:
Now let’s see….a draft resolution reached after days of painstaking negotiations and a painful compromise….between France and the U.S…..?
One might be excused for thinking that maybe, finally, after more than 3 weeks of slaughter and carnage, some nations had the decency to call a stop to it all….but no wait, we’re talking about Muslims and Arabs here aren’t we? No prizes for guessing who this latest batch of rectal spew from the leaders of the free(hah) world will favor….
Let’s grab a magnifying apparatus and take a shufti shall we?
Let’s see now…hit ctrl+F and search for “ceasefire”….no, no luck there…maybe they misspelled it, let’s try “ceacefire” nope…..ok, just “cease”….no, nothing there…..ah wait a minute, I’ve found “full cessation of hostilities”…so what does that mean? Isn’t that just another way of saying ceasefire? Were all people at the U.N originally lawyers for big corporations before they found more lucrative work? …
And reading on, “the immediate cessation by Hezbollah of all attacks and the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military actions”….yes, I see where this is heading…..Hezbollah’s got to stop all its attacks….and Israel its “offensive” military actions…..correct me if I’m wrong, and I’m being a tad cynical here, but doesn’t that mean that Hezbollah has to stop everything, and Israel can pretty much keep on attacking whatever it wants, and then just say “its was Defensive, Defensive! not Offensive…duh”…..oh but surly a nice little friendly genocidal state like Israel would do that? Would it?
“A BBC correspondent at the UN says the wording would allow Israel some freedom if it argues it needs to defend itself.”…..hmmm…it WOULD!
No matter how hard I searched, or how often I used the F3, ctrl-F, F.U, or F.Off functions on my P.C, I couldn’t find anything remotely resembling a call for Israel to withdraw it’s troops out of Lebanon…..
So, let’s strip this U.N resolution of ambiguous slimy lawyer talk, and put it into layman’s terms shall we:
“Hizbollah has to stop all military action, including firing rockets into Israel, and defending southern Lebanon against the Israeli army’s invasion…..Israel can keep on attacking whatever it wants, as long as they say it was “defensive”…..Israel can keep its troops in the south of Lebanon as long as it wishes….
Seems to me, Israel couldn’t have done a better job if it had drafted this resolution all by itself….
Thus it is written, thus the Zion-U.S-U.N council has spoken, and from it’s vile monstrous pit, vomited forth poisons and calamities upon the innocent and weak of the world…..only fools and those dark of heart may fail to weep at this sordid and sorry state of affairs….
By Nidal Kadri,
لبنانيات فوق جدار الخيانة
(تموز 2006)
نضال القادري
أتاوا، كندا ـ 31 تموز 2006
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كان “سعد” يفتش عن مدينته وسط الضباب(1)
عن حزنه المبعثر عند الأصيل
عن الأمس الأنيس
عن أخر نخلة لم تنحن تحت أقدام الغزاة…
وعتاد “سعد”، هيام يراقص وجه الخيزران
والتي اعتادت أن تهمس لوجه الله /بغداد
تتلو تعويذة البدايات
إذ لا شيء يساوي حضورها
إلا محار ينزاح من أخر الشطأن
شطّان بيروت التي تصعد لصيادها
لأوغادها القادمين
Pictures of the 2006 Israel Lebanon war
Israeli War crimes and Massacres
Of course, when it comes to the murder of civilians, women, children, reporters, peace activists, even U.N soldiers, Israel has an unbeatable track record…..It’s the undisputed heavy weight champion of slaughter. Funny how they always seem to make these “mistakes” over and over again, isn’t it?
Question: What constitutes a war crime? What constitutes a massacre? What constitutes a violation of human rights and international law?
The Answer: If you’re an Arab or a Muslim, none of the Above. You may be brutally slaughtered right before the eyes of the world, you may be kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured, in plain sight, and no one will so much as even condemn those acts.
From Afghanistan to Iraq, Guantanamo to Abughreb, Palestine and now Lebanon, the massacres continue…..while an uncaring world turns a blind eye, the illusion of modern civilization and human values disintegrates around them, no longer is this thin cape capable of covering the naked truth…..the global community is just a tribe of barbarians…..
During a recent brain storm of mine, brought upon by an unusually hectic and intense driving session* in my native homeland of Syria. The 95 percent rule occurred to me. It has now been officially adopted (by a close group of friends), as a valuable anthropological and sociological tool for the classification and study of the human species.
The theorem clearly states, that 95% of all the people you are ever likely to meet will be uncivilized, unruly, uncultured and inferior to you. In physical shape, as well as in intellect and character.
I often find myself labeling people off the cuff as “hmmm, another classic 95 case”, or ” a fine specimen of 95 that one”.
Proof of my theorem can be had by taking a leisurely stroll down your local high street, paying close attention to passers by and pedestrians.
* Driving in Syria is like driving in Italy, only without the etiquette, manners and traffic rules!!
Lets talk about a subject very close to my hea…er, arse….
Bidets, or the lack of them….
The subject’s come up, as its has been on mind of late, namely cause I’m changing the crappy default bidets in my new house.(or at last planning to, I haven’t actually gotten around to it)
Now I have a fondness for bidets, and I just can’t understand why Europe, and the U.S doesn’t share that fondness with me.
Of course, I’m not talking about the bidet that acts as the receptacle for your recycled consumer beverage produce, I’m talking about “the other one”. Yes, the under appreciated, seldom heard of, bidet. you know, The one which unleashes a jet stream of refreshing water in the general direction of your bottom.
For the sake of convenience, ill call it the fountain-bidet, or the Water-bidet for the duration of this article/masterpiece/discourse on modern hygiene paraphernalia.
Now, a good water bidet is an essential tool in the connoisseur’s bathroom, so the issue at hand here is, why is this engineering marvel not available in Europe, or the U.S??????? Is it an abomination? Is it the devil’s mirror? Is it communist subversive propaganda? Why on earth would Europeans and Americans want to be walking around with itchy, feces stained bottoms? Doesn’t it reduce productivity in the workplace? My calculations, based on a minutes or two of my own speculative thought process, point to a 15 percent reduction in the productivity of the contemporary western working man , due to chronic itchy bottom syndrome, and “analia shiteria” , not to mention increased levels of hostility and aggression in the workplace, and a marked decrease in the general happy factor.
BUTT, seriously. I’ve traveled to a few places in Europe in the past, both western and eastern Europe, and I never found any bathroom equipped with a bidet. I was shocked and appalled. Furthermore, I suffered from distress and anxiety due to that fact, and had to spend a good 5 minutes extra above allotted standard crap-time, wetting standard issue toilet paper and applying it to my bottom in a vain attempt to mimic normal water-bidet function and behavior. All in all, I found the usually pleasurable trip to the water closet, had turned into a nightmarish, hellish escapade into a world of grievous danger, and self doubt.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why Europe doesn’t endorse water-to-bottom cleaning contraptions, and why Europeans don’t want to use them. It is a mystery to me, one which I will in all likelihood take with me to my grave.
Therefore, I call upon the forces of good in the civilized world, to initiate a widespread, extensive campaign of mass public education, and awareness about the benefits a clean bottom can have for all mankind. It is my sincere belief, that most major global conflicts and wars, are caused by irritable people with itchy bottoms. Had G.(W.C).Bush had a clean bottom during his first administration, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would never have taken place, and many innocent bottoms would have been spared. I also call upon The U.N general assembly, and permanent members of the security council, to draft a resolution advocating the use of water-bidet apparatus to combat global warming, regional conflict and disease and poverty. After all, the only thing they seem to be good at is talking crap.
Let the slogan be quite clichéd “people who don’t use bidets, Stink”!!!
I, like many others out there, suffer from frequent bouts of narcissism. so without further ado, I present to you a lot of irrelevant and useless information about myself
Real name: AboALi
Age: probably 29
Location: Mostly Aleppo
Marital Status: Single, but not for long.
Qualifications: fully qualified and certified member of the human race.
B.A in English Lit, computer expert(so I like to think)
Current occupation: I’m not occupying anything right now. But I do own a computer store, and this nice website.
Hobbies: Laziness, computers, computer games, computer parts, more computers…..
Achievements: yeah right….
Goals and Aspirations: To remain alive as long as possible, oh yeah, and to enjoy myself in the meantime….
How I would describe myself:
male, lazy, Procrastination, hedonism, “thedark1″, “the other one”, under achiever, slightly balding….too sexy for my shirt
