Call Someone in Gaza now

As part of a solidarity campaign with Gaza run at our forums:

http://www.syriapath.com/forum/

We are calling random phone numbers in Gaza, and expressing our solidarity to those people, and letting them know that we are with them all the way ……

The people in Gaza respond by saying that they will remain strong and defiant, may God bless them all.

Now you can do the same, just call any of these numbers, and replace the xxxx with any 4 numbers. If you get through to a family in Gaza, just let them know that they are not alone, and never will be forgotten.

DO IT NOW, YOU HAVE NO REASON NOT TO. IT ONLY COSTS A COUPLE OF DOLLARS AND A FEW MINUTES.

The phone numbers, plus international and local codes are:

009708282XXXX
009708283XXXX
009708284XXXX
009708286XXXX

Spread the word, post these numbers on your profiles and blogs, send them to your email contacts. Make a difference NOW.

God bless you all.

For Arab Metal Fans

Human Rights Watch Fiasco

Two important articles you should read which highlight the despicable way HRW is reporting on the tragic events in Gaza and in Palestine.

Seriously, this makes you think twice about the credibility of such organizations…

http://www.counterpunch.com/cook11302006.html

Would HRW Have Attacked Martin Luther King, Too?
Palestinians Are Being Denied the Right of Non-Violent Resistance?

By JONATHAN COOK

in Nazareth

If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties — a grandmother — chose last week to strap on a suicide belt and explode herself next to a group of Israeli soldiers invading her refugee camp.

Despite the “Man bites dog” news value of the story, most of the Israeli media played down the incident. Not surprisingly: it is difficult to portray Fatma al-Najar as a crazed fanatic bent only the destruction of Israel.

It is equally difficult not to pause and wonder at the reasons for her suicide mission: according to her family, one of her grandsons was killed by the Israeli army, another is in a wheelchair after his leg had to be amputated, and her house had been demolished.

Or not to think of the years of trauma she and her family have suffered living in a open-air prison under brutal occupation, and now, since the “disengagement”, the agonising months of grinding poverty, slow starvation, repeated aerial bombardments, and the loss of essentials like water and electricity.

Or not to ponder at what it must have been like for her to spend every day under a cloud of fear, to be powerless against a largely unseen and malign force, and to never know when death and mutilation might strike her or her loved ones.

Or not to imagine that she had been longing for the moment when the soldiers who have been destroying her family’s lives might show themselves briefly, coming close enough that she could see and touch them, and wreak her revenge.

Yet Western observers, and the organisations that should represent the very best of their Enlightenment values, seem incapable of understanding what might drive a grandmother to become a suicide bomber. Their empathy fails them, and so does their humanity.
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Water War III

We’ve all suspected and assumed this, in different variations. This blog post very eloquently and academically puts the pieces together. Its long but well worth the read (some of the comments are also interesting).

It refers to Israel’s real motives and intentions behind what happened.. and being one step closer to achieving the Grand Zionist scheme and controlling the Furat (Euphrates).
Read it here:
http://anthropik.com/2006/08/israels-water-wars/

The Aftermath – Relations between Syria and Lebanon

Right then, lets see…… Lebanese refugees….hmmm, in Syria…..haven’t seen that for a while….well, at least not since the civil war that we helped stop……and they’re ungrateful and whining after they get back home……oh bollocks, what have we done to upset them this time?

Apparently, it wasn’t enough that we set them up at our homes and schools, provided them with food, clothing, shelter even toys, raised funds for them, and devoted the entire red cross and red crescent volunteers to tend to their every need, and suffered and are still suffering from hours of blackouts because were giving away electricity to Lebanon.

Some people I know, even quit their work, traveled to Damascus to rent as many apartments as they could find, then went to the border to pick up any stranded families and take them to those apartments.

When the ceasefire came into effect last week, most Lebanese refugees went home….and then promptly started the verbal abuse and slander against Syria and Syrians. Saying things like “Syria is full of donkeys”, or “Syria is filthy and uncivilized”. Well that’s all just very super, it’s like having a guest leave your house, then as soon as he gets out, he pisses all over your porch and sets fire to your dog. Thank you Lebanon for all the P!

But to be fair, the majority of Lebanese, especially those hardest hit in the south, and who also happen to be the poorest and most downtrodden, actually appreciate Syria and all it’s done for them throughout the years. Those people, unfortunately, are the most marginalized, and least heard in Lebanese society. All we hear are the disgusting rantings of the absurdly “in bed with Israel” cedar-future cowards. That bumbling imbecile Hariri, who barley knows how to speak Arabic, let alone form a coherent sentence, or that old git Junblat who looks like he just escaped from a lunatic asylum.

We here in Syria still support, and will always support the free peoples of Lebanon, and the freedom fighters of Hezbollah…..those who have not sold their dignity, honor, ideals and beliefs for scraps, and bonds of servitude to their American and Israeli masters.

A poem about Lebanon

By Nidal Kadri,

لبنانيات فوق جدار الخيانة

(تموز 2006)

نضال القادري

nidalkadri@e-liban.com

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 (more…)