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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.
Let the world see who the TERRORIST is ….
The Massacres are still going on ..…please pray for our children and to all those martyrs who were killed by the Israeli army
STOP F*****G BOMBING MY COUNTRY YOU F#####G BASTARDS!
By JOHN V. WHITBECK
Now that the Palestinian civil war long sought by Israel, the U.S. and the EU appears on the verge of breaking out, it may be timely to examine the justification put forward by Israel, the U.S. and the EU for their collective punishment of the Palestinian people in retaliation for their having made the “wrong” choice in last January’s democratic election — the refusal of Hamas to “recognize Israel” or to “recognize Israel’s existence” or to “recognize Israel’s right to exist”.
These three verbal formulations have been used by media, politicians and even diplomats interchangeably, as though they mean the same thing. They do not.
“Recognizing Israel” or any other state is a formal legal/diplomatic act by a state with respect to another state. It is inappropriate — indeed, nonsensical — to talk about a political party or movement, even one in a sovereign state, extending diplomatic recognition to a state. To talk of Hamas “recognizing Israel” is simply sloppy, confusing and deceptive shorthand for the real demand being made.
“Recognizing Israel’s existence” is not a logical nonsense and appears on first impression to involve a relatively straightforward acknowledgement of a fact of life — like death and taxes. Yet there are serious practical problems with this formulation. What Israel, within what borders, is involved? The 55% of historical Palestine recommended for a Jewish state by the UN General Assembly in 1947? The 78% of historical Palestine occupied by Israel in 1948 and now viewed by most of the world as “Israel” or “Israel proper”?
The 100% of historical Palestine occupied by Israel since June 1967 and shown as “Israel” on maps in Israeli schoolbooks? Israel has never defined its own borders, since doing so would, necessarily, place limits on them. Still, if this were all that were being demanded of Hamas, it might be possible for it to acknowledge, as a fact of life, that a State of Israel exists today within some specified borders.
“Recognizing Israel’s right to exist”, the actual demand, is in an entirely different league. This formulation does not address diplomatic formalities or simple acceptance of present realities. It calls for a moral judgment.
There is an enormous difference between “recognizing Israel’s existence” and “recognizing Israel’s right to exist”. From a Palestinian perspective, the difference is in the same league as the difference between asking a Jew to acknowledge that the Holocaust happened and asking him to acknowledge that it was “right” that the Holocaust happened — that the Holocaust (or, in the Palestinian case, the Nakba) was morally justified.
To demand that Palestinians recognize “Israel’s right to exist” is to demand that a people who have for almost 60 years been treated, and continue to be treated, as sub-humans publicly proclaim that they ARE sub-humans — and, at least implicitly, that they deserve what has been done, and continues to be done, to them. Even 19th century U.S. governments did not require the surviving Native Americans to publicly proclaim the “rightness” of their ethnic cleansing by the Pale Faces as a condition precedent to even discussing what reservation might be set aside for them — under economic blockade and threat of starvation until they shed whatever pride they had left and conceded the point.
Some believe that Yasser Arafat did concede the point in order to buy his ticket out of the wilderness of demonization and earn the right to be lectured directly by the Americans. In fact, in his famous statement in Stockholm in late 1988, he accepted “Israel’s right to exist in peace and security”. This formulation, significantly, addresses the /conditions/ of existence of a state which, as a matter of fact, exists. It does not address the existential question of the “rightness” of the dispossession and dispersal of the Palestinian people from their homeland to make way for another people coming from abroad.
The original conception of the formulation “Israel’s right to exist” and of its utility as an excuse for not talking to any Palestinian leadership which still stood up for the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people are attributed to Henry Kissinger, the grand master of diplomatic cynicism. There can be little doubt that those states which still employ this formulation do so in full consciousness of what it entails, morally and psychologically, for the Palestinian people and for the same cynical purpose — as a roadblock against any progress toward peace and justice in Israel/Palestine and as a way of helping to buy more time for Israel to create more “facts on the ground” while blaming the Palestinians for their own suffering.
However, many private citizens of good will and decent values may well be taken in by the surface simplicity of the words “Israel’s right to exist” (and even more easily by the other two shorthand formulations) into believing that they constitute a self-evidently reasonable demand and that refusing such a reasonable demand must represent perversity (or a “terrorist ideology”) rather than a need to cling to their self-respect and dignity as full-fledged human beings which is deeply felt and thoroughly understandable in the hearts and minds of a long-abused people who have been stripped of almost everything else that makes life worth living. That this is so is evidenced by polls showing that the percentage of the Palestinian population which approves of Hamas’ steadfastness in refusing to bow to this humiliating demand by their enemies, notwithstanding the intensity of the economic pain and suffering inflicted on them by the Israeli and Western siege, substantially exceeds the percentage of the population which voted for Hamas in January.
It may not be too late to focus decent minds around the world on the unreasonableness — indeed, the immorality — of this demand and of the verbal formulation on which it is based, whose use and abuse have already caused so much misery and threaten to cause more.
John V. Whitbeck, an international lawyer, is author of “The World According to Whitbeck“. He can be reached at: jvwhitbeck@awalnet.net.sa
By JOHNNY BARBER
Jesus is a terrorist, there ain’t no one can doubt it. Born in Bethlehem, what more need I say about it? Thirty foot concrete barriers, soldiers armed with guns, being born in Bethlehem just ain’t much fun. Jesus stands on the corner, throwin’ stones at tanks. Israeli soldiers don’t hold back, they ain’t shootin’ blanks. Jesus stands defiant, a David ‘gainst Goliath. Jesus is a terrorist, he ain’t allowed to pass. Being born in Bethlehem, life is over fast.
Jesus is a terrorist, he ain’t allowed to pass. You know what they’re teaching, in those Christian schools in town. He’s learning hate against the state, and what it means to martyr. Jesus is a terrorist, he don’t need Jimmy Carter. Jesus knows all ’bout them virgins. That ain’t no lie they tell ya, once you pass them pearly gates, it pays to be a fella!
Jesus is a carpenter, but he’s not allowed to work. He passes time carving trinkets for those Christian tourist folk. They come and kiss the ground where Jesus once lay swaddled. They bargain him down, then they just turn on back around. They close their eyes to the soldiers, they close their eyes to the wall. Jesus, born in Bethlehem, don’t stand any chance at all.
Jesus rode a donkey once, straight on through to Jerusalem. Today, Jesus ain’t got a prayer, he’s not allowed to pass. Jesus can’t stoop low enough to kiss the soldier’s ass.
The tourists come back home, blind as before. They go to church, and they sing their songs, and look up on the wall. Jesus still is hangin’ there, saving them from the fall. But just like Judas, they turn their backs, no one heeds his call.
Cause Jesus is a terrorist, but don’t you worry none. It’s just a name they give you when you’re Palestinian. A savior born in Bethlehem- it’s quite a story, but just not rightcause Jesus is a terrorist, don’t you worry ’bout his plight.
Today, the people of Bethlehem are imprisoned behind a thirty-foot high concrete wall, unable to move. The Christian community cannot travel to Jerusalem to pray at the church of the Holy Sepulchre- a short, twenty-minute drive from Bethlehem. The Israeli military occupation, nearing its 40th year, has strangled the economy as well as the people living in the Holy Land, and there is no end in sight. The people are constantly at risk, not even their homes are safe, no sanctuary available- anywhere. The checkpoints and the military incursions are constant reminders that the life of a Palestinian in Bethlehem is cheap. And the Christian community, as well as the world, looks on in silence. At this time of year, as we remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus, may all Christians, and all people of faith, raise their voices and demand justice for the good people of Bethlehem and Palestine.
The occupation must end.
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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A question often and repeatedly asked by Americans, who just don’t know, or can’t grasp how despicable and loathsome their country’s foreign policies really are.
As far as Americans are concerned, the rest of the world is either a big nuisance, or just plain hostile. That maybe true as far as they’re concerned but what are the reasons behind it?
Your average American actually believes the bull that his media and politicians spew out, and thinks the answer to the above question is simply “because they hate our freedom and values, or they’re jealous of our prosperity”. That, aside from being childish and naive, highlights the serious disparity between the American people, and their political system, and that my friends is the core of the issue.
Most American people, are just like any other people in any other country in the world, they abhor and detest the bad things in life….cruelty, injustice, torture, oppression, violence, intimidation, war, poverty…..you name it, they hate it….just like us, just like everyone else….It’s a crying shame therefore, that their country is responsible for a lot of the “bad things in life” on a global scale, and throughout modern history. But of course, any “patriotic” American will deny that won’t he? All the above is just a baseless and misinformed attack against his country which is just looking out for it’s own, and doing what’s in it’s best interest…..all the countless invasions, wars, sanction, coups, vetoes and arm twisting are just legitimate acts of statehood and sovereignty. Given the Machiavellian self serving nature of modern politics, can you really blame the average American for believing all that crap? I dunno, can you blame someone for not stopping a crime that’s taking place in front of them? can you blame someone for not speaking out about a crime? The term “murder accessory ” springs to mind, and that’s just how the American people are being used by their government, as accessories to murder. Murder taking place everyday in their name…..the murder of Afghanis, Iraqis and Palestinians, and the odd Lebanese every now and again. Murder taking place in the name of the American nation, founded on the basic human instinct to resist oppression and tyranny, and champion of the cause of freedom and human rights……well, maybe it was once, but no longer. That dreamy romantic image of the great American nation has long since vanished and is now confined to the pages of history books which speak of a glorious past and of founding fathers and constitution writing and independence.
Arabs of course, have born the brunt of this Jekyll-Hyde transformation. We’ve always been on the wrong end of the stick. True, it wasn’t always the Americans holding it, but they did a nice job taking it over from the imperial English and French. They also did a nice job adopting Europe’s illegitimate child, born of centuries of guilt and given birth to by a bloody labor on the doorsteps of Palestine. Never again will the mistresses’ child want for anything, the stick is to be used solely for the whipping of the “old” children.
This whip has been brandished so often, that it’s really lost its sting. The Arabs are no longer fearful of the pain it inflicts, no longer intimidated by all the shouting and threats. They are resisting, they are rising up and speaking out…..hence 9/11 hence all the bombings hence all the “terrorism”…..Oh, of course not sorry I forgot, “terrorists” are just mad people who like to kill themselves for the joy of it and in order to go to heaven and get all the women there, they hate freedom and democracy and our way of life, and they want to destroy us because they hate us….they have absolutely no cause, and no legitimate struggle or concerns…..the fact that we are occupying their countries and killing their families has nothing to do with all those bombings, they’re just plain crazy irrational people……
And that my friends is the answer to the question “why do they hate us”……..they don’t really hate us, they just hate the way we’ve been whipping em around every now and again…..
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/
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.
