Friday, September 28, 2007

Thanks everyone searches for the truth

Days prove us and tell us the size of the quagmire of ignorance and backwardness in which we live in ( the Arab rulers and ruled people ) alike and how no responsibility in the decision-making or in our way of understanding the reality or even the logic ... And generated when convinced that emigrated were illiterate and that has emerged from the morass of ignorance and backwardness and intellectual of the left and that was only learner satisfaction to live in a swamp and that is no different from any other stupid to live with him. And what we hear and see from the invitations and the demands of democratic reform comes from the arabic world , but to no avail and that was positive in itself, an indicator of the presence of the opposite of reality. But will write to these invitations success and the desired application it is not for the fact that the call is from impossible, but the fact that the intellectual environment and the prevailing spread between the environment are ignorance and backwardness and inverse understanding of the present and live in the illusion of the past in which live the Arab race so far Since the collapse of Andalusia is no longer any place for Arabs or the presence or influence on the map of the human race except indicates the underdevelopment and declining social and religious, economic and in all aspects of life ,

our leaders (socialist-democratic-liberal-religious .... I leave you area to complete census every country tested mixtures political) claiming understanding and the ability to conduct things, claiming preference of the leadership, what we see from the results but showed degradation of the leadership and stupidity and ignorance in understanding other than science and the Arab people two kinds: the 1st is dogs for the governers and the 2nd is escape from the governers and thier dogs.


both of them live in a spiral conflict intellectual anti first alleged understanding Based on the understanding of the rulers and the second alleges better understanding, it can do well, as well as if it recognizes the masters and thus, and once received second reins things quickly discover that either the same evil and ignorance and no responsibility or more than that?



the Breakdowns, which thrive in our bodies is wrong ideological nation, we left the Islam , to live inside the secular and globalization then we became without any values and principles of civilization and forgot that the Arabs without the islam will be thieves ,, grinding one another and eating the flesh of the structure and people have forgotten that the Arabic man when becomes without any value he will be a christ , Muslim and Jew in the same time , and sometimes it is a quotation from the principles are intervention the idea of installing a personal vision and conviction .


Since the events of September/ 11 . the Arab ruler and ruled an extremely negative towards the islamic invitations and Islamic symbols entities - even including social-and intent that all what related in islam becomes undesired ,,, socially and politically, it held backward thinking dominates Arab mind since the Western forces accused of committing Islamists explosions September 11 is the only Arab rulers to fight this looks in their countries without the slightest room for reflection or very usefulness or results such an act?


By peoples see hesitation words and the responses made by the ruling regimes speech Islam and Muslim men committed to becoming refers to extremism and stresses, some openly saying it has become one of terrorism? ? ? ?


This is the level of the Arab Thought , on the contrary regarding what we know about the foriegn man who lives in europ and north america , that they hate us and accusations us extremism and terrorism, we find people in a very, very good thinking in understanding logic and reality, they are people looking for the truth, solely to the truth. They are people grow up and lived and worked in an environment filled with freedom and democracy then they worked to use this environment to freedom of opinion and expression best use.


They are people exactly dependency not subjugate the majority opinion or the opinion of the rulers Verddon words, they are people honest with themselves and with others, and often read and hear about reports of the Western institutions and organizations and individuals also independent, referring to the fact or statistics or DISCOVERIES for information for as long as we lived in the opposite with a full believing to this opposite ,


and we are the Arabs (Arabs or Muslims, we are the first to have ratified that the events of September 11 stands behind Al-Qaeda. and there is something in this world called AL-QAEDA .


in spite of the reports and the movies which prefer to AL-QAEDA or one of members in ,


if it is a measure of the presence and delivery then i can announce that i am amember of AL-QAEDA or any one can do that .. then will that be a truth ???? whay we allow as a arabic minds to think in this way ?


The problem here is not to deny the news or unbelievable, but in how to deal with the news you see him before he believe or not. It is a question of intellectual considered a watershed important to know the reality in which we live and what we want from this life?


It is only need a little time for thinking , to give him more time to think sincerely either you will believe or uou will deny this news, reports or analysis?


I know many of the prior reports issued by the organizations and bodies , and I was awaring that there are preconditions many lies and suspicions hovering around the events of September /11 , and that the western media is not honest with the American administration transfer data and reports accusing the content Al Qaeda and the Islamic causing other explosions?


The reports of these human rights organizations and some are exported by independent persons are reports and independent information is not subject to any guidance work to looking for the truth only , and not to provide service to communities and the Arab-Muslim peoples and say they disenfranchised, it is not up to uncover the truth only, they are honest with themselves and with their community than the American administration for example, that exploit its relationship with the media in favor of the issues. And thus illustrates the issues and remove as it is exactly the American


one of those reports and information not surprised by the content of course what I read to French writer called Laura Knight analyzed by her way in thinking the events of September /11 , from the perspective of the various non-political .. It was purely by good .. Of course, the Arab people will surprise from this information and the way of thinking becuase they are not used to thing ,


here is the problem of the Arab Thought ... And return to the discoveries Ms. Laura, it is unlikely the aircraft collision seizures are caused crash towers, any aircraft that can not overthrow the towers collapsing and imbedded basis , because the twin towers and grade which is designed towers do not allow them to capture the collision of two aircraft and therefore there is something may help in accelerating collapse .. what is it ???


at this point i will let the reader continue in reading from the sourse to know more about this facts .


Ultra-terrestrials and 9/11
Among the many things being argued by the 9/11 “Truthers” is the question of whether or not advanced, secret, “Space Based Weapons” could have been utilized to disintegrate the World Trade Center Towers. This discussion is, of course, going on in spite of the silly propaganda nonsense recently put out by the tabloid BBC which reported on the “findings” of Cambridge Don, Keith Seffen. All I can say to Keith is: Thinking that a steel framed building could collapse at freefall speed from the impact of even a jetliner loaded with fuel is absurd. In order to collapse at free fall speed, the underlying floors need to be removed before the floors above. It's something called Conservation of Momentum, and anyone not familiar with this should get educated before making a fool of themselves as Seffen has done. The footage of the collapse of the 1,300ft WTC towers has been played and replayed ad nauseum and is etched in all of our minds. If by some miracle you have not seen the footage, it is freely available on the various memorial DVDs of the 9/11 attacks. It is also available for download from our web site.


I strongly suggest that you avail yourself of a copy and study the collapse of both towers.


What you will see is that from the start point of the collapse until there is nothing but air where the towers used to be, about 10 seconds elapse.


An object in `free fall´ i.e. falling through thin air, will take a specific amount of time to reach the ground. The laws of gravity dictate that a 5 ton SUV, for example, and a 1lb rock, given that their relative densities are so much higher than the resistance presented by the surrounding air, will take approximately the same time to reach the ground when dropped from the same height.


The time t required for an object to fall from a height h (in a vacuum) is given by the formula t = sqrt(2h/g), where g is the acceleration due to gravity. Thus an object falling from the top of one of the towers (taking h = 1306 feet and g = 32.174 ft/sec2) would take 9.01 seconds to hit the ground.


Of course, this is in a vacuum, with no air present. It's basic physics. I guess Seffen skipped that lecture. Allowing for the resistance of the air we would have to add on a few seconds, yet according to the government´s 9/11 Commission report , the south tower collapsed in 10 seconds flat. But, as we all saw, the collapse of the south tower `pancaked´ through the 75 lower floors of the tower.


Those undamaged floors below the impact zone would have offered resistance that is thousands of times greater than air.


What time might we allow for the section above the impact point that collapsed to pass through each floor? 1 second each floor? If so, then the collapse should have taken 75 + 10 seconds, or over 1 minute and 20 seconds. For the sake of discussion, let´s allow just a half second delay in the collapse provided by each `pancaked´ floor. In this case it should have taken 37.5 + 10 seconds. But let´s be really charitable and suggest that each floor below the impact point offered just 1/10th of a second resistance to the section that first began to `pancake´ on the lower floors.


In this case the collapse should have taken 7.5 + 10 seconds for a total of 17.5 seconds. Yet this is not what happened. As the official 9/11 report states and as we all saw, the towers collapsed in just 10 seconds! How can this be possible? (Seffen's silliness notwithstanding).


The only explanation is that the floors below the impact point offered no resistance whatsoever allowing the building to fall in `free fall´ with only air as resistance. The only way that this could have occurred is if the support offered by the steel core beams was in some way undermined. The most obvious way to undermine the steel core beams of the WTC tower would seem to be via the techniques employed by demolition experts to take down buildings and have them fall into their own `footprint´ - which is exactly what happened to the WTC towers. However, in the case of the WTC towers there are several factors that point to something other than standard technology being used to demolish towers. This is what is being hotly contested among 9/11 researchers. In an email I received this morning, a 9/11 researcher wrote: If Tarpley is embracing the "space beam theory", he's hurting the Truth Movement. The ptb are trying desperately to keep the Peace Movement and Truth Movement from joining forces. So far, they've been successful, but i don't think they'll be able to keep these natural allies apart much longer. To which another researcher replied: Surely all it would take is a qualified physicist to explain to Tarpley the physical impossibility of such weaponry? My husband IS a physicist and he spent some time working for a DOD contractor in the U.S. before 9/11 subsequent to which we decided to leave the U.S.


He has looked long and carefully at all the evidence and has some thoughts about it. Let me tell you what he proposed as an appropriate way to approach this subject in our book 9/11: The Ultimate Truth.


"Most investigators point to evidence of "explosives" and "squibs" in video footage of the collapse of the two towers, yet to effect the complete destruction of so much concrete and office material, a massive quantity of explosives would surely have been required, and such a quantity is simply not evident in the available footage.


As has been suggested by Professor Jones, an advanced and publicly unknown form of "superthermite" was probably used to cut the steel core beams of the WTC towers, which leaves open the possibility that other similarly advanced and publicly unknown technology was used to disintegrate the concrete that constituted the body of the towers. In this case, it would not be responsible or wise for me to theorize about what specific device or technique was used to turn the towers to dust, however, I will say that `sound´ and `light´ weapons have been developed in the past 20 years by the U.S. and Israeli military that are capable of `invisibly´ destroying hardened targets.


To that I will add that part of the prepping of the WTC towers could have included the planting of `conductors´ to effect the propagation of such an induced wave throughout the buildings and thereby causing the vaporization of concrete and human bodies alike." That's the short version. Now, let's look at that paragraph in a broader context. Controlled demolitions at the WTC has been scientifically proven long ago since the government's version defies basic laws of physics (not to mention an amazing series of coincidences all over the place on that day.). At this point it's just a matter of figuring out what method was used for the demolition...............







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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Arab nations slam Israel for having nukes


U.N. rights chief urges Israel to have mercy on Gaza


Arab nations have condemned Israel for having nuclear weapons, on Friday the final day of a general conference of the U.N. watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency.Omani ambassador Salim Mohammed al-Riyami presented the agenda item "Israeli nuclear capabilities and threat" saying there was concern over the "failure of the universality" of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since Israel refuses to sign it.Israel neither confirms nor denies it has nuclear weapons, although it is believed to have some 200 atom bombs.

"Israel still benefits from total freedom to develop its nuclear capacities," Riyami told the 144 member states of the IAEA, which uses safeguard agreements to monitor compliance with the NPT.Riyami had said in a document submitted along with the agenda item: "The policies of successive Israeli government have obstructed the peace process in the Middle East and all initiatives to free the region . . . of weapons of mass destruction, and in particular of nuclear weapons, have failed.

"The IAEA was also set to debate a resolution on safeguards, with Arab nations pushing for changes in the text to target Israel for having nuclear weapons.At the conference which began Monday Arab states on Thursday pushed through a resolution clearly aimed at Israel, calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.The general conference approves broad policy lines for the IAEA.But the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors, which meets separately from the general conference, makes decisions for the agency on how policy is implemented


Meanwhile the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour urged Israel to exercise restraint in its dealings with the Hamas-led Gaza Strip. In a statement voicing concern at Israel's decision on Wednesday to declare Gaza an "enemy entity", Arbour said reducing fuel and power to the coastal territory would place an "unbearable burden" on its 1.5 million people.


Arbour reminded Israel of its obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law not to use disproportionate means or resort to collective punishment. Arbour condemned the indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel by Palestinian militants in Gaza and said that Gaza had already paid a "heavy price" from daily violence, isolation and deprivation. After three months of nearly complete closure, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is "critical", Angelo Gnaedinger, director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said on Friday on return from Gaza. The agricultural sector is particularly affected,


as most produce is grown for export, while most industrial and other businesses have had to close down, the ICRC said in a statement. The operation of Gaza's water and sewage facilities has been impaired by military incursions, import restrictions, extensive damage to Gaza power station and interruptions to fuel supplies, the Swiss-based aid agency said. An ICRC assessment of nine hospitals in the Gaza Strip found that the hospital infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly, it said.


"Many facilities, diagnostic machines and other equipment are either out of order or in bad condition,


as it is no longer possible to maintain them properly," the ICRC said. The transfer of Gaza patients allowed to go into Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank for medical treatment had slowed to a "trickle", compared with the previous daily rate of 30 to 40 since the Hamas takeover in June, according to the ICRC

Convenient racism

Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex questions. Racists come from all walks of life; their motivation and the root cause of their contemptible views of others may differ, but the outcome of these views is predictably the same - racial discrimination, social and political oppression, religious persecution and war.
The textual definition of racism pertains only to race, but in practice, racism is a consequence of group think, whereby a group of people starts delineating its relationship with other collectives - or other people in general - with a sense of supremacy.
When coupled with economic and/or political dominance, supremacy translates into various forms of subjugation and cruelty.

The adulation of the self-collective and the disparagement of the other is an ancient practice, as old as human civilisation.
It is everlasting for the simple reason that it has always served as a political and economic tool and will likely remain effective as long as the quest for political and material power drives human behaviour.
The issue is not always as straightforward as black and white. For example, less economically advantaged Eastern Europeans seeking (competing for) employment in Western Europe find themselves all lumped in the same group and subject to all sorts of classifications. Equally convenient has been the caricatured misrepresentation of Arabs by mainstream media, which serves to further specific political and economic interests.Ironically, an extreme form of racism also exists in various Arab countries, where foreign workers find themselves placed in a demeaning hierarchy based on country of origin. Western European and Americans top the scale and are readily accommodated, while Southeast Asians are often at the bottom. A very qualified Indian engineer, for example, may find himself getting paid much less than a French engineer with relatively little experience.In some countries, like South Africa, racism has wrecked havoc on society for generations. It manifests itself in the refusal of some people to identify with their ancestral cultures because they fear that such affinity would negate the fact that they are “full” South African citizens (a right for which they fought a most arduous fight).In Malaysia, which exhibits considerable social harmony when compared to some of it neighbours, racial classification is still very real. Despite the government’s commendable efforts to accentuate the Malaysian national model while carefully underscoring the Malay, Chinese or Indian sub-groupings, members of these groups are wary of their statistical representation in Malaysian society. Some react by stressing their number in comparison to that of other groups, while others tirelessly underscore the types of discrimination they experience at the hands of those with the political and economic advantages.While racism is universally recognised, few individuals would admit to their own prejudices and racist tendencies.

Moreover, it would be self-deceiving to view racism as a purely Western phenomenon.

While the Western model of racism, influenced by 18th-century colonialism, is unique in many respects, group prejudices based on class, race and religion are shared almost equally by all nations.The racism of those with political, military and economic power is often violent and detrimental, but it is important to remember that the underdog can be just as racist.An Arab reader from London sent me an e-mail demanding that I explain myself for collaborating on various projects with some well-known Jewish authors. “You are either naïve or you are selling out,” she wrote.

It made no difference to her that these authors are anti-Zionist and have been, for many years, on the frontline of the struggle for Palestinian rights and justice. She simply couldn’t break away from a deeply ingrained racist belief that “Jews are not to be trusted”.Of course, this is not an Arab, but a global predisposition; prolonged conflicts and wars tend to validate and inflate already existing prejudices.Although the Israeli educational system has produced generations of students saturated with grossly misleading images of Arabs and Palestinians, the relationship between Arabs and Jews hasn’t always been negative.

For centuries, both groups lived in harmony; some of the best Arab poets of past times were Jews and some of the most luminous Jewish texts were written originally in Arabic.

Unfortunately, conflict and war have a way of undermining such facts; racism in Israel is so intense now that few dare use the term “Arab Jew”.
When it is not a matter of race, some people seem to slide easily into greater tribal memberships that divide the world into “us” and “them”, often using words of negation and utilising religion. The “non” prefix becomes very useful here - “non-Muslim”, “non-Jew”, “non-Christian”, and so on.
Such negations are never well-intended and always produce negative results. Less apprehensive terms such as “non-democratic” (a neocolonial equivalent to “uncivilised”, perhaps?) could be similarly loaded and dangerous and are often used to promote and justify war.

A true fight against racism and various other types of group prejudice require, first, accepting personal responsibility in shaping one’s own society, and this includes the racism that exists within. Martin Luther King, Jr. refused “to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality”.

We all must uncompromisingly reject such a view as well, if we truly wish for peace, harmony and equality to replace war, social discord and injustice.

* Published in the JORDAN TIMES on September 26, 2007.
The writer is a Palestinian-American author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is “The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle” (Pluto Press, London).

4 Egyptian editors jailed for defaming Mubarak

An Egyptian court sentenced four outspoken newspaper editors to one year in prison with labor on Thursday for defaming President Hosni Mubarak and his politician son Gamal, court sources said.The court also ordered the men -- Ibrahim Issa, Adel Hamouda, Wael el-Ebrashi and Abdel-Halim Qandil -- to pay fines of 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($3,540) each.The court allowed them to pay bail of 10,000 pounds each to stay out of jail if they decide to appeal.

The lawsuit against the editors was filed by two members of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) about a year ago.On Tuesday state security prosecutors referred Issa, editor of the daily newspaper al-Dustour, to trial in a separate case on the same defamation charge.Al- Dustour, along with other Egyptian papers, covered the rumors around the president's ill health in late August, sparking an angry response from authorities who said the rumors were false and politically motivated.Issa's trial is a way "to put pressure on those who are the most critical," said Gasser Abdel-Razek of Human Rights Watch. "It is a convenient way to try and silence the independent press," he told AFP.Issa said that authorities were making an example of him."Press freedom means the freedom to criticize the president," he told AFP. "It's time for the president to come down from the status of pharaoh to that of a human being

IS THAT TRUTH ???? WE HOPE THAT ...Dubai will not jail journalists over violations

Dubai ruler and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates decreed on Tuesday that journalists should not be jailed over their work, two days after two were sentenced to a two-month jail term for libel.“Sheikh Mohammed had issued his directives to the relative organizations not to imprison any journalist because of journalistic task,” the official WAM news agency quoted as saying Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of National Media Council (NMC).He further added that Sheikh Mohammed emphasized that “there are other procedures to be taken in case of a certain violation by any journalist but imprisonment is not included.”
“Sheikh Mohammed issued his directives to the cabinet to speed up its steps towards issuing press and publication law in the light of the amendments made by the NMC in collaboration with relevant organizations,” Abdullah added.His move came two days after two Dubai-based journalists – an Indian and an Egyptian working for the English-language daily Khaleej Times -- were sentenced to two months for libel.They have since been released on bail and are appealing. Two UAE nationals were also recently sentenced to jail for defamation on an Internet site in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, another UAE member, and are appealing the rulings. The website has been closed

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Enough of shame and failure ... Oh enough Gulf States .. this phenomenon exists in Kuwait-qatar-uae too

This phenomenon called bedon... thats mean people who have not the right to naturalization .. yes you can bielive that .. in arbic gulf state where the person has the hightest income in the asia .

This picture of a Kuwaiti child sells watermelons in kuwait streets

why ... because This child is classified with thousands likes him as bedon . .... without citizenship . they are Muslims and Arabs in the majority and living in Kuwait since before its inception , but unfortunately thier parents did not register their names with the census of 60"s past century .... Government ugliest excuse itsself from guilt ? And the question here? Is census statistics or alleged by the Kuwaiti government to determine the measure of Kuwaitis are accredited by God or the Koran or Jewish or Christian?

What they differs from the Kuwaitis themselves?
What is the criterion for granting nationality?
Another question: Why the respectable States grant nationality to any person residing in a few years ,,, four years for example, regardless of affiliation, race, origin or religion? While the Gulf States generally refrain from this ?

Although they live in their own countries since tens of years , Is that because the Stateswhich granted the nationality for any one are respectable and you ar not ?
or the nationality of the Gulf States granted permission to enter Paradise while bearers of foriegn nationality goes to Hell? ? ?

Excuse government ugliest of guilt? ? ?

Enough .. its enought to live in backward . We live in the twentieth century, atheist? ? ? Reflection on nationality and others think of the finest and most useful topics?

Monday, September 24, 2007

Libyan President came to Yemen for planting mines to kill people? Dogs and help us to remove them?

Please be used Your mind and thought with us seriously and were neutral in your decision ...WHO IS BETTER FOR THE HUMANITY AND MORE USEFUL ? IS IT GADDAFI OR THE DOGS ?

An international campaign of solidarity with Mieh Jeribi Ahmad Najib Shabi


Ms. entered Mieh Jeribi, Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party, with Professor Ahmad Najib Shabi, Director of the newspaper stand in an open hunger strike, from Thursday, September 20, 2007.
We are the signatures below:


we affirm our solidarity with the leaders of the Democratic Progressive, and support to the demands of the strikers in order:


1-stop all actions seeking to remove from the Progressive Democratic Party headquarters (central headquarters, and at the headquarters)


2-lifting and control sites experienced by the Democratic Progressive Party to Shbetaha Internet. Also recall that the harassment of the Democratic Progressive, are only part of the general policy to stifle dissenting voices in every opinion and every component of the opposition and independent civil society.


We hold the Tunisian authorities responsible for any deterioration of the health situation of hunger.


Please send signatures, with the name and status at the following address:



TAKE ACTION : Jordan begins monitoring sites like electronic newsletter publications

NO MORE ABUSES
The assistant general manager of the Printing and Publishing Nabil El Sunday 23-9-2007, the Service will monitor the content of electronic news sites and treated like newspapers, saying that the Chamber "entitled, under the law, follow the content of these sites.

He added that the second article in the Press and Publication Law, which was adopted last May, "known print it all means deployment, which codified the meanings or ideas or words in any way.


He said that El Diwan legislation in the prime minister gave an explanation of the law include the electronic sites and is therefore applicable to the press applies to all means of dissemination of the other.


Publications Act and abrogate the new stop journalists of the investigation, while the Press Syndicate aspire text explicitly abolished imprisonment as other laws including the Penal Code

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Another political jokes song by Condoleezza Rice

This movie or this work may consider that it is freedom of expression in countries that respect freedom of expression This work was published ... belief that our countries will allows such freedom of expression


Click here to see this work Satirical

In the first official libyan response : but unfortunately a very negative

Libya is trying to create confusion and division of opinion among the inhabitants of central regions in Yemen.
Yemeni people demands awareness and caution of this sedition and The Yemeni government responded to the claim Libyan blatant interference in the internal affairs of Yemen
source: the losted justice compaign for the mines-victims in yemen
A number of field headquarters of fronts sabotage which started in 1970s and 1980s last in the central regions of the two parts of Yemen met early this week / 14-September with a Libyan diplomat in Sanaa, and yielded meeting on preparations for the Forum on behalf of suspicious affected by the political conflict from the central regions and that the claim compensation to the families of prisoners and exiles on the grounds that the political conflict between the two parts of Yemen and timely settlement of their demand affected administrative and functional as it is happening today in the claims of the southern and eastern provinces

Monday, September 17, 2007

Is violence against children is a general phenomenon or exceptional situations in the Arab region

this is what happened in saudi arabia.............................................................?
.....................Child chained entrant rail for two days, the perpetrator is the father

Sabra Shatila massacre recalled

In Video
Watch Zeina Khodr's report on the Sabra and Shatila survivors - 25 years on



By : Iman Azzi in Beirut, Lebanon
Twenty-five years after surviving the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Jamila Khalife still mourns family members who were killed at the hands of Phalangist Lebanese forces.

Her life since then, she says, has been a daily reminder of the horrors she witnessed as a 16-year-old Palestinian refugee from Jaffa living in the camps at the height of the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war.

This was my father," said Khalife, pointing to a black and white photo of a man lying face down in a narrow street.
"They shot him in the head."
Three of her relatives were also killed.
"After it was over, on the way to find my mother at the nearby hospital, I saw a woman on the street, her intestines were spilling out. She died holding her baby," Khalife recounted as her own daughter, Ghram (Arabic for Love), sat on her lap.
Dusk massacre
In September 1982, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) fighters, evacuated from their Beirut barracks and the Israeli army, surrounded the refugee camps.



On the afternoon of September 16, Israeli forces allowed members of the Lebanese Forces (LF) - an offshoot of the Phalange party - into the camps allegedly to search for suspects in the slaying of Bashir Gemayel, then Lebanese president.
Gemayel, who also headed the LF, had been killed by a car bomb outside his office a day earlier, angering many of his supporters and plunging war-torn Lebanon into further chaos. Palestinian forces quickly distanced themselves from Gemayel's death, but it did not save the camps from reprisals.
Khalife says she remembers seeing both Israelis and Phalange party members inside the camps that day.
"The Israelis were wearing military uniforms. The Phalange wore jeans, normal clothes and military arm bands. They swore at us in Lebanese Arabic," she said.
Most aid organisations working in the camps in 1982 say around 2,000 civilians were killed over the course of three days.
Feigning death
Nabil Mohammad, a Palestinian refugee who lost all but one of his six siblings, said: "The Israeli military were bombing the camps and the worst case scenario was that the Israelis would come in and collect the young men so my uncle sent me away, thinking it would be safer."
Mohammad, his cousin and his cousin's wife dodged snipers as they made their way to a retirement home where his aunt worked. When the fighting had subsided and they returned to their home, they discovered that five of his siblings and his mother had been killed.
His younger brother Munir survived by feigning his death a few feet away from his mother's body.
Mohammad was only 19 when the killings took place, but every year since then he tries to keep the memories of his loved ones alive by returning to the camps, now home to 45,000 Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians.
He remains bitter that fellow Arabs would commit what he called atrocities.
Avenging Gemayel?
But a former LF fighter, who spoke to Al Jazeera on the condition of anonymity, insisted that the Israeli military, and not the Lebanese, should shoulder full responsibility for the killings.
He said: "After Bashir Gemayel was killed, Lebanon was at a boiling state. We were angry, we were lost. We knew that something was going to happen but didn't know what."
He admitted that the LF was angered by the assassination of Gemayel but had no idea what was planned at Sabra and Shatila. The soldier, who began fighting with the LF when he was 13 in 1979, said his unit had been confined to barracks at the Beirut airport and not allowed to leave after Gemayel's murder until they were deployed around Sabra and Shatila.
"It was not the LF [who were responsible for the killings]. It was the Israeli soldiers who went inside those camps," he said.
Where is Sabra and Shatila?
But 25 years later, some Lebanese are unfamiliar with the events of Sabra and Shatila.


Elias, 20, said he had never heard of Sabra and Shatila.
"Where are Sabra and Shatila?" he asked turning to his friend. "Iraq? They never mentioned it in school."
George Hanna, 43, a resident of East Beirut, said: "It was between Christians and Palestinians during the war. I've never been there. What would I do there if I went?
"I never gave Sabra and Shatila any thought."
Nevertheless, Palestinians in Lebanon are determined to keep the history of the camps alive, at least for their community.
Kassem Aina, a co-ordinator for the 'Never forget Sabra and Shatila' campaign, told Al Jazeera: "We tell the children not only about the massacre of Sabra and Shatila. We tell them about all massacres from Deir Yassin to Tel Zaatar to Sabra and Shatila. I feel sad we have so many massacres in our history."
Never forget Sabra and Shatila was founded by Stefano Chiarini, an Italian journalist and activist, who passed away last February.
To mark the 25th anniversary this year, delegations from Italy, France, Spain and other nations will join Palestinian and Lebanese memorials planned for the week.
Seeking justice
The memorials mark the events at the camps, but also push for bringing perpetrators to justice.
To this day, there has been no direct accountability for the killings.
Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, was forced to resign as defence minister after he was found both "indirectly" and "personally" responsible by the 1982 Kahane Commission of inquiry which investigated Israeli culpability in Sabra and Shatila.

LF commander Elie Hobeika, who led the incursion into the camps, received amnesty like all militia leaders following the Lebanese civil war, and went on to become a member of parliament.
He claimed he had evidence that would prove his innocence and directly implicate the Israelis, but was killed one month before he was to testify against Sharon in a case brought by camp survivors in Belgium in 2001.
This weekend, the streets of Sabra and Shatila remain densely packed with people struggling to live normally at the scene of one of Lebanon's worst modern tragedies.
Legal resolution may arrive later but on this year's anniversary the families of the victims are working to balance memories of their loved ones with the ability to move beyond the tragedy.
"You can forgive but you can never forget," said Aina

Iraq suffers triple bomb attacks

Dozens of people have been killed in three separate suicide bomb attacks in Iraq. At least six people died and 18 were wounded after a suicide bomber struck at an outdoor cafe near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

The attack occurred in the town of Tuz on Sunday, about 70km south of Kirkuk. Said Mohammed, the mayor of Tuz, said: "The toll could rise because we are still sifting through the rubble."

However, Iraqi police told Muhammad Faeq, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Arbil that 20 people were injured in the explosion.

Conflicting reportsHe also said that there were conflicting reports on the details of the explosion. The cafe was located in a religiously and ethnically mixed town of Turkmen and Shia residents. The bomber was wearing a belt filled with explosives and blew himself up at the cafe, police said.But Kurdish sources told that an explosive device planted on the side of the road near the cafe had detonated. Meanwhile in west Baghdad, at least nine people have reportedly been killed by a car bomb, followed by clashes between fighters and security forces.

Ramadan attacks Medical and security officals also said that at least 19 people were wounded.
The attack came a day after the Islamic State in Iraq, an al-Qaeda-led group, announced a new phase of attacks during Ramadan. On Saturday, a suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded 15 in southwest Baghdad as people were queueing outside the bakery in Al-Amil. A resident in the Shia neighbourhood said there was no security checkpoint nor police stationed in the neighbourhood.

At least 34 people have been killed by bomb blasts and gunfire in Iraq since the start of the holy month of Ramadan on Thursday.

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Global protests held over Darfur

The conflict in Darfur has drawn celebrities and activists onto the streets across the globe, all calling for urgent action by the world's leaders.

In London, scores of activists put on blindfolds on Sunday as part of Darfur Day, while demonstrators in Rome wore T-shirts printed to look like blood-stained hands.

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The various protests all symbolised the international community's failure to act to stop the atrocities being carried out in Sudan's troubled western region.

The Rome protesters carried a peace torch, which they said had been lit in Chad where there are hundreds of thousands of Darfur refugees.
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The co-ordinated demonstrations come ahead of a meeting this week of the UN general assembly.

Global protests

Organisers, who planned protests in more than 30 countries, said some in the international community had become complacent since the UN Security Council approved plans in July for a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for the vast region.

The deployment of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force faces delays, however, due to a lack of aviation, transport and logistics units, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said last month.

In the meantime Darfur's violence has increased, organisers said.

Campaigners are demanding that the force be deployed quickly, and that the world's most powerful countries put pressure on all sides in the conflict until attacks on civilians stop.

In London, demonstrators carried signs reading 'Stop genocide in Darfur' and 'Rape, torture, murder. How much longer for Darfur?'

In a video made to mark Darfur Day, Desmond Tutu, the South African archbishop, called Darfur "the world's largest concentration of human suffering", adding "it's also entirely avoidable if people speak out".

Mounting misery

More than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been uprooted since ethnic African rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in 2003, accusing it of decades of neglect.

Sudan's government is accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia of Arab nomads known as the Janjawid - a charge it denies.

Sunday's events were being organised by a coalition of more than 50 organisations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Save Darfur Coalition.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Paraded naked before female U.S. wardens, Qahtani said

I confessed under torture: Saudi Gitmo inmate

A Saudi Guantanamo prisoner -- the so-called "20th hijacker" -- said he confessed to knowing about the September 11 attacks after being abused and humiliated by U.S. prison guards at the Guantanamo Bay camp.Muhammad al-Qahtani, 28, said he was beaten, restrained in uncomfortable positions for extended periods, threatened with dogs, and exposed to extreme noise and freezing temperatures. He also said he was forced to remove all his clothes and stand naked in front of female American wardens.

A 2005 U.S. military investigation confirmed that Qahtani was also forced to wear women's underwear, kept in solitary confinement for 160 days, and interrogated for 18-20 hours a day on 48 of 54 days. But the investigation led by Air Force Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt concluded that Qahtani's treatment was not torture because he was not deprived of food, drink or medical attention and sustained no physical injuries.The Saudi prisoner said his confessions were extracted under duress, at his first appearance before a military panel at Guantanamo Bay, nearly five years after he was detained. "I am a businessman and a peaceful person. I have nothing to do with fighting or terrorism," Qahtani said, according to Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat.A U.S. officer at the hearing said Qahtani admitted that he went to Afghanistan in 2001, where he received terrorist training, met with Osama Bin Laden, and agreed to take part in a "martyr mission" for al-Qaeda. Qahtani is one of the most notorious prisoners at Guatanamo, the notorious prison camp in Cuba where the U.S. is holding some 340 terror suspects.Many of the men were captured in Afghanistan in the U.S.-led war to oust the Taliban after the September 11 attacks. The U.S. transferred 16 Saudi detainees to Riyadh on Thursday, bringing to 93 the number of Saudis handed over to the kingdom, while 37 remain incarcerated.About 800 detainees have passed through Guantanamo Bay since it opened. Of the hundreds still being held, only about 10 men have been charged.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

happy new year for new ramadan month

the arabic human rights web site team : congratulate all Muslims and Arabs states for ramadan month coming . and we wish to be a blessed and happy month and we hope that peace prevails, love and justice in the Arab Islamic holy month of this and every month year

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Friday, September 7, 2007

human rights watch :Israel bombed civilian targets during the last war on Lebanon

Tunisia opens first shelter for abused men

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Tunisia opened its first shelter for abused husbands, a Tunisian magazine reported Wednesday.The initiative was led by Al-Arabi Ben Ali Al-Faytouri, a prominent civil rights advocate, the weekly magazine Al-Moulahedh reported."Some women find pleasure in abusing their husbands…It's new to the society," Faytouri told the magazine.Faytouri dedicated a plot of land in the northern part of the country to men who leave their homes after suffering violence or ill-treatment at the hands of their wives.

A study by the National Office of Family and Population revealed last Monday that the structure of the Tunisian family has undergone radical changes, with the man no longer being the main provider for the family.

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Witness for Mubarak rival dead in Egypt jail

A key witness and defendant in the 2005 trial of Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour was found hanged in his prison cell in Cairo on Thursday, security sources said. Ayman Ismail Hassan, who at one stage in Nour's trial retracted his testimony against Nour, hanged himself with a sheet in the prison where he was serving a five-year sentence on a charge of forging documents, they added.During the trial, Hassan said he had made up his testimony under pressure from state security police, who had threatened members of his family.

"I confessed to forgery under pressure from officers from state security," Hassan told reporters in June 2005, after his lawyer told the court he had changed his plea to not guilty. The court disregarded his retraction and went on to sentence both Ayman Nour and Ayman Hassan to five years in prison.

Gameela Ismail, Nour's wife and a party official, said that Hassan, who was in his late 30s, was being held alongside prisoners who had been condemned to death and had complained to his family of mistreatment in prison. "He kept telling them that he had important information to give to the public prosecutor," she told Reuters. Amir Salem, the lawyer who defended Nour in the trial and who has been trying to secure his release on health grounds, told Reuters: "He (Hassan) was the only person taken alone and put in the Appeals prison (in central Cairo), and according to his family he complained constantly of ill treatment." Hassan had already served almost two years of his sentence, plus months in pre-trial detention. Prisoners in Egypt typically leave jail after serving two thirds of their time. Nour's wife said Hassan originally came to the party as a volunteer, offering to recruit members. He was a laborer and a bachelor who looked after his sisters and his nieces, she added.

Nour, 43, the most influential non-Islamist politician opposed to the Mubarak family, won 8 percent of the vote in the presidential elections of 2005, against 89 percent for Mubarak. Human rights groups say the elections were seriously flawed. The charge against Nour was that the endorsements he submitted to the authorities when he set up his liberal Ghad (Tomorrow) Party in 2004 contained forged signatures. Nour was sentenced on Dec. 24, 2005, and the Egyptian government has rejected repeated U.S. appeals for his release.In his absence the liberal and secular party he founded has struggled to survive. Political analysts said the government wanted him out of the way so that the Mubaraks can prepare for the installation of Mubarak's son Gamal, who is also 43, as the next president. Gamal denies having presidential ambitions

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Sixteen Gitmo prisoners return home to Saudi
Sixteen Saudis returned home on Thursday after the United States released them from a prison camp at Guantanamo Bay where terrorism suspects are held. The Saudi state news agency SPA said Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz "expressed his relief and appreciation for the cooperation shown by the authorities in the United States, hoping this leads to the return of the remaining Saudis." Their transfer brings to 93 the number of Saudi detainees so far handed over to the kingdom, while 37 remain incarcerated at the notorious prison camp in Cuba.

Saudi public anger over the treatment of Saudi detainees in Guantanamo Bay has been high in the kingdom, a key U.S. ally. Two Saudis were among three prisoners who hanged themselves at the naval base in June. Many of the men held at Guantanamo were captured in Afghanistan in the U.S.-led war to oust the Taliban after the September 11 attacks. Many have been held for years, most of them without charge. Washington has designated Guantanamo prisoners "enemy combatants", denying them the prisoner of war status that would guarantee them certain rights under international law. About 800 detainees have passed through Guantanamo Bay since it opened, and several hundred are still being held there without charge

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

IMAGINE YOUR SELF IN TWO DEFFERENT SITUATION


Imagine if you have the freedom of expression and opinion?
Imagine if you have the freedom to participate in the demonstrations?
Imagine if you have freedom of movement?
Imagine if you live in a country where elections are visiting?
Did you Sttersch for President?
Imagine if your country clean from corruption and bureaucratic and financial theft by officials?
Imagine if you could say to an official from where it obtained the money?


Imagine if your phone - observer? Or you personally - observer?
Imagine if you lived without racial discrimination?
Imagine what you like or want. its not pre-paid

I do not know that the dream became prevented in our Arab world..... where there are the most possessing dirtiest and worst political systems?
You are a person and you do not feel by your estimate or by your value or by the happiness or hope just because you live within the geographical map of the Middle East and called North Africa ..

I agree with you if I said that this region such unbearable hell, I agree with you as one of the worst areas of the world and the most backward, I agree you.... with any description , but to imagine a little if you live in a democratic country

imagine what would happen difference Feel very happy automatically will be considered yourself being productive player will power to do any Shi go to your happy not mesiralble .you will have a Group of Friends ,,,,,,you Read a book ,,,,,any book,,,, you will be a psychological comfort first and then find an encouragment for reading or playing or to make a jerny or you will set at your computer for hours to discover the world

If ... After that thought yourself and the way your life from two different angles and in different situations ..

Do you ever thought why? the reason for your present situation ..... It is the political environment and the socio-economic backward and totally radically?

And you thought of causing or reason? Although the Middle East and North Africa have significant sources of wealth .. They failed political regimes ruling and dirty and dictatorship and authoritarian and oppressive, and If you looking for or achieve for better life for you or/and for your children..... can create something ... Try to be part of change..... Established your own blog or web site if you are having a computer skills ..... known more about your rights and demand it .. Participate in the political process and educational, social and economic Try to help others try to uncover flaws and scandals officials ..Try to do what it can do ...what each of us can ....Not required from you or me to change all our situation .

you and I me a part of this done ... of this changing . and every one of us a part .

Remember well that change does not come suddenly and does not come alone,,, Nothing.... required patience, courage and boldness of us.............. remember that Not enough to sit down and say that the country is bad or our situation is bad , but needed to do, and we do not do that for us.... it is for our children

let us know a clear truth...,our immigration to europe or to canada our situation will not be changedbecuase we left our children ,, our families.. our friends.. our societies in the bad bad situation ... so what about all of those ?

so let us to be the candle that lights the way for others

Haditha Probe Limps to a Close

by Khody Akhavi
Last December, when the U.S. Marine Corps charged four infantrymen for the murder of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005, the counts represented the most serious case of alleged war crimes committed by Marines in Iraq or Afghanistan.
An official account of the incident, released Nov. 20, said that 15 civilian Iraqis had been killed by a roadside bomb and eight other "insurgents" were gunned down as they fought Iraqi army soldiers and Marines immediately following the blast.
But as new details emerged, an investigation was launched, and a more disturbing narrative developed: the 24 Iraqis had been the apparent victims of a vengeful massacre at the hands of Marines.
Iraqi witnesses said that, after a roadside bomb had killed fellow Marine Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, the Marines went on a rampage, slaughtering civilians on the street and in their homes. The dead included men, women, and children as young as two years old. Death certificates of the 24 Iraqis indicate that they had all been killed by gunshots, contrary to the official account.
The events of Haditha – like the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal in 2004 – outraged the U.S. public, and military officials promised to punish the guilty. But more than one year later, the attempt to hold officers accountable for Abu Ghraib has limped to a close, and the prosecution of the Marines accused in the Haditha killings shows signs of crumbling.
Last week, Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, the only officer to face trial over the Abu Ghraib scandal, was convicted of disobeying an order and reprimanded by a military jury, a punishment that spares him any jail time. Jordan's punishment is lighter than that of Army Col. Thomas M. Pappas, the top officer at Abu Ghraib. He confessed to approving the use of dogs in interrogations and was granted immunity from prosecution.
The preliminary hearing for Marine Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich began Thursday at Camp Pendleton in California and marks perhaps the last chance for prosecutors to bring to court-martial any of the Marines charged with being directly responsible for the Haditha killings. Wuterich, the Marine squad leader and the senior enlisted man in the incident, is charged with 13 counts of murder in connection with the deaths of 18 Iraqis.
Of the four enlisted Marines and four officers charged, murder charges against two of the enlisted men have since been dropped, as have dereliction of duty charges against one of the officers, Capt. Randy W. Stone, a lawyer with the battalion.
As in the Abu Ghraib scandal, the prosecutions in Haditha tend to focus on enlisted men and noncommissioned officers – those accused of having personally committed the acts – not the officers who command the units. In the Abu Ghraib case, 11 soldiers were convicted of various charges relating to the incidents, including dereliction of duty.
The four commissioned officers involved with the Haditha killings were only charged with failing to direct a thorough investigation and were not present during the incident.
But prosecutors have had a difficult time convincing a skeptical investigating officer and a general who presides over preliminary hearings that the Marines had committed murder in Haditha. Additionally, the killings were not thoroughly investigated when they first occurred, and forensic evidence is nonexistent.
In August, Lt. Col. Paul J. Ware recommended that charges against Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt and Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum be dismissed, arguing that in both cases, the Marines were operating in a complex combat environment and that their actions, while horrific, did not constitute a criminal offense.
"My opinion is that there is insufficient evidence for trial. Lt. Cpl. Tatum shot and killed people in houses 1 and 2, but the reason he did so was because of his training and the circumstances he was placed in, not to exact revenge and commit murder," wrote Ware in a 29-page report regarding Tatum's conduct.
Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, commanding officer of Marine Forces Central Command, dismissed charges against Sharratt after a preliminary hearing, and in a letter to the infantryman, wrote:
"The intense examination into this incident, and into your conduct, has been necessary to maintain our discipline standards, and, in the words of the Marine hymn, 'To keep our honor clean.' … You have served as a Marine infantryman in Iraq where our nation is fighting a shadowy enemy who hides among the innocent people, and routinely targets and intentionally draws fire toward civilians."
Charges against another member of the squad, Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz, were dropped in exchange for his testimony against other Marines. On Friday, Cruz testified that he saw Wuterich kill five Iraqis as they stood beside a taxi immediately after the blast. He said Wuterich then walked over to the bodies and pumped more bullets into them, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.
"He went to each and shot at them," Dela Cruz said. "The muzzle [of his rifle] was about a foot from their upper torsos."
Several hours after the incident, Wuterich reportedly told Cruz that should officers question him, the five Iraqis had been running away. Under the rules of engagement taught to Marines, Iraqis fleeing the scene of a roadside bomb explosion can be shot in the back, according to testimony at a preliminary hearing for another Marine.
In some cases, soldiers have faced much stiffer penalties.
Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman were charged with kidnapping and killing an Iraqi in the town of Hamandiya in April 2006. Five of the eight squad members pleaded guilty and the three others were convicted at courts-martial. Only the squad leader, Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins, is still behind bars, but his 15-year sentence is being reviewed by Mattis, commanding officer of Marine Forces Central Command.
Three soldiers accused of the rape and murder of a teenage girl and her family in March 2006 in Mahmudiyah received life sentences after pleading guilty. A fourth soldier who acted as a lookout was sentenced to 27 months in jail. The accused ringleader, Steven Green, risks the death penalty.

More Money for Israel? They're richer than ever, and they don't need it – so why are we giving it?

by:http://www.antiwar.com

American military aid to Israel has been increased yet again, which leads us to ask the inevitable question: What are we getting for our money?
Well, we're getting this, as well as this, and this – not to mention this.
The regularly quoted figure is $3.5 billion per year. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt go with the figure of $3 billion in their new book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, averring that this is "generous, but it is hardly the whole story." This "canonical" figure, they say, "omits a substantial number of other benefits." The authors cite former congressman Lee Hamilton as saying that Israel is one of three countries whose aid total "substantially exceeds the popularly quoted figures." The actual figure, said Hamilton, is more than $4.5 billion.
As Mearsheimer and Walt have pointed out, neither the practical nor the moral case for this extraordinary amount of material support is justified: our Israel-centered foreign policy has been a burden to us in our dealings with the other nations of the Middle East, and it is increasingly clear that U.S. and Israeli interests have diverged since the end of the Cold War. Contrary to the Lobby's assertion that 9/11 made their fight our fight, the exact opposite is the case. Anti-Americanism in the Muslim world is a deadly danger to our national security and a great boon to Osama bin Laden and his many imitators around the globe. This arming of the Israeli Sparta is a strategic and diplomatic liability that grows with each passing year.
This post by Matt Yglesias over at The Atlantic makes a lot of sense, as far as it goes. An argument made by the Amen Corner is that the Israelis are performing a valuable service by refining the technical expertise of the military-industrial complex: they're doing the research and development that is giving America the weapons of tomorrow. But "this doesn't really make sense," Yglesias writes, "since defense contractors – American, Israeli, French, whatever – get paid for their work as is, so it's not clear why the Israeli government would need extra payment."
It's hard to differentiate between private and public industry in socialist Israel, especially when it comes to the military-industrial complex, where no clear line of demarcation exists. Indeed, in the United States, and throughout the world, such companies are virtual arms of the government, which is their primary and often only customer.
The point to be made is this: Just as America's policy of military intervention in the Middle East benefits Israel strategically, serving as an ever expanding protective shield against the hostility of its neighbors, so American subsidies in the form of military aid are designed to bolster the burgeoning Israeli arms industry, so that government-supported Israeli companies can sell us new weaponry developed on our dime.
The system works a little differently in Eastern Europe, where the installation of missile defense-systems purportedly defending against a very unlikely Iranian attack is a direct subsidy to the American companies that developed it. Again, aid to the Israelis is given on unusually favorable terms, and this underscores once more the central point made by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt, which is that the existence of the Lobby – as the single most powerful influence on the conduct of American foreign policy – explains the discrepancy.
Israel is a rich country. They don't need this enormous outpouring of free cash to shore up their military machine, which amounts to around one-sixth of our total foreign aid outlay and about 2 percent of the Israeli gross domestic product. It is the equivalent of roughly $500 per year to each and every citizen of Israel. So why this incredible amount of military aid?
After all, the Israelis are unofficial members of the nuclear club. They could turn Tehran into a molten puddle of glass at a moment's notice, and maybe someday they will. Which is precisely the point. Israel is one of the most warlike countries on earth, given that it has been, since its inception, perpetually at war with its neighbors. Israel's partisans claim this is no fault of the Israelis, yet that question is not only highly debatable, it is utterly irrelevant as far as determining what the American interest is in all this.
This new aid package will accelerate a process that was begun some time ago and help make Israel America's confidante and primary ally, a post once occupied by the British, ensconcing the Jewish state as the primary armaments-producer to the American empire. Israel will profit from the rise of the American empire not only monetarily, but also geopolitically.
This strengthening of the Israeli military-industrial complex fills the coffers of the War Party to overflowing and helps keep the political and economic dynamics of this uniquely binational war economy flowing and politically viable. As regards the latter, as we have seen, the Lobby and allied groups and individuals take a leading role in plumbing for an aggressive policy in the Middle East, pushing for policies that increase war profits. It's the economics of that famous "cycle of violence" that everyone is always talking about breaking, yet it won't be broken until the power of the military-industrial complex is successfully curtailed, and, with it, the decisive influence of the Lobby.
One effect of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy will be to reopen discussion of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and how it's not being enforced in the case of AIPAC. As the arrest, trial, and conviction of Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin makes all too clear, Israel's top lobbying organization in the U.S. is an agent of a foreign government: the upcoming trial of top AIPAC officials Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman on charges of passing classified information gleaned from Franklin to Israeli government officials threatens to uncover what it means to really function as a foreign agent – including engaging in espionage, in addition to routine cheerleading for the Israeli government talking point of the moment.
Many people have written me – given that I have covered the implications of the AIPAC spy trial in detail but haven't published anything on the subject recently – asking whatever happened to Rosen, Weissman, and the case, and darkly implying that since the supposedly all-powerful "Jewish cabal" that (in their view) runs the world couldn't possibly allow this to come to trial, it won't ever see the light of a courtroom. Ah, not so: the trial, though delayed – through the successful legal tactics of the defense – has not been derailed. A trial date of Jan. 14, 2008, has been set – although this, too, is tentative, given the outcome of several pending legal maneuvers. Another reason for the successful delaying tactics by the defense: the media hasn't paid any attention to this case, apart from a brief flurry of interest when the story first broke.
For the reasons why that is so, you'll just have to read The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. I'm just finishing it up now and hope to have a report for you soon. In the meantime, the Lobby marches on, devastating all opposition with its virulent smear campaigns, and pulling in a good chunk of change for the mother country in the process. So, what are we getting for our involuntary "contribution" to the IDF?
Well, nothing. But our politicians, and the corrupt corporate interests whose sock-puppets they are, are getting plenty – of that you can be sure. The former are getting reelected, thanks to huge campaign contributions by the special interests, including the armaments industry, and the latter are getting rich off the backs of the American taxpayers.
And the beat goes on…

Monday, September 3, 2007

Accusations of the security services of violating press freedom in Yemen

Re kidnapping incident controversial against journalist Abdel Karim accusations leveled constantly security bodies in Yemen to the limelight, especially with the confirmation Abdul Karim himself that what has happened shows that the state security agencies stand behind it and expected to be increased next worst Syndicate the security authorities as accomplices in the crime dubbed kidnapping, assault, especially after hurrying security authorities to deny kidnapping incident against Abdul Karim last Monday in the heart of the capital Sanaa, at the sight of journalists and citizens who were near the place and came this incident and accusations of the security services to return focus on the black list of violators of press freedom in Yemen, the National Security Service, Ministry of Interior, a political security, and the moral and political guidance of the armed forces and, finally, the Ministry of Information as the "journalists unrestricted Yemeni" The organization stated that the total cases of violations against journalists Yemen in 2005 and 2006 and the first half of 2007, amounted to 345 cases, prevent the spread between the issuing and printing of newspapers and withholding websites and drew Organization observers consider that the list contained the names of the declared government bodies, and also persons who stand at the top, who are accused of committing violations Organization the premeditation and monitor, considering an invitation to publish their names removed from office and slander of enemies of the press and deter others

In a comment on what was in the black list said Abdul Malik chief editor website of the ruling party, "Congress Net" that no one denies the existence of abuses could affect journalists, either by the security services, or others, but that does not reach some extent that is amplified by before the journalists unrestricted

He said in a statement that the report published by the organization had focused on security services in particular, at the same time shrugged violations and abuses involving journalists by individuals or other institutions, including the parties in the forefront of opposition parties

He questioned the credibility of the work of journalists and other unrestricted and author, al fhede"said that control orientations partisan opposition to the work of many organizations in Yemen is also one of its drawbacks, which weakens the credibility of the statements made by these organizations, which must act as a mediator to create cooperative relations between the press and organs of the State, rather than to convert to fuse to ignite the differences in pointed contrast agent Syndicate Saeed Thabet Saeed that the black list announced by the independent press freedoms, and stated, "We are very concerned, because each institution and its own organization and added" The completion of the issue size violators of press freedom in Yemen need to be more careful, more accurate, and therefore when we diagnose cases of people may be merely implementing policies often unfair and the truth, and this list belong to their owners, and for us, we do not agree absolutely with the union regarding statements indicating the commission security quarters cases of assault and violation of journalists Thabet said, "We are talking about institutions and organs of persons who do not speak their names, as stated know that the existing names, and may be as persons are far from the cases of violations, but if we as an example of political security and the institution, it really has violated many freedoms, as well as national security and other security institutions and pointed out that the Interior Minister Major General Rashad Al-Eleimi interact with them in many of the issues and incidents, saying it was not issued by an attack on journalists, but as institutions and organs may be already are violating journalists and freedoms

Mauritanian slavery threat areas despite the passage of a law criminalized under

BY :GANDY A SHARAR
AL-GAYBEH BINT SULTAN , TU3A BENT HAMEDA ,TEDMAT BENT HAMEDA ,TEDMAT BENT OSMAN .. The names and addresses of prominent of the tragedy of slavery in Mauritania, not knowing when the infiltration of slavery because it was born deprived of their freedom and successors either his grandfather. All they know here rerlatives no longer prepared to accept the reality of slavery and exploitation by the Morse family decades ago, but since that knew their way to life .

AL-GAYBEH attaches great hopes on the developments campaign last few months, especially the ones relating to the law to prohibit and criminalize slavery passed by the parliament recently Mauritanian

Believes that the complaint made in the past few days and presented to the capital Nouakchott to galvanize and activated, will be heeded this time, and doors open, unlike previous times

al-galya Says (almost 50 years) and that it incurred عثاء long travel to the capital from rural villages "al manhar" near "alrakes' province, which lies on the capital, more than 300 kilometers, in order to file against the named Mohamed Ould Ahmed door accusing him insisting to continue slavery and exploitation a number of her family members. citing those suffering what happened with her relative توعه daughter Hamida said that the men forced her - when she worked at his house gratis-on sexual exploitation under the pretext of being a nation, as it promised to enter paradise that is Driven to, and those whose password long, and the outcome-by-al-gaybes"s child is not known to the same father, and refuses men joining him pleading that he had one pair of nation friends

It adds that "tao3a" married after that and I have got four sons, but Ould Ahmed door again decided to bring here to work at home, but her husband refused to new this time is what eventually led to divorce him. The suffering of the family does not end at that point for the truth, it asked man himself once from her family to move to the neighborhood and refused to supply pressures began as a request from a family that had been working then one of their daughters to renounce the described his nation, which has responded family eventually

Pressure did not stop there but overtaken the quest for divorce their daughter called "tedmat" daughter from her husband Osman Abdullah Ould Saleck under the pretext of being a nation, not replace him enter without authorization. Fueled rejection husband, but Ould Ahmed door was able to convince the husband and father that the marriage the nation is inappropriate and harmful to the reputation of socially family, which made the husband and father is in the open hunger strike that responded daughter ultimately to divorce his wife

The status of the family mentioned is not alone in Mauritania, according to human rights organizations, prompting Mauritanian Parliament to the recent ratification of the law criminalizing slavery for the first time in Mauritania, and penalties collected from fines and imprisonment of up to ten years for the perpetrators of the crime of enslavement

Salem believes one of the relatives of al-gaybeh"s that the status of captured will be a test case for a strong new law, as the first case of slavery and exploitation brought to the courts after approval. The Organization of the rescue slaves led by the former slave Massoud Ould Boubacar, and the General Mauritanian Human Rights led by lawyer Fatima had demanded Mbay two days before the formation of an independent commission of inquiry is investigating the scope of practice of slavery in Mauritania. they also demanded the introduction of Foundation also concerned with solving problems of slaves and enable victims to resort to it if necessary, prefering to that would allow to get rid actual slavery-like practices Although legally abolished slavery in Mauritania three times, the human rights organizations and a number of the anti-slavery still emphasizes quality and more widely, especially in rural and remote areas

Solidarity Picket, a formal protest to the United Nations building in Sanaa ..... letter of appeal to President Muammar Gaddafi

Families of mine victims in Yemen organized a sit Pretendedly front of the United Nations offices in Sanaa on Saturday 1 September 2007 to request the United Nations to the need to speed up the acceptance of the complaint to the Human Rights Council, which was GANDY HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION with co-operate with Office of surprised law firm of Legal and consulting together Association for the Defense of Human Rights / aid, in the fifth and the 20th of last August.

The demonstration took place, with more than 500 victims of mines along the Defense assigned case number and the means and actors and media personalities such as sit-sponsored Yemeni newspaper candid news to many Yemeni News cover a number of Arab and regional media for the theme of the event.




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Saturday, September 1, 2007

a legal note to lybian president al - gazzafi

IN THE NAME OF THE GOD
GANDY HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION
IN THE MIDLLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA


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Date : September 1, 2007

Topic : legal notice


President : Mr Moammar al- Gaddafi President of the Great Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Title : Great Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

After Greetings


We the undersigned regrettably inform you that we have applied a formal complaint against you as the official careers and to the Human Rights Council / Geneva. In the fourth and 20th of August last year. 2007. Our appeal to you, and I hope that a genuine legal settlement with the families of those affected include those victims fair compensation and the removal of landmines, which you support and funding to plant in the central regions of the Republic of Yemen.
The official complaint has been submitted to the Human Rights Council allows us as bodies and individuals to make your complaint that has signed the International Covenants on the protection of civil rights and political and social and cultural rights. And the complaint has been strengthened by evidence and material evidence and strong legal and formal certificates of documentary evidence proving direct engagement in the process of laying mines in the areas mentioned.

Mr. President :

Surely you know that you are sorry about the more than fifty thousand Yemeni damaged due to various mines and that this number is increasing unless you remove the cooperation with the Yemeni government. As we know certainly that litigation procedures negatively affect the status and reputation of the State and yourself regionally and internationally And for this reason we ask you to please the need to speed up action legal settlement established on the basis of :

Need urgent and equitable compensation to the families of victims and those affected

Need urgent and just compensation for those affected (economically) from the owners of the lands

The necessity of cooperation with the Yemeni government to speed up the demining in the central regions Esteemed


Mr. President

We knew how sure your wisdom and deep respect for human rights and certainly recognize the consequences of your case and its implications in the future for all parties. Hoping to hear the quick response from your Excellency


Signatories

1. GANDY HUMAN RIGHTS
2. Association for the Defense of Human Rights / Yemen
3. ALAO law firm consulting legal office / Yemen
4. The Defense / Yemeni lawyers.

On behalf
1750 and the families of victims of mines


Please accept the assurances of respect and appreciation

The first of September of 2007-09-01