Monday, 31 August 2009

PETERSEN: Boycotts as a legitimate means of resistance

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- August 31, 2009

Boycott legitimate

by Kim Petersen - Dissident Voice - 29 August 2009

Prejudice does not always come with an ugly face. The same holds for Zionism and racism. It is entirely possible for well-intentioned people to hold a prejudice and, even worse, act on held prejudices.

Uri Avnery opposes the brutality inflicted on Palestinians. He campaigns for peace with Palestinians. But he also has a Zionist past. He is European born and fought for the terrorist Irgun in perpetration of a holocaust (Nakba) against Palestinans. He later renounced Irgun’s tactics. He is antiwar, but he is not anti-the fruits of war. He approves of a two state solution. In other words, Israeli Jews will keep the fruits of their dispossessing others — this while continuing to press for the return of what they dispossessed.1 Read More…

[Video Free Gaza] We made it to Gaza on 23rd August 2008, 29 August 2009

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Written by Free Gaza Team 30 August 2009

We will return. We will come back. We will never forget.

A year ago, 23rd August 2008, 44 of us saw the coastline of Gaza in the distance, after 30 hours of traveling across the Mediterranean Sea. We were jubilant. We had made it to Gaza. We had actually made it to Gaza. We had really, really made it to Gaza.

We had MADE IT TO GAZA.

Thank you to all of you who made this possible, who worked on the land crew, who sent out the information to your lists, who covered the story while we were in Gaza. 44 of us made it to Gaza last year, but we were supported by hundreds of you



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX9NfVxYrcY

Sunday, 30 August 2009

Mishaal reassures Jordan that Hamas rejects the "alternative homeland" scheme


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[ 30/08/2009 - 03:49 PM ]

AMMAN, (PIC)-- Khaled Mishaal, the head of Hamas political bureau, stated Saturday, at a memorial ceremony held in Amman to honour his late father, that his Movement is adherent to the Palestinian refugees’ right of return and rejects "the alternative homeland" scheme.

He was quoted by the Jordanian Dostour newspaper as saying that Hamas rejects resettlement of Palestinian refugees in the host countries and rejects the "alternative homeland" scheme, which is marketed by Zionists, stressing that "politically, Palestine is Palestine and Jordan is Jordan."

“I reassure the leaders and people of Jordan that Hamas will only be in the interest of Jordan. We do understand well the international and regional equations,” Mishaal emphasized.

He also underlined that Hamas will not allow any party to pass any Zio-American schemes at the expense of Jordan, stressing that Hamas was not interested in creating any kind of divisions in Jordan or interfering in the internal affairs of Jordan, whether at the Islamic movement level or at any other level, and that the movement would only like to see national unity in Jordan.

Mishaal stressed that Hamas is committed to Palestinian rights, Jerusalem and the right of return and said that the present rift on the Palestinian arena was not natural and his movement was sparing no effort to achieve unity.

He expressed his gratitude to the Jordanian leadership and people and said: "Jordan will remain in our hearts," stressing his and his movement's commitment to the security and interests of Jordan.

... and, another Saudi al-Qaeda bomber (of Baghdad) says "Syrian Mukhabarat trained him"....

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" ... The tape featured a man who called himself Mohammed Hassan al-Shemari, 29, from Saudi Arabia, who was arrested in Diyala province on suspicion of being a leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.

He was detained before last week's bombings but the Iraqi government nonetheless used him to illustrate accusations against Syria. It was not possible to independently verify his story.

Shemari said when he arrived in Syria from Saudi Arabia, he was met by a militant who took him to an al Qaeda training camp in Syria. The head of the camp was a Syrian intelligence agent called Abu al-Qaqaa, he said. "They taught us lessons in Islamic law and trained us to fight. The camp was well known to Syrian intelligence," he said. ... "

Posted by G, Z, & or B at 3:57 PM

Jamil Sayyed to Saad Hariri: You Are Your Dad's Killer till You Punish Forgers


Jamil Sayyed to Saad Hariri: You Are Your Dad's Killer till You Punish Forgers
Hanan Awarekeh Readers Number : 258

30/08/2009 After he was politically arrested by the Lebanese government for four years, Former General Security chief General Jamil al-Sayyed decided to reveal some of what he has against the March 14 and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri along with what he called “corrupt judges” like Said Mirza and Saqr Saqr.

On the 4th anniversary of the political arrest of the four Lebanese generals, and in one of his strongest-worded attacks against the premier-designate and his political and security team, General al-Sayyed lashed out on Sunday at them accusing them of forgery and agreeing to four years of falsification in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).

In a press conference, Jamil al-Sayyed said, "Saad Hariri lost right in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon when he agreed to falsification and the country's destruction during a period of four years."

He said former premier Rafiq Hariri was murdered three times. "The first was on February 14 (2005). The assassins remain at large thanks to some officers and politicians surrounding (Saad) Hariri."

"The second time Rafiq Hariri was killed was when the four generals were arrested after false witnesses were told what to say by politicians, officers and journalists. The third time that Hariri was killed was when the four generals were released," he added.

Sayyed was among four top generals who were released in April after four years in custody in connection with Hariri's assassination, no one has ever been formally charged. The other three are the former head of the presidential guard, Mustafa Hamdan, 53, domestic security chief Ali Hajj, 52, and military intelligence chief Raymond Azar, 56.

General al-Sayyed said the "criminal state keeps among its ranks people like (public prosecutor) Said Mirza." He called on Hariri to hold accountable those who committed forgery such as "Wissam al-Hassan, Said Mirza and Samir Shahadeh."

Addressing Hariri, Sayyed said: "You are your father's killer until you hold them accountable. If you are brave enough you will place a picture of Mohammed Zuhair al-Siddiq next to your father's when welcoming your guests," he said in reference to the main suspect in the investigation into Hariri's assassination.

Mohammed Zuhair Siddiq, a Syrian army deserter often described by the Arab media as the 'King Witness' in the Hariri murder case and arrested in the United Arab Emirates.

Following the Siddiq case, several arrest warrants were issued in Lebanon and Syria against the man for providing false testimonies in the assassination case of Hariri. Siddiq had become a burden on the political sides that at one stage were providing cover for him. Even sources in the Lebanese majority expected Siddiq to be jailed after it turned out that he was a "big lie."

Addressing President Michel Suleiman, al-Sayyed said: "It is a shame that you have been made prisoner. And yes to the amendment of Taef." He added, “I ask President Michel Sleiman to adopt the same strict manner that he used to follow as an army commander or leave his current position.”

He also asked MP Walid Jumblatt "where was your political voice in the international tribunal's file." He said those who take Jumblatt as an ally were committing a mistake.

General al-Sayyed then criticized Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani and asked for an apology to his daughter Sara al-Sayyed for the accusations against her father.

ASHOURI: BELLEMARE WILL RETURN IN A FEW DAYS; LEBANESE POLITICIANS MUST STOP PREDICTIONS

The spokeswoman of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) chief prosecutor Daniel Bellmare dismissed Sunday reports that an "indictment" in the 2005 assassination of Hariri was expected soon.
"Those who are initiating such reports are mere predictors," Radhia Ashouri told BBC in an interview.

She called on Lebanese politicians "not to jump into conclusions, predict dates for an indictment or predict the content of such indictment."

Ashouri insisted that investigations into Hariri's murder were "top secret and the tribunal does not give out information to anyone."

She said that Bellemare was expected back in The Hague in the coming few days. "There is no set deadline for an indictment. But this does not at all mean that the prosecutor does not see a need to inform the Lebanese public on whether there is one or not."

She denied claims the investigation was "politicized" saying "We are not a political side and we have never and will never be influenced by politics."

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from Intiqad newspaper-Lebanon

from Intiqad newspaper-Lebanon



‘Baghdad bombers were recently freed by the US’


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How interesting? Did they bother to ask the Americans why were they released? Was there a trial by the Americans there or it is part of Iraqi sovereignty to do that? These bombings have caused a problem between Syria and Iraq, it was better for the Iraqi officials to look closer home than cause problems with countries they need to have good relationships with.

Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Press TV

The two truck bombers involved in devastating attacks in Baghdad August 19, were recently released from the US custody, announces a senior Iraqi official.

The attacks on the Iraqi finance and foreign ministries killed 95 and injured some 600 people.

“The suicide bomber who blew himself up at the ministry of foreign affairs was released three months ago from Camp Bucca,” the interior ministry official said, referring to the US jail near Basra. He spoke to AFP on the condition of anonymity.

“The suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the ministry of finance was also released a few months ago from the same jail,” he added.

“We have no proof that a former detainee was involved in the bombings,” a US army spokesman claimed on Sunday.

Meanwhile the US has shrugged off the remarks made by the Iraqi official.

“The government of Iraq is still investigating the attacks, and it would be inappropriate for us to speculate as to who may have been involved while the investigation is ongoing.”

Abbas's militias kidnap father of wanted youth, son of MP


Abbas's militias kidnap father of wanted youth, son of MP

[ 30/08/2009 - 01:04 PM ]

TULKAREM, (PIC)-- Security forces loyal to former PA chief Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday kidnapped six Palestinians in Tulkarem, Nablus and Al-Khalil districts including the father of a wanted youth as a hostage until his son gives himself up.

Local sources in Tulkarem said that those militias stormed the home of Adnan Samara, who was formerly held in Israeli occupation jails, and abducted his father Tayseer and his brother Nasr to pressure Adnan into giving himself up.

The sources noted that it was not the first time Adnan's family home was stormed in search of him.

Abbas's militias rounded a shop-keeper in downtown Tulkarem after wreaking havoc in his shop, sources said, adding that Abdul Fattah Al-Qaddoumi was arrested by those forces before and spent seven months in the preventive security jails.

In Nablus, Abbas's forces detained Fadel Al-Beitawi, the son of MP Hamed Al-Beitawi, who is kidnapped for the second time by those militias.

Three other Palestinians, including an ex-prisoner in occupation jails, were kidnapped at the hands of those militias in Al-Khalil.

Massive march in support of Jerusalem and Aqsa leaves Damascus for Quneitra


Massive march in support of Jerusalem and Aqsa leaves Damascus for Quneitra

[ 30/08/2009 - 11:13 AM ]

DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Thousands of people participated on Friday in the march of “To the Aqsa Mosque” which headed from the Syrian capital Damascus to the Syrian city of Quneitra under the auspices of the Syrian popular campaign for the celebration of Jerusalem as the capital of Arab culture for 2009.

The march started from the Palestinian refugee camp of Al-Yarmouk in Damascus and headed toward Quneitra, the closest point to occupied Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque.

This step came in response to the invitation made by Al-Quds international institution and the association of Palestinian scholars abroad, which called for considering Friday a day for the support of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque.

Upon their arrival in the city, the participants performed Friday prayers in the presence of the governor of Quneitra and a number of party and popular leaders in the city.

For their part, Dr. Imad Al-Din Rashid, a representative of Al-Aqsa institution, and Hussein Awawdeh, a senior Hamas official, had the chance to deliver speeches in which they called on the Arab countries to practically move to save the holy city and Mosque from the Zionist threats.

Happy Days for the Jews

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Published August 29, 2009

By Ruth Bernstein

Note from Mark Glenn: Ruth Bernstein has been posting comments on my website for the last year. I have had to censor some of her more inflammatory posts, but on the whole I have allowed her to speak her mind freely on my site. Whether Ruth is a Jewish supremacist or a satirical spoof writer is anyone’s guess. I will let the reader decide.

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“We Jews have good reason to rejoice,” my rabbi told me jokingly the other day. “The goyim are now completely under our thumbs!”

By 2025 America will no longer have a majority of whites. You, the nominally Christian white masses, will be surrounded by a sea of strange faces. All these polyglot multitudes, whom we have managed to introduce into America by co-opting its immigration policies, we shall now pit against you: to be your enemies, to hound you and persecute you and spit at you as they compete with you for jobs and resources.

They will be encouraged to steal your lovely white women, too, thanks to the pornography we shall feed them in daily doses.

What will you do then to keep your honor? How will you survive in your tented cities and slums? You will implode, rending each other, and the black and brown and yellow races will be your scourge, turning against you too and tearing you to pieces.

You will get your junk food from soup kitchens set up by rich Jewish philantropists, proud pampered creatures safely tucked away in palatial mansions, in secure gated communities beyond the reach of your wrath.

Poor goyim! what will you do then? You will be little better than wild beasts in a menagerie. Skulking behind the bars of your cage, you will see the rich Jews standing on the outside in their Dolce & Gabbana sunshades and designer clothes, mocking you and prodding you with their pointed sticks.

Vengeance for 2000 years of persecution? Absolutely! It will give us a sadomasochistic thrill to torment you in revenge for Auschwitz, to create hell for you on earth. The sobs of your children and the demented wailings of your wives and mothers will be like music to our ears.

Sad days for the goyim. The days of reckoning. Goyim, goyim, goyim, going, gone!

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Who began the Great Despair? It was one of you who unleashed misery on mankind when you brought Charles Darwin into the world. Not for nothing did Susan Sontag say, “The white race is the cancer of humanity.” Darwin was our despair as well as yours. It was Darwin who drove Nietzsche crazy and made him cry out, “God is dead!”

Here is what Thomas Huxley, Darwin’s best friend, had to say after The Origin of Species hit the world like a screaming comet on 24 November 1859: “I know of no study which is so utterly saddening as that of the evolution of humanity. Man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, a victim to endless illusions which make his mental existence a burden and fill his life with barren toil and battle.”

In other words: blow your brains out! Lift isn’t worth living.

And so we decided to get our revenge on you for Auschwitz and hasten your demise by a number of policies which we knew would bring you to your knees.

Mass immigration, legal as well as illegal, is now swamping America and turning it into a multicultural zoo. This is serving the interests of organized Jewry. You and your white Anglo-Saxon culture is being systematically undermined and destroyed.

Traditional values, in particular Christian culture and mores, have been swept away and subverted — thanks to eighty years of cultural revolution set in motion by a cabal of Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and settled in the United States.

This group, as many of you will know, is commonly known as the Frankfurt School.

Taking their inspiration from Nietzsche, Darwin, Marx and Freud, these Jewish revolutionaries preached a doctrine of despair and nihilism and attempted to persuade the goyim that solace and salvation lay henceforth in a hedonistic creed of perverted sexuality.

It was Freud who said: “Sexual morality is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.” And it was Herbert Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich, two good Jews marching in unison behind Father Sigmund, who proclaimed the doctrine of salvation through sex with their talk of “Eros and civilization” and “orgiastic potency”.

Fulfilment, the world was told, could henceforth be found in homosexuality, compulsive round-the-clock masturbation, incest, bestiality, and any other sexual aberration that the easily duped goyim could be persuaded to adopt.

As he stood on the deck of the ship bringing him to America, the country he planned to corrupt, Freud turned to a Jewish colleague and joked: “If only the Americans knew we were bringing them the plague!”

These are the dark forces to which you, the goyim, are now being subjected by organized Jewry. Can you resist these forces? No, it seems you cannot— any more than Pavlov’s dog could resist the juicy morsel of meat dangled in front of his nose.

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There are 7 billion people in the world. There are only 15 million Jews. We make up a minute fraction of only 1 per cent of the total. And yet, we are the crème de la crème. We have replaced the WASP elite. And the reason for our transcendence is clear to me: it is because we have no scruples. Untrammeled by Christian morality, we lie and cheat and rise to the top of the heap everywhere.

The word “goyim”, meaning cattle, was not intended as an insult when our rabbis first applied it to you gentiles in the Talmud. The word was simply meant as a factual description. As man is to monkey, Jew is to goy: a superior species.
I have no wish to discuss Darwin with you, but let me tell you that this is all about natural selection and the survival of the fittest. If our rule is near-universal now, if our strength increases by the day, it is because we have all the characteristics of born leaders — particularly intelligence.

You goyim are destined to slavery because you have all the attributes of a slave race. Look around you and take note of what you nominally Christian Americans and Europeans have become: semi-literate, uncultured, philistine, easily led and credulous, irrational, subject to propaganda and the pleasure principle, television-addicted, enervated by alcohol, stultified by drugs, brutalized by pornography.

We, your Masters, have turned you into well-trained automata. No wonder so many of your men now actually prefer pornographic images of women to real women!

You have lost your gods, wretched goyim, because we have done our best to destroy them.

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And what of the triumphant Jew? Does he have reason to gloat as he tramples on the necks of the goyim? I don’t think so.

The Noble Jew of the Torah, where is he? He is dead, and gone the way of all flesh, and is now himself little better than a brute beast. He has won the war of the races, but he did not deserve to win.

In Israel this Übermensch bears a strong resemblance to the jackbooted German who raped and killed his female forebears; and “the noblest army in the world” is now among the most demonic and unspeakable plagues ever to afflict mankind.

The survivors of the Holocaust, no longer content with flouting international law and stealing land — lebensraum for the new Übermenschen — are now ripping the organs out of Palestinians and exporting them to America where respected rabbis are hawking them for huge profits.

You want a kidney, Mr Goldstein? Rabbi Katz, having obtained one from the West Bank for $10,000, will be delighted to sell you one for $160,000. No problem. Just make inquiries at your local synagogue.

Lest you think I am being flippant or ironical, let me tell you that organ theft has now received full rabbinical blessing in Israel. Here is Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg giving Jews his permission to plunder the organs of non-Jews with a clear conscience: “A Jew is entitled,” he tells us, “to extract the liver from a goy if he needs it, for the life of a Jew is more valuable than the life of a goy.” Nicely put. Easy to understand. No ethical problems here, as far as I can see.
Rabbis! What makes a man become a rabbi? Is it the thirst for God? Listen to Jewish actor Richard Pachecho who couldn’t quite make up his mind whether to become a rabbi or a porn star!

“Five years before I got my first part in an adult film,” Pacheco confides, “I went to an audition for an X-rated film with my hair down to my ass, a copy of Wilhelm Reich’s Sexual Revolution under my arm and yelling about work, love and sex, which were Reich’s three principles. These things have got to be in balance or your life is going to be fucked.”

Pacheco didn’t get the job, but he kept on auditioning, since all he really wanted was to screw lovely Roman Catholic porn actresses, thereby getting his revenge for Auschwitz. If you can’t kill them in concentration camps, like they killed your people, at least you can screw them in a Hollywood studio.

“Five years later,” Pacheco revealed nonchalently, “I auditioned for another X-rated film. That very day, I also interviewed at Hebrew Union Seminary to do rabbinical study. I made the choice that the kind of rabbi I would be, if I became one, was one that could have been performing in sex films as part of his experience.”

Beautiful, isn’t it? This Untermensch masquerading as an Übermensch can’t seem to make up his mind whether to sing hymns to God or kiss the Devil’s ass!

So this is where we are: in the eye of the storm.

The Noble Jew, with “the most moral army in the world”, stands surveying the killing fields of the world he has conquered. Iraq and Afghanistan lie in ruins, thanks to his machinations. Iran sits in the cross-hairs, awaiting its inevitable doom. And meanwhile in America, as the sewage of Hollywood spreads its slime over the golden cornfields and shining towers of a once Christian country, there is nothing much to live for except sex and death.

The question needs to be asked: was it all worth it? Who are we Jews going to screw when there’s no one left worth screwing? Are we going to start screwing ourselves?

French FM Kouchner lauds Syria for not "interfering" in Lebanon...

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Naharnet, here

" ... Koucnher said that Syrian President Bashar Assad "repeated three times that he was not insisting on veto power or on supporting Hizbullah."

He pointed to Syria's "new diplomatic approach and its openness to Saudi Arabia and Iraq, prior recent accusations."

On Iran, Kouchner did not rule out "a negative Iranian interference" pointing to "the continuous flow of Iranian weapons to Hizbullah which possesses 15,000 missiles." He accused Iran of "continuing to support extremists groups" in reference to Hizbullah, Hamas and other. ....

For his part, President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a "government of national unity as soon as possible."

Posted by G, Z, & or B at 6:05 PM

FINALLY THE SON OF THE BITCH DROPPED HIS LAST FIG LEAF

Guess What?
"HE BLOG FOR PALESTINE"
But she started the whole thing??
He is Anti Hamas, the last Palestinian Fort, and "HE BLOG FOR PALESTINE"
He is Anti Iran, the first Islamic FORT though Baathists used to call him "Mulla Tony", and "HE BLOG FOR PALESTINE"
He is Anti Syria, the Last Arabic Fort and "HE BLOG FOR PALESTINE"

The Fig Leaf he used to cover his true color and his real agenda was Hezbollah.

Finally, he dropped that leaf and attacked his HERO, Hassan Nasrallah,

He used to praise HEZBOLLAH to attack Hamas "Immune to learn".

"Obviously They Don't Have the Needed Arms; Then They Should Hide!
This is Not Cowardice, It Is Commonsense!
The Credibility of Hamas as a Fighting Force is not Good, So Far."
"You ask, what can Hamas do? At a minimum hide, in the face of a superior force."


Out of sudden he wanted Hamas, who should hide, to keep the pressure on the Knocked wall,
and recently to abandon Islam and "Reactionary Muslim Brothers" align it self with Egyptian Progressive Forces, and make it top priority changing the Egyptian regime.

He attaked Syria and claimed that Syria would sell out Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.

He wondered why Palestinians would not learm from the successful model of the Iraqi
resistance? And out of sudden he wrote: Iraqi Resistance what Iraqi Resistance?

He used the Palestinian Sufferings to to Attack Muslims for going to Mecca, for stoning Ibless (Satan - his master), and took every chance to use the sheded Palestinian Blood to Publish his favorite Cartons, the Danish Cartons.

Some of his readers defended him thinking that cares for his people, I commented that he could have referred to the Cartons without publishing it. So he removed it from his "Blog for Palestine"
Outraged with "Habila Saying: "Islamic "Awakening" in Gaza is Our Response to the Siege."
He concluded: "So, is He in Favor of Tightening the Siege? One Wonders About This Habila!"
HE FOUND IT, THE ONLY WAY GAZANS TO BREAK THE SIEGE IS STOPPING BEING MOSLEMS. The best way to Mobilize Muslims to braek the Siege is to publish the the 12 Danish Cartons, and that what he DID.

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    Abbas’s election scare

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    [ 29/08/2009 - 12:05 PM ]

    By Khalid Amayreh

    Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, whose term in office had expired in January 2009, has been vowing to organize general elections in January 2010, giving the impression that these elections will be a magical cure for the many problems facing the Palestinian people and their enduring just cause.

    The call for elections, however, doesn’t seem to be motivated by goodwill as the main real aim behind this gambit is apparently to outmaneuver the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas.

    In fact, it is very difficult to be euphoric or even optimistic about elections held under a sinister foreign military occupation.

    In 2006, Palestinians were cajoled by the Bush administration into holding general elections and were told that the polls would be a paramount task embodying Palestinian sovereignty.

    True, many Palestinians eager to see a loosening of the Nazi-like Israeli stranglehold on their lives and also to see an end to the rampant corruption infesting the Fatah-led PA, accepted the idea, preferring to give the idea the benefit of the doubt.

    However, even before the elections began, it was amply clear that Israel was insisting on exercising its repressive function as the occupation authorities began arresting “the wrong” candidates and brazenly interfering with election campaigns.

    As we all know, the elections did take place, and Hamas won a landslide victory. However, neither Israel and her guardian-ally, the United States, nor Fatah came to terms with the democratic outcome of the elections.

    Israel, as soon as the initial results showed that Hamas was having the upper hand at the ballot boxes, decided to impose draconian and vengeful punishments on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including laying a hermetic siege to the Gaza Strip and barring its 1.5 million inhabitants from accessing food and essential consumer products.

    Similarly, the Zionist-controlled Bush administration bullied the entire world, with the exception of a few courageous states that wouldn’t cave in to American coercion, to boycott the democratically-elected government of Hamas.

    The arrogant coalition, led by the US and directed behind the scenes by international Zionist circles, clamped a tight and suffocating financial siege on the Gaza Strip, preventing financial transactions to the coastal enclave.

    The manifestly murderous siege pushed Gaza to the brink of famine and hundreds of innocent Gazans succumbed to preventable illnesses caused by the absence of appropriate medical care due to the cruel siege.

    In addition, the US intelligence agencies began funding and arming Fatah elements in the Gaza Strip in order to overthrow Hamas and create a quisling-collaborationist regime that would make “peace” with Israel according to Zionist terms.

    Fortunately, Hamas preempted the vicious conspiracy, forestalling a civil war that would have shed a lot of Palestinian blood for Israel’s sake.

    In light, one is prompted to ask what guarantees Abbas and his aides have that Israel would allow free and fair elections to take place.

    Indeed, the bulk of the Islamic-oriented candidates who won the elections of 2006 are still languishing in Israeli jails and dungeons for the “grand crime” of participating in the elections, the very elections that had been Okayed by Israel and the Bush administration.

    I am talking about dozens of Palestinian politicians, people like Nayef Rajoub, Muhammed Abu Jheishe, Azzam Salhab, Nizar Ramadan, and others, who committed no violation apart from wining a seat in the Palestinian legislative council.

    More to the point, it is clear that even if the Israeli occupation army, which controls every corner and street in the West Bank, didn’t interfere with the elections, which is very unlikely given Israel’s hostile fixation on Hamas, the police state apparatus now prevailing in the West Bank, would make the idea of conducting free elections not only unlikely but impossible.

    We are talking about a total absence of basic civil liberties whereby political opponents are arrested, tormented and often tortured to death.

    Furthermore, every conceivable political activity, even an act as simple as raising an Islamic flag, is immediately criminalized. In some cases, the “perpetrators” wouldn’t live to regret their “misdeeds.”

    In fact, it is perfectly safe to claim that insistence on holding elections under these morbid circumstances reflect a malicious intent to falsify the results of the elections beforehand.

    Finally, it is difficult to fathom how elections can be organized in an extremely unhealthy atmosphere in the midst of the enduring crisis between Fatah and Hamas.

    There is no doubt that Hamas will not succumb to the fait accompli created by Abbas, possibly in coordination with his foreign backers, along with the Israelis, who are perpetuating the criminal siege on Gaza and preventing building materials from reaching the blockaded enclave. Needless to say, these building materials are badly needed for rebuilding homes and civilian infrastructure destroyed by the Zio-Nazi war machine earlier this year.

    Unfortunately, there are clear signs that Mr. Abbas and his PLO have been active conspirers in prolonging the Gaza suffering in order to weaken Hamas in the eyes of the people.
    by AbdaAllah Al Mahraqi

    by Abda'Allah Al Mahraqi

    For all these reasons, it is imperative that Hamas must not fall into the trap and reject this trick by the man who had called resistance “futile” and who voiced his willingness to compromise inherent Palestinian rights pertaining to al-Quds al Sharif and the refugees.

    The Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) said “A true believer shouldn’t be bitten from the same snake hole twice.”

    The horrific pogrom of Hebron!

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    "... In August 1929, that community was suddenly and brutally attacked. Incited by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Arab rioters swept through Palestine. In Hebron, the carnage was horrendous. ......A surviving yeshiva student recounted that he "had seen greater horrors than Dante in hell."

    .............nearly 40 years later, after the Six-Day War of 1967, a small group of religious Zionists returned to Hebron ...... relentlessly vilified as fanatics who illegally occupy someone else's land. ....."


    Posted by G, Z, & or B at 10:28 AM

    Alseyassah: Oppose "Hezbollah's backdoor to the UNSC"

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    W. Thomas Smith Jr.

    28 Aug 2009

    Though barely registering a blip in Western media this week, there have been several reports – primarily throughout a variety of Middle East media – that Lebanon may well be a candidate for membership (though non-permanent) on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

    According to several publications this week, Lebanese foreign minister Fawzi Salloukh says the UNSC membership would comply with a “contract” between members of the Arab League and the rotation of seats in the UNSC every two years, adding that the Arab League “has supported Lebanon's application.”

    This of course would have huge implications for any future strategic decisions on Lebanon by the UNSC, because the Lebanon-based terrorist group, Hizballah, controls vast tracts of territory in that country, illegally maintains a vast array of weaponry from rifles to rockets, has infiltrated all levels of the Lebanese Army, holds parliamentary seats, has time-and-again shown its willingness to take up arms against the Lebanese people to achieve its political goals (we must never forget May 2008), and the group continues to conduct terrorist training, operations, and related smuggling of arms, cash, and men worldwide.

    Yes, Hizballah is the same bunch that in 1983 – though under a different name then – murdered scores of our Marines, sailors, and soldiers in the infamous suicide-bomb attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut. Today Hizballah is trained, equipped, and heavily financed (an estimated $1 billion annually) by Iran, and the organization is operationally supported by both Iran and Syria. In fact just last year, former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff said, “Hizballah makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team.”

    And here’s another kicker which everyone seems to dismiss: Fawzi Salloukh – who is actively lobbying for Lebanon’s seat at the UNSC table – is a card-carrying member of Amal, one of Hizballah’s closest allies.

    Hamid Ghoriafi, a London-based correspondent for the Kuwaiti newspaper, Alseyassah (Al-Siyassa), writes today (and I paraphrase based on a source’s translation from Arabic to English) that many Western nations will or should oppose Lebanon’s candidacy because:

    • UNSC Resolutions 1559 and 1701 call for the disarming of Hizballah and other militias, and neither resolution has been implemented.

    • Members of the Lebanese government belong to groups that are on designated-terrorist lists, and these groups represent Syrian and Iranian interests. Also, these groups and [supporting] countries are subject to the international tribunal for the assassination of [former prime minister] Rafik Hariri.

    • A “fear” at the UN that foreign minister Fawzi Salloukh is a member of Amal, which is allied with Hizballah, which is allied with Iran and Syria. And [as a result of those alliances] any confidential discussions between UNSC members would be conveyed directly to Iran.

    • Syria and Qatar played up to the secretary general of the Arab League, convincing him to propose Lebanon. He has agreed to propose without a grasp of “the danger he will be bringing to the UN.”
    The alternative to Lebanon, according to Ghoriafi, is Saudi Arabia, which is widely considered by the UNSC “to be a stable country,” he says.

    Read the article in Arabic at http://www.al-seyassah.com/news_details.asp?nid=68681&snapt=الدولي

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