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February 3, 2007

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Life harsher in new Guantanamo unit

In this Dec. 4, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Dept of Defense official, one detainee leads a group as they bow during Islamic prayer, in the outdoor common area, at the old Camp Delta 4 medium security detention center, Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. In contrast, Camp 6 is a new, high-tech maximum security facility, where prisoners stay alone in virtual isolation, and which is driving accusations by attorneys and other detainee advocates of much harsher conditions at Guantanamo in the newest section of the detention center. ( AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

February 03, 2007

By BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Abdul Helil Mamut's good behavior earned him a spot in a medium-security compound at the Guantanamo Bay prison, where he slept in a barracks, shared leisurely meals with other prisoners and could spend more than half the day in an outdoor recreation area.

But in December, the detainee was among dozens transferred from Camp 4 to the maximum-security Camp 6, the newest section of Guantanamo Bay's military prison.

Now Mamut, an ethnic Uighur from China captured in Pakistan, spends all but two hours a day isolated in his cell. He eats and prays by himself. His only recreation comes in a concrete courtyard surrounded by high walls, separated from other prisoners by a chain-link fence.

The U.S. government says the unit provides detainees with more private and comfortable quarters.

But Mamut and other Uighur prisoners complain their days are now filled with "infinite tedium and loneliness," said Sabin Willett, an attorney for the men, in an affidavit filed in a Washington court.

"All expressed a desperate desire for sunlight, fresh air and someone to speak to," Willett wrote after a January visit to the prison, located on the U.S. military base in southeastern Cuba, where the U.S. holds nearly 400 men suspected of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

Wells Dixon, who also represents Uighurs held at Guantanamo, predicted the lack of human interaction in Camp 6 will cause detainees to lose their grip on reality.

"It will very soon become an insane asylum," he told The Associated Press in a phone interview after he returned from the base in January.

The military, however, says Camp 6 has improved the lives of detainees A guard at Camp 6, an Army sergeant whose name cannot be disclosed under military rules, insisted that the prisoners prefer the new air-conditioned cells and the privacy.

"It's kind of like having their own apartment," he said.

Camp 6 houses about 160 men — more than a third of the total at Guantanamo — and is similar to the highest-security U.S. prisons, even though no one at the prison has been convicted.

When the first detainees arrived in the new unit in December, they found on their bunks two pieces of baklava — a sweet pastry common in the Middle East — to welcome them to their new quarters, according to one prison official.

Originally, Camp 6 was going to be more like Camp 4, with detainees allowed to congregate in a common area and share meals. But the commander of the detention center, Navy Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris, said that plan changed after 10 detainees attacked guards in Camp 4 last May and three prisoners committed suicide in June in Camp 1.

"Our understanding of the detainees improved and evolved," Harris said.

In Camp 6, guards handcuff detainees through a slot in the steel door before escorting them to the recreation area.

"They never touch another living thing," Willett said. "They never see, smell, or touch plants, soil, the sea or any creature, except insects."

Willett said he does not know why Mamut, who is about 30, or the other Uighurs were moved out of Camp 4. The military will not discuss individual detainees or decisions about their custody — but officials say tight security is warranted in all cases.

"I firmly believe that the detainee population that we have right now is literally still at war with us," said Army Col. Wade Dennis, the detention center warden. "We have to be constantly vigilant."

Willett believes Mamut does not deserve to be in a high-security section, saying he is among the more than 100 detainees slated for release or transfer from Guantanamo.

Uighurs have been accused by China of leading a violent Islamic separatist movement in the western province of Xinjiang, though their supporters say Beijing uses claims of terrorism as an excuse to crack down on peaceful pro-independence sentiment.

Under U.S. law, they cannot be deported to China because of concern they could face political persecution. Five Uighurs were sent to Albania last year, but other countries have been unwilling to accept the 17 or so remaining in Guantanamo.

Camp 6 was built for $37 million by KBR, a subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton Co. The military has transferred prisoners there from other parts of the detention center, including from Camps 1, 2 and 3, where detainees were held in steel mesh cells that allowed them to easily communicate with each other but also left guards vulnerable to being spat upon or splashed with other bodily fluids.

Another unit, Camp 5, is reserved for the least compliant and "high value" detainees, who are also kept in individual, solid-wall cells and also allowed outside for only 2 hours a day of recreation in an enclosed area.

Camp 4, where detainees could spend 12-14 hours a day outside and could congregate freely, now holds about 35 prisoners, down from about 180 at the time of the attack on guards in May. Harris said it will never return to its previous size.

A desperate attempt to justify the crime

February 4, 2007

In the last two days, the Presidential guard demolished and burnt the Islamic University buildings; in addition to devastating its furniture and scientific equipments. To justify the attack, the mutiny trends claimed that there were stores of weapons with fighters in addition to having Iranian experts in the University. So they fabricated some pictures of weapons and published them on the media, which is unconceivable and absorb; a simple unit can photo such weapons. If that was true , why didn't they pictured these weapons inside the university. Who did attack the Islamic University and wrote on its walls " The Presidential guard walked from here" ?? Why did not they give the names of the Iranian Experts or the one who committed suicide as they claimed?? The Presidential guards attacked the University and there were only eight civilian guards because it is a civil institution, including different educational faculties. No one imagined such an attack but they proved their barbaric actions. Even if there are weapons and fighters, they won't attack the University by this easy way. The Presidential guards attacked the university without any bullet from the university. The most dangerous aim to this attack is the justification to the Zionist forces to attack the university. The Zionist planes attacked the Islamic university two times without making the damage which was done by the presidential guard. Even the Zionist forces did not claim any weapons' stores in the university. Thus, it's an open invitation to target the Islamic University from the Zionist forces. The same role between the Presidential guards and the Zionist forces appeared in the typical actions for both. We affirm here that the group who burnt a simple part in "Al-Quds open University" is the same group which attacked the Islamic university to cover their crime of the attack and to justify burning an institution in front of another institution.

Fatah warned to assassinate Hamas leaders despite the calm agreement

February 1, 2007


Direct threat to both Atef Adwan, minister of matters of the refugees in the Palestinian government and the deputy Yousef shraafy from “the change and the reform” bloc in the legislative assembly Hamas leaders such as Ishmael Al Ashkar, Musheer Al Habil(Masry), Fathy Hammad and others were facing the same threat by the out-law groups from Fatah movement.

In a statement issued by Fatah movement on Wednesday , they warned the Palestinian legislative deputies after the declared agreement to end the internal conflict.

Despite the agreement also, on Tuesday, the out-law groups from Fatah gunmen killed Husien Al-Shobasi in Khan Younis . An assassination try was conducted against the Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoom on Wednesday. In addition to shooting at the site of the Security Executive Forces in the middle of Gaza Strip which resulted the injury of one member at least.

Al-Qassam Brigades investigated the incidents and did not respond to them in order to let the agreement has its chance to continue.

Later during the clashes, several kidnappings were reported in the factional conflict. The most brazen was in the West Bank city of Nablus, where Fatah gunmen walked into a bank and dragged out a local Hamas leader.

Traffic jams are getting worse by the day in Gaza City's already crowded streets because more and more roads are being closed to motorists by the rival security forces.

After the calm agreement , the Bush administration has asked Congress to approve $85 million in aid for Abbas' troops in order to let the clashes continue.

Israeli analyst Shlomo Brom, a retired army general, said the U.S. shouldn't count on Abbas being able to defeat Hamas militarily. “That is not going to happen, because Hamas is a political movement that enjoys great support among the Palestinians,” he said.

" The middle East " newspaper reported that the Israeli Forces agreed to let An Emirates help to the Palestinian Authority across Kirim Abu Salim border.

The help included 1500 protective jackets from bullets, 30 jeeps, 400 tents and six vehicles. The Emirates help came across Egypt from the middle east to Rafah border.

Abu Suoud, 32, a Fatah gunman in Rafah, said his group is hoarding ammunition, and no longer wasting bullets by firing into the air at weddings and funerals. “We save each bullet for the battle,” he said referring to the battle with Hamas movement.

Conclusions of the meeting of Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip revealed

February 3, 2007

Gaza - Ma'an - On Saturday evening the Hamas and Fatah movements agreed to withdraw their gunmen from the streets of the Gaza Strip. The agreement followed a meeting at the headquarters of the Egyptian embassy and under the patronage of the Egyptian security delegation who are staying in the Gaza Strip. The agreement comprises of seven points as follows:

1. Immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of gunmen from the streets and towers, in addition to the removal of all checkpoints that were erected in response to the latest events.

2. Palestinian police to patrol the streets and maintain security in all regions of the Gaza Strip, especially Gaza City where there have been fierce clashes.

3. Immediate release of all hostages, from both sides, including those being detained by the security forces.

4. Urgent session to be held to follow-up agreements.

5. Both movements affirmed that any targeting of the security forces, Palestinian citizens, or institutions is "ugly" and condemned, and those committing such offences will be tried.

6. Both movements pledge to support the ministry of interior's decisions regarding domestic law.

7. All media, especially local, is to be called upon to stop publishing negative statements and end incitement and provocation.

Six injured and schools close; weekend death toll reaches 25 following ceasefire agreement

February 3, 2007

Gaza - Ma'an - Despite the announcement of the truce between Fatah and Hamas announced on Friday evening, last night Gaza City continued to witness clashes between the rivals, leaving a further six Palestinians injured.

Medical sources confirmed to Ma'an that five Palestinians were injured in an exchange of fire near the Saraya building in the city center, and one person was injured near the Islamic University.

The sources said that ambulances have been attempting to transport the wounded people to hospital, amid intensive shooting, since the early hours of Saturday morning.

Many barriers remain in the city streets, blocking the movement of the residents in many areas.

There has been intensive shooting since 1am, and the sounds of shooting and explosions can be heard in many parts of the city, especially near the beach area, the preventive security headquarters in Tal El Hawa and the area around the Saraya building.

The death toll over the last 48 hours has reached 25, with over 240 injured, including 41 in critical condition.

UNRWA announced that their schools will close from Saturday 3rd February, stating that the schools will re-open until calm is restored to the city.

Israeli court approves plan to confiscate more West Bank land

3 February 2007

Ali Samoudi (Jenin)

“Our land is administered by the occupation bereft of justice,” said Riyad Hamdan after the Israeli Supreme Court ratified an earlier decision to confiscate more West Bank land. Hamdan was among the Palestinians who went through the Israeli court system to have the decision overturned, however Israeli law does not run in concert with international law and the appeal was denied.

He told PNN Saturday, “We did not bet much on our success in stopping the procedure. Of course the oppressor has the impact in the court. Nevertheless, we tried to save our properties and our sources of livelihood from this injustice.”

The Israelis are citing “security concerns” for the destruction in the eastern West Bank's Jordan Valley, a claim that Hamdan says is spurious at best. He explained that a number of farmers joined to try to stop the confiscation after years of fierce harassment. Hamdan said, “The pretext is fabricated and untrue. Homes are constructed on Palestinian lands and the occupation will not grant permits to build to prevent expansion in the Jordan Valley, despite the stress we suffer as our population has grown but our building capabilities have not.”

He continued, “With the increasing number of members in our family we decided to build a new house. I went through the Civil Administration, providing all of the papers and documents. I even received the license and as soon as I was finished building Israeli forces raided the region and informed me and four other citizens that they would be demolishing our homes.”

Resident Khalid Mansour said, “With the successive raids and continued threats to our families we approached the Supreme Court through an attorney who was allowed there and filed our case with all of the necessary documents. But after several meetings the court issued this unjust response heeding the request of the Israeli security services and military orders which seek to control the areas which are our homes. The purpose is the acquisition of the remainder of our territory. Our families will again be displaced.”

Resident Naif Munir Hosni says he absolutely rejects the decision. “It is not binding as far as I am concerned as the court did not honor its responsibilities under the law and did not listen to our testimonies. The construction was done on Palestinian land that we have had scores of years. It is the land of our fathers and forefathers and it is our right to live and build here. It is not right that the settlers gain legitimacy to rape our land while we are denied residence.”

Another farmer commented, “We were born here as were generations before us. The court and the army are organs of terrorism. Not for one moment did I expect that the court would issue a just decision. We put our dreams and hopes for the future into building these homes.”

Duaa (Prayer) for Palestine

by Tariq Ramadan

Glimpse at Childhood

A Palestinian boy showing his drawing depicting scenes from his life: A tank firing.

Sound Midi

Palestinian adolescents on the streets of Gaza City, pretending to be freedom fighters.


A Palestinian child’s drawing of life in an occupied land.

Is this the world you would wish, for your children?

We do not either!

Dangerous time for Middle East

Photo illustration: Nino Jose Heredia/Gulf News

February 2, 2007

By Patrick Seale, Special to Gulf News

All the ingredients are coming together for a new war in the Middle East. War-fever is being whipped up against Iran by an ignorant and bullying American president and by Israeli hawks shamelessly exploiting the paranoia lying never far beneath the surface of Israeli opinion.

President George W. Bush appears to fear, or has been persuaded by his neo-conservative advisers, that Iran poses a serious challenge to American hegemony in the strategic Gulf region, while Israeli propagandists equate Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Hitler and portray his nuclear programme as an "existential" threat to the Jewish state - nothing less than a new holocaust in the making!

The message coming loud and clear from Washington and Tel Aviv is that Iranian ambitions must be stopped, whatever the cost. As American carrier strike forces converge on the Gulf, and as Israeli bombers practise long-range missions, several observers predict an attack on Iran in the early spring.

The outdated and dangerously mistaken security doctrine which underpins this war hysteria is that the United States and its Israeli ally must maintain their military supremacy in the region or risk imminent catastrophe.

Those who preach reconciliation with local forces based on mutual recognition of legitimate interests, on good neighbourliness and an equitable balance of power are dismissed as appeasers and defeatists.

The US and Israel seem determined to ignore the lessons of the wars they have waged, and lost, in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories - namely that occupation breeds insurrection; that blatant aggression and injustice create terrorists; that an elusive "guerrilla" enemy is difficult to subdue; that states faced with the danger of war will seek deterrence; and that the merger of nationalism and Islam can forge ferocious militancy.

The locals, in sum, are not about to roll over and surrender.

Washington should perhaps reflect that China had no need for military bases in the Gulf to strike its recent historic $100 billion deal with Iran to secure long-term supplies of oil and gas, nor did Beijing rely on gunboat diplomacy to increase its bilateral trade with Saudi Arabia by 30 per cent between 2005 and 2006 alone. (Financial Times, January 30)

There are, however, one or two positive signs in the surrounding gloom. Under Democratic leadership, the US Congress is beginning to wake up and is attempting to curb Bush's belligerence by denying him funds for a deeper involvement in Iraq and insisting that he cannot wage war on Iran without explicit Congressional authority.

In turn, the American public is at last rebelling against the disastrous Iraq war, as may be seen from last week's massive anti-war demonstration in Washington.

More important still is the increasingly open discussion in the United States of the noxious influence of the Jewish lobby on America's foreign policy. In spite of scurrilous attacks by right-wing Jews, former president Jimmy Carter's brave indictment of Israeli policies, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, is climbing up the best-seller lists.

Braving American and Israeli objections, the normally timid and divided European Union is calling for an urgent re-launch of the moribund Arab-Israeli peace process.

European states are also showing great reluctance to follow America's lead in boycotting Iranian banks, as demanded by Stuart Levey, US treasury undersecretary for terrorism and intelligence financing.

Positive signs are also emerging from the region itself, suggesting a will by local powers to solve problems without foreign interference. King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia has indicated that he will not be dragooned by the United States into a confrontation with Iran.

Instead, high-level Saudi and Iranian envoys - Prince Bandar Bin Sultan and Ali Larijani, the heads of their respective national security councils - have held long talks in each other's capitals.

Saudi diplomacy has been active on other fronts. The King has summoned rival Palestinian factions - Fatah and Hamas - to Makkah for talks, and there are rumours that the Kingdom is planning to invite Lebanon's warring factions to a summit at Taif, the venue in 1989 of the last attempt to reach an agreement on Lebanese power-sharing.

Defusing tensions between Sunnis and Shiites, inflamed by America's war in Iraq, is high on the agenda of every regional leader.

Hezbollah's chief, Hassan Nasrallah, and Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, have both spoken of the need to resolve difference through dialogue not violence.

Radical change

In the absence, however, of a radical change of policy by both the US and Israel, regional powers need to look to their own defences by agreeing on clear goals. The following are some of these.

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  The Gulf States should reject both American and Iranian hegemony, but strive instead to become an area of tolerance and modernity where Western and Iranian influence and interests can coexist.
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  A new balance needs to be found in Lebanon to reflect demographic and political realities. In particular, the state's institutions and power-sharing arrangements need to be revised to give the Shiite community a greater, although not a dominant, stake in government decision-making.
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  Syrian-Lebanese relations need to be put on a healthy basis. This involves Syria recognising Lebanon's independence in return for Lebanon recognising that, in the absence of an Arab-Israeli peace, Syria has legitimate security interests in Lebanon and cannot tolerate its neighbour falling into the orbit of a hostile power.
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  A Palestinian national unity government must be formed on the basis of a common programme which offers Israel recognition within its 1967 borders and an end to violence in return for a reciprocal Israeli commitment to end the occupation, renounce violence and recognise the Palestinians' right to an independent state.
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  The Arab states should mount a major diplomatic effort to win European and American support - and the support of the Israeli public - for the Saudi peace plan endorsed at the Beirut Summit of March 2002 which offered Israel normal relations with all 22 members of the Arab League once it withdraws to its 1967 borders. The US can contribute to the plan's success by offering Israel formal security guarantees.
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  An international conference - sponsored by the UN, the US, the EU and Russia - should be convened with the aim of bringing the Arab-Israeli conflict to an end once and for all, thereby removing the principal cause of hostility between the West and the world of Islam.

At a time of grave danger, it is time for local states to take their own destinies in hand, free from the malign ambitions and military assaults of external powers.

Patrick Seale is a commentator and author of several books on Middle East affairs.

Gaza fighting escalates as Hamas seizes Fatah bases

Hamas and Fatah agree to a truce

February 2, 2007

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) -Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 15 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.

Residents of the narrow coastal strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, hid in their homes instead of attending Friday prayers as the rivals fought running gun battles with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades from streets and rooftops.

"Gaza is being burned down," Arafat Abu Eyad said from his smoke-filled balcony overlooking smoldering buildings.

At the urging of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, Abbas of Fatah and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal agreed to hold talks in the holy Muslim city of Mecca, most likely on Tuesday, a senior Palestinian diplomat said.

Eight fighters loyal to Abbas, four Hamas gunmen, a woman and two children were killed on Friday in a second day of fierce clashes in the Gaza Strip that shattered a three-day-old ceasefire between Fatah and the ruling Islamist movement.

At least 21 Palestinians have been killed and more than 200 wounded in the last 24 hours of internal fighting.

The United States has convened a meeting of the Quartet of Middle East mediators in Washington on Friday, seeking to bolster support from the European Union, Russia and the United Nations for its embargo of the Hamas-led government and its attempt to revive stalled peace talks through Abbas, a moderate.

The United States has pledged $86 million to strengthen Abbas's security forces. Hamas accuses Fatah of spearheading a U.S.-backed coup against its government.

Jamal al-Shobaki, Palestinian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, told Reuters that Abbas and Meshaal had agreed to discuss forming a national unity government "that can end the siege."

Abbas and Meshaal failed to settle their differences over a unity government in a meeting last month in Damascus.

UNIVERSITIES ATTACKED

Hours after Fatah gunmen set Islamic University, a Hamas stronghold, ablaze, explosions and fires ripped through the nearby campus of al-Quds University, a Fatah bastion. Hamas denied any involvement in the al-Quds attack.

Ashraf Reziq, who lives a block from the Islamic University, said nobody feels safe. "Gaza has turned into a city of ghosts," the 22-year-old said. "No one is in the streets ... If we have one thing at all, it is fear."

After talks with Egyptian mediators, Hamas and Fatah leaders promised to revive their ceasefire deal. Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas both called for calm.

Hamas defeated the once-dominant Fatah in elections a year ago. Since taking over the government in March, Hamas has struggled to govern under the weight of U.S.-backed sanctions imposed over its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing interim peace deals with the Jewish state.

During Friday's fighting, Hamas attacked a base used by Abbas's presidential guard, pounding it with mortar bombs before taking it over. Hamas said it seized weapons at the base before setting it on fire.

Hamas commandeered a police station dominated by Fatah in Gaza City. In northern Gaza, Hamas seized a headquarters of the Preventive Security Service, a police station, intelligence offices and a base used by an elite Abbas force.

Six members of Abbas's presidential guard and two members of his intelligence service were among the dead, including the head of Abbas's General Intelligence in northern Gaza.

"I call upon everyone, regardless of their affiliation, to stop this bloodletting," Abbas said in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

A fragile truce between the rival factions broke down on Thursday after Hamas gunmen ambushed what the Islamist group said was a convoy carrying military equipment to Abbas's presidential guard in Gaza.

In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army said it killed two Palestinian gunmen, identified by Palestinian officials as members of the Preventive Security force.

(Additional reporting by Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah)

US warns of worsening Iraq crisis

President Bush is sending 21,500 extra US troops to Iraq

2 February 2007

The security situation in Iraq will get worse unless action is taken to reverse increasing communal and insurgent clashes, a US intelligence report says.

The National Intelligence Estimate, produced by 16 US spy agencies, cites sectarian violence as the main threat.

The report uses the controversial term "civil war" to describe key elements of the conflict, but says it does not adequately reflect its complexities.

The report was described as "tough but fair" by a White House spokesman.

"Coalition capabilities including force levels, resources and operations remain an essential stabilising element in Iraq."

National Intelligence Estimate

US national security advisor Steve Hadley said the report, presented to President George W Bush on Thursday, was "a tough look at Iraq".

But he said it was "not at war" with the president's new strategy on Iraq, announced last month, of sending 21,500 additional troops to the region.

'Civil war'

The report said: "The term civil war does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict... Nonetheless the term civil war accurately describes key elements."

The key elements are listed as "the hardening of ethno-sectarian identities, a sea change in the character of the violence and population displacements".

However, as well as sectarian violence, the report points out that there is also conflict within the Shia community and also from elements sympathetic to al-Qaeda.

The National Intelligence Estimate says violence between Sunnis and Shias is being driven by increasing polarisation, compounded by a weak government and security force.

'Ominous consequences'

It warned of ominous consequences if the level of violence went unchecked.

"Unless efforts to reverse these conditions show measurable progress during the term of this estimate in the coming 12 to 18 months, we assess that the overall security situation will continue to deteriorate."

Bombings and mortar attacks are a daily threat to Iraqi civilians

It adds: "Coalition capabilities including force levels, resources and operations remain an essential stabilising element in Iraq."

The BBC's Ian Watson in Washington says the Bush administration is likely to use the report to justify the president's new strategy, as it concludes the Iraqi security forces will be hard-pressed to operate on their own against Shia militias.

The document argued against a quick withdrawal of US troops, saying it would fracture the Iraqi army, strengthen al-Qaeda elements in the country and significantly increase violence.

It also says Iran and to a lesser extent Syria are contributing to a worsening of the situation.

The report is the first intelligence assessment on Iraq in more than two years.

Source

Israel's Flag is Not Mine

Dear Alfred:

... I wholly agree that American partisanship in the Arab-Israel conflict is dangerous to both the United States. and the Free World. My program merely calls for using the power of the President to bring the parties themselves to an agreement. For too long a time, this dispute has been a bitter cause of friction between the Arab nations and Israel. I would hope that both would be friends of the United States... With every good wish, ...

Sincerely,

John F. Kennedy — 1960


Dear Mother:

I brought you my hurts and troubles when both they and I were little: in that same spirit I bring them to you today.

Only last year, a new white flag with single blue six-pointed star was hoisted to a mast many thousands of miles away on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This flag of Israel is the symbol of a new nationalist state, with its own government, army, foreign policy, language, national anthem and oath of allegiance.

And this new flag has brought every one of us five million American citizens of the ancient faith of Judah to a parting in the road.

Judaism, I have felt, was a religious faith which knew no national boundaries, to which a loyal citizen of any country could adhere.

By contrast, Zionism was and is a nationalist movement organized to reconstitute Jews as a nation with a separate homeland. Now that such a state exists, what am I? Am I still only an American who believes in Judaism? Or am I—as extreme Zionists and anti-Semites alike argue—a backsliding member of an Oriental tribe whose loyalty belongs to that group?

Let us start, Mother, with how I feel about this new State of Israel. I wish it well. I hope that several hundred thousand suffering displaced persons will find in it a happy home. I hope it will prosper as a center of democracy in the Middle East. But when its flag was first raised on May 14, 1948, I had no impulse to dance in the street with hysterical joy, as did so many in New York and London. For I was born and remain an American. I have no ties with, no longings for, and feel no responsibilities to Israel. And I believe that the future happiness of the Jews in America depends on their complete integration as citizens of this—our true—country.

I am sure that if we Jews as a group are persuaded to divide that love which people normally give to their native land, it can lead only to disaster.

The Irish? They are a nation and Judaism is a religion. Irishmen here have left Ireland only in recent generations. The Jews left Palestine in Roman times, and have come here from every European country.

My one and only homeland is America. I am proud of my belief in the age-old Judaic concept of one God in Heaven and one Humanity here below. But my faith does not pull me into a feeling of narrowly tribal kinship with all others who worship God in this way. Whenever I read of Americans singing the Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, or see youth groups raising Israel's flag beside the Stars and Stripes. I am outraged. For Israel's flag and anthem are symbols of a foreign state; they are not mine.

The most powerful weapon which Zionism is using on Americans of Jewish faith is its outward cloak of humanitarianism. The argument runs that Israel was set up primarily as a haven for the persecuted, the homeless, so why should we be critical?

Mother, the truth is that Israel was not created primarily for displaced persons. Instead, Article 3 of its proposed constitution proclaims it to be "the national home of the Jewish people." Meaning, Mother, you and me! As early as 1917 Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first president, was proclaiming: "We have never based the Zionist Movement on Jewish suffering in Russia or any other land. These sufferings have never been the mainspring of Zionism."

Rabbi Abba H. Silver, a recent head of the American Zionists, declared: "We must stand foursquare on the proposition that Zionism is not an immigration or a refugee movement, but a movement to rebuild the Jewish State for the Jewish nation in the land of Israel."

And what is the attitude of Israel toward those who adhere to the faith of Judaism but are citizens of other countries? Our "nationality" they insist is Jewish, no matter under what flags we were born; and, since we are not in Israel, we live "in the Diaspora," which is to say in exile. And their plans for us?

"We must," explained Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, in his first speech after the Israeli elections, "save the remnants of Israel in the Diaspora. We must also save their possessions. Without these two things, we shall not build this country."

So the vast Zionist propaganda machine strives to cement national ties between Israel and all persons of Jewish faith. And sending money to Israel is only a small part of our supposed obligation. The deeper objectives are given by Dr. Margoshes, an executive of the American Section of the Jewish Agency, as being:

" - to Zionize world Jewry. . .to establish Zionist hegemony over the developing Jewish communities throughout the world."

Daniel Frisch, newly elected president of the American Zionists, feels that "the American Jewish community will soon arrive at the inevitable conclusion that the all-day school plus a chain of summer camps is the only solution to the problem," and that "we ought to be able to send to Israel American—bred young people who want to live as Jews minus the hyphen under the smiling skies of the reborn Israel. Our task has not ended with the birth of the Jewish State. It has but begun."

Have these misguided zealots forgotten the indignation which was aroused in America In the '30's, when the Bundists tried to tell Americans of German ancestry that they owed loyalty to Germany, and set up in America youth camps dedicated to German culture?

Today we see Zionists boasting of "Jewish" political strength, Zionist picket lines around British consulates, Zionists demonstrating against Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin when he arrives here to sign the Atlantic Pact, New York stores plastered with posters screaming "Do Not Buy British. Made Goods."

Are these people acting as Americans? Europe's recovery through the Marshall Plan is the keystone of our bipartisan foreign policy, which the Communists are trying to sabotage. Any boycott of British goods, organized or unorganized, helps this destruction. Now I know these Zionists were not consciously trying to tear down American foreign policy, but their actions were the inevitable result of living under segregation is not solely the fault of the other guy. Part of the responsibility is on our shoulders. True, the Jew is sometimes segregated by Christians. But it is also true that the Jew sometimes sets himself apart from Christians.

We have moved out of the ghetto, but sometimes scars of the long imprisonment remain. This is why many Jews even today feel at home only with other Jews. Many carry their Jewishness on their sleeves and are extremely self-conscious and sensitive to their separateness.

ALL OF THIS I understand: most of it I forgive. After all, six million Jews were wiped out by Hitler and anti-Semitism does exist, even in America. Why should each of us not be at least a little sensitive? This I think most non-Jews understand. But when anyone criticizes, however mildly, either Zionism, the State of Israel or the hysterical behavior of some groups of Jews. we have no right to shout "anti-Semitism!"

In any religion one can find a small group of fanatics who hate those of other faiths. Such fanatics are not numerous or important. It is Semitism—the constant effort of some Jews to assert themselves as Jews—and not their religion of Judaism which feeds anti-Semitism.

'No one knows better than you, Mother, that I, too, suffered humiliation from being a Jew. I have felt the arrows of discrimination. In my deep hurt I have cried out. But the discipline of two nationalisms. Were Hitler alive today, how he would laugh!

The plain fact is that we Jews are not a race and we should not let the Zionists persuade us that we are. Proof to the contrary lies in Palestine, plain for all to see. You had my letter, Mother, from my Army furlough there. I was second to none in my enthusiasm for what my co-religionists had done—for a desert brought to bloom, for clean new cities rising out of age-old sand dunes. All of these wonders had come to pass while only a few fanatics talked of statehood. One evening I went to see a performance of an opera in Jerusalem. In that theater lobby you could distinguish almost at a glance the Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jew from Poland, the Spanish-speaking Sephardic Jew from North Africa or Turkey, the German Jew, Jews from a score of countries all differing in dress, language, manners and mental attitudes. I had visual proof of the arguments of anthropologists. who laugh at the notion of a distinct Jewish race.

Anyone who tells me those foreign Jews are exclusively my people that I should be closer to them than to Bob McCormick, the kid on the block with whom I used to play ball: or to Nick Galbraith, who roomed next to me at Cornell; or Dave Du Vivier with whom I studied in law school—that man is talking dangerous nonsense. I have also learned, Mother, that when something. goes wrong in my relations with non-Jews. I avoid the habit of thinking that it happened just because I am a Jew. Such self-pity is comforting, but it is usually wrong and therefore dangerous.

There is today a deep split among Americans of the Jewish faith. The Zionists are the more vocal; they have more organized political power. But they do not speak for all of us, and I hope not for most. On the other side there is, for instance, the American Council for Judaism, which insists that the nationalism of Israel must be confined to the boundaries of that state. There are also countless other Jews without any affiliation who revere Judaism as a religion and scorn to degrade it into a cheap racial nationalism which competes with their Americanism.

But when we protest the right of the Zionists to speak as "American Jewry" on the question of Palestine, we are told that Jews should not be disunited, must not fight among themselves on Palestine or any other issue. And if we still speak out against what we feel is a dangerous trend, we find ourselves reviled and ostracized as traitors. Coercion, often economic, frequently silences the freethinker.

But why should Americans of Jewish faith be any more united on questions of American foreign policy than are Presbyterians, Baptists or Methodists?

Have we forgotten the words of Woodrow Wilson in 1915 when he warned all Americans: "You cannot become true Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And a man who goes among you to trade on your nationality is not worthy to live under the Stars and Stripes."

Politicians of both parties who in the last election played to "the Jewish vote"' in connection with Israel will do well to reread those words.

The answer to bigotry and anti-Semitism does not lie in fanatical Jewish nationalism. Of course the blowing-up of the King David Hotel, the hanging of the two British sergeants, the assassination of Bernadotte, the massacre of Arab women and children at Dier Yasin were all acts of tiny groups. But they have weakened the moral and spiritual stature of the world's oldest religion. Israel's terrorist Beigin and Hollywood's Ben Hecht, who encouraged such lawlessness by saying, "Every time you let go with your guns at the British betrayers of your homeland, the Jews of America make a little holiday in their hearts!" such people are doing the Jews more harm than any words which Goebbels spoke.

There was no holiday in my heart, nor in that of the late Rabbi J. L Magnes, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who said sadly following that Hecht statement: "We had always thought that Zionism would diminish anti-Semitism in the world. We are witness to the opposite."

All too many Christians have supported Zionism because they felt that Jews, having been persecuted, should now have what they want whether it is good or bad for them. Christian leaders can help us greatly. But Christian sympathy for Jews should be measured not in terms of support for Jewish nationalism in distant Israel but in accepting us as friends, neighbors and first-class citizens of this our country. That is true liberal Christianity. And also, Mother, good Judaism, that fine old faith which you taught me as a little child.

Alfred M. Lilienthal was born in 1913 in New York City. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia Law School. As an American of Jewish faith, he first became interested in the Middle East while in the U.S. military and stationed in Egypt during World War II. In 1949, his article, "Israel's Flag Is Not Mine," published in the Reader's Digest, caused great controversy because of its anti-Zionist position. Despite condemnation from many influential quarters, Lilienthal has remained in the forefront of the struggle for a balanced U.S. policy not dictated by favoritism toward Israel. He continues today, after over a half century of effort, to defend the Palestinian people and to call repeatedly for an independent State of Palestine.

The picture shows Alfred Lilienthal in 1953.1949

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. Pleasantville New York


Further Information:

Just Wondering

What Makes a Freedom Fighter?

Hamas Parade

Sound Midi

Remebering the Dead

Fatah Demonstration

Christians offer prayers for peace in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon during a special mass in Amman, January 23, 2007. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN)

A Simple Prayer for Peace

Febuary 2, 2007

by Housewife4Palestine

The word freedom fighter that pertains to the Palestinians is usually looked at by the Western media as just people that wear mask’s, carry guns, are suicide bombers and so forth.

However, there is another type of freedom fighter be side’s the armed resistance fighter’s such as Hamas, fraction groups and the now considered collaborator group of Fatah which appears to have changed side's against the Palestinian people.

In Palestine you have aid workers working in many field’s attempting to elevate the hardship’s of the Palestinian’s.

You have peaceful demonstrator’s that like Rachel Corrie that just wished the house demolitions to stop and it cost her life.

You have the mother of four in Brooklyn, New York that goes to mass every week to pray for peace.

The numerous journalist and film crew’s that wish to show the real Palestine not the white washed version shown often to many times in the Western media.

The elderly man that tells and IOF, he is tired of being bullied or the famous picture of the young man throwing the rock at the tank that eventually caused his death.

Or the humble internet writer’s that write day after day from such issue’s as civil rights, justice to global peace.

Who are all these people, the real Freedom fighters!

They come from every walk of life, every religion or nationality, for one simple reason to make right the wrong‘s and injustice in the world.

I will admit there are people out there doing bombing’s and so forth to what appears to be their own agenda, going against the morals and fortitude of society. Now these people are your real terrorist and I will assure you that against popular belief these days they also come from many walks of life to religions.

Even the famous anti Vietnam photo of the American in 1960’s showing the young man putting a flower in the gun of the national guardsman was a freedom fighter.

In our current time’s with the many large wars and oppression’s you will have the mother fighting in Washington because her son died in Iraq and she feels it is an illegal war, these people should be commended for one simple fact; they stood up to be counted with the hope to make wrong’s right.

Nevertheless, one thing people tend to forget about these people, for their countless hours and selfless act’s, "Thank you."

So you ask what makes a freedom fighter, saying “NO” to the injustice in the world.

Peace for Palestine.... End the Occupation!

Israel Nuclear Threat (Iran)

A BBC News Broadcast:


Israel Threatens Iran with Nukes?

Turki Meets Bush

George W. Bush and Prince Turki Al-Faisal

WASHINGTON, 2 February 2007 - US President George W. Bush met with outgoing Saudi Ambassador to the Untied States Prince Turki Al-Faisal at the White House on Thursday. During their meeting, Bush underscored the importance and strength of relations between the Kingdom and the United States.

The president also commended the efforts of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, in solving the problems that threatened security in the Middle East. Bush also appreciated the services of Prince Turki as his country's ambassador. Prince Turki conveyed the greetings of King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan to the president.

Three dead following Israeli invasions of northern West Bank

February 1, 2007

Nablus - Ma'an – An operative in the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Brigades, has been killed on Thursday. Jasir Abu Zghaib from the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank was killed, and six others were injured, when Israeli military forces invaded the refugee camp.

Ma'an's correspondent reported that an Israeli special unit wearing civilian costume and driving a car with Palestinian registration plates, invaded the refugee camp from the southern entrance, and opened fire at the residents, injuring six. Following the initial foray, further military patrols came to reinforce the advance party, and abducted the corpse of Abu Zghaib, and injured 'Amir Al-Baraka, allegedly a member of the Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad movement.

Ma'an's correspondent reported that the injured who have been identified are:

Mahmoud Zaki Qouzah, aged 10,

Rafiq Muwaffaq Dmeiri, aged 16,

Fakhri Ardah, aged 50,

Meriam Nadir Abu Zgheib, 40.

In addition, Fawziyya Ahmad Hdeib, aged 46, was brutally beaten while she tried to help retrieve the corpse of Abu Zghaib.

In a separate incident in Nablus, two Al-Aqsa Brigades operatives were killed in further armed clashes with Israeli forces. Palestinian sources told Ma'an that Amer Kalbonah, aged 21, and Wael Awad, 19, were killed in an armed clash between Israeli military forces and a Fatah-affiliated militant group named "knights of the night."

50 dead in January from inter-Palestinian clashes;

February 1, 2007

Gaza - Ma'an – The January death toll in inter-Palestinian clashes reached 50, with over 304 injuries. Tolls of the recent clashes have mounted to 6 deaths and 89 injuries. Two members of the presidential guard, two members of the national security force and one member of the Executive Force.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that clashes between Hamas members and presidential forces took place in both the Al-Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps. Further skirmishes across the Gaza Strip followed. In the north of the strip, fierce fighting resulted in eight injuries.

According to the Meizan center for human rights, the death toll from the inter-Palestinian clashes during January reached 43, including 8 children, and 304 injuries including 33 children, with an additional 99 people taken hostage. The center proclaimed that this level of death is unprecedented since the formation of the Palestinian Authority.

In comparison, the death toll during January from Israeli aggression reached 13. The Palestinian death toll since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa intifada, at the end of January 2007, has now reached 2544.

"Muslims In America: Surviving After September 11th" by Siraj Wahhaj

"It seems as if we're always in the position to defend ourselves. While people strike blow after blow we continue on the ropes defending ourselves"

Listen to an Audio Clip

A lecture that looks at the climate of fear and conditions of prejudice that has been brought upon the Muslim community as a result of September 11th.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj implores the Muslim community to seize the opportunity of a willingness to dialogue in order to educate others about the truth of Islam.

The Muslim community seems to be dormant and needs to wake up to the world around it.

The Muslim world is under tremendous scrutiny and must understand this and live up to the Muslim name.

He continues by saying that Muslims must be more than just advocates of peace; they must be examples of peace. And while we must advocate and exude peacefulness, we must also speak out against injustices. We cannot sit back and ignore injustices perpetrated against us.

In conclusion, Muslims must put forth the best example in a post September 11th world so that others will see it and come to a better understanding of Islam.

Official Web Site

Video Excerpts:


Speak the Truth / Condemn Extremism





Can Muslims Take Jews and Christians as Friends?





Note:

In Islam, only men can marry non-Muslims because it is considered the religion of the marriage; is carried thought the father or the man of the house.

Holding the Truth

Febuary 1, 2007

by HRM Deborah

Every once and while I am reminded how strange truth actually is. It is like one day, I kept seeing people doing bad things and I thought about all the bad things people do.

How it is so easy for people to lie which only puts a cloud over the truth until it is raining so hard and the other clouds have rolled in and guess what no umbrella.

I seen people play many tricks like it is a joke or a puzzle, but one thing truth eventually does is shows it’s face and no matter how hard you try to turn away it will find you.

By the way, the puzzle will eventually find all the pieces and go together to be complete; with the wonderment astonishing.

Even I realize that truth is sometimes hard to swallow because it has a tendency to be two choices, something so beautiful or so painful that it is almost too horrible to face.



Nevertheless, one thing truth does is let you see the possibilities of what you can actually do and how extraordinary you really are, because Allah has a way of tapping you on the shoulder with a kind of smile.

Many people seem to be so bogged down these days, thinking their whole life is one big test by Allah and oh what are they going to do if they get a poor grade? One thing I have learned if you believe in truth within yourself and look ahead you will always pass and you find that even the hardest test was a breeze.

In the world today, there are so many hardships from every front whether it is the economy to war or getting the children’s lunch ready for school. I am sad to say, I have dealt with hardships even to the point of life threatening and one thing it did teach me no matter the hardship, always live for the light at the end of the tunnel or even for the bright sun that will rise in the morning.

Because no matter how hard a situation is and sometimes it may seem a long time, one thing hope does; is make you know it cannot last.

One thing you always need to remember, your life is suppose to be beautiful and happy as with all that is in the world.

This is the truth unfolded, being placed for you to hold in your hands!

Global Peace & Unity 2006

A few Nasheeds by Dawud Wharnsby Ali, Muhammad Al Husayan and Zain Bhikha at the 2006 Global Peace & Unity Event.

History of The Dome of Rock

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IED on U.S. Soldiers in Pickup Truck

First hand footage

January 30, 2007

If You Plan to Immigrate to the U.S. It is going to Cost You

U.S. plans hike in immigration, citizenship fees

Some of the more than 8,700 new U.S. citizens from 100 countries say the Pledge of Allegiance while being sworn in as U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles September 22, 2006. Immigrants applying to become citizens or permanent residents of the United States may have to pay higher application fees, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

January 31, 2007

PHOENIX (Reuters) -Immigrants applying to become citizens or permanent residents of the United States may have to pay higher application fees, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

The fee increases, which are subject to a review process, are part of a drive by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to overhaul its strained processing system, which leaves many legal immigrants waiting months or years for a green card or naturalization as U.S. citizens.

The fee increases would provide "appropriate funding to meet customer service needs and national security requirements, and (modernize) an outdated business structure," the agency said.

Under the proposed increases, citizenship applications would cost $595, up from $330, while permanent residency applications would jump to $905 from $325.

If approved, these fees would be valid for a two-year period starting in October.
Pro-immigration lobbyists were critical of plans to boost charges, which they said won't guarantee improve service.

"With the level of service showing no signs of improvement, the announcement of yet another round of fee increases ... is dispiriting," said Douglas Rivlin, spokesman for the Washington-based National Immigration Forum lobbying group.

"The national interest is served when we facilitate the citizenship and assimilation of immigrants into fully participating members of society," he added. "This substantial fee increase moves us in the wrong direction."

Hamas Fighter Killed in Gaza Despite Truce

Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 31 January 2007 — A Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip was shot dead yesterday despite a truce between feuding Palestinian factions and Israeli planes retaliated to Monday’s Palestinian attack by bombing a tunnel at the Kerni border crossing between Egypt and Gaza.

Hospital officials in the town of Khan Younis said Hussein Shabasi was shot in the head in the first killing in the territory since a cease-fire went into effect on Monday night.

A spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing said he was killed by the Preventive Security Service, most of whose members belong to President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction. The security service denied any connection with his death.

The truce was agreed at a meeting between Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Rawhi Fattuh, a senior aide to Abbas, after a wave of infighting that erupted Thursday killed 33 Palestinians including children. More than 110 were wounded.

Speaking after the meeting, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar said both Fatah and Hamas had agreed to take all gunmen off the streets of Gaza and the cease-fire would take effect at 3 a.m. The agreement stipulated the removal of all checkpoints from Gaza streets and the immediate release of all abducted persons.

“I hope that calm and stability will last so that we can resume dialogue over formation of a national unity government,” Haniyeh said after the truce took effect. Previous cease-fires, including one last month, have been short-lived.

There were no casualties from the Israeli airstrike. “The intention of the tunnel was to be used in order to carry out a terror attack against Israeli civilians in the immediate future,” an army spokesman said in Jerusalem.

The strike was the first since a Nov. 26 cease-fire came into effect in Gaza, under which Israel withdrew its troops from the territory and Palestinians were to stop firing rockets into the Jewish state. The strike also cast a shadow over tentative moves to revive the stalled Middle East peace process, days before a meeting of the key international sponsors of the so-called road map.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal envoy was quoted as saying yesterday that Russia wants the Middle East Quartet due to meet on Feb. 2 to lift a blockade on Western aid to Palestinians. Russia is part of the Middle East Quartet that includes the United States, the United Nations and the European Union.

“Russia has always opposed the blockade and we count on the Quartet listening to our point of view,” Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov said in an interview with the Interfax news agency. The freeze on aid was introduced last year when Hamas came to power in the Palestinian territories.

A Zionist Named Anonymous

January 31, 2007

by Housewife4Palestine

Introduction

Every so often, I like to share the real hatred that is affecting the Israel/Palestinian conflict, the person that wrote this hid under the guise of anonymous, which many Zionist like to do for the simple fact they hope that anyone that reads their hatred not know them.

That smoke screen that has blanket the world far to long, should be lift higher and higher until it doesn’t exist any more as these masked figure’s that are only hidden in our nightmare’s that one day the light will appear and you will no longer see them.

Most of the remarks made by this Zionist are falsified statements that are common among them; I have been told it is justification for what they are doing, to a form of brain washing.

Whatever this person’s main intent, which from what I have seen was the sole intention to insult me.

I will do my best to address the issues mentioned to the best of my abilities.

First, I do not cover India, because my main concentration has been more to the Middle East. For the simple fact I do not have a global staff to cover many of the numerous issue's affecting different parts of the world. In addition, I formally have always believed the major hot spot in the world is Palestine, and I am not alone in this assumption.

They mentioned stoning for adultery in Pakistan. Not so far back in history, stoning for Adultery, was practiced in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Islam still as it as a law, because Adultery is considered a major crime against the foundation of marriage. Adultery destroys marriages as well as causes often time’s great harm to children.

Personally, I wish some other method could be used for Adultery, but I do feel it is a crime and should be treated with something as simple as shunning.

Now to the remark about anti-Semitism, which I find most interesting since the Palestinians, like the Jew’s are both Semitic in origin.

As for the political aim of the Palestinian government, since I am not apart of the government nor their main aim is because, I do not have my ears to their walls.

Any Children harmed by anyone, will appear on this page, if this person bothered to delve deep they would have seen.

As for any thing in regards of a so called state of Israel, which I will redally admit I do not recognize anything more then an occupation force that has raided in a country known as Palestine.

Which Zionist I am sure would claim they only have done this once, when in fact they did it twice.

What is fascinating to me is this person speaks about the Palestinian side of the wall, to a Palestinian of what we do or do not do. What he mention’s I have never seen nor was ever taught to me.

As for Jenin, it is a proven fact that a massacre, did occur. Just ask any Human Right’s group, they will attest to this atrocity, if this person in their attempt to falsify claims by the Palestinian’s. I am sure they cannot from the global community.

As for accusing me of racism, this is one thing I have never been and again if they would bother to read they will find I stand up against any form of racism because it is not acceptable in regards to any living soul.

One thing I noticed this person did not mention is when the came upon the soil of Palestine, that they not only murdered Muslim’s, but Christians and Jew’s.

What I find those who question truth, have troubles knowing what is the truth themselves.

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كل ذلك كثيرا ما أحب ان نسبة الكراهية الحقيقية التي تؤثر في نزاع الاسرائيلي الفلسطيني ، الشخص الذي كتب هذا اختبأ تحت ستار اسمه ، كثير الصهيوني الى مثل ذلك لمجرد ان احد وآمل ان يقرأ عن كراهيه لا نعرفهم. ان دخان الذي بطانيه العالم الى وقت ، ينبغي رفع أعلى وأعلى حتى لم يعد لها وجود مثل هذه النسبه في حين انه مجرد كابوس أعمالنا كلها في آن واحد في اليوم في ظل وستظهر لك لن نراها. معظم الملاحظات التي ابدتها هذه الصهيونية هي التي زورت البيانات المشتركة بينهم. وقد قيل لي انه يبرر ما يفعلونه ، الى شكل من غسل الدماغ. اي شخص لهذا الهدف الرئيسى الذى من ما شاهدته هو مجرد نية الاساءه الى شخصي.

وسأبذل قصارى جهدي لمعالجة القضايا المذكورة الى افضل ما لدي من قدرات. أولا ، لا تغطي الهند لان هدفي الرئيسي كان التركيز أكثر على منطقة الشرق الاوسط. لمجرد انه ليس لدى الموظفين العالمية لتغطية العديد من عديد المساله تمس مختلف انحاء العالم. كما اود رسميا ان يكون دائما اهم النقاط الساخنه في العالم هي فلسطين ولست وحيدا في هذا الافتراض. وذكر الرجم بتهمة الزنى في باكستان. حتى لا يعود تاريخ والرجم في الزنا ، وكان يمارس في اليهودية والمسيحيه والاسلام. فالاسلام ما زال فيها ، لان الزنا يعتبر جريمه كبرى ضد مؤسسة الزواج. الزنا اركان الزواج وغالبا ما يسبب ضررا كبيرا للوقت للاطفال. شخصيا ، أتمنى طريقة اخرى يمكن استخدامها في الزنا ولكني ارى انها جريمه وينبغي التعامل مع الأمر ببساطة التجنب.

الى ان الملاحظه حول معاداه الساميه ، والذي اجد الاهم منذ الفلسطينيين مثل اليهودي للسامية هي في الاصل. اما الهدف السياسي للحكومة الفلسطينية ، بما انني لا من جانب الحكومة عن الهدف الرئيسي ، هو أنني لا أرى الآذان على الجدران. اي الاطفال من كل اذى وسترد على هذة الصفحه اذا كان هذا الشخص عناء الغوص العميق وشاهدنا. عن اي شيء بالنسبة لدولة ما يسمى اسرائيل اولا ريداللي اعترف انني لا تعترف بأي شيء أكثر من ذلك فقوات الاحتلال قد اقتحمت فى بلد معروف عن فلسطين. الصهيونية التي أنا متأكد أن ادعاء والا تفعل ذلك مرة واحدة ، في حين انها في الواقع لا مرتين. ما هو رائع بالنسبة لي هذا الشخص يتكلم عن الجانب الفلسطيني من الجدار الى فلما نفعله او لا نفعله. ما ذكر لانا لم أشهد أبدا ولم تدرس لي.

اما جنين ، وقد ثبت ان المجزرة لم تحدث. اسألوا اي حق من حقوق الإنسان ، لأنها سوف تشهد على هذا العمل الشنيع ، اذا كان هذا الشخص في محاولة لتشويه سمعة فلسطين. وانا متأكد من ان المجتمع العالمى. اما اتهامه لي العنصريه هذا شيء لم تكن اي ومرة اخرى اذا ما عناء قراءة وستجد اي الوقوف ضد اي شكل من اشكال العنصريه لأنها غير مقبولة بالنسبة الى اي مخلوق حي. وقد لاحظت الشيء هذا الشخص لم يذكر عندما جاء على ارض فلسطين ، وذلك ليس فقط لقتل المسلمين ولكن المسيحيين واليهود ل. ما عندي سؤال من هذه الحقيقة ، مشاكل معرفة ما هي الحقيقة نفسها.
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Anonymous,

Mix not truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth while you know the truth!

And yet you do, clumsily and emotionally choosing your news sources carefully in order to present your pathetically biased narrative. Yet on this we agree - I too believe the solution is for the world to understand better the goals of the Palestinians and much of the muslim world, particularly that of the Middle East. Even a housewife such as yourself must surely realize that the slaughter of Hindus in India, the destruction of Buddhist artifacts, the stoning of 'adulters' in Pakistan, and the wholesale slaughter of non-muslims in Africa has nothing to do with the palestinian-israeli conflict.

You claim you are interested in the truth yet you absolve the palestinians of their anti-semitic leanings which PRE-DATE the creation of Israel. Is the Palestinian goal a two-state solution? Or a one-state solution? What of the Jews who were driven out of Egypt and Jordan? You neglect to mention how many children have been killed iin clashes between Hamas and Fatah and you turn a blind eye to your own peoples failings.

If you were truly anything other than a mindless parrot you would at least attempt to understand that the conflict is being bred in Palestinian schools, in Palestinian and Arab media which shout of Jenin where no massacre occurred, which air prime time soaps of jews drinking childrens blood and stealing organs.

Yet I have little doubt you will simply label me a Zionist and throw this comment away as you can see little past your own prejudice.

Those that do not seek the truth have no right to it.

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المزيج مع الباطل لا حقيقة ولا تخفي الحقيقة وتعرفون الحقيقة! ومع ذلك ، انك موفقة وعاطفيا لكم اختيار مصادر الاخبار بدقة لكي تقدم لكم شفقة متحيز السرد. لم نتفق على هذا - واعتقد ايضا ان الحل للعالم ان تفهم اهداف للفلسطينيين وجزء كبير من العالم الاسلامي ، خصوصا أن منطقة الشرق الأوسط. حتى بيت مثلكم بالتأكيد يجب ان ندرك ان ذبح الهندوس في الهند تدمير الادوات البوذيه ، ورجم ادولترس '' فى باكستان ومذابح جماعيه لغير المسلمين في افريقيا لا علاقة له بالصراع الفلسطيني - الاسرائيلي.

تدعون انكم مهتمون في الحقيقة لم يغفر لكم فلعن الميول المعاديه للسامية التي سبقت تاريخ انشاء اسرائيل. الفلسطيني هو هدف وجود دولتين؟ او حل الدولة الواحدة؟ أي من اليهود الذين طردوا من مصر والاردن؟ لكم اهمال الاشارة الى عدد الاطفال الذين لقوا حتفهم مستشار الاشتباكات بين حماس وفتح وانت تغض الطرف عيوب شعوب بلدانكم. اذا كنت حقا اى شىء غير طائش الببغاء عملتم على الاقل ان نحاول ان نفهم ان الصراع قد تربوا في المدارس الفلسطينية ، في وسائل الاعلام الفلسطينية والعربية التي صيحه من مذبحة جنين التى لا تحدث ، أي وقت الهواء رئيس الصابون اليهود شرب دماء أطفالهم وسرقة الاجهزه. ومع اني لا شك انكم مجرد علامة لي الصهيوني ويلقى هذا التعليق بعيدا كما ترون لا مساس بها بلدكم الماضي. من لا يبحث عن الحقيقة التي لا حق لها