Perhaps this is to make the government concede that the fundamental complaint about selling Egyptian gas to Israel is not that it was done on the cheap.
27 April 2011
Nine people shot dead in Sana`ah, Yemen 100 wounded
No immunity to the murdering tyrant, and the martyrs are God's beloved.
The "anti-imperialist" Qathafi regime
Gaddafi's daughter to NY Times: Rebels sold arms to Hamas Still trying to get back into the West's good books.
Conservative MPs threaten AV revenge
Oooh they are getting feisty now aren't they. Only been in coalition 11 months as well, I doubt it'll last the full five years they claim it will.
26 April 2011
And there's also this racist article
Except it wasn't as brutal as Israel in that it didn't outright expel/massacre/place under military rule it's non-Christian population rather it gerrymandered electoral districts to keep non-Christians disenfranchised and persecuted Palestinian refugees with the help of Israel. So I guess what this guy's bragging that Israel is the most brutal of Middle Eastern regimes and knows better than to believe in 'partnership with other ethnicities'. Yet he complains about 'Arab brutality'.
Protest in Oman
At least 1,000 protesters have taken to the streets in Oman's southern port city of Salalah in one of the biggest pro-reform demonstrations since scattered unrest began in the Gulf Arab sultanate two months ago. If serious protests break out in Oman the crackdown will be brutal. The Saudis will not tolerate it.
Well that didn't last long
Libyan foreign minister crosses Tunisian border See if he comes back. It's only a matter of time before Mu`amar Al-Qathafi joins the rebels.
Iraq: Thousands Protest Extended U.S. Occupation
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday to protest any extension of U.S. military presence in the country.
A long walk home from school
Yusuf tried to walk home from school on the first day of Passover (4/20/2011) when Israeli military presence in Hebron was heightened. The checkpoints he usually passes through were closed, so he tried a few alternate routes before making him home. Watch this video to see a glimpse of daily life for school kids in Hebron, West Bank.
Visiting `Ibdis
Here are the remains of the Palestinian village `Ibdis that was ethnically cleansed by Zionists in the 1948 war.
25 April 2011
No to immunity. No to the Saudi counter-revolution
So the deal is, Yemenis stop protesting against the regime and Salih gets immunity from prosecution, and in return Salih gets replaced by his deputy? Ok.
Yes to AV
Arguing we should vote no to AV because it's not good enough a change is like a thirsty person in the desert throwing away half a glass of water because he wanted a full bottle.
10 year old Palestinian girl died after being prevented from hugging father
Abeer Skafe,10, died today after a nervous breakdown & complete paralysis for denying her permission to see imprisoned father.
Don't complain they deserve each other
Royal wedding invitation to crown prince of Bahrain draws criticism
The Great Escape
Taliban tunnel breakout outwits Afghan jailers. Nearly 500 inmates of Kandahar prison disappear down 1,000ft tunnel – just in time for 'fighting season'. Oh dear. Nato's getting outwitted by the Taliban now.
23 April 2011
Hey now, this is not about haggling over the price.
Egypt orders ex-energy minister to stand trial for natural gas deal with Israel
The Middle East's oldest dictatorship
Throughout, Israeli military and security services ruled over another people against their will. They oppressed, tortured, exploited and robbed the Palestinians of their land, water and most importantly, their freedom. There has been more political prisoners in Israeli jails than any of its neighbours.
Al-Jazeera's Beirut Bureau Chief Resigns
As-Safir says that Ben Jeddo was particularly angered by Al Jazeera's scant coverage of the bloodshed in Bahrain, in sharp contrast to the intensive coverage that it has given to Libya, Yemen, and now Syria. I feel Al-Jazeera may be drastically deteriorating beyond redemption. For revolutionary Egypt, opportunity knocks.
Bahrain is not forgotten
Think about Bahrain twice for every time it is ignored in the Western media, with some exceptions.
Israeli aggression continues in Gaza
A Palestinian farmer was shot yesterday by Israeli gunfire during his work in the north of Beit Lahya, northern Gaza Strip .
David Swanson on Libya
It's ok until he starts bringing in the neo-cons and the Project for the New American Century into it. This is not a neo-conservative war, it's a liberal war.
21 April 2011
Israel's Arabs: The enemy from within?
What else do you expect from a state founded on and maintained by ethnic cleansing?
Caroline Glick having a nervous breakdown
For those who aren't familiar with her she's editor for the Jerusalem Post (has articles there every now and then) and runs that Zionist satire show Latma. They did a pretty tasteless satire song a year ago mocking the flotilla activists that you might have seen especially since the Israeli government were so impressed by it they sent it out to international journalists.
20 April 2011
When will Israel, like Syria, lift its emergency laws?
It won't happen because unlike in the Arab world Israel has a fundamentally undemocratic state AND society. The limits on freedom in Israel are not much different to what you find in Arab states but it doesn't get much attention because hardly any Israeli Jews complain or protest against it since they believe they benefit from the undemocratic system they live under and the only people who suffer enough and have the consciousness to resist are Arabs, who don't count. Look at the heavy censorship of the press in Israel for example. Israeli journalists just don't complain or resist the fact that all their articles must be checked by the military prior to publication and censored and there are frequent bans on investigating certain stories. But their journalists just cooperate so no problem.
Sectarianism: the last refuge of the Arab scoundrel
Bahraini government forces backed by Saudi Arabian troops are destroying mosques and places of worship of the Shia majority in the island kingdom in a move likely to exacerbate religious hatred across the Muslim world. The Saudis are trying desperate to ferment Sunni-Shi`ah conflict in the Middle East as part of their counter-revolutionary offensive. Just like Al-Qaeda in Iraq; for the House of Saud and Al-Qaeda have identical ideologies, they only differ on foreign policy.
Omar Suleiman too
Former Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman is being questioned in connection with violence against protesters during the uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, the general prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. I don't see how appointing this notorious torturer as his successor was 'a bid to placate the growing protest movement.' More like a bid for more US/Israeli support who prefered Suleiman to Jamal Mubarak.
846 killed in Egyptian uprising
A new Egyptian government investigation into the nearly-three-week revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in February paints a sinister portrait of a desperate police state relying on snipers, thugs and other forces that led to the deaths of at least 846 people. I don't see where they said Mubarak was only 'indirectly' responsible. He was in charge.
Royal wedding hijacked
Muslims Against Crusades, an offshoot of the outlawed group al-Muhajiroun, is in ongoing discussions with the police... the English Defence League has indicated they will mount a counter-demonstration, raising fears of a flashpoint on the day.
We Anarchists would like to express our deep dismay that our protest appears to have been hijacked by fringe groups.
We Anarchists would like to express our deep dismay that our protest appears to have been hijacked by fringe groups.
Tony Blair in telling lies shocker
Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.
19 April 2011
Itawar killer found
But don't think about any of this. The culprit simply must be an Arab afterall and he's the best we could find.
No to Mustafa Al-Fiqqi
This video shows Mustafa Al-Fiqqi being kicked out of Tahrir Square I think the day before Mubarak was overthrown:
Bahrain 'arrests rights lawyer and doctors'
Campaigners say security forces have detained lawyer who represented leader of the Haq opposition group and two doctors. On Bahrain we have a rare case of Al-Jazeera English having better coverage than the real channel.
Israeli prison raid footage released
Zionist soldiers laugh as they murder. Note every Zionist murder is remembered and none will be forgiven.
Fighting on Arab TV
Are some people in the Arab world feeling under pressure or something? Everyone's breaking out into fights on live TV. The first video shows Egyptian politicians calling each other thieves before wielding their chairs as weapons. The second shows Iraqi politicians arguing over the Iranian Foreign Ministry calling the execution of Saddam Hussein 'the minimum penalty'.
Just for laughs
"A senior Foreign Ministry official said a few senior Egyptian officials have uttered harsh statements in the past two weeks and even called Israel "the enemy." Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan, for example, referring to the possibility of Israeli investments in Egypt, said Egypt did not need investments from "the enemy."
This statement angered Israel..." Oh what are you going to do oh Israel? Suddenly the country who thinks it's all mighty and impressive bombing defenceless refugees camps isn't so full of itself now.
This statement angered Israel..." Oh what are you going to do oh Israel? Suddenly the country who thinks it's all mighty and impressive bombing defenceless refugees camps isn't so full of itself now.
This is funny
And when finally get some specifics at the end of the article it's "specifying the Far East, Greece and Turkey as areas where an attack COULD occur... India and Thailand are also THOUGHT TO BE countries where an attack COULD take place... the counter terrorism bureau warned against traveling to Sinai and called on Israelis who were in Sinai to return to Israel immediately." "Western targets" is indeed very broad, where would be without these very useful intelligence reports? Basically they're saying Hezbollah COULD attack anywhere at any time. They have no idea.
So they're Arab capitalism uprisings now?
Remember how Khamenei was attacked for describing the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings as 'Islamic liberation movements'? You can argue that was also inaccurate, but it's far closer to reality than this nonsense.
Qana Massacre 15th anniversary, never forget
"It was a massacre. Not since Sabra and Chatila had I seen the innocent slaughtered like this. The Lebanese refugee women and children and men lay in heaps, their hands or arms or legs missing, beheaded or disembowelled. There were well over a hundred of them. A baby lay without a head. The Israeli shells had scythed through them as they lay in the United Nations shelter, believing that they were safe under the world's protection. Like the Muslims of Srebrenica, the Muslims of Qana were wrong."
Amnesty:
"On the basis of all the information available, Amnesty International believes that the IDF intentionally attacked the UN compound, although the motives for doing so remain unclear. The IDF have failed to substantiate their claim that the attack was a mistake. Even if they were to do so they would still bear responsibility for killing so many civilians by taking the risk to launch an attack so close to the UN compound.
This conclusion is based on a number of facts (set out below in detail), including the precision and reliability of the IDF’s “target acquisition” systems; the timing of the attack; and the sequence, type and dispersion pattern of the shells fired. Taken together, these facts strongly suggest that the bombardment of the UN compound was not the result of an “artillery scatter” of stray shells which overshot the Hizbullah mortar, as claimed by the IDF, but was the result of a separate barrage of shells aimed at the compound itself."
17 April 2011
Mubarak his sons and cronies in prison
Although the New York Times is reporting this like they're Amnesty International covering prisoners of conscience.
"New targets" for NATO in Libya
"strategic logistical targets" is a propaganda euphemism. If it's not a military target then obviously it's a civilian target, but they won't say that directly. This is what they always do when they bomb countries to bring down or put pressure on their governments. Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia etc. Attacking a country's civilians is an effective way of twisting the government's arm. They know Qathafi will be in trouble when his state infastructure is being blasted to pieces and he can't run the country any more that's what. The inevitable civilian deaths don't factor into either his or NATO's calculations. They're like ants to them. You know when you walk down a street from one place to another you kill lots of ants by treading on them. That's how they see Libyan civilians. Just ants whose lives are worthless and needn't be taken into consideration as they work to achieve their goals. And anyway remember when this talk of intervention started it was supposed to be a no-fly-zone? See how quickly we've gone from merely shooting down Qathafi's bomber aircraft to protect civilians to bombing Libyan infastructure. If the rebels don't have the supplies Qathafi does then why doesn't NATO supply them? NATO refuses to allow this. It insists on bombing instead. And for what? What the hell are NATO even doing here in the first place? What right do they have to bomb a country which never attacked them? So should Libyans feel honoured that their loved ones were killed by NATO and want them to drop more bombs on them? What is the mission? They don't even seem to know themselves (just that they don't want a popular rebellion to succeed in Libya and want to keep the country under their control). They're putting Libya through civil war and destruction for what? To replace Qathafi with... a cabal of thugs who were Qathafi's former ministers until a couple of months ago. And all these dead are worth that? So Sarkozy and Cameron can look tough? To hell with them all.
Oh and meanwhile the Kings of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are invited to the royal wedding.
What to do with tyrants
Virtue without terror is fatal.
"God forbids only that those who waged war against you for your faith and drove you out from your homes and helped (others) to drive you out, that you make friends of them. Whoever makes friends of them - these are the unjust." (Qur'an 60:9). Just one reason why there should be no mercy to Arab tyrants (or Zionists for that matter). None whatsoever. Repeat it - generation after generation - we shall always be your enemies.
16 April 2011
Mask up
The government of Bahrain is putting intense pressure on the families of students in Britain who were photographed attending a peaceful protest in Manchester in solidarity with the country's pro-democracy movement.
The gulf kingdom has stripped government-funded scholarships from those who attended the event outside the BBC building last month, the students say, and told parents to order their children home.
Students involved have told the Guardian they have "strong and well-founded" fears that they and their families could suffer beatings and torture as a result of the Bahrain government's crackdown on the protest 3,000 miles away and that they are likely to be arrested on their return.
I'm not a fan of Peter Hitchens
"Being squeamish about the careful use of force and violence against guilty persons convicted in fair trials to defend peace, order and safety is quite different from being repelled (as so few are, but I am ) about blowing innocent German civilians to bits in their homes, or baking them to death in firestorms, because you can't make contact with the enemy's army...
15 April 2011
Syrian Revolution : The first million man protest Friday
Sister Zeinobia has a great blog post on the demonstrations in Syria yesterday.
Ash-Sha`ab yurid isqat An-Nidam
From Syria. The Western media is still haven't worked out why protesters across "The Middle East and North Africa" are all chanting the same slogans.
Statement of the March 15th movement in Syria
Leadership of the Glorious Revolution of the Youth of 15 March, Dira`ah – Syria
To the Syrian people; to the descendants of Salih Al-Ali, Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash, Ibrahim Hananou; to all the free people of Syria in all the provinces of Syria; to all the sons of the proud Arab tribes; to the Kurdish brothers; and to all the sects and nationalities with whom we share life on the land of this nation.
We promise you to continue our revolution until this criminal regime which kills its sons in cold blood is brought down. We hope all the brothers will come out tomorrow God willing in million-person demonstrations and announce civil disobedience and refusal to go to work centers and to join your brethren in this glorious revolution and to support your brethren in the province of Dira`ah, Latakia, Hims, az-Zabdani, Douma, Daria, Al-Kiswa, Damascus, At-Tal, and the rest of the provinces revolting until the regime is brought down and the goals of the revolution are achieved which are:
· Bringing the regime down
· Cancellation of the emergency law
· Permission to form parties
· Dissolving the parliament and the government
· Revise the constitution to be consistent with democracy and civil rule
· Define the presidential term and the number of terms
· Immediate presidential and parliamentary elections
· Raise salaries and set a minimum wage
· Find immediate work opportunities
· Get rid of corruption and bribes and deliver up corrupt individuals for trial
· Clean judiciary and accountability for corrupt judges
· Lowering taxes and fees
· Getting rid of the pre-planned sectarianism in the circles of authority
· The mission of the Army and Armed forces is to protect the borders of the nation and not to repress citizens
· Deliver up for trial all of those who participated in killing or ordering the opening of fire on demonstrators in the 15 March revolution
· Freeing the prisoners of conscience and political prisoners and everyone arrested in the peaceful demonstrations
· Return of the displaced to Syria
· Freedom of opinion and expression and to establish forums
· Freedom of the press and the Internet
· Right of citizenship to everyone
· Distribution of returns from oil and communications to the people equally
· Permitting judicial authority to be completely independent
Our demands are complete and not open to division or procrastination. We won’t wait for promises or delays in their implementation. We won’t be satisfied with the application of a part of them while another part is studied and ignored. We will continue to rise up until we have extracted our freedoms with our own hands. Our revolution is peaceful. Our people are one. One nation.
If you cannot go out, stage a sit in at home and don’t go to work.
We say Al-Fatiha on the souls of the martyrs.
We rely on God Almighty.
Dira`ah - Syria
نحن قيادة شباب ثورة 15 اذار المجيدة درعا - سوريا
الى الشعب السوري الى احفاد صالح العلي واحفاد سلطان باشا الاطرش واحفاد ابراهيم هنانو والى كافة احرار سوريا في جميع المحافظات السورية ,الى جميع ابناء العشائر العربية الابية , الى الاخوة الاكراد والى كافة الطوائف والقوميات التي نتشارك معها العيش على ارض هذا الوطن .
نعاهدكم على ان تستمر ثورتنا الى ان يتم اسقاط هذا النظام المجرم الذي قتل ابنائنا بدم بارد , ونرجوا من جميع الاخوة الخروج من يوم غد باذن الله بمظاهرات مليونيه واعلان العصيان المدني وعدم الذهاب الى مراكز العمل والانظمام الى اخوتكم في هذه الثوره المجيده ونصرة اخوانكم في محافظة درعا واللاذقية وحمص والزبداني ودوما وداريا والكسوة ودمشق والتل وباقي المحافظات الثائرة حتى يتم اسقاط النظام وتحقيق اهداف الثورة وهي :
- اسقاط النظام
- إلغاء قانون الطوارئ
- السماح بإنشاء الأحزاب
- حل مجلس الشعب والحكومة
- تعديل الدستور ليواكب الديمقراطية والمدنية
- تحديد فترة بقاء الرئيس في السلطة وعددها
- انتخابات رئاسية وتشريعية فورية
- رفع الرواتب ووضع حد أدنى للاجور
- إيجاد فرص عمل فورية
- القضاء على الفساد والرشاوي وتسليم المفسدين للمحاكمة
- نزاهة القضاء ومحاسبة القضاة الفاسدين
- تخفيض الضرائب والرسوم
- إلغاء التمييز المذهبي والطائفي الممنهج في السلطة
-مهام الجيش والقوات المسلحة حماية حدود الوطن وليس قمع المواطن
- تسليم كل من شارك بقتل أو أمر بإطلاق النار على المتظاهرين في ثورة 15 آذار للمحاكمة
- إطلاق سراح معتقلي الرأي والسياسيين وكل من اعتقل في المظاهرات السلمية
- عودة المهجرين إلى سورية
- حرية الرأي والتعبير وإنشاء المنتديات
- حرية الإعلام والإنترنت
- حق المواطنة للجميع
- توزيع العائدات النفطية وعائدات الاتصالات على افراد الشعب بالتساوي
- منح السلطة القضائية استقلالية تامة
مطالبنا كاملة غير قابلة للتجزئة أو المماطلة .. لن ننتظر وعوداً ولا تاجيلاً لتطبيقها ..
لن نرضى بتطبيق جزء منها وجزء يبقى قيد الدراسة والتجاهل ..
سنبقى منتفضين حتى ننتزع حريتنا بإيدينا .. ثورتنا سلمية ..
شعب واحد ..
وطن واحد..
ان لم تستطع الخروج اعتصم وانت بالمنزل ولا تذهب الى العمل
الفاتحة على ارواح الشهداء
اننا متوكلين على الله سبحانه وتعالى ثم عليكم
درعا - سوريا
نحن قيادة شباب ثورة 15 اذار المجيدة درعا - سوريا
الى الشعب السوري الى احفاد صالح العلي واحفاد سلطان باشا الاطرش واحفاد ابراهيم هنانو والى كافة احرار سوريا في جميع المحافظات السورية ,الى جميع ابناء العشائر العربية الابية , الى الاخوة الاكراد والى كافة الطوائف والقوميات التي نتشارك معها العيش على ارض هذا الوطن .
نعاهدكم على ان تستمر ثورتنا الى ان يتم اسقاط هذا النظام المجرم الذي قتل ابنائنا بدم بارد , ونرجوا من جميع الاخوة الخروج من يوم غد باذن الله بمظاهرات مليونيه واعلان العصيان المدني وعدم الذهاب الى مراكز العمل والانظمام الى اخوتكم في هذه الثوره المجيده ونصرة اخوانكم في محافظة درعا واللاذقية وحمص والزبداني ودوما وداريا والكسوة ودمشق والتل وباقي المحافظات الثائرة حتى يتم اسقاط النظام وتحقيق اهداف الثورة وهي :
- اسقاط النظام
- إلغاء قانون الطوارئ
- السماح بإنشاء الأحزاب
- حل مجلس الشعب والحكومة
- تعديل الدستور ليواكب الديمقراطية والمدنية
- تحديد فترة بقاء الرئيس في السلطة وعددها
- انتخابات رئاسية وتشريعية فورية
- رفع الرواتب ووضع حد أدنى للاجور
- إيجاد فرص عمل فورية
- القضاء على الفساد والرشاوي وتسليم المفسدين للمحاكمة
- نزاهة القضاء ومحاسبة القضاة الفاسدين
- تخفيض الضرائب والرسوم
- إلغاء التمييز المذهبي والطائفي الممنهج في السلطة
-مهام الجيش والقوات المسلحة حماية حدود الوطن وليس قمع المواطن
- تسليم كل من شارك بقتل أو أمر بإطلاق النار على المتظاهرين في ثورة 15 آذار للمحاكمة
- إطلاق سراح معتقلي الرأي والسياسيين وكل من اعتقل في المظاهرات السلمية
- عودة المهجرين إلى سورية
- حرية الرأي والتعبير وإنشاء المنتديات
- حرية الإعلام والإنترنت
- حق المواطنة للجميع
- توزيع العائدات النفطية وعائدات الاتصالات على افراد الشعب بالتساوي
- منح السلطة القضائية استقلالية تامة
مطالبنا كاملة غير قابلة للتجزئة أو المماطلة .. لن ننتظر وعوداً ولا تاجيلاً لتطبيقها ..
لن نرضى بتطبيق جزء منها وجزء يبقى قيد الدراسة والتجاهل ..
سنبقى منتفضين حتى ننتزع حريتنا بإيدينا .. ثورتنا سلمية ..
شعب واحد ..
وطن واحد..
ان لم تستطع الخروج اعتصم وانت بالمنزل ولا تذهب الى العمل
الفاتحة على ارواح الشهداء
اننا متوكلين على الله سبحانه وتعالى ثم عليكم
درعا - سوريا
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