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Temat: IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT ...
IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT ...
Double standarts: Israel/rest of the world
Israel's arms inspector
Hilary Wainwright
Friday October 4, 2002
The Guardian
Sixteen years ago this week, an agent of the Israeli secret police, Mossad,
enticed the Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, to Rome. The
holiday ended abruptly when Mordechai was kidnapped and taken to Israel,
where he was charged with espionage and treason and given a prison sentence
of 18 years. His crime? In 1986 he had blown the whistle on Israel's nuclear
weapons.
In the absence of any international inspection of Israel's nuclear capacity,
Vanunu was our unofficial, DIY arms inspector. He is now held in Israel's
highest security prison, having spent 12 of his last 16 years in solitary
confinement. Neither the UN nor any individual member of the security council
has questioned his imprisonment or demanded that Israel's nuclear capacity be
opened to international inspection.
His story reads like a tragic thriller. But it's real life. As real as the
fact that the Dimona nuclear weapons factory where Vanunu worked, together
with the biological and chemical weapons factory in Nes Zion, is still not
open to international inspection. In 1994 Jane's Intelligence Review, the
world authority on the arms industry, confirmed that Israel has 200 nuclear
warheads, making it the world's sixth largest nuclear power. The same
politicians who now threaten military invasion of Iraq because of suspected
nuclear weapons capacities, have not demanded inspection of Israel's known
nuclear weapons.
The double standards that scream at you whenever you see the words "weapons
of mass destruction" cannot be excused on the grounds that Israel is abiding
by international regulations. Israel refuses to sign any treaty regulating
the use of nuclear weapons. All correspondence concerning the nuclear non-
proliferation agreement, the nuclear test ban treaty and other copiously
negotiated agreements on weapons of mass destruction go into the Israeli
government's rubbish bins. Yet Israel receives $3bn (£2bn) of aid, annually,
from the US. This is despite legislation, the Symington Accord, to prevent US
governments from granting aid to countries who develop nuclear weapons
outside of international control and agreement. Sharon claims that, until
there is peace in the Middle East, Israel will do what it likes with its
weapons. Sharon's policies of occupation, past and present, of all
surrounding territories, Palestinian, Syrian, Egyptian and Lebanese suggests
that what he likes is aggression. And, unlike in 1991, he has already
threatened a nuclear response to any Iraqi attack.
MPs defending Tony Blair's close relationship with President Bush claim that
he has more influence "in the tent than outside". Many of them agree with
anti-war campaigners that action in Iraq must be combined with action over
Israel's violation of UN resolutions on Palestine. This month, the Vanunu
committee in Israel will test Tony Blair 's transatlantic influence by asking
Kofi Annan to apply the same UN arms inspection requirements that it is
applying to Iraq, to Israel. Egypt has been making this demand for some time.
It's a demand that requires support in the security council. Will our prime
minister use his influence on Bush and support this reasonable request? I
fear not.
But surely the British government could do something about Vanunu, and make
up for the Thatcher government failure, after the kidnapping in 1986, to take
any action over Mossad's flagrant breach of international law? The dossier on
Iraq's nuclear weapons, on which Blair rests his case for armed intervention,
relies explicitly on information from Iraqi whistleblowers. These men have
been given the status of heroes. Meanwhile Vanunu has still not been granted
the parole he was due three years ago. He is a prisoner of conscience. He
signed a contract of secrecy at Dimona without being told the whole truth,
and when he discovered the true nature of his work he spoke out. Amnesty
International has been calling for his release for years. The British
government has supported legislation that encourages whistleblowers to speak
out in the public interest. It could now - applying Article 19 of the UN's
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the freedom to impart
information regardless of national boundaries - give its support to a man who
has spoken out in the interests of the whole of humanity. A spokesman for the
foreign office made it clear that it will not be supporting Vanunu's
application for parole when it comes up on October 29.
Vanunu wrote a poem that described his transition from technician to
citizen: "Rise and cry out... You are the secret agent of the people. You are
the eyes of the nation." It is an appeal to all of us.
Temat: Bushes?
Strange facts
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred
and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts-Charlemagne, and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air,
the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the
person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four
legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last
signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun
ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If
the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like
it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that
you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be
straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or
other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General
Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Superbowl.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games
(MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League
all-stars Game.
Temat: >>>>O__zboju_Arafacie_jego_kupel_od_mordowania__!_
wojo!!!! napisał(a):
FOR YEARS HE SERVED as Arafat’s loyal lieutenant in the Palestinian
Legislative Council. But in recent months, as Israeli tanks reoccupied West
Bank cities, Zaki lost confidence in his erstwhile comrade in arms. “Wher
everArafat goes, lawlessness, corruption and instability follow,” says Zaki,
60,sipping Turkish coffee in his Hebron apartment as Israeli machine guns pummel
a nearby government compound. “There should be honor in the battlefield. Wh
en you lose, you quit.”
So you might think that Zaki supported George W. Bush’s call last week
to replace Arafat with a leader “not compromised by terror.” Not so
. As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s tanks and soldiers reoccupied the
West Bank and placed 800,000 people under curfew, the American president’s
emphasis on Palestinian malfeasance rather than Israel’s 35-year occupation
provoked disappointment and anger throughout Palestine and the Arab world.
Bush’s carrot to the Palestinians—that if they make substantial government
reforms, a final agreement on a new state “could be reached” in three years—so
unded hollow. Zaki, for one, doesn’t think that Arafat is going anywhere. “The
re action on the street is, ‘Let’s support Arafat with all his ugliness and all
his corruption, because the United States doesn’t want him’,” he says.
The self-defeating logic of that approach is evident to at least some
Palestinians. For the first time since the Aqsa intifada began, many are openly
blaming Arafat for leading them to ruin. “Eight years ago he came to Gaza
and Jericho and said, ‘I’ll make it into Hong Kong.’ Instead he t
urned it into Somalia,” says a Bethlehem schoolteacher whose militant brother
was forced into exile last month. “He’s like a pair of old shoes. It’s time f
or him to be cast aside.”
MISMANAGEMENT, CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM
Arafat is now routinely attacked for mismanaging the uprising, as well
as for allowing corruption and cronyism to flourish in his government. Last
week the Palestinian Authority launched a “100-day plan” to set up
transparent bank accounts for PA funds, to merge the myriad security forces into
a single entity and launch other economic reforms. Even so, Hussam Khader, a
member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and an influential leader of Fatah
in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, says that Arafat blew his credibility
long ago. “I don’t think that Arafat cares about anything other than being in
power,” he says. “When Arafat disappears, they will write about him as they
wrote about Mao—they will write about his criminality and his catastrophes.”
But can anybody emerge to challenge the “symbol of the nation”
;? Virtually all the older members of the Palestinian Authority have been
tarnished by allegations of corruption. The powerful directors of Arafat’s
Preventive Security service, Jibril Rajoub and Mohammad Dahlan, are regarded as
favorites of Washington and, as such, have lost popularity. Many charismatic
younger figures are languishing in Israeli prisons. The most notable is Marwan
Barghouti, 42, the leader of Arafat’s Fatah movement in the West Bank, ac
cused of masterminding the killings of settlers and soldiers. The few Young
Turks who haven’t been incarcerated say that challenging Arafat is
futile. “Arafat will win this election in spite of the fact that everybody
blames him for destroying Palestinian life and keeping thieves in his
government,” says Khader, 39, who has put his own political aspirations on hold
until Arafat is gone. “We are like the Bedouins. We follow our sheiks. It is
not easy to leave your traditional culture. We have to wait until God takes this
sheik to him.” Bush and many others who’ve lost faith in Arafat may be in for
a long wait.
With Samir Zedan in Hebron
© 2002 Newsweek, Inc.
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CZYLI W SKROCIE : morderca ,terorysta i zlodziej ten
Arafat ,tylko tyle , ze wodzi za nos wiekszosc Arabow , EU i duza
czesc ONZ .
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Temat: >>>>O__zboju_Arafacie_jego_kupel_od_mordowania__!_
>>>>O__zboju_Arafacie_jego_kupel_od_mordowania__!_
FOR YEARS HE SERVED as Arafat’s loyal lieutenant in the Palestinian
Legislative Council. But in recent months, as Israeli tanks reoccupied West
Bank cities, Zaki lost confidence in his erstwhile comrade in arms. “Wherever
Arafat goes, lawlessness, corruption and instability follow,” says Zaki, 60,
sipping Turkish coffee in his Hebron apartment as Israeli machine guns pummel a
nearby government compound. “There should be honor in the battlefield. When you
lose, you quit.”
So you might think that Zaki supported George W. Bush’s call last week
to replace Arafat with a leader “not compromised by terror.” Not so. As Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s tanks and soldiers reoccupied the West Bank and
placed 800,000 people under curfew, the American president’s emphasis on
Palestinian malfeasance rather than Israel’s 35-year occupation provoked
disappointment and anger throughout Palestine and the Arab world. Bush’s carrot
to the Palestinians—that if they make substantial government reforms, a final
agreement on a new state “could be reached” in three years—sounded hollow.
Zaki, for one, doesn’t think that Arafat is going anywhere. “The reaction on
the street is, ‘Let’s support Arafat with all his ugliness and all his
corruption, because the United States doesn’t want him’,” he says.
The self-defeating logic of that approach is evident to at least some
Palestinians. For the first time since the Aqsa intifada began, many are openly
blaming Arafat for leading them to ruin. “Eight years ago he came to Gaza and
Jericho and said, ‘I’ll make it into Hong Kong.’ Instead he turned it into
Somalia,” says a Bethlehem schoolteacher whose militant brother was forced into
exile last month. “He’s like a pair of old shoes. It’s time for him to be cast
aside.”
MISMANAGEMENT, CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM
Arafat is now routinely attacked for mismanaging the uprising, as well
as for allowing corruption and cronyism to flourish in his government. Last
week the Palestinian Authority launched a “100-day plan” to set up transparent
bank accounts for PA funds, to merge the myriad security forces into a single
entity and launch other economic reforms. Even so, Hussam Khader, a member of
the Palestinian Legislative Council and an influential leader of Fatah in the
Balata refugee camp in Nablus, says that Arafat blew his credibility long
ago. “I don’t think that Arafat cares about anything other than being in
power,” he says. “When Arafat disappears, they will write about him as they
wrote about Mao—they will write about his criminality and his catastrophes.”
But can anybody emerge to challenge the “symbol of the nation”? Virtually
all the older members of the Palestinian Authority have been tarnished by
allegations of corruption. The powerful directors of Arafat’s Preventive
Security service, Jibril Rajoub and Mohammad Dahlan, are regarded as favorites
of Washington and, as such, have lost popularity. Many charismatic younger
figures are languishing in Israeli prisons. The most notable is Marwan
Barghouti, 42, the leader of Arafat’s Fatah movement in the West Bank, accused
of masterminding the killings of settlers and soldiers. The few Young Turks who
haven’t been incarcerated say that challenging Arafat is futile. “Arafat will
win this election in spite of the fact that everybody blames him for destroying
Palestinian life and keeping thieves in his government,” says Khader, 39, who
has put his own political aspirations on hold until Arafat is gone. “We are
like the Bedouins. We follow our sheiks. It is not easy to leave your
traditional culture. We have to wait until God takes this sheik to him.” Bush
and many others who’ve lost faith in Arafat may be in for a long wait.
With Samir Zedan in Hebron
© 2002 Newsweek, Inc.
CZYLI W SKROCIE : morderca ,terorysta i zlodziej ten
Arafat ,tylko tyle , ze wodzi za nos wiekszosc Arabow , EU i duza
czesc ONZ .
Temat: Mr. Michael James's Letter to a Tony Blair
Mr. Michael James's Letter to a Tony Blair
Mr. Michael James writes:
"Because Tony Blair considers himself courageous enough
to send other men into a killing zone to fight and die
for him, I surmise that he at least has the guts to
take me on in a bare-knuckle fist fight. That is why I
have written and dispatched (today, 13 September) both
a personal letter to Tony Blair and an open letter to
seven London newspapers in which I invoke the ancient
English custom of "Impugning Honour With An Offer Of
Redress."
The text below is self explanatory. I doubt, however,
that the British press will publish the open letter,
knowing that I could attract widespread curiosity and
support in my invocation of this time-honoured custom,
exposing Blair's cowardice and hypocrisy. That's why I
have to put these letters out on the net - otherwise
they lose their meaning.
And you never know. He may pick up the gauntlet."
The letter follows:
Open Letter To Tony Blair In Which I Impugn His Honour
And Challenge Him To Defend His Manhood From Charges of
Cowardice By Engaging Me In A Bare-Knuckle Fist Fight
Gentlemen of the press, my fellow citizens,
I hereby give public notice that I, Michael James, a 42
year-old British subject-citizen of sound mind and
judgement, resident in the Republic of Germany, invoke
the gentlemanly tradition of impugning honour with an
offer of redress, and do thereby formally challenge one
TONY BLAIR, a prime minister, to defend his honour and
test the courage of his own convictions in regard to
his advocacy of violence to settle arguments with other
countries by engaging me in a bare-knuckle fist fight
at a time and venue to be agreed mutually, according to
the rules of ancient custom.
I openly and publicly IMPUGN THE HONOUR of TONY BLAIR
by charging that he is:
A COWARD who manipulates other men to do his fighting
for him
A COWARD who enjoins other men to do violence yet is
himself a conniving, effeminate poltroon
A COWARD and a hypocrite who claims to follow the way
of Jesus Christ, yet seeks, in direct violation of the
laws of God and the teachings of Christ, to kill other
men and to steal their land and natural resources
A COWARD and a moral weakling who is susceptible to the
influence of deranged and intellectually retarded
superiors
A COWARD and a traitor who is willing to betray his
fellow countrymen in satisfying the vanities of his own
nefarious ego
A COWARD who lies to procure wars for oil and
geopolitical advantage
A COWARD who sanctioned war crimes in the former
Yugoslav Republic by authorizing the Royal Air Force to
unleash cancer-causing uranium-depleted bombs on
soldiers, women and children
A COWARD who played an executive role in the massacre
of over 400 prisoners of war at Nazar-i-Sharif, during
which 40-60 unarmed men were tortured and shot in the
back of the head by his SAS operatives and allied CIA
agents
A COWARD who is fully complicit in obtaining the deaths
of half a million Iraqi children by sabotaging the
distribution of life-saving medicines to treat diseases
caused by British and American blockades and
uranium-depleted bombs, and who deceives the world by
contriving to lay the blame for that tragedy on the
sovereign leader of that self-same sovereign nation
I, Michael James, give reasonable notice that, unless
TONY BLAIR takes up, WITHIN 28 DAYS as from 15
September 2002, my challenge to a bare-knuckle fist
fight in which he has occasion to defend his honour and
his manhood against the aforementioned charges, all
good citizens of sound mind should consider him to have
FULLY-ACCEPTED those CHARGES OF COWARDICE.
Yours Sincerely,
Michael James.
13 September 2002.
Ober-Erlenbacher-Strasse 30
61381 Friedrichsdorf
Republic of Germany
Tel. 0049 (0)6007 930115
Temat: Caly swiat protestuje wojne... a Polaczki ?
Caly swiat protestuje wojne... a Polaczki ?
Jak zwykle popieraja jedynie sluszna linie wielkiego narodu...tym razem
hamerykanskiego.
Tens of thousands rally against war
New Zealanders kick off weekend of global protests
MSNBC NEWS SERVICES
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 15 ? Tens of thousands of New Zealanders demonstrated Saturday against a war in Iraq, kicking off rallies planned around the world this weekend. The peace movement is expected to spread to more than 600 towns and cities stretching from the far south to Iceland in the north.
ACTIVISTS IN Britain ? the key U.S. ally in the effort to disarm Iraq ? prepared for a rally in London?s Hyde Park on Saturday that organizers hoped would draw 500,000 people.
War opponents also planned a protest of up to 100,000 people Saturday near the United Nations in New York. Police were planning extensive security that included snipers and radiation detectors.
New Zealanders chanted slogans like ?One, two, three, four, we don?t want your bloody war!? Over Auckland harbor, a plane trailed a huge banner reading ?No War ? Peace Now,? at the international sailing competition.
War protesters play political card
The New Zealand antiwar protesters flew a peace banner at the America?s Cup.
On Friday, at least 150,000 people packed the streets of Melbourne, Australia, to protest any war on Iraq, to which Australia has already committed 2,000 troops, jet fighters and warships.
About 16,000 activists gathered Saturday in the Australian capital of Canberra, three times more than organizers had expected.
In Sydney, two activists from an opposition party scaled an awning of a prominent building around the site of the U.S. consulate-general to unfurl a banner that read, ?No U.S. Oil War ? The Greens.?
An estimated 6,000 people joined a protest march Friday night in Tokyo, and a similar number marched to the U.S. Embassy in the Philippine capital, Manila. About 500 people demonstrated peacefully in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Around 2,000 anti-war protestors rallied in front of the U.S. and British embassies in Bangkok.
LONDON RALLY TO BE MASSIVE
The three main organizers of London?s march ? the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain ? predicted it would outstrip the anti-war march last autumn in which 400,000 people took part.
?It?s going to be a fantastic day, with blue sky,? said Andrew Burgin of the Stop the War Coalition as he helped erect the stage and two large screens in Hyde Park. Organizers hoped to have a satellite link with fellow protesters in Europe.
About 70 singers, including performers from the shows ?Les Miserables,? ?Chicago,? ?Rent,? ?The Lion King? and ?Taboo,? took to the stage Friday at the Criterion Theatre in central London to sing ?Seasons Of Love,? from ?Rent.?
Poetry readings and speeches were planned Friday night.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected at protests around the world.
A march in Glasgow, Scotland, was to converge on a Labor Party conference in time for Prime Minister Tony Blair?s speech.
The anti-war demonstration has not only irked the British government but also Iraqi opposition groups who hope to unseat Saddam.
Ahmed Agha Chalabi, human rights coordinator of the opposition Iraqi National Congress in London, accused protesters of aiming to prolong ?the life of Saddam and extending the misery of the Iraqi people.? He said only war would end Saddam?s repression.
?We all have families in Iraq. If anyone is killed it won?t be a cousin or relative of a demonstrator, but ours,? said Chalabi.
Myers, a 20-year member of the anti-nuclear campaign, said it was the first time the group had marched against a Labor Party government.
?I never thought that leaders of Germany and France would be speaking for the people of Britain,? Myers said.
Blair has been President Bush?s strongest supporter in his threats to go to war with Iraq if Saddam Hussein does not get rid of his weapons of mass destruction. A British government spokesman said Friday the way to prevent war was for Saddam to cooperate with U.N. inspectors.
Temat: OKUPACJA.....???
OKUPACJA.....???
Subject: The Occupation
Israel occupies Palestinian land. No Palestinian occupies Israeli
territory.
by CHARLEY REESE
It’s good to see that the Israelis are finally on the defensive in their
long running propaganda war. Fewer and fewer people are buying the absurd
notion that one of the world’s great military powers is “the victim” of
unarmed Palestinians.
Dropping a 1-ton bomb on one of the most densely populated urban areas in
the world and then professing to be surprised that civilians were killed
flew like a lead bird in Europe and the rest of the world. Even President
Bush, as weak-kneed and muddle-headed as he is on the Middle East, expressed
great annoyance.
Ariel Sharon, Israel’s Prime Minister, who was already boasting that it was
one of Israel’s most successful operations, had to do a quick bit of
backpedaling when a hurricane of criticism fell on his country. The truth is
that Israel’s blatant, racist and contemptuous attitude toward Palestinian
lives is showing through its cloak of incessant propaganda.
It was hard not to vomit when watching the Israeli Consul General in New
York piously proclaim how Israel tries to avoid civilian deaths.
If that were so, how come more than 80 percent of all the Palestinians
killed in the past two years were civilians, many of them women and
children? If the Israelis are so concerned about Palestinian life, then why
have they committed so many heinous acts of cruelty against Palestinian
civilians, like locking them down in their homes, stealing their land and
refusing to allow them to get to hospitals? How come an Israeli settler who
beat a 10-year-old Palestinian boy to death received as a sentence a fine
and community service?
Unfortunately for the Israelis, the video camera and satellite
communications have allowed the world to see their thuggish brutality. The
Israelis have no choice but to keep on lying, since the truth is on the side
of the Palestinians.
Israel occupies the Palestinian land. No Palestinian occupies any Israeli
territory.
Israel has one of the most powerful armies in the world. The Palestinians
have no army at all.
Israel stands in open defiance of more than 60 United Nations resolutions.
The Palestinians violated none of them.
The greatest concession in modern history was made in 1993 when the
Palestinians agreed to accept the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in
return for peace. In actuality, the Zionists have no valid claim to any of
Palestine. The Balfour Declaration in 1917 was simply the last act of
colonialist Europe taking other people's land away from them. Even so, the
Israelis refuse to withdraw to their 1967 borders.
At last, some American-Jews are beginning to speak out and demand that
Israel withdraw to its 1967 borders and dismantle the Jewish settlements.
They have seen that the hard-nosed Zionists in Israel are making a mockery
of Jewish idealism.
The power of Israeli propaganda is still illustrated, at least in America,
by the fact that no one in the administration even questioned Israel’s
assumed right to assassinate anyone it deems a political enemy. The man they
killed, along with the civilians, was once in an Israeli prison, and the
Israelis let him go. Why didn’t they just arrest him again? Why did they
decide that a 1-ton bomb dropped from an American-made F-16 was the proper
tool for taking out one man in an apartment complex?
The answer is that they are drunk on their military power and are corrupted
by their racist attitudes and by the weakness of the American political and
media establishments. The Israelis think they can do anything to anybody
anywhere and get away with it.
I think they have finally crossed a bridge too far.
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Temat: Synowie martwi, Sadam i podziemie zyje.
Synowie martwi, Sadam i podziemie zyje.
His sons are dead but Saddam lives, as do forces of resistance
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
23 July 2003
So they are dead. Even Baghdad exploded in celebratory, deafening automatic
rifle fire at the news, a delight of matchstick-snapping sound and red tracer
bullets.
The burned, bullet-splashed villa in Mosul, the four bullet-damaged corpses,
America's hopes however vain that the deaths of Saddam Hussein's two sons,
Uday and Qusay, will break the guerrilla resistance to Iraq's US occupation
troops, all combined last night to give the American occupation of Iraq a
seemingly new and invincible power. And a new illusion that they may be safe
from further attack. From the start, it looked as if the brothers might be
dead. The two dead men were said to bear an impressive resemblance to Uday
and Qusay. The house was owned by Mohamed
al-Zidani, a tribal ally of the Husseins. A 14-year-old child killed by the
Americans one of the four dead might have been one of Saddam's grandsons.
Qusay was a leader of the Special Republican Guard, a special target of the
Americans.
But it was a bloody battle. Those Iraqis who loved the Saddam regime will at
least claim that his sons fought to the death.
The Americans used their so-called Task Force 20 to storm the pseudo-
Palladian villa on a main highway through Mosul.
Task Force 20 combines Special Forces and CIA agents. But this is the same
Task Force 20 that blasted to death the occupants of a convoy heading for the
Syrian border earlier this month, a convoy whose travellers were meant to
include Saddam himself and even the two sons supposedly killed yesterday. The
victims turned out to be smugglers. And American Intelligence was also
responsible for the air raid on a Saddam villa on 20 March, which was
supposed to kill Saddam. And the far crueller air raid on the Mansur district
of Baghdad at the end of the air bombardment in April, which was supposed to
kill Saddam and his sons but only slaughtered 16 innocent civilians.
All proved to be miserable failures. So yesterday's killings will be billed
as a historical reversal of fortunes.
But the questions remain. In a family obsessed with good reason with their
own personal security, why
were Uday and Qusay together? Why did they allow themselves to be trapped,
the two so-called "lions of Iraq" (this courtesy of Saddam) in the very same
cage?
Saddam's early life was spent on the run after he tried to assassinate an
Iraqi prime minister. He dug a bullet out of his body after being shot. But
he always travelled alone. In adversity, the family had learnt to stay apart,
just as they had during the 1991 Gulf War and during the invasion of Iraq in
March.
Even in power, Saddam and his sons were in hiding.
The American military in Mosul were saying last night that the four Iraqi
bodies were "pretty shot up" in other words, they had been shot so many
times in the face that they had been disfigured and so another question
remains: will Iraqis believe that the corpses really are those of those of
Saddam's sons?
And will this bring the guerrilla war to an end?
Even though Uday and Qusay are dead, Saddam is clearly still alive. Though
Uday was a cruel man and a psychopath, the sons were appendages to the king,
mere assistants in the monster's cave. Saddam lives. And his voice is still
heard on tape throughout Iraq. It is of his fate that Iraqis are waiting to
hear.
Secondly, and far more importantly, there is a fundamental misunderstanding
between the American occupation authorities in Iraq and the people whose
country they are occupying.
The United States believes that the entire resistance to America's
proconsulship of Iraq is composed of "remnants" of Saddam's followers, "dead-
enders", "bitter-enders" they have other phrases to describe them.
Their theory is that once the Hussein family is decapitated, the resistance
will end.
But the guerrillas who are killing US troops every day are also being
attacked by a growing Islamist Sunni movement that never had any love for
Saddam. Much more importantly, many Iraqis were reluctant to support the
resistance for fear that an end to American occupation would mean the return
of the ghastly old dictator.
If he joins his sons in that special nirvana that the Baath keeps for its
children a place of marble palaces and torture chambers, I suspect the
chances are that the opposition to the American-led occupation will grow
rather than diminish, on the basis that, with Saddam gone, Iraqis will have
nothing to lose by fighting the American forces.
Temat: Dawid Warszawski komentuje wyrok Trybunału Hask...
Troche wiecej o historii Palestyny. Wyglada na to, ze arabi zaczeli sprowadzac
sie do Palestyny z powodow Syjonistycznych poczynan. Stwierdzili widocznie, ze
tu mozna lepiej zyc.
While the modern media maybe short on information about the history of
the "Palestinian people" the historical record is not. Books, such as
Battleground by Samuel Katz and From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters
long ago detailed the history of the region. Far from being settled by
Palestinians for hundreds, if not thousands of years, the Land of
Israel, according to dozens of visitors to the land, was, until the
beginning of the last century, practically empty. Alphonse de
Lamartine visited the land in 1835. In his book, Recollections of the
East, he writes "Outside the gates of Jerusalem we saw no living
object, heard no living sound.." None other than the famous American
author Mark Twain, who visited the Land of Israel in 1867, confirms
this. In his book Innocents Abroad he writes, "A desolation is here
that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action.
We reached Tabor safely.. We never saw a human being on the whole
journey." Even the British Consul in Palestine reported, in 1857, "The
country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore
its greatest need is that of a body of population."
In fact, according to official Ottoman Turk census figures of 1882, in
the entire Land of Israel, there were only 141,000 Muslims, both Arab
and non-Arab. This number was to skyrocket to 650,000 Arabs by 1922, a
450% increase in only 40 years. By 1938 that number would become over
1 million or an 800% increase in only 56 years. Population growth was
especially high in areas where Jews lived. Where did all these Arabs
come from? According to the Arabs the huge increase in their numbers
was due to natural childbirth. In 1944, for example, they alleged that
the natural increase (births minus deaths) of Arabs in the Land of
Israel was the astounding figure of 334 per 1000. That would make it
roughly three times the corresponding rate for the same year of
Lebanon and Syria and almost four times that of Egypt, considered
amongst the highest in the world. Unlikely, to say the least. If the
massive increase was not due to natural births, then were did all
these Arabs come from?
All the evidence points to the neighboring Arab states of Egypt,
Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. In 1922 the British Governor of the Sinai
noted that "illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai,
but also from Transjordan and Syria." In 1930, the British Mandate
-sponsored Hope-Simpson Report noted that "unemployment lists are
being swollen by immigrants from Trans-Jordania" and "illicit
immigration through Syria and across the northern frontier of
Palestine is material." The Arabs themselves bare witness to this
trend. For example, the governor of the Syrian district of Hauran,
Tewfik Bey el Hurani, admitted in 1934 that in a single period of only
a few months over 30,000 Syrians from Hauran had moved to the Land of
Israel. Even British Prime Minister Winston Churchill noted the Arab
influx. Churchill, a veteran of the early years of the British mandate
in the Land of Israel, noted in 1939 that "far from being persecuted,
the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied."
Far from displacing the Arabs, as they claimed, the Jews were the very
reason the Arabs chose to settle in the Land of Israel. Jobs provided
by newly established Zionist industry and agriculture lured them
there, just as Israeli construction and industry provides most Arabs
in the Land of Israel with their main source of income today. Malcolm
MacDonald, one of the principal authors of the British White Paper of
1939, which restricted Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel,
admitted (conservatively) that were it not for a Jewish presence the
Arab population would have been little more than half of what it
actually was. Today, when due to the latest "intifada" Arabs from the
territories under 35 are no longer allowed into pre-1967 Israel to
work, unemployment has skyrocketed to over 40% and most rely on
European aid packages to survive.
Not only pre-state Arabs lied about being indigenous. Even today, many
prominent so-called Palestinians, it turns out, are foreign born.
Edward Said (Left), an Ivy League Professor of Literature and a major
Palestinian propagandist, long claimed to have been raised in
Jerusalem. However, in an article in the September 1999 issue of
Commentary Magazine Justus Reid Weiner revealed that Said (Right)
actually grew up in Cairo, Egypt, a fact which Said himself was later
forced to admit. But why bother with Said? PLO chief Yasir Arafat
himself, self declared "leader of the Palestinian people", has always
claimed to have been born and raised in "Palestine". In fact,
according to his official biographer Richard Hart, as well as the BBC,
Arafat was born in Cairo on August 24, 1929 and that's where he grew
up.
Temat: Francja spolpracowniki Hitlera, Polske sojsznik!!!
Francja spolpracowniki Hitlera, Polske sojsznik!!!
Court orders Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon released from jail
By The Associated Press
PARIS - A French appeals court ordered the release Wednesday of imprisoned
wartime collaborator Maurice Papon, whose conviction for sending Jews to Nazi
death camps revived painful memories about France's Nazi collaboration.
Lawyer Jean-Marc Varaut said his client "would be freed by the end of the
day." The decision was immediately condemned by renowned Nazi hunter Serge
Klarsfeld.
The former official, 92, has been serving a 10-year prison sentence since
1999 for complicity in crimes against humanity.
Papon, who went on to become budget minister after the war, was the highest-
ranking former French official sentenced for collaboration with the Nazis.
His six-month trial was the longest in France's history.
Papon led the Bordeaux area police during the Nazi occupation of France and
was convicted in 1998 for signing orders that led to the deportation of 1,690
Jews from Bordeaux from 1942-44. Most were sent to Auschwitz, and all but a
handful died.
Papon's lawyers had repeatedly asked that Papon be released from La Sante
prison in Paris because of his age and ill health. His continuing
imprisonment had sparked an ongoing debate in France about jailing the
elderly, and two French former prime ministers were among those who had
called for Papon's release.
Papon had triple coronary bypass surgery several years ago and had a
pacemaker implanted in January 1999.
His lawyers filed a new request for his release over the summer, based on a
new provision in French law that allows prisoners to be freed if two
independent doctors agree they are suffering from a fatal illness, or their
long-term health is endangered by remaining behind bars.
A French judge rejected the request July 24, which Papon's lawyers then
appealed.
Another of Papon's lawyers, Francis Vuillemin, said Wednesday: "It is a
crucial moment in his life."
"It is a great victory. He is totally free to come and go," the lawyer said.
However, his lawyers said Papon would have to inform a judge when he leaves
his residence at Gretz-Armainvilliers, outside Paris.
Jewish groups have vehemently opposed Papon's liberation.
Klarsfeld, a Nazi hunter and historian who helped produce much of the
evidence used at Papon's trial, said the decision to free him "gives a
feeling of injustice."
"We had fought so that he would stay in prison," Klarsfeld said. "What I hope
is that this sick man doesn't turn out to be healthy."
Before the ruling, French President Jacques Chirac had
turned down three requests to pardon Papon. Chirac's
Elysee Palace said it had no immediate comment Wednesday.
Papon fled to Switzerland after his conviction, but was
arrested and began serving his sentence in October 1999.
Last year, he wrote in a letter to France's justice minister that he felt
neither "regrets or remorse" for his acts.
Temat: Lista Morderstw Popelnionych przez Zydow
Support for Israel Up Among American
National Poll Shows Support for Israel Up Among American Opinion Leaders
Cupertino, CA and Washington, DC - After two years of bruising violence and
negative images in the press, overall support for the State of Israel, long the
target of terrorism in the Middle East, has increased by 19% among American
opinion leaders. The poll was sponsored by the non-profit, ISRAEL21c and The
Israel Project.
Of those Americans with college or post-graduate education, who are also
regular readers/viewers of a national newspaper, news magazine and or
network/cable news shows with incomes of $75,000 or more, just over 50% of
those polled in October identified themselves as supporters of Israel while
only 12% said they supported the Palestinians in the conflict. The increase in
support for Israel was significant: The 50% figure was up from 42% in July and
represents a 19% increase.
Furthermore, while 80% identify Israel as a democracy, its democratic form of
government was now seen as the primary reason the US should support Israel by
19%, up from 12% less than 3 months ago. Also given as primary reasons for US
support of Israel are the shared fight against terrorism and Israel's ongoing
role as an ally in the region. Particularly noteworthy was a significant jump
in polling numbers in Washington, DC where those who say they have a "warm"
feeling toward Israel increased 10 points - to 66% - since the April 2002
survey. In fact, the percentage of Washington area opinion leaders who are
favorable to Israel rose from a net positive of +36% to a net positive of +52% -
an enormous jump in support.
In Washington D.C., television ads highlighting the democratic practices of
Israel, created by The Israel Project and supported by The American Jewish
Committee, a prime sponsor of the earlier research, and Israel 21C, have been
airing on CNN, MSNBC, and FOX since early September. The survey, conducted from
October 17th to October 24th by noted pollster Stanley Greenberg of Greenberg,
Quinlan, Rosner Research included 594 opinion formers nationally and an over
sample of 209 opinion formers in Washington, DC, was completed under the
auspices of The Israel Project.
The poll also found that national opinion leaders overwhelmingly reject the
idea of encouraging universities and others to divest their interests in
companies doing business in Israel with 61% saying divestment is a bad idea and
only 30% in favor. This is a hotly contested issue on a number of college
campuses in the United States. "American support for Israel is on the rise,"
said Zvi Alon, chairman of ISRAEL21c. "The poll shows that educated, well-
informed Americans support Israel because of the democratic values and
traditions shared by the two countries. It is good news indeed that this
important group of Americans understand the opportunities and constraints a
democracy such as Israel brings to the conflict."
"In the past, people in the pro-Israel community accepted image problems as
inevitable - like a hurricane on the move - and were resigned to just
complaining about unfair perceptions of Israel," said Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi,
founder and president of The Israel Project. "However, this poll has
demonstrated that common democratic values are a strong basis for true
allegiance and friendship between Israel and America and that Israel is a true
friend of America. America's opinion leaders understand the importance of
Israel." "This poll shows the first movement in support of Israel in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict in two years," said pollster Stan Greenberg. "The
directional shift amongst opinion elites in the Washington area is particularly
significant. That Israel has emerged as a special democratic ally at this
critical point puts Israel in a much stronger position in the United States."
ISRAEL21c is a non-political, non-profit organization established in 2001 with
a mission to focus media and public opinion on the 21st century Israel that
isn't seen in today's headlines or news programs. ISRAEL21c seeks to highlight
the Israel of high tech development and advanced medical research; the Israel
that is a force for decency and democracy in the world. ISRAEL21c educates
people on how Israel adds value to American life or how Israel shares the
values that underpin American society. For more information see
www.israel21c.org. The Israel Project works for the survival of Israel and the
Jewish people through improving Israel's image in Democracies across the globe.
Founded in March of 2002 by political consultant and pro-Democracy activist
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, The Israel Project is a non-partisan non-profit
organization.
Temat: Niemieccy przesiedlency zadaja rozliczenia...
Niemieccy przesiedlency zadaja rozliczenia...
>>Coraz glosniej sie mowi w Niemczech o sprawie przesiedlencow. Szczegolnie
dlatego ze sa bombardowani nieustannie patentem zydowskim w tych sprawach,
zwanym 'Holokaustem'.
>> Ciekawe rowniez czy Niemcy naglosnia sprawe wymordowania przez zydow
ok.60 tysiecy tych, ktorzy nie zdazyli zbiec poza niemiecka granice po
wojnie. Sprawy te analizuje i opisuje Zyd, John Sack w 'Oko za oko', gdzie
podkresla ze zydzi po swoich przejsciach w II Wojnie Swiatowej, nie
potrafili nie dokonywac odwetu na Niemcach, gdziekolwiek i jakkolwiek mogli
z pelnym okrucienstwem, ktorego sie nauczyli od Niemcow i Rosjan. W ramach
UB Zydzi rowniez starali sie wymordowac pozostalosci inteligencji i
dzialaczy Polskich, ktorych Rosjanie, Niemcy i zydzi nie zdazyli w ramach
Polskiego Holokaustu.
We were war victims too, Germans insist
Hannah Cleaver in Berlin
Sunday August 3, 2003
The Observer
The photographs show exiles, pathetic bundles of belongings strapped to
their backs or clutched in their arms, in grainy black and white trudging
through Europe to an unknown future.
New laws meant that, because of their ethnic origins, these people had to
abandon their homes and any possessions they could not carry and leave a
country where they suddenly had no place.
But this is not the infamous Nazi ethnic cleansing of Jews, Poles or
Russians: these were Germans - some of the 15 million expelled from European
countries following the defeat of the Third Reich.
The Germans as victims have been historically omitted in the face of the
Holocaust, the multiple invasions and the Blitz. Modern Germany was born
soaked in collective guilt for the horrors the country had inflicted. That
guilt is part of the national psyche.
Those who tried to speak about German suffering were collectively shouted
down, portrayed as revisionists or neo-Nazis. Many were. But as the decades
pass, payments are slowly being made to some of the Nazis' victims and
efforts are under way to return looted property, and increasing numbers of
Germans feel able to talk about the losses they suffered.
A hesitant trend, sparked by Günter Grass's recent book involving the 1945
sinking of a ship packed with German refugees fleeing Soviet troops, is
leading to a re-examination of the German experience. This year's 60th
anniversary of the 'firestorm' bombing of Hamburg by the RAF brought graphic
accounts of the slaughter and provoked debate over the justification for
burning tens of thousands of people to death.
And now efforts are being made to commemorate the suffering of Germans
driven from Eastern Europe. Led by the Association of the Banished, the plan
is for a museum and centre dealing with the expulsion of Germans from
countries which include the former Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Erika Steinbruch, conservative MP and head of the association, told The
Observer: 'We want to make it clear what happened to these people, the 15
million who were thrown out of their homelands in the Baltics, Romania, so
many countries. They were chased out because of their German ethnicity.
'We want to look at how Germany changed as a result of these people coming
into the country and bringing with them lots of traditions that made a
difference to Germany. We also want to help in making it impossible that
such banishments ever happen again in Europe.
'This discussion is necessary. Every life is equal. The Jews who suffered in
Germany were German. There were Germans in the Balkans who lost their
homelands after the Hitler-Stalin pact. These were Germans who suffered
under Hitler.
'There is a more relaxed discussion now. That's necessary. It is part of the
process of self-discovery, of the very complicated moral problems Germany
has with itself. This is only just starting. I'm very optimistic we can do
this.'
She has political support, and backing from intellectuals within and outside
Germany, but has come up against resistance to its focus on German victims
as well as the idea of basing it in Berlin.
Recently 65 politicians, intellectuals and authors wrote an open letter
against the association's nationalism. Signatories included German
parliamentary president Wolfgang Thierse, Grass, Czech Deputy Prime Minister
Petr Mares, and former Polish Foreign Minister Vladislav Bartoszewski.
'The design of such a centre as a predominantly national project... awakes
the mistrust of our neighbours and cannot be in the joint interests of our
countries. It carries the danger of setting the suffering of one against
that of the other and to neglect the differing causes and contexts of
expulsion.'
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