tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14631413815285656992024-02-07T04:57:11.322-08:00EyewitnessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-77417068855918386672012-04-30T22:49:00.001-07:002012-04-30T22:58:18.632-07:00Douchebag and the scam that is being run at Diversifed agency<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had once upon time worked for this company, fast forward to an accident at work. I than got the surgery needed and asked instead of sitting around to go back to work and do light duty. This jerk off starts getting on my case about such things as physiotherapy and seeing my doctor. Remember folks that my surgeon did not even want me to set a foot outside my place, I asked for the light duty.<br />
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WCB charges for every dollar given to me three dollars to the company. So instead of thanking me this <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=18302377272&set=a.17807907272.6131.524547272&type=1&theater">douchebag</a> and <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=624&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=diversified+staffing&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=diversified+staffing&hnear=0x537170039f843fd5:0x266d3bb1b652b63a,Calgary,+AB&cid=0,0,13870349587001554053&ei=FHafT4f9Kuqe2AX8_enQAg&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAwQ_BIwAA">diversified staffing ganged up on me</a> , and stated they no longer have light duty work.<br />
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That is fine I got back on WCB and hope they are feeling WCB shoving that stick up his but than he probably enjoys that . But my point is I learned so much about working in the office of this company in the one month doing light duty.<br />
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1) They laugh and insult employees behind there back.<br />
2) I saw with own eyes files with stickies stating certain employees who had bad breath or body odour.<br />
3) How a company would be paying them $30hr and they are forcing desperate people who are living on the streets or trying to save up for a place to work for$12 or less or they will black list them for refusing a job. I have seen it with my own eyes and have listened to phone as they are telling one another not to give certain person the job for refusing an earlier job.<br />
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4) They don't care if you are sick , cannot make it on time due to what ever, they want when they say jump , you say how high. I have seen qualified people being refused jobs for the simple reason they dont want employer to see your skills and than hire you on. They sent unqualified people to jobs in order to make there money. That is how I GOT HURT, working with employee who was not qualified to do the job nor trained properly by them. But they lie to employers about his or her qualifications and than send them.<br />
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No wonder they let me go from light duties and my filling job. I have Character and was not one of his trolls that he could bully around. This company released me for having a dissibility that I got from doing contract work for them.<br />
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I also was not liked while in the downtown office for giving advice to injured employees or giving them advice on places that were hiring. Temp agencies in most cases are good , supply and demand . I have no problem with them, but this <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=18302277272&set=a.17807907272.6131.524547272&type=1&theater">Joe Clay</a> who thinks he can walk on the less fortunate in our society is wrong and hope he gets his day.<br />
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He is bully to his staff and employees , which is shame for a company that I thought was a good company. They even sent my cheque to another office , when I told them not to on purpose. So the douchebag award for 2012 goes to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=18302377272&set=a.17807907272.6131.524547272&type=1&theater">Joe Clay</a> who works and Hitler in downtown. He hates common sense and will argue like a woman about nothing. He is snake oil salesman and the public should be aware of him and this company at all costs.<br />
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If you know more snake oil salesman please report them ASAP.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-45763191152211997112010-11-29T23:14:00.000-08:002010-11-29T23:14:36.772-08:00SHOULDN’T WIKILEAKS BE RENAMED ZIOLEAKS?Israel is in it’s full glory today because of the latest Wikileaks ‘leaks’. As was said in a previous post, Had WikiLeaks didn’t exist, Israel would have had to invent it. It appears that in reality, it was.<br />
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<a href="http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/shouldnt-wikileaks-be-renamed-zioleaks/">http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/shouldnt-wikileaks-be-renamed-zioleaks/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-38434035897031750892010-11-29T23:12:00.001-08:002010-11-29T23:12:57.776-08:00POLICE STATE - TSA, Homeland Security & Tampa Police Set Up Nazi Checkpoints At Bus Stations<a href="http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=13259">http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=13259</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-4754211220494416772010-11-29T23:11:00.000-08:002010-11-29T23:11:40.739-08:00the top 5 shocking things about the latest wikileaks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHs9gybuBlKx6AaAsDsqSGb8kdsRZfoUOrb3H2QE03WYPBbcqq1tQIGJxU6_UVsMrg1ntT7bcQe7YatjvB42KYts5QxGwGFHzhYIJMWzFHz3c9Hqv0o-CJbMopDZWhtvix6fcm9MhZISdb/s1600/Wolf-in-Sheeps-Clothing.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHs9gybuBlKx6AaAsDsqSGb8kdsRZfoUOrb3H2QE03WYPBbcqq1tQIGJxU6_UVsMrg1ntT7bcQe7YatjvB42KYts5QxGwGFHzhYIJMWzFHz3c9Hqv0o-CJbMopDZWhtvix6fcm9MhZISdb/s320/Wolf-in-Sheeps-Clothing.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>the top 5 shocking things about the latest wikileaks Here we go.<br />
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<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,times,georgia,serif;"><b><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/story/285/193/">http://beforeitsnews.com/story/285/193/</a></b></span></span></span></em><b><em><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,times,georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span></em></em></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-92122462356303531272010-11-28T22:29:00.000-08:002010-11-28T22:31:15.054-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<center> <b>You now have a choice!</b> </center> <br />
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<tr><td><div align="center"><b><i>US builds forts to stop Iran and Syria</i></b> </div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img align="right" alt="US fort in Iraq" height="177" src="http://www.iamthewitness.com/img/US-fort-in-Iraq.JPG" width="143" />US accuses Iran and Syria of <a href="http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/05/07/ap/international/d8hf5h8g0.txt">sending fighters</a> into Iraq, and Iran of <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO759250.htm">smuggling bomb materials</a>. Is this part of a setup to attack those nations? Judicial-inc shows the IEDs <a href="http://judicial-inc.biz/Mossad_bombs__sophisticated.htm">come from Israel</a>, and the <a href="http://judicial-inc.biz/Electronic_Trigger.htm">Israeli advisors</a> have access to our troops.</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img align="left" alt="American hanging from bridge" height="170" hspace="11" src="http://www.iamthewitness.com/img/AmericanHangingFromBridge.JPG" width="144" />Israel has staged many attacks to create anger towards Arabs; <b>this is nothing new</b>. Remember the 4 men who were killed and then hung from a bridge? Do you think the Arabs did that by themselves?<br />
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<center> <b>How do we distinguish truth from lies?</b> <br />
<b><a href="http://www.erichufschmid.net/Separating_truth_from_lies.htm">The truth does not need protection!</a></b> <br />
Another article about the media: <br />
<b><a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/MediaIsTheEnemy.htm">The Media is the Enemy</a></b><br />
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The fine line between Beliefs and Deception </center> <center> <table bgcolor="#fff2e3" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" cols="1"><tbody>
<tr> <td><center> Lesson # 2: <b><a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_DeceptionDollar.htm">The Deception Dollar</a></b> <br />
Deception for <b>who</b>? </center></td> </tr>
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<tr> <td><center> Lesson # 3: <b><a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_AluminumNazi.html">Who are the "Illuminati"?</a></b> </center></td> </tr>
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<tr> <td><center> Lesson # 4: <b><a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Handlers.html">What are "Handlers"?</a></b> <br />
What is the connection with Deb Simon, Phil Jayhan, John Kaminski, etc? </center></td> </tr>
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<tr> <td><center> Lesson # 5: <b><a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_StrawmanGuild.html">What is a "Strawman"?</a></b> <br />
UFOs, Normal Livergood, The Pod Theory </center></td> </tr>
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<tr> <td><center> Lesson # 6: <b><a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_DeceptionDust.htm">Deceiving with the Truth</a></b> <br />
Example: The World Trade Center dust </center></td> </tr>
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<tr> <td><center> Lesson # 7: <b><a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_CryptoZionists.htm">Crypto Jews and Crypto Zionists</a></b> </center></td> </tr>
</tbody></table></center> <center> Lesson # 8: <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/CriticizeYourOwnAssumption.html"><strong>Criticize your own Assumptions</strong></a> <br />
Example: Sam Danner </center>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-43454574766629677622010-11-28T22:16:00.000-08:002010-11-28T22:16:21.257-08:00America israels dog.<table bgcolor="#ffead9" cellpadding="12"><tbody>
<tr><td colspan="2"><div align="center"><b>$10 billion per month, and rising!</b></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><center> This war is <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14385661.htm">setting records</a> for cost and <b>insanity</b>. You can see what your money does at <a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article136827.html">this page</a>. The Zionists are proud of their attack dogs.... are you? </center></td> <td><center> <img alt="Useful Idiot number 39532" height="173" src="http://www.iamthewitness.com/img/UsefulIdiot_number39532.jpg" width="116" /> <br />
<i>"Get a clue!"</i> </center></td></tr>
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</b> </div>When the corruption upsets you, pick a page of photos, such as <a href="http://www.outdoor-photos.com/repository/2006-06?skip=120">this</a>, to remind youself that our earth is a beautiful place, and with more people to help us, we can make the human world beautiful, also. <br />
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<center> Photos by category <a href="http://jeffreymunro.com/amazingpics/index.php?x=browse&category=1">here</a> <br />
Another site of photos <a href="http://www.outdoor-photos.com/">here</a> <br />
Amazing photos of Scotland <a href="http://www.pbase.com/hwatt/scotland">here</a> </center>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-38346348298443421162010-11-28T18:36:00.000-08:002010-11-28T18:36:44.074-08:00Author Nesta H. Webster book which Anti-Defamation League has declared this book to be "extremist propaganda." Do you agree...?<center> <h2 class="style6" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><br />
</strong></h2></center> <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/archive.php?dir=books/Nesta.H.Webster"><img align="left" alt="Nesta H. Webster" border="0" height="210" hspace="6" src="http://www.iamthewitness.com/books/Nesta.H.Webster/Nesta.H.Webster.jpg" width="150" /></a><span class="style16"><strong><em>Nesta H. Webster</em></strong></span> <span class="style16">was an historical writer who wrote a number of good books on the French Revolution and how things operated before, during, and after its occurrence. After World War I Webster became intrigued with the "bigger picture" in world history, including the revolt of Marxism, so wrote a book called World Revolution, examining how and why people continue to revolt. As the search went deeper, clear meanings behind our various revolutions began to surface for Webster-and they involved an "agenda" by secret societies. <a name='more'></a> Many dismiss this idea because they have never done the research. They believe that anyone who accepts "conspiracy theories" are crackpots or suffering from paranoid delusions. Yet, those who believe there are no conspiracies may be the ones who are deluded - along with most of the world's population. It is something to consider. It is also a scary thought, which becomes a bit scarier when reading Nesta's books. They lay out, in historical perspective, how these secret societies and subversive movements have operated and controlled things from behind the scenes... <br />
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It is true that not all secret societies are out to rule the world or manipulate politics or world currency. But there are some major ones, according to Webster, that are. They may have been started to promote high values and to seek knowledge, but became perverted by power hungry individuals who saw ways to exploit the world for their own benefit, due to their high-standing positions within these organizations. These things happen. Webster, a respected writer and world historian, provides proof in her book <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/books/Nesta.H.Webster/Secret.Societies.and.Subversive.Movements.htm"><em><strong>Secret Societies and Subversive Movements</strong></em></a>. Despite this fact, the Anti-Defamation League has declared this book to be "extremist propaganda." Do you agree...? </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-74551689072831792832010-11-28T18:33:00.000-08:002010-11-28T18:33:46.542-08:00America's $3bn bribe to Israel stinks of appeasement<div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter's reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else's property would be regarded as preposterous. <br />
Three billion dollars' worth of fighter bombers in return for a temporary freeze in West Bank colonisation for a mere 90 days?<br />
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Not including East Jerusalem – so goodbye to the last chance of the east of the holy city for a Palestinian capital – and, if Benjamin Netanyahu so wishes, a rip-roaring continuation of settlement on Arab land. In the ordinary sane world in which we think we live, there is only one word for Barack Obama's offer: appeasement. Usually, our lords and masters use that word with disdain and disgust. <br />
Anyone who panders to injustice by one people against another people is called an appeaser. Anyone who prefers peace at any price, let alone a $3bn bribe to the guilty party – is an appeaser. Anyone who will not risk the consequences of standing up for international morality against territorial greed is an appeaser. <br />
Those of us who did not want to invade Afghanistan were condemned as appeasers. Those of us who did not want to invade Iraq were vilified as appeasers. Yet that is precisely what Obama has done in his pathetic, unbelievable effort to plead with Netanyahu for just 90 days of submission to international law. Obama is an appeaser.<br />
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The fact that the West and its political and journalistic elites – I include the ever more disreputable New York Times – take this tomfoolery at face value, as if it can seriously be regarded as another "step" in the "peace process", to put this mystical nonsense "back on track", is a measure of the degree to which we have taken leave of our senses in the Middle East. <br />
It is a sign of just how far America (and, through our failure to condemn this insanity, Europe) has allowed its fear of Israel – and how far Obama has allowed his fear of Israeli supporters in Congress and the Senate – to go. <br />
Three billion dollars for three months is one billion dollars a month to stop Israel's colonisation. That's half a billion dollars a fortnight. That's $500m a week. That's $71,428,571 a day, or $2,976,190 an hour, or $49,603 a minute.<br />
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And as well as this pot of gold, Washington will continue to veto any resolutions critical of Israel in the UN and prevent "Palestine" from declaring itself a state. It's worth invading anyone to get that much cash to stage a military withdrawal, let alone the gracious gesture of not building more illegal colonies for only 90 days while furiously continuing illegal construction in Jerusalem at the same time. <br />
The Hillary Clinton version of this grotesquerie would be funny if it was not tragic. According to the sharp pen of the NYT's Roger Cohen, La Clinton has convinced herself that Palestine is "achievable, inevitable and compatible with Israel's security". And what persuaded Madame Hillary of this? Why, on a trip to the pseudo-Palestine "capital" of Ramallah last year, she saw the Jewish settlements – "the brutality of it was so stark" according to one of her officials – but thought her motorcade was being guarded by the Israeli army because "they're so professional". And then, lo and behold, they turned out to be a Palestinian military guard, a "professional outfit" – and all this changed Madame's views!<br />
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Quite apart from the fact that the Israeli army is a rabble, and that indeed, the Palestinians are a rabble too, this "road to Ramallah" incident led supporters of Madame, according to Cohen, to realise that there had been a transition "from a self-pitying, self-dramatising Palestinian psyche, with all the cloying accoutrements of victimhood, to a self-affirming culture of pragmatism and institution-building". Palestinian "prime minister" Salam Fayyad, educated in the US so, naturally, a safe pair of hands, has put "growth before grumbling, roads before ranting, and security before everything".<br />
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Having been occupied by a brutal army for 43 years, those wretched, dispossessed Palestinians, along with their cousins in the West Bank who have been homeless for 62 years, have at last stopped ranting and grumbling and feeling sorry for themselves and generally play-acting in order to honour the only thing that matters. Not justice. Certainly not democracy, but to the one God which Christians, Jews and Muslims are all now supposed to worship: security.<br />
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Yes, they have joined the true brotherhood of mankind. Israel will be safe at last. That this infantile narrative now drives the woman who told us 11 years ago that Jerusalem was "the eternal and indivisible capital of Israel" proves that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has now reached its apogee, its most treacherous and final moment. And if Netanyahu has any sense – I'm talking abut the Zionist, expansionist kind – he will wait out the 90 days, then thumb his nose at the US. In the three months of "good behaviour", of course, the Palestinians will have to bite the bullet and sit down to "peace" talks which will decide the future borders of Israel and "Palestine". But since Israel controls 62 per cent of the West Bank this leaves Fayyad and his chums about 10.9 per cent of mandate Palestine to argue about.<br />
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And at the cost of $827 a second, they'd better do some quick grovelling. They will. We should all hang our heads in shame. But we won't. It's not about people. It's about presentation. It's not about justice. It's about "security". And cash. Lots of it. Goodbye Palestine. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Halloween is in full swing as Zios claim two jets from Yemen were en-route to NY synagogues, and Obama <a href="http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=13410548"> <span style="color: #3e1f00;">scrambled</span></a> two F-15 fighters to prevent a 'mini-holocaust.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Edgar Steele, a Free Speech attorney, has been silenced. He <a href="http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/ed_steele_230.html"> <span style="color: #3e1f00;">contends</span></a> he is the victim of an ADL sting, which involved a plot to murder his mother with a car bomb.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The stock market is being artificially inflated to keep Americans content, and this will eventually make them angrier when the next 9/11 occurs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Judicial-Inc has been contacted by a mysterious German, who will host the site in Iran. In the last month there have been three incidences with Judicial's ADL-sponsored stalker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Oddly, the Neo-Nazis websites, the Holocaust revisionists sites, the Anti-Zionist scholars, the White Nationalists, Wiki-Leaks, the large alternative news sites, etc. have not been touched. Their holocaust message is <i>'Yes, the holocaust did happen, and millions were killed, but Auschwitz was a smaller number'</i>. The alternative news medias say <i>'Israel knew about 9/11, but were not involved.'</i> None of the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">'Truth Teller' sites are discussing the Israeli death squads in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bombings, the mercenaries, the communist plot in the Sudan, recent Ponzi schemes, the OKC bomb connection to Elohim City, etc. The Kosher Nazis are back to discussing pillaging negroes raping white women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The world need a independent website, not these silly Zio-Con hoaxers. As the economy deteriorates, people will need some sort of an communications where a real organization can start to take root. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-36218206812354339622010-11-28T00:57:00.000-08:002010-11-28T00:57:18.274-08:00Call from Mukto-mona to Stop Brutal Extermination of Palestinians !<div class="MsoNormal"> <span>To: All concerned </span><span>Authorities</span>The recent actions of the government of Ariel Sharon have gone far, far beyond the boundaries of acceptable conduct from any government. The Israeli government has supposedly lurched into action because of the suicide bombings carried out by the Palestinians. However, the distinction that must be made here is that an elected government that allegedly operates following democratic norms and conditions, should not respond by indiscriminate attacks upon a civilian population to “capture” militants. The Israeli government has proclaimed that their all out offensive on the Palestinians is a success as they have already captured “terrorist” leaders and active militants. However, the question that needs to be asked is whether the price that innocent have to pay for this “success” of Israel is either worth it or acceptable.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">The recent actions of the government of Ariel Sharon have gone far, far beyond the boundaries of acceptable conduct from any government.<span> </span>The Israeli government has supposedly lurched into action because of the suicide bombings carried out by the Palestinians.<span> </span>However, the distinction that must be made here is that an elected government that allegedly operates following democratic norms and conditions, should not respond by indiscriminate attacks upon a civilian population to “capture” militants.<span> </span>The Israeli government has proclaimed that their all out offensive on the Palestinians is a success as they have already captured “terrorist” leaders and active militants.<span> </span>However, the question that needs to be asked is whether the price that innocent have to pay for this “success” of Israel is either worth it or acceptable.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The rights or wrongs of Palestinian actions and/or demands are no longer an issue.<span> </span>Whether one supports the cause of the Palestinians or not is no longer an issue.<span> </span>These aspects of the situation have been neutralized by the Israeli government.<span> </span>What <i>is</i> today’s issue is the all out offensive being carried out by the state of Israel against ALL Palestinians.<span> </span>What is at stake today is not a few settlements, not strips of occupied lands, nor is it quibbles about whether it was the Palestinians or the Israelis that are more to blame.<span> </span>What is at stake today is clearly and simply the very survival of a whole people.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-23720849376989662712010-11-28T00:54:00.001-08:002010-11-28T00:55:10.262-08:00Save the life of Amina<table border="1"></table><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><img align="left" border="0" height="251" hspace="10" src="http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/amina/amina2.jpg" vspace="10" width="170" /></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #3045a9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Save the life of Amina.</b></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Amina Lawal Kurami has a story which is very similar to the case of Safiya or <a href="http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/zafran/index.htm">Zafran Bibi</a>.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">She is 35 and lives in a peasant family, at the village of Kurami, in Katsina State.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">(Katsina is one of the 12 northern states of Nigeria where the majority of population is islamic and where, from the beginning of 2000, the "sharia-law" was introduced.)</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Last March 22<sup>nd</sup> she was sentenced to death by stoning</b>, after being charged with having a baby out of wedlock, after divorcing. Amina Lawal, as she said to the Court, divorced at the beginning of 2001. During the following eleven months she met Yahaya Mohammed, a man living in her village, who promised to merry her. Then Amina got pregnant and at the beginning of 2002 a baby girl was born.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Just people of her village, Kurami, reported her to the police and charged her with adultery.<a name='more'></a></span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">During the trial, just a few days ago, Amina could not prove that the father of her daughter was the man who had promised to merry her. As a matter of fact "The man she said lured her into having sex denied it," as the official said. She was given 30 days to decide whether to challenge the sentence.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Sharia judge Nasiru Lawal Bello Dayi acquitted the man accused by Amina because she could not produce four witnesses as demanded by the Islamic penal code.</b></span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">The woman now is admitted to bail and is living in her parents' house, where she's weaning her little daughter Wasila. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">On August 19th 2002 her sentence to death by stoning was unfortunately confirmed and scheduled to January 2004. Her lawyers, who remain hopeful about her fate, will appeal to the Supreme Court of Nigeria.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>The appeal to save Amina.</b></span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Mukto-mona invites everyone to <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/amina1/"><b>sign and send the appeal</b></a> to save the life of Amina.</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">You can sign and send our <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/amina1/">petition</a> to the Nigerian Authorities (using the E-mail of the <b>President of the Republic</b> </span><a href="mailto:president.obasanjo@nigeriagov.org"><span lang="EN-GB">president.obasanjo@nigeriagov.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">)</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>fax 234 9 523 21 36</b> (indirizzato a His Excellency Olusegun Obasanjo, President of the Republic, The Presidency, Federal Secretariat, Phase II, Shehu Shagari Way, Abuja (Nigeria).</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">His Excellency</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Kanu Godwin Agabi,</b></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b> Minister of Justice, Ministry of Justice,</b></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">New Federal Secretariat complex Shahu Shagari Way, Abuja (Nigeria).</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Fax: 234 9 523 52 08</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Minister Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim</b>,</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> Minister of Justice and Attorney General,</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">New Federal Secretariat Building, 10th Floor,</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Federal Secretariat Block 1, Wing 1-B, Shehu Shagari Way, Abuja (Nigeria).</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Fax: c/o Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 234 9 523 0394/0210</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px; text-indent: 0px;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">or by means of the </span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Embassies of Nigeria in your country</b>, fax or e-mail and also c.c. to some Nigerian newpapers:</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Comet E-mail: <a href="mailto:mail@cometnews.com.ng">mail@cometnews.com.ng</a> </span></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3px 8px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">This Day E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:thisday@nova.net.ng"><span lang="EN-GB">thisday@nova.net.ng</span></a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-25247775262549019922010-11-28T00:51:00.001-08:002010-11-28T00:51:24.780-08:00Palestinian suffering<div align="center"><span style="color: navy; font-size: large;"><b>Palestinian suffering<br />
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<span style="color: firebrick; font-size: medium;">Forwarded by Lopa Tasneem</span></div><br />
<strong><span style="color: firebrick;">A recent essay by Edward Said on the Palestine issue here. A short biography of Edward Said from <em>The Nation</em>:</span></strong><br />
Edward W. Said, the University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is the magazine's classical music critic as well as a contributing writer. Known both for his groundbreaking research in the field of comparative literature and his incisive political commentary, Said is one of the most prominent intellectuals in the United States today. His writing regularly appears in the <i>Guardian </i>of London, <i>Le Monde Diplomatique </i>and the Arab-language daily <i>al-Hayat</i>, printed in every Arab capital in the world.<br />
In 1948, Said and his family were dispossessed from Palestine and settled in Cairo. He came to the United States to attend college and has lived in New York for many years. Because of his advocacy for Palestinian self-determination and his membership in the Palestine National Council, Said was not allowed to visit Palestine until several years ago.<br />
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Educated at Princeton and Harvard, Said has lectured at more than 150 universities and colleges in the United States, Canada and Europe. His writing, translated into 14 languages, includes 10 books, among them, <i>Orientalism </i>(Pantheon, 1978), a runner-up in criticism for the National Book Critics Circle Award; <i>The World, the Text and the Critic </i>(Harvard, 1983); <i>Blaming the Victims </i>(Verso, 1988) and <i>Culture and Imperialism </i>(Knopf, 1993). His most recent book, <i>Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process</i>, was published by Vintage in 1995.<br />
<span class="lead"><span style="color: crimson;"><strong>Due weight given to decades of Palestinian suffering, to the enormous human costs of Israel's destructive policies: this, writes Edward Said, is the only possible framework for negotiations.</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="color: darkred; font-family: Arial Black; font-size: medium;">What Price Oslo?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">By <span style="color: sienna; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Edward Said</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">March 20, 2002</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">T</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">he television images on Al-Jazeera have been burningly clear. There is a kind of Palestinian heroism in evidence there that makes this the story of our time. An entire army, navy, and air force supplied munificently and unconditionally by the United States have been wreaking destruction on the 18 per cent of the West Bank and 60 per cent of Gaza afforded Palestinians after ten years of negotiations with Israel and the US.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Palestinian hospitals, schools, refugee camps and civilian residences have been at the receiving end of a merciless, criminal assault by Israeli troops huddled inside their helicopter gun-ships, F-16's and Merkavas, and still the poorly armed resistance fighters take on this preposterously more powerful force undaunted and unyielding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the US, CNN and newspapers like The New York Times fail, to their discredit, to ever mention that "the violence" is uneven and that there aren't two sides involved here, but only one state turning all its great power against a stateless, repeatedly refugeed, and dispossessed people, bereft of arms and real leadership, with the aim of destroying this people, "dealing them a terrible blow" as the war criminal who leads Israel shamelessly put it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As an index of how deranged Sharon has become, I might quote here what he said to Ha'aretz on 5 March: "The PA is behind the terror, it's all terror. Arafat is behind the terror. Our pressure is aimed at ending the terror. Don't expect Arafat to act against the terror. We have to cause them heavy casualties and then they'll know they can't keep using terror and win political achievements."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Besides symptomatically revealing the workings of an obsessed mind bent on destruction and sheer, unadulterated hatred, Sharon's words indicate the failures of reason and criticism loosed on the world since last September. Yes, there was a terrorist outrage, but there's more to the world than terror. There is politics, and struggle, and history, and injustice, and resistance and yes, state terror as well. With scarcely a peep from the American professorate or intelligentsia, we have all succumbed to the promiscuous misuse of language and sense, by which everything we don't like has become terror and what we do is pure and simple good -- fighting terror, no matter how much wealth, and lives, and destruction is involved.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Swept away are all the Enlightenment precepts by which we attempt to educate our students and our-fellow citizens, replaced by a disproportionate orgy of vindictiveness and self-righteous wrath of the kind that only the wealthy and the powerful, it would seem, have the right to use and act upon. No wonder then that a fourth-rate thug like Sharon feels entitled (by emulation and derivation) to do what he does when in the greatest democracy on earth, laws, constitutional rights, writs of habeas corpus and reason itself are consigned to the rubbish bin in the pursuit of terror and terrorism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As educators and as citizens, we have failed in our mission by allowing ourselves to be bamboozled in this way, without so much as an organised public discussion about a defence budget that has shot up to $400 billion while 40 million people remain without health insurance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Israelis, Arabs and Americans are told that love of country requires such expenditures and such destruction because a good cause is at stake. Nonsense. What is at stake are material interests that keep rulers in power, corporations making profits, people in a state of manufactured consent, just so long as they don't get up one morning and start to think about where, in this mad technologised rush to bomb and kill, we are going.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Israel is now waging a war against civilians, pure and simple, although you will never hear it put that way in the US. This is a racist war, and in its strategy and tactics, a colonial one as well. People are being killed and made to suffer disproportionately because they are not Jews. What an irony!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yet CNN never refers to "occupied" territories (always rather to "violence in Israel" as if the main battlefields are the concert halls and cafes of Tel Aviv and not in fact the ghettoes and besieged refugee camps of Palestine that have already been surrounded by 150 illegal Israeli settlements). For the past ten years, the great fraud of Oslo was foisted on the world by the US, with hardly an awareness that only 18 per cent of the West Bank were given up, and 60 per cent of Gaza. No one knows geography and it's better not to know, since the reality on the ground is so astonishing, considering the verbal hoopla and self-congratulation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And that pseudo-pundit -- the insufferably conceited Thomas Friedman -- still has the gall to say that "Arab TV" shows one-sided pictures, as if "Arab TV" should be showing things from Israel's point-of-view the way CNN does, with "Mid-East violence" the catch-all word for the ethnic cleansing that Israel is wreaking on the Palestinians in their ghettoes and camps. Has Friedman (or CNN for that matter) ever tried to point out the difference between an attacking army fighting a colonial war on the territory of the people it has occupied for 35 years, and the people defending themselves against that butchery? Of course not, for indeed why should Friedman ever bother to say honestly that there is no Palestinian occupation, there are no Palestinian F-16's, no Apache helicopters, no gunboats, no Merkava tanks, in short, no Palestinian occupation of Israel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So much for Friedman's credentials as an honest commentator and reporter who has utterly failed, in unadorned terms, to explain the US view or to understand the Arab and Palestinian cause. Can he not see that he and his writings are part of the problem, that in their maundering self-justifications and the dishonesty in which he shows no sign of the self- criticism he keeps hectoringly expecting of others, he actually aggravates the ignorance and the misperceptions rather than reducing them? Poor journalist and educator, he.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The picture you get here is that Israelis are battling for their lives instead of for their settlements and military bases on the occupied lands of Palestine. No maps have been run for months in the American media. On 8 March, hitherto the bloodiest day for Palestinians of the 16-month Intifada, CNN's main evening news specified the death of 40 "people" and failed even to mention the death of several Red Crescent workers killed while their ambulances were prevented by Israeli tanks from getting to the wounded. Just "people," and no pictures of the hell they've been living in this the 35th year of military occupation. Tul Karm is undergoing a siege of sieges with 24 hour curfews, electricity and water cut-off, systematic round-ups and the removal of 800 young men, the wanton smashing of refugee houses, wholesale destruction of property (and I'm not speaking of nightclubs or sports facilities but of shacks and lean-tos that furnished twice displaced refugees with hovels for bare subsistence) and limitless cases of sadistic cruelty to unarmed and undefended civilians who are pushed and beaten and left to bleed to death, women allowed to give birth to stillborn babies while they wait needlessly at Israeli road-blocks, old men made to strip and take off their shoes and walk barefoot for a gum-chewing 18-year-old waving around an M-16 that my taxes have paid for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bethlehem, its town center and university destroyed, flattened at 5,000 feet by valiant Israeli bombers swooshing in with their marvelous F-16's which I've paid for too. Balata camp, Aida and Dheheisheh and Azza Camps, the tiny villages of Khadr and Husam, all battered into rubble without even a mention by the US press, whose New York editors so obviously have no problems with it, with a few exceptions here and there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The uncounted dead and wounded, the unburied and unassisted, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of lives maimed, distorted, catastrophically marked by wantonly caused suffering, all of it ordered at a safe distance from the action in leafy, calm West Jerusalem by men for whom the West Bank and Gaza are distant rat holes filled with insects and rodents that must be "subdued" and driven out, taught a lesson in the accepted jargon of Israel's superb military.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">On Tuesday, in the biggest attack of all, Ramallah has been invaded and is being ravaged by 140 Israeli tanks, thus completing Israel's re-conquest of the already-occupied Palestinian territories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Palestinian people are paying the heavy, heavy unconscionable price of Oslo, which after 10 years of negotiating left them with bits of land lacking coherence and continuity, security institutions designed to assure their subservience to Israel, and a life that impoverished them so that the Jewish state could thrive and prosper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In vain during those 10 years did some of us warn that the distance between the US-Israeli language of peace and the appalling realities on the ground was never bridged, never even intended to be bridged. Words and phrases like "peace process" and "terrorism" took hold without reference to any real referent. Land confiscations were either overlooked or referred to as "bilateral negotiations" that were taking place between a state consolidating its hold on territory it wanted at all costs, and a mediocre set of uninformed negotiators whom it took four years to acquire, much less use, a reliable map of the land they were negotiating over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The worst misrepresentation of all is that in the 54 years since 1948, never has a narrative of Palestinian heroism and suffering been allowed to emerge. We are all depicted as violent fanatic extremists who are little more than the terrorists that George Bush and his cabal have imposed on the consciousness of a stunned and systematically misinformed population, aided and uncritically abetted by an entire army of commentators and media stars -- the Blitzers, Zahns, Lehrers, Rathers, Brokaws, Russerts, and their ilk. The Israeli lobby is scarcely needed with such faithful disciples trailing happily in its ranks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But now that the Saudi peace proposal has become the point of discussion and of hope, it is necessary, I think, to put it in its real, as opposed to its supposed, context. First of all, this is the re-cycled Reagan plan of 1982, the Fahd Plan of 1983, the Madrid plan of 1991, and so on: in other words, it follows a series of plans many times put forward which in the end both Israel and the US have not only refused to implement, but have actively torpedoed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The way I see it, the only negotiations worth having should be on the phases of a total Israeli withdrawal and not, as was the case with Oslo, bargaining over what pieces of land Israel was willing very grudgingly to give up. There's been too much Palestinian blood spilled, too much Israeli contempt and racist violence dispensed for any serious return to Oslo-style negotiations brokered by that most biased of honest brokers, the United States. Everyone is aware, however, that the old Palestinian negotiators haven't given up on their dreams and illusions, and that meetings have been occurring throughout the raids and bombings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I would argue that due weight be given to decades of Palestinian suffering and the real human costs of Israel's destructive policies before any negotiations accord undue status to Israeli governments that have trampled on Palestinian rights the way they have demolished our houses and killed our people. Any Arab-Israeli negotiations that do not factor in history -- and for this task a team of historians, economists, and geographers with a conscience are needed -- are not worth having, just as Palestinians must now elect a new set of negotiators and representatives in the hope of salvaging something from the present calamity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In short, in whatever meetings that now occur between Israeli and Palestinian representatives, the gravity of Israeli depredations against our people has to be given attention and not simply brushed aside as so much past history. Oslo, in effect, pardoned the occupation, excusing it for all the buildings and lives destroyed over the first 25 years of occupation. After so much further suffering, Israel cannot be excused and allowed to walk away from the table with not even a rhetorical demand that it needs to atone for what it did.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will be told that politics is about what is possible, not about what is desired, and that we should be grateful to get even a small Israeli pullback. I disagree strongly. Negotiations can only be about when the total withdrawal will take place, not what percentage Israel is willing to concede. A conqueror and a vandal cannot concede anything: he must simply return what he's taken and pay for the abuses that are his responsibility to bear, just as Saddam Hussein should and did pay for his occupation of Kuwait.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We are still a considerable distance from that goal, although in the meantime the extraordinary unbowed bravery of all Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank has in effect politically and morally defeated Sharon, who will lose his seat in the not too distant future. But, that in two decades his armies can invade Arab cities at will, killing and sowing destruction without so much as a collective Arab peep speaks reams for the Arab world's leaders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Lastly, what the various Arab rulers who are so delicately silent now while Palestine is being raped on TV think they are doing, I don't know, but I can imagine that deep in their souls they must feel no small amount of shame and disgrace. Powerless militarily, politically, economically and above all morally, they have little credibility and no real standing, except as obedient pawns on the American-Israeli chessboard. Perhaps they feel they are playing a waiting game.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Perhaps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But they (like Arafat and his men) haven't learned the power of systematically disseminated information as a way of protecting their people from the onslaughts of those who consider all Arabs militant, extremist, terrorist fanatics. The good news is that the time for that sort of irresponsible and contemptible behavior is very short. Will the new generation do any better?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is for a whole new attitude toward secular education to decide the answer, whether collectively we go down again to disorganisation, corruption and mediocrity or whether at last we can become a nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Source: Al Ahram Weekly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://web1.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/577/op2.htm">http://web1.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/577/op2.htm</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463141381528565699.post-52599294594279809812010-11-28T00:50:00.000-08:002010-11-28T00:51:54.079-08:00Eyewitness<div align="center"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: medium;">Forwareded by Saptarshi Ray</span></div><br />
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Urgent: Eyewitness report from Ramallah<br />
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Ramallah, Occupied Palestine: My name is Tzaporah Ryter. I am an American student from the University of Minnesota. I currently am in Ramallah. We are under a terrible siege and people are being massacred by both the Israeli army and armed militia groups of Israeli settlers. They are shooting outside at anything that moves. I am urgently pleading for as much outside help as possible to help save lives here.<br />
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I arrived in Ramallah last Thursday. I had come back for a visit to the Palestinian city where I had been previously living and studying. On Thursday afternoon, the Israeli army began sealing off each entrance to Ramallah and there were rumors that they planned to invade.<br />
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People were rushing back home from across checkpoints and also people were trying to flee. People were not allowed to go out and many working people -- with homes and children to return to -- were not allowed in, everyone was trying to take cover. Those traveling in began desperately searching for alternative ways and traveling in groups, but the Israelis were firing upon them and everyone was running and screaming.<br />
Women carrying their children were trying desperately to flee from Ramallah, carrying infants and toddlers, and their young children were running along trying to reach safety. Israeli jeeps were speeding across the terrain pulling up from every direction and shooting at the women and children, and also at me, as we ran in opposite directions. They were chasing down people, hunting them like that in the fields.<br />
When I reached Ramallah, people were panicking and trying to buy bread, rice and milk from corner stores, but most supplies were already gone. We bought what we could and went inside to wait for what was coming.<br />
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When night fell, Israeli tanks began to invade and also we saw Israeli troops coming on foot from the valley, and surrounding our house. I could hear them calling to each other in Hebrew. They were against our door and all around. They were firing everywhere a barrage of bullets and there was tank fire. We had to lay on the floor and keep silent. We stayed there, on the floor, for nearly four days in the darkness.<br />
We knew that our circumstances were better than others because old people or infants or people with medical emergency needs had no help. It was very cold, with most families packed all in one room. Some people are without life sustaining medicines like insulin, and they are altering their doses dangerously if they have any medicine left to take. People are becoming dangerously sick from lack of food and water and heat. The fear and terror only makes things worse, but it cannot be avoided.<br />
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In the daytime, we heard them shooting people in the streets, and could hear them screaming and screaming. No ambulance was allowed through. Then their screams stopped and there was just silence.<br />
We had a telephone and would receive calls from all over telling us what was happening. Everyone is in grave danger and Israeli soldiers were killing people everywhere. They are arresting medics and ambulance drivers, including foreign volunteer medical workers.<br />
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They keep taking doctors and medics, just now another call. Again, this time the wife of a doctor telling us her husband has been taken from the ambulance.<br />
Large groups of people have been found in rooms, shot dead, there are blood marks where they have lined people up on their knees and shot them, with their ID cards laying on top of them. They are taking people from their homes, blindfolding them, removing their clothes, taking them away or lining them up and shooting them against the wall.<br />
People are making phone calls and saying that these soldiers and militia have come in and are shooting people and then the line cuts off.<br />
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The numbers of these killings I fear are much greater than the numbers confirmed in the press, because the human rights offices and the media centers have been stormed, and everything is shut down. No one can move without almost certain chance of being shot by the Isreali snipers, who are everywhere.<br />
The Israelis are demanding that all journalists leave Ramallah and today another foreign journalist was shot. They do not want any more internationals here and are deporting people. It seems quite clear that they do not want eyewitnesses which is only heightening my own fears.<br />
The hospitals have also been surrounded and invaded and Israeli troops are taking the injured people and interrogating them. Today a woman, a patient, tried to walk out from hospital. The Israelis shot her in the neck and killed her.<br />
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health is saying that they fear the spread of diseases because of the number of unburied corpses.<br />
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The numbers are only growing in reports of the mass killings here and Israeli troops continue to round up people. People are calling frantically, missing a relative and we do not know where they have been taken, including children.<br />
The numbers we have now exceed 600, and we are estimating between 700 and 800. All human rights groups and legal advocates are being denied any information of where the detained are being held. From what we know confirmed is that 10% of those taken so far have been children under age 18.<br />
On the fourth day I decided to try to move. People were running out of supplies and I also was so worried about people, and had to check to see if they were okay. If I didn't, I feared panic would overtake me so badly that I really had no other choice but to try and go.<br />
It was not safe where I was in any case and at least if I left I would still have my sanity. It was really terrifying as there are some internationals here, usually traveling in groups, and the Israelis are saying on the radio that they will arrest or shoot the internationals. They did shoot some yesterday and regardless, it's not as if snipers differentiate and they are everywhere.<br />
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My friends told me not to go, and were really scared for me, but I had to go. When I went outside, there were cars all shot up and hit by multiple bullets and shells in the middle of the road, unparked. There must have been people in them but I don't know where their bodies are. There are no reports of them, but they must exist.<br />
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I got to the corner trying to go to the bakery for bread and food for people. Some people were calling and calling with only one cup of rice left. I made it to the corner but they opened fire on my first try, and shot at me, so I had to turn back.<br />
After that I tried again and it took me one day to make it a block because I had to start over again and again. I had to climb through the valley, and as I passed house by house, people were warning me and pointing out what path seemed safest for these two minutes. In the next two minutes, it would be something different. They really helped to keep my path safe.<br />
Today is Day Five and they are still rounding up people like this and we hear them shooting all day long.<br />
This afternoon the Israelis suddenly lifted the curfew, suddenly announcing that everyone had two hours to go out to get food. However, the Israeli soldiers also took food from many of the stores, looted, and there is no bread or things. People went to get whatever they could.<br />
Even though the Israeli army said it had lifted the closure for two hours -- in which we still were not able to transfer medical supplies and still was not long enough to everything that was badly needed -- the Israelis continued shooting people in the streets indiscriminately on their way, so people were running around trying to make it to the store or find a safe route only to have to run back home again. It was an added cruelty and terror tactic in this macabre situation, a sick joke: starve people and then shoot them when they try to find food with your permission.<br />
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In an apartment building in Beitunia neighborhood where I used to live, they took 60 people who were my neighbors, including several familes, and pushed them into one room since last night. The Israelis told them that they are to be used as "human shields", as the apartment building is across from a building that they were invading.<br />
One child needs to go to the hospital since last night and, initially, the families were able to call outside. Now, the Israelis have taken their phones.<br />
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There are reports that they are rounding up men between the ages of 14 and 45 in that neighborhood, and these civilians, from these same Palestinian families trapped in that building, were just used to walk in front of an Israeli tank as it invaded the Preventative Security Compound.<br />
Reports also have alleged that the Israelis were saying that some could leave but shot them when they attempted to leave. The buildings there are burning, and people are trapped inside.<br />
We keep calling to try to find people but there has been no electricity and most people's phones are dead now. I do not know what is happening to many people. The only solution to this is to try to brave the deadly streets in order to check, but its almost impossible and terrifying to leave the house at all.<br />
Each place I come to, I am afraid to leave not only for myself but for everyone else in this horrifying position. Israeli death squads have been yanking people into the street. I also hear only shooting and shooting, with no return fire. This suggest that unarmed civilians are being gunned down mercilessly everywhere and I am so scared for everyone. I feel like maybe if I leave one place, one area or neighborhood I will never see the people again alive.<br />
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There are more explosions outside now and more shooting. Another explosion. More firing, it just doesn't stop.<br />
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This is a massacre. The foreign delegations tried to get in but were turned back, the International Committee of the Red Cross is trying to help but they are being ignored. Please help.<br />
I am not only scared for myself and for people here, but if this cannot be stopped, I am truly scared for all of humanity, for a world in which we send men to the moon but cannot stop ethnic cleansing.<br />
On the news in America, we see hardly anything of demonstrations. What are you doing over there?<br />
There do not seem to be any reports of what is happening. In truth, its got to stop. Please go out to the streets, please demand a response from your representatives. Be loud, march up to the capitals, refuse to leave until the Israelis withdraw. Act now! Tell them the Israelis are murdering innocent people whose only crime is being born in their own homeland, a Palestinian under a military occupation.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCziVsqcfXH6UHM1BhB9mxEfBGKqM-mBe9MZVFzYaREqSqeObY7tYIHiKuVNDFyjW8vFJO6EsFnKESr08UaB9Ug25geUWm2x_VSpfPhQUiG8dzD08ITSPL6WnJFBzJ6e37CXI7r3Im8q6Q/s1600/palestine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCziVsqcfXH6UHM1BhB9mxEfBGKqM-mBe9MZVFzYaREqSqeObY7tYIHiKuVNDFyjW8vFJO6EsFnKESr08UaB9Ug25geUWm2x_VSpfPhQUiG8dzD08ITSPL6WnJFBzJ6e37CXI7r3Im8q6Q/s1600/palestine.jpg" /></a></div>Demand international protection for the Palestinian people, scream that this is an affront to humanity and that it is time that the US not only stop supporting Israel, but that the US stop its abuse of human rights within its own borders. This is about all of our struggles. For the love of God, please stop this slaughter. Please help.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0