Human rights BUT excluding certain humans

The right for a woman to freedom of expression according to Mr Sarkozy is suspended if she is a Muslim who chooses to veil. But, of course, it is the European White Man who sets the standards to feminism and human rights, and who are we to oppose. Perhaps Carla would like to compose a song for the troubled and oppressed Subaltern? Gosh! Memories of Laura Bush and liberating Afghani women are haunting me again.

"We don't quit"

"We have finished a difficult year. We have come through a difficult decade. But a new year has come. A new decade stretches before us. We don't quit.I don't quit"... yes of course, you don't quit. You don't quit displacing and killing people in Afghanistan, and Iraq, You don't quit tightening your grip over Arab oil, you don't quit supporting an Apartheid fascist regime, corrupt sexist, racist and isolationist governments, you don't quit expanding your empire and you certainly don't quit your White supremacist, neo-imperial tone every time you open your sack of... pistachios.

Another activist arrested in the West Bank

IOF arrested Activist Mohammad el-Khatib in Bil'iin. He is part of the popular league for resisting the wall in Bil'iin, the same committee that martyr Bassem Abu Rahem was part of and whom was shot by a gas canister to his chest in April last year. If those names were sent to Mr Bono, do you think that the roots of our rage and despair will be more comprehensible to him? perhaps not.

The roots of our rage and despair come from this Mr Bono

I was given permission to post this letter:
"i hope my email reaches you while in good health . i wont make it long. My wife , Linda , tried to come with GFM and was turned back , then she tried with Gallaway and she was turned back from Ismailia , we got her a residence permit in Egypt so no body can tell her she is illegal in Egypt ! she went and asked permission from the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo , and she was granted a document permitting her to enter Gaza as the palestinian authority recognizes our legal marriage , but even with that , she was turned back for the fourth time , finally we decided that because she has a canandian passport she could try to get into israel then the west bank , so she took a bus ride from cairo to Taba , and because of the floods , she was delayed for 36 hours , but finally she reached the israeli border , where they made her wait for 9 long hours before that told her she was denied entry ! this might very well be the longest heartbreaking trip in our modern history , where is civilization ? how can the western world proclaim they believe in democracy and equal rights ? My wife is a peace activist , she never started any riots , she was always peaceful, and me too , im a peaceful palestinian who never believed in violence , i resent violence sir because i believed that it wont achieve anything but more bloodshed and tears , wether its on our side or on the israeli side , and by the way , i acknowledge that there are so many fair jews out there in the world , who are against zionism and its cancerous body eating up the region i dont know where to go to seek help , my wife was on the road from the 27th of december , and today its the 22nd of January and we are not getting any closer, she went back to Cairo today after she spent a night in some Taba hotel alone ! and i think that she will confirm her flight ad get back to Canada as our resources have been drained and we are literaly broke but thanks God we kept enough for a ticket i know i shouldnt expect much , but i write to you sir , because im frustrated and no one seems to listen or feel how hard this is on us palestinians , what crime have i committed to be denied the chance to hold my wife's hand and compensate her on the very very hard and tough journey she had to endure to get to me. Even very dangerous criminals are entitled to atleast a visit while they wait in jail !!! why cant i be considered a prisoner ? and why wouldnt they let my wife come visit me ? Questions that keep popping up in my head seeking answers ! i feel helpless , i cant find a way to sooth my wife's tears whenever she calls me . is that what the world wants for us palestinians , to turn inhuman , to become outrageous and seek revenge ? is that what peace is all about ! i just wish one day , an israeli zionist would understand what they did to our humanity ! thank you for your time and patience , and forgive my grammar or dictational mistakes , im writting this email while in tears and shivering ! Hamoudi"
That they broke our hearts, that they make us shed these tears, we can never forgive them, nor can we forget their crimes. There are 61 years of this... Never ever make peace with the Zionist entity.

"mental, cultural and ideological differences"

This is a statement on an Israeli university's website “equality of opportunities has brought to us a large number of members of minority groups—thereby demonstrating that despite the disagreements and the mental, cultural and ideological differences, the academic world can serve as a basis for dialogue and rapprochement.”** Mental differences? You mean like in Apartheid South Africa where they had mental characteristics for Black people, with excact measurements of their skull, teeth, and forehead? This is like a text from colonial anthropology. And by minorities, they mean the natives. And by disagreements they mean the right and freedom to kill, to bomb, to displace, to confiscate, to steal, to demolish. And there are some people that disagree with academic boycott of Israel!

** i can't find the website, but, you can check it quoted in Eilat Weizman's article "University/Army Base" in Ma'arev p. B2

Children in Gaza sing to Obama

Children in Gaza, with very very very limited resources and technical support, sing to Obama. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry... but, things will not change, as long as the American establishment is the American establishment.

Nausea

Look at this photo. There is a gala dinner in honour of those who killed babies, pregnant women, and the elderly in Gaza, in the Woldorf Astoria in New York. And the murderer Gabi Ashkenazi is speaking... It's on March 9 2010, and I think it will be an unmissable oppurtunity for kundara-throwing.

Adieux: a Farewell to... Electricity

Breaking news on the website of the Palestinian Information Centre says:
محطة كهرباء قطاع غزة ستتوقف عن العمل بشكل كامل يوم الخميس القادم بسبب وقف الاتحاد الأوروبي تمويلها
translation: As a result of cessation of funding by the European Union, the electricity generating station in the Gaza Strip will be completely out of work starting next Thursday
I mean, why would the wretched of the earth need electricity? Donkeys, tents, and broken furniture is enough for them, the avowed of the earth decide. (Don't forget that Ehud Barak actually said that people in Gaza do not need petrol since they already have donkeys, this came at the time car owners were filling their cars with vegetable oil. Yes, vegetable oil.)

This is the threat to Egyptian national security

A Palestinian student in Gaza is not allowed to pass through Rafeh for a scholarship for his masters.

The subaltern speaks

Companero Haidar writes about the tools of struggle vis-a-vis the American establishment.

"how has the NGOization of the Palestinian struggle developed?"

"Hatem Bazian: Beginning in the 18th century, Christian missionary workers emerged in the middle East and set about influencing policy through education. Banking institutions also developed that became involved with Christian elites. European countries, in turn, often claimed themselves as the protectors of Christians in the area to justify political intervention in the region. Using educational exchange programs, England, France, and later, the US aspired to create an elite within the region that would support their interests."

starving gaza and helping Haiti

Companero Salim Nazzal writes "Is it compassion or propaganda to clean up the brutal face of Zionism?" (people in Gaza offered to help in the Haiti catastrophe).

Santana decides to entertain the zionists

Mr Bono decides to perform in the tribal-hatred, ethnoreligious state, and... Santana follows. Again, my Muslim rage and despair would have thrown my teta's old, decomposed kanader [slippers], but comrades here are much more polite.

Colonizing the Palestinian (and Arab) Mind, Body and Language

Joseph Masaad writes:"Not only was the Palestinian vocabulary of liberation, end of colonialism, resistance, fighting racism, ending Israeli violence and theft of the land, independence, the right of return, justice and international law supplanted by new terms like negotiations, agreements, compromise, pragmatism, security assurances, moderation and recognition, all of which had been part of Israel's vocabulary before Oslo and remain so, but also Oslo instituted itself as the language of peace that ipso facto de-legitimises any attempt to resist it as one that supports war, and dismisses all opponents of its surrender of Palestinian rights as opponents of peace."

The Good European, the Bad European, and the White Witch

This should be thrown at the faces of all Arab leaders, and they should sink in embarrassment and shame after watching it-though I doubt it. Uncle Mubarak happy cow defines good European from bad one (zionist, and anti-zionist respectively), and we have a poem recited at the end... about the White witch. (Shukran Street Fighter)

These are the traitors

Two Israeli ministers are in the Emirates, welcomed with arms wide open and will be giving a speech at a conference in Abu Dhabi for renewable energy. So, to get this straight, the ruling feudal lords of the Emirates are more concerned with the effects of non-renewable energy on the world, that they are willing to turn a blind eye over Zionist killings of Palestinians and the hermetic siege, and welcome the murderers...because they care about the environment? I mean a five year old wouldn't buy this! And to play dumb at it, the ministry of foreign-pupetry-affairs said that it only allowed them in...because of the conference. You know what this means? They will be fed in the royal headquarters.

Lebanese and Hummus

A student in my theoretical approaches class asked me where I was from, and oh, so not-happy-with-it-for-obvious reasons, I said I was a Lebanese citizen. She then asked me to give her the ingredients of how to make Hummus. I mean is this not racist? Is it not different from meeting someone from Iran and asking them if they knew where Persian carpets were sold? (Oh, but definitely if I met an English, the first thing that comes to mind would be: why do the English vote for a warmonger- I would not miss the oppurtunity if you know what I mean!). Did you know that at the time of the Oklahoma bombings, US news channels called Edward Said to comment on it as they supposed it was some Arab, in "despair and rage" (to borrow the term from Mr Bono the modern day Bernard Lewis) and that Said would happen to read Arab minds just because he was an Arab, or to interpret Arab minds as if there is actually an essence or a "pattern of thought" as colonial racist, and super-iority complexed anthropologists put it? That was racist! It turned out to be not an Arab, to their dismay.
As to the student, I ended up giving her the ingredients of Msabha that we make in Gaza.

Mr Bono is performing in the Apartheid state

Mr. Bono, who describes Palestinians and freedom fighters to have an essence of "rage and despair" in them (of course to borrow the term from Orientalist- orientalism is racism- Bernard Lewis who attributed an essence to Muslims in his The Roots of Muslim Rage) is performing in tribalistic hatred and ethno-religious racism Israel. Comrades write him a polite letter- of course I would have thrown a kundara, but then again, it is only the roots of my Muslim rage speaking.

Zionism is Racism

"It is not racial profiling. It is profiling that takes into consideration where somebody comes from. If somebody's home address is Gaza we should be paying more attention to details compared to, for example, a Holocaust survivor from Tel Aviv"
Not racial profiling my.... duck!

""We needed to hurt them and not have mercy"

Talks of Operation Cast Lead II.

These are the allies of the US

When i was 5 and was taken to live in the UAE for two years, i used to call abu dhabi: zayed zayed wein makan- or zayed zayed everywhere, because photos of sheikh zayed were posted everywhere you look (of course and still do). couldn't they choose someone whose photos scared children less? some of the horrible memories of life there are those that i spent in dubai, looking at streets where exploited labourers mostly from pakistan sat- particularly employed for cheap labour (not that cheap labour is only targeted at south asia citizens, but also arabs from lebanon, palestine and syria, not to mention that syrian workers and other thirld world countries citizens are exploited in lebanon:syrian workers in lebanon usually gather in an area of a town, village or city, and a lebanese landlord who needs maintanance work in his house or construction site work, debates prices at their lowest range then picks up the men who gave him the best deal ie: working all day, many days a week for a minimal minimal wage). these are the allies of the US in the arab world... "Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan of torture and rape charges a graphic videotape of Issa abusing an Afghan merchant surfaced last year." Of course, he was acquited.

American and Jewish Fascism

Article explaining the roots of fascism, and ending in... American and Jewish fascism.
" The inner fascist in all of us claims to be one of the "good" people, the "superior" people, the "strong" people, or the "smart" people, but whatever flavor it comes in, we are one of the "entitled" people. The antidote to such delusions is the realization that we are just people, pretty much like everybody else, with as much right to be here as anyone else (and vice-versa). This realization cuts through self-deception, protects us from buying into whatever snake-oil the zealots happen to be selling today and contains within it the possibility of a sane society, however far off and illusory that may" (would have preferred though he mention social justice, rather than invoking new definitions of what society should and should not be).

Racism in Berlusconi's Italy

Migrant workers in Italy are being exploited and live under drastic conditions, and the state blames the victims of its violence. While in London, racists spend their spare time being islamophobes-heard of the SIOE? To borrow the term from as'ad abukhalil "the Muslims are invading Europe!"... what ignorance.

"Tinpot tyrant ain't seen nothing yet"

Galloway tells about the hells of the Egyptian regime from Viva Palestinian convoy confrontation "We may have complaints about our police, but I tell you, when you see policemen hurling half-bricks into a crowd of women and men who'd come to deliver medicine to desperate people under siege, you thank your lucky stars we don't live in such a state."

Israeli soldiers detain ISM activist at 3am today

This message just in:
"Just before 3am the Israeli Army invaded Ramallah. They moved towards the area near Al Mannara. Outside the home of ISM Media Coordinator Eva Nováková, the army occupied rooftops, with several armored personnel carriers in the street. After beating on the door of her apartment, soldiers woke her neighbours, then broke down her door. Ten soldiers entered the flat, demanding identification from Eva and her housemates and questioning all of those present. All those inside the house were questioned about their names and activities. Soldiers also searched the apartment, claiming they were looking for weapons. According to witnesses when Eva was identified the immigration police arrived to take her away. Eva was only allowed to change her clothes in the presence of a soldier. She was then taken from her apartment. Her current whereabouts are unknown. The raid lasted around ten minutes.A local person said 'You think you are safe in your own house, but they come in the night and bring terror into your home'"

Would Mr Bono want to comment on this?

Three rage and despair stricken Palestinians--to use Mr Bono's coined terms who he borrowed from the Orientalist, racist, Bernard Lewis, and who poses as a critical mind on human rights and world affairs--were killed today in Gaza by Israeli occupation bombings in Deir el Balah. These Palestinians were unarmed civilians, and were... activists. Oh-gosh- I'm being impolite again with my "rage and despair" stricken self.

When the white man celebrity decides to adopt a cause

He does so... so ignorantly, cluelessly, incompetently, and wittylessly:
"So I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that the regimes in North Korea, Myanmar and elsewhere are taking note of the trouble an aroused citizenry can give to tyrants, and that people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandhi, their King, their Aung San Suu Kyi. " He must have read Bernard Lewis' The Roots of Muslim Rage. Of course, rage and despair do not exist in Gaza because people are killed by a hermetic siege, Israeli terrorism and Arab regimes complicity, they are in despair and rage... because it must be something inherent, intrinsic and essential to their characters. Shukran, thank you, Mr Bono, now I can understand why I was enraged and in despair when I was at the Rafeh Crossing sitting for more than a day in a confined space with more than 200 ill Palestinian women, men, elderly and children (who were dragged, physically challenged men were pushed viciously away, and elderly women were made to beg on their knees), or when we were under the F16, F35, F15, Apache, and Markava tank bombs not to mention White Phosphorous, and naval gunboats, or when Israel bombed whole neighbourhoods in Dahyeh in Lebanon. You are right, next time, I will be more polite in narrating the occupier's peaceful, and self-defence attitude over a civilian population. I mean what can I do, Mr Bono, we natives of the Third World countries must learn from YOUR freedom loving, and peaceful attitudes. You brought us democratically elected killings in Iraq, and now, with human rights... we are in awe of your wise, rational, and peaceful superior selves.
(Alison Weir, replies to Mr. BONO, "Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons" where you can also find a list of civil resistance activists killed or detained by the Zionists)

Mubarak Abu Shluf Killed

Tunnel worker Mubarak abu Shluf killed in the airstrikes in the Jaradaat area in Rafeh. He's a resident of southern region of the strip and was taken to Abu Yusuf el Najjar hospital. One other F16 very strong airstrike explosion took place in a Sheikh Ijleen area in Gaza city on a uninhabited building that the occupation forces say was used to make rockets.

bombing khan younes now

radio el aqsa just reported that there are a number of F16 planes roaming around gaza's skies right now, over gaza city and the rest of gaza's districts. bombings on the bani suheila, and elqarara eastern khan younes, occured. No reports of killings yet. Ambulances are rushing to the areas of bombings. Radio stations warning civilians to stay out of danger... but, really now, where is "out of danger" in Gaza?!

"An 80-year-old woman is a terrorist? What, do I have a bomb in my vagina?"

Interview with hero Hedy Epstein, Holocaust survivor, and courageous anti-Apartheid activist.
" In 1982, I heard about the massacres in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon -- I wanted to know who was responsible for this, what had happened between 1948 and 1982. As I learned more, I became increasingly disturbed by the policies of Israel and its military."

"they just want there to be justice for all"

An interview about comrade Sharyn Lock's (blogger of Tales to Tell) new book (with Sarah Irving) Gaza Beneath the Bombs:
"I want to see the occupation end, I want to see the siege end. Weirdly, there was a CIA report that came out when I was there that predicted that in 20 years there would be one state for what is now Israel and Palestine. I feel like that's what I want to hope for and certainly the Palestinians that I have spoken to have said that that's what they hope for. Some Palestinians have said to me, "I don't care whether it's one state or two states, I just want to be on what's historically our land, in peace, with equal rights to whoever is living with us and we don't mind who that is." There isn't a sense that it's us against them, they just want there to be justice for all."

I told you so

As I said before, Viva Palestina should not have left Aqaba and submitted to Egyptian authorities. Didn't I tell you the Mubarak republic will not allow them in even if they changed routes? They are demonstrating right now at the gates of the Egyptian Rafeh.

They're writing history

I mean this past week in Egypt has been a slap in the face of all Arab complicit leaders and national movements. What the 1363 individuals did in Cairo was making history. Just today I got the news of over 5500 police and security officers between tahreer square, cairo university, and the french embassy- where the french and other activists were demonstrating. Believe me, that is something. And, the fatwa-producing mubarak mouthpieces of Al Azhar issued a very silly fatwa declaring that the iron wall built between Gaza and the mubarak republic should be completed as it confirms with the Shari'aa laws and that it preserves the security of Egypt- they've done well in Zionizing their arguments. What dimwitted buffoon would buy this?
The South African delegation in the march was fascinating in performance. A South Africa participant drafted out the 'Cairo Declaration' that I will post below. This pushes for more actions built on this. I mean look at what this declaration says, and tell me if it's a first or not:
"[...] We reaffirm our committment to:
Palestinian detemination, ending the occupation, equal rights for all within historic palestine, the full right of return"--Wow! Does something look familiar? "Equal rights for all within historic palestine"... one democratic state discourse?