Free Iraq

روبرت فورد، وهو يتحدث بعربية متكسرة الحروف والمخارج:
Robert Ford
Hello everyone - I'm the head of the American Embassy's Political Affairs Office where we have 17 State Department diplomatic staff working on democracy and human rights issues as well as US-Iraqi political relations. I won't pretend to be the world's expert on Iraq, but I'm happy to share my thoughts and perspectives after working on Iraqi political issues close-up for nearly 2 years in Baghdad plus three months in the Shia holy city of Najaf.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20060330.html
 

Zalmay Khalilzad: There's no place like home. (See PNAC signatories, page bottom, for ideological bedfellows. So, who owns the store?)


U.S., Britain Stress Iraq Self-Rule


Iraq PM Vows to Pursue Bid for Second Term


Suicide bombers kill 40 at Baghdad mosque
 

Bush would accept more US troops in Iraq if necessary: "Pulling out before the mission is complete would send a terrible signal to the United States military."


Bush admits mistakes in Iraq: "In retrospect, we could've done better."

Bush said he was "just as disappointed as everybody else was" about erroneous pre-war U.S. intelligence on Iraq. U.S. ...

Bush also said the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison "hurt us in the international arena particularly in the Muslim world." [Just need better PR, mein president.]
 

Say,
Thank you for your link. Somehow, I never think to go direct to the horse's mouth! I've now bookmarked Ask the White House. I see that on April 10th Brett McGurk, Director for Iraq, National Security Council, will discuss progress in Iraq. Anyone want to submit a question?
 

Gary Leupp, "Ideologies of Hatred" - What Does Condi Mean?

[Condi: State, please, the "ideology" for two million dead Iraqis (See comment April 05, 2006 10:05 AM .)]
 

Bravo -
xymphora, Eyewitness testimony concerning Israeli war crimes: International lawyers are looking for eyewitness testimony concerning the Israeli war crimes of house demolitions, killings, and torture. It is nice to go after the big wigs, but I think it would also be useful to nail a few of the Caterpillar drivers and child murderers. As Israel becomes increasingly uninhabitable, people are going to want the option to live elsewhere, and the stark prospect that there is no other place to go without facing a stiff jail sentence may scare some of the IDF thugs into acting like human beings. There is no more reason to let IDF soldiers off the hook than there is to let Nazi concentration camp guards off the hook.
 

Baghdad mosque dead: now at 70
 

Thank you Harry Taylor: "In my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of my leadership in Washington," Taylor told the president. "And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and grace to be ashamed of yourself."
VIDEO CLIP of the moment (Bear in mind: Harry Taylor had the principled courage to make his stand in the midst of an apparently Bush-friendly crowd. A real "Cindy Sheehan" moment. Makes me proud by association.)
 

90-second movie: U.S. Nuclear Stockpiles (If you're not scared you're not awake.)
 

Those ungrateful Iraqis!: The "after all we've done for you!" theme is more than a little jarring, ... The Iraqis didn't beg us to invade their country.
 

Madrid International Seminar on the Assassination of Iraqi Academics and Health Professionals: 22-23 April 2006
 

Malcom Lagauche, JUST THREE YEARS AGO: It is very hard to put things in perspective, but an Iraqi friend of mine told me about a recent discussion he had with a relative who visited Baghdad a couple of months ago. The relative told him, "Compared to today’s Baghdad, the embargo years were the golden years." That is a statement in which no one should take pride.
 

Tomgram: Robert Dreyfuss on the "D" Word in Iraq: Too late, the urgency of the crisis in Iraq, and the sheer ugliness of its civil war, seems finally to be dawning on the Bush administration. ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a leading know-nothing on Iraq . . . jetted to Baghdad in a hurry over the weekend.

There are three points to make about the current American scramble to put Humpty Dumpty back together again in Baghdad.

First, it is by no means certain that the United States can force the corrupt politicians of Iraq's various parties -- Shiite, Sunni and Kurd -- to paper over their differences and announce the government of national unity that Khalilzad wants. ...

Second, the imperial treatment of Jaafari by the ambassador has shocked and stunned Iraqis, opponents and supporters alike. His public humiliation has been a blatant exercise of sheer American muscle, and it happened on the front pages of Iraq's newspapers. It makes a mockery of President Bush's alleged commitment to democracy. ...

Third, there is virtually no one in the ranks of the Shiite religious bloc who is any better than Jaafari. The leading replacement candidate from the Shiite alliance is Adel Abdel Mahdi, a chieftain of SCIRI with close ties to Iran's intelligence service, who is an apologist for the Shiite militias and their death squads. During a recent visit to Washington, when I asked him about reports of Shiite killings, he justified death-squad activities as merely a response to killings by Sunni "terrorists." He has also repeatedly demanded that Iraq's Shiite-led police units be unleashed against the Sunnis, and of course the very center of the Shiite death-squad operations is the Interior Ministry, led by a SCIRI colleague. ...

... To understand what Iraq will look like, recall the civil war in Lebanon from 1975-1990, a brutal struggle that left perhaps 200,000 people dead in a far smaller country. ...

Rational observers can only conclude that the U.S. occupation army in Iraq has no place in the midst of a civil war. But for the Bush administration, withdrawal is not an option. But in the midst of such an escalating mess, how could Bush withdraw? The Bush administration is like the proverbial kid with a hand stuck in the cookie jar, grabbing a fistful of goodies. ...

... Do Khalilzad's recent get-tough-on-Iran remarks foreshadow a neoconservative effort to expand the losing war in Iraq into Iran itself, while casting blame on Iran for the U.S. failure to secure or pacify Iraq? ...
 

Firas Al-Atraqchi, Interview: Iraqi blogger Riverbend: Real Iraqis, the people currently suffering under a lack of security and a shortage of the most basic necessities like electricity and water, seem to have faded to the background while the media is busy with the failed attempts of the current government to organise themselves. I'm also frustrated with the way the media oversimplifies certain situations - like the sectarian violence being promoted by the occupation forces and the current government.
 

Patrick Cockburn, The War Gets More Grim Every Day; Three Years After They Toppled Saddam's Statue: The slaughter of Shi'ites in the Buratha mosque will probably lead to revenge attacks against Sunni Arabs whose community harbors the Salafi and Jihadi fanatics who see Shia as heretics, as worthy of death as Iraqi Christians or American or British soldiers. ...

I have been covering the war in Iraq ever since it began three years ago and I have never seen the situation so grim. ... Even if a national unity government is formed it will control very little outside the Green Zone.
 

Book & Film Review, “The Case Against Israel” and “Munich”
 

Ali Al-Hail, Thousands Of Both Tactical Errors And Illegalities: The mother of all illegalities in Iraq was of course, the invasion.
 

Faiza Al-Arji, The Iraqis aren't fools…: I keep asking myself, when I see the American's sorrow and their inability to change decisions, or influence its makers in the country: Is this the democracy that Bush and Gondalisa Rice brag about? For which they destroyed Iraq in order to implement?
 

Iraq braces for reprisals after mosque attack
 

In the interests of 'fair & balanced' reporting -
US report predicts rapid progress on Iraq unity government: Despite soaring reconstruction costs due insurgent violence, the report said the Iraqi economy has made "measurable progress," growing from 18.9 billion in 2002 to 33.1 billion dollars in 2005. (emphasis added)
 

I will show them who can expel who from Iraq (emphasis added). We are the ones who brought them here. We have opened for them the doors of opportunity, work and freedom. We have provided protection for them which, if we ever decide to remove it, then none of them will stay in Iraq for one hour.


Yah, we have Khalilzad who is Afghani/Iranian I don’t know.

But what’s about him who brought him? Who let him live in freedom? Who protected him? Who pay him?
I think he speaks about himself as same as those puppets in (Green Zone)
 

Highly recommended -
Nir Rosen, On the Ground in Iraq: The roots of sectarian violence
 

January 2005: "Today the people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East. . . .They have refused to be intimidated by thugs and assassins.. . . .The Iraqi people, themselves, made this election a resounding success. . . . Across Iraq today, men and women have taken rightful control of their country's destiny, and they have chosen a future of freedom and peace. . . . The commitment to a free Iraq now goes forward. On behalf of the American people, I congratulate the people of Iraq on this great and historic achievement."
 

Gideon Polya, Layperson’s guide to counting Iraq deaths: EVERY DAY 1,300 under-5 year old infants die in Occupied Iraq & Afghanistan (1,200 avoidably) . . . [W]e can readily estimate that the post-invasion under-5 infant mortality in Occupied Iraq over 3 YEARS has been 122,000 x 3 = 366,000 . . . [W]e can estimate that the post-invasion avoidable mortality in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan ... = 2.6 million.

In 1945 Germans presented with evidence of the Jewish Holocaust claimed that “We didn’t know” - lying by omission by Mainstream Media is giving Coalition citizens, and indeed everyone in the world, the same excuse in relation to horrendous post-invasion avoidable mortality in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan. ...

Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity – it IS possible to get through the Wall of Silence.
 

A letter to the Non-aligned Movement' summit
 

Human Rights Watch, Jordan: Open Border to Palestinians Fleeing Iraq: On April 4, a group of 35 Iraqi Palestinians arrived at the border, fleeing from Baghdad, adding to the 94 Iraqi Palestinians already stranded on the Iraqi side of the border. They have fled lethal violence and threats to their lives in Baghdad, where they have lived for decades. The refugees told Human Rights Watch that they fled after seeing scores of their compatriots killed in Baghdad in recent months. Unlike Iraqi nationals, these Palestinians cannot enter Jordan on tourist visas.
 

Baghdad mosque death toll at 85
 

Shiite Politicians to Discuss Jaafari


U.S., EU Cut Off Aid to Palestinians


U.S. Military Short on Bomb Teams in Iraq (But not short on bombs)


2 Killed, 1 Wounded in Israeli Airstrike
 

U.S.: In future wars, downplay rebuilding (Stick to what we do best.)
 

Like . . .
Patrick J. Buchanan, An October Surprise?: Rather than appearing a retreat, Bush’s pullout from Iraq would look like that of a defiant gunfighter backing through the swinging doors of a Tombstone saloon with both guns blazing.

Bush’s rating could soar 20 points. Republicans would rally at the return of the 9/11 president. Democrats would be loath to attack a president who acted forcefully to remove what they themselves say is an intolerable threat. The neocons and Christian Right would hail Bush as the new Churchill. Bush would hold onto both houses in November, costing Democrats their best chance in a decade of recouping power.
 

Iran ready for high-level talks, US resists
 

Michael Scheuer, Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America? You bet it does: Covert action is much talked about and little understood. At its most basic level, covert action is a set of intelligence operations undertaken by a specific state's intelligence agencies to advance its national interests. They are executed in a manner that limits the visibility of that state's hand in whatever is done. Ideally, covert actions cannot be traced back to their sponsor. ...

For years – even decades – U.S. citizens have been the subject of a political action campaign designed and executed by Israel. Currently, Israel's campaign is part steady-as-she-goes and part improvisation to neutralize an unexpected and – for Israel – worrying development. So far, Israel's covert political action is succeeding hands down. Americans are gradually being indoctrinated to believe Islamists are today's Nazis and that there is no "Israeli lobby" in America. ...

Part one of Israeli's political action consists simply of using that old standby debate-suppressor, the four-letter word "Nazi." ...

The goal of using the Nazi analogy is to suppress any realistic debate about the pluses and minuses of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and to make sure any American raising questions about U.S. support for Israel is seen as siding with the "Islamofascists," the heirs of Nazism. Any person who knows the least bit about Islam – and the Israelis know a great deal – knows it is not Nazism, ...

The second part of any nation's covert political action plan is to be ready to exploit or redress unexpected developments within the target society. Last month, Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt provided such an environment when they published a lengthy study showing the strong influence the Israeli lobby has on the crafting and application of U.S. foreign policy toward the Islamic world. If American society had its head screwed on right, the collective response of the citizenry would have been, "DUH!" – signifying that the near-determinative nature of Israeli influence is so clear that no academic analysis of that fact is necessary.

Finally, I forgot to mention at the start that covert political action campaigns are almost always directed by one nation against another nation that it considers an enemy or whose leaders it judges to be gullible, venal, none too bright, unreliable, or all four. That surely gives one pause for thought, but it truly is the way the world works.
 

(I would like to hope that this is a ridiculous posting. Who knows?)
Is The Capitol Building Next, Or Do The Tunnels Go Deeper?
 

Better than a bake sale! -
Feds Try to Seize Gold From Suspects' Teeth . . . to be read together with . . . Estimate $3.3 Trillion Missing From U.S. Treasury (The headline will suffice. Who cares about the odd $3.3 trillion, here or there. Categorized as: MORE OF THE SAME.)
 

Rumsfeld and Rice fall out over war tactics
(A spat which could reveal something about the real nature of power - a discussion some months ago at this blog.)
 

Baghdad Dweller, Why Buratha Mosque - Here is what I know about Baratha:

Few months ago I posted maps of locations used by the government as prisons, execution and torture centers, you still can [access] the post here:

Maps of Iraq’s secret prisons: If you look at map number 4, you will see that the locations are numbered, the circle marked as number 5 is Baratha mosque.

Since this government was in power (approximately less than a year ago), now and then people find “mini” mass graves, dead bodies dumped in the middle of nowhere with injuries made by gunshots or drill machines.

Two months ago people found 45 bodies dumped behind Buratha Mosque, here is the link (I highlighted the part says “Baratha mosque”):

What we won’t read this week in our papers: Brusselstribuna keeps records of people missing, killed or kidnapped in Iraq, if search the list there a column says “captured by”, follow this column carefully and you will stumble against “Baratha Mosque”, here is the link (highlighted also)

People who were captured by the iraqi police and disappeared after that: Buratha stopped functioning as mosque or a holy place serving worshippers, Buratha is an execution center supported by the Iraqi government under the eyes and ears of the Americans.
 

Ali Rifat & Hamoudi Saffar, Saddam’s pilots hunted down by death squads: According to official military statistics, 182 former pilots and 416 senior military officers had been killed by the beginning of January 2006 as part of the campaign. At least 836 pilots and high-ranking military officials have fled to neighbouring Arab states.

The individual killings . . . continue. A 57-year-old man, who declined to be named, described last week how he and two former pilots, Major-Generals Qathem Chaloob and Suad Bahaa al-Deen, were kidnapped last month during late afternoon prayers when 30 men, dressed in black, raided a mosque in Baghdad.

In front of a police checkpoint, the three men were dragged away by the armed kidnappers. According to the man, he and his companions were beaten, abused and tortured before the pilots were separated from other civilian captives.

“They beat us with electric cables and logs all over our bodies and we could hear them receiving telephone calls in the interrogation room next door. Sometimes they were told to release people, other times to kill others,” he said.

“When Major-General Suad demanded that he speak to the man in charge, they beat him continuously for 15 minutes and after that none of us dared utter another word.”

The man was eventually released when his captors were convinced he was not linked to Saddam’s former military forces. A day later the bodies of his two pilot friends were found near the mainly Shi’ite Sadr City. Suad’s hands had been cut off, his head had bullet and axe wounds and a hole had been drilled into his neck.
 

Malcom Lagauche, April 9: A little over a year ago, I received a message from a reader in Canada. We’ll call him Martin. He is a blind Palestinian who suffers from a hearing deficiency as well. Martin has lived in Canada for almost 20 years.

His message floored me. With all that is going on, most have forgotten about April 9, 2003, the day the U.S. calls "the liberation of Iraq." Martin definitely has not forgotten and he will spend the day in isolation.

I called him to get permission to run his message and he consented. Then, he told of his sadness that this day is not being commemorated by many Arabs as one of the most disastrous in history.

The following is a heartfelt message that should resonate with any real Arab in the world. After seeing many Arabs succumb to U.S. bribes and threats, it is wonderful to see that someone like Martin puts everything in perspective. If all Arabs had his integrity, there would not have been an April 9 to remind many of the destruction of a 5,000-year-old city and culture.

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Hi and hello I am going to send you my feedback on the Anti War Movement. There is not enough fury in me, maybe because I was drinking but I do have the message to forward or to send so stay tuned to my message and It will be up to you to publish it or not, but I would appreciate it if you try to devote the Ninth of April to the Fall of Baghdad, in my case, I can't do much for Iraq and the people of Iraq because of my nonexisting resources and my disability but I can devote Saturday April the Ninth for Iraq, I don't receive any phone calls, I don't go on the internet and I stick to my room. I know a day will come when I will celebrate with the People of Iraq when the last invader leaves Iraq. I leave you with my feedback on the Anti War Movement.

I am sending this message to express my solidarity with the People of Iraq, their aspirations and their resistance to the occupation, its outcomes, consequences and outcomes short and long term.

The mounting pressure on the People of Iraq is not new, nor is it limited to the invaders, their stooges, allies and the beneficiaries local and otherwise.

Iraq, the once cradle of civilization and the castle of defiance to the Zionist entity and its supporter was a target of the Coalition of the greedy expansionists; the old and new imperialists in Washington and London

This ominous Coalition replaced the Alliance of Baghdad, the Nato and the Cento.

As in 1991, the regimes in Washington and London lured and bribed the Arabs this time with the "Road Map". Out of sheer defeat and failure, and in order to maintain some dignity and self esteem, the Arab regimes supported the invasion even when they denounce it. The Arab countries were open to the invaders' armies, ships, jets and secret services. Even the so called Palestinian Authority failed the Iraqis who fought along side with the Palestinian Resistance.

On April Ninth, Baghdad fell to the invaders always with the blessing of the Arab regimes and media. Shamelessly and disgracefully, the Arab Media played a dirty role in advocating for the invasion.

The fall of Baghdad was a very well calculated plan, treason, silence and active participation all was translated into an explicit form of hatred with the share of the Arabs never to be forgotten.

After two years, with the Resistance gaining momentum, the so called Anti-War Movement or some of it adopted the position of the American Establishment: we can't abandon the Iraqis, we must "help them build their Nation."

The first question that comes to my mind is, since when does an invader help in nation building? Was the invasion intended to "build" the Nation of Iraq? Those who visited Iraq before the invasion and the sanctions know that Iraq was a nation that was unified, strong and capable to sustain itself against any aggression. Even after 13 years of sanctions, Iraq remained united, strong economically and otherwise. So, the Iraqis are more than capable to build their own nation if left alone. The same applies to the Syrians, the Lebanese the Palestinians and the rest of them.

Then, we ask did the invasion contribute to the well being of the Iraqis? not to the best of my knowledge.

The problem of the Anti-War Movement is it does not have a unified agenda, nor does it fight for one specific goal and when this jargon of "We Can't leave the Iraqis and we must help in building the nation of Iraq" is nothing but a stamp on the invasion and its advocates.

Then we ask is the agenda of the regimes of London and Washington in harmony of that of the Anti-War Movement? if this is the case, I don't think we are a movement at all.

What are the ingredients of building a nation? The Patriot Act, the Home Land Security? the ideology of the Conservative or the Democratic Parties? Is the American Democracy working for the Americans, all the Americans including the Moslems, the Blacks and other communities? These, and more are questions that are yet to be addressed by the so-called Anti-War Movement.

In short, Sirs, Madams and the rest, when you stop the crimes on the streets of your cities, help us build our nations, at that very point come and democratize us. Otherwise, leave us alone.
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(Martin's message (above), unabridged.
 

Iraqi prisoners arrested by US-led forces vanishing in 'black hole': Blair envoy
 

Exemplifying crass ignorance -
Washington Post, Let Them Have Their Civil War
 

Wayne Madsen Report, April 8, 2006 -- Incidents show that neo-cons everywhere are desperate: Upcoming elections around the world are pinning neo-cons against the wall and are heralding a return to democratic socialism and progressive populism, much to the anger and angst of international bankers, militarists, and reactionary Abrahamic tradition religious sects and movements. Tomorrow's election in Italy is a case in point. ...

U.S. ambassador to Venezuela William Brownfield is spinning a Venezuelan vegetable, egg, and fruit protest pelting of his motorcade as some sort of terrorist attack. ...

Meanwhile, as Ollanta Humala, an ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales, looks set to capture Peru's presidency, the neo-con and corporate media are ringing "alarm bells" about the leftist surge in Latin America. And Washington's pro-corporate and militarist elite has turned up the heat on Humala, a populist former military officer who champions the rights of Peru's poor and native Americans, including coca farmers. ... In Mozambique, Clinton's ambassador was opposed to the socialist policies of the government and once banned embassy and USAID officials from speaking to a pro-Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) journalist. Jett was also found to be in collusion with right-wing rebel forces of RENAMO, the former apartheid South Africa-supported Mozambican guerrilla movement. All this subterfuge occurred under the so-called enlightened worldview leadership of Bill Clinton.

In October, socialist Leon Roldos looks set to win Ecuador's presidency. If that occurs, Washington already previously placed an activist ambassador in Quito to turn up the heat on any incoming prospective socialist government in the oil-rich nation. Ecuador could end up as Latin America's second Venezuela, an oil-rich country opposed to Bush/neo-con hegemony. ...

As the populist wave sweeps through Mexico and Nicaragua, where prospects look increasingly progressive and socialist, the real "coglioni" -- the neo-cons, free traders and international bankers, elitists of both U.S. duopolistic political parties, and religious fanatics will ultimately get their just rewards. [We live in hope.]
 

IDF crackdown in Gaza Strip leaves 14 dead
 

After blasts, hospital fills with sobs - When bombs hit leading Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing 79, relatives can only grieve and ask, 'Why?'
 

FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq on April 8
 

Saturday attack kills 10 in Iraq, 11 bodies recovered
 

Iraq parliament could convene soon
 

Juan Cole, Sunday, April 09, 2006: The leaking of an internal, realistic assessment of how bad things are in Iraq, generated by the US government, has sent Bush administration officials scurrying to put the best face on it. As I have pointed out several times, the problems are not in three provinces, they are in seven. And, they are among the more populous provinces in the country, including Baghdad, which has 6 million or almost a fourth of the country. And they are very serious problems and getting worse.
 

xymphora:
-- Cartoons, racism, and immigration

-- Conspiracy theory versus institutional theory: I’m still thinking about Chomsky. [ . . . ]

-- Finkelstein and Ben-Ami
 

Nancy A. Youssef, 3 U.S. commanders relieved of duty as Iraqi town mourns its dead: In the middle of methodically recalling the day his brother's family was killed, Yaseen's monotone voice and stream of tears suddenly stopped. He looked up, paused and pleaded: "Please don't let me say anything that will get me killed by the Americans. My family can't handle any more."
 

Report: Israel pressuring U.S. over Iran attack
 

Pentagon rules thwart fair trials for Guantanamo detainees: US military lawyer
 

You do a lot of work for the Iraqi people Evelyn. Thank You.
 

Ron: Thank you for your kind remark.
 

Anisa Abd el Fattah, A religious history of justice and Palestine: The racist and colonizing legacy of the Zionist Christian Church, and the Synagogue continues into the 21st century, and as in the past, both fail to demonstrate even a modicum of morality in respect to their obligation to heal the human condition, serving supposedly as God’s hands on earth. Having stood guard over perhaps the worse crimes in human history; they are now the keepers of the injustice in Palestine, which is a brutal military occupation, being carried out wrongfully in the name of God. True believers in God know that God would have nothing to do with such an unjust and wickedly evil enterprise as the Israeli occupation. For Zionists of any stripe to suggest that God is unjust, blood thirsty, greedy for land, and military power, and also ready to turn His head to every act of evil, lies, and distortion of the law carried out by Jews or others, is blasphemous, yet these injustices go mostly unchallenged, even by the great religious, and legal scholars of our time who say very little if anything, about what is taking place in Palestine. When they do, seldom if ever do they even allude to the word “justice.”

The history of Palestine since 1948 is a story of religious fanaticism, and extremism. It is the story of an illegal occupation, planned and carried out by Zionist Christians and Jews, who justify a bloody war of attrition and low-grade genocide in the Holy land by manipulating biblical scriptures. Judaism and Christianity have been rewritten by such people, to make it appear that these religions are religions of racial supremacism, ...

According to the Bible, in Leviticus, 24: 22, God said, “ You shall have one law, and it shall be the same for the stranger as it is for those of your own.” ...

Perhaps the Palestinian activist, Hanan Ashwari explained this injustice best, when she alluded to the fact that the Palestinian people are the only people in the world who are asked to guarantee the safety of the people who are oppressing, and killing them daily. They are also the only people in the world who are asked to recognize their enemy’s supposed right to occupy and confiscate their land. ... It is similar to Biblical scriptures used to prevent slave rebellions, and rebellions against European colonists in other parts of the world, such as South Africa. In those instances, scriptures were taught which said that good slaves, Christian slaves and citizens, should not rebel against their masters, and governments, but rather they should accept God’s will, which had supposedly set their fate. ...

Zionists seek to legitimize the occupation of Palestine, as they did other historic crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing and colonization of other peoples, using wrongly interpreted, and self-serving scriptures, along with fake science, and theory. By so doing, they are obscuring the universal truths that are necessary for human development and progress. Their imposition of these ideas into the Muslim world, where secular state religion took the place of true faith, and where the state was run not by Muslims, but by others in submission to these same influences, we see plainly how the adaptation of the foreign and corrupted law retards human development, and material progress. ...

The claim that only so-called “Islamist” governments are to be feared, is another obscuration of truth regarding stewardship, especially considering that the worse crimes against humanity, including the many war crimes recorded to date in world history, were not carried out by Islamists, but rather by Christian and Jewish supremacists. ... (emphasis added)

Fortunately, in spite of the of the evils of the Zionist Church and Synagogue, and their historic adulterous relationships with governments to the detriment of the darker races, the poor, and so-called heathens, the basic concept of justice as morality has been preserved throughout time, in the hearts and the writings of great people, including some religious figures such as St. Francis of Assisi, ... Such people as these, sought not only their own personal salvation through the renunciation of religious intolerance, racism and fanaticism, they also explained to humanity the true scriptural truths that first introduced ancient man to the idea of justice, and the moral obligations of civilized man of various faiths, and no faith, in times of moral conflict and crisis and military conflict.
 

Iqbal Jassat, Was Mahmoud Abbas' South African mission to co-opt Thabo Mbeki as an Emissary of A Flawed Roadmap?: "Mandela rejected the notion that South Africa belonged to Dutch-descended Afrikaners and insisted on claiming the right to be full citizens of an undivided country which should be ruled by the majority."
 

M'Hamed Ben Youssef, 'Bush and His 40 Liars!'
(French version follows - "Bush et les 40 menteurs"!)
 

Philippe Dumartheray, Unilateralism: a Concept That Repeatedly Fails: What do George W. Bush, Ehud Olmert and Dominique de Villepin have in common? According to this op-ed article Swiss newspaper 24 Heures, they are all the hapless practitioners of unilateralism, a policy that calls for the 'flat refusal to compromise with the other side.' Unfortunately for them, despite its growing popularity, unilateralism has shown anything but winning results.

(French version follows - L’unilatéralisme ou la loi du plus fort érigé en doctrine)