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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

"The wretched fiction of Iraq's 'success' is Blair's attempt to make us wear the veil"

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Veils seem to be coming into fashion in the UK. Further to a previous posting here on veils: "I might as well be wearing hijab and niqab! Only mine are invisible!", Rober Fisk writes on a not so invisible veil:

"Reality has to be separated from us. Thus a massacre that became part of a policy has been turned in the movie into an aberration by a few armed extremists. Indeed, after the film ends, a series of paragraphs on the screen bleakly record the dispossession of the Palestinians as a result of "Arab propaganda". This itself is a myth. Yet again, Israeli historians have already disproved the lie that the Arab regimes told Palestinian Arabs over the radio that they should leave their homes "until the Jews have been thrown into the sea". No such broadcasts were made. Most Palestinians fled because they were frightened of ending up like the people of Deir Yassin. The propaganda about radio broadcasts was Israeli, not Arab.

It's as if a blanket, a curtain, a veil has been thrown over history - so that the shadow of real events is just visible, but their meaning so distorted as to be incomprehensible. "So this is why you wanted guns," Bobby Goldman shouts at the Stern leader amid the dead of Deir Yassin. And he's wrong. The guns enabled the Stern gang to murder the Arabs of Deir Yassin to produce the panic that sent three quarters of a million Palestinians on the road to permanent exile.But isn't this the world in which we live? Aren't we all veiled from the truth?"
Robert Fisk: We've all been veiled from the truth, Ocotber 21, 2006
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Comments:
الى الدكتور العزيز ....
ارجو ان تنتبه الى ان مقالات شلش القديمة قد تم ازالتها من موقع كتابات...حيث ان جميع الروابط الموجودة في موقع شلش لا تؤدي الى أي مكان. يرجى اعادة نشر هذه المقالات لأهميتها و كونها اهم ما كتب في الأدب العراقي بعد عام 2003.
 
Konfused Kid

كلامكم صحيح، فلقد حـُذف العديد من مقالات شلش القديمة من موقع "كتابات" ـ

ولكن أود أن أعلمكم بأننا قد إحتفظنا بكافة مقالات شلش، ومنذ أول مقال له في 25 أيلول 2005 ، حيث قمنا بتوفيرها كلهافي موقع شلش العراقي - وتحت أبواب الأرشيف على يمين الصفحة - بعد حذف مقالاته من موقع "كتابات"ـ

أنظر الرابط التالي:
http://shalashaliraqi.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-post.html

أرجو إعلامي عن عدم تمكنكم عن مطالعة
أي منها لتدارك الأمر.ـ


 
Wayne Madsen, October 23, 2006 -- [ . . . ]

... The administration is looking for ways to evacuate from Iraq after the expected drubbing of the GOP at the polls on November 7. Last week, Sally Quinn ... penned an OP ED piece in the Washington Post that only lacked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's co-byline. The OP ED stated that Rumsfeld would not be the scapegoat for Iraq and plans to resign shortly after the election. Quinn ... states that after Rumsfeld leaves, there will be only two scapegoats left: Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. ... [I]t is clear that the Bush family does not intend to allow one of its own to be declared scapegoat. ...

Based on two recent "unusual" approaches to this editor by individuals with close ties to the Bush wing inside the White House, I can state with great confidence that Cheney and the neo-cons will be designated as the official scapegoats on Iraq by the Bushes. (emphasis added)

In fact, in anticipation of a U.S. draw down and evacuation from Iraq, the Iraqi Baath Party of Saddam Hussein has already drawn up an assassination list of Iraqi officials in the U.S.-backed government. It should be noted that the Baathists call for the murder of the "first, second, and third degree relatives" of the Iraqi leaders. The plan's implementation has begun -- six relatives of four individuals on the list have recently been killed. WMR has obtained a copy of the list in Arabic, the Arabic transmittal letter, and an English translation (follows): [ . . . ]
 
حضرة الدكتور عماد الفاضل
بعض المقالات تعمل و الأخر لا يعمل - كل المقالات التي تحتوي رابطا يشير الى موقع كتابات لا تعمل فقد تم مسح الأرشيف لسنتي 2004 و 2005 لديهم.
و بعض المقالات التي مسحت بالغة الأهمية مثل: "حفل انتخابي لعشيرة جائعة" و "حوار في كية" و غيرها العديد.
يرجى اعادة نشر جميع مقالات شلش على موقعكم وليس ال36 مقالة فقط.

ولكم خالص التقدير على جهودكم الطيبة
 
Konfused Kid
شكراً مرة ثانية
إننا بصدد تحميل كافة مقالات شلش، وبالأخص القديمة منها، على موقعنا الخاص بكتاب سراب السلاح النووي العراقي لتظهر على موقع شلش العراقي
ونأمل في تحميلها كلها خلال الأيام القليلة القادمة
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