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Ahmadinejad-Lost
in Translation from Little Red Email:
"But what if the pronouncements by
Ahmadinejad that cast him as this season’s baddie incarnate had been a)
mistranslated and b) taken out of context?
When properly
translated the
Iranian president actually calls for the removal of the regimes that are in
power in Israel and in the USA as a goal for the future. Nowhere does he demand
the elimination or annihilation of Israel. He called for greater governance for
Palestine. The word map does not even feature. And the president makes plain
that the Holocaust happened, but, he argues western powers have exploited the
memory of the Holocaust for their own imperialistic purposes. What the
mainstream ran with is complete deception." Great internal link to the Guardian
exposè on MEMRI.
A
readers' guide to Gilad Atzmon's Self-haters Unite "...the aspect of the
contest that remains more interesting than the contest itself is the milieu
surrounding its aftemath. In reading on it in the Hebrew papers, Atzmon found a
rejection of the idea of this as being damaging and harmful from the formal
“moral guardians” of the Jewish world, no, not a Rabbinical Council, but the
Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Yad Vashem. It seems that the protection and
presentation of the Jewish identity has to pass muster with two entities that
ceaselessly promote a specific image of the Jew as a victim, “the” victim par
excellence. No one is allowed to alter this image, and the reality of the Jewish
State that utilises practices that are inhumane and morally questionable to
maintain a dominant position in respect to Palestinians, should never interfere
with the message incessantly promoted."
Remi
Kanazi - Call a Spade a Spade "Why are the Palestinian people expected to
take the blame? Apparently, the world is infuriated by their democratically
electing Hamas, a “terrorist organization,” into government. Setting aside the
word terrorism and the West’s perversion of the definition—would one not have to
engage in Why are the Palestinian people expected to take the blame? Apparently,
the world is infuriated by their democratically electing Hamas, a “terrorist
organization,” into government. Setting aside the word terrorism and the West’s
perversion of the definition—would one not have to engage in “terrorism” or even
attempt to engage in “terrorism” to be a “terrorist?” According to a Shin Bet
report, Israel’s internal general security service, Hamas’ military wing has not
been responsible for a suicide bombing in nearly two years. Israel has not
blamed a single Israeli death on Hamas in 2006. Furthermore, hard-lined Israeli
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz reluctantly admitted that Hamas did not coordinate
any of the rocket attacks fired from the Gaza Strip in recent months. So what’s
the problem?“terrorism” or even attempt to engage in “terrorism” to be a
“terrorist?” According to a Shin Bet report, Israel’s internal general security
service, Hamas’ military wing has not been responsible for a suicide bombing in
nearly two years. Israel has not blamed a single Israeli death on Hamas in 2006.
Furthermore, hard-lined Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz reluctantly
admitted that Hamas did not coordinate any of the rocket attacks fired from the
Gaza Strip in recent months. So what’s the problem?"
the
Israeli violence that is silenced The Tel Aviv bombing on
Monday received intensive, extensive, and poignant BBC coverage, including
pictures of pieces of human flesh shredded by the force of the explosion. Below
is a partial list from occupied Palestne of shellings, killings, robberies,
savage beatings, attacks on schools and infrastructure, home demolitions,
kidnappings, the use of sewage as a weapon, and more. Virtually all of these
Israeli government, military and settler crimes went unreported. BBC viewers
were told that Israel would 'retaliate' for the Tel Aviv bombing: we are seeing
more of the collective reprisals, themselves war crimes, that Palestinians are
used to. The Islamic Jihad bomber was not shown as 'retaliating' for any of the
thousands of shells Israel has fired into Gaza in recent days; killing children.
Viewers are left with the impression of a motiveless, irrational violence,
probably caused by hatred of Jews.
Interview
with Said Siam, PA's Interior Minister For an Italian newspaper. A rather
harsh but interesting interview.
Sam
Bahour - Hamas is being forced to collapse, amid humanitarian crisis "Conditions on the ground have never been so
tense. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which has always been a political
conflict, is being converted, thanks to the U.S. and Israel, into a humanitarian
crisis. The fear is that hungry persons react in unpredictable ways.
The greater fear is that if the U.S. and Israel are
successful in collapsing the Hamas government and Hamas in turn decides to
abandoned democratic means to express itself, we will be back where we started
from, suicide bombings killing innocents and setting the agenda from outside any
known political framework. Does this serve U.S. and Israeli interests? We are
all wondering!"
public
service announcement - things aren't born from nothing "In the last two and a half weeks (since the
previous suicide bombing) Israeli forces have killed at least 26 Palestinians --
at least 5 of them children -- and injured 161 Palestinian men, women and
children. A college student lost her right eye today after being shot by an
Israeli sniper last week. There have been 369 raids by Israeli forces, mostly
into the West Bank. Gaza has undergone sustained shelling by Israeli forces and
continued closures, resulting in increasing lack of food and medical supplies.
According to UN reports, between March 30 and April 12th, Israeli forces
launched 2300 artillery and tank shells and 34 missiles into
Gaza."
NEIL YOUNG'S NEW ALBUM IN STREAMING
ON AXIS OF LOGIC.
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