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Monday, July 31, 2006

Blogs for Lebanon

A new campaign set out by Jeeran company, I can't but salut them and raise my hat for them for this idea and the efforts they are putting forth.
 

Blogs for Lebanon aims at collecting as much doantions as possible to help support the Lebanese people in this war, by outreaching them with their basic needs of food, blankets...etc., In collaboration with Jordan River Association.
 
Keep the good work up :)
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Monday, July 31, 2006

Qana aftermath, Video


 
I thought I wouldn't have anything to say, all what I saw on TV left me speechless... corpses being pulled out from under mounds of rubble,and that little girl, she looked as if she was a sleep... she looked so peaceful, even with all that dust on her face, and that girl who said that she lost her whole family, except her cousin, father and brother... I wondered how she was able to sustain herself, stand there and talk about it. I kept wondering till she burst out crying, now that will scar! That will definitly scar!
 
Then they moved on to that family in a hospital, who lost their daughter, Zainab, and were hiding the news of her death from her brother, who could sense that in their chocked voices as they spoke to him...
 
And that Condoleezza Rice finally found the "adequate circumistances" she was talkign about for the cease fire... Now why didn't you say that u were waiting for such a massacre to encourage a cease fire!
 
You know it's really harsh to see the pictures of people murdered in Qana then see Condoleezza Rice sitting with Israeli officials, laughing around a table with all kinds of refereshments and accommodations... Then here them blaming Hizbullah and saying that they are "sorry" for what happened  in Qana! Olmert would even be rather insolent by blaming the victims of Qana for what happened to them! Believe it or npt, he said they should've evacuated the houses so that Israel would strike them! Yeah Olmert, blame it on the dead! They don't speak... No, we are the dead, not them! Because we are the ones who can talk, and as long as we don't speak or act, we are dead!
 
You try to think of of those kids, their dreams, their stolen laughters, the joy in their hearts that was replaced with terror in the last minutes of their lives...For a moment I think that all that would be a curse over the murderers, forever... and nothing of that, not a tear, not a drop of blood would go in vain...
 
I thing the best thing to say now is:
 
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
(ولا تحسبَنّ الذين قتلوا في سبيل الله أمواتاً بل أحياءٌ عند ربهم يرزقون )


(ولا تحسبنّ الله غافلاً عمّا يعمل الظالمون)

 


 
 
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Sunday, July 30, 2006

Qana all over again

I wonder how will those pro-Israel's rationalize this crime... Just shut up! Shut up because you exceeded all limits, you did that long ago, but this is like the last straw...
 
Israel raid 'kills dozens' in Qana

Beirut/Tel Aviv (dpa) - An Israeli raid Sunday on a building sheltering civilians east of the southern port city of Tyre, killed over 50 people and wounded several others, witnesses and police said.

It was the highest casualty toll in any single incident since the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas began on July 12.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora and House Speaker Nabih Berri said after the number of casualties became known that "there will be no negotiations with Israel until there is an immediate and unconditional ceasefire."

But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his ministers at the start of Sunday's cabinet meeting that Israel was in no hurry to agree to a truce before it achieved its aims in the fighting.

"Israel is in no rush to reach a ceasefire before we get to that point where we could say that we reached the main objectives we had set forth," he said.

"I can see at least 18 dead and several are still under the rubble," a witness at the scene of the bombing told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

"Most of the killed are children and women," said the witness.

"I can say this is a massacre. Most of the people here have fled other areas to hide from the Israeli bombardment from other areas in southern Lebanon," a Red cross volunteer at the scene told dpa.

"There are several wounded under the rubble and we are having still difficulty to evacuate them," he added.

"This is the same scene I saw in 1996 ... at least 20 children are among the dead," a witness told dpa.

The witness said the residential area was targeted by fifty shells since dawn.

The building was housing refugees in the village of Qana, east of Tyre. A massacre took place in the same village in 1996 when Israeli shells hit a UN shelter, killing 109 people.

"This is a collective punishment against the civilians in southern Lebanon," Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said.

An Israeli army spokesman said the Hizbollah guerrilla group had launched "numerous attacks" from the area, but would not say why that specific building had been targeted.

Israeli ground troops, meanwhile, extended their operations in southern Lebanon, moving northwards to battle Hizbollah militiamen in the village of Taibe.

An army spokeswoman said two soldiers had so far been injured in the fighting, and three Hizbollah fighters had been hit.

The 19th day of the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah had begun with the Israel Air Force bombing Lebanon and the Iranian-backed guerrilla group launching missiles at northern Israeli towns.

An army spokeswoman said the air force flew over 40 raids overnight, bombing 10 structures used by Hizbollah and attacking roads used by the guerrillas to move their missiles.

Hizbollah fired around 40 rockets at northern Israel Sunday morning. No injuries were reported.

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was expected meanwhile to continue her talks Sunday with Israeli officials, among them Defence Minister Amir Peretz and Foreign Minister Tzippi Livni.

Rice met Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late Saturday night, shortly after arriving back in the region for her second mediation trip in less than a week.

During their two-hour meeting they discussed conditions for the deployment of an international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.

Israel has said its aims in the fighting include having the Lebanese army deploy in the south, bolstered by an international force, significantly weakening Hizbollah's military ability, and securing the release of of two Israeli soldiers abducted by Hizbollah on June 12 during a cross-border raid.

The incident sparked Israel's major offensive against Hizbollah and other targets in Lebanon.
 
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

A nice tag

Well, I was tagged by neverland! at first I was like: Not the same tag again! But it turned out to be a nice one, so here we go...
 
Alone, or with people?
People, but sometimes I just need to be alone...
 
 
Summer, or winter?
Summer nights and winter days
 
Black, or white?
White all the way

 

Observe, or get along from the very first moment?
Huh bas balash observe! Actually when I don't get along with people from the first time it's either because I'm shy or because I scare them away by acting as if I have known them for ages :D well I'm working on that

 

Clown, or Drama (Queen/King)?
Somewhere in between

 

A Hummer, or A BMW convertible car.
Hummer, so I can sell it and get a nice small car
 
Loyal or………
Skip, too general a question!

 

 

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Friday, July 28, 2006

The new Middle East

 
Cartoon courtesy of Wael Sha3teely and itoot
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Friday, July 28, 2006

Oldy, but goldy!

What happens if an insect falls in a cup of coffee ?!

The British: will throw the cup into the street and leave the coffee shop  for good.

The American: will get the insect out and drink the coffee.

The Chinese: will eat the insect and drink the coffee.

The Israeli will:

 (1) Sell the coffee to the American and the insect to the Chinese.

(2) Cry on all media channels that he feels insecure.

 (3) Accuse the Palestinians, Hizb Allah, Syria and Iran of using  germ-weapons.

(4) Keep on crying about anti-Semitism and violations of human rights.

(5) Ask the Palestinian President to stop planting insects in the cups of coffee.
 
(6) Re-occupy the West Bank, Gaza Strip.

(7) Demolish houses, confiscate lands, cut water and electricity from Palestinian houses and randomly shoot Palestinians.

(8) Ask the United States for urgent military support and a loan of one million dollars in order to buy a new cup of coffee.

(9) Ask the United Nations to punish the coffee-shop owner by making him offer free coffee to him till the end of the century.

(10) Last but not least, accuse the whole world to be standing still, not even sympathizing with the Israeli Nation.

                       

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

I hate this woman

Condo-freakin'-leeza Rice! She doesn't speak, she only vomits!
 
The funniest thing is when she said: "Our biggest concern is civillians being killed and infrastructure being destroyed"... Oh shut up! Then why are you against the cease-fire you... uh! Like those being killed in Lebanon are not people, and the infrastructure destroyed there is some kind of... Lego structure maybe!
 

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Sunday, July 23, 2006

What CNN never shows you

Check out this website...
 
http://fromisraeltolebanon.info/
 
Another thing, please visit the following link and sign the petition for Lebanon!
 
 
http://www.lebguide.com/lebanon/petition/
 
Thanks in advance!
 
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Sunday, July 23, 2006

نصر الله: الحرب فرضت علينا و لا يمكن زرع فتنة طائفية في لبنان

قبل يومين شاهدت أجزاء من مقابلة الأمين العام لحزب الله، حسن نصر الله، و بصراحةا أستطيع أن أقول أقول إلا إنه إنسان رائع و يستحق كل احترام... كلامه منطقي و موزون و فيه رد على كل الاتهامات أو على الأقل الاتهامات التي سمعت فيها
 
      سأحاول كتابة مقتطات من الكلام باختصار، لكن ليس حرفيا طبعاً
 
أولا: رداً على من يدعي ان حزب الله لا يهتمون بما يحدث في غزة و فلسطين بشكل عام و أنهم يقاتلون
من أجل الأسرى فقط
 
نتيجة المعركة في لبنان سوف تنعكس على فلسطين، إن نصراً فنصر و إن هزيمة، لا قدر الله، فهزيمة، و لا تستطيع أمريكات زرع فتنة طائفية في لبنان، فعل سبيل المثال، إن حاولوا زرع فتنة سنية-شيعية كما فعلوا في العراق، فلن يستطيعوا ذلك لأننا نقاتل جنباً إلى جنب مع إخواننا السنة و نقاتل من أجل
إخواننا في فلسطين و هم من السنة
 
ما يحدث في فلسطين نموذج مطور لما يحدث في لبنان، و إنهاء المقاومة في لبنان سيؤدي إلى إنهاء حركات المقاومة في فلسطين و المنطقة، فلا مجال للرضوخ
 
ثانياً: يعجبني في نصر الله أنه رجل يقول و يفعل و لا يقول أكثر مما يستطيع أن يفعل، رجل أفعال لا شعارات و مواضيع تعبير
 
النصر الذي نتحدث عنه الآن هو ليس احتلال المدن الإسرائيلية، فتلك من طموحاتنا و ليست من شعاراتنا، النصر الذي نتكلم عنه الآن هو صمود المقاومة و ألا نهزم عسكريا و ألا نرضى بشروط مذلة
 
ثالثاً: رداً على من يقول أن قادة حزب الله يختبؤون خوفا من الموت و يعرضون شعبهم للقتل
 
نحن لا نخاف الشهادة، نحن نعشق الشهادة، و إن كنا نحتاط فذلك حتى لا نمنح إسرائيل إنجازا
 
إنهاء الحرب دون التوصل إلى حل لمشكلة الأسرى خيانة وطنية و خيانة لدم الشهداء و لكل من ضحى في هذه الحرب، ماذا نخشى بعد؟ الناس قتلوهم، و البنية التحتية دمروها و البيوت هدموها، لماذا نرضخ؟ لا خيار سوى مواصلة المقاومة
 
رابعاً: رداً على من يقول إن سوريا هي من تتجم بحزب الله و هي من دفعته إلى الحرب
 
نحن لا نقاتل من أجل سوريا أو إيران، و أنا أعتبر هذا الكلام إهانة... فمن يقاتل و يُقتل في ساحة المعركة هم إخواننا و أهلنا و أحبابنا، فلا يُعقل أن نضحي بأهلنا لنرجع سوريا إلى لبنان أو من أجل إيران
 
سوريا و إيران لم تعلما بأمر أسر الجنديين، نحن مقاومة موجودة في لبنان و لنا أسرى نريد استردادهم
 
خامساً: منوعات
 
يتحدث بوش عن النموذج الديمقراطي في لبنان مع العلم أن الديمقراطية في لبنان أقدم من بيت بوش
بأكمله
 
لم نرد الحرب لكنها فرضت علينا،  ما فعلناه هو احتجاز جنديين بهدف التفاوض غير المباشر و تبادل الأسرى و بالتالي إنهاء ملف الأسرى، لأن مسألة الأسرى مسألة إنسانية و لا يمكن السكوت عليها، فالجميع يعلم أن لدينا أسرى يتعرضون للتعذيب في السجون الإسرائيلية
 
تدخلنا في إعمار لبنان ضروري، لأننا إذا تجاهلنا الإعمار فستتدفق أموال سياسية مشروطة لى لبنان، أما إذا تدخلنا فستتدفق المساعدات على لبنان من دون أن تكون مشروطة
 
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Saturday, July 22, 2006

A letter from Lebanon

This was written by a member of LFPM, help him spread it to the world...
 
Dear ...all

I am a Lebanese civilian attacked by the state of Israel. I am only one between many awake at 4:30 AM wondering if we will make it through the night, wondering if our families and friends will still be there to greet us in the morning.

I can hear the Israeli warplanes destroying my country and murdering my people. Today more than 50 Lebanese civilians have been murdered!
 

I beg you to show the world the mutilated bodies of the Lebanese Children!!

I beg you to show the world the body of a child cut in 3!!

If Hizbullah is considered as a terrorist Organization for targeting civilians then what is Israel??

Stop Discrimination!!

Stop The U.S Veto's in support of Israeli Agression!!
 

Is that the Democracy the U.S. calls for?? Is murder of civilians what the U.S. calls for in Lebanon? Help us stop the Israeli Army from murdering more Lebanese civilians!! Stop crimes against Humanity before calling for Human Rights!! Or whose Human Rights are those??

Are we not civilians being murdered by Israel's lethal army!!? Stop the state of Israel from murdering further civilians!! Show the world what Israel is doing!!Show the mutilated families!!Show the atrocities and denounce the Hypocrisy!! Show the Israeli contribution to the "so called" peace process!!
 
 

Isn't that your role??

Signed by: A Lebanese Civilian subject to Israeli Agression
 

 
**(Maybe two or three years ago some American will show up here, claiming that there was nothing such as Marwaheen massacre)
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Friday, July 21, 2006

New blog

Nope, I'm not leaving this blog! I'm just creating a new blog, but that is only for the videos I and my brither make (So you can see that it's not totally mine, good move against egoism and self-centeredness, if such word existed)
 
So if you happen to be in town, drop by to see what' s on!
 
The videos are going to belong to different categories and, God willing, the website will be updated as frequently as possible...
 
Welcome to In Motion :-)
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Define Genocide

Genocide: Mass murder of a people typically because of their racial, ethnic or particular identity.
 
Also found this interesting:
 
Today the civilized world's only practitioners of genocide are the Israelis. Golda Meir was known for her comment that Palestine was seized "by a People without a land," because it was "a land without a people." Actually, "people" had inhabited the land mass of Palestine since the dawn of civilization. The concept of a "land without a people" was a racist and genocidal concoction that Meir used to justify Israeli expansionism.
 
But I have to add that there is another practitioner of Genocide, the United states! Israel's alter ego...
 
Examples, examples!
 
Gaza raids

Jenin massacres

American-Israeli genocide against Iraq

The recent attacks on Lebanon, I've just heard on T.V that Al-akhras family was entirly eliminated! Is that genocide or what?
 
Also, it would be appreciated that you vote on this poll
 
Another thing, if you happen to post anything about Israeli crimes, make sure you add the tag: Genocide to them
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Monday, July 17, 2006

People and Land

Award-winning filmmaker Tom Hayes crosses borders and check-points to uncover the conflicting opinions and policies of the people who seem unwilling to share this land-and yet are unable to let go. Created at great personal risk by Tom Hayes and his crew. Zionists have lobbied to prevent PBS from showing the film.

People and Land, click the link below, no need to download... no need for a high-peed connection
 
 
If that link didn't work, try this one:
 
 
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Monday, July 17, 2006

الإعلام العربي يرقص على طبول الحرب

يعني من المخجل، بل من المخزي إن صح التعبير، إنه تكون الدنيا قايمة قاعدة و الوضع زي ما إنتوا شايفين و الأخبار العاجلة  نازلة زخ خبر ورا خبر، وتيجي يا رعاك الله تقلب بين هالمحطات و تلاقي قنوات عربية، و أضع300 خط تحت كلمة عربية، عايشة في عالم لحالها، و الأغاني التافهة شغالة على ودنو... و كأنه ما عندها خبر باللي عم بصير برا! يا جماعة قصفوا الجنوب! لا يا شيخ! قول و غير
 
ولا ليش نستعجل بالحكي... يمكن يكونوا سمعوا بـ"عرس المقاومة" فحبوا يشاركوا في الآكشين... و زغرطي يا أم الشهيد، قصدي زغرطي يا عروسة
 
طيب بلاش! مش خايفين على هيفا و نانسي يكون صارلهم إشي في القصف؟ لا لا لا! هيفا و نانسي يمكن طلعوا من  زمان، و شو بعرفكم، يمكن يكونوا هلأ بسجلوا أغاني وطنية، برافو! هادا هو اللي بدنا إياه! أصلا إحنا اللي دمرنا في ال 48 و ال 67 إنه ما كان عنا هيك أشكال... ولا كان عنا قنوات هادفة بتبث برامج بناءة بتعزز "التوجه الوطني" لدى الشباب
يا ريت يعملولنا موسم إكسكلوسيف من ستار أكاديمي للحرب، عشان يعملولنا كم سهرة وطنية لأجل لبنان... 0
 
على هالسيرة، أيام كأس العالم ما كان عنا شغل بالشركة، قال الناس ما بتتفرج على مسلسلات و أفلام في كأس العالم! يا ترى هل سيخف الشغل في وقت الحرب؟  بما إنه الناس ممكن تصير تتابع الأخبار و ما عندها وقت تحضر مسلسلات و أفلام كتير... مثلا يعني
 
على كل حال لا يسعني إلا أن أهيب بكل جبهات النضال على المستوى الإعلامي، ابتداء من مزيكا مرورا بمزيكا زوم (و نفسي أعرف شو الفرق بينهم) وانتهاء بميلودي و دريم ون (و فرق شاسع بين دريم ون و دريم تو، شيزوفرينيا رسمي) و أقول لهم سيروا و نحن من ورائكم، و خليكم هيك بركي بطلع جيل ما بعرف وين بتيجي فلسطين عالخريطة و لا بعرف شو يعني خريطة أصلا... و ليكن شعارنا دائما
 
أمة عربية واحدة، ذات رسالة خالدة، و رقصني يا جدع
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Cowards & Puppets

The Saudi government described Hizbullah's attacks on Israel as miscalculated and untimely acts... Okay! We've been waiting for the right time for ages, I htink we had to wait till they burn the last street in Gaza for example! And I don't think Hassan Nasrullah would get himself into this war unless he's sure of his first and second strike capability.
 
On the other hand, Jordan and Egypt issued a joint statement condemning the Israeli atrocities. Well that is better, but it's still a shy starement and not up to the intesity and the seriousness of the situation. They also warned from miscalculated risks, what is with Arabs and risks? I know it's not wise to take miscalculated risks, but, we don't take risks at all! Why did they consider this one  miscalculated beforehand? For all I know, there is a big difference between being wise and being a coward... Why should we be so cowardly while Israel is acting with all the insolence in the world! They even have the gutts to demand the Lebanese government intervention to stop Hizbullah! It's like: We want to kill, we want to mount raids on the Palestinians, and you just shut up! And cling to peace efforts! The time is never appropriate niether for peace nor for striking back, losers!
 
Well, what was that power equation? I forgot the name of the man who came up with it.... anyways, I think it was:
 
Power= Military capabilities+ Economics capabilities+ Population+ Land area /Goal+Will
 
If you have the will, it cancover for the lack of Military and economic capabilities! I'm not suggesting taking risks randomly and going to fight just like that, but I'm saying: You don't have to wait till everyone is killed and till you have the same weapons Israel have! At least take some political actions, stop acting like quivering kids and do something for real! And stop talking about miscalculated risks (though I think this might be the new mass-used word of the decade, it could even beat "terrorism")
 
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing at all
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Friday, July 14, 2006

Israel has the right to self-defense, Yeah right!

Gaza-Beirut-Haifa-who knows what's next.... and the world is watching helplessly! Except for the United States, who has run out of all shame as to claim "Israel's right to self-defense"... Yes America! Shut everyone up and let the VETO speak... Why the cease-fire? Those armless palestinian civilians do pose a deadly threat to Israel's securit, so it's extremely vital to keep raining them with bombs day and night!
 

A Lebanese woman walks through rubble from an Israeli air raid in Beirut

 
Self-defense you say, huh? I'll tell you what that means in Israel's dictionary:
 
Self-defense: noun. The use of lethal weapons of all kinds against civilians on the pretext of having been attacked or threatened by militants, who are claimed to be targeted by the attack, not the civilians themselves. See also Collateral damage.