Monday, April 22, 2013

#Victory4Issawi trended this evening worldwide on Twitter, reaching place 5:

Yesterday #Resistance4Issawi trended worldwide on Twitter, reaching place 4:



On Saturday #Freedom4Issawi trended worldwide on Twitter over 40 minutes, in this picture being on the place 4:



On Friday #FreeSamerIssawi273 trended worldwide on Twitter, reaching place 3:


Twelve-year-old arrested and blindfolded in Hebron

Twelve-year-old arrested and blindfolded in Hebron

Arrest and abuse of ill 16-year old in Urif

Arrest and abuse of ill 16-year old in Urif

Friday, April 19, 2013

I do have to wonder who motivated the Chechen Tsarnajev brothers to commit the bomb attacks in Boston? Hopefully their contacts can be tracked.

This plays suspiciously into Putin's hands and SVR&FSB has in the past shown scant recard to human lives when instigating violence to justify government policy.

SVR&FSB might - although this is clearly a far-fetched conspiracy theory - have pretended to be a link to Jihadists and encouraged the brothers to turn from Chechen nationalist aspirations to supposedly serve global Jihadism.

If FBI informants can pretend to represent al-Qaida then why not SVR&FSB agents?

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

#Issawi2Jerusalem trended worldwide on Twitter last evening on place 5:

War Criminal Shimon Peres being "protected" from Arab, Asian, Berber and Muslim workers of the SNCF company at the Gare du Nord railway station:

The Israelis are the bigots, the French were just trying to please the Zionist rogue state. This is nothing new to France.

Hollande has previously claimed that he considers boycott of products from Israel's illegal settlements to be illegal and in French courts the state is trying to get boycott activists convicted of "discrimination towards Israel". 

I've followed closely and tried to participate for the last half year in attempts to get publicity for Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike.

The British media is united in an almost utter and total silence on the subject. The Guardian finally did publish a short letter from Samer Issawi - who has been 271 days on hunger strike today, by the way - but published at the same time a character assassination by it's own reporter about Issawi to protect it's back.

(If you, by the way, write "Zionist" or "Zionism" in a comment thread on The Guardian's website, your future posts will be pre-moderated after that to avoid you being able to do that again, so afraid is The Guardian of Israel. A group of Christian Zionist web thugs, the CiF Watch, claim that The Guardian re-writes it's articles about Israel and Palestine when CiF Watch demands so, and that if the first re-write isn't acceptable to the Christian Zionists of CiF Watch, The Guardian will re-write an article second time to please them. Nothing is too much when it comes to showing deference to Israel by The Guardian, apparently.)

Otherwise, silence from individual journalists, from BBC - which refuses to report about them directly, demanding that they must reach a higher visibility, "capture the minds of the Palestinian people" etc before it reports about them (BBC has 3 times reported indirectly, when Israel has killed people taking part in protests on behalf of the hunger strikers) - and from Fisk, Hasan and everybody else.

The British media, even the supposedly "radical" or "rebellious" journalists, are scared to the death of Israel, trying to avoid criticizing it and hiding it's activities as best as they can.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

When it comes to the events in Boston, my guess is that it's US domestic terrorism and more likely by an individual than a group.

If it would have been by let's say a group claiming al-Qaeda affiliation, an announcement of responsibility would have been ready (at some point one can assume all kinds of groups will claim that they did it, but the longer it takes to make the claim, the less weight one can put on such claims).

Al-Qaeda affiliates also tend to make their plans over-complicated, which makes easier to find and stop them in time. This appears to have been simple and practical, and thus much easier to pull off than your typical al-Qaeda affiliate plot.

On the US' domestic front, individuals tend to slip more easily pass the government agencies' watch than groups as there is naturally less loose ends that the authorities can find and track. Just think of the Spokane bombing attempt a few years back.

Overall, FBI etc should spend less time grooming disaffected individuals so that they can make headlines for a few days when FBI announces the "plot" it recruited them to take part in, and then spend decades in jail, and concentrate on real threats instead.

Southern Poverty Law Center could offer more than a few tips for the FBI for real targets to monitor.

Monday, April 15, 2013

#IssawiRejectsExile trended worldwide for over half an hour this evening on Twitter:

First of all, if there is going to a peace agreement then on Israel’s part it will have to be supported and negotiated by people who have taken part in violence in leading roles and have the deaths of many people on their conscience. Not just Palestinian lives, but also Israeli lives through their previous role in upkeeping the occupation and the ensued violence as a result. 

So, complaining about Samer Issawi’s previous activity is rather hollow. If one demands only perfect saints to be involved until one is ready to support non-violent protests, then that moment of support will never arrive. Even Gandhi had his faults. Instead one should support what is at hand now, as through support non-violent protests can succeed and show that they can work as an alternative to armed resistance and open a path out of violence and in the end, from the occupation itself.

But for non-violent protests to succeed, they need strong outside support.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

I think the main positive point is that the authors have at least helped to bring some visibility for Samer Issawi. Certainly their position is in my opinion wrong, but now that they have made a public stance, that opens a possibility of engaging them in arguments and perhaps helping them to see situation from Samer’s point of view.

The thing is, even if Samer would accept a deal to be deported to Gaza or Europe etc, Israel could very well break the deal. It has happened three times this year, with Samer al-Barq for example. First Israel makes a deal, prisoners stop the hunger strike waiting to be released, their situation vanishes from view and then Israel refuses to release them.

That said, even if Samer would be released to East Jerusalem like he demands, it’s very likely that after a few months Israel would re-arrest him like it has done for other hunger strikers.
In the end, in the political prisoners situation there is only one solution that can be trusted to bring lasting freedom: The end of the occupation overall.

But, in the short term, Samer and other hunger strikers need help to survive and be released. Personally I don’t understand the silence about them in the world media nor the attitude of governments. If they die, there will be protests in the occupied areas and Israel will use force to break them, it’s more than likely that others will die when Israel does so, there will be rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel will bombard Gaza and there will be yet another Gaza conflict and perhaps even a third intifada. A lot of people who will at least pretend to be upset if there will be a new surge of violence as a result of the deaths of political prisoners are at the moment doing nothing to avert the looming scenarioo above.

It should be in the interest of Israel, in the interest of Egypt, of United States and European Union that Samer Issawi and the other hunger strikers survive (same goes for otherwise ill political prisoners), yet all of those seem largely once more under the misguided belief that nothing major will happen if Samer Issawi and the others die. It’s just not the lives of the hunger strikers at risk, as much as they matter themselves as human beings in need of help, but the lives of many other people will be endangered if they die.


Samer Issawi, on hunger strike for 268 days.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

#IssawiStrike267 trended worlwide this evening on Twitter for at least half an hour, reaching 2nd place:



The French revolution wasn't a tragic event until it failed, but a liberating one. One can say that the path from 1789 to 1793 was taken because after 1789 the revolutionary France wasn't leftwing enough, as it continued those policies that most raised the ire of the common people during the last years of the monarchy.

Bourgeois and priests complained about the aristocracy's low taxes, but for manual labourers in towns and countryside alike shorter working days, but especially higher wages and control of the price of food were essential demands. Instead they got the former and new governments' liberal free trade combined with attempts to keep down the wages at the same time as the price of food often rose at very high levels.

It's something that new and old elites hadn't learned by 1848 nor have they learned it now. Combine neoliberal, to the normal people regressive, economic measures with diminishing or endangered income for normal people and you get resistance and revolutions.

The elites just don't understand that they can push people too far and that at some point passivity is replaced with explosive anger.

Friday, April 12, 2013

#Protest4SamerIssawi trended this evening worldwide on Twitter on places 5 and 6:

Thursday, April 11, 2013

190 million years old Lufengosaurus embryos from China:


Everytime the Apartheid regime of Israel murders Palestinians, US Congress gets a collective orgasm.
(Comments to a misleading CNN report, part XXXVIII.)

Oppose Apartheid and support peaceful, non-violent resistance to brutal Israeli oppression by supporting hunger striker Samer Issawi's brave, dignified struggle for justice and freedom.
(Comments to a misleading CNN report, part XXXVII.)

Israelis celebrate every year the bombing of King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, which is still the most devastating bomb attack in the area of former British Palestine. 90 people died.

People who did it are great heroes in Israel and according to Benyamin Netanyahu, the British were guilty of the deaths, not those who placed and exploded the bomb.

Armed settlers are legitimate targets, under international law armed civilians operating on a conflict area in co-operation with normal military units are in all things equivalent to standard military troops when it both comes to attacks against them and their treatment if they are captured.

When it comes to children, those attacks are of cf course illegal in international law and in my opinion there should be an international court of law for Palestine to study and try persons from all sides who are guilty of human rights violations and war crimes.

Samer Issawi was born in 1979.

He has lived his entire under Israeli occupation and lost his brother when he was 15, his brother being killed by Israel.

Israel could have chosen peace any time it wanted and all those you listed could still be alive. An Israeli government committee proposed a peace deal with Palestinians in 1967 that would have given Palestinians the newly Israeli occupied areas. But this proposal was turned down in a "state of national euphoria".
(Comments to a misleading CNN report, part XXXVI.)

How "respectful" was Israel yesterday when Palestinians were remembering the massacre of Deir Yassin?

Israel should stop hiding behind the Holocaust. If it wants to wrap itself in Holocaust, it should stop it's own atrocities and to seek out living participants in the Jewish genocide - just last week 50 surviving concentration camp guards were said to have been tracked down by Germany to look whether they could be charged with war crimes or crimes against humanity.

Imagine how much Israel could done for the Holocaust survivors and the surviving relatives of the dead if it would be using USA's yearly 3 billion dollar free check to help them, instead of using those 3 billon dollars to build illegal settlements on Palestinian land?
(Comments to a misleading CNN report, part XXXV.)

DFLP is a legitime leftwing party, which US government doesn't consider to be a terrorist group.

Right to armed resistance against occupation is guaranteed in international law.

Israel murdered his brother Fadi in 1994, has imprisoned several of his relatives. During his current imprisonment Israel destroyed his brother's house, cut water and electricity to his relatives, arrested and imprisoned his brother and arrested and confined to house arrest his sister.

Samer was imprisoned by the Israeli regime in 2012 for visiting a village in East Jerusalem. Israel claims that it has secret charges against him, so secret that they can't be told even to his lawyers but not so serious that Israel wouldn't be ready to free him if he would just bend his knee before them and allow to be deported to Gaza.

Israel's regime could naturally deport to Gaza or exile to Egypt or Lebanon etc at any time, but it wants to break his will.

(Such deportation is illegal in international law.)
(Comments to a misleading CNN report, part XXXIV.)

Palestinians want more than anything freedom.

It's on your list, which is good, but it's the paramount issue. Everything else comes far second.

I think that people like Americans should understand that and start supporting Palestinians' demand for it.

No "roadmaps to peace", no incremental steps to increase trust, just freedom through the pre-1967 borders which Palestinians are ready to accept as a heavy burden to gain freedom at last.

When it comes to Israelis, democracy is not a virtue if people vote to support apartheid, ethnic cleansing and continued overall oppression.

Democracy is a just a tool and people can use it wrong too.

Morally upright, whose conscience is awake also don't buy their own wellbeing through the suffering of others.
(Comment to a misleading CNN  report, part XXXIII.)

All intentional demographic change in occupied areas is illegal under international law and a war crime.

All Israel's Jewish settlements in occupied areas are illegal, although United States' current government - desperate not to anger Israel - prefers to call them "illegitimate".

Everyone participating in illegal settlement building and forced removal of existing population can be charged for war crimes.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXXII.)

This was not done to change Israeli public opinion. The majority of Israeli Jews have withdrawn so deep into their own fantasy world that any kind of criticism of Israel is always beyond the pale for them and a cause for an outrage.

Now, this was to raise the visibility of Samer Issawi's situation around the world and to demand his release from the Israeli government. If he would have been released, later attacks would have not happened - or so the hackers claim. Now they are claiming of more attacks will be coming.

In the end this is a test of wills. It has been that between the hunger strikers and the Israeli regime and now it's a test of will between the Israeli regime and the hackers also.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXXI. Slightly edited.)

Details count. Life is made up of details.

Like heartbeats. Samer's heart is beating at just 21 times per minute at worst.

Every heartbeat is a detail, but also assurance of the continuation of life and all the heartbeats in our lifetime together form our existence as a living organism.

Without details like heartbeats there would be no living organism, no life.

We depent on small details.

After 265 days on hunger strike Samer Issawi is just one little detail, one heartbeart, away from death.

Freedom for Samer Issawi, life for Samer Issawi.
(Comment to a misleading CNN article, part XXX.)

Israel attacks Gaza on an almost daily basis. Bulldozers supported by armed vehicles come in to destroy farmland.

Israel has declared a buffer zone and shoots anyone who ventures to it or close to it. It doesn't allow fisherman to go far from the shore and attacks them if they do.

F-16s are at this very moment flying in circles above Gaza and when they aren't there, then the drones are.

9 Palestinians have been killed and about a hundred wounded in Israeli attacks in Gaza after the armistice in November.

In some calculations, Israel has broken the armistice close to a thousand times.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXIX.)

As it happens, I don't make slurs about Jews controlling money. I tend to avoid racial-ethnic-religious stereotypes as much as I can. Sometimes I go too far in avoiding sensibilities.

The fact is that Israel controls US government's Middle East policy through Israeli Lobby and the tens of millions of Zionist Christian voters. Some very wealthy Jewish Americans have spent fortunes to influence US policy in favour of extremist Israeli policies. You probably remember some names from the last presidential election.

US Congressmen are simply paid to be Israeli lackeys.

It's a corrupt system, but it has nothing to do as such with Judaism althought the people involved make such claims. Other groups compete to have similar influence and some have success also.

Morocco has succesfully, through lobbying heavily US politicians, kept up the occupation of Western Sahara, which should have ended twenty years ago after the armistice was signed. There was supposed to be a referendum under UN supervision with the end result a fait accompli, but Morocco has blocked it for 22 years with US support.

A lot of money has went to US politicians from the Moroccan regime. Thanks to this, US has kept up the occupation of "the last colony in Africa" and Morocco has made promises of transferring much of Western Saharan natural resources to major US companies. Gas, oil.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXVIII.)

You mix lies with reality.

That's your problem.

My problem and the whole world's problem should be is that if Samer Issawi dies now, it could result in a new armed conflict through protests crushed by Israel, leading to more Palestinian deaths, response from Palestinian resistance fighters, the typical brutal and heavy-handed Israeli reaction and there could be a spiral of violence that could take hundreds if not thousands of lives.

Yet Western politicians prefer not to do anything to save Samer Issawi and other political prisoners on hunger strike, because they don't want or dare to apply any pressure - even behind the stage - to Israel's regime.

And Israel's regime doesn't care about lives. Especially not about Palestinian ones.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXVII.)

Abbas continues in power only because USA refuses to accept any other candidate who could win a presidential election. Abbas is ready to give Israel much in a desperate quest for a peace agreement and USA believes that they can force on him the most humiliating of agreements with time.

Even the most dovish supporters of non-violence among at least a bit serious presidential candidates are lightyears away when it comes to what they would accept compared to the broken man Abbas has become under US and Israeli pressure.

What you claim about the Gaza blockade is mostly wrong.

PA itself has become a hostage which US and Israel use to blackmail Abbas and his inner ring. But the hostage has become much more important to the hostage takers than to the Palestinians and also it suffers increasingly from a Stockholm's Syndrome.

Other false claims I have no time to debate about as the night has been long and the survival of Samer Issawi is the most important thing at the moment. More than just his own life depend on the survival of this brave hunger striker.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXVI.)

These kind of death wishes about other human beings opposing their views seem to be a identifying mark of pro-Israelis.

I am pro-life - that's why I support Samer Issawi's struggle. One hashtags for him read #Dying2Live and another one #Hungry4Freedom.

I have reposted those often, because they tell so much about his struggle.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XV.)

Last year Palestinian political prisoners fought succesful hunger strikes. This year Ayman Sharawna completed a series of hunger strikers totalling 263 days together and he achieved a partial victory.

Palestinian political prisoners - 4600 of them - want to live, they want to live as a free people in a free country.

I find it sad how "pro-Israel" people who spent so much time complaining about past sufferings of Jews are so callous when it comes to Palestinians.

These people wail and cry about deaths that took place 70 years ago for example, yet have not an ounce of sympathy towards people like Samer Issawi who are now suffering and who could die at any moment, just because he wants to be a free man living in the town he was born.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXIV.)

During the last five hours writing on this comment thread I have contributed to civilization.

During the last three months I have sent 10 000 tweets to support the Palestinian hunger strikers, contributing to civilization.

I have written letters to politicians, I have sent letters to newspapers and through this I have contributed to civilization.

During the last few days I dropped 800 pre-written posts about Samer Issawi in the comment threads on various media sites in USA and UK, contrubuting to civilization (and annoying a lot of people in the process, who rather would have been ignorant).

I have tried to do some good. The attempt itself is a contribution to civilization.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXIII.)

Don't be a voice of oppression, don't try to do your worst to keep up silence about a courageous man close to death. Stop and look at your conscience.

Samer Issawi needs our help, the Palestinian people need our help.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXII.)

Israel killed last week 17-year old Nasser from Tulkarem along with his 19-year old cousing Balbisi. Nasser was shot in heart, Balbisi in the back as he tried to run away. Nasser left behind poems, his contribution to civilization. He won't be making any more contributions thanks to Israeli bullets.

Samer Issawi's great will, his strength under oppresion, his long defiant hunger strike is itself a great contribution to civilization. To Palestinian it's a question of dignity. Samer doesn't give up his dignity, he doesn't, break, he doesn't give up.

Samer Issawi is a great example to others, who deserves to live.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XXI.)

Do you really believe that if Samer Issawi's hunger strike wouldn't be real Israel wouldn't be telling it to everyone, shouting it from the rooftops figuratively?

Instead of trying to keep up silence about it?

For most of the time Samer Issawi has drank water, used vitamins and Israel's regime got a court agreement for forced feeding of hunger striking political prisoners, although it's unknown how much that has been used.

Samer Issawi has lost 45-50 kgs of his weight, he weights around 42 kg now, he can't walk, several of his organs are close to failing, heartbeat is slow and irregular, he has problems with vision.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XX.)

If you expect at some point in your life to get help from others, then I suggest that you too care about the fate of other human beings.

Samer Issawi is seeking justice and freedom - shouldn't that be important to us all?

He has to use extreme methods to seek it, because he has no other option.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XIX.)

Israel wouldn't like those numbers, so CNN can't tell them.

Just like CNN can't tell the actual reasons for the hacking, like the dying hunger striker Samer Issawi, whose pictures the hackers placed in prominent Israeli websites.

The hackers demanded freedom for Samer Issawi before he dies and he could die at any moment, he is in a ventilation machine, heartbeat jumps between 21-30 per minute and till Israel refuses either to reveal the secret charges against him or release him back to his home in East Jerusalem, demanding that he accepts deportation to Gaza.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XVIII.)

The hacking was not a result of random "Anti-Zionist" sentiments, it had clear goals and one of them was to save this man: Samer Issawi, a dying hunger striker from East Jerusalem whom Israel refuses to release - having imprisoned him on super-secret charges that can't be told even to his lawyer - if he doesn't allow being deported to the Gaza strip. He wants to go home back to his family instead of becoming yet another Palestinian refugee away from home.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XVII.)

Abbas continues in power only because USA refuses to accept any other candidate who could win a presidential election. Abbas is ready to give Israel much in a desperate quest for a peace agreement and USA believes that they can force on him the most humiliating of agreements with time.

Even the most dovish supporters of non-violence among at least a bit serious presidential candidates are lightyears away when it comes to what they would accept compared to the broken man Abbas has become under US and Israeli pressure.

What you claim about the Gaza blockade is mostly wrong.

PA itself has become a hostage which US and Israel use to blackmail Abbas and his inner ring. But the hostage has become much more important to the hostage takers than to the Palestinians and also it suffers increasingly from a Stockholm's Syndrome.

Other false claims I have no time to debate about as the night has been long and the survival of Samer Issawi is the most important thing at the moment. More than just his own life depend on the survival of this brave hunger striker.
(Comment to a misleasing CNN report, part XVI.)

Israel is committing ethnic cleansing and apartheid and USA is a bigger supporter of the closest Islamic states doing anything close to similar, Morocco which occupies most of partially ethnically cleansed Western Sahara and Indonesia, which occupies West Papua as a result of a fraudulent "referendum".

Millions of Palestinians live under daily oppression, but somehow it's supposed to be all good and just because they happen to be oppressed by Jews.

Holocaust is not a licence to commit ethnic cleansing and apartheid, it's a great tragedy that should not be used as a shield to commit new atrocities.

Help Palestinians to gain freedom and help to save the life of the hunger Striker Samer Issawi, who is close to death on his 265th day on hunger strike for freedom & justice!
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XV.)

US Congress votes in ecstacy to support Israel whenever it kills Palestinians in large amounts, US has given Israel 248 000 000 000 dollars in support, has vetoed down 70+ UN Security Councul decisions comdemning Israel that could have led to international sanctions and you expect that there wouldn't have been some Palestinians happy to see the main backer of their enslavement to suffer on it's own turn?

Over 4 million Palestinians live in East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank. To expect all of them to love USA and want only good to it after all USA has done is deeply ignorant - especially when you a significant percentage of America's own population is formed of people hostile to the federal government and secessionists of various political hues.

I bet that for every Palestinian who danced on 9/11 there were ten Americans who were happy.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XIII.)

Taking the freedom of an another person without a very good reason is the fault of those that imprison him.

Palestinians can end up spending most of their lives in Israeli jails under the flimsiest of claims from the part of the occupier.

Samer Issawi doesn't want to get buried alive in the apartheid regime's prison system for Palestinians, he doesn't want to go and be an refugee in Gaza, he wants to go back to his home and family in East Jerusalem.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XII.)

What are you telling are the feverish claims repeated in different forms by ethnic cleansers throughout the globe. They are always the true natives and others are somehow alien to the land from which they must be driven out.

The great poet and mystic Mawlana al-Rumi was, to translate his name, Mawlana the Roman. He was from Balkh, in Afghanistan. He happened to spent most of his life in the sultanate of Rûm - the sultanate of Rome aka the Western Seldzuk Empire in eastern Anatolia.

In same manner, an American Jew with a last name of Berlin doesn't necessarily have to do much with the German capital or an American with a last name Washington doesn't have to be connected to either the US capital or the US state.

Names, as it happens, tend to lie quite often, especially as most people until very recently didn't have any true, set last names.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XI.)

If you would have spent three months - in a minor role, but still - trying to raise awareness of the plight of the Palestinian hunger striking political prisoners like Samer Issawi and Ayman Sharawna, you would be bitter and frustrated too.

CNN told in mid-February that they were looking at reporting about Samer Issawi. That's almost two months ago and the suspicion is that they are just waiting for him to die before they report about him.

BBC has refused to directly report, declaring that Samer's case would have to reach much more publicity before it itself is ready to give it publicity.

There has been at least three protests before BBC headquarters main entrance, people with banners giving out leaflets and it has gone all unreported by BBC and other mainstream media alike.

Three times BBC has mentioned Samer Issawi and other hunger strikers off-handedly in news articles, when Israel has been killing those who have protested for them.

Among the dead belong young Mahmoud al-Titi, who organized protests for the hunger strikers on the West Bank and was killed by Israeli troops shooting him in the head with dum-dum bullets. His death was possibly a targeted assassination.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part X.)

True. And CNN is too scared to report the reasons for the hacking:

It was largely about trying to save the life of dying hunger striker Samer Issawi.

CNN just doesn't want to tell this, because there is an almost total media blockade in the West about Samer Issawi, even when people have protested for him in the middle of Washington DC, dropped banners from Austin to Cleveland and campaigned vigorously in the web.

Last evening a Twitterstorm for him trended for over 40 minutes worldwide; it was the 35th to do since beginning of February. Longest lasting has trended continously worldwide for 70 minutes.

There is an active Facebook Flash Mob targeting government sites, politicians, Nobel laureates etc with pleas for help. Currently once again sending letters to White House and John Kerry, for example. Lot of letters to Netanyahu, Israeli embassies, US embassy in Israel etc.

Samer Issawi's mother has sent letters to Barack Obama and John Kerry, representatives of political prisoners families applied for a meeting with Obama during his visit but were turned down.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part IX.)

Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh was given antibiotics and painkillers as a "treatment" to a cancer that was apparently found years earlier, he was denied seeing his family, including his two young grand-daughters, and he died shackled in his bed.

If I would hate Jews for Israel's crimes, I would become as blind as those who are ready to accept everything Israel does out of love towards it. Both love and hate blind people. I want to continue seeing.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part VIII.)

No, it's not the reason.

CNN is not telling it to you, but you can just use Google it or be cool and use an another search engine. Or you can just read on and I tell the reason for you.

This attack was an attempt to get visibility for the dying hunger striker Samer Issawi, for the treatment of late Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh in Israeli captivity and for the situation of the whole oppressed Palestinian people.

There were not that many days to choose for - although some days are better for stinging through the thick Israeli hide than others.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part VII.)

This is not about race, it's not about religion, it's about injustice. CNN article just doesn't tell the reasons which Anonymous itself has claimed for the attack.

It was about helping the oppressed, trying to save the life of dying hunger striker Samer Issawi.

It was not about race, it was not about religion, it was about Samer and all the Palestinians who suffer as a result of Israeli oppression.


CNN just doesn't want to tell this, because there is an almost total media blockade about Samer Issawi in the West, even when people have protested for him in the middle of Washington DC and dropped banners from Austin to Cleveland.

AFP released tiny news article about Samer and Ayman Sharawna months ago, based on just Israeli sources (who confirmed their already then long hunger strike but pretended to have lost count of how long they had been on hunger strike) and The Guardian surprisingly a letter from him - go and Google it - although it "balanced" this with a hysterical and misleading pro-Israel article written by one of it's own journalist, who made vague claims against Samer in an effort to discredit him.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part VI.)


Israel can get peace, full diplomatic recognition and trade relationships when it withdraws from the occupied areas. Arafat said so, Abbas says so, Arab League says so. Hamas has said that it would be ready to accept a 100 year truce instead, but is now also moving to take this position.

Israel would get 78 percent of British Palestine if only it would allow Palestinians to have just 22 percent.

Arabs are offering Israel everything it's pre-1967 governments demanded, but now it is not enough. Now Israel wants East Jerusalem, all the big illegal settlements, the whole western part of Jordan valley, "the hills of Judea" as Israel calls northern West Bank and so and so on.

Israel doesn't want peace, it wants more land.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part V.)

Israel is misusing the Jewish genocide to it's own propaganda purposes and hides behind it.

Since 1967 Israel has imprisoned 750 000 Palestinians and killed tens of thousands when since 1948 Israel has killed one(1) Nazi participant of the genocide and all the participants of the genocide brought in trial in Israel can be counted with the fingers of one hand.

Based on these numbers, the state of Israel apparently considers participation in the Palestinian independence movement (even on just pre-1967 borders, 22 percent of British Palestine), a far greater crime than the Jewish genocide.

I suggest that if Israel really cares so much about the Jewish genocide it starts to spend less time killing and imprisoning Palestinians and more time trying to get still living Nazi war criminals into courtrooms.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part IV.)

Israel has committed so much evil, murdering 17- and 19-year old cousins Nasser and Balbisi just last week because they protested over the death of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh in captivity. Abu Hamdiyeh was given antibiotics and painkillers as only treatment to cancer, his family was denied a chance to visit him during his last days and he died shackled to his bed from both hands and feet.

That's Israel. It excuses the most vilest of things by hiding behind the religion of it's majority and the past historical suffering of the Jewish people.

Israel has become just same kind of evil like the past oppressors of Jews were.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part III. Slightly edited.)

Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi has been on hunger strike for 265 days against his unjust imprisonment without charges by Israel, which refuses to release him if East Jerusalemite Issawi don't go to exile in the open air prison bantustan of Gaza.

World media is silent, politicians are silent and Israel is allowed to get away with his everything it does. Barack Obama goes around saying how Israel should suffer no consequences whatsoever for what it does to Palestinians and when Issawi dies, when there will be flashback and Israel kills more Palestinians, politicians and media will chant again "Israel is only defending itself."

I'm educating you so that when this happens you will know the real reasons behind the violence and remember Samer Issawi's brave struggle against the oppression done by a brutal Apartheid regime.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part II.)

It's not about "antisemitism", it's about oppression of Palestinians and the fate of hunger striker Samer Issawi.

Israelis kill, torture and exile Palestinians, steal Palestinian land building illegal settlements and when they get criticized, when they get a response, they start shouting "antisemitism" and that it's all about their religion and not what they do.

But this is all about what they do. This about a dying man whose life Israel is ready to take because it wants to break his will.

This is not "antisemitism", this is showing to Israel that there is a price to be paid for it's actions.
(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part I.)

Not just "Arab", from all over the world, including Americas.

CNN keeps up the silence about Samer Issawi, who is one of the reasons for this attack. He is dying after 261 days on hunger strike and Israel - who claims it has secret charges against him that can't be told to his lawyers, but not serious enough not to release him if he just goes into exile in Gaza - is refusing to release him back to his home in East Jerusalem.

Support for Samer Issawi is one of the key reasons for this attack and the hackers would have called off the attack if he would have been released.

The hackers decorated the web page of IDF with Samer's picture.

CNN doesn't tell these things, the reasons behind action and thus readers are left perplexed.
Obama probably won't be attacking al-Nusra front in Syria at this point, because any direct US action against al-Nusra Front inside Syria would be claimed to be pro- Baath regime by domestic and foreign opponents of the Obama administration.

When the current regime has fallen US can sent it's drones and missiles to do collateral damage without having seen giving indirect support to the Apartheid regime, but at this point it can just try to move behind the scenes to stop money and arms flowing from the Gulf despots to al-Nusra.

Syria or parts of it are in danger of becoming a staging ground for Sunni armed groups intent on "reconquest" of Iraq, destabilizing Iraq through re-invigorating the civil war and perhaps making Iraq's current government to intervene in Syria with Iranian help, opening up the possibility of a larger regional war.

Instead of some kind of new opening for US, this instead could force it to choose between Gulf despots and one single war raging at the same time in Iraq and Syria and spreading father out.

Al-Qaida in Iraq wants US to do something that will benefit al-Qaida, this message is the red cape a bullfighter is using against the bull. Al-Nusra Front is clearly acting as a bait here. The main prize isn't Syria for al-Qaida, it's still Iraq, and clearly al-Qaida wouldn't mind US becoming tied again to military operations in Iraq and possibly into a new Afghanistan just over the border in Syria.

Al-Qaida is still playing the long game.

Sunday, April 07, 2013

Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi is in an extremely critical condition after 260 days on hunger strike. He is in a ventilation machine, heartbeat is 21-24 per minute and he is getting injections to keep his heart working.

He is kept imprisoned without charge by Israel, which refuses to release him if he doesn't go to Gaza instead of to his home in Jerusalem. I am not going to become yet another refugee, was Samer's answer.

If he dies, there will be severe consequences, but world politicians don'tseem to care and media is silent, out of fear or deference towards Israel. People have been trying to get hashtags trending on Twitter to get international visibility, but after 34 succesful worldwide trendings for supportive hastags Twitter has started to censor us and our massive Twitterstorm this evening with thousands of tweets for example was not allowed to trend worldwide.

Social media is joining mainstream media being lackeys to Israel and the end result is going to cost many more human lives beyond Samer's, which could all be avoided if only the world would act before it's too late.

The only people who care beyond activists are hackers, who are just
now bringing down Israeli sites. IDF's own homepage was decorated
with Samer's picture, of which I at least am immensely grateful to all of those who were involved. They are heroes working to help a great hero of peaceful, non-violent resistance to brutal oppression.


Saturday, April 06, 2013

The typical "Western" strategy: Move the conversation away from Israel's actions, from the occupation and it's daily reality on the ground and start a grandiose rhetoric about "state of Israel" and it's "right to exist".

Thus not touching what Israel does, but going on and on about what Israel is (& claims to be) and attacking criticism and resistance of it's activities like they would target instead it and it's existence.

Thus the whole issue of the occupation and the treatment of Palestinians is sidelined and everything is just about Israel on a quite another context.

In similar way, the "West" has changed the issue of ending the occupation into an issue about "the safety of Israel", thus the victims are marginalized and the "interests" of the occupier are put in the limelight and deliberately kept there.
We didn't trend last evening worldwide with #PalestineResists (although we should have based on the number of original tweets, Twitter has clearly some pretty strange algorithms), but #PalestineResists trended as number 1 in South Africa (thanks of the news and the picture belong to Shehaam Noordien):
 
Samer Issawi has been on hunger strike for 259 days against his imprisonment without charges by Israel. Samer Issawi's heartbeat is just 21 per minute. He is dying and the world just watches in silence, ready to condemn Palestinian reaction to his death and showing support for the murder of those that will protest his death.

Everyone who have known his plight but has remained silent is guilty of supporting Apartheid Israel's oppression of Palestinians and is accomplice in his death.

Friday, April 05, 2013

Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi has been on hunger strike for 258 days against his unjust imprisonment without charges by Israel, which refuses to release him if East Jerusalemite Issawi don't go to exile in the open air prison bantustan of Gaza.

World media is silent, politicians are silent and Israel is allowed to get away with  everything it does. Barack Obama goes around saying how Israel  should suffer no consequences whatsoever of what it does to Palestinians and when Issawi dies, when there will be flashback and Israel kills  more Palestinians, politicians and media will chant again "Israel is  only defending itself."

I'm educating you so that when this happens you will know the real reasons behind the violence and remember Samer Issawi's brave struggle against the oppression done by a brutal  Apartheid regime.
The propaganda of the colonialists.

There never had been a United States of America before 1776, so the tired ramblings of pro- Greater Israel propagandists are pretty illogical.

Zionists claim that after 2000 years Jews have a right of return to Palestine and a right to their own state there. After just 65 years of exile after ethnic cleansing the Palestinian refugees must have a right of return too and a right to have their own state too then.

Palestinians must have a right to their own state also. Genetically and culturally Palestinians represent the continuation of thousands of years of history in their land.

It's absurd for people in the United States of America to oppose Palestinian independence and a right of return based on religious scripture and Jewish history, because think of how the map and demographics of North America would look if the clock would be turned back 2000 years?

If an American or Canadian of non-Native descent opposes a Palestinian state and Palestinian right of return, then to be honest they should donate what they themselves own to the Native peoples of North America and leave the continent, moving back to their own ancestral homelands.

Thursday, April 04, 2013

A youth named Amer Nasser was killed yesterday evening by Israel in Tulkarem on occupied West Bank, he was just 17. He was shot and left to bleed to death, with ambulance blocked from reaching him.

Wednesday, April 03, 2013


The Sami parliament won't be able to oust anyone out of "their" land if this goes through (as I hope it will). It's just about control of part of state land, which in the past was in communal ownership as much as anyone owned it before it was declared to be state land.

It's basically wilderness and Finnish laws are very different from Anglo-Saxon laws when it comes to land ownership & use and gives very wide public rights of use of land in private ownership beyond the owner's front-yard. In effect, there would be little to no change to ordinary folks.

Although reindeer herders make the most noise (they tend to be vocal bunch ;) ) it's effect on reindeer herding will probably be minimal, but the Finnish reindeer herders see even minor changes as possible dangers to their livelihoods. (Sami reindeer herders do too when it comes to other issues.)

What would be affected would be big companies, traditional Finnish companies with powerful political connections - timber, hydro-electric power etc - that have been given preferential use of state land and the international mining companies that are now rushing to northern Finland to exploit natural resources and our lax, antiquated mining laws.

It's these latter powers that are using "ethnic" issues to oppose the legislation and they have some powerful politicians in their pockets, like the current rightwing president Sauli Niinistö, who during his victorious presidential campaign opposed the legislation and refused to tour in the affected area altogether.
Children in Israel Military Detention: Observations and Recommendations

Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud observed on submillimeter wavelengths the first time:



It is estimated that a star explodes as a supernova 1-2 times per century in our own Milky Way, yet the last time that was observed was in 1604. A supernova was missed in the 1660s - it should have been seen from Earth and we can now observe it's remains and calculate when it exploded - and although dust and gas clouds must have hidden several supernovas from us in the last few centuries, the lack of any observations of them altogether is still a bit baffling.

Samer Issawi has been 256 days on hunger strike.

Daniel Finkelstein, a fanatical pro- Greater Israel editor of The Times of London, declared during the Gaza massacre of 2009 that because the West hadn't saved Anne Frank, the "West" had no right to criticize anything at all that Israel did to the Palestinians, but had to support Israel unconditionally without any criticism. 

This was outrageous. Finkelstein was using a world famous victim of the Nazis as a post-mortem human shield to protect Israel from criticism, evoking Anne Frank's memory was just another way of trying to keep the massacre ongoing. Thus Anne Frank's tragic fate became just another weapon for Israel to be used to kill people.

If the West now lets Samer Issawi to die, then using the Daniel Finkelstein -logic the same can be said about the West and the Palestinians. If you don't save Samer Issawi, dear West, then you can't criticize anything at all that Palestinians do to Israel, but have to support everything that Palestinians do to it, without any criticism whatsoever.

This way Daniel Finkelstein's loathsome "Anne Frank defence" becomes bitterly satirical "Daniel Finkelstein defence".