Saturday, August 31, 2013

Another victim of Israeli occupation has died: Young Shahid Karim Abu Sbeih died of the critical injuries Israel's brutal IDF caused him earlier this month.



Apartheid Israel has forced 1 700 000 people to live in an area of 365 square kilometers. It's an open air prison camp, blockaded and sieged by colonialist Israel which drove the Gaza inhabitants' parents and/or grandparents from their homes in 1948 and doesn't allow them to return, even when it takes up to 100 000 Jewish immigrants each year.
Baath regime is dominated by Alawis, who are a small minority inside the Shiias.

The Sunni&Shia conflict is almost something of a myth; one of those Huntingdonian conflicts that don't tend to survive close scrutiny well. It does exist, but in every day life it has almost always been just a theological divide.

When Sunni and Shia states have fought, it has usually been about geopolitics (like when Sunni Ottoman Empire fought for over a century in major wars against the Shia Safavid Empire over Mesopotamia) and the same tends to be true now.

Gulf despotates and Saudi Arabia's al-Saud family business can veil their goals in religion - and same goes for their opponents - but behind the Sunni assault that has taken over Arab Spring in Syria are really geopolitics, not religion.

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf despots are trying to weaken Iran's increased power in the Middle East and destroy it's allies.

If they succeed in Syria, they will target Hezbollah in Lebanon and then try to re-install Sunni minority in power in Iraq.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

People who hate Jews and people who hate Palestinians but claim to love Jews sound almost exactly alike.
Change the name of the people from Palestinians to Jews and you wouldn't know that anything was changed at all; it's the same kind of racism.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

War against will take attention away from & spying. Far from the first time that war is put in such a use.
Death is coming to many people in Syria who would have deserved to life and the "West" will pretend that they will be fighting just a demonized cartoon villain Assad, just like in Libya they were just fighting Muammar Ghaddafi and in Iraq Saddam Hussein. 

All the ordinary people who will die will be forgotten by the "West". Certainly a hundred people or more die each day in Syria's brutal civil war, but there should have been an another way to end the civil war than "Western" attack.
I had high hopes when Obama was elected, but now I don't believe that they are capable of pushing Netanyahu far enough to get a peace agreement that could realistically work.
That said, any agreement on a peace treaty would probably mean the fall of Israel's divided government and according to polls, even a peace treaty hugely favourable for Israel would have low chance to be accepted in a referendum that Netanyahu has said will decide its fate.
Abbas has promised a referendum too, so he can't utterly surrender and give Netanyahu everything that he wants. Abbas needs at least part of East Jerusalem and most of West Bank with land swaps and something for the refugees to get a peace agreement accepted in a referendum, and chances of that kind of peace treaty being accepted in a referendum in Israel is extremely low according to polls there.
Counting the numbers of killed by each side is a very good way of deciding who is to more to blame.

I can guarantee you that in almost any conflict the side that gives significantly more people than the other is to blame for the continuation of the conflict.

The more powerful has the keys with which to unlock the peace in their hands, yet they refuse to use them and instead kill more people to continue the conflict.
Israel is an Apartheid State, created through ethnic cleansing and still committing ethnic cleansing.

It has partly exiled and partly enslaved an entire nation while itself misusing the sympathy the "West" feels towards Jews as a result of the genocide committed by the Nazis.

Israel's regime hides behind the memory of the Holocaust victims while itself it oppresses and kills innocent people.
"They came to kill" said a witness about the murderous Qalandiya "raid" that killed 3 Palestinians. Deliberate provocation by Israel to create violent response and to end peace negotiations through PA withdrawal, after which Israel and US governments would yet again blame Palestinians for the failure of the negotiations.
The announcements of new illegal settlement units - soon to hit 5000 after Kerry announced the continuation of negotiations - and destruction of Palestinian homes fit to the same strategy of intimidation and sabotage of negotiations that Israel has done many times before. Israel wants violent Palestinian reaction and PA to get the blame for the end of negotiations.
USA government will not challenge this; question is, did it really believe that Israel would not play its usual violent "tricks" against peace or was this a trap from the beginning?

Sunday, August 25, 2013


If the "West" attacks the Syrian regime because of the mass deaths in Eastern Ghouta, shouldn't it logically also attack Egypt because of the massacres there?

Then there's Israel - shouldn't it have been attacked when it attacked Gaza in 2008-09 or Lebanon in 2006, killing about as many people as the highest estimates for the number of deaths from Eastern Ghouta are said to be - and the hundreds of thousands of people that the "West" killed itself in Iraq during the last decade...

Somehow the "Western" media forgets that at best in Syria we have a case of a "good serial killer" going after a bad one - except that the "good serial killer" has a bigger death toll. So, let's be honest: It's not about the deaths of civilians, it's about who is claimed to have killed them.

I'm not arguing in support of the Syrian regime, I'm arguing in support of some amount of honesty and objective treatment of different regimes.

I'm also afraid that the fall of the Syrian regime would not be the end for the civil war, that we would see the "West" supporting FSA's "good rebels" against al-Nusra's "bad rebels", with Lebanon and Iraq being brought fully into the war.

Of course, honestly I can't say that there should be no reaction whatsoever to suspected mass murder - of course there should be an international reaction, as there always should in cases like this. I'm just grasping after a world where the reaction would be same for each regime, no matter what country they are ruling, what ideology they represent and with which other countries they are allied with.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Syria needs a negotiated peace. I know it seems to be far, far away at the moment but cruise missiles are not answer any more than chemical weapons. If the "West" attacks and the rebels achieve victory through more massive loss of life, we would probably looking at next step of civil war, between "Western" backed more secular rebels and the al-Nusra Front etc. More cruise missiles and at the same time possibly more ethnic cleansing.

Syrian minorities that have supported or are thought to support the government could be the next Palestinians in the Middle East, stranded on refugee camps. Syria needs a peace that allows all of its people to come home.

Outright rebel victory in Syria would also lead to more bloodshed in Iraq, as the Guilf despotates clearly see Syria as abase from which to reconquer Iraq to the Sunnis and al-Qaeda seems to agree.

I have no illusions about the Syrian government, but I have also no illusions about armed rebel groups or the foreign states backing them.

Monday, August 19, 2013

On Sunday 18 August 2013, the Moroccan authority arrested three Saharawi activists who are members of the Saharawi Association ( CODAPSO- type the full name of the organization. )The activists are Hammad Hammad, Sidi Mohamed and Alal Asofi. The arrest took place at the Karont checkpoint, 40 kilometers away from the city of Dakhla. The Moroccan force police did not give them any reasons for their arrest and detained them for three hours. It investigated them and searched their cars and personal belongings. Eventually, the activists were released and continued their trip to the Dkhala city. 
In the meantime, the Moroccan security forces have besieged and surrounded the ASLAM neighborhood. 

Saharawi Center For Media and Communication
Western Sahara
DAKHALA City / On Sunday 18 August 2013

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Thursday, August 08, 2013

BBC has become extremely cowardly in many issues in recent years, not just on those touching Palestine. During Samer Issawi's hunger strike BBC's lack of neutrality became very pronounced (he was mentioned off-handedly in two articles during it and his hungerstrike got it's own article only after it ended), and now of course one can look at how BBC tries to tell at little as possible about Edward Snowden's revelations. Fear before power has become collusion.

Friday, August 02, 2013

Answer to hysterical, absurd claims at: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13639

European Union has made a small move towards justice, upholding international law. It could do much more, from heavy economic and political sanctions to just freezing the extremely favourable trade deals that it has granted to Israel. More of this hysterical whining and it will do that. I personally suggest you stuff this "blood libel" stuff where the Sun doesn't shine, because it's an affront towards victims of actual historical racism to try to connect their suffering to the illegal settlers.

Thursday, August 01, 2013