Monday, June 30, 2014

Commenting http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100278157/a-jug-of-wine-a-loaf-of-bread-and-thou-is-this-the-islamic-caliphate-isis-imagine/:

When the 20th century began, there were four political leaders calling themselves Caliph. Ottoman Caliph, surviving until 1924; the Zaidi Caliph, surviving until 1962; the Sokoto Caliph, surviving until today but mostly using the title of sultan after the fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1903, and the Caliph of the break-away Mahmudiya sect, surviving until today.
That was no historical aberration - a thousand years ago there was a Caliph in Baghdad, Cairo and Cordoba.
Caliph is "just" a title and the actual powers and ideology of a Caliph can be widely different. As a result modern Caliphate could be anything from ISIS' jihadist dream to British Commonwealth -alike or an Islamic EU or UN.
When Omar Khayyam lived, the Caliph in Baghdad was just a ceremonial ruler with little power, secular or religious. The real power in the Middle East was in the hands of the Seljuk sultan. The Caliphs, just like the Japanese emperors, were more often than not just figureheads.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Friday, June 27, 2014


And after Israel had murdered these two young men, a rocket was launched in response - which Israel's regime will whine about, like it would have no connection with the double murder - and apparently Israel's IDF is bragging in social media that Gaza will have a "tough night". 45 % of Gaza's 1.8 million inhabitants are children - think of that, because IDF won't.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014


The problem is that Western mainstream media almost totally refuses to use this material that is produced daily on the occupied areas. Instead they ignore it and just listen and repeat what Israel's IDF claims, because it's so much easier for their careers if they act as conduits of Israeli propaganda instead of as real journalists.

Monday, June 23, 2014


The world is and should be indifferent to "Israel's plight" as long as it follows in it's current path of occupation and oppression.

The individual young missing settlers need to be given as much sympathy as any human being in these circumstances deserves, but so that Israel's regime can't treat that sympathy as a support for it's collective punishment and killing of Palestinians.

Israel has chosen to occupy E. Jerusalem, Gaza and West Bank for 47 years and flood E. Jerusalem and West Bank with 560 000 illegal settlers. To expect that no harm would come to occupiers on occupied territory is absurd and arrogant even from Israel.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014


There is no evidence whatsoever that the missing illegal settlers would have been kidnapped.

Foremost, they went missing in an area during direct Israeli occupation forces rule, where Israel's occupation forces had been having a military rehearsal on the same day just a few kilometers from where they have been claimed to be sighted last.

Israel has forbidden PA sec forces to take part in the search for the missing illegal settlers in the "Area C", which consists the area where they disappeared and half of the occupied West Bank. 

The disappearance of the illegal settlers is purely Israeli regime's fault and responsibility based on those facts and the fact that only a criminal regime puts huge numbers of it's own civilians in an occupied territory and only an immensely arrogant one demands and expects that they must be perfectly safe as it itself oppresses the local people.

Previous condemnation by UN Gen Sec was one of those automatic condemnations that are part of diplomacy. 

Monday, June 09, 2014

Commenting http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.fi/2014/06/new-dicoveries-at-ancient-settlement-in.html#.U5WwA8ljM6E:

This is the evil side of archaeology. The land belongs to individual Palestinians. No consent from them have been sought or given. The excavation has largely been made by illegal Israeli settlers, who have used it to destroy Palestinian property on the site and nearby, including burning olive trees belonging to local farmers.

The claims made based on the excavation are politically based and can't be taken by face value, as the illegal Israeli settlers announced before the excavation began what they sought. The leading Israeli archaeologist involved had to be at one point constrained by Israel's own occupation troops from destroying more property, including one ancient olive tree.