Continued provocations: An Arab photographer from Ramallah attacked a resident of Hebron's Jewish community this afternoon outside Beit Hadassah. Following a police investigation, it was decided to arrest the Arab attacker.
Main Article: A 15 year old Hebron girl was attacked this morning by an Arab woman, who hit her and threw her glasses to the ground. A Canadian 'anarchist' named Jacob Kornblum also attacked the girl and assisted the Arab attacker to escape. Following issuance of a complaint tonight, the two attackers were arrested by Hebron police for interrogation.
Hebron's leadership demands that the attacking foreigner from Canada, together with other anarchists in Hebron, be immediately deported from Israel. Their provocative activities and incitement against Hebron's Jewish community cause tremendous tension, are dangerous, and could easily lead to bloodshed.
Comment: So, what do you think? Should we jump right into conclusion that the woman was evil and the Canadian was a jerk? Remember that this article is on the Israel newspaper. Shouldn't we want to know what really happened from the viewpoint of the woman and the Canadian as well as the witnesses from both sides also? Should we jump right into conclusion that This is how the Arabs are abusing innocent Israelis? Isn't it a good thing to stop listening to others and think by ourselves for a moment? Do we really know the complete truth? Do we overgeneralize the issue? There is no truth but truth but we will never know the truth unless we face it... I myself have been to both extremes... Go explore the truth by yourself.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
I guess some people don't see the Hypocrisy in here!!!
Clinton Objects to Confederate FlagFeb 19 4:25 PM US/Eastern
By JIM DAVENPORTAssociated Press Writer
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.
"I think about how many South Carolinians have served in our military and who are serving today under our flag and I believe that we should have one flag that we all pay honor to, as I know that most people in South Carolina do every single day," Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview.
"I personally would like to see it removed from the Statehouse grounds," the New York senator said during her first trip to the early voting state since announcing her White House bid.
Other Democratic hopefuls, including Sens. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, have said the flag should come down. The banner, which once flew over the Statehouse dome and now flies nearby, is the subject of an ongoing NAACP boycott.
Clinton is one of several Democrats to draw huge crowds during campaign stops in the state, but she said during the interview that her party will have a tough time winning in GOP-heavy South Carolina
"I think it's going to be hard for any Democrat to carry the state," she said. "The Republican Party is very strong here."
Earlier in the day, Clinton spoke to more than 1,500 people gathered at Allen University, a historically black college in Columbia.
The senator picked up key endorsements last week from two black state senators who helped deliver black voters to former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in 2004. One of those politicians, state Sen. Darrell Jackson, whose media company also picked up a $10,000 consulting contract from Clinton's campaign, introduced her to the Allen University crowd.
During the AP interview, Clinton said her campaign struck no deal with Jackson. "Senator Jackson has worked in Clinton campaigns going back to 1992," she said.
Comment: So she voted against the petition of "American Flag Anti-defamation" law because of her love for US troops in Iraq too? God bless her Patriotism!!!
By JIM DAVENPORTAssociated Press Writer
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.
"I think about how many South Carolinians have served in our military and who are serving today under our flag and I believe that we should have one flag that we all pay honor to, as I know that most people in South Carolina do every single day," Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview.
"I personally would like to see it removed from the Statehouse grounds," the New York senator said during her first trip to the early voting state since announcing her White House bid.
Other Democratic hopefuls, including Sens. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, have said the flag should come down. The banner, which once flew over the Statehouse dome and now flies nearby, is the subject of an ongoing NAACP boycott.
Clinton is one of several Democrats to draw huge crowds during campaign stops in the state, but she said during the interview that her party will have a tough time winning in GOP-heavy South Carolina
"I think it's going to be hard for any Democrat to carry the state," she said. "The Republican Party is very strong here."
Earlier in the day, Clinton spoke to more than 1,500 people gathered at Allen University, a historically black college in Columbia.
The senator picked up key endorsements last week from two black state senators who helped deliver black voters to former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in 2004. One of those politicians, state Sen. Darrell Jackson, whose media company also picked up a $10,000 consulting contract from Clinton's campaign, introduced her to the Allen University crowd.
During the AP interview, Clinton said her campaign struck no deal with Jackson. "Senator Jackson has worked in Clinton campaigns going back to 1992," she said.
Comment: So she voted against the petition of "American Flag Anti-defamation" law because of her love for US troops in Iraq too? God bless her Patriotism!!!
Friday, February 16, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
This is why i support the West to get richer, to do more charity. America did not get oil and gold from Liberia nor created local wars there...
The Debt was used for infrastructures and facilities, not weapons...
US cancels Liberia's $391m debt
Condoleezza Rice promises debt relief to LiberiaThe US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has promised to write off $391m (£200m) in debt Liberia owes to the US.
Speaking at a World Bank conference, she told Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: "We have every intention of helping you succeed."
The World Bank's Paul Wolfowitz opened the conference by saying that Liberia's $3.7bn of debt was unsustainable for a country of three million people.
President Sirleaf warned that Liberia was "not out of the woods yet".
Ms Rice also announced that President Bush had asked Congress to provide more than $200m in additional aid to Liberia over the next year.
A conflict between 1989 and 2003 devastated the West African state and left more than 200,000 dead.
US cancels Liberia's $391m debt
Condoleezza Rice promises debt relief to LiberiaThe US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has promised to write off $391m (£200m) in debt Liberia owes to the US.
Speaking at a World Bank conference, she told Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: "We have every intention of helping you succeed."
The World Bank's Paul Wolfowitz opened the conference by saying that Liberia's $3.7bn of debt was unsustainable for a country of three million people.
President Sirleaf warned that Liberia was "not out of the woods yet".
Ms Rice also announced that President Bush had asked Congress to provide more than $200m in additional aid to Liberia over the next year.
A conflict between 1989 and 2003 devastated the West African state and left more than 200,000 dead.
For some twisted people: Defiance means supporting murderers
"So when I ask [young Muslims], some of them see Osama Bin Laden as a bit of a hero. They see the Palestinian suicide bombers as strong.
"It's not because terrorism is an Islamic thing, or that they want to see it happen. It's about defiance.
"Tupac is not enough anymore - it's about doing this to the powerful - giving the finger to the West and authority."
Quoted from Dawood Gustave
By Dominic Casciani BBC News community affairs
"It's not because terrorism is an Islamic thing, or that they want to see it happen. It's about defiance.
"Tupac is not enough anymore - it's about doing this to the powerful - giving the finger to the West and authority."
Quoted from Dawood Gustave
By Dominic Casciani BBC News community affairs
See How a Good Country Likes Austria Serves Their National Interest Here
Iraqi insurgents using Austrian rifles from IranBy Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
Last Updated: 11:55am GMT 13/02/2007
Audio: Revelation makes US action against Iran more likely, says Thomas Harding
Austrian sniper rifles that were exported to Iran have been discovered in the hands of Iraqi terrorists, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
More than 100 of the.50 calibre weapons, capable of penetrating body armour, have been discovered by American troops during raids.
The Steyr HS50 is a long range, high precision rifle
The guns were part of a shipment of 800 rifles that the Austrian company, Steyr-Mannlicher, exported legally to Iran last year.
The sale was condemned in Washington and London because officials were worried that the weapons would be used by insurgents against British and American troops.
Within 45 days of the first HS50 Steyr Mannlicher rifles arriving in Iran, an American officer in an armoured vehicle was shot dead by an Iraqi insurgent using the weapon.
Over the last six months American forces have found small caches of the £10,000 rifles but in the last 24 hours a raid in Baghdad brought the total to more than 100, US defence sources reported.
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The find is the latest in a series of discoveries that indicate that Teheran is providing support to Iraq's Shia insurgents.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, yesterday denied that Iran had supplied weapons to Iraqi insurgents. But on Sunday US officials in Baghdad displayed a range of weapons they claimed had originated in Iran.
They said 170 American and British soldiers had been killed by such weapons.
The discovery of the sniper rifles will further encourage those in Washington who want to see Iran's uranium-enriching facilities destroyed before a nuclear weapon is produced.
The Foreign Office expressed "serious concerns" over the sale of the rifles last year and Britain protested to the Austrian government.
A Foreign Office spokesman said last night: "Although we did make our worries known the sale unfortunately went ahead and now the potential that these weapons could fall into the wrong hands appears to have happened."
The rifle can pierce all body armour from up to a mile and penetrate armoured Humvee troop carriers.
It is highly accurate and fires a round called an armour piercing incendiary, a bullet that the Iranians manufacture.
The National Iranian Police Organisation bought the rifles allegedly to use them against drug smugglers in an £8 million order placed with Steyr in 2005.
The company was given permission to export them by the Austrian government, which is not a Nato member.
Last Updated: 11:55am GMT 13/02/2007
Audio: Revelation makes US action against Iran more likely, says Thomas Harding
Austrian sniper rifles that were exported to Iran have been discovered in the hands of Iraqi terrorists, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
More than 100 of the.50 calibre weapons, capable of penetrating body armour, have been discovered by American troops during raids.
The Steyr HS50 is a long range, high precision rifle
The guns were part of a shipment of 800 rifles that the Austrian company, Steyr-Mannlicher, exported legally to Iran last year.
The sale was condemned in Washington and London because officials were worried that the weapons would be used by insurgents against British and American troops.
Within 45 days of the first HS50 Steyr Mannlicher rifles arriving in Iran, an American officer in an armoured vehicle was shot dead by an Iraqi insurgent using the weapon.
Over the last six months American forces have found small caches of the £10,000 rifles but in the last 24 hours a raid in Baghdad brought the total to more than 100, US defence sources reported.
advertisement
The find is the latest in a series of discoveries that indicate that Teheran is providing support to Iraq's Shia insurgents.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, yesterday denied that Iran had supplied weapons to Iraqi insurgents. But on Sunday US officials in Baghdad displayed a range of weapons they claimed had originated in Iran.
They said 170 American and British soldiers had been killed by such weapons.
The discovery of the sniper rifles will further encourage those in Washington who want to see Iran's uranium-enriching facilities destroyed before a nuclear weapon is produced.
The Foreign Office expressed "serious concerns" over the sale of the rifles last year and Britain protested to the Austrian government.
A Foreign Office spokesman said last night: "Although we did make our worries known the sale unfortunately went ahead and now the potential that these weapons could fall into the wrong hands appears to have happened."
The rifle can pierce all body armour from up to a mile and penetrate armoured Humvee troop carriers.
It is highly accurate and fires a round called an armour piercing incendiary, a bullet that the Iranians manufacture.
The National Iranian Police Organisation bought the rifles allegedly to use them against drug smugglers in an £8 million order placed with Steyr in 2005.
The company was given permission to export them by the Austrian government, which is not a Nato member.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Klare: A new book, another old cliche
Has it not struck us that the book "Resource War" is the presequel of the latest story in Klare new "Blood for Oil". Indeed, Klare did explain to us about the significance and the strategy that the US was involved in even before 9-11 in regard of "oil resource" in his previous book. However, he expanded and went further into researching the historical tie of the US and Saudi Arabia to build the foundations for his new episode. Klare traced the root back to the end of WWII, when the Franklin Roosevelt's administration was still in power. According to Klare, Roosevelt was the first President to fully acknowledge and understand the power of oil and its influence on the US economy. It may be just a selling tactic when Klare said he had not been aware of how important oil was in America at that time because everybody knew that the US had become a world power by 1945 partly because of its discovery of "the new energy", which rendered steam power obsolete. Klare, nevertheless, pointed out the impact of oil in the war in which America was the sole energy supplier to the Allies and has taken for granted that oil was an inseparable part of the whole economy. Here, the drama unfold, when Roosevelt was informed that the US oil reserves would be exhausted in the near future if used at the current pace, he desperately went in search for an alternative. All research pointed to a country which has the most oil to offer but had never been in diplomatic relation with the US: this country was Saudi Arabia. Then came the pact in which America would protect the royal family in exchange of a privilege to tap on the huge reserves inside Saudi. Klare brought up the fact that Standard Oil became the first multi-national corporation as a direct result of this agreement on oil. Klare argues that the policy involving Saudi Arabia has become the guideline for the US foreign diplomacy since. It has not changed much from administration to administration, only the intensity and the approaching method. Klare gave a reason why America had to eliminate Saddam when they knew of his ambition of controlling the region: the threat of having a "stranglehold" on the independence of the US economy was too great. And for this reason, the US unknowingly created a powerful enemy in Binladen, whose offer for help was denied by the Saudi king. It has become a situation of friend of enemy is enemy. After all, Klare contemplates that the greed of the US has created bloodshed and potential bloodshed one after another. However, it is unfair and overmaneuvering to say that conflicts and blood were caused by resources only. The Middle East had been plagued by internal strifes for a long time before the presence of the US. Saddam attacked Kuwait not because of the US. Binladen did not become enemy of the US but of the whole Western ideology. In ignoring the truth that the citizens in countries having US investments are a lot better off then others, Klare has underscored the relevant benefit of business. Lastly, Klare forgot to mention the involvement of other oil-crazed countries in the picture of global conflict.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
i found an eloquent speaker that is highly praised by most liberals!!!
Enough of the D.C. Dems
By Molly Ivins
March 2006 Issue
Mah fellow progressives, now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party. I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there, and that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I will not be supporting Senator Clinton because: a) she has no clear stand on the war and b) Terri Schiavo and flag-burning are not issues where you reach out to the other side and try to split the difference. You want to talk about lowering abortion rates through cooperation on sex education and contraception, fine, but don’t jack with stuff that is pure rightwing firewater.
I can’t see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can’t even see straight.
Look at their reaction to this Abramoff scandal. They’re talking about “a lobby reform package.” We don’t need a lobby reform package, you dimwits, we need full public financing of campaigns, and every single one of you who spends half your time whoring after special interest contributions knows it. The Abramoff scandal is a once in a lifetime gift—a perfect lesson on what’s wrong with the system being laid out for people to see. Run with it, don’t mess around with little patches, and fix the system.
As usual, the Democrats have forty good issues on their side and want to run on thirty-nine of them. Here are three they should stick to:
1) Iraq is making terrorism worse; it’s a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.
2) Full public financing of campaigns so as to drive the moneylenders from the halls of Washington.
3) Single-payer health insurance.
Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the sheer gutlessness and spinelessness of the Democratic performance. The party is still cringing at the thought of being called, ooh-ooh, “unpatriotic” by a bunch of rightwingers.
Take “unpatriotic” and shove it. How dare they do this to our country? “Unpatriotic”? These people have ruined the American military! Not to mention the economy, the middle class, and our reputation in the world. Everything they touch turns to dirt, including Medicare prescription drugs and hurricane relief.
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.
Who are these idiots talking about Warner of Virginia? Being anodyne is not sufficient qualification for being President. And if there’s nobody in Washington and we can’t find a Democratic governor, let’s run Bill Moyers, or Oprah, or some university president with ethics and charisma.
What happens now is not up to the has-beens in Washington who run this party. It is up to us. So let’s get off our butts and start building a progressive movement that can block the nomination of Hillary Clinton or any other candidate who supposedly has “all the money sewed up.”
I am tired of having the party nomination decided before the first primary vote is cast, tired of having the party beholden to the same old Establishment money.
We can raise our own money on the Internet, and we know it. Howard Dean raised $42 million, largely on the web, with a late start when he was running for President, and that ain’t chicken feed. If we double it, it gives us the lock on the nomination. So let’s go find a good candidate early and organize the shit out of our side.
Molly Ivins writes in this space every month. Her latest book is “Who Let the Dogs In?”
Comments: Enough of what she barks, she is trying to take back America with..."violence?". If she wants the Democrats to completely go liberals and turn their back against all old establishments, she will see who is the winner. I believe many people don't care who are in power, what they want to see is who will make their life better. Talking about making life better, i can debate with any liberal all day...
By Molly Ivins
March 2006 Issue
Mah fellow progressives, now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party. I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there, and that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I will not be supporting Senator Clinton because: a) she has no clear stand on the war and b) Terri Schiavo and flag-burning are not issues where you reach out to the other side and try to split the difference. You want to talk about lowering abortion rates through cooperation on sex education and contraception, fine, but don’t jack with stuff that is pure rightwing firewater.
I can’t see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can’t even see straight.
Look at their reaction to this Abramoff scandal. They’re talking about “a lobby reform package.” We don’t need a lobby reform package, you dimwits, we need full public financing of campaigns, and every single one of you who spends half your time whoring after special interest contributions knows it. The Abramoff scandal is a once in a lifetime gift—a perfect lesson on what’s wrong with the system being laid out for people to see. Run with it, don’t mess around with little patches, and fix the system.
As usual, the Democrats have forty good issues on their side and want to run on thirty-nine of them. Here are three they should stick to:
1) Iraq is making terrorism worse; it’s a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.
2) Full public financing of campaigns so as to drive the moneylenders from the halls of Washington.
3) Single-payer health insurance.
Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the sheer gutlessness and spinelessness of the Democratic performance. The party is still cringing at the thought of being called, ooh-ooh, “unpatriotic” by a bunch of rightwingers.
Take “unpatriotic” and shove it. How dare they do this to our country? “Unpatriotic”? These people have ruined the American military! Not to mention the economy, the middle class, and our reputation in the world. Everything they touch turns to dirt, including Medicare prescription drugs and hurricane relief.
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.
Who are these idiots talking about Warner of Virginia? Being anodyne is not sufficient qualification for being President. And if there’s nobody in Washington and we can’t find a Democratic governor, let’s run Bill Moyers, or Oprah, or some university president with ethics and charisma.
What happens now is not up to the has-beens in Washington who run this party. It is up to us. So let’s get off our butts and start building a progressive movement that can block the nomination of Hillary Clinton or any other candidate who supposedly has “all the money sewed up.”
I am tired of having the party nomination decided before the first primary vote is cast, tired of having the party beholden to the same old Establishment money.
We can raise our own money on the Internet, and we know it. Howard Dean raised $42 million, largely on the web, with a late start when he was running for President, and that ain’t chicken feed. If we double it, it gives us the lock on the nomination. So let’s go find a good candidate early and organize the shit out of our side.
Molly Ivins writes in this space every month. Her latest book is “Who Let the Dogs In?”
Comments: Enough of what she barks, she is trying to take back America with..."violence?". If she wants the Democrats to completely go liberals and turn their back against all old establishments, she will see who is the winner. I believe many people don't care who are in power, what they want to see is who will make their life better. Talking about making life better, i can debate with any liberal all day...
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