Saturday, February 07, 2009
Monday, February 02, 2009
President Obama authorizes aid to Gaza
This is a short memorandum from the office of the president. Read the link and see for yourself.
And, of course, not a word on the front page of CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, or LA Times.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Is Peace Out of Reach
CBS 60 Minutes.
This is worth watching. Views are changing across the world about the Palestinian situation, and about the whole Israeli stance.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Obama's Inaugural Speech
This is a different era. This speech is sobering, realistic and is of leadership caliber of the highest degree. It is interesting in that it inspires hope, faces challenges and reaches out to get the best from people. We all hope and pray that the sincerity exhibited is true and, more importantly, inspires many across the world to actually change paths to the betterment of humanity. We need to seize the moment individually and collectively and move forward seeking Allah's guidance for all of the human family.
For many, the most important thing is that he is African-American. I think this is a very myopic view. Past the irrelevance of his skin color, is the vision, leadership and caliber of this man. Say what you might, and so far we have not seen much to criticize, this is a person with a vision, determination and a sense of collective can-do.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Watch the inauguration here
Watch live streaming video of Obama's inauguration on http://CNN.com/live
Coverage begins at 8am EST, with the swearing-in ceremony at 12pm EST, followed immediately by Obama's inauguration address.
Friday, January 16, 2009
UN accuses Israel over phosphorus
In 8 years: 20 Israelis die from Gaza rockets, 4000 from car accidents
On the number of Israeli deaths, Gordon said: "between ten and twenty people, Israelis, have died from rockets in the eight years that rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel. During the same amount of time, 4,000 Israelis have died from car accidents."
But Israel still used that as an excuse to bomb Gaza.
"From these twenty people, we’re allowed to enter into the Gaza Strip and bomb them from the air into their cage and kill 275 children," said Gordon, who is also the author of the book Israel’s Occupation.
On the media war, Gordon noted: "Israel is dealing with a propaganda war. Israel is the one that disseminated a video of Hamas shooting rockets from a school, a video that’s almost two years old, claiming that the video was taken a day or two earlier. So Israel is in a propaganda war."
Gordon noted that "although Hamas did launch an incredible amount of rockets at the end of the ceasefire," it was Israel which broke the ceasefire on November 4th "when it attacked in the Gaza Strip."
and that Israel promotes state sponsored terrorism
"Yes, the Hamas is fighting out from a civilian population, but Israel has the choice whether it’s going to bomb the civilian population or not, and it is intentionally deciding to bomb the civilian population. So in terms of intentionality in bombing areas where there are civilians, Israel is acting like a state terrorist. So, if your definition of terrorism doesn’t take into account the identity of the actor—and state actors can also be terrorists—then when you bomb a school and when you bomb a university and when you bomb a neighborhood and you’re killing much more civilians than militants, then you’re doing something that is an act of terror," he explained.
Very interesting read. Don't miss it.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
This is really insane...no respect for anyone or anything
Israel launched the offensive Dec. 27 to end Hamas rocket attacks on Israel. Gaza medics say about 1,100 Palestinians, half of them civilians, have died; 13 Israelis have also been killed.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, visiting Israel, said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told him the attack on the U.N. compound was a "grave" error and apologized for it.
"I conveyed my strong protest and outrage to the defense minister and foreign minister and demanded a full explanation," said Ban, who arrived Thursday from Egypt.
Israel's chief military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu, said the military had not clarified the incident and that an investigation was under way.
"If it becomes clear that we returned shots at the source of fire, we will say so, and if it turns out we operated by mistake, we will not hesitate to confess," Benayahu told Israeli television.
Ging described the Israeli claim as "total nonsense" and "typical misinformation."
He said his staff in Tel Aviv was told by the Israeli liaison office "that there were no militants in the compound. There were militants operating ... in the area, but no militants or any firing from our compound. That's the official position of the Israeli authorities that deal with us. It happens, to my knowledge here, to be representative of the facts."
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