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POPSWhen Journalist LIE, Innocence Dies! Rarely since the WW2 has a people been so vilified as the Palestinians. Rarely has a people been so frequently excused and placated as the Israelis. Israeli embassies are now buttonholing editors around the world, saying that it's not fair to call Israel's PM "hard-line". And the reporters are falling into line. ... R Fisk I think he should know.
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POPSBush talks of Cuban Life after Castro Bush's speech rings hollow. Perhaps he thinks it's time for with war with Cuba. The Way History has proven Castro's 'Staying power'- He seems to be the last of a generation of leaders, that had control of international politics that ended in about 1980, perhaps with the exception of Yasser Arafat. Could be the tropical weather, and the threat of a cigar embargo. Castro is likely to outlive Bush.
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POPSNakba(h) day in pictures It was a day of grief for Palestinians, who refer to the founding of Israel as the Catastrophe, or al-Nakba. Thousands took to the streets to commemorate those exiled or killed in the conflict that followed the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. More than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled, their property was expropriated and they have not been allowed to return. Nearly 5 million Palestinians and their descendants still live in makeshift refugee camps across the neighbouring region.
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POPSPalestinian Hatred of Jews MORE false accusations:--<< " marketing radioactive belts to Arabs (5); engaging in physical and mental torture of Palestinians; and sexually exploiting Arab children. Once a population is convinced of the inferiority, lethal danger, and enmity of G-d towards Jews, it is only a small step to seek out self-defense through the extermination of that evil threat. This is the most dangerous component:= A member of the Palestinian Council of Religious Edicts, spelled it out on PA TV: "Jews are Jews. Whether Labor or Likud , Jews are Jews… must slaughter them and kill them, as per the word of Allah… Do not have mercy in your hearts for Jews anywhere, in any country. Fight them wherever you are. Anywhere you meet them - kill them. Kill the Jews… Do not have mercy on the Jews. Kill them everywhere."(6)
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POPSEid al-Adha - pilgrims all the way up In India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan it is also called Eid ul-Azha, goat is the animal most likely to be sacrificed in those countries. In Bangladesh it is called either ঈদ-উল-আজহা Id-ul-Azha or কোরবানী ঈদ Korbani Id. In South Africa it is also called Bakri Eid (or simply Bakrid in India). The Indonesian term is Idul Adha. In Turkey it is often referred to as the Kurban Bayramı or “Sacrifice Feast”. Similarly, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Bulgaria it is referred as Kurban Bajram. In Kazakhstan, it is referred to as Kurban Ait. In Kurdish it is called Cejna Qurbanê . This Eid is for 4 days. Also known as the bigger Eid because it is a day longer than Eid-ul-Fitar
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POPS 'Year Of The Liar' An Inconvenient Truth
No one should have the audacity to bore Gore with scientific fact. While the distinction of the Nobel Peace Prize is becoming ever more dubious, the glowing Gore seems to have become a major inconvenience for Mrs. Bill Clinton. “And so, after the obligatory spasms of celebration and the equally obligatory gnashing of Rush Limbaugh’s teeth, will Americans finally get to enjoy one of the great spectacles in political history, as Gore’s ultimate honor levitates him beyond his leading rival, Hillary Clinton, and into the Oval Office, asks Time (In Partnership with CNN) scribe Eric Pooley. Americans who rue Hillary’s rise in presidential election polls will sleep sounder nights when hearing that Pooley said, “If Al Gore gets into the presidential race, I’ll eat my copy of An Inconvenient Truth. (The paperback, not the DVD).” If the book-eating Pooley is wrong and Al Gore dives into the presidential race as Savior of the Planet, there’ll be no peace on earth by this Christmas.
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POPSHolocaust Retribution to finance Zionism. "Zionists used the Holocaust in order to attain reparations, the Holocaust doesn’t interest them. They use the topic of the Holocaust cynically by exploiting it as a tool with which to establish a country and receive money, but nothing more than that.”
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POPSStarving GAZA Rats bit Hand that doesn't Feed them!
"Three Palestinian resistance groups have claimed responsibility for the Dimona bombing, including the Al-Aqsa Martyrs brigades, an off-shot of Fatah, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, the Abu Ali Mustafa brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and a new group called the national resistance brigades. In a joint statement, faxed to the press, the three groups named the suicide bombers as Mosa Arafat from Khan Younis, and Loay al-Aghwani from Gaza city. Al-Aqsa Martyrs brigades, Fatah's armed wing, held a press conference in Gaza, stating that today's attack is a part of Palestinian resistance operations which will continue "as long as the Israeli occupation continues attacks on the Palestinian people." Abu Alwalid, spokesperson of the Al-Aqsa brigades, speaking to reporters on Monday said, " we confirm that this operation has been already planned since December of last year, and it was about to be carried out on December 20th, yet it has bee
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POPS It's A Party! -- Kinda' [& NO Applause for Ahmadinejad] While the United States and Israel left their ambassadorial seats empty, here is the Jew-hatred greeted by enthusiasm at today’s U.N. In its entire history, the United Nations General Assembly has never adopted a resolution dedicated to denouncing and combating the scourge of antisemitism in all its forms. Now we know why. Less than half of U.N. members are fully free democracies and among them there is no consensus that discrimination and demonization of Jews and the Jewish state is wrong. On the contrary, at the U.N. vicious antisemitism is met by a round of applause. — Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and at Touro College. She is also editor of www.EyeontheUN.org..
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POPSPeace Prize Winner - Wants To Kill But she only wants to kill him non-violently? Lethal injection? It just goes to show how political and unhinged the Nobel Peace Prize has become. If they could give one to a thief, thug, and murderer like Arafat - it really doesn't mean anything about peace.
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POPSIsrael foils plot to kill Palestinian president "Matti Steinberg, a former adviser to the head of Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, said he would be surprised if any decision to kill Abbas had been taken by Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, or Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based Hamas leader. “However, such an action by the military wing of Hamas is very plausible,” he added." I am somewhat skeptical that Hamas would try to kill Abbas; I am not sure what it would achieve other than Hamas looking even worse than it does now. It is plausible that Israel and Abbas are using thin (or no) evidence of a Hamas assassination attempt to discredit them. I am NOT saying that Hamas is too good to kill Abbas; I am saying Hamas is *perhaps* too *smart* to kill Abbas.
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POPSUri Avnery on William Polk's book "Violent Politics"
An army officer is a technician, trained to fulfill a particular job. That job is irrelevant to the struggle against a liberation movement A general does not understand the essence of a national insurgency, and therefore does not come to grips with its rules. For example, a general measures his success by the number of enemies killed. But the fighting underground organization becomes stronger the more dead fighters it can present to the public, which identifies with the martyrs. A general learns to prepare for battle and win it, but his opponents, the guerrilla fighters, avoid battle altogether. When the occupiers impose collective punishment on the population, they just reinforce their hatred and their mutual assistance. When they succeed in capturing or killing the leaders of the liberation struggle, other leaders take their place SO WHAT can we do ? reach a political settlement that both sides can live with and profit from. And get out.
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POPSWhen Hamas Learns How to Adapt Argues that Hamas is more interested in pursuing patronage politics than in resisting the Israeli occupation & settlements. Via Amal A at Improvisations
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