Piled in a plastic bag!

This is what remained from the 8 years old Palestinian girl, Aya Al-Najjar, after being hit by an “Israeli” missile which “mistaken” its target during an air strike on a house in southern Gaza Strip.

Caution: Some of the photos are too graphic… But if you BLINDLY think that Israel is defending itself by such crimes, then you shouldn’t have a problem looking at the photos; I wouldn’t expect you to have a heart that will feel these graphic photos!

An “Israeli” woman in Gaza

“I chose Yibna for my twinning group because I felt my life was built on its ruins“.

NYT: U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Palestinians in Gaza

The article here.

Excerpt:

“But when a query about the canceled Fulbrights was made to the prime minister’s[Ehud Olmert] office on Thursday, senior officials expressed surprise. They said they did, in fact, consider study abroad to be a humanitarian necessity and that when cases were appealed to them, they would facilitate them.”

O’h really! so why there is more than a thousand Palestinian students who could not joint their universities outside the besieged Gaza strip for a little less than a year now!.

“They ["Israeli" officials] suggested that American officials never brought the Fulbright cases to their attention. The State Department and American officials in Israel refused to discuss the matter. But the failure to persuade the Israelis may have stemmed from longstanding tensions between the consulate in Jerusalem, which handles Palestinian affairs, and the embassy in Tel Aviv, which manages relations with the Israeli government.”

If this turns out to be true, it means one thing! that the U.S. Department of State doesn’t give a damn about the Palestinian Fulbright scholars! Although I suspect that since always the U.S. Fulbright committee tried to help the Palestinians out, they usually visit Gaza to interview the students in person despite the unstable and dangerous conditions inside Gaza Strip! So, I hope that the this is an “Israeli” lie and not a policy of the State Department to exclude the Palestinian students from participating in the Fulbright program which I am honored to be associated with.

to the U.S. Department of State: Don’t leave those students behind! You will loose them and if this policy continues, you alienate the remainder of the intellectual and moderate Palestinians who always aspire for better life and peace…

Dunkin’ Donuts outsmarted all of you!

I am 100% sure that Dunkin’ Donuts has intentionally chosen the style of Rachael Ray in the Ad that featured a Kuffieh-like scarf wrapped around Ray’s neck. DD knew beforehand that this Ad will provoke islamophobists around the world and specially among the Zionist controlled (so called conservative) media in the United States. In addition, some of the “not-so-ignorant” Arabs and Muslims will further disseminate the Ad around the web via e-mails, facebook and around the blogsphere (like what I am doing!, but at least I am not going to post the Ad)… I think the best strategy for advertisement these days is to use something that either provoke ignorant Muslims or to provoke islamophobists! and then both will help you in every way they can to spread your Ad or ideologies!… We still remember how the Jyllands-Posten newspaper got famous all over the world by posting some drawings of the prophet Mohammed! The only “positive” result is that JP’s name and website reached millions around the world! and many other European newspapers republished the cartoons over and over seeking both fame and revenues…

My message: Arabs and Muslims, WAKE UP! and stop being so naive…

“Israel’s” Strategic Support to USA.

Here is what the strategic ally of USA gave Bush in exchange for the killing machinery and monetary support that “Israel” receives from the US every month!…

in addition to this :

I am from N’ilia and I will return

Today is the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba (catastrophe) when thousands of Palestinians were murdered and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced out of their homes and lands by the “Israeli” militias. The Palestinian homes were given to the Jewish immigrants fleeing the Nazis. “Israel” in 1948 did to the Palestinians what they suffered from in Europe and in few years they transformed from victims of Nazis to become the new Nazis victimizing the Palestinians people and confiscating their lands and fields. On this day, I’ve chosen to write about my village, the village that my grandfather was expelled from in 1948. Carrying two infants and holding his wife’s hand while she is holding the other three kids, they headed to the nearby Gaza strip, fleeing from the killing machine of the notorious Givati “Israeli” militia that already killed hundreds in the nearby villages and was headed south to Al-Majdal and the neighboring villages among them N’ilia.

N’ilia

N’ilia was a small village located 3 km to the south west of the city of Al-Majdal (now known as “Ashkelon”). N’ilia was depopulated and destroyed completely in November 5^th, 1948 by the “Israeli” Givati militias during the military operation “Yoav”. Hundreds of the Palestinian inhabitants ( population ~1,520 in 1948 ) were killed and the rest fled to the nearby Gaza Strip. The area of N’ilia is around 5233 Donum (~1290 Acre) and was mostly planted with citrus trees.

the only bricks left in N’ilia.

Map of Palestine showing villages and town prior 1948 (click to enlarge)

This powerpoint presentation gives a timeline of Al-Nakba. The major “Israeli” operations and massacres are pointed out. It’s very enlightening for outsiders and insiders alike. AL-NAKBA ANATOMY

Taste of Freedom

One Sami is free…

Sami Al-Hajj, on the left a young looking 32 years old man, on the right a 39 years old man… This is what 7 years in Gitmo can do for you! Watch Aljazeera English Youtube report about his release.

when the other Sami will be freed?

Dr. Sami Al-Arian is still imprisoned in a Federal jail in Virginia despite the fact that he was acquitted from all terrorism charges brought against him. When the American justice will come to life again!

Watch this heartbreaking documentary about Dr. Al-Arian.

No peace without Hamas

Mahmoud Al-Zahhar published an article in the Washington post a week ago.

My take: I don’t believe that he meant what he wrote there… He is just being smart (not politically) that he knew, contrary to Mahmoud Abaas, that “Israel” will not agree on this for 1000 years to come, so he is just throwing the ball in the “Israeli” side, this is a well known Hamas strategy…

P.S. did you notice that he used the word “nation” when he referred to Israel! May be it’s a slip of the pen.

CNN: The most TWISTED name in news

Link on front page reads: “Israeli-Palestinian fighting kills 21″

click the link, the article starts like this:

“Israeli airstrikes and ground battles with Palestinian militants on Wednesday left 21 dead, most of them Palestinians, according to Palestinian security sources. A Reuters cameraman and two bystanders were killed in an apparent airstrike near El Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Hamas security sources and Palestinian medical sources.”

The truth: 19 Palestinians (15 civilians+4 Hamas militants) + 2 Israeli soldiers were killed. So the 19 out of 21 in CNN logic is “most of them”… Also, CNN all the time used to say “according to Palestinian medical sources” . Now its according to “Hamas security sources”, to make it look like even more unreliable sources!.

Kinda related UPDATE: CNN will have Tony Snow as a conservative commentator! Cool, more garbage into the cable news… I am calling the cable company to tear down my cable connection…  YouTube ain’t bad at all…

A story from the “bigger shoah”

Couple of weeks back, the “Israeli” deputy “defense” minster Matan Vilna threatened the Palestinians of Gaza with a “bigger shoah”, and shoah in Hebrew is used almost exclusively to refer to the Nazi holocaust against the Jews in Europe. Vilna threatened the Gazans with yet a bigger than the Nazi holocaust and here is another heart-breaking story from the shoah that killed more than 136 people… among them 40+ child…among them 3 babies… among them Amira Abu Asr, a 20 days old baby.

This story is about the families of Abu Salamah and Hijazi in Gaza: After the invasion of Jabaliya refugee camp ended, the Abu Salama family started looking for their 15 years old son, Ahmed, whom was missing since the invasion started. They waited several days for Ahmed to return home, but this never happened. Couple of days later, they were asked to come to Kamal Odwan hospital in northern Gaza strip to check an identified body for a teenage boy. The face was totally burned, the body was disfigured and nothing can be identified. The Abu Salamah family took the remaining of their son, buried it and opened a “consolation tent” to receive condolences from friends and families. Few days later, a neighbor of Abu Salamah family, comes hurrying to their home and shouting that he saw Ahmed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Al-Shifaa hospital in Gaza city while he was visiting an injured family member of his. The mother and father of Ahmed hurried to the hospital and as soon as they arrived the ICU room where Ahmed is being treated, they couldn’t believe their eyes! their son was alive! he was not that poor teenage who was hit in an airstrike. However, the relief did not last long as they came to learn that their son’s face is severely burned and that he lost the ability to speak! But the story doesn’t end here, Ahmed’s name in the hospital papers was “Mansour Hijazi” a name for a teenage who was Ahmed’s look-alike … This news came as a lightening strike on the father and mother of Mansour Hijazi who were waiting all that time outside the ICU room waiting for “their son” to make it and leave the hospital… While their actual son, Mansour, was kept in the morgue of Kamal Odwan hospital for several days and later has been buried by Abu Salamah family!…

When does CNN wake up?

When more than a 116 Palestinians (the vast majority of them were civilians) were killed during last week attacks on Gaza and which among them were more than 40 children (see post below), CNN barely put one line on the side to talk about the story the next day, even they underrepresented the number of civilians killed and claimed the “Israeli” “OPERATION” was aiming to stop rockets!!!… Now, look at CNN after six “Israelis” were killed hours ago in Jerusalem… Within minutes CNN puts a BREAKING NEWS banner about the “TERRORIST ATTACK” (not even a “TERRORIST OPERATION”) …

This is after just minutes of the attack…

UPADATE: UN[FAIR] Security council will hold an emergency meeting tonight re the attack in Jerusalem…

Dan Gillerman, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, told CNN he saw no connection between Thursday’s shooting and Israel’s operations in Gaza. “There is no retaliation,” he said. “These people have been terrorizing Israel for years, have been carrying out suicide bombings and indiscriminate attacks for years.” Source: CNN.COM

No connection!!! Ok! Is that may be because Palestinians are bloody people and just addicted to killing like you son of a terrorist occupier!

The 20 Days Old Princess…

Ameera (Arabic for princess), 20 days old killed by “Israel” while in between her mom’s hands… Apparently the innocent “Israeli” soldiers thought she was the one behind the home-made rocket launched into Sderot…

Photo Credit: AFP

The story told by her injured mom: ” We were going to visit the sick mother of Yousif Missiri, she is suffering from kidney problems and lives in her son’s house, they are friends of our family [Yousef Missiri is wanted for "Israel"]. While we are about to eat dinner, one of the kids came inside and started shouting the “Israeli” tanks are surrounding the neighborhood. Moments later the “Israeli” soldiers started calling on us to exit the home one by one, first three sisters of Missiri exited, then I followed them holding Ameera in my hands and shouting to them, Please don’t kill us, don’t kill my children [she was also accompanied by her 2 other kids]” she continues ” while I was holding Ameera and shouting, the soldiers mounted a strong flashlight on us and started firing shots at me and me daughter, I got heavily injured in my arm while still holding Ameera not knowing she is already dead, I knew she was dead the next morning”. She continues, ” I want to know why they killed her, did she fire rockets on the settlements or was she fighting them!”…

Ameera’s father was also beaten up and taken into custody because he kept asking the soldiers “why did you kill my daughter!”.

Enough with calling upon Arab leaders!

I am in an extremely bad mood… I have to finish writing a research proposal by this weekend, but this is not exactly why I am feeling bad! the situation in Gaza and watching Aljazeera makes me not able to focus!… I am extremely horrified by the pictures coming out of Gaza! Three babies were killed by the continuing “Israeli” airstrikes, this is in addition to more than 65 people killed, most of them are women and children… Let’s say that I don’t feel bad for those who die fighting; because they chose to fight and may be most of them were wishing to die fighting… but those babies, children, women and civilians did not choose to die! They want to live normally in that abnormal place called GAZA… They cannot leave it, the borders are closed since many many months ago, they cannot evacuate it, it’s sieged and surrounded… They even prefer to stay home and choose not to go to school or to work, thinking they can be safe inside!… and yet, the F-16 missiles don’t spare them! Those Bush gifts to “Israel” killed that baby in his crib, killed that woman while cooking in her kitchen! killed that man while trying to get some groceries for his family… And amid all this we hear Khaled Mishaal, the CEO of Hamas, calling upon the Arab leaders to rescue the Palestinians in Gaza!!! What Arab leaders you’re talking about! When will the time come and we understand and realize that the Arab leaders cannot do any good for us, they cannot do any good for their own people! why to bother with the Palestinians!… Your president, Mahmood Useless Abbass cannot do any good for his own people so why you are asking others! I mean tell me what Abbass can do for the Palestinians! Nothing, absolutely nothing except futile negotiations that end up resulting in more settlement built than before! tell me what can you do for the Palestinians? Aren’t you now the leader-in-chief of the devastated Gaza! Give us a break man!… We don’t need any Arab leader to help us! We need to work out our own way out of this, we need first to fix ourselves and unite ourselves! so we don’t have a Hamasstan and Fatehland… Then we can figure our way out of all these massacres and carnages…

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UPDATE: Death toll reached 106 Palestinans (among them 3 babies under 1 y.o.) X 2 “Israeli” soldiers

Last night 13 Palestinians, the vast majority of them were civilians, including the baby in the picture below, were killed by multiple “Israleli” airstrikes on the sieged Gaza Strip. The “Israeli” army claims that this came as a response to one person killed in Sderot by a Qassam home-made rocket! The matter of the truth is that killing and airstrikes never stopped whether there was a rocket or there was a top wanted Hamas member walking down the streets and civilians happened to be walking in the same street!, how ironic that might sound, this is the truth… The pretext for killing and mass killing justification is always there… It’s noteworthy to mention that before “Israel” started the raids, they filed a complaint to the U.N. Security Council about Qassam rockets being fired from Gaza! and before the ink of that complaint dried up, they killed 13 people! including the may be a “terrorist-to-be” pictured below, six months old Muhammed Al-Bura’i.

Photo credit: Aljazeera.net

Photo Credit: www.paldf.net

his crib

Photo Credit: www.paldf.net

Obama on Palestinian/”Israeli” issues…

“OBAMA: Well here’s my starting orientation is A - Israel’s security is sacrosanct, is non negotiable. That’s point number one. Point number two is that the status quo I believe is unsustainable over time. So we’re going to have to make a shift from the current deadlock that we’re in. Number three that Israel has to remain a Jewish state and what I believe that means is that any negotiated peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians is going to have to involve the Palestinians relinquishing the right of return as it has been understood in the past. And that doesn’t mean that there may not be conversations about compensation issues. It also means the Israelis will have to figure out how do we work with a legitimate Palestinian government to create a Palestinian state that is sustainable. It’s going to have to be contiguous, its going to have to work its going to have to function in some way. That’s in Israel’s interest by the way. If you have a balkanized unsustainable state, it will break down and we will be back in the same boat. So those are the starting points of my orientation. My goal then would be to solicit as many practical opinions as possible in terms of how we’re going to move forward on a improvement of relations and a sustainable peace. The question that I will be asking any advisor is how does it achieve the goal of Israel’s security and how does it achieve the goal of sustainability over the long term and I want practical, hardheaded, unromantic advice about how we’re going to achieve that. Something that Robert said that I think is very important. I have consistently said this, and I have said this to Palestinians, I said this when I was in Ramallah, that you cannot fault Israel for being concerned about any peace agreement if the Palestinian state or Palestinian authority or Palestinian leadership does not seem to be able to follow through on its commitments. And I think the approach we have to take with respect to negations is that you sit down and talk, but you have to suspend trust until you can see that the Palestinian side can follow through and that’s a position that I have consistently taken and the one I will take with me to the White House.”  NY Sun, Feb 26th, 2008.  The rest is here

“Israel has to remain a Jewish state” and ” … to involve  the Palestinians relinquishing their right of return [to their lands where they were expelled from in 1948]“
How this sounds from an African-American whom his ancestors suffered segregation  and denial of their civil rights…

and on the same day, I read the following [Arabic]. It talks about a Palestinian journalism student from the isolated Gaza Strip, who is reaching out to the American voters to support Obama. Using free internet calling to the U.S. to contact Americans, he talks to them about voting for Barack Obama in the coming Ohio and Texas primaries! He goes on saying that Obama is the one who can solve the Palestinians’ problems and achieve for them what no one has succeeded in before…

How naive this sounds after your read the NY Sun article and this letter sent by Obama to the U.S. rep. in the U.N. council.

Obama buying Jew’s votes…

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UPDATE: Obama buttons in Hebrew! Sold on his campaign website

If this guy wins, I am out of here…

It might be a bit early, as still the presidential nomination is not there yet for both parties… but as I was listening to John McCain talking on CNN today, I decided that if he’ll win the U.S. presidency, I am moving to Canada within few months…

All what this person knows is bigger army, bigger Marine corps, bigger air force, bigger destruction, bigger war crimes, bigger occupations… yet smaller economy, less human liberty, less scientific research, less peace in the world…

If McCain wins, this means we’re gonna have another Bush for another 4 years at least! that makes it 12 unfortunate years for this world…

 

John McCain-Bush

Trip to the Unkown… Ghazza (Gaza)

I found this piece on the wikitravel.

“Gaza is completely closed off now, pretty much like an outdoor prison. The only way in is through the Eretz crossing in the north, and then you need a permit from the Israeli Army. If you do have a permit, you need coordination with the Israeli Army, specifying when you are planning to go into, and more importantly, go out from Gaza. Don’t miss out on this part, as it dramatically increases your chances of not being shot at by the Israeli Army.

When you passed through the Israelis side, you end up in a long barren concrete tunnel. Coming through the tunnel, you have to cross an even more barren no-mans-land. This can be a bit nervous, depending on the general situation in the area at the moment, and this is the most likely place for you to be shot at. After some hundred meters, you come to “Shamsa shamsa” (five five in Arabic), which marks the spot where Palestinians stop if they do not have coordination with the Israeli Army. Here you will find a bunch of taxi drivers, desperately waiting for …”

 

Interesting, ha? …  note that this applies to foreign visitors only, not to the Palestinians,  since any Palestinian who comes close to the borders (even if he is farming his land) will be shot at with no second thought from the solider up the borders tower… Actually any regular Palestinian who lives in Gaza would feel enormously lucky if he or she be able to leave Gaza under any circumstances and believe it or not he/she surely won’t be worried about all the horror described in the quote, as his/her chance of dying while living inside Gaza is the same as the chance of being shot at the border,  if not the later being less risky.

 

 

No! You Don’t Know…

“I know what it is like to hear to that you cannot go on a road or through a checkpoint because you are Palestinian … I understand the feeling of humiliation and powerlessness.” Condoleezza Rice [here]

 

Madam Secretary! … You don’t know nothing! Absolutely nothing…

Life in Gaza… May-August 2007

Well, a lot of people may wonder how is life in Gaza during the past 6 years! actually I was one of those who wondered about this! yeah, I am a Palestinian from Gaza, my family lives there! but before my last visit in May 207, I haven’t been there for more than 4 years ago… I can tell you, that the Gaza I found, was not the Gaza I used to live in before 1998 and during those short visits during school breaks usually for two-three weeks in the summers of 1999-2003. It’s totally different! well, different to the extreme worst! … I spent three months in Gaza full of disappointment, stress, anger,…. it was only these few days before and after my wedding that I could forget about the life in Gaza… The life there is unbearable or I can invent a word to better describe it as “un-live-able” . People of Gaza and Palestinians in general, suffer all kinds of hardships in their “lives” , if you can call it lives… It’s full of despair, horror, stress, anxiety, humiliation,… you can go forever about this. People there don’t know from which side they can shelter themselves amid all the fierce fightings in their neighborhoods between the two dominant gangs that are called “factions” in modern politics add to that the shelling, bombing, invasions, destruction,… carried out by the “Israeli” army (AKA “Defense Forces”!… the most absurd description someone can dub the “Israeli” army with)… not even this only, add to this whole list, a deprivation of the very simple human needs! For example, in Gaza, you can hear children cheering up out loud because the electricity is back after 8-10 hours of outage, and the outage is not because of overusing the electric power! no, it’s because the “Israeli” want to collectively punish the people of Gaza for firing bird-size “rockets” by militant groups like Hamas or Islamic Jihad, (parties, the vast majority of people secretly abhor and disdain, and have no control whatsoever over their activities) … I want to give you words-pictures of what you’ll see in Gaza if you decided to visit now …

* In Gaza, piles of trash/garbage are piled up at many streets and intersections: why? because municipality workers were not paid for months and months as a result of the financial sanction put forth on the Palestinian government dominated by Hamas (note that Hamas has a lot of money to support its supporters and workers, and they’re the least suffering people in all this), those who suffer are the mainstream people who are not either this or that! and that’s the result of the stupid policy of the U.S. government and EU governments! they think they’re restricting Hamas activities, while Hamas is buying the people affection by food and money! yet increasing their influence in the Palestinian community!…

 

* In Gaza, you can see a lot of cars with no plates or tags, or if there is a plate, it’s illegible and tag printing is faded out. You can also see drivers drive in the opposite direction (to avoid a far U turn) and this become like a normal practice, that’s shamefully sometimes I had to do it…

 

* In Gaza, there is a timetable for power outage since there isn’t enough supplied power to accommodate the 1.5 million who live there… This is a result of a summer 2006 “Israeli” raid on Gaza main power plant in addition to “Israeli” restrictions on the amount of power that should be supplied to the coastal strip. As a matter of fact, the longtime warrior, the current “defense” minister in “Israel” Euhud Barak just issued today an order to decrease the power supply to Gaza to the minimal level needed for emergency usage. This is in addition to the already dwindling supply of petrol that is sold by “Israel” to the Gazan people…

 

* In Gaza, there are cars that run on natural gas with no safety precautions are taken into consideration!… because a galon of gas (Banzeen) is $6 (note that now more than 70% of Gazans are below poverty line, where many families spend less than $2 a day)…

 

* In Gaza, you can see youngsters carrying automatic guns, I saw this first-hand where a 15 years old guy fired two loaded magazines (about 60 rounds), [Note: one AK-47 bullet is sold by arm dealers in Gaza for $2-$3, Hamas ammo is cheaper, because they smuggle it from the underground tunnels between Gaza and Egypt] during a martyr funeral… the guy’s hands were terribly shaking that I backed from the window fearing that he will loose control of his AK47. He was allowed to have an AK47 because he is Hamas militia member; after the Hamas took power over Gaza, it’s only Hamas members that are allowed to fire during funerals. I might add here and say that it’s may be the only thing that I kinda liked from Hamas coup is that they enforced a zero-tolerance rule prohibiting a long time practice at wedding parties,.. etc which is using automatic guns in these celebrations! nonetheless some of Hamas-loyal weddings can secretly fire few rounds with no questions asked!

 

* In Gaza, the police or any “law-enforcement” members barely finished high-school and those comprise of about 90% of Hamas and Fateh militants, specially Hamas newly formed “militant police” (Executive Force or “Tanfeezya”) .

 

* In Gaza, there are a lot a lot of people who want to live peacefully and in tranquility.
* In Gaza, there are a lot of children who want to play outside without fearing the flying F-16s or the shells falling from the skies.
* In Gaza, hope is rapidly dwindling inside many many people, if this persists, it will become irreversible…

 

… To be continued.