a joke for all larabic speaking people:

The israeli defense minister wants Fayruz’s phone number because he wants to know where is jisr el lawziyye :D :D :D

With regard to your question about Jews in Palestine during the First World war, they constituted around 7.5% of the population in 1914.

With regard to your statement “since the jewish people history goes back as far as the arabs in the area, why can’t you guys share the space?” … here’s why.

Around 800,000 Palestinian refugees were scattered to refugee camps in the wake of the 1948 war (with no help or compensation whatsoever) to make room for a greater Israel. Due to further expansion and other factors (including the 1967 war), many more have been created since that time, and the current figure stands at some 3.7 million. Most of them still live in dreadful conditions and those who live in Palestine find it impossible to escape from this enforced poverty due to Israeli restrictions on all aspects of their lives. Despite this atrocity, the Palestinian authorities have repeatedly stated that they would accept peace on the condition that Israel would return to their 1967 borders (even Hamas have said this recently), combined with some kind of settlement to the ongoing refugee catastrophe. These borders encompass some 22% of the original “Palestine Mandate”, or over 70% of the current Israel / Palestine, and gives the Israelis a much better deal in terms of space than the Palestinian people, who live in one of the most tightly packed spaces in the world. However, Israel’s response has been to steal more of the West Bank, attempt to steal more of Gaza (until Ariel Sharon decided to make a tactical retreat to concentrate on stealing more of the West Bank), brutally occupy the small remainder of Palestinian territory, impose constant curfews, demolish houses, farms and olive trees (a vital source of income), steal water supplies, withhold money owed and shoot men, women and children, often for little or no reason. In short, the current Palestinian territories are little more than a huge concentration camp, and inexcusable though it is, it is frankly unsurprising that a tiny minority of Palestinians get so mad with rage that they decide to immolate themselves in some kind of suicide attack.

In it’s actions since 1948, Israel has been in contravention of numerous United Nations resolutions (Israel has ignored more UN resolutions than ANY other country by a long, long way), and as if that weren’t enough, Israel still occupies the She’ba farms of Lebanon and the Golan Heights of Syria. There are currently NO Jewish refugees from Israel, and there is a constant campaign (with huge incentives) to persuade Jews to emigrate to Israel to create what Israelis refer to as “facts on the ground”. In other words to push the remaining Palestinians into the sea. This is what Israelis mean by “sharing”.

BTW, if by “us outside the conflict” you mean the US, it isn’t. On the contrary, it is right in the middle of it. It was President Truman who added fuel to the flames of this catastrophe by pushing for more Jewish immigration during this time, overriding British calls for a more restricted flow. US support for Zionists has been constant since then, and nowadays the US provides Israel with billions in military aid every year, and is currently supplying bunker busting bombs and cluster bombs which are currently being used on civilian targets in Lebanon. It also enables Israel’s constant flouting of UN resolutions through it’s power of veto. In rather straightforward terms, it is America’s “attack dog” in the middle east, however it is so vicious and uncontrolled that it creates constant problems, and solves none.

“You are a me-too web site, Sabbah! I found this google vid a long time ago and posted it on my blog, yet everyone comes Sabbah?s blog.”

If this movie was exclusively yours, it wouldnt have been posted on the internet for everybody to see. unless you made the movie, this would be another story, but i dont think the news agency who made this movie gave anybody an exclusive right to post it on their blog, on their website or anything. so if it is there, then it is there for everybody to see and use. unless there is a BLOG constitution, rules, and regulations to abide by :P

anyway, SERVANT, if everybody COMES to sabbah’s blog, it’s probably because yours …. hmmmm….sucks :P

sorry for being cynical, it has been my today’s mood (yeah i do have mood swings these days). i feel like a donkey that doesnt feel its master’s whip anymore. to those who know arabic “tamsa7 jelde” (ie i have a crocodile’s skin)

i know, im blabbering now, ok im leaving, later :)

And by the way – the most important thing to be learned from this Media Education Foundation program is not the relationship between the owners of U.S. media outlets and and Israel advocacy groups. That fact is significant and well documented by the MED video but it is not the most important thing to be learned.

You have to listen very carefully, because compared to the analysis of the behavior of the media, the real thesis is underspoken.

Even more significant is the consensus among the analysts that Israel’s goal in all of this is to make conditions in the occupied territories so unbearable that eventually the Palestinians and the world will not tolerate it any more.

Israel intends to annex the occupied territories.

Israel has no interest in participating in the peace process and actively sabatoges the efforts of other nations and the Palestinians to make progress on the road map.

So the media analysis is interesting, but that is nothing next to the major indictment of the program.

It is important for peace activists everywhere to understand that the “who started it” rhetoric plays into Israel’s plans to annex as much adjacent territory as possible. “Who started it” is a canard, because you have to go back to the ethnic cleansing that begain in 1948, and the attention span of the media consuming public is only a week long.

“Who is a terrorist” also runs lumber through Israel’s PR buzzsaw.

Don’t fall for it.

You bring out a very interesting point there – one that I would never have thought of myself.

Thanks

Think about it… Israel captures south Lebanon and gets to keep all the water from the Latani River, thereby increasing the water of all of Israel by 50%. Secondly, EVEN IF they return the captured land, after destroying all the roads, bridges and water systems, there will be much much less use of water in Lebanon, and therefore Lebanon may consider selling water rights in order to get cash to rebuild.

I don’t for one second believe this is all about Hezbollah and one or two lowly soldiers. Even the Oil companies need much more water to pump oil.