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		<title>President Obama: Israel, Please Tell Me What To Do About Egypt</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will you tell the Egyptian mothers of the slain? That their sons and daughters were killed for the higher cause of Israel's security and the stability of Arab tyrants? Did you not win the Noble Prize for Peace?

Yet you support the real terrorists in Israel and the Arab Muslim world.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>By <a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/author/mohamed-khodr/">Mohamed Khodr</a>* | <a href="http://sabbah.biz">Sabbah Report</a> | <a href="http://sabbah.biz">www.sabbah.biz</a></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://sabbah.biz/mt/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Barack-Obama-Israel-Flag.jpg" alt="" title="Barack-Obama-Israel-Flag" width="320" height="240" class="alignright size-full wp-image-9841" />	"Goyim (Non-Jews) were born only to serve us (Jews). Without that, they have no place in the world, only to serve the People of Israel,...Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We (Jews) will sit like an effendi (Turkish term for high rank) and eat."<br />
"Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve Jews", Jerusalem Post, 10/18/2010</p>
<p>Over 300 dead Egyptians , thousands injured, and just today, February 9, 2011, 5 more were killed and hundreds injured by state police in Al Kharjah despite Mubarak's and Suleiman's promise not to attack the protestors.</p>
<p>Mr. Obama how many must die before you finally find your moral courage and Christian conscience to stop the slaughter?</p>
<p>What will you tell the Egyptian mothers of the slain? That their sons and daughters were killed for the higher cause of Israel's security and the stability of Arab tyrants?<br />
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Did you not win the Noble Prize for Peace?</p>
<p>Yet you support the real terrorists in Israel and the Arab Muslim world.</p>
<p>Since you've been in office there has been no peace anywhere, but more war, more killing, more drone butchering, more destruction and devastation of Muslim lives and lands, and more debt and deficit spending? Is that how you define winning the war on terrorism?</p>
<p>The world shed tears of joy and hope when you were elected, now we shed tears over the dead and injured victims of your calculating political callousness.</p>
<p>You, Sir, have taught your daughters that the ends justify the means. What speech or lofty rhetoric will you offer on judgment day to defend your propensity to slaughter for another term?</p>
<p>You, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man in the world, the leader of the free world, a Gentile, have been transformed from the "yes we can" candidate" to the "no, I can't without Israel's approval" President. Like every President before you who dared suggest a policy that in any way contradicts the chosen people's demands, the long arm of Israel's power stretches quickly across the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean to deliver a wake up slap to the leader of the "land of the brave". Mr. President early on in your presidency you robustly proclaimed "let me be clear" about freezing Israel's illegal settlements, only to endure what Hilary Clinton called an "insult" from Israel.. You discovered who has the real power in Washington thus you quickly backtracked on that statement having your Jewish liaison, Dan Shapiro, hold a conference call with Jewish American leaders to apologize for your misstep. To appease Israel you sent them more billions of American tax dollars to bandage their hurt emotional feelings and help ameliorate their PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome)..</p>
<p>Thus the spineless insecure Obama was "clear" in his support of Tunisia's revolt against their tyrant, Ben Ali, but had to ask Israel for advice on how best to handle Egypt's popular and bloodied uprising against Israel's favorite tyrant, Hosni Mubarak.</p>
<p>He had Vice President Joe Biden call Shimon Peres, President of Israel, over a weekend, asking him what he thought of events in Egypt and what the right response to the crisis there was.<br />
-Haaretz, "Israel isn't answering calls for peace", February 8, 2011</p>
<p>But according to Wikileaks cables Israel as far back as 2008 already informed the U.S. that their preferred man to succeed Mubarak is their pro-occupation, anti-Hamas, anti-Hezbollah, anti-Syria, and anti-Iran Chief of Military Intelligence Omar Suleiman. They quote Israel as saying they were "most comfortable" with Suleiman becoming Egypt's next leader....As a key figure working for Middle East peace, he once suggested that Israeli troops would be "welcome" to invade Egypt to stop weapons being smuggled to Hamas terrorists in neighboring Gaza.<br />
-- (Wikileaks U.S. Cables released to the Daily Telegraph, February 7, 2011)</p>
<p>The Daily Telegraph also reported that Mr. Suleiman has a direct hotline to Tel Aviv with whom he speaks on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Hence what Israel wants it automatically gets. Because Israel wants Suleiman as leader, both Hilary Clinton and David Cameron, Prime Minister of England, gave their immediate stamp of approval to the murderous torturer to take over the reigns of power in Egypt while keeping Mubarak as President to allay the affairs of the united front of the Israeli Arab tyrant alliance.</p>
<p>The Bush Doctrine established the right of the United States to preemptively commit genocide on any nation deemed hostile to the American-Israeli-Arab Dictatorship "Axis of Evil".</p>
<p>This doctrine opened the gates for invasions, bombs, assassinations, imprisonment, torture, and theft of any property by Israel and the tyrants of the Middle East. Under the indefinable and all encompassing umbrella of "war on terror" millions of Iraqis died to import democracy, and tens of thousands of Lebanese, Palestinians, Arabs and Afghanis died for the spread of freedom in the Middle East, the so called "birth pangs of a new Middle East" according to Condoleezza Rice. This is how America defines reforming the Arab and Muslim world.</p>
<p>All any Arab or Muslim tyrant had to do to meet the criteria of the Zionist inspired and written Bush Doctrine is to claim they're fighting Islamic extremism to receive the blessing of America, its money, and weapons to de facto allow these butchers to eliminate their opposition.</p>
<p>That's exactly what Omar Suleiman kept on harping relentlessly to the United States. He chose the only "boogeyman" in Egypt with the terroristic title of "Muslim Brotherhood" to convince America that there is no need to reform Egypt and that a dictator is best equipped to fight these destroyers of democracy.</p>
<p>In other Wikileaks cables Suleiman's hysteria over the Muslim Brotherhood, depicting them as the "boogeyman", and the threat of Iran in the region was even met by skepticism by U.S. officials raising questions as to his competence to be a transitional leaders.</p>
<p>In a November 29, 2005 cable to Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI, before his visit to Egypt, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Francis Ricciardone, said Egyptian authorities "have a long history of threatening us with the MB (Muslim Brotherhood) bogeyman". (Guardian, "WikiLeaks cables: Egypt's Omar Suleiman demonized Muslim Brotherhood", February 6, 2011)</p>
<p>According to the same Guardian article, "The (Egyptian} government has been unable to prove any serious act of violence orchestrated by the movement's leadership for more than 50 years."</p>
<p>Given the above information it's no wonder that Obama over the past few days has adopted several and contradictory statements on the events in Egypt. His focus in not on the millions of Egyptians sacrificing all for freedom but on Jewish wealth to finance his 2012 reelection campaign. He knows that without Jewish support in funds and media exposure he has no chance of winning.</p>
<p>Yet, the successful revolution in Tunis and the eventual one in Egypt have had one salient effect. Arab tyrants suddenly found money to share with their populations, raising salaries, decreasing costs of basic necessities, even an all out generous donation to the needy.</p>
<p>Case in Point: Saudi Arabia</p>
<p>"On the instructions of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King</p>
<p>Abdullah (Saudi Arabia), the Ministry of Social Affairs has disbursed SR944 million (Saudi Riyals) in social security funds to needy people - mainly widows, orphans and the Disabled....The move will help ensure better lives for the needy and help them reintegrate into mainstream Saudi society, said Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al-Awadh, a spokesman for the Ministry of Social Affairs....The funds have already been deposited into the bank accounts of 719,875 beneficiaries, whose names are there in the ministry's social security list," said Al-Awadh, adding that the ministry has also launched several initiatives to boost welfare services and social security programs."</p>
<p>--Arab News (Saudi paper), February 7, 2011.</p>
<p>Let's put this sudden Saudi generosity in perspective.</p>
<p>944 Million Saudi Riyals is equivalent to $251,714,874</p>
<p>Oil today sells for $86.98 per barrel. Saudi Arabia exports 12 million barrels a day which generates $1,043,760,000 of income a day.</p>
<p>Thus this generosity amounts to 25% of one day's oil income.</p>
<p>Thanks to Tunis and Egypt this is better than the nothing these tyrants ever gave or cared about their people. Credit the decade's long rule of Arab terrorists to the "greatest nation on earth" which, according to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is only there to serve Israel and the Jews.</p>
<p>The free warm sun shall rise tomorrow on the Nile and bear the fruits of freedom for a land and a people long oppressed by a modern Pharaoh.</p>
<p><em>* <a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/author/mohamed-khodr/">Mohamed Khodr</a> is a political activist who frequently writes on the plight of Palestinians living under the brutal occupation of Israel, U.S. Foreign Policy, Islam, and Arab politics.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[[by Carlos Latuff] Did you know that last August, a US Navy sailor, Ariel J. Weinmann, was suspected of spying for Israel and has been held in prison for four months. Last month, the Washington Post reported that the sailor was accused for spying and pleaded guilty, but guess what? They say he is accused [...]
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[by <a href="http://tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com/">Carlos Latuff</a>]</center>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that last August, a <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14422.htm"> US Navy sailor, Ariel J. Weinmann, was suspected of spying for Israel and has been held in prison for four months</a>. Last month, the Washington Post<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401189.html"> reported that the sailor was accused for spying</a> and pleaded guilty, but guess what? They say he is accused of stealing a Navy laptop computer and peddling its classified contents to a â€œ<strong>foreign government</strong>.â€ All of a sudden, <strong>Israel</strong> disappeared from the media report. It is now an â€œunidentified countryâ€ called â€œ<strong>foreign government</strong>.â€</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, has long had strong ties to Israel? In fact the Jerusalem Post says that <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378483246&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">his ties to Israel is nothing new and he never failed to buy Israel bonds to benefit the United Jewish Appeal</a>. The Jerusalem Post wonders if he may face pressure from Arab organizations and other political groups to stop supporting Israel, but they rush to confirm that â€œReid will use his skill as a consensus builder to secure Israelâ€™s future and be a successful majority leader.â€ Note the scale of success!</p>
<p><strong>Did you know that we are ALL SHOCKED?!</strong> Incoming U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/798405.html">told a Senate committee that Israel has nuclear weapons</a>, and that this partially explains Iranâ€™s motivation to acquire nuclear weapons. Also <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/799698.html">Olmert opened the doors of hells when he admitted that they have nukes</a>, during his interview with some German channel. Wow!! Do they really think that the world does not know and we are SHOCKED?</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that â€œ<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/806054.html">Israeli army expelling Palestinians from West Bank as PR all about peace</a>?â€. Itâ€™s a sure bet the main stream media is not about to give NEWSâ€¦ PR is what it likes, and what it spreads. GOOD news is in, truth is out.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/israeli-experts-say-middle-east-was-safer-with-sad/">Israeli experts say Middle East was safer with Saddam?</a> Although few tears were shed in Israel over Saddam Husseinâ€™s death, a small but growing chorus - including government officials, academics and Iraqi Ã©migrÃ©s - is warning that Israel could find itself in more danger with him gone, and that it might even regret having welcomed his toppling.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/809845.html">US - to get Palestinian civil war REALLY going - is providing Abbas troops with $86 million?</a> This in addition to the $42 million it already sent to Abbas.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that US campaign began: â€œ<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/19/fox-obama-madrassa/">Fox says Obama attended Muslim school when he was 6</a>!â€</p>
<blockquote><p>This morning, Fox News featured a segment highlighting a right-wing report that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended an Islamic â€œmadrassaâ€ school as a 6-year-old child. Fox &amp; Friends host Steve Doocy pointed out that madrassas are â€œfinanced by Saudisâ€ and â€œteach this Wahhabism which pretty much hates us,â€ then declared, â€œThe big question is: was that on the curriculum back then?â€ Later, a caller to the show questioned whether Obamaâ€™s schooling means that â€œmaybe he doesnâ€™t consider terrorists the enemy.â€ Fox anchor Brian Kilmeade responded, â€œWell, weâ€™ll see about that.â€ [via: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/19/fox-obama-madrassa/">thinkprogress.org</a>]</p>
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<p>Hey, one donâ€™t have to go to school to â€œlearn to hateâ€ the US Imperialism!!! (BTW, <em>Madrassa</em> is an Arabic word that means â€œschoolâ€.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070106/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_israel_dc">Israel has plans for nuclear attack on Iran?</a> Two Israeli air force squadrons had been training to blow up an enrichment plant in Natanz using low-yield nuclear â€œbunker busters.â€ Two other sites, a heavy water plant at Arak and a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, would be targeted with conventional bombs.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that Israeli Occupation Forces says <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/810325.html">Ramallah arrest raid was a mistake</a>? (Again! But worked in botching up Mumarek meeting.)</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/810116.html">morality of Israeli government is declining like never before</a>? Uzi Benziman says: â€œHistory will judge Sharon with regard to his success as prime minister. Meanwhile, it can be asserted that during his time in office, government corruption reached new heights. He and his two sons were involved in doubtful affairs that were of interest to the police and the State Prosecutorâ€™s Office. Among none of his predecessors was the office of prime minister transformed so crudely into a tool for promoting his familyâ€™s economic interests; and until that time, no prime ministerâ€™s family had been involved in affairs of state in such a deep, exploitative and cynical way. A longing for Sharon, which comes to the fore now, a year after he fell ill, overlooks his contribution to the declining morality of government.â€</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that the <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/810494.html">Israeli soldier who killed 13 year old Palestinian girl: â€œJust following ordersâ€?</a> They were always to shoot to kill - even though this violated the official rules of engagement!!! <strong><a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2005/02/07/killing-a-13-year-old-even-a-three-year-old-needs-to-be-killed/">Iman al-Hams</a></strong>, a 13-year-old girl who <a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/03/23/captain-r-is-compensated-iman-is-still-dead/">was killed by soldiers at the outpost in October 2004</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that â€œ<a href="http://tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com/2007/01/you-can-draw-george-bush-but-not-ehud.html">you can draw George Bush as evil but not Ehud Olmert</a>?â€</p>
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<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that â€œ<a href="http://counterpunch.com/aloni01082007.html">This Road is for Jews Only.</a>â€  No, there is Apartheid in Israel. Itâ€™s just traffic regulations!!!</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that the <a href="http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/01/08/afx3311464.html">Pentagon confirms that a US nuclear submarine collided with a Japanese commercial ship?</a> But not to worry, nothing happened. And we can trust them when they tell us thatâ€¦.. nobody would EVER bullshit us.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that Israel is the only â€œdemocraticâ€ country in the world that rules over another land (if we consider US and UK occupation in Iraq is actually â€œWar for Freedom.â€ Donâ€™t ask me which freedom!)</p>
<blockquote><p>â€œIn another seven months, the occupation will be 40 years old. Israel today is the only â€œdemocraticâ€ country in the world that continues to rule over the land of another people. Standing over David Ben-Gurionâ€™s grave, Ehud Olmert made a commitment from which there is no return. How right Ben-Gurion was when he declared, the moment the Six-Day War was over, that now was the time to give it all back. But we have been wandering in a desert of illusion for 40 years, and they have been marching nowhere in blood and fire for 40 years. Enough is enough. Letâ€™s make Olmert keep his word. <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/796912.html">He needs that Nobel Prize badly, to pay for his new digs,â€ Yoel Marcus said, Haâ€™aretz</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that Israel refuses to discuss the essence of imprisonment of Palestinians as part of the occupation of the Palestinian territories and the struggle against it. The essence of the occupation is attacking civilians, negating their rights to the point of undermining their right to live. <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/797419.html">But the occupation apparatus also appropriates the right to decide that anyone who opposes it is a criminal</a>. Worse, <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/a58bc57c715c8bdd4eedfe3f7bd7fa6f.htm">Israel now denies that Palestinian children are jailed illegally</a>. Who can complain? After all, this is Israel!!</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/811055.html">Israel draws â€œgreen lineâ€ out of the map</a>? When they call the â€œoccupied territoriesâ€ or â€œShtachimâ€ as they are called in Hebrew, Judea and Samaria, they are proponents of the theory that God gave them the land, and therefor itâ€™s their to take from the Palestinians, because it is Jewish land, no matter what the deeds say, or who lived on it for the past few hundred years. The Green Line was the border before the Six Day Warâ€¦ and as all adherents of the Israeli right, this writer says that the US agrees that the borders should never go backâ€¦ But this changing of the map is the beginning of making sure that these borders no longer exist if there ever should be discussions about a two State solution.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that â€˜<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/811480.html">West Bankâ€™ settler population grew by 6% in 2006</a>? According to the Interior Ministry, there were 268,379 Israelis living in the West Bank at the end of 2006, compared with 253,748 in 2005, a 5.8 percent increase.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/812569.html">support plummets for Kadima under Olmert</a>? (Neocons must be delighted!) Their boy Netanyahu will save the day, the settlements, the Iran warâ€¦ itâ€™s only a matter of time.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/813785.html">Israel issued a tender for  another settlement - new Maâ€™aleh Adumim housing</a>? The tender was published during U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâ€™s visit to Israel, while SHE and HIM were talking about their own obligations under the road map.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/813784.html">Olmert, Peretz vying for PR on dealing with settler abuse of Palestinians caught on tape</a>? <a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/01/10/on-tape-palestinians-harassed-by-jewish-settler-in-hebron-cage-part-1/">The videotape showing settler Yifat Alkobi abusing her Palestinian neighbors in Hebron</a> was aired at a perfect time from the perspective of Olmert and Amir Peretz. It gave them the chance to compete with each other in their â€œexpressions of shockâ€ over Alkobiâ€™s behavior and to promise (like so many prime ministers and defense ministers before them, which never happened), to take care of settler violence in Hebron.</p>
<p><strong>Amira Hass</strong> say: â€œ<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/814345.html">The found of Apartheid would be proud</a>.â€</p>
<p><strong>Travel Warning!</strong><br />
If you plan to visit Bethlehem, Jerusalem or any part of the Occupied Palestine, be aware that Israel (which are the only way to reach the oPt) is arbitrarily turning away foreign nationals at Israeli ports of entry. A <em><a href="http://www.righttoenter.ps/">Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territory(oPt)</a></em> has all the latest on the undeclared Israeli policy. It denies entry and/or re-entry to foreign nationals, who want to visit, live, or work in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), causing unjustified hardships, families are being separated, investors are exiting the country, educators are unable to reach their schools and universities, studentsâ€™ education is being disrupted, and elderly are being left without caretakers, to state but some of the ramificat.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that the head of the research division of <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/799048.html">Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, said Sunday that Syrian President Bashar Assad is preparing for a war with Israel?</a> So, get your self ready for new war soon guys.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> â€œWhy Germans believed Hitler?â€ YnetNews.com: â€œ<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3338282,00.html">Where did the Shoah money go?</a>â€</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/798799.html">Israel, with Merkel in its pocket, anxious to have HER do the â€œpeace dealâ€?</a> Imagine a German Chancellor NOT taking Israelâ€™s sideâ€¦ It is her moral duty, as the world would see it. It did not take HER long to show her flag: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/798799.html">Merkel praises Israelâ€™s â€˜hopeful signalsâ€™</a>. She praised the Israeli government for its â€œrecent peace overtures,â€ saying â€œWe want to use these hopeful signals which are being sent by the Israeli government to make progress.â€ â€œWe need results in order to halt the violence in the Palestinian territories,â€ she added. AHA! Now we know why we need resultsâ€¦. not so that the Palestinian boycott can be stopped, the starving of the Palestinians, or the other things Israel and the world is doing to themâ€¦ it is to stop the violenceâ€¦. yes, yes, Mrs. Merkel is going to be a very fair peace arbitrator in the region. </p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <em><a href="http://www.shoutfile.com/v/UUb4DwM4/Al_Qaeda_Doesnt_Exist_America_Created_It">Al Qaeda Doesnâ€™t Exist, America Created It</a></em> [Hat Tip: kimmy]:</p>
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<p><strong>Did you hear</strong> <em>Desmond Tutu</em> statement? â€œ<a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/799578.html">Israel refused fact-finding mission to Gaza</a>.â€ Facts? Who needs them? Diffidently not Israel nor the world!<br />
<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/798703.html">Tutu was denied entry</a> to start his UN mission to investigate <a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/11/08/beit-hanoun-massacre-israel-kills-sleeping-families/">Beit</a> <a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/11/12/beit-hanoun-massacre-or-technical-error/">Hanun</a> <a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/11/10/my-wifes-first-and-last-videoblog-beit-hanoun-massacre/">massacre</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that â€œ<em>Carter speaks the truth, and thatâ€™s good for the Jews</em>,â€ Rabbi Michael Lerner said. â€œHe is the only president to have actually delivered for the Jewish people an agreement - the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt - that has stood the test of time. To get that agreement, Carter had to twist the arms of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. Sometimes that is what real friends do - they push you into a path that is really in your bestâ€¦â€</p>
<p><strong>Do you know</strong> â€œ<a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/45284/">How Israeli Soldiers Kill and Civilians Grow Numb?</a>â€ [Hat tip: <a href="http://www.blacklooks.org/">Sokari</a>]<br />
One Israeli officer says the world doesnâ€™t seem to notice killing in small numbers. And those closest to the violence become too scared to empathize for those who die. </p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6247401.stm">US depleted Uranium used in Kosovo still â€˜killing Italian troopsâ€™ 10 years later?</a> â€œTroops who served during the wars in the 1990s believe they have contracted cancer and other serious illnesses from extended exposure to the munitions.â€</p>
<p><strong>In Iraq:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000526.php#more">press freedom in Iraq has plummeted since the beginning of US occupation?</a></p>
<p><strong>What was that Condi slipped in about the Iraqi OIL?</strong> Came and went so quickly one hardly had a chance to noticeâ€¦. and God forbid any of the MEDIA should have asked a question about anything so insignificantâ€¦ </p>
<p>Rice:</p>
<blockquote><p>â€œâ€¦.As to whether the Iraqi people want to live in peace, I think that twelve and a half million of them went out and voted against a lot of terrorist threats because they wanted a single Iraqâ€¦â€¦ You have to look at the way that their leaders are trying to work togetherâ€¦. One of the things that is interesting about this national oil law, to which they are close, is that thatâ€™s a very good sign of overcoming sectarian differences for a larger political purposeâ€¦. and itâ€™s not as if theyâ€™re not sacrificing for a unified Iraqâ€¦</p>
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<p><strong>What IS this national oil law??? Is the oil what theyâ€™ll be sacrificing?</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/11/2c572f6a-4ab1-4986-9832-eabb726f3652.html">Kurds Push Own Oil Policy</a>:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>While violence engulfs much of Iraq and the Baghdad central government continues negotiations over a petroleum law, the Kurds have moved ahead and are poised to pass their own oil law. In addition, they have already signed a handful of contracts with foreign firms to explore oil fields in the north.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2006/1214tradeunion.htm">Iraqi Trade Union Statement on the Oil Law</a></strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Iraqi public opinion strongly opposes the handing of authority and control over the oil to foreign companies, that aim to make big profits at the expense of the people. They aim to rob Iraqâ€™s national wealth by virtue of unfair, long term oil contracts that undermine the sovereignty of the State and the dignity of the Iraqi people.</p>
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<p>And which oil company is Condi talking to about running after her brilliant tenure as Secretary of State?</p>
<p><strong>Do you know</strong> <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132569.ece">how the West plans to get Iraqâ€™s oil riches</a> (You thought this was about FREEDOM??) Iraqâ€™s massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days. The <strong>US government has been involved in drawing up the law</strong>, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that it was the ever incompetent, always bloodthirsty, <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/NYT_Rice_gave_green_light_for_0107.html">Rice who OKâ€™d Saddam handover?</a></p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06193252.htm">out of 1000 employees at the US embassy in Baghdad, 6 (six) ONLY are fluent in Arabic?</a> â€œAll of our efforts in Iraq, military and civilian, are handicapped by Americansâ€™ lack of knowledge of language and cultural understanding,â€ the bipartisan panel said in its report.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://www.beachimpeach.org/">over 1000 people gathered in Nancy Pelosiâ€™s district, on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, to spell out the message â€œIMPEACH!â€</a> [Hat tip: <a href="http://thehollytree.blogspot.com/">Robin</a>]</p>
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<p>â€œAmerica is a great country,â€ said event organizer Brad Newsham, a local cab driver and author. â€œBut President Bush has betrayed our faith. He mislead us into a disastrous war, and is trampling on our Constitution. He has to go. Now. I hope Nancy Pelosi is listening today.â€<br />
A majority of Americans share Newshamâ€™s sentiments. A 2006 Zogby poll found that 52% of Americans agreed with the statement: â€œIf President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment?â€</p>
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<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that Ex-Rice speechwriter: â€œ<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/ExRice_speechwriter_She_doesnt__have_0119.html">She doesnâ€™t have â€˜vaguest notionâ€™ of Middle East history</a>.â€ Duhâ€¦. like THAT isnâ€™t obviousâ€¦. but who cares? Some diplomats negotiate, others just buy what they want. $7,000 boots, Saddam Husseinâ€™s hiding place, Abbasâ€™s giving away Palestine, the oil in Iraq: They can all be bought. THAT is Riceâ€™s area of expertise.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1984396,00.html">starving Afghans sell girls of eight as brides?</a> While the Islamic world are watching, villagers whose crops have failed after a second devastating drought are giving their young daughters in marriage to raise money for food.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/01/american_passpo.html">American passports were found on bodies of â€œAl Qaedaâ€ fighters in Somalia?</a> Also some British and Australian passports were found.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that t<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6338211,00.html">op Somalia al-Qaida Not Dead after all</a>â€¦. gee, are we surprised! For those who believed the crap that CNN feeds us in the first place, especially prepping the public for a major Bush televized speechâ€¦.. sorry, it was a mistake, heâ€™s not dead after allâ€¦.. but he was dead long enough to get into the major media, and thatâ€™s all that counts.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know</strong> that <a href="http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/01/09/10095642.html">many civilian died as US strike targets â€œAl Qaidaâ€ in Somalia?</a> Same old, same oldâ€¦ those air strikes always seem to end up as an â€œooopsâ€â€¦ with lots of dead women and childrenâ€¦ but who knows? The Pentagon didnâ€™t know if the strike was successfulâ€¦.. you bomb, and you wait and see what you hit.</p>
<p><em>Hat tip to my excellent friend, Editerette for most of the links above!</em></p>
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