The Arab Conscience operetta

You can use everything in the following post where ever you want.

On 27th of February 2008, I watched "Al Dhameer Al Arabi" (The Arab Conscience) operetta premiere on Zoom TV, which is considered part two of "Al Hilm Al Arabi" (The Arab Dream) operetta which was produced in 1998.

It's extends for more than 40 minutes, I according to the director, it's might get into the Guinness book for longest non stop song in the world.

It features more than 100 Arab artist, singers, actors, hosts...Etc, and talks about war using real archival videos of events took place in the whole world between 1998 to 2008.

The song is very touching I translated it to English but some parts made non sense because as I always says translating an Arab poem will make it loses the power of it.

Here is a list of some topics been brought up in the operetta:

9/11 attacks, Danish cartoons, Israeli massacres in Lebanon and Palestine, Desert fox, Sharon entrance to Al-Haram Al-Qudsi and the second Intifadha, Assassination of Muhammad Al-Durrah, War on Iraq, Kenya and Tanzania bombings, Bombing of southern Lebanon, War on terror, Resistance, World Peace, Terrorism, Arabism, Freedom of religion, Freedom of expression, Turning ethinic groups against each others, Civil wars, the Arab Dream Operetta, Separation wall in the Palestinian territores, Golan heights, Abu Ghraib prison, Human rights, Democracy, Al-Haram Al-Qudsi...Others

The operetta begins with two legends Wadee'a Al Safi (وديع الصافي) and Mohammad Al Ezabi (محمد العزبي) performing "Mawwal" (An Arab music genre), the actual operetta begins at 6:13 minutes.

It features Arab singers from many Arab countries such as Latifa (لطيفة), Hani Shaker (هاني شاكر), Nancy Ajram (نانسي عجرم), Khaled (خالد), Sherine (شيرين), Saber Al Rebai (صابر الرباعي), Redha Al Abdullah (رضا العبدالله), Amal Maher (آمال ماهر), Khaled Selim (خالد سليم), Ahlam (أحلام), Diana Karazon (ديانا كرزون), Abdullah Al Rowaished (عبدالله الرويشد), Wa'ad (وعد), Ehab Tawfeeq (إيهاب توفيق), Mostafa Mahfooth (مصطفى محفوظ), Amal Hejazi (أمل حجازي), Wa'el Jassar (وائل جسار), Omniyah (أمنية), Ammar Hassan (عمار حسن), Asalah (أصالة), Jailani (الشاب جيلاني), Nancy Za'abalawi (نانسي زعبلاوي), Majid Al Muhandis (ماجد المهندس), Amnah (آمنه), Lotfi Boshnaq (لطفي بوشناق), Yara (يارا), Omar Al-Abdullat (عمر عبداللات), Nawal (نوال), Noor Mhna (نور مهنا), Fatin Helal Baik (فاتن هلال بك), Mo'amin (مؤمن) and celebrities from many Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait.

You can watch full length music video below, uploaded on google video with English subtitles.

I have no idea where did they get all those lyrics for all those singers, you can find them below with English translations (they are not as good as the original Arabic though; I made them just to give you a general idea about what they are saying)

لطيفة

أنا عايزة العالم كله يمد كفوفه سلام
السلم العربي يكون سلام مش إستسلام

Latifa
I want everybody in the world to reach the palms of peace
Arab peace should be a real peace not surrender

هاني شاكر
أنا عربي و رافض صمتي كاتم إحساس جوايا
و الشعب العربي فصفي ح أقول و يردوا ورايا

Hani Shaker
I am an Arab who refuses silence; I am depressing emotions deep inside of me
The Arab people are taking my side, I'll speak up and all of them will repeat after me

نانسي عجرم
يا صاحبي يا إنسان...هنا أو في أي مكان
ببعت رسالتي ليك...نطوي بها الأحزان

Nancy Ajram
Hey human friends…Here or anywhere else
I am sending my message to you, to fold (forget) our sadness

خالد
نبني مع الملايين بالعدل و الإيمان
يالله أنا و أنت نبني العالم أمان

Khaled
Millions of us will build the world together with fair and faith
Let me and you built (spread) the world with safeness

شيرين
أصل البشر إنسان كل الرسل إخوان
موسى و عيسى و محمد بيرفضوا العدوان

Sherine (Shereen)
All people are humans; All messengers are brothers
Moses, Jesus and Mohammed refuse tyranny

صابر الرباعي
و بيرفضوا ذلنا و بيمجدوا الإنسان
الله هو المحبة دينا هو السلام

Saber Al Reba'ei (Saber Rebai)
They refuses our humiliation, they glorify human beings
God is love; Our religion is peace

رضا العبدالله
قلنا شعاع النور في حلمنا الأول
يوصل سما و بحور يا للأسف طول

Redha Al Abdullah
We thought in our first dream that the ray of light, Will reach skies and seas...
But apparently it's taking forever

آمال ماهر
طول لأن الليل خلى الضمير أبكم
لو باقي فينا يوم لابد أن نحلم

Amal Maher
It's taking forever because the darkness of the night muted our consciences
If we had one day left for us a life...We will keep dreaming in that day too

خالد سليم
مات الإحساس جوانا و إلا إحنا إللي أموات
و إلا ضمير العالم خلاص إحساسه مات

Khalid Seleem
Did our feeling die, or are we the dead ones?
Or the world's conscience is the dead one?

أحلام
و سلاح الشجب معانا شايلينه للأزمات
و الناس بتعاني معانا بدايات من غير نهايات

Ahlam
We are always carrying the weapon of deploring to use it in crises
People are being in constant agony, it starts but never ends

ديانا كرزون
قم يا أخي بالدم و إستنهض الهمة
و إصرخ و قل بالفم ما غاب بالقمة

Diana Karazon
Hey brother, stand up
Shout out load what they (presidents) didn't say in the summit

عبدالله الرويشد
سنقاوم مهما قالوا إرهاباً أو عدوان
لن يهدأ قلب فينا حتى نلقى الجولان

Abdullah Al Rowaished
We will resist no matter if they kept calling us terrorists or tyrants
We will never settle down until we retrieve the Golan Heights back

وعد
أنا رافضة أنا هيمنتك تحت ستار الحرية
أنا رافضة رأيك نصحك بإسم الديموقراطية

Wa'ad
I refuse your dominance under the cover of freedom
I refuse your opinion and tips under the name of democracy

إيهاب توفيق
الحرية مش منحة تتفضل بيها علي
إرادتنا تمحي المحنة إصحي يا أمة يا عربية

Ehab Tawfeeq
Freedom is not a grant you dedicate to me
Our will take over our Plight, wake up Arab nation

مصطفى محفوظ
عمر السلام ما كان أحلام بنشوفها منام
الظلم في كل مكان يا ناس كفاية كلام

Mostafa Mahfooth
Peace was never a dream which we see while we are sleeping
Injustice is every where; hey people stop talking and take an action

أمل حجازي
حربك ضد الإرهاب عنوان ظالم كذاب
مفهومك للحرية ضد حقوق الإنسان

Amal Hejazi
Your war against terror is unfair and false logo
Your definition of freedom is against human rights

وائل جسار
أطفال شيوخ نساء تصرخ و محدش سامع
أشلاء دماء شهداء و ضمير العالم ضايع

Wa'el Jassar
Children, old people, woman are screaming while nobody is listening
Pieces, blood and dead people…While the world's subconscious is lost

أمنية
يا أمة صحي الهمة وصلي صوتك للكون
قتلوا رموز الأمة و لا حرك فينا سكون

Omniyah
Hey nation, wake up and let your voice be heard
They killed the symbols of the nation while no one took an action

عمار حسن
هي عادة فينا نرعى حقوق الجار
هذه الشعوب غدت عزماً بغير قرار

Ammar Hassan
It's one of our habits to look after our neighbors
People became a determination without a decision

أصالة
نبكي و دمع الناس دمع بغير رياء
فإذا غفى الإحساس ماذا يفيد بكاء

Asalah (Assala, Asala)
We are crying with the people who are crying for real
If our emotions slept (If we lost our emotions)[br]What our tears will be good for?

الشاب جيلاني
عذراً رسول الله في حرمة الأديان
لو لي مدى أحياه فسأطلب الغفران

Jailani
Sorry the messenger of God, they transgressed the inviolabilities of religions
I will ask for forgiveness for the rest of my life

نانسي زعبلاوي
فبعزة التوراة و محبة الإنجيل
بحكمة القرآن تبقى الأديان دليل

Nancy Za'abalawi
In the name of the Torah's appreciation and the love of the bible…
In the name of the Qur'an's wisdom; religions will always be a guide

ماجد المهندس
غزة بغداد بيروت الحزن بكل مكان
عزيمتنا لا ما تموت راح تقوى بالإيمان

Majid Al Muhandis
Gaza, Baghdad and Beirut…Sadness is everywhere
Our determination will never die; it will get stronger with faith

آمنة فاخر
كلنا إخوان في الأزمة إيد وحدة عالعدوان
كلنا واعيين للفتنة كلنا ملك الأوطان

Amnah Fakher
Our determination will never die; it will get stronger with faith
We are all one family during crisis standing up in the face of tyranny

لطفي بوشناق
لعبتهم هي الفتنة و لازم نكون صاحيين
للفتنة و نار الفتنة و لابد نكون واعيين

Lotfi Boshnaq (Lutfi Bo Shnaq)
Their game is turning us against each others, we have to be awake
We have to realize that and the fire (subsequences) of it

يارا
لا تقول مسلم و مسيحي كلنا واحد إخوان
لا تقول سني و لا شيعي كلنا إسمنا لبنان

Yara
Don't say I am a Muslim nor Christian, we are all one family
Don't say I am Sunni nor Shitte, we are all Lebanon

عمر العبداللات
يا خويا يا عربي إحنا بقينا أغراب
يا صمتنا العربي إنطق كفاية غياب

Omar Al Abdullat
Dear Arab brother, we became strangers
Our silence, return back and speak up

نوال
إرفع جبينك فوق خلي الكلام فعل
يا ضميرنا يا عربي محال موتك محال

Nawal
Raise your forehead (face) in pride and express your words into action
Our Arab conscience, it's impossible for you to die

نور مهنا
الله يا الله عاث بنا الأعداء
ناديت يا الله ما خاب فيك رجاء

Noor Mhna
Dear God, they are spreading around us like lice
I am seeking for your help; I know you will never let me down

فاتن هلال
أيقظ ضمير الأمة رجع لها الإحساس
يا رافع الغمة صحي ضمير الناس

Fatin Helal Baik
I am seeking for your help; I know you will never let me down
Dear God, wake our nation's conscience up…[br]Let her (the nation) feel backs

مؤمن
صحي قلوب الناس صحي بها النخوة
إصرخ بكل إحساس إن العرب أخوة

Mo'amin
Dear God, Let people's hearts wake up...Let their preference for each others wakes up
Shout out load emotionally..."Arab are a family"

USA support Al Qa'eda

I just read a translation of an article in the Kuwaiti newspaper "Al Rai Al Aam", the orginal article was published in the May/June 2007 issue of ForeignAffairs magzine.

You can read the summary below or VIEW the full article as written by the author Bruce Riedel.

By rushing into Iraq instead of finishing off the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Washington has unwittingly helped its enemies: al Qaeda has more bases, more partners, and more followers today than it did on the eve of 9/11. Now the group is working to set up networks in the Middle East and Africa -- and may even try to lure the United States into a war with Iran. Washington must focus on attacking al Qaeda's leaders and ideas and altering the local conditions in which they thrive.
Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He retired last year after 29 years with the Central Intelligence Agency. He served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East Affairs on the National Security Council (1997-2002), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asian Affairs (1995-97), and National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Intelligence Council (1993-95).

Avaaz.Org

Stop the Clash of Civilizations

Outlandish - Look into my eyes song

I was "Googleing" today and I found by accident the lyrics of Outlandish song Look into my eyes, the song reflects the way many Arab and Muslims feels.

I searched about the song and I found out more informations about it...It was originally written on 21st of August 2003 by a Palestanian little girl called "Gihad Ali", the original poem's title is "Eye to Eye: A Palestinian talking to Americans".

You can read the lyrics and watch the music video below.




Look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
You don't see a damn thing
'cause you can't relate to me
You're blinded by our differences
My life makes no sense to you
I'm the persecuted one
You're the red, white and blue

Each day you wake in tranquility
No fears to cross your eyes
Each day I wake in gratitude
Thanking God He let me rise
You worry about your education
And the bills you have to pay
I worry about my vulnerable life
And if I'll survive another day
Your biggest fear is getting a ticket
As you cruise your Cadillac
My fear is that the tank that has just left
Will turn around and come back

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows
Has our world gone all blind?

Do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Someone tell me...

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight
I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters

See I've known terror for quite some time
57 years so cruel
Terror breathes the air I breathe
It's the checkpoint on my way to school
Terror is the robbery of my land
And the torture of my mother
The imprisonment of my innocent father
The bullet in my baby brother
The bulldozers and the tanks
The gases and the guns
The bombs that fall outside my door
All due to your funds
You blame me for defending myself
Against the ways of my enemies
I'm terrorized in my own land
But am I the terrorist?

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows
Has our world gone all blind?

Do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Someone tell me...

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight, I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

America, do you realize that the taxes that you pay
Feed the forces that traumatize my every living day
So if I won't be here tomorrow
It's written in my fate
May the future bring a brighter day
The end of our wait

(pause)

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight, I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

Ohh let's not cry tonight I promise you one day is through
Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!
Ooh shine a light for every Soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!

[CENSORSHIP] DIE AND THEY'LL MAKE SURE NO ONE WILL KNOW ABOUT YOU!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

According to Islam, burring dead people is a way to respect them but I think that rule doesn't work in War situation.
People should know what's going on around them no matter how hard and disturbing it is.

I understand that porn is allowed in the media while knowing the truth is not, I wonder if showing a peni* up to a puss*/as* is more important than showing justice and the truth to the world...
Isn't that against "so called" DemocrASSy?
I thought democrASSy is having the right to express your self, to be heard and seen by others while the truth is being buried because of some silly rules created by HUMANS.

IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon

By Meron Rappaport

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html

"What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war. Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets. In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells during the war, widely forbidden by international law. According to their claims, the vast majority of said explosive ordinance was fired in the final 10 days of the war.

Advertisement The rocket unit commander stated that Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) platforms were heavily used in spite of the fact that they were known to be highly inaccurate. MLRS is a track or tire carried mobile rocket launching platform, capable of firing a very high volume of mostly unguided munitions. The basic rocket fired by the platform is unguided and imprecise, with a range of about 32 kilometers. The rockets are designed to burst into sub-munitions at a planned altitude in order to blanket enemy army and personnel on the ground with smaller explosive rounds. The use of such weaponry is controversial mainly due to its inaccuracy and ability to wreak great havoc against indeterminate targets over large areas of territory, with a margin of error of as much as 1,200 meters from the intended target to the area hit. The cluster rounds which don't detonate on impact, believed by the United Nations to be around 40% of those fired by the IDF in Lebanon, remain on the ground as unexploded munitions, effectively littering the landscape with thousands of land mines which will continue to claim victims long after the war has ended. Because of their high level of failure to detonate, it is believed that there are around 500,000 unexploded munitions on the ground in Lebanon. To date 12 Lebanese civilians have been killed by these mines since the end of the war. According to the commander, in order to compensate for the inaccuracy of the rockets and the inability to strike individual targets precisely, units would "flood" the battlefield with munitions, accounting for the littered and explosive landscape of post-war Lebanon. When his reserve duty came to a close, the commander in question sent a letter to Defense Minister Amir Peretz outlining the use of cluster munitions, a letter which has remained unanswered. 'Excessive injury and unnecessary suffering' It has come to light that IDF soldiers fired phosphorous rounds in order to cause fires in Lebanon. An artillery commander has admitted to seeing trucks loaded with phosphorous rounds on their way to artillery crews in the north of Israel. A direct hit from a phosphorous shell typically causes severe burns and a slow, painful death. International law forbids the use of weapons that cause "excessive injury and unnecessary suffering", and many experts are of the opinion that phosphorous rounds fall directly in that category. The International Red Cross has determined that international law forbids the use of phosphorous and other types of flammable rounds against personnel, both civilian and military. IDF: No violation of international law In response, the IDF Spokesman's Office stated that "International law does not include a sweeping prohibition of the use of cluster bombs. The convention on conventional weaponry does not declare a prohibition on [phosphorous weapons], rather, on principles regulating the use of such weapons. "For understandable operational reasons, the IDF does not respond to [accounts of] details of weaponry in its possession. "The IDF makes use only of methods and weaponry which are permissible under international law. Artillery fire in general, including MLRS fire, were used in response solely to firing on the state of Israel." The Defense Minister's office said it had not received messages regarding cluster bomb fire.

Everybody should watch this video from FOX NEWS

Lebanon
Originally uploaded by AnomalousNYC.

Amid mounting evidence that Israel is using banned chemical and other weapons against the civilian population of Lebanon, including cluster bombs - a definitive indiscriminate weapon specifically designed to maximize civilian deaths - as well as white phosphorus, the UN reports that indiscriminate Israeli bombing has now forced three quarters of a million people from their homes. The phrase "ethnic cleansing" is beginning to be heard around the world, even as the US rushes missiles to Israel and Secretary of State Cuntoleeza Rice insists that it is "too early" to call for a ceasefire. The American press confirms that Israel's invasion and obliteration of all of Lebanon was a long-planned operation formulated in mid-2005, and which was simply awaiting a pretext for deployment. Meanwhile, Israel declares -in flat violation of international law prohibiting collective punishment - that for every rocket which enters Israel, it will randomly destroy 10 multi-story apartment complex buildings in South Beirut. The Red Cross reports numerous incidents of appaerntly deliberate Israeli targeting of relief personnel and Red Cross ambulances. In a move chillingly similar to the deliberate bombing of a UN peacekeeping compound in Qana Lebanon, a decade ago, yesterday, Israel deliberately targeted a United Nations outpost, murdering four UN peacekeepers.

This week a group of prominent world intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Harold Pinter, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali, et al, issued the following statement, reminding the world that the Israeli aggression against Lebanon is, as it always has been, not about security, but about the century-old Zionist determination to permanently erase Palestine as a political concept and Palestinians as a people.

July 19, 2006

The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier prisoner - and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by the Israelis - there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.

That this "kidnapping" was considered an outrage, whereas the illegal military occupation of the West Bank and the systematic appropriation of its natural resources - most particularly that of water - by the Israeli Defence (!) Forces is considered a regrettable but realistic fact of life, is typical of the double standards repeatedly employed by the West in face of what has befallen the Palestinians, on the land alloted to them by international agreements, during the last seventy years.

Today outrage follows outrage; makeshift missiles cross sophisticated ones. The latter usually find their target situated where the disinherited and crowded poor live, waiting for what was once called Justice. Both categories of missile rip bodies apart horribly - who but field commanders can forget this for a moment?

Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a distraction in order to divert world attention from a long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation.

This has to be said loud and clear, for the practice, only half declared and often covert, is advancing fast these days, and, in our opinion, it must be unceasingly and eternally recognised for what it is and resisted.

signed:

Tariq Ali
John Berger
Noam Chomsky
Eduardo Galeano
Naomi Klein
Harold Pinter
Arundhati Roy
Jose Saramago
Giuliana Sgrena
Howard Zinn


www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=&v=fBWRJ4JCacE

ORIGINAL PHOTO: Tyler Hicks
IMAGE ALTERATION: /anomalous

Israeli Real Estate Agent
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Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon
By Anders Strindberg
Thursday, 08/03/06
Christan Science Monitor


NEW YORK – As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism.

Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict.

Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has violated the United Nations-monitored "blue line" on an almost daily basis, according to UN reports. Hizbullah's military doctrine, articulated in the early 1990s, states that it will fire Katyusha rockets into Israel only in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians or Hizbullah's leadership; this indeed has been the pattern.

In the process of its violations, Israel has terrorized the general population, destroyed private property, and killed numerous civilians. This past February, for instance, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by unprovoked Israeli cross-border fire as he tended his flock in southern Lebanon. Israel has assassinated its enemies in the streets of Lebanese cities and continues to occupy Lebanon's Shebaa Farms area, while refusing to hand over the maps of mine fields that continue to kill and cripple civilians in southern Lebanon more than six years after the war supposedly ended. What peace did Hizbullah shatter?

Hizbullah's capture of the soldiers took place in the context of this ongoing conflict, which in turn is fundamentally shaped by realities in the Palestinian territories. To the vexation of Israel and its allies, Hizbullah - easily the most popular political movement in the Middle East - unflinchingly stands with the Palestinians.

Since June 25, when Palestinian fighters captured one Israeli soldier and demanded a prisoner exchange, Israel has killed more than 140 Palestinians. Like the Lebanese situation, that flare-up was detached from its wider context and was said to be "manufactured" by the enemies of Israel; more nonsense proffered in order to distract from the apparently unthinkable reality that it is the manner in which Israel was created, and the ideological premises that have sustained it for almost 60 years, that are the core of the entire Arab-Israeli conflict.

Once the Arabs had rejected the UN's right to give away their land and to force them to pay the price for European pogroms and the Holocaust, the creation of Israel in 1948 was made possible only by ethnic cleansing and annexation. This is historical fact and has been documented by Israeli historians, such as Benny Morris. Yet Israel continues to contend that it had nothing to do with the Palestinian exodus, and consequently has no moral duty to offer redress.

For six decades the Palestinian refugees have been refused their right to return home because they are of the wrong race. "Israel must remain a Jewish state," is an almost sacral mantra across the Western political spectrum. It means, in practice, that Israel is accorded the right to be an ethnocracy at the expense of the refugees and their descendants, now close to 5 million.

Is it not understandable that Israel's ethnic preoccupation profoundly offends not only Palestinians, but many of their Arab brethren? Yet rather than demanding that Israel acknowledge its foundational wrongs as a first step toward equality and coexistence, the Western world blithely insists that each and all must recognize Israel's right to exist at the Palestinians' expense.

Western discourse seems unable to accommodate a serious, as opposed to cosmetic concern for Palestinians' rights and liberties: The Palestinians are the Indians who refuse to live on the reservation; the Negroes who refuse to sit in the back of the bus.

By what moral right does anyone tell them to be realistic and get over themselves? That it is too much of a hassle to right the wrongs committed against them? That the front of the bus must remain ethnically pure? When they refuse to recognize their occupier and embrace their racial inferiority, when desperation and frustration causes them to turn to violence, and when neighbors and allies come to their aid - some for reasons of power politics, others out of idealism - we are astonished that they are all such fanatics and extremists.

The fundamental obstacle to understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is that we have given up on asking what is right and wrong, instead asking what is "practical" and "realistic." Yet reality is that Israel is a profoundly racist state, the existence of which is buttressed by a seemingly endless succession of punitive measures, assassinations, and wars against its victims and their allies.

A realistic understanding of the conflict, therefore, is one that recognizes that the crux is not in this or that incident or policy, but in Israel's foundational and per- sistent refusal to recognize the humanity of its Palestinian victims. Neither Hizbullah nor Hamas are driven by a desire to "wipe out Jews," as is so often claimed, but by a fundamental sense of injustice that they will not allow to be forgotten.

These groups will continue to enjoy popular legitimacy because they fulfill the need for someone - anyone - to stand up for Arab rights. Israel cannot destroy this need by bombing power grids or rocket ramps. If Israel, like its former political ally South Africa, has the capacity to come to terms with principles of democracy and human rights and accept egalitarian multiracial coexistence within a single state for Jews and Arabs, then the foundation for resentment and resistance will have been removed. If Israel cannot bring itself to do so, then it will continue to be the vortex of regional violence.

MISS UNIVERSE [JULY 2006]
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

What does that suppose to mean?

Latifaonline.net [Lebanon]
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

Latifa & Latifa's official site supports Lebanon and launches "I BOYCOTT" campaign in the Arab world along with many other Arab celebrities such as the writer Ahlam Mustaghmani.

Latifa decided to postponed her album which it's was going to be released in July 2006. Composed by Lebanese musicians such as Ziad Al Rahbani, Marwan Khouri and Jean-Marie Reyachi.

Latifs suppose to be on a documentary on PBS American channel, she agreed to be on the channel under one rule and it's to be able to express her self with out any censorship; since her speech in the World Music Awards 2004 was censored when she said that her happiness will remain incomplete until Palestine and Iraq are freed. The democratic media of the USA montages that part off!

In the year 2005 Lebanese singer Elissa won the award, at the time Israel's newspaper felt that the Lebanese singers are threatening their security!

BABY TERRORIST!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

That's will make a great poster for Israel's air force (sponsored by United States Of America).

One of the murdered children from the city of Qana, Lebanon...
Source: Al Anba'a (Kuwaiti newspaper).

ISRAEL CELEBRATES 10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY IN QANA!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

Qana is a small city in Lebanon...
In the year 1996 was attacked by Israel's air force killing hundreds of Lebanese civilians..
Two days ago it's was re-attacked killing more than 50 Lebanese civilians most of them are children.
Check the following blog for more photos..

http://israelscrimes.blogspot.com

Israel's children signs their missiles "with love"...Thank you! gifts were recieved
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

A mother was staying at home when she felt something warm in her lap, blood was fluting of her head; the black smoke was all around her...She was trying to feel the way to her children...She couldn't see them because the smoke was intense...Finally she felt their palms; she picked them all the 3 of them and took them out of the house..
She was devastated screaming for help, for her own family, she found her sister and her brother in law...Lift their children and walked back to look for her own husband; she found him lying on the floor, she asked him are you alive?
He replied: yes but I lost both of my legs.
Her 4 years old daughter asked her: Why did Israel cut off my finger?

7 years old "Fatima", is paralyzed in a hospital; she can NOT hear a thing. She keep repeating I don't want to stay here...Take me to Lebanon.

8 Years old "Howaida", she lost an eye; she doesn't know that she lost her father, her sister and her little brother and her mom lost her own arm!

During the first day of the Israeli attack to Lebanon, A women went to her work in the morning..When she returned home; it's was a wreck...until now she have no idea where are her own children nor her husband.
At the time she is living in a park along with many other Lebanese civilians.

These are all true stories!

Israel is using the Lebanese children as their fire fuel...
Thanks you Israel, your gifts were received!

Does a dumb Arab & Muslim guy "such as me" really have a right of speech?
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

Yesterday while I was at work, I was checking some one's (was in my friends list and I was in his/her) photo stream.. .There I found one photo of a tied guy with the comment (A comment not the photo's description) below says That he wish to see all the Arab terrorists to be tied this way.

I replied with the comment "There is a different between terrorism and defending your own country + I will look better than that guy if I was tied LOL".
(F.Y.I. I consider 9/11 attacked pure terrorism)
In the evening I was uploading a photo, then I checked my flickr mail and there was a msg from the owner of that photos stream, I read his msg but i couldn't reply because I was blocked plus I was banned from his/her groups; since because I am a silly,dumb, terrorist Muslim & Arab with no rights of speech,no brain and dignity, who should be killed curley.

Anyway that person asked me to go and fight side by side with Hezbollah, I really would love to but I didn't for two reasons, first I don't have a camouflage outfit & the second I won't be able to login flickr anymore and upload more photos since Israel blown up everything communications, power stations and TV stations to stop them from showing the truth about what's going on in Lebanon; probably know one would ever care about what I am talking about since everybody have their own right of speech except Arabs & Muslims.

I don't blame the owner of the photos stream because he/she clearly has a stereo type idea of Muslims and Arabs delivered to him through a non objective western media and some idiots such as Osama Bin laden and Saddam Hussain, yet I do blame him for not seeking the truth him/her self.
At least he/she had to put him/her self in Arabs & Muslims shoes to realize how does killing his own family, neighbors, friends, husbands or wife makes him/ her feel.

Have any of you seen these images through any of your reliable media such as CNN, BBC or maybe NEWSWEEK?
Perhaps you'll need to few a LARGER IMAGE to make sure that those little murdered kids really belongs to Hezbollah and Hamas!

I believe it's easy for people who does not live in the Arab & Muslims countries to criticize them for taking a reaction against the daily murders they are performed by Israel..
I don't get why the Westerns only see the reaction while they skip the reason?! Since I am a dumb Arab & Muslim could someone help?

If you didn't agree about anything I said let me know because I really would love to discuss it and I do promise no hard feelings (at least my side).

Have a peaceful week..

Piece of bread story!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

A kid was holding a piece of bread when he was killed by an Israeli missile with 19 of his family while they were trying to escape from the hell in south Lebanon to the UN (united nations) building when Israel gave few hours for the people in South Lebanon to leave their homes (probably so they can see them and blow them up), the UN refused to host the family because they didn't have any proof says that Israel is going to blow up south Lebanon (DUH!!!! Don't they watch the NEWS?!!!) so they refused to host them; they went back out and that's when they were bombed.

Later the little boy's burned body was found hugging that little piece of bread while two families (including his) where dead all around him.

Dedicated to "Abdullah" & "Ghanim" Family and all the late Lebanese people may their souls rest in peace.

Do I have to pose topless?
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

I noticed that most of people doesn't read my photo's description unless
the photo it self was either weird or topless!

During the weekend holiday (here in Kuwait it's starts on Wednesday and ends
Friday) I've been watching TV all the time and flipping around TV channels
to see who is saying what and who is killed and who is going to be...
Probably you still have no clue what i am talking about...

Few days ago, Hezbollah kidnapped 2 "Israeli" soldiers to exchange them
with many Lebanese males and females civilians captured by "Israel" as POW, then
Israel started bombing all over Lebanon destroying a power station, Lebanon National Airport, bridges, roads and (until now 18th of July 2006) killed over 210 Lebanese civilians (some of them were families) and wounded hundreds plus two Kuwaitis were killed (a father and his son).
So Hezbollah replied by shooting missiles on north of Israel cities, killing 29 and wounding 10s.

At the time many Arab TV channels were broadcasting live from Lebanon such as Al Jazeera TV, Al Arabia TV , Al Manar TV, New TV and many others to let people up to date with
what was going on over there.
Israel replied by blowing up New TV and Al Manar TV plus Hezbollah HQ.

Since there is a reaction for every action, Hezbollah replied by blowing one of the Israeli ships.

That's how it's ended today, we will see what's will happen tomorrow.

To the tyrants of the world!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

On behalf every mother and father who lost a son or a daughter..
On behalf every girl or a guy who lost a brother, a sister or a friend…
On behalf every wife and husband…
On behalf humanity…
On behalf the late civilians in IRAQ and the WORLD.

To the unfair tyrants..
To the lover of the darkness..
To the enemy of life..

You've made fun of innocent people wounds; and your palm covered with their blood
You started deforming the charm of existence and growing seeds of sadness in their land

Wait, don't let the spring, the clearness of the sky and the shine of the morning light to fool you
Because the darkness, the thunder rumble and the blowing of the wind are coming toward you from the horizon

Beware becasue there is a fire underneath the ashWho grow thorns will reaps wounds

You've took off heads of people and the flowers of hope; and watered the sand with blood until it's got drunk!

The blood's river will take you off and you will be burned by the fiery storm!


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