27 Thursday Feb 2014
Posted in Iran, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, United States of America
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American, folk music, Iran, Persia, political, politics, United States
Iran – mohamad noori – YouTube
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OH SHENANDOAH – (Across the Wide Missouri) A Cappella Version – YouTube
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A little extra . . . .
America The Beautiful – YouTube
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26 Wednesday Feb 2014
Israel isn’t doing anything TO the Palestinians but trying to help them with economic development (Israel is an employer and trading partner), education (Israel’s universities accept Palestinians), health care (the system frequently steps in to provide services unavailable in Palestinian hospitals), legal assistance and advocacy — amazingly, Israelis are more free to advocate on behalf of the refugees than are the refugees under the the watch of Fatah and Hamas.
Check out Israel’s own far left.
The thematic “get the Jews” / “get Israel” is a part of language behavior and not corresponding with any political reality — it’s a reality in the head, rule based, and perception fixing. Some part flows down from Soviet cant about “American imperialist ambitions” and some about Muhammad’s statements promoting the superiority (by divine edict) of Islam along with the division and subjugation (to dhimmi) of Jews and Christians, as bogus a play as Soviet imperialist ambitions in Afghanistan.
Israel (and the Jews) keep getting in the way of barbarians, dictators, and fanatics.
The truth is the refugees of 1948 wouldn’t be so had the Arabs accepted Palestinian statehood at the time, but the thought of a Jewish state ( on purchased land sparsely populated) would seem to have been perceived as an affront to Islamic ambition, and there proceeded from that three wars (or more) of annihilation against the “Zionist entity”, which won each, claimed territory, enfranchised its immediate Arab Christian and Muslim population, and struggled on to maintain the possibility of a Palestinian state responsibly governed. For its troubles, which includes the evacuation of Jews from Gaza in a “Land for Peace” deal, it primarily provided Hamas and Company a rocket base (8,000 received before “Cast Lead”).
Islam’s best demonstration project today is burning itself up in Syria between fighting a brutal dictatorship, a cause with which only Putin and the Ayatollah would disagree — and possibly only for so long as fewer than 7 percent of his constituency can get around RT and read English freely — and fighting one another, and that to the extent that al-Qaeda as an organization seems to have repudiated ISIL as an affiliate — and there’s more nonsense and betrayal going on back there with money and arms today.
Anti-Semitism founded in the glorious dream of magical Islamic secession just doesn’t work, and governance in Islam — Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Algeria (has had problems this past year as well) is a mess.
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood discovered intolerance toward itself inside of a single year’s foray into power.
Should Egyptians be or feel trapped between authoritarian personalities and systems?
Of course not.
Nor should Syrians, who in essence have no army defending their reasonable interests — rather Syria’s malignant narcissists (different talk, same walk on both sides) continue taking the country down brick by brick, and whether by barrel bomb or truck bomb hardly matters.
Perhaps I should think about it before hitting the WordPress “Publish” button.
Okay — a few additional comments . . . .
Egyptians with modern businesses, interests, and investments needs must have a security system guarantying their freedom to sustain their efforts in relation to them.
Syrians perhaps need an army that is not all about itself and its immediate lines of affiliation and alliance, but rather about the interests of the constituents of the land.
A great religion or a strong one affords hope, faith, and solace inclusively, not exclusively. The continuous perception of division — and take that further: trivial division! — drives the Islamic Small Wars.
The want of exclusive favor may do that.
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25 Tuesday Feb 2014
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commentary, defense, intelligence, Nigeria, political, politics, terrorism
It is a co-ed school about 45 miles south of Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, and difficult to communicate with because extremists last year destroyed the cell phone tower there.
Islamist group slaughters 43 children in Nigerian boarding school | Mail Online – 2/25/2014.
“Dark space” has nothing to do with color, race, creed, religion: it has to do with communicating and policing.
Any location without reliable 24/7 cellular communication becomes an easy target for marauders — and these most barbaric and sadist of Muslims, so they claim that status for themselves, prove the worst of marauding gangs.
Reactive tactics and strategies fail just as reliably as cell service.
Show business — shows of force, state public relations — won’t work either, and so far plainly hasn’t.
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But, how do we encourage security agencies that refuse to use intelligence information sent to them by citizens or fail to coordinate intelligence information from various security outfits and government agencies?
Recently, a fellow gave sensitive information to a policeman on some suspicious activities within his workplace but the policeman waved it aside that even if he tells his boss, the officer will not trust his information or may accuse him of belonging to Boko Haram. Now how do we encourage the government or security services when a junior policeman does not have confidence in his superior officer?
Opinion: Nigerian security agencies and the fight against Boko Haram | – 1/24/2014.
Nigeria’s army may be brave, but as much as it may request weapons, what it needs most is a locked tight loyal intelligence service, one capable of tracing financing and arms sales, detecting related cabal and traffic in planning, and knowing, not guessing, where its enemy wanders.
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In the backs-of-beyond, whether the remote corners of Columbia-Ecuador, the Durand Line separating Afghanistan from Pakistan, or the remote villages of Nigeria, producing structural changes may prove the most expensive but necessary response to a force now roaming and killing at will: cell systems, forts, roads, helicopter pads, airfields — all of it: and then, as too often demonstrated in Pakistan, mere police, even a barracks full of them, simply will not stand off a force superior in numbers for the 30- to 45-minutes it may take to lose a firefight while waiting for “backup”.
Opposite that tack: as refugees spill in from affected areas, they are doing defense naturally: fleeing the death for the safety of great numbers and improved state response to attack.
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Boko Haram are better armed and are better motivated than our own troops.
Boko Haram and a Nation at War, Articles | THISDAY LIVE – 2/20/2014.
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“It would appear that they have established bases in certain parts of the northeast that nobody can even penetrate or go to, and they’ve excluded every symbol of authority in those areas,” he said. “Some even say they are in control of various local governments in the northeast and are collecting taxes and running the show in those places.”
Boko Haram’s Funding Remains ‘Elusive’ – 5/22/2013.
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BBC News – Nigeria school raid in Yobe state ‘leaves dozens dead’
Thousands fleeing Boko Haram find little comfort in Niger | Reuters
29 Boys Killed as Boko Haram Attacks Boarding School in Nigeria – NBC News.com
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“Boko Haram came in at about 4.00 a.m. (0300 GMT), just when we were getting ready for the morning prayers,” said Bama resident Abba Masta, who lives near the palace.
“There was shooting everywhere and they set the palace on fire. Many died. Students had to run for their lives as they attacked the government girls college as well.”
It was one of several deadly attacks this week.
Boko Haram fighters kill 47 in attack in northeast Nigeria -police | The Indian Express – 2/20/2014.
Related: NCTC.gov – 2014 Counterterrorism Calendar, n.d.
When a government asks “Islamists” to lay down their arms (say “Pretty Please”?), it may do so with faith in reason, but better with these to have faith in the savagery that drives and the greed and lust that ensures their continued swimming in blood and money.
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25 Tuesday Feb 2014
It was a country where the late actor Bogdan Stupka could move audiences by playing Tevye the Dairyman—in Ukrainian. In 2004, during the Orange Revolution—triggered by protests against a fraudulent election “won” by Viktor Yanukovych—my Ukrainian friends demonstrated alongside Boris Naumovich, an octogenarian veteran of the Red Army with whom I practiced speaking Yiddish. Now, a decade later, an equally diverse coalition has turned out for the past three months again to protest Yanukovych, who over the weekend was ousted from the presidency he took over in 2010, and who appears to have fled to the Crimea.
Jews Join Maidan To Preserve an Independent, and Safe, Ukraine – Tablet Magazine – 2/25/2014.
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It takes as much or more time to compile quotations and reference as it may to reflect and speak, so for this scraping post, I may say very little: Ukraine has come to the new dawn riven with internal conflicts about being Ukrainian with but one exception: being modern.
In the modern ethos, and would that I would have influence in it, those five bulwarks to the left-and-top count: Compassion • Empathy • Humility • Inclusion • Integrity.
Notably, if quite accidentally, my web surf took me first to “Ukraine, revolution, anti-Semitism” and then to “Ukraine, revolution, Jewish”, which somehow brought up another how-did-I-ever-miss-this encounter with a proper noun: “Viktor Pinchuk”.
Never heard of him.
(Quick: name Putin’s top ten oligarchs)!
I didn’t think so (but am nonetheless prepared to be surprised by the odd persnickety personality).
Pinchuk and the Jewish community of about 200,000 in Ukraine are not “Ukraine”, but they are certainly a fine and legitimate part of it, and Ukraine, rather like Hungary, hasn’t a soul more pure than any other of the world’s states, but then too, it has its language and languages are distinct and matched to culture, so whether Christian or Jewish or Muslim, capitalist or communist, far left or far right or somewhere between, Ukrainians have a common investment in land and language, a true meta-ethnicity adorned by differences.
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On the one hand, one of the three long-ago gates of Kiev was known as Judaic. On the other hand, there was Khmelnitsky.
He is the Ukrainian national hero, who led the Cossacks to power and whose massacres of the Jews were some of the bloodiest in our history.
A solid, but wary, ‘l’chaim’ to the Ukrainian revolution – Opinion Israel News | Haaretz – 2/25/2014.
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Among the events reporte, Rabbi Margolin lists: a fire bomb thrown at a synagogue in Zhprozha, a message telling the rabbi of Krivoy Rog that he must leave the city within 72 hours, a graffito on the home of the rabbi of Blitzkorov saying “we are already near you,” another graffito near a Jewish building in Kiev saying “you are next,” and other anti-Semitic graffiti.
‘Israel, Protect Us!’ – Jewish World – News – Israel National News – 2/25/2014.
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Protest coverage focused on the call for European integration and the struggle against the Yanukovich regime has largely glossed over the rise in nationalist rhetoric, often chauvinist, that has led to violence not just against police, but also against left-wing activists.
The Ukrainian Nationalism at the Heart of ‘Euromaidan’ | The Nation – 2/21/2014.
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“Germans, Kikes and other scum” want to “take away our Ukrainian state”.
Neo-Nazis and far-right protesters in Ukraine – Imgur
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He called upon his supporters saying: “[You are the ones] that the Moscow-Jewish mafia ruling Ukraine fears most.”
It was an apparent reference to a Moscow-leaning political leadership, and the strong presence of ethnic Jewish billionaires in Ukraine’s business elite.
Tyahnybok: Nationalist, fearful of Russia, favors NATO – 10/29/2008.
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A number of young Jews are involved in the protests, which have drawn together a diverse coalition of liberal youth and opposition party leaders, including members of the ultranationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party, whose leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, has freely trafficked anti-Semitic stereotypes.
“If the nationalists are in favor of a regime change in the country, and I am also, then they won’t prevent me from going out into the Maidan with everyone and expressing my opinions,” Evgenia Talinovskaya told JTA. “The EuroMaidan movement is primarily identified with the educated youth. And Jewish youth in Ukraine primarily fall under that description.”
In Ukraine protests, young Jews are marching with ultranationalists | Jewish Telegraphic Agency – 12/8/2014.
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He has spent the years since the Orange Revolution working to build a profile as a philanthropist. He recently pledged half his fortune, estimated by Forbes at $3.8 billion, to charity and has underwritten large-scale AIDS campaigns, opened up a free museum of contemporary art in central Kiev, and teamed up with Steven Spielberg to produce a documentary about the Holocaust in Ukraine. As pro-European reforms have stalled, Pinchuk has emerged as his country’s top advocate in the West, using his annual Yalta summits to push for Ukraine’s closer integration with the European Union.
In Ukraine, a Jewish Oligarch Is a Bridge to the West – Tablet Magazine – on Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk – 12/13/2013.
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KYIV, UKRAINE FEB 18, 2014
Statement of Victor Pinchuk
Victor Pinchuk said: “A peaceful solution must be found, it is imperative to refrain from the use of force and find a compromise. Ukraine since its independence has avoided bloodshed. We must return to this tradition immediately. From this minute, this is the responsibility of everyone – those in power, the opposition, civil society, business. It is time for all sides to take courageous steps towards compromise that they may not yet have been ready to take even this morning. For each of us, love for Ukraine must be immeasurably more important than any other feelings and interests.”
Press-office
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation
Victor Pinchuk Foundation – Facebook – 2/18/2014
The first respondent on the organization’s Facebook post: “Put your money where your mouth is.”
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From the looks of his foundation, plus the company he keeps — Branson and Gates, for starters — Pinchuk has been putting his money behind his words.
Pinchuk’s February 18 call for peace is repeated on his foundation’s web site (as viewed today).
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We never had in our newest history even one drop of blood on the streets, but today we already have four or five people who were killed. I’ve never been so worried about my country, about the future of my country. I don’t want to bring politics in here but I want to ask you to share …here are hundreds of people from more than 50 countries from 5 continents, I want to ask you to share silence for 60 seconds in which we send our thoughts to Ukrainian people and we pray for peace, reason, compromise and reconciliation.
Oleh Tyahnybok – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ukraine’s Forever Revolution – David Stern – The Atlantic – 2/5/2014.
Svoboda (political party) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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24 Monday Feb 2014
On the death of Abu Khaled al-Suri yesterday:
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said he died along with six others when a fighter from the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group blew himself up at an Ahrar al-Sham post in al-Halq.
Senior al-Qaeda commander killed in Syria – Middle East – Al Jazeera English – 2/24/2014.
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Why the dictator is not to be endorsed:
“Two simultaneous raids hit Neshabieh first. People were pulling the bodies of a women and her two children from one house when the planes came back and hit the crowed, killing another nine,” activist Abu Sakr told Reuters from the area.
Air raids in central Syria kill 18: activists | Reuters – 2/24/2014.
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“Back outside, even the hardiest can’t stand anymore fighting.”
Syria Rebels and Assad’s forces face off in Zabanani – YouTube – 2/24/2014.
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The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, made it clear from the beginning that Washington wants peace negotiations to be primarily about “transition” and the end of the government of President Bashar Al Assad.
But, since Assad’s army controls most population centres and main roads in Syria, this radical change in the balance of power will not happen until the rebels stop losing and start winning on the battlefield.
Times of Oman | Column :: Syria may see years of warfare before peace – Patrick Cockburn – 2/24/2014.
Cockburn’s use of quotation marks in this next paragraph echoes what I have stumbled upon in relation to the Free Syria Media / Army / National Coalition:
The “moderate” opposition — support for which was reportedly discussed at a two-day meeting in Washington of Western and Arab intelligence chiefs this month — is supposedly going to overwhelm the radicals and fight the government all at the same time. But repackaging some rebel warlords as moderates, simply because they are backed by the West and its regional allies, will be largely a PR ploy and unconvincing to Syrians.
It’s proving unconvincing to westerners too.
Related: Syria – “Moderate” Jew Hate | BackChannels – 2/21/2014.
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Moment of a shell landed in Yabroud Syria Impressive video – YouTube – 2/24/2014.
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February 23, 2014: China and Russia surprised everyone yesterday and went along with a UN resolution calling for the Syrian government and the rebels to provide access for humanitarian aid throughout Syria. To make this happen the UN had to, at Russian and Chinese request, take out clauses calling for war crimes, largely committed by the government, to be punished.
Syria: The Killathon Continues – 2/23/2014.
To get humanitarian aid to Syrians, it appears one must tacitly approve the tactics applied by dictators to their deeply subjugated constituents.
The “Killathon” article goes on to make quite a few useful observations, but this one spells the humanity of the regimes with a stake in Assad’s political survival:
Quds has been busy in Syria for over two years. Rebels accuse Iran of helping the government of adopt savage new tactics in the fighting around Damascus and elsewhere. These new methods involved mass killings of civilians, especially military age men, during daytime raids into pro-rebel villages . . . Now the rebels are facing “special troops” trained and advised by the Iranians. Rebels have seen Iranian transport aircraft landing at airports all over the country to deliver weapons, equipment and ammunition. These aircraft come in via Iraq, which refuses to do anything to stop them.
Iran’s latest forward operating base: Iraq!
That’s really not surprising.
Iranians Dial Up Presence in Syria – WSJ.com – 9/16/2013: “The busloads of Shiite militiamen from Iraq, Syria and other Arab states have been arriving at the Iranian base in recent weeks, under cover of darkness, for instruction in urban warfare and the teachings of Iran’s clerics, according to Iranian military figures and residents in the area.”
Update to December: Syria’s Assad ‘has secret Iraq oil lifeline’ – Middle East – Al Jazeera English – 12/24/2013 / Exclusive: Assad’s secret oil lifeline: Iraqi crude from Egypt | Reuters – 12/23/2014: “The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has received substantial imports of Iraqi crude oil from an Egyptian port in the last nine months, shipping and payments documents show, part of an under-the-radar trade that has kept his military running despite Western sanctions.”
I’ve no idea who’s “winning” in Syria, but I’m pretty sure Syrians are losing.
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From the Reuter’s piece cited: “Each ship switched off its satellite signals just before the delivery date in Syria, then reappeared on satellite tracking shortly after.”
Now that’s mafia style.
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Referring to the likes of Mr. Jaber, the ministry official said, “Even if you want the Statue of Liberty, there are those who can bring it for you at the right price.”
Syrian Businessmen Help Assad Regime Survive – WSJ.com – 5/24/2014.
The “Mr. Jaber” appears to be the brother of the other cited, Mohammed, not Ayman.
Odd note: I have heard of “suitcases full of money” traveling around the middle east, but the WSJ piece would be the first in which I’ve seen mention of the same so specifically: “Almost every month, he flies to Baghdad with suitcases filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash on behalf of the government, he said—showing a slip for a recent million-dollar deposit in an Iraqi bank. Wire transfers aren’t an option because of sanctions.”
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23 Sunday Feb 2014
In a hectic round of voting in the chamber, near where triumphant but wary protesters remain encamped on Kiev’s main square, lawmakers stripped the still missing president of his abandoned country home. Its brash opulence, now on display, has fuelled demands that the Russian-backed, elected leader and his allies be held to account for corruption on a grand scale.
Ukraine parliament names acting president, seeks government | Reuters
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Piratical uber-capitalist Vladimir Putin may yet succeed at accomplishing what the Soviet Kremlin could never achieve: the establishment of socialist societies and welfare states inspired by appalling state corruption and determined to do a few things about it, not that as much creates cause to applaud steps forward for nationalist socialism. However, this post-Soviet denouement that may also cap a revival of 19th Century aristocracy funded by energy sales and abetted by patronage spinning off the “vertical of power” may turn emerging leaders toward accountable, democratic, responsible, and responsive governance.
It’s good for a nation to have its wealthy, its monumental in private and institutional structures from estates to museums to resorts, but let that wealth not ride on the backs of whole constituencies and further reside in wickedly defended and untouchable halls of mirror.
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Political crisis in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych leaves Kiev – YouTube – 2/23/2014.
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Ukraine divide echoes cold war – YouTube
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LIVE: On The Ground in Ukraine with VICE News – YouTube – from 2/23/2014.
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Whereabouts and legitimacy of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych unclear – CBS News
BBC News – Ukraine turmoil: Saturday as it happened
Ukrainian parliament votes to oust president, sets early elections | Fox News
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After Yugoslavia, Ukraine ? – 2/14/2014: “. . . Washington’s goal is not to push the country into the arms of the European Union, but to deprive Russia of its historical partners.”
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21 Friday Feb 2014
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Name: Khosro and Massoud Kordpour – added July 2013.
Date of Imprisonment: March 7, 2013
Occupation: Journalists
Charge: “Propaganda against the regime”
Current Status: Imprisoned
Sentence: Unannounced
Faces of Iran: Citizens Unjustly Imprisoned « humanrights.gov – updated to 7/2013.
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Iran remained one of the most censored countries in the world. In the lead-up to the June 2013 presidential elections, then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government pre-emptively arrested journalists, banned publications, harassed family members of exiled journalists, and brought the Internet to a slow crawl.
Attacks on the Press in 2013: Iran – Committee to Protect Journalists
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Now in compliance with the Great Prophet of Islam and to show his obedience to his Imam, the Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, has recently stated that “we are ready for the big fight with the United States”. Although the General comes from a generation that has already passed a practical test of Jihad with much honor and glory, his wish for Jihad is actually a statement on behalf of the younger generation who has not tasted the sweet flavor of Jihad and wish for this holy war in order not to die a hypocrite.
Farsnews – http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13921130001683 – 2/20/2014.
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What? The American government was behind 9/11? Not the Zionists? This new Iranian regime really is moderate!
New moderate Iran: Former U.S. Embassy now anti-American museum : Jihad Watch – 1/30/2014.
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21 Friday Feb 2014
Bahra also stresses that scores of civilians are killed in Syria on a daily basis at the hands of Hezbollah militiamen and other sectarian gangs coming to Syria from neighboring countries.
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Syria’s “moderate” opposition, represented in the above report by the Syrian Coalition, has a problem:
Khalid Saleh, head of the Media Office, said that “the visit paid by Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation to one of the hospitals where injured Syrians are being hospitalized is nothing more than a publicity gimmick . . . .
And it is becoming visible.
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If you can’t even bring yourself to say thank you to medical aid from Israel, how on earth are you ever going to bring yourself to meet the greater challenge of living and let live with those Syrians who fought for the regime over the years?
For the Sake of Syria, the Political Opposition Has to Grow Up » From Homs to Istanbul – 2/20/2014.
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By way of western media, I had been given the impression that Syria’s revolution included a beleaguered but moderate fighting force. With that impression in mind, I have begun following “Free Syrian Media” which puts through the Syrian National Coalition voice.
Elsewhere on this blog, I have suggested that the Syrian People simply have not had an army working in their interest.
Bashar al-Assad has had an army working in his interest.
Islamic zealots appear to have as many armies as they have themselves working in their interests (please, do not drag God into this horror).
However, the Syrian People have been either abandoned or punished between armies, anything but defended.
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The monolithic minds of the American anti-Jihad (in their heads: all Muslims bad) have not overlooked similarities in battlefield barbarism, e.g., see Bare Naked Islam’s “‘Moderate’ Free Syrian Army rebels sent a selfie to Obama, their best friend and support in the U.S.'” for an example of that. However, the zero-change in the flow down from programmatic Baathist anti-Semitism signals how little interest the Syrian opposition may have in producing a full out regime-changing, culture altering, and permanent revolutionary redemption and rescue of the Syrian People.
Related: Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: The pro-Nazi antisemitism of the Syrian regime – 5/16/2011.
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States of Affairs:
Source: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486a76.html
| Residing in Syrian Arab Republic [1] | |
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| Refugees [2] |
 149,709
Refugee figure for Iraqis in the Syrian Arab Republic is a Government estimate. UNHCR has registered and is assisting 42,400 Iraqis at mid-2013.
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| Asylum Seekers [3] | 2,069 |
| Returned Refugees [4] | 52,806 |
| Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS)[5] | 4,254,500 |
| Returned IDPs [6] | 0 |
| Stateless Persons [7] | 160,000 |
| Various [8] | 4 |
| Total Population of Concern | 4,619,088 |
| Originating from Syrian Arab Republic [1] | |
| Refugees [2] | 1,888,823 |
| Asylum Seekers [3] | 33,335 |
| Returned Refugees [4] | 52,806 |
| Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS)[5] | 4,254,500 |
| Returned IDPs [6] | 0 |
| Various [8] | 7,903 |
| Total Population of Concern | 6,237,367 |
“As at mid-2013” says the above cited page of the above cited statistics.
Dead: 140,000+
Reference: Syria’s death toll now exceeds 140,000: activist group | Reuters – 2/15/2014.
Dead, dying, injured, or homeless would seem less than an optimal condition for maintaining Jew hate, but the insecure hubris of it appears present.
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For Arabs, Zionism and Jewishness are one and the same thing.
uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:344823/FULLTEXT01.pdf – Wiji Bohme Shomary, History (course), Spring 2010.
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Careers are made of the study of anti-Semitism, and I’m not going to load this page for that.
However, whether because Mohammad said a few things, or perhaps because Islam must prevail (and Christians and Jews are just so, you know, 5th Century), or it just plain feels good to feel hate and have a convenient target for it — whatever the cause of the illness — it has to go.
For the keys to letting go, there’s a pair around here in the contemplation of language uptake and related cultural programming (how we learn to listen) and scripting (what we learn to say).
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The United States and its principal European and Arab allies have agreed on a unified way of providing Syrian rebel groups with aid, classifying them into those who should receive arms supplies and other assistance, those who are ineligible because of clear extremist ties, and those whose eligibility requires further discussion, according to U.S. and allied officials.
U.S., allies agree on standards for which opposition groups in Syria will receive aid – The Washington Post – 2/21/2014.
I wonder if those standards might include any indices for anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic cant and the continued and Assad-oriented desire to damage or destroy the Jewish State and refuse the influence of the west while enjoying shipments of its war fighting equipage and materiel.
For the Sake of Syria, the Political Opposition Has to Grow Up – 2/20/2014.
Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News: Amazing blog post from a Syrian refugee in Istanbul – 2/20/2014.
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