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“You cannot wear sleeveless in this university.”

31 Saturday Aug 2013

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“No indecent clothes allowed.”
I stared back at her, my mouth curved in a smile of disbelief. Was she expecting me to get flustered all of a sudden? That’d I’d suddenly recall the word of God and remember how much He likes to guilt women into submitting to a man’s will?
She continued staring at me and said, “It is the rule. You must wear dupatta at all times. Also sleevelesses and low neck shirts are not allowed.”

NYPD Designates Mosques as Terrorism Organizations

29 Thursday Aug 2013

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No American has ever wanted to see this headline — and every American has wanted to see it. Integrity matters, for deception — with bogus allowance, encouragement, and permission — inspires worlds in which all suffocate.

Countdown to an Attack on Syria: Tomahawks and Smoke Signals

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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I’m just passing this one along for thought and agree with the author that what happens next will happen swiftly.

Iran warns Israel will be ‘first victim’ of U.S. attack on Syria. Netanyahu vows to hit Syria hard. US developing target list.

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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Syria’s is not the only theater of the Islamic Small Wars these days, but it’s turning out the thorniest and most visible of the lot this week.

joelcrosenberg's avatarJoel C. Rosenberg's Blog

LATEST UPDATES:

  • West: No decision has yet been made on whether/when to attack Syria (Ynet News)
  • Military strikes on Syria could come “as early as Thursday” US officials tell NBC News
  • White House rules out ‘regime change’ among options for Syria (Reuters)
  • Syria Defiant as U.S. Allies Lay Ground for Strike: Arab League Says Regime Used Chemical Weapons (WSJ)
  • What would “taking punitive military action against the Syrian regime” look like? (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
  • ‘A pity they both can’t lose’: Five insights on how US action in Syria might play out, and how Israel might want it to; and one battle-proven suggestion for an ultimatum to Assad (Times of Israel)

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(Washington, D.C.) — An Iranian-Syrian alliance preparing for a war with Israel involving weapons of mass destruction?  An Israeli Prime Minister threatening to strike? An American President vacillating over what to do even as the situation gets…

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Syria – Chemical Weapons – Response Coming Up Fast

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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I can’t authenticate the above-posted clip.

That the same has gotten hold of this obviously taken from within the IDF ranks may tell more about the information side of the Syrian conflict and its latest imbroglio (chemical weapons response) and its choreography.

I am curious, Syriawarnews: who are you, really?

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For drama, we need audio/visual perception, so I will let the above videos show — plus this one from August 21, 2013:

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My two cents: Assad’s forces had the munitions launchers, not the rebels, whom I can see in clip after clip fighting with AK-type weapons, on occasion a 50mm truck mounted machine gun — typical “technical” in places like Somalia — and, in one instance, a sling shot (repurposed grenade launcher).

To my Arab friends on Facebook, my friends in Islam, this taking place in Syria – a chemical weapons assault from any side – is not, will never be what the Jews or Israel are about.

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From August 22, 2013:

Today:

Additional Reference

Friedman, George.  “Obama’s Bluff.”  Stratfor Global Intelligence, August 27, 2013.

Lawrence, Chris, Jill Dougherty, and Tom Cohen.  “Hagel: ‘We’re ready to go’ if ordered on Syria chemical weapons.”  CNN, August 27, 2013.

Rêmy, Jean-Philippe.  “Chemical warfare in Syria.”  Le Monde, August 27, 2013.

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All eyes on Qatar, Al Jazeera’s money machine

22 Thursday Aug 2013

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“All eyes on Quatar” — a popular phrase. Overlook the money — examine the values.

FNS – Syria – Rebels Accuse Assad Regime of Launching Chemical Attack

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

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SYRIA Man Struggles For Air, Chemical Weapons Kill 650 In Damascus: Suspicious Timing

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Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region early on Wednesday as part of a major bombardment on rebel forces, they say.

The Syrian army says the accusations have been fabricated to cover up rebel losses.

The main opposition alliance said that more than 1,000 people were killed by the attacks.

BBC.  “Syria conflict: ‘Chemical attacks’ kill hundreds.”  August 21, 2013.

BBC correspondent Frank Gardner comments on the suspicious timing of the alleged attack — why now? — but also the horrifying and likely authentic extent of the suffering witnessed.

Without press freedom, privilege, and security in the world’s combat zones, their darkness fades to a plain and evil black.

Search string “Ghouta chemical attack” seems to work.

At the top of my list at the moment:  Al Arabiya.  “Syrian opposition: 1,300 killed in chemical attack on Ghouta region.”  August 21, 2013.

I would want to know whether any of the the satellite-enabled and watching military organizations involved worldwide have recorded data of the rockets delivering the chemical warheads involved.

If not, how was this crime — still being checked out — committed?

I have to go.  Last glance: Morris, Loveday, and Ahmed Ramadan.  “Syrian activists accuse government of deadly chemical attack near Damascus.”  The Washington Post, August 21, 2013.

Did it happen?

Did Assad do it?

Is it a false flag designed to enlarge the war on the rebel’s behalf?

Whatever you answer, prove it.

I can’t.

I’m not sure about what I’m looking at.

As most of you do, I see what’s reported, although perhaps I give the overview a little more time with attention to comparison and corroboration and spin.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry, citing its sources, said that a homemade rocket carrying unidentified chemical substances had been launched from an area controlled by the opposition.

“A homemade rocket with a poisonous substance that has not been identified yet – one similar to the rocket used by terrorists on March 19 in Khan al-Assal – was fired early on August 21 [at Damascus suburbs] from a position occupied by the insurgents,” Lukashevich said.

RT.  “Russia suggests Syria ‘chemical attack’ was ‘planned provocation’ by rebels.”  August 21, 2013.

Turn the matter of the Hague, says I, for without an independent investigation by an an accepted neutral authority, whether detective or journalist, the little boys doing the fighting and the Big Bothers watching them and may, can, and will lie like hell in their own interests.

Additional Reference

Reuters.  “US joins calls for probe into alleged Syrian chemical attack.”  The Jerusalem Post, August 21, 2013.

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FNS – Egypt – Street Fighting – Ref. HuffPost

16 Friday Aug 2013

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“As military helicopters circled overhead, residents furious with the Brotherhood protesters pelted them with rocks and glass bottles. The two sides also fired on one another, sparking running street battles.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/egypt-protests_n_3766589.html

I may not be able to “track” Egypt today, but I wish those in Egypt who wish for peace and want nothing of the fighting a safe journey through the weekend (and beyond).  🙂

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Hillel the Elder

"That which is distasteful to thee do not do to another. That is the whole of Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"

"Whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

Oriana Fallaci
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon...I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

Abraham Isaac Kook

"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.

Heinrich Heine
"Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).

Simon Wiesenthal
Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."

Maimonides
"Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

Douglas Adams
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.

Thucydides
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

Milan Kundera
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Malala Yousafzai
“The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”

Tanit Nima Tinat
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What I Have Said About the Jews

My people, not that I speak for them, I nonetheless describe as a "global ethnic commune with its heart in Jerusalem and soul in the Land of Israel."

We have never given up on God, nor have we ever given up on one another.

Many things we have given up, but no one misses, say, animal sacrifice, and as many things we have kept, so we have still to welcome our Sabbath on Friday at sunset and to rest all of Saturday until three stars appear in the sky.

Most of all, through 5,773 years, wherever life has taken us, through the greatest triumphs and the most awful tragedies, we have preserved our tribal identity and soul, and so shall we continue eternally.

Anti-Semitism / Anti-Zionism = Signal of Fascism

I may suggest that anti-Zionism / anti-Semitism are signal (a little bit) of fascist urges, and the Left -- I'm an old liberal: I know my heart -- has been vulnerable to manipulation by what appears to me as a "Red Brown Green Alliance" driven by a handful of powerful autocrats intent on sustaining a medieval worldview in service to their own glorification. (And there I will stop).
One hopes for knowledge to allay fear; one hopes for love to overmatch hate.

Too often, the security found in the parroting of a loyal lie outweighs the integrity to be earned in confronting and voicing an uncomfortable truth.

Those who make their followers believe absurdities may also make them commit atrocities.

Positively Orwellian: Comment Responding to Claim that the Arab Assault on Israel in 1948 Had Not Intended Annihilation

“Revisionism” is the most contemptible path that power takes to abet theft and hide shame by attempting to alter public perception of past events.

On Press Freedom, Commentary, and Journalism

In the free world, talent -- editors, graphic artists, researchers, writers -- gravitate toward the organizations that suit their interests and values. The result: high integrity and highly reliable reportage and both responsible and thoughtful reasoning.

This is not to suggest that partisan presses don't exist or that propaganda doesn't exist in the west, but any reader possessed of critical thinking ability and genuine independence -- not bought, not programmed -- is certainly free to evaluate the works of earnest reporters and scholars.

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