On the Other Side of the Fence, re-writing Torture
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…Sitting on the other side of the fence, I have a serious problem with this assumption, having witnessed the torture of my own people at the hands of Western morality. Sitting on the other side of the fence, and having witnessed and observed the annihilation of Iraq, (and I need to remind everyone again of the bogus charges), the main problem I find with this self proclaimed value system of Western morality, which is supposedly derived f rom a long historical struggle, a struggle made and armed with political “philosophical” concepts and “ethics”, and which culiminated in the advent of Western Democracy, is precisely that…and it makes me seriously question the veracity of these political “philosophical” concepts and “ethics”… [...] Sitting on the other side of the fence, the organized, planned, managed, systematic torture that was inflicted on the Iraqi people, (Third world, Arab, Muslim –lesser people) and Abu Ghraib is only ONE EXAMPLE, and while it is seen by the Western detached, impartial, objective, observer as an anomaly on its part, an unfortunate exception, in other simple words — a few bad apples only…I, on the other hand, have come to view it as the pillar on which Western “Democracy” has been built…
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Auschwitz survivor: “I can identify with Palestinian youth”
Adri Nieuwhof
Hajo Meyer, author of the book The End of Judaism, was born in Bielefeld, in Germany, in 1924. In 1939, he fled on his own at age 14 to the Netherlands to escape the Nazi regime, and was unable to attend school. A year later, when the Germans occupied the Netherlands he lived in hiding with a poorly forged ID. Meyer was captured by the Gestapo in March 1944 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp a week later. He is one of the last survivor s of Auschwitz [...]“I can write up an endless list of similarities between Nazi Germany and Israel. The capturing of land and property, denying people access to educational opportunities and restricting access to earn a living to destroy their hope, all with the aim to chase people away from their land. And what I personally find more appalling then dirtying one’s hands by killing people, is creating circumstances where people start to kill each other. Then the distinction between victims and perpetrators becomes faint. By sowing discord in a situation where there is no unity, by enlarging the gap between people — like Israel is doing in Gaza…”
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Children in Iraq still suffering psychologically from war trauma
by Ghassan Awad, Gao Shan
Bursting into tears, Jasim came forward and embraced his six-year-old son Omer who was shivering and crying excessively with fear “they will take me and kill me,” as he had already seen some heavily armed soldiers walking towards them in the volatile province of Diyala. “My poor son is screaming, completely lost in hysteria as soon as he sees Americans or Iraqi troops,” said Jasim who declined to give his full name for security rea sons…
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Military: Gitmo detainee dies of apparent suicide
DAVID McFADDEN and DANICA COTO, Associated Press Writers
A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. His is the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore U.S. prison, which President Barack Obama hopes to close by January. The Joint Task Force that runs the U.S. prison in Cuba said guards found Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih unresponsive and not breathing in his cell Monday night. In a statement issued from Miami, the U.S. military said the detainee was pronounced dead by a doctor after “extensive lifesaving measures had been exhausted.”…
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Pushing for “normalization” of Israeli apartheid
Ziyaad Lunat
The Arab League proposed in 2002 what became known as the Arab Peace Initiative to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was an unprecedented, bold offer which promised Israel full normalization in exchange for a complete withdrawal from the territories occupied in 1967 and the creation of a Palestinian state. The plan called for a “just settlement” to the Palestinian refugee issue. This, in practical terms, meant renunciation of the right to return, despite this being an individual right under international law of which no state or authority can forfeit on behalf of the refugees. The Arab Peace Initiative was based on what fallaciously became known as the “international consensus” for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that of “two states, for two peoples,” championed by the Zionist left as well as Israel’s patrons in the West. ..
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PFLP condemns security cooperation and demands full accountability for Qalqilya killings
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -PFLP
Comrade Jamil Majdalawi, member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, denounced the security cooperation with the occupation and called for its immediate end as well as a commission of inquiry to investigate the killing of leaders of Al-Qassam brigades in Qalqilya by Palestinian security forces. Comrade Majdalawi said that “our hearts are shock ed by the news of the bloody clash in Qalqilya,” and denouced in the strongest terms the persecution of the resistance and all forms and contents of security coordination and cooperation with the criminal occupation…
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How Important is Cheney’s Admission that There was NEVER Any Evidence Linking Iraq and 9/11?
Washington’s Blog
Cheney said in an interview on Fox News: “On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9-11, there was never any evidence to prove that,” he told the Fox host. “There was “some reporting early on … but that was never borne out… [President] George [Bush] … did say and did testify that there was an ongoing relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but no proof that Iraq was involved in 9-11.” How im portant is Cheney’s admission? Well, 5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”…
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