A Jew could loath fascism at one level, but identify with its brutality at another. Such splitting is deeply characteristic of what we call human weaknesses. Thus some Jews could develop a national chauvinist reaction to the Holocaust, in which they might be expected to unto others something of that which had been done unto them and their families.
- From "Overcoming Zionism" by Joel Kovel

To Matan Vilnai,

I can't be more disgraced of the human race as I am today after your comments were heard on the beloved Army radio. I can't be more ashamed of the stage that the world is giving you and your fellow Zionists, that day to day swallows bigger pieces of justice, freedom, and the common least denominator of humanities. I can't be more embarrassed of the human inherited culture of inequality, oppression, inferiority, and thirst for blood. Your words have been a disguise and a humiliation to the world, while "the world remains silent".

I wonder if you have consulted any of your neighbors about how horrifying and destructive it is in the "Shoah" you want to bring the Palestinians. Have you asked Aharon Appelfeld if making a new concentration camp like the one he escaped from in Gaza will be any escapable ? Did you ask David Grossman if your plan of resurrecting Nazi practices will bring any peace to the Palestinians he interviewed ? Have you asked - in Arabic please - the stolen land of settlements you live in if she is any thirsty for more blood ? Have you ever thought what it is to lose your wife or any of your kids and nobody cares to mention them or their names or their families or that it was their last walk on the beach ?

I don't understand your words unless they I blend in a historic mixture of Apartheid, racism, and religious Jewish superiority. It has been always shyly mentioned and related to Nazism, but you didn't like this vague and not opinionated stand. You wanted Israel to stand out as the land of Israel does on Arabs land. Your "Shoah" will not be different; will it find its bread and wine from the flesh and blood of Gazans, but their bones will bury you beside the Nazis prophets and their tears will write your name on their Hall of Shame.

Mr. Vilnai.. We are hearing in the news about the waged war against civilians in Gaza. We hear about families being killed, dozens of kids murdered, and more than 30 people were victims of your army's barbarism. You might be implementing your wishes to rage a bigger "Shoah" or "Holocaust" against Gaza, but these wishes will find themselves right beside Yitzhak Rabin's dreams that it would sink into the sea. Gaza was built by the little dreams that grow a country everyday with every sweat dropping from thick brows. Gazans will live on olive oil and zaatar and grow thin skin and big hearts, that will have hopes that outlive your words legacy.

A Palestinian

In 1929, days after the stock market crash, the Harvard Economic Society assured its subscribers: "A sever depression is outside the probability". In a survey in March 2001, 95% of American economists said there would not be a recession, though one had already started. Today, most of economists do not forecast a recession in America, but the profession's pitiful forecasting record offers little comfort.
- Economist Magazine

The American economy is going for a free fall; vote for Hillary Clinton to save it. That's the ad. that was playing to call people to vote for Hilary Clinton in the Potomac Area. Americans are so naive that a shallow message like that will attract their attention and they would land their fears on the hope it suggests. Many people don't understand that tinkering with the system is just a delay of a certain collapse; it is like taking a pain killer where you grow more and more dependent on it, but it definitely doesn't solve the problem or cure your disease.
The current economic system in play in US is even worse than communism. Communism's hardcore structure and hierarchy and prevention of ownership created an outrageous sense of marginalizing within people, and way to the end of it till people figured out its drawbacks - though some did at the beginning. Capitalism offers the market solution that is ideal when the access to markets and information is equally granted, but who thinks this is the case today ? nobody.

Marketing the ideas of capitalism was a school of thought that was never as strong or ideal as the communism one. The prophets of capitalism - Ronald Regan and Margret Thatcher - had no further vision than getting and spending. With the underlying system of fractional reserve and interest, the down dip was essential. Markets became less and less accessible to normal Americans and more accessible to bigger corporates; and access to monetary power was granted to banks with the power of creating money of literal thin air. The rest of people were doomed to default and slip to the new style of slavery - debt slavery.

I really want you to view this eye-opening video that will give you a clearer view of the current monetary system. More people should be aware of how this functions so they can resist its givens.

I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow, as most of you are and obliged to go thro' good report and evil report, for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor...
- Otis, 1762, speaking against the conservative rulers of the Massachusetts colony

Since I stepped on the American soil, I have noticed the American talent of calling everything you might - or might not - accept a friendly name to make it more presentable. Many things one can happily accept with a smile are undercover flashbacks to the very same past phenomenons that carried different names and was fought against by societies over and over. I felt like it was all a game of PR - Public Relations - that the present faces mastered and the past ones failed at. Everything was simply made fine .. Usury became interest, bribery became lobbying, deceiving and lying became advertising, greed became capitalism, lords and peasants government and people, material slavery became consumerism, adultery became sexual freedom, imperialism became freedom, upper class control became democracy, and pregnant ladies could hide bombs .. not very funny, right ?

The consciousness game that is played against people to enable or disable them according to their access of reality is a long played game of people of power. People here - in God they Trust - have control over everything but the things that change their status quo. The trinity of power complex: Politics, Money, Media is not controlled by the little, yes little, American - thanks to the puppet masters. This will be clearer in my next series of articles highlighting the misery and grief this system gives to Americans and the world.

Given my origins, it's a real controversy to feel sympathy to whom tax dollars fund their troops. But - being a common sense advocate - it didn't take me long to realize something - hopefully not everything - is wrong. When I took a peak into normal people lives here, I realized that oppression is not my local concept as much as it is a universal one, but it can take a very creative form of it to enslave and oppress the people who claim knowledge and advancement. The problem has been growing bigger and bigger to include governments, monetary systems, corporates, paid scholars under its extending wings. It's quite clear and simple, but we are quite naive to see it too.

Since I started reading "A People's History of the United States" by a great historian - Howard Zinn - given to me by a great friend of mine that refuses a static state of mind - I became to feel the dilemma the people here suffer. It all started this way:

Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership.
- Howard Zinn in "A people History of the United States"

The fascination is greater when you see the survival of this exploit living till today, in a world that carries the freedom motto, where the deception game grows bigger and bigger. The dangers of this system are growing with the growth of the United States; the immorality of power can prove very destructive and destabilizing on a global wide system. Yet, it is never late to address imbalances and injustice in whatever form or shape it takes.

To Be Continued ..

It's irrelevant for people in Gaza if I condemn their violence or not. It's irrelevant because I am not accepted as a preacher. You can't preach your morality on people living like this: in slums, refugee camps, and surrounded by fences - Azmi Bishara

Mr. Abu El Gheit - Egypt foreign minister - volunteered to preach people in Gaza on their resistance, but never revealed but an ugly face of Egyptian monarchs. Abu El Gheit said that any Palestinian that would "break" Egyptian borders will have his legs "broken". It's been a while since we heared fascists like Yitzhak Rabin ordering the army to "break their bones". So much for the History that teaches fascists to learn from each other..

It would be ridiculous to continue mentioning Abu El Gheit's notes about the Palestinian resistance against Israel and the effect of launching home made projectiles and rockets towards Sdeirot. His retarded comments just reflect the IQ requirement that is needed to be part of the Egyptian regime that is practicing occupation on Egyptian "peasants". It's a rhetoric argument to blame resistance and an occupied nation for their given right to resist. The resistance did not starve people in Gaza, nor did they cut their electricity fuel, not did they embargo themselves, but the occupation did.

The current situation in Gaza is upsetting the Egyptian government because it screams that they are a group of "sell outs". By standing by and enforcing the status quo on Palestinians in Gaza, there is nothing to be understood more than this scandalous stand of the Palestinians suffering. Israel's ambassador in Egypt was talking about building a wall along the boarders between Gaza and Egypt to continue their from-the-Nazis-to-the-Zionists wall building traditions.

Of course, normal Egyptians stood from day one to support Palestinians and their cause. Abu Trika - the Egyptian famous soccer player - made his stand, and the rest of people in Egypt, clear and received the most dignifying yellow card in field. Here is the video..

Barack Obama is becoming a world dream as a future president of the United States. Obama is the society's call for the new direction of correction and new approach of internal and foreign US policy. I will let the clip take you through this dream..

يا ليل خلِّ الأسيرْ تَ يْكمِّلْ نواحُو

Oh Night let the prisoner continue his mourning

رايح يفيق الفجر ويرفرف جْناحو

Morning will come and wave its wings

تَيَتْمَرْجَحْ المشنوق في هبّة رْياحو

Swinging the hanged in the blow of its winds

***

يا ليل وقِّف تَقَضِّي كلْ حسراتي

Oh night stop.. so I can finish my mourning

يمكن نسيت مين أنا ونْسيت آهاتي

You might have forgotten me and my sorrows

يا حيف كيف انقضت بيدك ساعاتي

How my hours just passed by

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شمل الحبايب ضاعْ واتكسّروا اقْداحوا

The beloved are shattered and their glasses are broken

***

لا تظنْ دمعي خوف.. دمعي على اوطاني

No fear sheds my tears but my country

وعا كَمْشة زغاليل في البيت جوعاني

and little hungry birds back home

مين راح يطعمها بعدي وإخواني

Who would feed their hunger after me and my brothers

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شباب اثنين قبلي ع المشنقة راحوا

Two young brothers were hanged

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وبكرا مراتي كيف راح تقضي نهارها

And how will my wife do

ويلها عليّ وويلها على صغارها

her sorrow for me or hers for the children

يا ريتني خلّيت في أيدها سوارها

I wish I let her jewelery in her hands

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يوم أن دعتني الحرب تا اشتري سلاحو

when war called me to buy my gun

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ظنيت لنا ملوكٍ تمشي وراها رجالْ

I thought we had kings with men

تخسا الملوك إن كانوا هيك انذال

Shame on them they should belittled

والله تيجانهم ما يصلحوا لنا نعال

And their crowns are lower than our soles

Dear friends ..

I created this blog as some of my friends suggested. I hope sharing my thoughts and opinions would be as stimulating and helpful to everyone that reads the blog. You can - of course - subscribe to the feeds or bookmark in different ways around the blog.

So, feel free and at ease to leave any comment here or there .. discussions and notes are always welcome ..

one more thing .. you don't need to be too opinionated :)

Mohammed Ghazi

When screams for help weren't heard, begging for the human sense in everyone in the world didn't reach out, lighting a million and 300 thousand candles wasn't enough to light up dark cold nights, women in Gaza decided to break through the walls of stone and steal on the boarders while UN men were not up to the task. I woke up this morning on the news of thousands crossing the boarders to Egypt regardless of Ramallah's Karzai, Israel's Zionist supremacists, and the rest of the blind world. Every family has the challenge now to buy its children food and milk, and maybe some diesel to startup their backup generators to cope with the need to stay in the 21st century.

While Americans were celebrating their history of civil society struggle against hatred and disenfranchisement - based on race and gender - through the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., another system of hatred and religious supremacy is shading another part of the world. The human tragedy continues in a different style, where KKK hoods were replaced by IDF helmets. The continuous mass-lashing and group punishment continues in Gaza Strip for their democratic choices.

The humanitarian depth of this problem is not but an echo to the political situation supported by stupid politicians in Israel, Palestine, and US. The 2 neighboring states solution continues to illustrate lousiness and ridicule throughout the results. One state is allowed to create an acceptable theocracy and religious supremacy, and the other to serve that picture with a supply of partial human workers. This is a denial of human dreams of a just distribution of rights and status. Standing against this is another chapter in human struggle against German Nazi's, S.African Nats, and now Jewish Zionism.

So.. Since I stepped on the US soil, all what I had were around $300 and a couple of $50/$20 notes in my wallet, plus a dime and 2 nickels a friend of mine gave me when I was in UAE. So I would claim that I knew that US currency is either green notes - pinkish now - and metallic coins that held some value.

What couldn't understand was the pennies part. Small copper pieces that the cashiers gave me every time when I sincerely would have accepted a round-down. Although very insignificant in value, I always picked any falling penny even if it ran away on the metro stop , till Ashleigh told me one day to ignore it. It was like a light led up and told me I don't really need to care about these pieces much, since they were almost of no value. I started avoiding putting them in my wallet and would place them in my jackets or pants to give them to any homeless guy around the corner; which was another problem. Actually I found out it's quite a cheap donation to give the pennies you had, even if it was a whole scoop of them - they should be counted by that. So, I actually didn't know what to do.

To be honest, I started ignoring them. ask he cashier to keep them, or leave them stroll till they bury themselves under a pedestrian shoe, or whatever they wanted to do; it's America at the end.

I just had a question about them. I started wondering how many pennies I ignore, and whether or not it was a fortune that I'm losing. I tried thinking of losing a penny a day, and to make the math easier, made it 300 pennies a year. Reasonable enough ..
but there re around 300M Americans wandering around this country, and I am quite sure they learned like me - quite a FOB - not to pick this running away infinitesimal fortune. so that would be 90,000,000,000 homeless pennies, which is around $0.9 Billion. To be honest again, I didn't know America had this much money on the floor..

did you ?

- "They actually didn't count my last year.."
- "What do you mean ?"
- "I was enrolled in 2007.. I should have got my first rank in 6 months then in 2008 I should get a Mulazem (Lieutenant)"
- "what difference does that make ?"
- "Well .. I'm paid 1000 NIS and should get 2000"
- "wow"
- "bastards"
- "but technically, did you work last year for the security forces ?"
- "No .. we are not supposed to help Hamas government"
- "so what do they pay you for ?"
- "To stay home"
- "What ?"
- "If you were known to work for the government in Gaza.. They cut your salary right away"
- "wtf ? you are paid to stay home ? what kinda job is that ?"
- "these are the Ramallah bastards.. we are not supposed to support Gaza government"
- "The first government to hear that ever does that.. "

This conversation I had with my friend in Palestine - Hamas occupied territories (Gaza) at a very interesting time for me after finishing reading a book my wife gave me "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" which coincided with reading an interview with Jamal Ayesh - a co-founder of Fatah and a member in PLO's national committee. He mentioned how a bunch of "businessmen" are handling the Palestinian most critical issues like the Refugees, Jerusalem, water, and Settlements. This group of people is trying to hijack the Palestinian long and honoring history of struggle and self-sacrifice for personal agendas. No mentioning a number of examples of Dahalanism "Mohammed Dahalan case" and Qrai'ism "Abu Ala'a Qrai'a case with settlements". Some people like Dahalan had their cards burned by a more national group in Gaza - Hamas, but Qrai'a is leading the negotiations with the Israelis on our most important set of Palestinian red lines.

The problem is branching into a number of problems that is topped by having our top leaders get involved in a set of generous financial advantages that will change them from lousy statesmen to benefiting capitalist businessmen. On the other hand, a whole nation is dipped into a day to day life dilemma that will not push them to secure their most basic security, health, and food needs and not further care about self-determination or actualization. A whole nation leadership was trivialized in running a state's errants and beg for the next set of medicines to get into Gaza Strip or enough fuel to be shipped to keep patients from dying.

Throughout the confessions of the EHM I fell in love with the same personality the writer loved - Omar Torrijos that was murdered in a CIA style of plane crash if I'm not mistaken. It's a basic result of putting your nation's interest in front of uncle Sam's, or in Gaza's case to be boycotted and isolated and viewed as a terrorist with a beard. The stamping of the national heroes that spent their lives battling injustice to be extremists or terrorists is not a new theme, but it's a shame to fall in the same trap that has been used for the past century ..
As American's say "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" .. though Bush never knew how to say it right ..