21.10.06

"And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter are repelled, and when those (whom they worship) beside Him are mentioned, behold! they are glad." [39:45] (according to Marmaduke Pickthal)


The Fifth Infallible: Imam Hussein

#25 of the Forty suggested for memorization:

A man came to the chief of martyrs Imam Hussain (A.S.) and said, "I am a man who commits sin and do not have patience and restraint regarding sins and wrongs so admonish me with a piece of admonition."

Thus he (pbuh) said, "Do five things and commit any sin you may wish. First is that do not eat the sustenance of Allah and do commit any sin you wish. And secondly, get out of the dominion of Allah and do perform any sin you wish and thirdly, seek a place where Allah does not see you and commit any sin you please and fourthly when the angel of death comes to take your soul, repel him from your self and do any sin you may please. And fifthly when Malik (Iblis) makes you enter the fire, DO NOT ENTER the fire and do any sin you please."


Hussein is of course, the grandson of the prophet. Not a paid for representative of the Hindu council*. It is also important to note that part in the Quran about the poets and that some are good and some, not very.

SERMON 17 (Hadrat Ali, pbuh)

About those who sit for dispensation of justice among people but are not fit for it.
Among(1) all the people the most detested before Allah are two persons. One is he who is devoted to his self. So he is deviated from the true path and loves speaking about (foul) innovations and inviting towards wrong path. He is therefore a nuisance for those who are enamoured of him, is himself misled from the guidance of those preceding him, misleads those who follow him in his life or after his death, carries the weight of others' sins and is entangled in his own misdeeds.

The other man is he who has picked up ignorance. He moves among the ignorant, is senseless in the thick of mischief and is blind to the advantages of peace. Those resembling like men have named him scholar but he is not so. He goes out early morning to collect things whose deficiency is better than plenty, till when he has quenched his thirst from polluted water and acquired meaningless things.

He sits among the people as a judge responsible for solving whatever is confusing to the others. If an ambiguous problem is presented before him he manages shabby argument about it of his own accord and passes judgement on its basis. In this way he is entangled in the confusion of doubts as in the spider's web, not knowing whether he was right or wrong. If he is right he fears lest he erred, while if he is wrong he hopes he is right. He is ignorant, wandering astray in ignorance and riding on carriages aimlessly moving in darkness. He did not try to find reality of knowledge. He scatters the traditions as the wind scatters the dry leaves.

By Allah, he is not capable of solving the problems that come to him nor is fit for the position assigned to him. Whatever he does not know he does not regard it worth knowing. He does not realise that what is beyond his reach is within the reach of others. If anything is not clear to him he keeps quiet over it because he knows his own ignorance. Lost lives are crying against his unjust verdicts, and properties (that have been wrongly disposed of) are grumbling against him.

I complain to Allah about persons who live ignorant and die misguided. For them nothing is more worthless than Qur'an if it is recited as it should be recited, nor anything more valuable than the Qur'an if its verses are removed from their places, nor anything more vicious than virtue nor more virtuous than vice.

SERMON 68

Admonishing his companions about careless behaviour Amir al-mu'minin said:
How long shall I accord you consideration that is accorded to camels with hollow hump, or to worn clothes which when stitched on one side give way on the other. Whenever a vanguard force of Syria (ash-Sham) hovers over you, everyone of you shuts his door and hides himself like the lizard in its hole or a badger it its den. By Allah, he whom people like you support must suffer disgrace and he who throws arrows with your support is as if he throws arrows that are broken both at head and tail. By Allah, within the courtyard you are quite numerous but under the banner you are only a few. Certainly, I know what can improve you and how your crookedness can be straightened. But I shall not improve your condition by marring myself. Allah may disgrace your faces and destroy you. You do not understand the right as you understand the wrong and do not crush the wrong as you crush the right.

From the letter to Hassan:

If your kindness or indulgence is going to bring forth cruel results, then severity of strictness is the real kindness.

An accessory of an accomplice who insults you and a friend who has not formed a good opinion of you will not be of any help or use to you.

Do good to your brother when he is bent upon doing harm to you. When he ignores or declines to recognize the kinship, befriend him, go to his help and try to maintain relations. If he is miserly with you and refuses to help you, be generous with him and support him financially. If he is cruel with you, be kind and considerate with him. If he harms you accept his excuses. Behave with him as if he is a master and you are a slave, and he is a benefactor and you are a beneficiary. But be careful that you do not thus behave with undeserving and mean persons.

Advise your friend sincerely and to the best of your ability even though he may not like it.

Every arrow of yours will not hit the bull's eye.

And the last one is certainly, the most accurate.

19.10.06

On Kallam versus the Avicennians versus Zionist Atrocities aka Vandalism

You see, it started when the issue of place became the dwelling place of God as a reversal of the dwelling place being in the sphere of ultimate logic or as we might suggest, Allah.

Ultimate logic does not require a place. What is required, is to sense that there may be men on Mars....anymore that is. Green men. We are so caught up in the issues of Island Living. Caught in this pocket of light so to speak, which is actually, the conundrum of Bats.

Hints are the only way a person of certain magnitudes, can teach. Otherwise, there is the obligatory biases involved in dwelling here or there. Exile or the other term, where one dies which is of course, an unknown. Perpetually exiled it seems until finally planted.

In the Middle East, it is important to die in the place of one's birth. All semetic crowds are the same until the question arrives: assimilation. In other words, unification theories.

Allah said: Plan well. I also shall plan. And with that! He directed folks towards something thought to be magnetic and placed it dead center in the guidebook, just for kicks.

One of the main problems however, was with the geneologies and jealousies. The apple of course was simply: A Divine Order. Doesn't matter which one really and there is no way of knowing which Apple Trees produce which Lotus Blossoms (and boy, you are really in trouble if you have to find a way to fit into a flower pod). No way to know and in fact, it is such that until the common prophet Abraham said and did some stuff, nothing was previously known.

Boys will be boys though and most boys are of the jealous type. Cain/Abel...you know, the familiar stories. In fact, I've seen it myself. It is called Civil Indecencies and most are perpetuated by the most moral types with the finest of ideals.

Eyes are necessary to formulate opinions based on reading various texts. Heart and Faith however, as complex as those are, are required to usurp the boundaries of fundamentalist thinking of any sort. Literal tendencies as in "Kallam" , First Cause and hence "Fuzzy Maths and Lies" are no more than human peculiarities used in the scheming of the generally faithless.

What is very interesting is that this "book circle" of distribution is also alligned with the Scambala types. I'd be careful if I was to hobnob with those types of beings. They like to paint people which is the same as Racial Profiling only it comes in a broad variety of "pastels".

Never mind what is said about "those who blow on knots". We wouldn't want to get too technical on such unware readers of the most important of all texts:

The Dawn (113)

In the name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful
Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the Dawn
From the evil of what he created
And from the evil of the utterly dark night when it comes
And from the evil of those who blow on knots
And from the evil of the envious when he envies.

The last third of the Quran is probably the most entertaining in terms of "getting a person going" into the interior depths of its truths.

Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

—Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/files/leo_strauss_and_the_world_of_intelligence.pdf

18.10.06

The Israeli government is clearly unsatisfied by the outcome of its war with Lebanon in July and August and seems to want either a second round or another conflict in the region. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other senior officials have issued a series of bellicose statements, threatening to use force to halt arms shipments that they claim are still reaching Hizbullah, threatening "pre-emptive" strikes on Iran's nuclear program, and threatening to intensify an already deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=76235&categ_id=17

The Jewish state has a long history of lashing out across its borders in order to mask divisions within them. (Er, this is a typical "semeitc:" thing and perhaps a typical thing in humanity in the thing called the Adventure of War which is many things...in the US it is a way of "shaping up" a society gone mad with drugs and violence, sexism and bigotry).

I wonder what the answer to the world's dilemna is? The plan, as I see it, is immense. The armies build in various ways and alot has to do with the intention of individuals. And the ability of propaganda to invest itself in the bad intentions of some and the way it annoys the good intentions of others.

Islam. I'm telling you. The answer is Islam. Islam is color and nation blind.
Wild Bill



Wild Bill's bookshop down the road. A bisbee eccentric which means, he is quite normal in these parts.

17.10.06

http://www.mahmouddarwish.com/english/article2.htm



Like Yehuda Amichai, the Israeli poet he read in Hebrew as a young man, Mr. Darwish has given expression to his people's ordinary longings and desires. He writes, he said, with "an eye toward the beautiful," and would like his poetry to be read for its literary attributes." "Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write," he added, clearly frustrated. "When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol."

He has written some fairly militant poems, and they have not gone unnoticed. His 1988 poem "Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words," published in the early days of the first intifada, provoked an outcry among Israelis, including some of the poet's left- wing friends. Although Mr. Darwish insisted that he was addressing Israeli soldiers ("Live wherever you like, but do not live among us"), many Israelis interpreted the poem as a call for them to evacuate the region altogether.


"I said what every human being living under occupation would say, `Get out of my land,' " Mr. Darwish said. "I don't consider it a good poem, and I have never included it in any of my anthologies."

In March 2000 Yossi Sarid, who was then the education minister of Israel, suggested including a few of Mr Darwish's poems in the Israeli high school curriculum. After right- wing members of President Ehud Barak's coalition government threatened a vote of no-confidence, Mr. Barak declared that "Israel is not ready" for Mr. Darwish's work.

"The Israelis do not want to teach students that there is a love story between an Arab poet and this land," Mr. Darwish said. "I just wish they'd read me to enjoy my poetry, not as a representative of the enemy."
Precognitive Pietas
(2004)

I

On Adverse Affects

For thine is the Kingdom and the power shone
within me outside of poets talking about
how it makes them feel, All Over the Road
wandering 'What should be said next?'
Left out? Brought in?
Put it right there alongside,
For Thine is the Kingdom,
leadeth me to pastures; I shall not want.
That is my sheperd, the boy down there
with a stick, he's alive dammit!
Better not talk to him, better not trick
him into believing
For thine is the Kingdom,
he shall not want; his moses stick
his determined walk next to two dogs
his flock all there rooting around
in everyone's garden, and he smiles
the rudimentary smile of child labor,
returns home to his small meals and hangs
his filthy rags up on a peg
smells the goats outside, hears the bleating:
For thine is the Kingdom; He shall not want
his backyard full of the usual -
chicken dung and vague decomposing vegetable matter
a little naked sister wanders into the traffic
onto the highway which she'll remember in her old age
as "her childhood". For thine is the Kingdom,
she shall not want, as she bears a man ten children
she shall not want to read this or Ulysses,
she shall not read the messages on her pharmaceuticals,
For thine is the Kingdom, we shall not want
pain or disgruntlement, nor the reminders.

II

On Indications

For thine is the Kingdom, here we are
in the dismal parody, the meandering gaze
Get thee behind me, my daily bread
lives a better life, more consistent
with what it is, For thine is the Kingdom
of mold forests, the kingdom of slag heaps
this tiny world on a frog's tongue
as it licks out, caught in time lapse digital,
For thine is the Kingdom, all on that tongue
for the millisecond, a generation is obliterated
at one whack, an entire line of mosquitoes
their forebearers extinguished, the progeny
extincted, For thine is the Kingdom
on the DVD, the entire Sonnets and whatelses
For thine is the Kingdom, MacBeth and creation
from the Bible on down, For thine is the Kingdom
transplanted like a mole from a face
to the petri dish, to the bread crumb
For thine is the Kingdom
stigmatic, still warm in the histologist's hand.

III

On Contraindications

For Thine is the Kingdom, the four o'clock call
from the addicted mother, ye shall not want
at four o'clock, her children miserably alert
Not a good time for a visit, the nine
year old tears a paper in half, I'll punch you
in the face For Thine is the Kingdom
of child labor and child recalcitrance
For thine is the Kingdom of the pill hungry
alert madonna, the pieta of the bruised-faced
child, For thine is the Kingdom
of abstinence and fixing, negotiating
the skeletons of the marriage from
the fleshy baby fat, For thine is the Kingdom
of the Pediatrician who fills out the forms,
the nine year old with pettechiae
the purple flower of madonna's grace;
For thine is the Kingdom on the bruised chin
she'll remember in her old age as "her childhood"
signs a letter to the father who fell in love
in Moldovia, fell in with another prostitute
"So what was wrong with my mother?"

IV

On Healing Lepers

For thine is the Kingdom where you shall be sent
near still waters you leadeth me to drink
get thee behind me and my daily bread,
this island of the lame
the decomposing matter called our skin
contains what it must, necessitating
explanatory revelations: For thine is the Kingdom
the body the temple and the temple buried
For thine is the Kingdom
still as it lives and as it rots
as it is and as it will be
when it is becoming; Lame and leper
the island knows only itself,
a colony tuned into the desire of a few
mainstream types in their own isolation
before Pasteur, before spontaneous generation,
look around What do you see?
All over the place, transgressing forgivenesses
blended families Sodom and Gommorhha,
pillars of salt in the DU, golden helmuted
stinging fly things called Apaches,
What a framework! Everything fits
as it should:

For thine is the Kingdom,
for thine is this illusion
.
The Petty Analysis of the Infinite

I am not fine.
We are not fine.
The world is at war.
I always knew it would turn out that way.
Bound to happen you know
as were so many things
but no one believed me.
Some thought I wanted
to invent myself.

When I was a child
I knew I was different.
I knew I had certain abilities
but didn't know how
they would come about.
Schopenhauer at ten, who cares.

I knew myself. And this,
we only believe what
we know to be true.
The angels that visited
said only that they were
following him.
There was no elaboration.

16.10.06

Zionism is a Cancer and those
who cannot define Zionism are just SOL.


http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2845&Itemid=220


After the crocodile tears the ad reaches its conclusion: "If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die. We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs".

This supposedly "even handed" condemnation of the deaths of innocent people is a vicious deceit. The U.S. backed Israeli assault on Lebanon left much of that country a smoking ruin. Over 1,200 Lebanese people, the vast majority of them civilians and many of them children, died in the high tech Israeli onslaught. The savage massacre at Qana, in which 56 people, 34 of them children, died, was perpetrated by bombs made in the U.S.

"Everyone in southern Lebanon is a terrorist and is connected to Hezbollah", said Israeli Justice Minister Ramon two days before the bombing of Qana. His statement was a justification of mass murder past, present, and future. As British journalist Robert Fisk reported, "There was no doubt of the missile which killed all those children yesterday. It came from the United States, and upon a fragment of it was written: 'For use on MK-84 Guided Bomb BSU-37-B'. No doubt the manufacturers can call it 'combat-proven' because it destroyed the entire three-storey house in which the Shalhoub and Hashim families lived. They had taken refuge in the basement from an enormous Israeli bombardment, and that is where most of them died."

Irish Muslim Mo'lasses from the Passes

(for Ogden Nash)



I am the blossom of the X Generation
now watch me go to seed.
Not born in the fifties, unable to really read.

This is true blue flag waving
in a yellow polka dot bikini.
This is me who never watched a single flick Fellini.

Here I am Tonto bound
a prize in a box of Carmelled Jack.
In this one my brother's shooting another amp of Crack.

Up on the mantle sits Maya Angelou
she is standing by Big Bird,
and Dr. Seuss thinks deterrence a little bit absurd.

Here is a train stub from the Mighty Santa Fe,
and in the drawer near the panties 
are Black Angus and Uncle Ray.

I'm really rather hip
but I'm so far quite unknown
because we have Blue Jesus, a tad bit overblown.

This just in! Investigative Reportage
reveals that Olmert is a Zionist!

Imagine my surprise. Not.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772462.html

He embroiled Israel in a superfluous and failed war, and this week threatened to join up with the most Kahanist politician active in Israel since the death of Rehavam Ze'evi. What is happening to us, to our Ehud Olmert? Nothing. Olmert is coming back to himself.


Hmm. You know, while I was being attacked in Beirut....it wasn't very nice you know.....I opted to read and write about the truth some more. You know, 85% of all Israelis DEFENDED Olmert in the first days of the brutal atrocity commited against Lebanon. Where were these comments before the destruction of an entire country?

Geez. I'm sick and tired of this "apologetic" apocolyptic literature of mock innocence.

It is an insult to the intellect of all human beings who, for some crazy reason, think Israel ought to be a Lighthouse of Ethics.
http://p072.ezboard.com/ftheforbiddenstoryfrm7.showMessageRange?topicID=2832.topic&start=21&stop=26

"and is stalking me around the internet. I'm thinking of ressurecting the long, ugly thread and including some more choice info on her. " -Tim Smith

It is, a free country. Now, go to hell. Since you don't believe in Hell that ought not matter to either one of you.

And I quote:

Hmm. Well, first off, it is impossible to argue the case with a non believer and win. If I win, you become a believer. It is as simple as that. Therefore, no matter what I say will inevitably cause you either confusion, anxiety or hostility. In general, in Islam, this is not allowed.
The Psychoses of the Masses

How do people end up on the couches? Is it because society itself has a Freudian problem at hand or in its anus?

I wonder this as I close the phone. Back there, we closed it. We did not hang it up. So appropriate to close the phone as one closes a conversation and opens up the world of possible explanations for things like saying, "Because I know I am right."

This, to a Christian Palestinian woman whom I've known since I was around 13. Back then we were just tagging along. R was young and was soon to concieve her first child with a man she would later divorce because of the mishandling he did. He then married an old school chum of both R and Meryl Streep (Vassar). R refers to this as "six degrees of separation". How much of that there is you know.

One day, I snuck into my sister's house and hoped to cop a bit of weed. It was snowing. My sister was living up near the city jail where I spent a famous night with a would be murderer and Francie who would later become one of two witnesses at my marriage to a Shi'i boy from South Lebanon.

I just ran into Francie the other day. She was outside of the Safeway which sits just a mile or two from the Naco, Sonora border. When I saw her, I picked her up (literally, like a lion I am) and swung her into the air. She was sneaking around the parking lot at the rear and was so anxious that I come and take a look at something in the bushes. Well, I didn't want to really because I had dreamed of seeing my Francie for so long and wanted to catch up a bit by just talking for a moment. But she insisted and I went around the side to look at what she was pointing at. There they were: little red baseball caps and white collared shirts, crouched in the bushes in the noon day sun. Illegal Aliens. Indigenous peoples looking for a way up to Tucson or Phoenix or who knows, Carmel.

Jailbirds to wedding days to this here and now that I'm in.

Once I was inside myy sister's house on that snowy day so long ago (yet not really when you consider the age of the planet), I found I was not alone. R was there too and for the same reason: to steal some pot from my sister. R forgets that but I've reminded her a time or two. Who would have guessed that R's brother would be writing about the invasion and war crimes of Israel in Lebanon as the editor of a rather large ME periodical, appearing on CNN to discuss "foreign affairs" with William Jefferson Clinton at a Beirut campus just a few weeks ago? Our kismets fan out wide you know but how do people end up on couches?

Once again, after I closed the phone with R today, I contemplate her admission of "therapy". It is the second time she mentioned it since our reunion here in Bisbee, Arizona. What is it that she said about hypnosis? Ah, yes. She was hypnotized to recollect the damage done to her mother because of the illegal occupation of Palestine. What? It is no secret is it?

What then, is it?

Now tell me. Please tell me someone. How is it we, as a people end up on the psychiatrist's couches?

What if, I mean, what if? What if all the liars finally told the Doc their real stories. Would it be that many people would be able to ditch that Xanax and Prozac and finally understand their very own genocide of the Native Americans? The commercials for tranquilizers and psychotropic drugs in America amaze and disturb me as they should disturb everyone.

This, as the border is being secured with the Wall of China to keep out the indigenous tribes of North America. Which will, in turn, prevent the migration of the animals we, "in the West' so love to protect. This, as Silliman posts a link to a "Zionist Mystic" poet (while I contemplate the "mysticism" Hitler so enjoyed and enjoined as a reason for his exterminations and pogroms). This, as the overwhelming silence on the part of so many regarding the Wall Israel has constructed, "for security reasons". Well sure. If I'd have stolen such a huge portion of land and set my sight on some more of it, I'd build a fucking wall to protect myself too. I'd need one because stealing horses, land, water and souls is a CRIME and in my estimation, they've not only built a prison for the indigenous people they've been torturing for over a half century with outrageous accuations and sadistic mental and physical acts, but they've also WALLED themselves into a fire ring of their own making.

This, as I close the phone and think: I could never achieve anything on a couch or with a pill or with a drink. I've already reached the conclusion by the door and now, it is only a time of waiting and watching the Walls in purgatory go up again. I can hardly wait to get out of here forever. The grave means so much to a Shi'i you know. We've got other plans to attend to once we make it out ALIVE.


Sixty Ways To Leave Your Swami

We used to go into hiding
because of the chiding
Jews, Germans and Irish
and some say too, the Amish and Bri'ish.
If this is the way of the saints
it might be best to buy paints
and make the good ones green
and the bad ones red
like Ken Wilbur does for cash
at Scam-bala press
with the Indian Ogden Nash
Deepak Chopra
who teaches how to meditate
and calculates his profits
and the profits of others
who aren't necessarily green
nor actually red
but something closer to Dick Smothers.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193438167&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel's ambassador to Australia, Naftali Tamir, is on his way home to clarify comments in a newspaper interview in which he was quoted as saying that Israel and Australia are "like sisters in Asia," because "we don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes."

15.10.06

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1223869,00.html


Hahahahaha.

Oh dear me. Well, better luck next time. With the "issues".

As if, you knew what the word Zionism meant. I mean, when you swim with the sharks buddy, you need to first learn how to state the argument without embarrassing yourself.

Lieberman is counting on you. Give it a college try and then, we'll see. What on earth will the Dems do eh?

...blame it on the Republicans.

Alas, it is a tangled web that was wove.
The Ray Gibbons Affair

So we talked about our childhoods:

rocks, whippings, shoes & night-times.
It is always us who do the talking,
me and her. It is about them.
So many folks up and down
the hills in various ways:

leaping the stairs two
at a time, walking the pipes
that span the gully. Fantastic blood-
baths from dawn to dusk, very tender.
John was barefoot, trapped behind the Chevy.

At the table we expected
another meal for our performance.
We hoped to impress
the next generation with our
shtick as canned as the peaches
in August when eaten in December.

We hoped to stir in it
to grant a feeling
we know lurks still
behind cabinets and formica.
We are the only ones.
who know the truth.

Nothing lasts.

She held that slipper of hers
and got ready to haul off and smack
old Ray right in the choppers.
When mom's dentures flew
out of her mouth,
Ray ran like a man on fire
up Bailey Hill taking the stairs, two at a time.




*Haha and this:


"The ultimate aim of all love affairs... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it."
"What is decided by it is nothing less than the composition of the next generation..."

Shopenhauer.

14.10.06

Hunter Thompson - Suicided?
March 4, 2005 - 23:44
Filed under:
Photographer for White House child sex ring arrested after Thompson suicidehttp://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=107&mode=&or...
Tyranny Comes To AmerikaReporters Targetedhttp://www.rense.com/general63/mak.htm
Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be 'suicided'
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2005/020305thompsonwarned.htm
The Hunter Thompson case just gets weirder and weirderhttp://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_35872...
Hunter Thompson friend confirms was on to White House callboy storyhttp://www.total411.info/2005/03/hunter-thompson-friend-confirms-was.htm...
What Zionism?


http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/september2004/articles/girlsarrested.htm


Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55964-2004Dec10?language=printer

JERUSALEM, Dec. 10 -- A rash of allegations that Israeli soldiers have killed Palestinians wrongfully and abused corpses in the field has been disclosed by human rights organizations and Palestinians -- but also by soldiers who contend that the long conflict is undermining basic concepts of decency in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, the military's chief of staff, told foreign reporters this week that the string of recent cases would "seem to call into question the moral standard of IDF soldiers," and said he would initiate investigations of the incidents. Yaalon, the army's top general, said he had spent much of the last two weeks meeting with officers in the field to discuss the allegations.

Many troops have been making their concerns known through the news media, Web sites, military courts and soldiers' organizations, according to soldiers, human rights officials and analysts. Critics contend that the Israeli military has a poor record of investigating and prosecuting allegations of wrongdoing by soldiers.

"These are not exceptions, but the reality itself," Yehuda Shaul, organizer of a group of soldiers called "Breaking the Silence," wrote on the organization's Web site, which lists dozens of testimonials from soldiers describing abuses they said they had witnessed. "Horrible and shameful as it is, this is the normative situation."

The ZIONIST ATROCITIES against children:

http://www.newstatesman.com/200606190029

That these children are now to be punished further may be beyond human comprehension, but there is a logic. Over the years, the Palestinians have avoided falling into the abyss of an all-out civil war, knowing this is what the Israelis want. Destroying their elected government while attempting to build a parallel administration around the collusive Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, may well produce, as the Oxford academic Karma Nabulsi wrote, "a Hobbesian vision of an anarchic society . . . ruled by disparate militias, gangs, religious ideologues and broken into ethnic and religious tribalism, and co-opted collaborationists. Look to the Iraq of today: that is what [Ariel Sharon] had in store for us."

http://judicial-inc.biz/35_jewish_idf_soldiers_rape_a_11.htm

Even I wasn't aware of this sort of thing. CNN and FOX are not what you'd call "honest brokers" of the news.

Triad


Family.