THE POWER OF SAYING NO

UPDATE: Salam, I just found out that SABBAH has already posted this article. You can check it out HERE. This is a brilliant statement by Jeff Halper, an Israeli Jew who is a dissident to Israeli, American, Fatah and Hamas policies. ________________________________________________________________ 03/20/06 4:34 PM THE POWER OF SAYING NO By Jeff Halper As the new Hamas government is sworn into power in the Palestinian Authority, we might ask: What would bring a people, the most secular of Arab populations with little history of religious fundamentalism, to vote Hamas? Mere protest at Fatah ineffectualness in negotiations and internal corruption doesn't go far enough. While warning Hamas that their vote did not constitute a mandate for imposing an Iran-like theocracy on Palestine, the Palestinians took the only option left to a powerless people when all other avenues of redress have been closed to them: non-cooperation. Gandhi put it best: "How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. Non-cooperation is directed not against*the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lie not in hatred but in justice." Non-cooperation, perhaps the most powerful means of non-violent resistance, arises in situations when the oppressed have no other avenues to achieve their freedom and their rights. Since it is the international community, the US, Israel and, yes, Fatah, who have closed all avenues of redress to the Palestinians, they carry the "blame" for the rise of Hamas. It is to them that the message of the Palestinian electorate is aimed: "To hell with all of you!" To hell with the international community that closed off Palestinians' appeal to international law and human rights conventions. Had only the Fourth Geneva Convention been applied, Israel could never have constructed its Occupation in the first place. International law defines an occupation as a temporary military situation that can only be resolved through negotiations. Therefore an Occupying Power such as Israel is prohibited from taking any unilateral action that makes its control permanent. Besides its military bases, every single element of Israel's Occupation is patently illegal: settlements and the construction of a massive system of Israel-only highways that link the West Bank settlements to Israel proper; the extension of Israel's legal and planning system into occupied Palestinian areas; the plunder of Palestinian water and other resources for Israeli use; house demolitions and the expropriation of Palestinian lands; the intentional im poverishment of the local population; military attacks on civilian populations -- to name but a few. Even when Israel's construction of the "Separation Barrier" was ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice in the Hague and its ruling ratified by the General Assembly, nothing was done to stop it. To hell with the United States that closed off negotiations as an avenue for redressing Palestinian rights and for enabling Israel to make its Occupation permanent. At the very start of the Oslo "peace process," at Israel's urging, the US reclassified the Palestinian areas from "occupied" to "disputed," thus removing international law as the basis of negotiations and pulling the rug out from under the Palestinians. Had international law been respected, the Occupation would have ended under the weight of its own illegality. But once power became the only basis of negotiations, Israel easily overwhelmed the Palestinians. Until today Palestinians have nothing to look for in negotiations. With the Americans supporting Israeli unilateralism, with the US veto neutralizing the UN as an effective avenue of redress, and with European passivity, they have been cut adrift. To hell with Israel that has closed off even the possibility of a viable Palestinian state by expanding into Palestinian areas. The world ignored the Palestinians' "generous offer" to Israel: recognition within the 1967 borders in return for a Palestinian state in the Occupied Territories. Or in other words, an Israel on 78% of historic Palestine with the Palestinians - today a majority in the country - accepting a state only on 22%. Israel is now posed, with American support and international complicity, to make its Occupation permanent and reduce the Palestinians to a prison-state truncated into five "cantons" all controlled by Israel. No borders, no freedom of movement, no water, no viable economy, no Jerusalem, no possibility of offering a hopeful future to the traumatized, brutalized, undereducated, unskilled, impoverished Palestinian youth. And to hell with Fatah that, in addition to enabling corruption, did not effectively pursue the Palestinians' national agenda of self-determination. The Palestinian Authority ran its affairs removed from the people, failing to provide material and moral support to victims of Israeli attacks and policies of house demolitions. Most Palestinians did not vote Hamas (only 44% did), so the door was not closed on Fatah which, most Palestinians seem to hope, will learn its lesson from this setback. Indeed, the vote for Hamas was not a closing of the door at all, but a rational, intentional and powerful statement of non-cooperation in a political process that is only leading to Palestinian imprisonment. Hamas, if anything, stands for steadfastness, sumud, the refusal to submit. This conflict is too destabilizing to the entire global system to let fester, the Palestinians are saying. You can all impose upon us an apartheid system, blame us for the violence while ignoring Israeli State Terror, pursue your programs of American Empire or your notions of a "clash of civilizations," we the Palestinians will not submit. We will not cooperate. We will not play your rigged game. In the end, for all your power, you will come to us to sue for peace. And then we will be ready for a just peace that respects the rights of all the peoples of the region, including the Israelis. But you will not beat us. As an Israeli Jew who sees how the Occupation has eroded the moral foundations of my society and, indeed, my entire people, and as a resident of Israel-Palestine who knows that my fate is intricately intertwined with that of the Palestinians, I pray that such an end will come sooner rather than later. (Jeff Halper is the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). He can be reached at .)

Mother's Day

Salam, I usually do not believe in Birthdays nor any other occasions ...thus the name The Grinch! That's what my wife calls me most of the time. But today is Mother's Day and I learned after years and years of being married that sometimes you have to go with the "Yes Maam" regardless of your position on the issue. I can not believe the effort our mothers and wives do to keep us in line. My mom and my wife are heroes for putting up with us men ( specially Arab men). I would like to honor my mom and my wife on this day for simply putting up with me. I'm sorry I have been a pain in the shusmo but you both know howmuch I love you. وقضى ربك ألا تعبدوا إلا إياه وبالوالدين إحسانا اللهم يا ذا الجلال و الإكرام يا حي يا قيوم ندعوك باسمك الأعظم الذي إذا دعيت به أجبت! ! ! ، . .. . ..أن تبسط على والدتي من بركاتك ورحمتك ورزقك . .. . ..اللهم ألبسها العافية حتى تهنئا بالمعيشة ، واختم لها بالمغفرة .حتى لا . ..تضرها الذنوب ، . .. . ..اللهم اكفيها كل هول دون الجنة حتى تُبَلِّغْها إياها .. برحمتك يا . ..ارحم الراحمين . .. . ..اللهم لا تجعل لها ذنبا إلا غفرته ، ولا هما إلا فرجته ، ولا حاجة من . ..حوائج الدنيا هي لك رضا ولها فيها صلاح إلا قضيتها . .. . ..اللهم ولا تجعل لها حاجة عند أحد غيرك . .. . ..اللهم و أقر أعينها بما تتمناه لنا في الدنيا . .. . ..اللهم إجعل أوقاتها بذكرك معمورة . .. . ..اللهم أسعدها بتقواك . .. . ..اللهم اجعلها في ضمانك وأمانك وإحسانك . .. . ..اللهم ارزقها عيشا قارا ، ورزقا دارا ، وعملا بارا . .. . ..اللهم ارزقها الجنة وما يقربها إليها من قول اوعمل ، وباعد بينها وبين . ..النار وبين ما يقربها إليها من قول أو عمل . .. . ..اللهم اجعلها من الذاكرين لك ، الشاكرين لك ، الطائعين لك ، المنيبين . . ..لك . .. . ..اللهم واجعل أوسع رزقها عند كبر سنها وانقطاع عمرها . .. . ..اللهم واغفر لها جميع ما مضى من ذنوبها ، واعصمها فيما بقي من عمرها، . ..و ارزقها عملا زاكيا ترضى به عنها . .. . ..اللهم تقبل توبتها ، وأجب دعوتها . .. . ..اللهم إنا نعوذ بك أن تردها إلى أرذل العمر . .. . ..اللهم واختم بالحسنات أعمالها..... اللهم آمين . .. . ..اللهم وأعنا على برها حتى ترضى عنا فترضى ، اللهم عنا على الإحسان . ..إليها في كبرها . .. . ..اللهم ولا تتوفاها إلا وهي راضية عنا تمام الرضى ، اللهم و اعنا على . ..خدمتها كما ينبغي لها علينا، اللهم اجعلنا بارين طائعين لها . .. . ..اللهم ارزقنا رضاها ونعوذ بك من عقوقها . .. . ..اللهم ارزقنا رضاها ونعوذ بك من عقوقها . .. . ..اللهم ارزقنا رضاها ونعوذ بك من عقوقها . .. . ..اللهم .آمين . ..اللهم آمين . ..اللهم آمين . .. . ..وصل الله على نبينا محمد وعلى آله و أصحابه ومن تبعهم باحسان الى يوم . ..الدين . .. . ..***************** . .. . ..اللهم اني اسألك من خير ما سألك به محمد صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم . ..واستعيذ بك من شر ما استعاذ به محمد صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم . .. . ..اللهم ارزق مرسل و قارىء الرسالة مغفرتك بلا عذاب وجنتك بلا حساب . ..ورؤيتك بلا حجاب . .. . ..اللهم ارزقنا زهور جنانك ، وشربه من حوض نبيك واسكنه دار تضيء بنور . ..وجهك . .. . ..اللهم لا تجعل لنا في هذه الدنيا همًا إلا فرجته ولا دينًا إلاقضيته . ..ولا حاجة من حوائج الدنيا والآخرة إلا يسرتها برحمتك يا أرحم الراحمين . .. . ..اللهم اجعلنا ممن يورثون الجنان ويبشرون بروح وريحان ورب غير غضبان .. . ..امين Peace

An American lawyer speaking my mind !

Salam, Here is an American lawyer speaking my mind, it's like he read my mind. Too bad its a TV show. :-(

Check it out

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Meen ErhabY?

MEEN ERHABY?!

Audio Bedouin Poems !

Salam, One of my secret hobbies is listening to audio Bedouin poems. I used to write poems loooong time ago, but that was in the past I guess I'm still found of these poems. Here is a nice site that list a bunch of those audio poems.

http://www.movn.net/

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Palestinian Territory is recognized by Blogspot :-)

Salam, Thanks to Haitham Sabbah and the rest of the gang for making this work. Blogger now recognized the Palestinian Territory, read all about it HERE. peace

Tagged by Raindrop

Salam, I’ve been tagged by Raindrop . Q: Who’s the 4th person on your received call list? A: Cingular, telling me my phone has been unlocked. Q: What’s your main ringtone on your phone? A: Ana 3endy haneen , by fairouz. Q: What were you doing at midnight last night? A: I was snoring. Q: What did the last text message on your cell phone say A: see you after lunchtime. Q: Whose bed did you sleep in last night? A: mine. Q: What color shirt are you wearing? A: gray. Q: Most recent movie that you watched? A: i cant remember its name! Q: Name 3 things that you have on you at all times? A: pocket knife, cellphone, keys. Q: What’s the color of your bedsheets? A: have no clue... white? Q: How much cash do you have on you right now? A: $340.87 Q: What is your favorite part of the chicken? A: Whole chicken baby. Q: What’s your favorite town/city? A: Jenin. Q: I can’t wait to (till)…? A: I'm done with school. Q: When was the last time you saw your mom? A: 4 years ago :-( Q: When was the last time you saw your dad? A: 4 years ago :-( Q: When was the last time you talked to them? A: 2 days ago. Q: What did you have for dinner last night? A: enchilada. Q: How long have you been at your current job? A: New Business. Q: Look to your left. What’s there? A: Flyers. Q: Who is the last person you spent over $50 on? A: Laila my daughter. Q: What’s the last piece of clothing you borrowed from someone? A: Jacket from Belal cause it was cold at his deck. Q: What website(s) do you visit the most during the day? A: jordanblogs.com/safat.kuwaitblogs.com/aljazeera.net. Q: Do you have an air freshener in your car? A: no. Q: Do you have plants in your room? A: no. Q: Does anything hurt on your body right now? A: yes, lets see.... my knee, my elbo, my toes. Q: What city was your last taxi cab ride in? A: Washington, DC. Q: Do you own a camera phone? A: yes. Q: What’s your favorite drink? A: O.J. Q: What’s your favorite Starbucks drink? A: this place is off limits for me. Q: Recent time you were really upset? A: I rarely do get upset. Q: Have you been in love with anyone? A: yes, lets see my kids, my wife, my parents, my friends.. and the list goes on, what can I say Alby kbeer. Q: Who do you think will repost this? A: No one. I would like to tag: Mira , Lulu & NYChick

Guess the Google

About the game

After creating Montage-a-google, several people wrote to me suggesting I make a game based on the same technology. Montage-a-google is a simple web app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Guess-the-google reverses this process by picking the keywords for you, the player must then guess what keyword made up the image - it's surprisingly addictive.

The game requires version 8 of the Flash player or higher to run, you can get the latest version here.

I hope you enjoy the game, happy guessing!

Please note: Although Guess-the-google uses images retrieved using Google's image search it is in no way associated with or endorsed by Google Inc.

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Hate Crime in Alabama

Salam, I can't beleive the FBI is trying to stear this case away from a Hate Crime case!!!!! Man of Arab descent shot; suspect held

Saturday, February 25, 2006

TOM GORDON

News staff writer

TUSCALOOSA - A man of Arab descent was in fair condition Friday night after being shot Thursday night by a man who had been yelling racial slurs outside a Middle Eastern takeout restaurant near the University of Alabama campus.

Among those who went to the aid of Nabil Chagri was John Bart Tyra, a Marine Reservist who returned from a tour in Iraq nearly a year ago. Afterward, Tyra said he was sickened by the incident.

"I shed a few tears over it, let's put it that way," said Tyra, a Tuscaloosa resident and a lance corporal in the Bessemer-based 4th Anti-Terrorism Battalion. "It just breaks my heart that that can happen here in the United States."

Friday morning, authorities arrested Jason Michael Gardner, 23, of Northport. He was charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. Gardner was in the Tuscaloosa County Jail on Friday night, with bonds set at $130,000.

The incident happened shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday at the Quick Grill, a small takeout restaurant specializing in Middle Eastern foods. It's situated on a stretch of University Boulevard known as the Strip.

Jassim Madan, a native of the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain, said he has operated the restaurant for about five years.

Madan said he was inside Thursday night when a customer told him a man was urinating on the restaurant. When the man was told to leave, Madan said, the man used a racial slur and slapped one of the restaurant's customers.

"Everybody was trying to control this guy," said Tyra, who had come over with a friend from a nearby bar to order some food and saw the guy yelling racial slurs. "He was causing so much drama. He was being a moron."

The man left but threatened to come back, and ultimately returned alone in his truck with a .22-caliber rifle and began firing at the rear of a van parked behind the restaurant, said Lt. Loyd Baker, commander of the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit.

Family in a van

Chagri, 27, and his wife were in the front of the van. His young daughter and an infant sibling, in a car seat, were in the back. Madan said the Moroccan-born Chagri and his family were customers, "sitting in the car and waiting for the order."

Tyra said he heard the five or six shots and headed in that direction. He saw a big hole in the van's rear window, opened up the passenger side door and saw "the man ... sitting there slumped over the steering wheel, and there was blood everywhere."

Baker said Chagri was hit in the head and the back, and that authorities did not know what the assailant's "motive in this was, if he thought that this man was the business owner or what."

Tyra and Madan got Chagri out of the van and took him inside the restaurant, where they used paper napkins to keep pressure on his head wound. "He was rocking back and forth real heavily and he was saying a quotation in Arabic over and over again ...," Tyra said. "I figure he was praying or something."

He was. Madan said Chagri was saying, "Allahu akhbar," "God is great."

Tyra said he spent some time in the van, trying to calm Chagri's wife and daughter. While there, he noticed blood spattered on the infant's blanket.

"That kind of shook me up a little bit," he said.

Chagri was in DCH Regional Medical Center.

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Looking for Kuwaiti DVDs

Salam, I'm looking for Khalty Gmasha + Darb Alzalag DVDs. I can't find them on ebay. Does anyone know if I can get them from the states or Kuwait maybe? is there a DVD company in kuwait that shipps to the Us? Peace

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VOTE FOR PARADISE NOW

Dear friends This is a Palestinian movie that has the chance to win an award in the OSCARS, the movie is one of the most important movie that explains our situation. Forward this email as you can CLICK ON THE LINK AND SCROLL DOWN TO FIND THE TITLE OF THE FILM. To vote for Paradise Now as OSCAR best foreign Language film go to: http://oscars.movies.yahoo.com/nominees Watch the trailer for Paradise Now (2005) Vote and circulate plz. THANKS! Full Description Two young Palestinian men embark upon what may be the last 48 hours of their lives. On a typical day in the West Bank city of Nablus, where daily life grinds on amidst crushing poverty and the occasional rocket blast, we meet two childhood best friends, Saïd and Khaled, who pass time drinking tea, smoking a hookah, and working dead-end menial jobs as auto mechanics. Saïd's day takes a turn for the better when a beautiful young woman named Suha brings her car in for repairs. From their spirited interaction, it is apparent that there is a budding romance growing between them. Saïd is approached by middle-aged Jamal, a point man for an unnamed Palestinian organization, who informs Saïd that he and Khaled have been chosen to carry out a strike in Tel Aviv. They have been chosen for this mission as a team, because each had expressed a wish that if either is to die a martyr, the other would want to die alongside his best friend. Saïd and Khaled have been preparing for this moment for most of their lives. They spend a last night at home-- although they must keep their impending mission secret even from their families. During the night Saïd sneaks off to see Suha one last time. Suha's moderate views, having been educated in Europe, and Saïd's burgeoning conflicted conscience cause him to stop short of explaining why he has come to say good-bye. The following day, Saïd and Khaled are lead to a hole in the fence that surrounds Nablus, where they are to meet a driver who will take them to Tel Aviv. But here the plan goes wrong, and Saïd and Khaled are separated. Also Known As: Al-Jenna-An Pillar of Light: The Work and the Glory Two Days Production Status: Released Genres: Art/Foreign and Drama Running Time: 1 hr. 30 min. Release Date: October 28th, 2005 (NY) MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material and brief strong language. Distributors: Warner Independent Pictures Production Co.: Arte France Cinema, Augustus Film, Hazazah Films, Lama Productions, Lumen Films, Razor Film Produktion Financiers: Funding: Nedlerlands Fonds Voor De Film, Filmstiftung NRW, Eurimages, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Action Preparatoire i2i de la Commission Europeene, World Cinema Fund U.S. Box Office: $530,147 Filming Locations: Israel Gaza Palestine Produced in: Netherlands

Tagged !

Salam, I haven't been much of a blogger lately, been busy with kids, work wamashabaha zalek. Lulu & Raindrops tagged me. So here it goes: Declare 5 facts about yourself: 1- I forget a lot(sometimes intentionally). 2- My beauty scale of the other sex highly differs from all my friends. 3- I'm really the jack of all trades, master of none.[I sometimes go on a radio morning show, I fix computers, I buy/sell cars, I browse the internet. A lot! I sell cellphones along with accessories and plans, I'm a great salesman (as long I believe in the product), I'm a mean manager ( I always tell my employees I'm not here to make friends, I got a bunch of those)]. 4- I fall asleep the minute my head hits the pillow. 5- I have the weirdest dreams and most of them have truth to them. 3 Things I like in others: 1- Honesty,Self confidence and genuinty. 2- Ability to break addiction. 3- Leadership, I like those who lead and not follow, or those who are pioneers in their world and pick things their ways not just because everybody is doing it. 3 Things I dislike in others: 1- People who lie,fake and browse nose. 2- bad habits ( if you can't quit, I can't be around you). 3- Sellouts. Four bloggers I would like to tag: 1- http://Jordanplanet.net 2- http://safat.Kuwaitblogs.com 3- http://bbb.steamedpenguin.com/

Do they still show this commercial on Kuwait TV? LOL

Childhood song I can never take out of my mind......

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