Archive for September, 2011

Posted in 1, ANALYSIS, analysis, Current Affairs, Democracy, Hyocracy, Passing Comments, Platitudes, REFLECTIONS, THE WAY OF THE WORLD on September 27, 2011 by aelag

THE INHABITANTS OF RAKEFET MUST THINK THEY ARE IN PRE-WAR GERMANY. I WONDER WHAT THEY WOULD FORCE ARABS TO WEAR IN ORDER TO DISTINGUISH THEM FROM THE JEWS, A GREEN CRESCENT PERHAPS? ARE THEY ALSO THINKING OF A FINAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE ARABS? WHO KNOWS!
THEY DON’T NEED TO BUILD STALAGS TO CONTAIN THE ARABS, THE WEST BANK AND GAZA WILL DO FOR THE MOMENT.

ADALAH PRESS RELEASE
14 September 2011
After Years of Legal Struggle, Israeli Supreme Court Orders Community Town in Northern Israel to Admit Arab Family

(Haifa, Israel) On 13 September 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel accepted a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of married Arab couple Ms. Fatina Ebriq Zubeidat and Mr. Ahmed Zubeidat against the community town of Rakefet and the Israel Land Authority (ILA). The Court ordered the town to award a plot of land to the Zubeidat’s for building a house in Rakefet within 90 days. The decision came after the Admissions Committee for Rakefet rejected the couple’s application to live in the town on several occasions, claiming that they were “socially unsuitable” to live in the community town. Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch and Justices Elyakim Rubinstein and Edna Arbel delivered the decision.

NOW YOU KNOW WHY……………..

Posted in ANALYSIS on September 23, 2011 by aelag
I DON’T THINK ANY COMMENTS ARE NECESSARY!
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U.S. geologists just found some $1 trillion of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. What’s next for the war-torn country?

Overnight, Afghanistan has gone from being a political pariah to one of the richest countries on the globe.

Afghanistan’s mineral wealth includes large caches of iron, copper, gold and lithium that could turn the country into one of the most important mining centers in the world.

Afghanistan Mineral Deposits:
Will Investors Be Able to
Tap this Goldmine?

Think of Australia, Canada, and Latin America. They pale in comparison to the goldmine Afghanistan could be sitting on.

But, how will Afghanistan tap into these deposits? It is a country marked by ongoing warfare, lack of infrastructure and political corruption… Will they ever be able to overcome all that?

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WHY? WHY? WHY?

Posted in 1, ANALYSIS, analysis, Current Affairs, Democracy, Passing Comments, REFLECTIONS, THE WAY OF THE WORLD with tags , , , , on September 23, 2011 by aelag

I was watching TV last night and I heard Obama at the UN and then Cameron and so on and so forth.
I heard them talk about peace and all the usual platitudes.
They mentioned the Arab Spring and justified their actions in Libya but not their inactions in other countries like Syria, Yemen and a long list of other Arab States.
Their pleas to Palestine to negotiate with Israel was the most pathetic and hypocritical statements I have heard in a long time.
Had there been an Alien visitor at the UN Israel he would have assumed that Israel was an Oasis of peace since nothing was mentioned about Gaza or the West Bank. This alien guest must have assumed that Israel was a most reasonable partner in the Peace Process and the contrary about the Palestinians.
They of course, Obama & Cameron, did not say that they had Veto rights in the Security Council as did three other members out of a total nearly two hundred members of the General Assembly AND THEY CERTAINLY DID NOT MENTION THEIR OWN Jewish Lobbies back in Washington and London.
They forgot to say that they would use their veto power against Palestinian application to the UN.
Most importantly they did not mention that Israel was creation of Britain ably aided and abetted by the US, and that this creation would crumble without the constant support, financial and military of mainly the same USA.
All this begs the question: Why is America and Britain so opposed to the application of Palestine to be accepted as a member state? WHY? WHY? WHY?

OBSCENE

Posted in ANALYSIS on September 19, 2011 by aelag
What is Mr. Obama afraid of?
Is he a total prisoner of the US-Israel lobby?
It is difficult to understand that America has to bend to Israel’s will.
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Obama letter confirms Palestinian fears

The White House would also allow Israel to keep a military presence in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley, even after the creation of a Palestinian state; continue controlling the borders of the Palestinian territories to prevent smuggling; provide Israel with enhanced weapons systems, security guarantees and increase its billions of dollars in annual aid; and create a regional security pact against Iran.

The first is that the US president, much like his predecessors, is in no position to act as an honest broker. His interests in the negotiations largely coincide with Israel’s.

The second conclusion — already strongly suspected by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, and his advisers — is that Netanyahu, despite his professed desire to establish a Palestinian state, is being insincere.

The letter’s contents have also been partly confirmed by Jewish US senators who attended a briefing last week from Ross.

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IGNORANCE IS BLISS

Posted in ANALYSIS on September 19, 2011 by aelag
ISRAELI TRUE COLOURS!!!!
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“Recognized” Bedouin villages still denied schools by Israel

ABU TULUL, Negev Desert (IPS) – For mother of five Shimaa al-Aasam, providing her children with the opportunity to complete their education despite a severe lack of classrooms in their Bedouin community is of prime importance.

It’s a tragedy. Learning is the most important thing in the world,” al-Aasam, a resident of the Bedouin village of Abu Tulul in the Negev (Naqab) desert, said. “If they continue their studies, they can go so much further in their lives.”

Approximately 12,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel live in the area of Abu Tulul. At present, 2,600 students attend three schools in the area, from elementary through junior high school levels. Abu Tulul students previously attended high school in the nearby Bedouin town Segev Shalom, but they are no longer welcomed there due to lack of space.

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LES AFFAIRES SONT LES AFFAIRES

Posted in ANALYSIS on September 19, 2011 by aelag

The British press celebrates the triumph of Libya’s “rebel” forces. And the British arms industry toasts its continued success in expanding its markets in the Middle East.

A Libyan woman reads a copy of daily newspaper Arus al-Bahr, bearing a doctored image of Gaddafi dressed as a woman. Tripoli, 8 September 2011.
On 13 September, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government. On 8 September, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a preview entitled “Middle East: a Vast Market for UK Defence and Security Companies”. The host was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a major investor in cluster bombs. According to Amnesty International, 98 per cent of the victims of cluster bombs are civilians and 30 per cent children. RBS has received £20bn in public money. The blurb for the bank’s arms party read: “The Middle East is one of the regions with the greatest number of opportunities for UK defence and security companies. Saudi Arabia . . . is the world’s top defence importer, having spent $56bn in 2009 . . . a very worthwhile region to target.”

Why+Do+They+Do+It%3F

Posted in ANALYSIS, Current Affairs, THE WAY OF THE WORLD on September 17, 2011 by aelag

Why+Do+They+Do+It%3F.

REFLECTIONS

Posted in ANALYSIS on September 15, 2011 by aelag
ONE UP FOR TOTAL.
I wonder what the Algerians are thinking about their ex-colonial masters.
Are we next?
It looks like it.
Where else could the Legion go to, except their historical habitat.
Africa beware!!!
Napoleonic dreams again?
clipped from www.bbc.co.uk

Earlier, the two met Libya’s interim leader in Tripoli and pledged their support for the new authorities.

“It is great to be in free Libya,” Mr Cameron said. “Col Gaddafi said he would hunt you down like rats, but you showed the courage of lions.”

Thousands of Libyans have turned out to cheer UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the eastern city of Benghazi.

Cameron and Sarkozy were greeted as heroes by jubilant Libyans at a hospital in Tripoli

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AND THEN?

Posted in ANALYSIS on September 14, 2011 by aelag

Posted by Andrew galea on September 14, 2011 at 1:03pm in Position Papers
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Venezuela Plans to Move Reserve Funds
By Jose de Cordoba and Ezequiel Minaya
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903392904576512961180…
CARACAS — Venezuela plans to transfer billions of dollars in cash reserves from abroad to banks in Russia, China, and Brazil and tons of gold from European banks to its central bank vaults, according to documents reviewed Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal.
The planned moves would include transferring $6.3 billion in cash reserves, most of which Venezuela now keeps in banks such as the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, and Barclays Bank in London to unnamed Russian, Chinese, and Brazilian banks, one document said.
Venezuela also plans to move 211 tons of gold it keeps abroad and values at $11 billion to the vaults of the Venezuelan Central Bank in Caracas, where the government keeps its remaining 154 tons of bullion, the document says.

JUST ONE COMMENT “THE BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW…….

Smoke works

Posted in ANALYSIS on September 14, 2011 by aelag
By Mehmet Ozgur.
STUNNING!
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Chaos within

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Give me light, give me fire

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Fire dancer

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