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كان للجزيرة الفضل الكبير في لم شمل افضل المذيعين في العالم العربي حيث عملنا وليلى في تلفزيون البي بي سي العربي وسف يكون انضمامها معلما ورافدا من روافد ورافدات الجزيرة
جمال ريان
الأرشيف الشهري: اغسطس 2006
This is an interesting article from newsvine.com with interesting feedback, feedback concludes that the reason Egypt was able to make peace with Israel (although it was disinclined to do so) and the reason Syria was not able to make peace with Israel (though they were inclined to do so) was because the legitimacy of the Syrian regime came in part from being identified with pan-Arabism, whereas Sadat had long ago abandoned Nasser’s ideas and embraced the idea that Egypt should come first. Thus, when there could be a strategic victory for Egypt at the expense of the “Arabs”, Sadat was able to seize upon it. al-Asad could not do the same, because if he had embraced a Syrian strategic victory (peace and the return of the Golan) he would have endangered his regime’s foundations. There was no Syrian “identity” in the way that there was an Egyptian “identity” to be relied upon for cover.
I think this theory plays interestingly into what you are arguing. For the Lebanese to seize upon this conflict as an opportunity to make a full-fledged peace with Israel requires some “Lebanon only” thinking. Unfortunately, with the internationalization of a pan-Islamic radicalism (rather than a pan-Arab one) it will be very difficult to sell the Shia on this, even if the other 60% of Lebanon (Sunni and Christian) is willing to go along.
We shall see, but hopefully some good will come out of this senseless and pointless war.
But anyway, here is the article:
This is really an interesting topic: Most of Arab countries or let’s say the Arab people or society refuses to acknowledge that Israel exists with sovereignty and the other 3 requirements to be called a nation (Identified borders by UN, common language, and culture). But then the Israeli’s public chooses to acknowledge Hammas or Hezbollah not as a terrorist group.
Now, let’s ask ourselves why things are the way they are right now:
Arab world choose to not acknowledge due to this core reason: “If we do, then we give up something called Palestine”
While this is how the Israeli’s think: “If we blind ourselves from the truth/reality, then how can we know our enemy and their capabilities?”
So, let’s think about it for a second, which perspective is more “objective”… I will leave that up to you.
Anyway, here is an article representing the Israeli’s perspective regarding this matter.
Source: Haaretz news article:
In the 1960s, when a computer in the home, a telephone in the pocket, and a television satellite in orbit were the outlandish stuff of cartoon fantasy, defense industries in the United States were hard at work preparing for the electronic battlefield of the 21st Century.
Sure enough, the real electronic battlefield of the 21st Century would prove to be the collective subconscious: the war for public opinion fought live via cell phones and satellite television and home computers – even when home is a camel-hair Bedouin tent.
The Lebanon war just past was a new model of warfare, just as the Hezbollah/Hamas model is a new model of governance.
The war was one of the first in history in which both sides began the war by concentrating their fire on the enemy’s home front.
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يبدو واضحا ان الدولة العبرية التي واجهت قواتها اخفاقات عسكرية ملحوظة اثناء عدوانها الاخير علي لبنان سيكون من الصعب عليها ابتلاع الهزيمة امام حركة مقاومة هي حزب الله ولذلك من غير المستبعد ان تتحرك في الايام أو الاسابيع القليلة المقبلة في اتجاهين:
الاول عسكري: أي محاولة استكشاف نقاط الضعف والقصور في اداء القوات المسلحة التي ادت الي هذه النتيجة غير المسبوقة، واعادة الكرة مرة اخري من خلال شن عدوان جديد بخطط وقيادات عسكرية جديدة.
الثاني سياسي: اي اعادة تحريك العملية السلمية التي اعلن وزراء الخارجية العرب علي لسان السيد عمرو موسي أمين عام الجامعة العربية وفاتها رسميا اثناء اجتماعهم الطاريء في القاهرة لمناقشة الاوضاع في لبنان.
فتجربة الايام القليلة الماضية التي تلقت سريان مفعول قرار مجلس الامن الدولي رقم 1701 تثبت ان القيادة الاسرائيلية تواصل عمليات الانزال وخرق الاجواء الجوية اللبنانية غير عابئة بالاتهامات الموجهة اليها بخرق القرار، فهي تريد منع وصول امدادات جديدة من الصواريخ والعتاد العسكري لحزب الله، ومحاولة اغتيال، او خطف، أحد قياديي حزب الله البارزة مثل السيد حسن نصر الله، او الشيخ محمد يزبك، وهذا ما يفسر عمليات الإنزال الفاشلة في بعلبك واطرافها.
In case if you were wondering what the actual letter that President Ahmadinejad sent to President Bush, here it is:
You can read the test in Arabic with google automated translation, click here to view.
The Iranian Government has released to the public, the full text of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to President George Bush.
“The letter to US President George Bush carries the Iranian nation’s views and comments on international issues as well as suggestions for resolving the many problems facing humanity,” said the Iranian president.
The letter was submitted to President Bush on Monday, May 9, 2006 via the Swiss embassy in Tehran, which takes care of the US interest section in Iran and acts as a liason between the two countries.
The following is the full text of President Ahmadinejad’s letter to President George Bush:
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful,
Mr George Bush,
President of the United States of America,
For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena — which are being constantly debated, especially in political forums and amongst university students. Many questions remain unanswered. These have prompted me to discuss some of the contradictions and questions, in the hope that it might bring about an opportunity to redress them.
Here is the interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad by CBS.
Update: I was able to find this unedited version of the entire interview. Click on “View the video” to watch the interview.
[video]http://www.videos.informationclearinghouse.info/cbsiranfull100.wmv[/video]
In case you haven’t heard the news, Nasrallah declared victory over Israel while the prime minister of Israel declared it as well since Hezbollah is going to be disarmed and such.
But here is the story about Nasrallah and his declaration of Victory from the Associate Press:
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah declared Monday that his guerrillas achieved a “strategic, historic victory” against Israel.
Nasrallah, speaking on the day a cease-fire took effect — ending 34 days of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel — called Monday “a great day.”
“We are today before a strategic, historic victory, without exaggeration,” the leader of the Shiite militant group said in a taped speech on Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV.
Nasrallah also promised Hezbollah would help the Lebanese people rebuild.
“The enemy destroyed thousands of houses in the south, the Bekaa and the southern suburbs,” he said.
And as what I was saying, Israel declares victory as well, Bush declares it as well:
President Bush said Monday that Israel defeated Hezbollah’s guerrillas in the monthlong Mideast war and that the Islamic militants were to blame for the deaths of hundreds of Lebanese civilians. And this is a qoute from his speech regarding Israel defeating Hezbollah:
Hezbollah attacked Israel. Hezbollah started the crisis, and Hezbollah suffered a defeat in this crisis
Source: Sabbah’s blog
They lost it in Lebanon, now they are going to retaliate and take revenge on Palestinian and their Supporters!
Israeli activists with International Solidarity Movement (ISM) have uploaded a video of the shooting of Lymor and the initial violence of the Israeli military in Bil’in on Friday, August 11th.
The Israeli army and Border Police brutally prevented Bil’in’s weekly non-violent demonstration, by firing rubber bullets and sound grenades on protestors as they marched through the village on their way to the Apartheid wall. Fourteen people from Bil’in, Israelis and internationals, have been injured, including an Israeli, Lymar, in critical condition who was shot on neck and just above his right ear with 3 rubber bullets at close range. He has had surgery at Tel Hashomer hospital to remove a rubber bullet that was lodged in his skull. Currently he is in a medical induced coma in moderate but stable condition, but has sustained brain damaged of unknown severity.
Another demonstrator from Denmark, Rina, has suffered a fracture in her skull and brain contusion after a soldier beat her with the butt of his gun. She is currently hospitalized in Hebron, West Bank and is conscious but unable to walk. She was also beaten on her legs and sustained minor injuries.
More from ISM:
- Israeli Army Causes Two Serious Head Injuries to Protestors in Bil’in.
- Israeli Soldier in Bil’in: “This is Lebanon!”
According to Yahoo News:
Iran’s president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and
Israel want to start a new world war.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose speeches are riddled with anti-U.S. rhetoric, also described how he was angered by American meddling in Iran even when he was at elementary school.
Ahmadinejad swept to a surprise victory in last year’s presidential race by promising the country’s poor a fairer share of Iran’s oil wealth and emphasizing his own humble origins that led many to vote for him as an “outsider” to Iran’s ruling elite.
“During the era that … living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village,” he wrote in a blog dated Friday, after opening with Islamic greetings.
His origins as the son of “a hard-bitten toiler blacksmith” may have been humble, but he says he excelled at school where he said he came 132nd out of 400,000 in exams to enter university.
As well as promising a better life to the poor, Ahmadinejad has sought to bolster support by refusing to bow to what he says is Western pressure to stop Iran’s civilian nuclear program. The West says Iran is building an atomic bomb.
His defiance in the stand-off with the West has often played well in the Muslim world, where many are angered by U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Analyst Saeed Laylaz said the site — available in Persian, Arabic, English and French at www.ahmadinejad.ir — may be seeking to win support from abroad.
“Do you think that the U.S. and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another world war?” the president asks visitors to the site, offering them the choice to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Ahmadinejad describes how in the first grade at school — for those aged about seven — he read newspapers with the help of adults about how the then shah of Iran gave Americans living in Iran immunity from prosecution under Iranian laws.
“I realized that Mohammad Reza (Shah) attempted to add another page to the vicious case history which was the humiliation and indignity of the Iranian people versus Americans,” he said.
He describes listening ardently to the speeches of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the shah’s vociferous critic and later leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew the monarchy.
He also discusses Iran’s bloody 1980-1988 war with Iraq, in which Ahmadinejad fought as a Revolutionary Guard.
But he admitted his opening blog, which runs to more than 2,300 words in the English version, was too long. “From now onwards, I will try to make it simpler and shorter,” he wrote.
And this is his first entry of his site:
Watch this documentary about how the Western (US) media is all about propaganda and how it uses it’s power to distort the news beyond recognition. Using one example after another, Amy Goodman masterfully demonstrates that what you see through the mainstream media is not what you get.
Why don’t they [the MSM] put doctors on their payroll? That way you can have the general talking about the bomb that Lockheed Martin made and the kind of plane that dropped it and whether it was precision guided or not and then you can have the doctor talking about the effects of the bomb – you know not for or against the war – just how a cluster bomb enters your skin, and what it means if your foot is blown off if you’re lucky and you’re not killed. So, why not have doctors and generals at least?
But, this is just to show how low the media has gone. You have not only FOX, but MSNBC and NBC that’s owned by General Electric, one of the major nuclear weapons manufacturers in the world . . . you have MSNBC and NBC as well as FOX titling their coverage [of the war], taking the name of what the Pentagon calls the invasion of Iraq -Operation Iraqi Freedom.
That’s what the Pentagon does and you expect that. They research the most effective, propagandistic name to call their operation. But, for the media to name their coverage what the Pentagon calls it – every day seeing Operation Iraqi Freedom. You have to ask – if this were state media, how would it be any different?
