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Palestinians: The 'Wall of Shame'

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Palestinians: The 'Wall of Shame'

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  November 28, 2016 at 5:00 am
  • "The equation facing the Palestinian factions is clear: Hand over the terrorists and there will be no wall. The Palestinians have proven that they are unable to take security matters into their own hands in this camp." — Lebanese security official.
  • These anti-Palestinian practices are regularly ignored by the international community, including mainstream media and human rights organizations, whose obsession with Israel blinds them to Arab injustice. A story without an anti-Israel angle is not a story, as far as they are concerned
  • Typically, Western journalists and human rights activists do not even bother to report or document cases of Arab mistreatment of Arabs. This abandonment of professional standards is why apartheid laws targeting Palestinians in several Arab countries are still unknown to the international community.
  • The Lebanese authorities also say that they decided to build the wall after discovering several tunnels in the vicinity of Ain al-Hilweh, used to smuggle weapons and terrorists into and out of the camp.
  • The new wall will not solve the real problem -- namely the failure to absorb the refugees and grant them citizenship. Palestinians living in Arab countries are denied citizenship (with the exception of Jordan) and a host of basic rights.
  • Now is the time for the international community to apply pressure to the Arab countries to start helping their Palestinian brothers by improving their living conditions and incorporating them into these countries.
  • The refugee problem will end the day their leaders stop lying to them and confront them with the truth, basically that there will be no "right of return" and that the time has come for them to move on with their lives.
A street celebration in Lebanon's Ain al-Hilweh camp, July 2015. (Image source: Geneva Call/Flickr)
It is no secret that Arab countries have long mistreated their Palestinian brothers and sisters, governing them with inhumane laws and imposing severe restrictions on their public freedoms and basic rights. Building a wall around a Palestinian community to prevent terrorists from entering or leaving, however, has raised the bar on such infringements.
This is precisely what is happening in Lebanon these days. The construction of a security wall around Ain al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp (with a population of nearly 120,000), has drawn sharp criticism from Palestinians and revived memories of the abuse they regularly receive at the hands of their Arab brethren.

Interview with Howard Bloom - Part I

by Grégoire Canlorbe  •  November 28, 2016 at 4:00 am
  • "Millions of Muslims envision Islam as a religion of tolerance, pluralism, and peace. But there is a blunt fact staring us in the face.... For Allah and His Messenger demand that Muslims be on top. They demand that Muslims allow others to live only if they take a role as second-class citizens in a purely Muslim state and pay the jizya, a tax designed to shame. And they demand that Islam rule every inch of land on God's own speck of dust -- the planet Earth." — Howard Bloom.
  • "Those who want to 'annihilate' or to convert their fellow men in the West are not madmen. They are rational and they are something more -- they are idealists. They want to save us.... If we are tricked into following false laws, believing in false gods... we will go to an unspeakably painful hell." — Howard Bloom.
  • "It is very unlikely that [Iran's former president, Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad was proposing a 'thought experiment.' He was proposing a reality that Iran and its fellow Muslim states would be able to achieve with their upcoming weaponry -- and with the existing 120 Islamic nuclear bombs of Pakistan -- bombs that could easily fall into the hands of ISIS." — Howard Bloom.
  • "My introduction to Islamic culture came in 1962. In the back of a library file on the Middle East, I found several English-language pamphlets printed by the Arab League, a coalition of twelve leading Arab governments. The pamphlets tried to reach people like you and me with an extremely urgent "clarification" of historical errors. First, the Holocaust, the mass murder of six million Jews by Germany's Nazis, was a charade, a hoax. It never happened." — Howard Bloom.
  • "As hungry replicators eager to remold the world, ideas often turn their ultimate weapon -- the superorganism -- into a killing machine. And, contrary to the doctrines of some modern critics, they do not engage in this 'hegemonic imperialism' only in the purportedly 'malevolent West.'" — Howard Bloom.
Howard Bloom.
There are only a handful of authors alive today whose ideas about geopolitics have won respect in both the world of Islam and in the West. One of those authors is Howard Bloom.
Bloom's second book Global Brain was the subject of an Office of the Secretary of Defense symposium in 2010, with participants from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. And the Department of Defense's SENSIAC Military Sensing Symposium then relied on Bloom to explain how to see the world through the eyes of Osama bin Laden.
Bloom's 182 appearances on North America's highest rated overnight talk radio show, Coast to Coast AM, a show that airs on 500 of the continent's leading radio stations, have covered everything from the Gulf War and 9/11 to the Fort Hood shootings. In addition, he has dissected headline issues over 30 times on Saudi Arabia's KSA2-TV, Ekhbariya TV, Economics TV, and on Iran's global English language PressTV.

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