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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.
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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