The Truth of Israel's War....

Wednesday August 02, 2006 Anwaar Hussain eagleeye@emirates.net.ae The truth is that organizations like Hizbollah and Hamas are there because Israel is there and not vice versa. As the land of Lebanon continues to be drenched with the blood of its own children, the world stands in a hushed silence watching this murderous crime from the safety of the sidelines. The Muslim world itself, with nary a peep from it's corpulent leadership, remains busy in brave exchanges of 'please-say-no-to-Israeli-aggression' emails and imploring Allah to come to the aid of Israel's victims. It is time to shout the truth of Israel's war from the rooftops. The truth is that organizations like Hizbollah and Hamas are there because Israel is there and not vice versa. The truth is that the West created Israel out of its guilt of what it did, or allowed to be done, to the Jews and the Palestinians had no part in it. The truth is that the holocaust was THE REASON because of which Western powers helped establish the Jewish state as a refuge for the Jews and their own consciences. The truth is that for the redemption of their guilt, if the holocaust did really occur, the Western powers should have formed a state of Israel in their own backyard and not deprived 5 million Palestinians of their homeland. The truth is that these same Western powers now want the entire world to accept the status quo and submit to the reality because the washed out glories of World War II are still around. The truth is that while these same powers wielding the whip of anti-Semitism disallow even a discussion on the subject of holocaust, the fact remains that the issues of holocaust and Palestine are intimately interconnected. The roots of the Palestinian conflict must be sought in history and no solution to the conflict is possible unless historical wrongs are addressed first. The truth is that the German peoples are still being punished for the crimes of a few as if the 3rd Reich was representative of all past, present and future generations of Germans and as if the entire German history is made up of the 12 years of the 3rd Reich's rule. The truth is that along with the Germans, five million Palestinians have been made to pay reparations for the holocaust for 60 years, and will have to keep paying up for another 1000 years if nothing is done, yet the West continues to remain blind to the interconnection between the two issues. The truth is that the dominant West today refuses to see the simple logic that if the holocaust did indeed occur, then Europe must bear the consequences and not the Palestinian people. And if it did not occur, then the Jews have no claim to the Palestinian's land. The truth is that some sixty million people died in the gigantic crime of Second World War yet a few million Jews continue to remain the center of attention with the other over 90% of victims promptly forgotten. The truth is that though it is difficult to put across the scale and effect of Israel's abuses of Palestinian lives through statistics alone yet these are appalling enough: since the year 2000 alone, in addition to hundreds of acres of farmland destroyed and 25,000 Palestinian homes demolished, nearly 4,000 Palestinians have been killed, 30,000 injured and 400 assassinated. An overwhelming number of these casualties remained women and children. The truth is that despite the fact that Zionist controlled media reports just 13% of Palestinian children's' massacre and 88% of Israeli children's deaths, the numbers tell a horrifying tale; for 121 Israeli children reportedly killed by Palestinians, close to 800 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis. The truth is that while zero Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians, 25000 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel and while two Israelis are being held prisoners by the Palestinians, 9,599 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel. The truth is that the great benefactor of Israel, the United States of America, gives more than $15 million per day to the Israeli government and military while the Palestinian NGOs get a miserly $232,290 per day to care for the victims of Israeli aggression. The truth is that while Israel reportedly possesses upward of 400 WMDs, the Palestinian have none and while there are 65 UN resolutions against Israel, there are none against Palestinians The truth is that while Israel bemoans that four rockets that fell on its territory were made in Iran, it has received upward of 17 billion dollars of arms from the United States alone over the last 10 years. The truth is that virtually every bullet and every shrapnel that ricochets through the Palestinian's flesh and blood is linked to the United States of America one way or the other. The truth is that no other country could avoid the wrath of the resident bully of planet earth, the United States of America, with one thousandth of what Israel does for breakfast every day. The truth is that while Kofi Annan of United Nations of America (UNA) could find time in the thick of these atrocities to issue a deadline to Iran on its nuclear activities, he is powerless to even broker a temporary ceasefire to pause the unremitting bloodletting of innocent Lebanese. The truth is that the twin evils joined at the hip, the United States and Israel, have together caused so much mischief in the world in the past few decades that one is forced to draw the conclusion that devil does indeed exist. And if there is a devil, there must be a God--a God that watches their devilment in divine silence. For now at least.

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• a point on a curve at which the tangent crosses the curve itself.
• a point on a curve at which the curvature changes sign. The curve changes from being concave upwards (positive curvature) to concave downwards (negative curvature), or vice versa. If one imagines driving a vehicle along the curve, it is a point at which the steering-wheel is momentarily 'straight', being turned from left to right or vice versa.
• a point on a curve at which the second derivative changes sign. This is very similar to the previous definition, since the sign of the curvature is always the same as the sign of the second derivative, but note that the curvature is not the same as the second derivative.
• a point (x,y) on a function, f(x), at which the first derivative, f'(x), is at an extremum, i.e. a minimum or maximum. (This is not the same as saying that y is at an extremum, and in fact implies that y is not at an extremum).

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Israel - 'We Are Untouchable'

By Tanya Hsu - ArabNews.com 8-5-6 We are Israel. We are untouchable. No matter what we do the international community will not act against us. Oh, there will be talks at the United Nations but we know that the United States will intervene on our behalf. There will be Arab League discussions but we know that no state will take action against us. There will be mass protests and demonstrations; there will be activists and advocates begging for peace; there will be rallies and fundraisers to help the targets of our bombs. And we know that nothing will make a difference because we are Jews - we are victims of the Holocaust. We have suffered such that we have the right to make the rest of the world pay (even though organised Zionism officially declared war on Germany in 1933, long before Hitler's Final Solution). Because we are victims. Yes, we know that peoples all over the world have suffered worse crimes than ours, but they were not the Chosen People. We know that over 22 million Russians were killed under Stalin, 15 million Chinese killed by the Japanese, millions elsewhere in the world who suffer the same fate in the bloodiest 20th century. We know that Zionism is an athiest Marxist creation using Judaism as its weapon; that we were founded upon terrorism and our leaders became Israel's prime ministers and Nobel Peace Prize winners; that less than 10% of Jews worldwide supported the Zionist cause for decades until WWII. We know that the crimes committed by Hitler equally affected Communists, gypsies, the handicapped, and political prisoners.That does not matter - we are special. The rest of the world will not touch us because they are terrified of the label "anti-Semite". World leaders: terrified of this most glorious ad hominem even though we are mostly not Semitic peoples. Jews of Israel, the Sephardim Jews, were almost non existant when we arrived from Russia, Poland, Austria-Hungary and elsewhere in the 20th century and demanded Arab land. They had spread out and moved on. We did not come from Yemen, Ethiopia or Iraq, but who cares? We are the victims and that is all that counts. Time and again we wonder at how far American gullibility will take us. We push it to the limits on cable television and get away with it repeatedly. We know that the majority of the world is aware we blatantly lie when we express our "deepest regrets" because "terrorists" were hiding in the villages we destroy. We even have the gall to pick the precise same targets as a decade ago, ignoring the cries of outrage from America and the West. We'll just repeat the mantra "a tragic mistake". Honestly, we, too, are rather surprised to see that America patiently sits back and buys our words each time. We have trained our diplomats well, not only in the art of deception to the media, but by using powerful strong arm behind the scenes tactics to mold the views of US Congressmen and women in our favour. We have worked on this for decades and it has been perfected for the one place it counts: our bank America. We rely upon those weapons; we need to create constant conflict so as to receive a perpetual $13 billion annual aid package from the US, including unsecured loans that we have never been, nor ever will be, required to pay back. We are living a dream: what we want is given to us on a silver patter because we are Jews, and we have the Holocaust. The above is only daring in that it is never voiced publicly in the West. The world is watching as Israel incinerates the Lebanese, next the Syrians and Palestinians, then Iran. Diplomats call for peace, a cease -fire, and negotiations. They speak the language of non committance. It takes a few brave men and women in leadership positions to dare to speak the truth; losing that AIPAC support in government is the kiss of death, and academics who dare write the facts know that their tenured careers are over. Israel is in the position of dominating the US government to an extent never before seen in history, creating a regime who will fully fund a "new Middle East" which in reality means Eretz Israel consisting of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia and even Cyprus by some accounts. There is nothing speculative about these plans for hegemony - everything has been laid out, written down, and presented for years.This war will not end with a cease-fire next week. This war will not end with a security zone controlled by the UN. This war will not end if Hezbollah and Hamas disappeared tomorrow. This war will not end as long as leaders and diplomats continue to fear the trump card charge of anti-Semitism by Israel. So, when hundreds of children are torn apart by uranium tipped missiles provided courtesy of the US government, look in the mirror. Have you dared to offend Israel? Have you risked? Ask yourself what role you may have played in contributing to this global disaster. Nothing will change until you do. Tanya Cariina Hsu is a British Saudi-US Political Analyst. She lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.