Quote : "Israel .... remain unfailingly focused on their quest to initiate racist laws against non-Jewish residents of the state".    ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES ..... remain unfailingly focused on their quest to initiate racist laws against non-muslim residents of the state". Islam doesn't tolerate other religions. Christians & Jews are killed throughout the islamic world, churches are bombed and burnt down (Egypt, Northern Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc.) and NO ISLAMIC LEADER SAYS ANYTHING ! Women are treated like 2nd class citizens in islam. It is a sick religion.

Thank you for keeping the Palestinian flame and cause alive. Your insight on issues and problems is enlightening.

You recently penned an article in the Arab News, bemoaning US policy on Iraq.

You did not mention the UN Oil for Food Program and how it was corrupted by Saddam, his sons,  other regime loyalist and certain elements of the UN. Saddam had 80 palaces in 2003, that does not deserve a single mention?

You did not mention how Iraq's neighbors funded and supplied a deadly insurgency in a well orchasted proxy campaign. An article about the Iraq War recieved no mention of Iran and Syria, are you ok with that?

You did not mention that US is leaving Iraq as nacent Democracy, the countries that your articles appear in are represive dictatatorships.

Just trying to help you out so you do not appear so pathetic.

Dear Mr. Baroud, I just read your article posted on Information Clearing House and I wrote this comment there. The PLO failed miserably in the past and its crippled child, the PA is trying to survive by any means. Abbas and the other elites sold out to Israel and USA long time ago. Abbas going to the UN is the work of a desperate man and desperate so called Palestinian authority. It is time we get rid of the PA and the PLO altogether. They have derailed the Palestinian struggle and acted as spies and security enforcers for the enemy. Palestinian need a new revolution led by progressive and radical young leadership and to get rid of the old demented guards and institutions. Israel is the front line of the imperialist powers. Their Zionist project has been and continues to be in the service of the Empire and its purposes of controlling the Middle East and Africa. The USA and Obama are the enemy of the Palestinians, the Arabs and humanity as a whole. Those who are supporting the Palestinian cause are not doing it just because they feel sorry for Palestinian suffering and injustices, but because they know the evil empire (USA and its clients states and agents) are dangerous for the whole world. We must fight them everywhere and by all possible means. As to the United Nations I am sure that every one realise that institution is nothing but a tool of the evil empire which used to justify occupation, invasions, and destruction of the TARGET Countries. Abbas with is PhD is nothing but a small pawn who realised that he was a nothing and that he has expired long time ago. He is now farting useless ideas hoping to have some credibility at his old age. It is time that he and his entourage are put to bed and lets a new Palestinian generation take over and start again the struggle to free Palestine and the middle east

Your piece on the opportunism of Israel's nice little war articulated several ideas I've been harbouring about the latest cycle of reprisals. Thank you. fucked-up absolutists try to dominate on all sides of this conflict, whether militarily or politically or in terms of the unity these two domains form. Too many ordinary people get caught in the fall-out zone of forces they live and breathe and experience but which are beyond their control.
 
Having just written a book review on Illan Pappe's Out of the Frame, and having measured the litany of attempts to delegitimize his own perspective and his historical work, I'm even more cynical about any narrative expressed by Israeli state authorities. Certainly, we have any number of institutions (media, universities, corporations) in Canada trumpeting the key messages of hegemonic and elite interests (and enabling ambient forms of slow violence against indigenous communities, working poor, etc.)  but in Israel the degree of the state's discursive violence is more egregious given the ways these institutions have largely been co-opted to enable
state violence.

Ramzy you saw? #StateOfPalestine trending on twitter now..Join the voice!

Dear Ramzy,
Your article is a sympathetic and sensitive story based on a gross distortion. "Cast Lead" was undertaken after Hamas had sent hundreds of missiles from Gaza aimed at towns in Israel --yes, Ramzy, deliberately launched to kill civilians. Before that time, Israel had completely evacuated Gaza in the hope that there would be peace. Instead, Hamas immediately started with the missiles. Israel, in response,could have easily completely destroyed all Gaza, similar to WW2 when Axis and Allied airplanes dropped bombs on each others cities to completely destroy them. Instead, Israeli Army tried to avoid harming innocents; a task made extremely difficult because Hamas fighters tend to hide behind schools, behind children and others to fire at Israeli troops because they know the Israeli soldiers will be reluctant to shoot at them. You could have used your considerable writing talent to include some balance to your story, thus enabling your readers to gain some perspective, instead of writing a piece of propaganda that uses the sadness and death of your people.

Dear Mr Baroud,
Thank you very much to all Something to offer all of Palestine

Thank you Mr. Baroud.

I really enjoyed it in RT Coss talk.

Some points:

_ If he vote of GA is simply a piece of paper, why Isrel is so worried of it? and try to stop it.

If srael live in a dangerous neighberhood, it is not because the peole there are dangerous, they are polit people. It is because of Israel dangerous policies. should they stop killing peopleand rcognize their right, then they will feel different. A murderer feel pesimist about anything.

If Israel is true and live in a dangerous neghibarhood, why it always try to make people of the region more nerves by new settelements, attacks and... why not try peacful policies?!!!

I always pray for a Palestine. I am with your word about unity inside but they fear of it. They say Haas dont recognize Israel, but what about themselves, if they recognize Palestine? Arafat recognized them and signed his death statement.

Take care. You will succeed since you are right.

 

I know I heard it before, but I do not remember where I heard it firs. Today I heard it again from an associate at work who is originally from South America. It was one of the first, if not the first item discussed at some length by Hassan Nasrallah in his last speech. Nasrallah dismissed the idea that some people are attributing the uprisings in the Arab World to an American conspiracy, and made his position very clear that this line of thinking is illogical and false. How the US could cause Egypt, one of its closest and strategic allies in the Arab world this tremendous upheaval and cause a regime change, Nasrallah asked rhetorically.  I agree 100%.

 

The US, its Western and Arab Allies and Israel were on the retreat. This retreat was accelerated by the 2006 war, the financial crises and now these revolutions. Why not invade Libya.  Libya is an easy call. Libya is the prelude to the real target- Hezbollah’s weapons.  May be through Syria?  It already started there. I would have made a deal with the devil to save the Libyans form their dictator. The call will be everywhere including on AL-Jazerra- If Libya why not Syria? The STL is moving along as well and the timing will be perfect for that long awaited court decision. This could explain the BRIC countries position at the UN and the Left world wide.  Could this be the plan? This scares me.