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Re: Revolutions in the Middle East
Look at this little boy go!
Van runs over 20 people... viewer discretion is advised
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Re: Revolutions in the Middle East
Israel is not worried! This is their plan as they have already infiltrated the top positions of these so called "Islamic" countries.Leave a comment:
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Khamenei hails 'Islamic' uprisings
Iranian supreme leader urges Egyptians to follow in the footsteps of Iran's 1979 revolution.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader has called the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia an "Islamic liberation movement".
In his address, during Friday prayers at Tehran University in Iran's capital, he said that people are witnessing the reverberations of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
"The awakening of the Islamic Egyptian people is an Islamic liberation movement and I, in the name of the Iranian government, salute the Egyptian people and the Tunisian people,"he said.
Khamenei has urged Egypt's protesters to follow in the footsteps of the Iranian revolution which toppled a pro-US leader and installed an Islamic Republic, calling on Egyptians to unite around religion.
He said events in Tunisia and Egypt, were a sign of "Islamic awareness" in the region and that these movements will spell an "irreparable defeat" for the United States.
'Servant of Zionists'
Khamenei added that the Egypt's embattled president, Hosni Mubarak, is a "servant" of Israel and the United States.
"For 30 years this country [Egypt] has been in the hands of someone who is not seeking freedom and is the enemy of those seeking freedom.
"Not only he is not anti-Zionist, but he is the companion, colleague, confidant and servant of Zionists. It is a fact that Hosni Mubarak's servitude to America has been unable to take Egypt one step towards prosperity."
The spiritual leader's remarks were received by cheering crowds of worshippers who, raising their hands, chanted "Death to America! Death to Israel!"
The sermon marked the first time in seven months that the leader has addressed the weekly Friday prayers, and came as protesters were massing in Egypt to participate in "departure day" demonstrations to force Mubarak to quit.
"Today's events in North Africa, Egypt and Tunisia and some other countries have different meanings for us," Khamenei said.
"This is what was always talked about as the occurrence of Islamic awakening at the time of the Islamic revolution of the great Iranian nation and is showing itself today."
Top Iranian officials have supported the protests in Egypt and have warned Tehran's arch-foe Washington against "interfering" in what they say is a movement of the people.
Khamenei said that Israel was the country most concerned about the Arab revolts.
"Today more than the fleeing Tunisian and Egyptian officials, Israelis and the Zionist enemies are the most worried about these events as they know if Egypt stops being their ally and take its rightful place, it would be a great event in the region," he said.
Dorsa Jabbari, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tehran, said Khamenei "is asking them to follow through what he is calling a real earthquake in the region".
The Iranian people are supporting the uprising in Egypt as "they believe that it has been long time in the making and it is about time that [the Egyptian] people put an end to the dictatorship in their country", our correspondent said.
"They [the Iranians] see the events as extremely significant as they feel that it is the opportunity to change the religious field in the region."
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The White House is apparently negotiating a deal with the head of state of a foreign government for him to step down and be replaced with people they are suggesting...
Am I insane or do other people here see something completely retarded in this???Leave a comment:
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Israel isn't the center of the Mideast, or of the world
The problem with Orientalist discourse of our commentators − which sees the world through the prism of the Shin Bet Security Service − is that it helps to seal off the ghetto into which we are gradually locking ourselves, a ghetto within the Middle East and within world history.
By Yitzhak Laor
Since the 18th century, revolution has shaped the world and its consciousness as a universal experience of popular sovereignty, from east to west, from north to south. But in the face of the Egyptian revolution, a kind of mean-spiritedness has been evident here in Israel − for example, in the television commentary. Commentators and moderators never stopped giving grades for behavior. A huge comet flashed past us, and Channel 2 commentator’s muttered, like the survivor of a traffic accident: Had they only suppressed the demonstrations at the start, everything would have been different.
Again and again, they searched for Islamic signs in the pictures of the masses, as though they were immigration officials checking for smallpox. Others were excited to discover signs that reminded them of “us”: Facebook, young people speaking English, and of course women in jeans. There’s nothing like a woman’s thighs as an index of progress.
But the person who deserves the prize for folly is Dr. Oded Eran, formerly our ambassador to Jordan. He suggested organizing elections in Egypt under European supervision, to ensure that monitors would turn a blind eye to fraud by the regime during the vote count.
For years, our Orientalists saw a danger in (secular) Arab nationalism. Both the right and the left examined Arab intellectuals with a fine-toothed comb in order to prove that they were “pan-Arabists.” What lay behind this, always, was a colonialist questioning of their right to self-determination on a par with our own standards.
But today, when people no longer demonstrate in Lebanon’s squares on behalf of Lebanese Arabism, and when nobody is singing paeans to the Arab nation in the streets of Cairo, our examiners are rewriting the questionnaire: Instead of “nationalists,” they are looking for “religious people.”
The problem with such discourse − which sees the world through the prism of the Shin Bet Security Service, with no inhibitions and no curiosity about what is unique to Egypt − is that it helps to seal off the ghetto into which we are gradually locking ourselves, a ghetto within the Middle East and within world history. We should recall Israel’s attitude to the nationalization of the Suez Canal, the “rotten business” we perpetrated in Egypt in the early 1950s, the 1956 Sinai Campaign, the affinity between these events and our alliance with the shah of Iran and his murderous security services, and the affinity between all these and the coronation of Bachir Gemayel as Lebanon’s ruler on the broken blades of Israel Defense Forces bayonets.
Forget about the strategic dimension. The issue is that military interests have always trained intellectual integrity and analysis to provide them with justifications and the status of “the truth.” The adoption of the region’s oppressive elites was carried out with the help of Shimon Peres-style language laundering and constant conciliatory gestures toward the West: We’ll be a base for you in the heart of darkness − even now, when the West is turning its back on these politics. After all, that is the only historical significance these events have as far as we are concerned: The United States no longer needs this offer.
Our ideas about the Arab world are blind to the sufferings of the nations around us and their hatred of their rulers. The average annual income in Egypt is $6,200; Israelis’ average annual income is almost $30,000. Will stability in the relations between two such countries be guaranteed by a huge, brutal police force, of all things? That is the discussion that we haven’t yet had.
The Egyptian revolution is costing blood. A great deal of blood. No elite leaves of its own free will, even if its sponsors in Washington have decided to get rid of it. Spontaneous action is fated to decline, and in the absence of a revolutionary party, it is not at all clear what will happen. The Egyptian opposition has been repressed for years, and there, too, the left has drowned in European subsidies to dozens of different human rights NGOs, which are always interested in obedient monitoring rather than change.
Nobody knows where the revolution will end up: in an Iranian-style republic? In something along Turkish lines? Or perhaps something new, the likes of which we’ve never experienced? At the moment, there is no need to reply, but only to think and remember this: It doesn’t all revolve around us. And in the face of the Egyptian people’s heroism, we should bow our heads in humility.
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“Green revolution” propaganda launched in Azerbaijan’s public transport
February 3, 2011 - 18:47 AMT 14:47 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - “Green revolution” propaganda was launched in Azerbaijan’s public transport. Leaflets carrying mottos “Communism or Democracy?”, “Yesterday- hijab, today-mosque, what’s to be expected tomorrow?”.
The leaflets stress the necessity to protect traditions, openly urging to start a “green revolution”, Pia.az reported.Leave a comment:
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FOX pundits support democracy, sometimes
Violence has erupted between protesters and armed pro-government activists in Egypt, leading many to conclude Mubarak’s reign is near its end. But, what will replace him?
Protests continue across Egypt, with continued calls for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down and bring about democratic reforms. Protesters were not satisfied with his dismal of the government alone, or his promise not to seek reelection.
With the spike in violence and rise in protests it has became more evident Mubarak will eventually be removed from power, the question remains however what or who will replace him.
Many conservatives in the US are worried change could bring about a radical Islamist government. They oppose such an option at all costs, even if it is democratically elected.
Right leaning FOX News, owned by News Corp., is all too happy to promote American imperialistic ambitions when it comes to protest coverage in Egypt, highlighting conversations with conservatives John McCain, Tucker Carlson, and others.
“It’s possible in a country like Egypt, also in a country like Saudi Arabia, also in a county like Pakistan, if you left the majority of people decide the form of government they would wind up with a wacko anti-western, anti-democratic repressive government. What’s the point,” Carlson said.
“Now we have to make sure that a new election is free, fair, open, honest and that radical Islamic candidates or platforms are exposed for what they are,” McCain said.
The pundits are saying, “We want democracy as long as the people we want win,” explained David Swanson, an activist and the author of War is a Lie. “Which is of course not democracy.”
A lot of the fearmongering about Egypt does not line up with facts, he explained.
“Egypt is very unlikely given popular rule to turn into a radical theocracy,” Swanson commented. “These guys, Carlson and McCain, would have said the same thing about Al Gore and John Kerry when we elected them in this country. These are not people who respect democracy. These are people who see radical fanaticism in anybody who disagrees with them.”
In addition to spin, FOX News opted to cut away from live Egypt coverage in order to promote the launch of News Corps’ “The Daily,” a new pay service iPad application.
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