ARCHIVE
of Previous Selected
multilingual items, as of August 19, 2007
List of such items, to be read down below:
v
EUROVISION in
v Mobilize now, save the world - By Natan Sharansky - February 12, 2007
v Why did you kill your grandmother? –Jan 25, (Excellent 'Hasbara tool)
v
v
v NEWS
Items - From the website of the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
v
Reader's Letter to Wall
Street Journal: "Mother Mosque"
v
Once
again: Disproportionate? - Take-A-Pen
editorial 'EU Coalition for
v
IDF aerial attack in
v
Svenska! New PM Fredrik Reinfeldt: "Skapat
en balanserad syn på USA och Israel... tv4.se/nyheter/489984.html
more on our
Swedish pg
|
|
|
Fredrik Reinfeldt, new PM of |
v
Reader's Letter on 'Civilian victims':
'Mindless
repetition' –
v
DISPROPORTIONATE? Blatant Hypocrisy! by Frederick Forsyth
v
Norsk! Jostein Gaarders hatefulle kronikk mot
Horrible Hate Speech from
v
To SkyNews: Balance your
reporting on Cease-fire - Letter by Maurice O.
v
Letter-Writing Call: Nasrallah to
Court for War Crimes!
v Good News about the Finnish Media - Varpu Haavisto
v First Take-A-Pen letter ever from
the Mars! – To The Independent
v The
Pretext 'Israeli OCCUPATION' Down – Arab TERROR Up- Ch. Krauthammer
v
Final Report on BBC 'Impartiality
Review' published– READ
Take-A-Pen's
5 Studies, like: (I) BBC's 'Jenin–massacre' that never was;
(IV) BBC - an
Accomplice to Terror? - Read
in the separate BBC frame on Home page
v Ideas About
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Read the latest few
of the above titles:
4) EUROVISION
in FINLAND; ISRAEL, 'TEAPACKS' and POLITICS –
and update!
Do you remember the good
old times when
Once with the song
"Abanibi Obo'ehev"
sung by Izhar Cohen and once with
"Hallelujah" sung by Gali Atari and the
"Milk and Honey" trio. And, DANA International.
Good old times. Since then politics entered this contest and in recent years
Read here David's letter
about calamities in
Update!15.3.2007 The Eurovision organizers accepted yesterday all the songs
submitted, including 'Push the button' of Israeli pop-band 'Teapacks'.
Is it perhaps the victory of public pressure, like David's letter below?
Dear Friends,
Israeli band Teapacks
has created quite a storm with its song "Push the Button". It's
been selected to represent
The lyrics are a protest against nuclear weapons in the hands of unstable
political leaders. And Kobi OZ, Teapacks' founder
and lead singer, probably knows what he is singing about. He comes from
the southern Israeli town of
Blogger Tundra Tabloids points out that the Finnish 1982
Eurovision entry was the group Kojo, titled "Nuku Pommin" ("Bomb Out" or
better yet "Sleep while the bombs fall"), which told of the threat to
Europe during the height of the Cold War when many in Europe were against the
US deployment of nuclear tipped cruise and Pershing missiles. That is the Finns are allowed to sing about
rocket threats, only Israelis may be not. While you ponder the hypocrisy of
Finland joining the club of peoples offended by Jews objecting to being
the victims of another holocaust, you can click the links and judge the music
and the lyrics of the song yourself.
David
"letter
from Israel"
at http://dfrankfurter.livejournal.com/110694.html
PS: Here are the links for the
HTML deprived; The song "Push the Button" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_h_rLKTLvs ;
And "Nuko
Pommin" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8HdS0ukSwk
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EUROVISION
in
- David Frankfurter's letter - 10
March 2007 – Update 15 March 2007
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5) Mobilize now, save the
world
By Natan Sharansky
Jerusalem Post, February 12, 2007
Just over three years ago, at the first-ever global forum on anti-Semitism organized
by the State of Israel, the essential task was to define the beast - the new
anti-Semitism. Since then, as the fourth such global gathering
meets this week, efforts to
incorporate the "three-D" distinction between legitimate criticism of
The "three-D" distinction between legitimate
criticism of
Double
standards, Demonization and Delegitimization.
These and other accomplishments, as important as they are, have been dwarfed by
the quantum leap anti-Semitism itself has taken. It has leapfrogged from
isolated attacks against Jews to incitement to genocide - the actual
elimination of the Jewish state.
This shift has come in the form of a pincer movement. On one side, we have the
Iranian regime, which is denying the Holocaust and calling for
We must recognize the fact that though sympathy for
Given this situation, it should be clear that we are beyond the stage of
definitions. The Jewish world now must mobilize at a level no less than during
the struggles to establish the State of Israel and to free Soviet Jewry. It is
this latter struggle that presents the most potent model for action today.
Though both sides of the genocidal pincer are in quite advanced stages of
development, the Jewish world remains mired in pre-mobilization debates
reminiscent of the early stages of the Soviet Jewry struggle in the 1960s. This
may be hard to recall in light of the subsequent success, but back then a
debate raged among Jews over whether a campaign to free Soviet Jewry was
"too parochial," and whether being out front risked making it too
much of a "Jewish issue."
BEFORE THESE internal debates were resolved the Soviet Jewry effort could not
be regarded as a movement, capable of attracting allies and moving governments.
Nor were such debates easily, or ever fully, put to rest.
As late as 1987, when the by then mature and powerful movement organized the
largest-ever Soviet Jewry rally on Washington's mall to coincide with Mikhail
Gorbachev's visit, some Jewish leaders wondered if the community could be
mobilized, and if such a rally would be counterproductive. They warned that
only a few thousand souls would brave the winter weather, and that the Jewish
community would be considered "warmongers" who were spoiling the
recent warming of US-Soviet relations.
In actuality, over 250,000 people came to a rally that was pivotal in opening
the floodgates, not just to 10,000 or 20,000 Jews, which seemed like a dream at
the time, but to a million Jews who came to
Since it has been a while, a reminder is in order of what full mobilization
looks like.
First, as Shlomo Avineri
has recently proposed, Iranian officials should get the Soviet treatment. Just as no Soviet official, including sport and cultural
delegations, could travel without being accosted by protests and hostile
questions, so it should be with anyone representing the Iranian regime.
As in the Soviet case, such protests will not themselves change Iranian
behavior, but they are critical to creating a climate that will
influence the policies of Western governments.
Second, an inventory of the governments and companies that provide Iran with
refined oil, huge trade deals, and even military and nuclear assistance should
be taken and public pressure be put on them to end their complicity with a
regime that is racing to genocide.
Third, the pension funds of US states should be divested from all companies
that trade with or invest in
Fourth, every country that is party to the Genocide Convention should be called
upon to fulfill its obligation under that treaty and seek an indictment of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
on the charge of incitement to genocide, which is a "punishable
offense" under Article III of that treaty.
Fifth, human rights groups, such as Amnesty International and
Human Rights Watch, which are heavily nourished by Jewish values, passion and
funding, must stop squeezing both sides of the genocidal pincer. These
groups must be challenged, on the one hand, to press for enforcement of the
Genocide Treaty, to stand up for human rights in
JUST AS the two sides of the pincer themselves are connected, so too must be
the efforts to combat them. All the above steps concern the Iranian side of the
pincer. But combating the other side, the denial of
they necessitate confronting, not a rogue regime, but our own cherished
institutions. On this front:
First, universities that provide chairs for professors who campaign against
This may seem a hopelessly difficult task, but it is not. After 9/11, one
woman, a student, took on
We must stand for a basic principle: If denying the Holocaust can land a
professor in jail, denying
Second, support for
The fight to support
Then, we successfully argued that the freedom to emigrate was not just a Jewish
concern, but a universal one, and we were more right than we knew. The Jackson-Vanik amendment and the Helsinki Accords were critical
factors in triggering the internal collapse of the Soviet empire. This collapse
not only freed millions of Jews, but all the peoples behind the Iron Curtain,
and ended a half-century-old superpower stalemate that threatened the entire
planet.
NOW THE WORLD stands at a no less fateful watershed. The world's most dangerous
rogue regime is on the verge of obtaining the ultimate weapons of terror.
Already,
Our leadership will give others the opportunity to act. If the Jewish world
does not lead the way, who will? It is as true now as it was then; if we build
it, they will come.A decade after the wave of
democracy that came with the fall of the Soviet Union, an Iranian-led wave of
terror is rising that will not stop until it is stopped. Ultimately, we
overcame our fear of parochialism to stand up for Soviet Jewry, and left the
world a much better place for it. Now we must do the same to prevent a second Holocaust,
and in the process save the world.
-------------
The
writer is chairman of the Institute for Strategic Studies at the
Media enquiries to: Stephanie Pearson ( spearson@shalem.org.il )
6) Why did
you kill your grandmother?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014973.php
"NEW: Questions As
Weapons" by Charles Jacobs unmasks a little-noted
rhetorical strategy often employed by the jihadists
and their allies:
"Why did you kill
your grandmother?” That’s what Professor Ruth Wisse
said to an Arab student at Stanford who asked her, “Why is
The student was flummoxed and tried again, “Why
is
According to the Chabad
Rabbi who invited Harvard’s Wisse to speak, Wisse then explained how some questions are not questions
at all, but weapons: If she would have answered his anti-Israel accusation, she
would have been trapped, and done damage to her cause.
Her “grandmother” riposte was the perfect
demonstration of that point:
Having to explain why you’re not guilty as
charged is a losing proposition.
Yet Jews have allowed themselves to be trapped
in a meta-discourse that continuously takes the form: “
Indeed, much of the history of hasbara – Israeli
PR – has been defense against slanderous accusations. The classic handy reference
book many students use, “Myths and Facts,” a tome fat with expanded
revisions to include the evolving set of lies and half-truths hurled at the
Jewish state by Arabist propaganda. The formula of
the book, which is the formula for much of [good Israeli] hasbara training, is
to set out the “myth” and then answer it with the true “facts.”
Sometimes the “factual” response shows how
Israeli conduct is exemplary:
“
But even this – “We are much better than you say” doesn¹t
work, because as long as the discourse focuses on Israeli behavior, we lose.
What to do? Once armed with the realization that the anti-Israel formula
accuses
“You say the Jews are guilty of oppression,
apartheid, discrimination, expansion by land theft? Not true. What is true is
that the Arab world is guilty of every one of these things.”
Here’s an enhanced “Myths, Facts, and Big
Picture” approach:
The Lie:
The Truth: That’s ridiculous. (See Myths and Facts on why.)
Transition: But I’m glad you brought up apartheid. Christians are fleeing
Palestinian-controlled areas due to Muslim violence. Violence against women,
especially “honor killings” where male relatives kill females for “improper”
sexual relations, are common in Palestinian
territories and throughout the Muslim world. Jews are not even permitted to set
foot in
The Big Picture: Something similar to apartheid
is found in the Arab world, where women and children, gays and lesbians, and
Christians and Jews, are controlled, expelled, tormented and killed. That’s
what we should be protesting.
--------------------------------
7)
By Jeff Ballabon
Caroline Glick, who is for my money one of
the absolute best political analysts on the Middle East, particularly as it
concerns
In her litany of interrogatories, however,
Glick fails to point to one of the most culpable conspirators in the ongoing
lie that the Palestinians have “moderate” leadership which seeks coexistence
rather than jihad - and that is
First, how is it
possible that the belated admission of a massive 33 year cover-up of the murder
of senior American diplomats spanning the course of seven consecutive
presidential administrations has been ignored by the US media?…
[W]hat does the fact
that under seven consecutive administrations, the US government has covered up
Arafat’s direct responsibility for the murder of American diplomats while
placing both Arafat and Fatah at the center of its Middle East policy, say
about the basic rationale of US policy towards Israel and the Palestinians?
What would US Middle East policy looked like, and what would have been the
results for US, and international security as a whole, if rather than advancing
a policy that made Arafat the most frequent foreign visitor to the White House
during the
How many lives would
have been saved if the
Good, important questions, all.
But, even more than the
After 9/11, more and more people were
prepared to understand that
They continue to do so today.
Arab culture is venerable, durable, proud, aggressive and
different. And very, very dangerous. Islamic identity
and pride are on the rise, even as Western identity and pride are faltering.
Fatal fantasies about Iraqi democratization and liberalization also are fueled
and fed by the woolly ethnocentrism which declares the Palestinians (and Saudis
and Syrians, etc.) to be a similar culture of cultural primitives and naifs just awaiting the irresistable
call of democracy and Western Civilization. Both
Nowhere is the West’s demise more imminent than in
8) Europe is Finished,
Predicts Mark Steyn
|
|
[ *NY
Sun title: "Steyn's New Book Combines Humor,
Accuracy, Depth"]
Mark Steyn, political columnist and cultural critic, has written a remarkable book, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Regnery). He combines several virtues uncommonly found together – humor, accurate reportage, and deep thinking – then applies these to what is arguably the most consequential issue of our time: the Islamist threat to the West.
Mr. Steyn offers a devastating thesis but presents it in bits
and pieces, so I shall pull it together here.
He begins with the legacy of two totalitarianisms. Traumatized by the electoral appeal of fascism, post-World War II European states were constructed in a top-down manner "so as to insulate almost entirely the political class from populist pressures." As a result, the establishment has "come to regard the electorate as children."
Second, the Soviet menace during
the cold war prompted American leaders, impatient with Europe's (and
- The nanny state infantilized Europeans, making
them worry about such pseudo-issues as climate change, while feminizing
the males.
- It also neutered them, annexing "most of
the core functions of adulthood," starting with the instinct to
breed. From about 1980, birth rates plummeted, leaving an inadequate base
for today's workers to receive their pensions.
- Structured on a pay-as-you-go basis, it
amounted to an inter-generational Ponzi scheme,
where today's workers depend on their children for their pensions.
- The demographic collapse meant that the
indigenous peoples of countries like
- It led to a collapse of confidence that in
turn bred "civilizational exhaustion,"
leaving Europeans unprepared to fight for their ways.
To keep the economic machine
running meant accepting foreign workers. Rather than execute a long-term plan
to prepare for the many millions of immigrants needed,
|
Mark Steyn, author of "America Alone." |
|
|
|
|
Arriving at a time of demographic,
political, and cultural weakness, Muslims are profoundly changing
(In contrast, I
believe that
America Alone deals at
length with what Mr. Steyn calls "the larger
forces at play in the developed world that have left
The title America Alone
refers to Mr. Steyn's expectation that the
Pared to its essentials, he
counsels two things: First, avoid the "bloated European welfare
systems," declare them no less than a national security threat, shrink the
state, and emphasize the virtues of self-reliance and individual innovation.
Second, avoid "imperial understretch,"
don't "hunker down in Fortress
---------------------------------------------------------------------
9) NEWS -
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|
||||||||||||||
10) Reader's Letter
to Wall Street Journal editorial: "Mother Mosque"
To: "WSJ" wsj.ltrs@wsj.com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: Mother Mosque
I missed the point
of your
However, there is
no mention of any reciprocity. No mention of Muslim sympathy and
support for the 9/11 victims. No mention of Muslims ever protesting
Islamic terrorism.
If we all rush over to our nearest Mosque and drop off flowers after the next
Islamic attack, won't that encourage them to plan more attacks?
George
Wilmette
--------------------------------------------------------------------
11) Once again: 'Disproportionate?'
Take-A-Pen editorial*
One of the central
questions many viewers of the Arab-Israeli conflict ask again and again is: "Isn't
the Israeli response to Palestinian – or other Arab – attacks
disproportionate?" And in the question it is easy to hear the
suggested answer; that
This won't be easy. Formal and human law, our heart and our mind
are all suggesting different answers. Authorities like the writer of "the
Day of the Jackal" Frederick Forsyth ("Disproportionate? Blatant Hypocrisy!"),
the French philosopher Bernard Henry-Levy ("DISPROPORTION?")
and several others wrote on this in depth.
Let we try to seek here simpler answers "the Jewish way"; through
further questions. Two questions come immediately to mind.
The first
question was suggested by ex-PM Binyamin Netanyahu. He said in an
interview to British Television: "In World War II more Germans,
particularly civilians were killed than British and Americans combined, but
there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the war was caused by
Were these acts of
Whatever Your answer should be, and without judging
The second
question about 'Disproportionate'-ness is my own. We know that Iran-backed Hizbollah
started this last
Wouldn't this be a sufficient reason for the
The utmost constraint
For an open ending of this
contemplation we suggest not one more question but an old saying of Jewish
sagas: "Those who do mercy to
cruel people do cruelty to innocent people."
The level of certain military blows
to terror, both local and global, might well have really been disproportionate.
Maybe too high.
Maybe too low; not
enough to crush the snake's head.
----------------------
* This editorial; was
written by Endre Mozes
____________________________________________
12)
European Coalition
for
Increasing Israeli trust in
- Press release -
The Coalition was well
received by the upcoming German presidency which showed a genuine interest in
the fact that
During their four day visit
the Coalition delegation brought up a number of issues which will need the attention
of the upcoming presidency. Among them were the unclear status of the terrorist
organisation Hezbollah, which despite a clear resolution from the European
parliament to add the group to the EU black list, is still not officially
considered a terrorist organisation. According to the Coalition there are no
excuses to keep Hezbollah from the terrorist list regardless of the opposition
of some European member states governments.
The Coalition delegation also
brought up the issue of the 500 million of tax and duties which the Israeli
government are still withholding the Palestinians. There is currently
EU-pressure to release the funds but the Coalition stressed that "these
funds can under no circumstances go directly to the Hamas lead Palestinian
government which would be contrary to EU-policies but to the World Bank and its
temporary instrument for funding the Palestinians, TIM."…- "This
organisation is the right receiver of any withheld tax money if the funds are
going to reach the suffering Palestinian people", vam
Dam noted.
Apart from these issues the
Coalition also discussed the politically motivated definition of a Palestinian
refugee which today implies that any children or grandchildren of a Palestinian
refugee has the right to call themselves a Palestinian refugee. The Coalition
repeated what was said at their 4h Annual Policy Conference in
-"The
definition of a Palestinian refugee is different from any other refugee, said
van Dam. This can hardly be a factor that will enhance the peace process and
lead to a just peace."
The European Coalition for
P.O. Box 189
FI-00181 Helsinki, Finland
Tel.: + 358-40-8400238
Fax: + 358-96948056
info@ec4i.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------
13) IDF aerial attack in the northern
The Israeli Defense Forces Spokesman's announcement -
Background:
Palestinians continue daily to launch from
This was the Israeli Defense
Forces Spokesman's announcement on an IDF aerial attack this day:
Earlier today,
-------------------------------------------------------------------.
14) A Reader's Letter about 'Civilian victims' in
"Mindless repetition"
Letter in
Sir, - In your article
"
STEVEN STOTSKY
*P.s.: After Jenin,
Pallywood, and many more Palestinian and other
anti-Israeli fakes and fabrications, one may have good reasons to give
credence to Israeli sources. Further on civilian casualties in
----------------------------------------------------------------
15) 'DISPROPORTIONATE'!? - Blatant Hypocrisy!
|
It must surely be true that the level of lies
and hypocrisy that a society can tolerate is in direct proportion to the
degeneration of that culture.
Personally I am not
particularly pro or anti
Watching the bombing of
That accusation can only
mean: "disproportionate to the aggression levelled
against them". Really? Why did the accusers not
mention
What has
In 1999 five NATO air
forces - US, British, French, Italian and German - began to plaster
We were trying to
persuade one dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, to pull his troops out of Kosovo,
which happened to be (and still is) a Yugoslav province. The dictator finally
cracked; shortly afterwards he was toppled but it was his fellow Serbs who did
that, not NATO.
Before the destruction
of
Here is my point. In all
those 73 days of bombing
As an ex-RAF officer, I
am persuaded the Israelis fighter pilots are hitting civilian-free targets with
95% of their strikes. These are the hits no
TV network bothers to cover. It is the 5% that causes the coverage and the
horror: wrong target, unseen civilians in the cellar, misfire, unavoidable collateral casualties.
Yesterday we Brits
learned that certain elements in our society had tried to organise
a mass slaughter of citizens flying out of our airports. We will have to take
draconian measures against these enemies in our midst.
Will Messrs Hague and
Straw complain our methods are disproportionate?
Not a chance. Now
that, dear readers, is blatant hypocrisy.
*(Frederick Forsyth, the
author of The Day of the Jackal among other novels)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
16) Horrifying Hate Speech from
God's chosen people
Jostein Gaarder
in Aftenposten, August 5, 2006 (Unauthorized translation from Norwegian)
[TAP editor: we put a (!!!) sign at the most deceitful distortions and most
irresponsible incitements of Jostein only]
No way back. It is time to learn a new refrain: We no
longer recognize the State of Israel(!!!) We couldn't recognize
the apartheid regime in
We don't believe in the
illusion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's conceits and cry
over its misdeeds. To act
as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity(!!!). We call it racism.
Limits for tolerance
Our patience has its
limits, and so does our tolerance. We don't believe in divine promises as a
basis for occupation and apartheid. We have left the Middle
Ages behind us. We are embarrassed by those who believe that the god of plants,
animals and galaxies has appointed one particular people as its favorites and
given them funny stone tablets, burning bushes and a license to kill.
We call those who murder children child-murderers and
will never accept that such people have a divine or historical mandate that can
excuse their shameful acts (!!!). We can only say: shame
over all apartheid, shame over ethnic cleansing, shame over all terrorist acts
against civilians, whether perpetrated by Hamas, Hizballah,
or the State of
Art of war without
scruples
We recognize and accept
fully
We are at the watershed.
There is no way back. The
State of
No defense, no skin
May spirit and words blow
We want the people in
They celebrate the
triumphs
We don't believe that
For we have seen the pictures of Israeli girls who
write hateful messages on the bombs to be released over the civilian population of
Retribution of the
vendetta
We do not recognize the
rhetoric of the State of
He said: "All that
you would others do for you, you should do for them." We do not recognize
a state that is built on anti-humanitarian principles and the ruins of an
archaic religion of nationalism and war. Or, as Albert Schweitzer put it, "humanity
is to never sacrifice a human for a cause."
Mercy and forgiveness
We do not recognize the
old kingdom of David as normative for the 21st century's map of the
It's been two thousand
years since the Jewish rabbi disarmed and thoroughly humanized old war
rhetoric. Already in his
time there were Zionist terrorists(!!!).
For two thousand years, we have emphasize the curriculum
of humanity, but
We recognize the State of
Or as
And then there was a
Norwegian poet [Henrik Wergeland]
who exclaimed the following childlike sigh: "Why does humanity progress so
slowly?" He was the one who wrote so beautifully about the Jew and the
Jewess [two epic poems by Wergeland]. But he rejected
the the illusion of a chosen people. He called himself a Muslim.
Calm
and mercy
We do not recognize the State of
Peace and right of passage for the fleeing civilians who
no longer have a state that can protect them! Don't shoot at the refugees!
Don't aim at them! They are as vulnerable as snails without their houses now,
vulnerable like the slow-moving caravans from Palestinian and Lebanese
refugees, defenseless as the women, children, and elderly in Qana,
Don't let a single
Israeli child's life be lost. Too many children and civilians have already been
murdered.
Technorati Tags: Israel, Jostein
Gaarder, Norway, antisemitism
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17) LETTER to SkyNews:
Balance your reporting on the Cease-Fire!
Email to news@sky.com
Sir,
This morning Sky repeatedly reported that
Were your reporters unaware that 246 deadly missiles were fired
by Hezbollah into
For your information, eight of the rockets were long-range missiles.
One person was killed and nearly 150 required medical treatment. Many
houses were badly damaged. The lone
fatality was an Israeli Christian Arab, Madi Hiyat, 83.
Maurice Ostroff
-----------------------------------------------
18) Take-A-Pen's Letter-Writing
Call:
Nasrallah to Court for War
Crimes
August , 2006
We all know that:
- to
place military installations in the vicinity of or amidst civilian
facilities like residential buildings - is a war crime
- To fire from the
vicinity of such facilities and thus to deliberately expose civilian
population to high risk - is
a war crime.
- To use civilian
population as human shield in this or any other way - like military personal
and equipment transported together with civilians - is a war crime.
- To do the same even to
more protected parts of the population like children and women and to
facilities like schools and hospitals - is an aggravated war crime
- To use neutral and
protected institutions like UN and ambulances as shields for military actions -
is a war crime.
Hizballah, led by Nasrallah do all these and many more illegal and war
criminal activities as a standard practice, totally disregarding all
relevant international laws and conventions.
Let's send our letters
to our representatives and to the media demanding that
Nasrallah must be brought before an
---------------------------------------------------------------------
- See below a few photos
damning Hizballah, and later a further few of
the THOUSANDS OF EVIDENCES of Hizballah war
crimes, like:
- See IDF videos showing Hizballah firing rockets 30 meter 'far' from a residential
building and then parking the lorry with the rocket launcher in the parking lot
of that residential bldg
- See a photo of the yellow Hizballah flag flying high on a UN post - a cunning crime
what caused the IDF hitting by mistake that UN post, unfortunately killing
four UN servicemen.
- .........
----------------------------------------------------
From: T
R
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html
Photos that damn Hezbollah
by Chris Link,
THIS is the picture that
damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind
The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density
residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre
weapons.
Dressed in civilian
clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic
assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon.
The photographs, from the
Christian area of Wadi Chahrour
in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and
smuggled out by a friend.
They emerged as:
- US President George Bush called for an international force to be sent to
-
- THE UN's humanitarian chief Jan Egeland called for
a three-day truce to evacuate civilians and transport food and water into
cut-off areas.
- US SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the Middle East to push a
UN resolution aimed at ending the 18-day war, and:
- A PALESTINIAN militant group said it had kidnapped, killed and burned an
Israeli settler in the West Bank.
The images include one of a group of men and youths preparing to fire an anti-aircraft gun metres from
an apartment block with sheets hanging out on a balcony to dry.
Others show a militant with AK47 rifle guarding no-go zones after Israeli
blitzes.
Another depicts the remnants of a Hezbollah Katyusha
rocket in the middle of a residential block blown up in an Israeli air attack.
The
"Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets, then within minutes the area
was blasted by Israeli jets," he said.
"Until the Hezbollah fighters arrived, it had not been touched by the
Israelis. Then it was totally devastated.
"It was carnage. Two innocent people died in that incident, but it was so
lucky it was not more."
The release of the images comes as Hezbollah faces criticism for allegedly using innocent civilians as
"human shields".
Mr Egeland blasted Hezbollah as "cowards" for
operating among civilians. "When I was in
http://lightonthings.blogspot.com - The Reality Show
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
19)
Good News about Finnish Media!
To share with you some good news about
the media war in
Read it and think of it, what a great influence the activity of a few brave
people may have on a whole country
"Dear Endre!
I just want to tell you some good news from
We've been sending translated material about
All the best,
Varpu"
------------------------------------------------------------------------
20) .July
14 ( Bastille-day) :
In 1791: the old Fortress of Bastille
fell;
in 2006: old Pretexts like 'Israeli
OCCUPATION' fell – but Arab TERROR is rising
|
Who is at fault? |
|
|
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2006/07/14/who_is_at_fault
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
21) The First Take-A-Pen
Letter Ever - from the Mars!!!
Now I can distribute to you the letter -
or rather op-ed - sent to THE INDEPENDENT, after they failed to
publish it or to respond in any form. (Rather sad that a paper of The
Independent's prestige and self-confidence does not have a standard
complaint procedure like an independent ombudsman reading readers' letters - as
it is for example in The Guardian - but it is another story).
The three matters the letter reflects to, may not bear much weight in themselves. The more
important point is to illustrate, that we all DO HAVE THE RIGHT of
such more comprehensive criticism, of even those overly self-confident media,
like The Independent.
We have had a few successes with such actions
in the past and receive very positive responses from our readers to this piece.
If you like it; feel free to distribute, with
attribute to Take-A-Pen www.take-a-pen.org
E.M.
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Subject: LETTER FROM THE MARS
To: The Independent
Letter Editor
Dear Sir;
I am from the Mars,
making a longer trip on Earth. I am afraid that writing to you in Martian could
be an inconvenience, therefore, with apologies, I am writing in my own pigeon
English.
I know we Martians may have a
wary name among you. What you may be less aware of is that we love the media,
particularly a free, freely thinking press. We dislike media
manipulations. That is why we set up
once an inter-orbital network of active media-watchers. And that is why I like
so much your name 'The Independent' - I read you whenever I am in
Having been there now
for three days I have read thoroughly your May 30 issue. May I tell you
something on more than one article?
I enjoyed very much how Dominic
Lawson in "A hard-line Marxist distortion of history" dared to
tell clearly and argumented well with facts his
question about Ken Loach's precious
Noam Chomsky's
article and book "All washed up"
(advertised on your front-page) seemed to present also a brave independent view. The subtitle "Why it's
over for
My third and last
illustration shows the refreshingly diverse possible uses of the principle of
independence. The article "Lecturers'
union supports boycott of 'apartheid'
But Garner does tell us a few
facts; like that the vote was won 106 to 71, and what were the names of two
ardent anti-Israel activists and of the General Secretary of the union who
spoke against the boycott. And then Garner quotes, in 43 full lines,
unchallenged, the two anti-Israeli speakers, and for balance he quotes nil
(zero) word of the General Secretary's anti-boycott call.
We, on the Mars, do also
apply sometimes this un-balancing technique; we do it in cases when we do not
want peace and reconciliation, but are preparing and want to justify a war
instead. The editors responsible for this technique are not called 'Education
Editors' on the Mars; we call them "Incitement Editors" and they
enjoy great respect by warlords.
May I assure you that
all-in-all I greatly enjoyed the substantial time I spent in The
Independent's mental gym and intend to do it the next time I am in
Respectfully,
Endre Mozes
Chairman of Take-A-Pen
Mars.
(Temporarily:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
22) Ideas About
Take-A-Pen editorial 27 February 2006
Eyes of the
international community are on
At first sight
it is simple; we at Take-A-Pen strongly believe that no descent person
would want to offend any religion. Even to legal humor and irony about religious
matters there should be self-imposed limits and restraint (as the
British used to say: "Gentlemen do not argue about religion").
But further we
may have some less obvious ideas.
How
did this story really start? A concise description of
the events is that of Robert Spencer
("Thou shalt not Draw" in the FrontPageMagazine on
"Last
September, Danish author Kåre Bluitgen was set to publish a book on the Muslim prophet
Muhammad, but there was just one catch: he couldn’t find an illustrator.
Artistic representations of the human form are forbidden in Islam (as in
Judaism*), and pictures of Muhammad are especially taboo — so three artists
turned down Bluitgen’s offer to illustrate
the book for fear that they would pay with their lives for doing so.
Frants Iver Gundelach,
president of the Danish Writers Union, decried this as a threat to free speech
— and the largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten,
responded. They approached forty (40*) artists asking for depictions of
Muhammad and received in response twelve (12*) cartoons of the Prophet —
several playing on the violence committed by Muslims in the name of Islam
around the world today. "
The rest is
history, ongoing and on-line history this time.
Our questions
now are:
Did this story
really start with the cartoons? Or, with what?
Are the
caricatures the real issue and the goal?
Or, can the
real issue be whether an old European democracy can hold his good old values
upright, or, together with the 28 cartoonists of the 40 invited, prefers to
keep distant, considering well the dangers, the Islamist threats and the deadly
precedent of Theo Van Gogh?
Is it possible
that the well-orchestrated global anti-Danish campaign has something to do with
the Danes having had enough of Muslim mass immigration into
In July 2005
anarchists, allegedly Muslim immigrants, burned the private car of Denmark's
Minister for Immigration and death threats to her and her family were voiced ("Anarchists
torch minister's car and Denmark's ideals" - Irish Times, 10 June
2005).
Did the
perpetrators take revenge already in July for the cartoons to come
in October? Or the new
immigration laws of
Having looked
back to old times 'Before
the Cartoons'
(B.C.) let's have now a look towards the future; A.C.,
After the Cartoons'.
If not the
cartoons, then what else can be the future goal of the
well-orchestrated and Islam states-sponsored Islamist riots?
Some suggest as
relevant for the analysis of the motives behind the riots that
The cartoon riots
are here probably to cover up to Islamist global ambitions and to
discourage anti-terror acts like the designation of Islamist
organizations or states as sponsors of terrorism.
Therefore the
debates about the cartoons and the riots are much more important that they seem
to be. Therefore we support and urge all of you, Danish Pen-friends in particular, to write now; to write to
media and to politicians, for your values, for freedom of speech and of
thought, write whatever you think, about any aspect of the cartoon crisis, but
be sure to Express Yourself!
This may be a
decisive debate for the future of your country and society, and maybe for even more. (E.M.)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------