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Help Palestine [hidayahnet] Ulasan Wakil Petani, Nelayan Dan Masyarakat Luar Bandar Terhadap Pengesyoran Dato' Seri Rafidah Aziz Tentang USFTA
Assalamualaikum dan Selamat Siang, Sokongan berterusan saudara/i dalam mengagihkan maklumat ini amatlah dihargai. Sekian, wassalam... Ikhlas, http://usftamalaysia.blogspot.com/ http://usftamalaysia.blogspot.com/2007/01/ulasan-wakil-petani-nelayan-dan.html Ulasan Wakil Petani, Nelayan Dan Masyarakat Luar Bandar Terhadap Pengesyoran Dato' Seri Rafidah Aziz Tentang USFTA JAWATANKUASA BERTINDAK MEMBANTAH US FTA (WILAYAH UTARA) d/a 21, Lintang Delima 15, 11700 P.Pinang Tel ; (6) 04 6596930 Fax ; (6) 04 6596 931 Email ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15 Januari 2007 Surat Kepada Pengarang Penjelasan YB Dato Seri Rafidah Aziz berkenaan beras di USFTA di alu-alukan dan diharapkan isu-isu lain dalam US FTA dapat diperjelaskan kepada masyarakat Awam Kami wakil petani, nelayan, pengguna, masyarakat luar bandar dan wakil-wakil NGO wilayah utara mengalu-alukan penjelasan YB Dato Seri Rafidah Aziz berkenaan isu beras di US FTA. Walaubagaimanapun harus diperjelaskan bahawa permohonan berkenaan penjelasan ini bukan perkara baru kerana pelbagai pihak termasuk pihak jawatankuasa bertindak telah meminta pihak kerajaan lebih terbuka berkenaan perundingan US FTA bukan sahaja berkenaan isu beras tapi juga berkenaan isu-isu lain dalam perundingan USFTA kerana semuanya menyentuh kepentingan awam. Walaubagaimana pun, jawatankuasa bertindak berhasrat meminta penjelasan daripada Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri tentang maklum balas US berhubung permintaan Malaysia untuk tidak memasukkan Beras dalam perundingan tersebut memandangkan perundingan masih ber-langsung dan tiada ketetapan yang jelas boleh dibuat sehingga perjanjian ditandatangani. Dalam pemerhatian kami, USFTA bukan sahaja memberi kesan dalam bidang perdagangan tetapi juga memberi implikasi kepada mata pencarian dan kehidupan kami semua Rakyat Malaysia terutama masyarakat desa yang dijangka menerima kesan yang teruk. Sebagai contoh, syarat syarat harta intelektual akan memberi kesan antara lain: bahan kimia pertanian yang digunakan oleh petani-petani berkemungkinan menjadi lebih mahal; kos sara hidup mungkin naik kerana barang-barang contohnya ubat-ubatan adalah diramalkan menjadi lebih mahal; kos pendidikan dan buku-buku mungkin meningkatkan Produk hasil desa juga tidak akan dapat dilindungi dan insentif kepada usahawan kecil desa boleh dilihat sebagai Halangan Bukan Cukai dalam USFTA ini. Petani juga resah berhubung tekanan dari syarikat bioteknologi US melalui US FTA yang cuba melobi untuk membawa massuk barangan ubah suai genetik mereka ke Malaysia dimana kesan produk tersebut kepada kesihatan dan alam sekitar di pertikaikan dalam waktu yang sama ia mungkin meningkatkan kebergantungan petani kepada industri tersebut disamping meningkatkan kos pertanian. Kami sangat bimbang bahawa Kerajaan Malaysia tidak membuat penelitian mendalam terutama pada kajian kos faedah sebelum menandatangani USFTA dan apabila perundingan terbabit diadakan secara tertutup, tiada sebarang maklumat didedahkan pada awam dan tidak berlaku sebarang perbincangan telus dengan para petani dan masyarakat awam. Kami menggesa semua pihak khususnya kerajaan Malaysia untuk menghentikan rundingan lanjut USFTA sehingga kita mengetahui bagaimana kesannya kepada petani, keselamatan pengeluaran makanan Negara dan kesannya kepada masyarakat terutamanya diluar bandar. Ia adalah tidak mencukupi dengan hanya memberi jaminan-jaminan. Kita perlu didedahkan tentang kandungan sebenar perundingan terbabit dan mengetahui samada kerajaan kita telah membuat satu penilaian kos faedah yang terperinci bagi menunjukkan bahawa Rakyat Malaysia akan mendapat faedah yang sewajarnya. Che Ani Mat Zain Wakil Jawatankuasa Bertindak ___ What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk
Help Palestine [hidayahnet] Zionist Criminal : Israel Builds Synagogue Under Al-Aqsa: Palestinians
http://musliminsuffer.wordpress.com/ bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === Israel Builds Synagogue Under Al-Aqsa: Palestinians IslamOnline.net January 3, 2006 Occupied Jerusalem - The Supreme Islamic Association and Al-Aqsa Association for Construction of the Holy Shrines accused Israel on Tuesday, January 3, of building a Jewish synagogue beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, warning that the continued Israeli excavations jeopardize the mosque's structure. The synagogue has been built right beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, some 90m from the Dome of the Rock, Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement inside the Green Line, told a press conference in the holy city, reported Al-Jazeera. He said the synagogue includes seven rooms tracing the Jewish history. One of these rooms features Germany's Nazi rule and the World War II Holocaust. Salah said that works were in full swing to build another synagogue for women under the mosque. The conference featured video footages and photos documenting the synagogue as well as the continued Israeli excavations. Al-Haram Al-Sharif, which includes Al-Aqsa Mosque, represents the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Jews claim that their alleged Haykal (Temple of Solomon) exists underneath Al-Haram Al-Sharif which was the first qiblah (direction Muslims take during prayers). Al-Haram Al-Sharif's significance has been reinforced by the incident of Al-Israa and Al-Mi`raj (the night journey from Makkah to Al-Quds and the ascent to the Heavens by Prophet Muhammad). Full Swing Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, the Mufti of Al-Quds and Palestine, echoed a similar warning. The Israeli authorities have been exploiting the big gates of the western side of al-Aqsa since 1996 through conducting a series of excavation works which ended with clandestinely erecting a synagogue, he told the same conference. Constructing such a synagogue proves that the Israelis did not find any sign for their alleged Haykal, that is why they made up some rooms to vaguely narrate their religious history, Sabri added. He urged the Arab and Islamic worlds to intervene to halt Israeli excavations under Al-Aqsa. Salah, meanwhile, warned that Israeli excavations under the holy site were threatening the structure of the mosque. A truck driver was assigned to move equipments to the excavation sites and he was shocked to see a huge tunnel under the mosque that can allow a truck to pass through, he said. He said excavations under the mosque are continuing in full swing to establish the Haykal before 2007, dismissing them as a black stain on Israel. Israeli authorities recently unveiled an underground site that they say strengthens Jewish ties to the compound. Palestinian and Jordanian archeologists have warned that ongoing Israeli excavations have weakened the foundations of the mosque, cautioning it would not stand a powerful earthquake. A part of the road leading to one of the mosques main gates collapsed in February, 2004 due to the destructive Israeli digging work. New Intifada Salah warned that the Israeli aggressions against the Muslim holy site would have grave repercussions. You are inviting an uprising against you just to stop your attack on the mosque, he said, addressing himself to the Israeli government. Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out in September 2000 after a provocative visit by then opposition leader Ariel Sharon to the mosque. In 1996, eighty people were killed in clashes with the Israeli occupation forces to protest the opening of an Israeli tunnel alongside the compound. On August 21, 1969, Al-Aqsa was set ablaze, gutting its southern wing - some 1,500 square meters out of a total of 4,400 -- and destroyed the historical pulpit established by Muslim hero Salahudin Al-Ayyubi. Palestinians pointed the finger at Jewish extremists and the Israeli government, which claimed that the fire was triggered by a short circuit but later admitted that a man from Australia, who sought refuge in a kibbutz, was found guilty. The man was set free after receiving psychiatric counseling http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-01/03/article09.shtmlwww.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-01/03/article09.shtml Comment The above report is likely to inflame Muslim opinion worldwide maybe as intended and coupled with growing tension over Iran, could ultimately lead to a global clash of cultures. However, this is not entirely unexpected. It has in fact been in the pipeline for a long time. Over a century ago one of modern Freemasonrys guiding lights outlined just such a clash when he spoke of how a Third World War could be ignited by provoking a clash between Islam and Zionism According to Pike: The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the agentur of the Illuminati between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. We could be witnessing the opening moves in just such
Help Palestine [hidayahnet] SERUAN MUHARRAM PB Pemuda Al-Irsyad
SERUAN MUHARRAM Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, Memasuki tahun baru Muharam 1428 Hijriah, yang jatuh tepat pada Sabtu 20 Januari 2007, Pengurus Besar (PB) Pemuda Al-Irsyad mengucapkan SELAMAT TAHUN BARU HIJRIAH 1428 Hijriah. Semoga sukses selalu menyertai kita, dan semoga Allah SWT mempermudah jalan kita dalam mengarungi tantangan umat di tahun 1428 H ini. Dalam momentum Tahun Baru Hijriah ini, PB Pemuda Al-Irsyad mengimbau seluruh aktifis, anggota dan simpatisan Pemuda Al-Irsyad, para pemuda Islam di seluruh nusantara, dan segenap komponen bangsa Indonesia untuk makin keras meningkatkan upaya pemberantasan praktek-praktek kemaksiatan di negeri ini, seperti kolusi dan korupsi yang tetap dahsyat menggerogoti negeri ini, mafia perberasan, penyebarluasan pornografi dan pornoaksi, narkotika, minuman keras, pembalakan liar (illegal logging), penimbunan beras demi mendongkrak harga bahan pangan pokok itu, serta praktek-praktek kotor lain yang menyengsarakan rakyat. Pemuda Al-Irsyad juga meminta pemerintah untuk serius mengungkap dalang pembunuhan terhadap aktifis HAM, Munir Thalib, SH, yang juga aktifis Al-Irsyad. Melalui Seruan Muharam ini, Pemuda Al-Irsyad juga menyatakan mengutuk keras berlanjutnya pendudukan (penjajahan) Amerika Serikat di Irak yang telah dan terus memakan korban sampai ratusan ribu warga Irak, dan meminta pasukan AS segera keluar dari bumi Irak. Pemuda Al-Irsyad juga mengutuk keras aksi terorisme negara yang terus dilakukan secara telanjang oleh pasukan zionis Yahudi Israel di bumi Palestina, serta mengecam sikap diam komunitas bangsa-bangsa internasional menghadapi kebiadaban Israel di Palestina dan Amerika di Irak. Mafia Beras dan Rakyat yang Kelaparan: Selama tahun 1427 H (2006), terutama beberapa bulan terakhir, kita menyaksikan pemandangan nestapa, yaitu rakyat yang tidak punya apa-apa lagi, sampai tidak bisa memenuhi kebutuhan paling pokok mereka, yaitu makan nasi. Yang sedikit beruntung, mereka mencampur sedikit nasi yang bisa mereka miliki dengan makanan lain yang kurang layak (nasi aking dan sejenisnya). Ini semua kerana sudah habisnya daya beli masyarakat akibat menggilanya harga-harga seluruh kebutuhan, terutama pasca kenaikan harga bahan bakar minyak (BBM), sementara pendapatan mereka justeru semakin turun. Ratusan ribu orang bahkan tidak lagi memiliki penghasilan karena terkena PHK akibat perusahaan atau pabrik tempat mereka kerja tutup (bangkrut). Tak sampai disitu saja, mereka pun kian terhimpit setelah melambungnya harga bahan pangan pokok, dalam hal ini beras, akibat kelangkaan beras yang disinyalir merupakan hasil permainan para 'mafia beras.' Dalam usianya yang sudah lebih 8 (delapan) tahun, rezim Reformasi yang kini mewujud dalam pemerintahan Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dan Jusuf Kalla ternyata gagal memenuhi kebutuhan paling pokok ribuan rakyat negeri ini, yaitu makan. Dalam Negeri Selama tahun 2006 kita memang mencatat upaya keras yang dilakukan pemerintah untuk memerangi praktek korupsi, terutama yang dilakukan para mantan pejabat Negara. Banyak mantan anggota legislatif dan eksekutif yang diperiksa dan diadili. Tapi di sisi yang lain kita juga masih melihat adanya kebijakan 'tebang pilih' dalam pemberantasan korupsi, khususnya yang dilakukan oleh para pejabat negara rezim sekarang. Kita juga belum melihat pengusutan terhadap penyimpangan dalam beberapa kasus divestasi saham pemerintah di BUMN dan perusahaan lain yang dilakukan pejabat negara di masa lalu, seperti dalam kasus divestasi PT Indosat dan BCA. Aparat hukum juga tampak masih setengah-setengah dalam menangani kasus-kasus pembalakan liar dan narkoba. Bahkan beberapa pejabat yang seharusnya menjadi ujung tombak dalam memerangi illegal logging dan narkoba, malah ikut menjadi bagian dalam kasus ini, baik ikut terjun dalam kejahatan ini atau sebagai beking para pelakunya. Persis kata pepatah: pagar makan tanaman. Lemahnya aparat hukum juga terlihat jelas dalam kasus kian maraknya penyebaran bahan-bahan pornografis dan aneka kegiatan yang bisa dikategorikan pornoaksi. Benar kata penyair Taufik Ismail, bahwa saat ini kita tengah dikepung oleh Gerakan Syahwat Merdeka (GSM). Dalam soal pengungkapan dan penyidikan pembunuhan terhadap aktifis HAM Munir Thalib SH, aparat hukum nyata sekali justeru bertindak mengaburkan fakta-fakta hukum, yang ini bisa dibaca sebagai upaya melindungi para pembunuh Munir. Kami menuntut aparat hukum negeri ini membongkar tuntas terbunuhnya Munir. Dan bila aparat tetap tetap berlari di tempat, maka kami mendukung upaya menginternasionalisasi kasus Munir ini ke badan-badan dunia terkait. Untuk itu, memasuki tahun 1428 H ini, Pemuda Al-Irsyad menyerukan kepada seluruh anggotanya bersama-sama seluruh elemen bangsa ini untuk tidak hanya berdiam diri menghadapi segala kerusakan itu. Berbuatlah untuk mencegah kapal Republik ini karam, dan kandas di dasar lautan kerusakan moral. Bertindaklah sesuai
Help Palestine [hidayahnet] minta tolong - Imam Mahdi, nas-nas kewujudannya dalam Al-Quran
Assalamualaikum, Nak minta jasabaik netters yg boleh kemukakan bahawa Imm Mahadi memang akan muncul diakhir zaman kelak. atau mungkinkah ianya satu bidaah. semoga menjadi manfaat buat semua. thanks Norjannah Ramizan Ramlee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:42:37 -0800 (PST) From: Ramizan Ramlee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tiga Watak Di Akhir Zaman - memang dah kat depan mata To: norjannah mohamed noh [EMAIL PROTECTED] salam, is there a reference for Imam Mahdi in the Quran? (just asking for my own knowledge) TQ... Ramizan
Help Palestine [hidayahnet] assalamualaikum
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Help Palestine [hidayahnet] Zionist Crime : What was the crime of this Palestinian baby?
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bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
What was the crime of this Palestinian baby?
From: Mohammed A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: {(SaveYoungMuslims)} What was the crime of this Palestinian baby?
As-salaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah,
Hope you are in the best of health and Imaan (faith), Ameen.
I just wanted to share a short story a brother told at the Interpal event.
It's a really horrbile story, but sadly it is the norm in Palestine.
A husband was rushing his wife to the hospital in his car as she laid there
in extreme labour pains. They then were stopped by israeli soldiers when
they got to one of those road stops (they're all over Palestinian roads).
The soldiers just laughed at her and they knew that she needed to be at the
hospital immediately. They then checked them (i think for passes etc) and
they purposely took their time.
She coulnd't bare the pain and fell out of the car onto the sand. The
soldiers laughed more. As she gave birth she felt the baby's head hit the
floor and she quickly took it up to her chest. She could feel the baby
breathing against her chest. After a short while the breathing stopped and
her newborn child sadly passed away in her arms.
Imagine this sister's pain as she carried her baby for 9 months, gave birth
on the sand in so much pain only to loose her baby, because she was
prevented from reaching the hospital.
So many of our sisters give birth this way and loose their babies because
of this. This shows us the extent of pain and suffering they go through all
the time.
May Allah keep them strong, ease their pain and give them a place in Jannah
where they can be happy and peaceful forever, Ameen.
Take care Inshallah,
May Allah make it easy for us to help our suffering brothers and sisters
around the world, we have so much 2 be greatful for.
Wa 'alaikum assalaam
Please pass this story on so that people can see what they go through ,how
much we should help them and how greatful we should be.
Jazakallah khair
source:
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/69http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/69
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Help Palestine [hidayahnet] Laman Web Masjid As-Shariff, Dengkil
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Help Palestine [hidayahnet] US occupation turns 3.7 million Iraqis into refugees
http://musliminsuffer.wordpress.com/ bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === US occupation turns 3.7 million Iraqis into refugees By James Cogan 23 January 2007 The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported this month that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq has forced one out of every eight Iraqis to flee their homesmore than 3.7 million people. The agency described the refugee crisis caused by the Iraq war as the worst in the Middle East since the ethnic cleansing that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948. The Zionist military and paramilitary death squads drove an estimated 711,000 Palestinian Arabs from their land. UNHCR estimates that two million Iraqis are now living outside the countryincluding those who left before 2003 but have failed to return due to the countrys catastrophic situation. Some 50,000 Iraqi émigrés returned in 2005, but just 1,000 came back last year. Another 1.7 million Iraqis have been internally displaced. At least 500,000 people fled their homes in 2006 as a result of US military repression and the dramatic rise in sectarian violence between rival Shiite and Sunni militias in the wake of the destruction of a prominent Shiite mosque in Samarra last February. It is thought that 80,000 to 100,000 people are joining the ranks of internal and external refugees each month. The cause of the refugee crisis is the political, economic and social collapse in Iraq after close to four years of US occupation. The UN Human Rights Office report for the period November 1, 2006 to December 21, 2006, stated: The civilian population remains the main victim of the prevailing security situation, characterised by terrorist acts, action by armed groups, criminal gangs, religious extremists, militias, as well as operations by security and military forces. The resulting insecurity, sectarian prejudice, and terror negatively and comprehensively affect the enjoyment of basic rights and freedoms by the population at large. In addition, growing unemployment, poverty, various forms of discrimination and increasingly limited access to basic services, prevent most citizens from realizing their economic, social and cultural rights. The UN specifically condemned the actions of the US military: Armed operations by the Multinational Forces-Iraq [the official title of the US-led occupation forces] continued to restrict the enjoyment of human rights and to cause severe suffering to the local population. Continued limitations of freedom of movement and lack of access to basic services such as health and education are affecting a larger percentage of the population and depriving it of basic rights for extended periods of time. Many Iraqis have felt they had no choice but to leave the country. While there are no precise numbers, up to 800,000 are taking refuge in Syria; another 700,000 in Jordan; 100,000 in Egypt; 40,000 in Lebanon; 50,000 in Iran and a large number in Turkey. The Iraqi refugees are being accorded no rights. The Jordanian monarchy labels them as temporary visitors. It has not made any request for international assistance and is not cooperating with agencies such as UNHCR. Only 21,000 Iraqis in Jordan have been registered by the UN and just 800 have been recognised as refugees eligible for international resettlement. Syria has also rejected calls for Iraqis on its territory to be recognised as refugees and is treating them as tourists or illegal immigrants. Iran has sealed its borders to any more Iraqis, while the Gulf States, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are refusing to allow them to enter their territory at all. While doing nothing to assist refugees, Saudi Arabia has allocated $500 million to construct a fence along parts of its 1,000-kilometre border with Iraq, to prevent terrorists and illegal immigrants from entering. The fence will have security gates, guard posts and electronic movement sensors. The majority of Iraqi émigrés live in considerable hardship and a significant proportion are sinking into complete poverty. Jordan charges Iraqis for all services, including a $US225 fee for a one-year work permit. Many families are reportedly sharing small apartments and paid employment is difficult to obtain. Syria has now begun charging refugees for health care and also limits their ability to work. More than 10 percent of Iraqi families in Syria are headed by women due to the death, imprisonment or disappearance of their men. UNHCR noted this month that there are increasing reports of female Iraqi refugees being forced into prostitution. The strain of the inflow on Jordan is leading to an ever-more restrictive attitude toward the Iraqi refugees, who now make up 10 percent of the population. This would be equivalent to the US taking in 30 million refugees. Fearful of political unrest among the desperate émigré community, Jordan has begun blocking entry to males aged between 17 and 35. It
Help Palestine [hidayahnet] Stop the Jewish barbarians in Hebron
http://musliminsuffer.wordpress.com/ bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === Stop the Jewish barbarians in Hebron By mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]YOSEF (TOMMY) LAPID Jan. 17, 2007 21:48 | Updated Jan. 18, 2007 14:07 That woman, the one who it turns out is named Yifat Alkobi, the Jewish woman that confronted, cursed, spat on and threatened her Arab neighbor in Hebron, she who is imprisoned in her own home, seemed somehow familiar to me. Gradually, from the cobwebs of my childhood memories, I dredged up the image of a Hungarian neighbor in Novi Sad, who used to stand at the entrance to her home and curse us every time we went into the street - just like Yifat Alkobi. When we decide, and rightly so, to never under any circumstances compare the behavior of Jews to that of Nazis, we are forgetting that anti-Semitism only reached its height at Auschwitz. It had existed, was active, frightening, harmful and disgusting - exactly like Alkobi's image - in the years that preceded Auschwitz too. And behind shuttered windows hid terrified Jewish women, exactly like the Arab woman of the Abu-Isha family in Hebron. It is unthinkable that the memory of Auschwitz should serve as a pretext to ignore the fact that living here among us are Jews that behave toward Palestinians exactly the way that German, Hungarian, Polish and other anti-Semites behaved toward Jews. I am not referring to crematoria or pogroms, but rather to the persecution, hounding, stone-throwing, undermining of livelihood, scare tactics, spitting and contempt. It was all of these things that made our lives in the Diaspora so bitter and harrowing, even before they began the wholesale killing of Jews. I was afraid to go to school because little anti-Semites lay in wait on the way and beat us. In what way is a Palestinian child in Hebron any different? EVEN THOSE that justify the occupation for ideological or religious reasons - or perhaps especially those that seek to justify the occupation - should be ashamed, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said of himself, when seeing these pictures. We all bear responsibility for the suffering of the Palestinians, but it would not have been possible to establish a Jewish state without causing them some harm. But there is no reason or justification for the thuggery of the kind demonstrated time after time by the residents of the Jewish settlement in Hebron toward their Arab neighbors. The settlement of Jews in Hebron is the original sin. Now, they are adding insult to injury. And at best, we, the Jewish citizens of the State of Israel say, Tsk, tsk, tsk. We forget that this hounding of the Palestinian neighbors in Hebron happens not only at the moment we see it on television, but rather day after day, every day of the year (with the exception of Yom Kippur). The truth is that I too only pipe up occasionally and pay lip service by means of articles such as this. Even worse: I reacted with silence to this when I was justice minister too. We left the task of protest to the extreme leftist groups, who provoke well-deserved loathing from us all other days of the year. We are familiar with the excuse of We didn't know. So, for the record: We do know. We will never be able to forgive ourselves - our consciences won't let us - and neither will our children if we do not make our army and police put an end to the Jewish barbarism in Hebron. The writer is a former MK. source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467756320pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull === -muslim voice- __ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW
Help Palestine [hidayahnet] Bush Continues to Unite the World... Against Him
http://musliminsuffer.wordpress.com/ bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === Bush Continues to Unite the World... Against Him January 23, 2007 by Jim Lobe Despite two years of a concentrated effort by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her public diplomacy major-domo Karen Hughes to boost Washington's global image, more people around the world have an unfavorable opinion of U.S. policies than at any time in recent memory, according to a new BBC poll released Monday. The survey, which polled more than 26,000 people in 25 countries, including the U.S., between November and January, found that a 49 percent plurality overall believes the U.S. is playing a mainly negative role in the world today, compared to less than a third (32 percent) who said Washington's influence was mainly positive. And in the 18 countries where respondents were asked the same question in each of the past two years, the latest poll found a substantial drop in the percentage who said they viewed U.S. influence as positive, from 40 percent in 2005, to 36 percent last year, to 29 percent in 2007. According to world public opinion, these days the U.S. government hardly seems to be able to do anything right, said Steven Kull, director of the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), which, along with Canada-based Globescan, conducted the survey. Germany and Indonesia, where nearly three out of four respondents said they had a mainly negative opinion of U.S. influence, were the least favorable, while 69 percent of French and Turkish respondents agreed. The sharpest drops in positive ratings over the past year were found in Poland (62 percent in 2006 compared to 38 percent in 2007), Indonesia (40 percent to 21 percent), the Philippines (85 percent to 72 percent), and India (44 percent to 30 percent). Respondents in the United States also showed greater opposition to their government's policies than in previous years, according to the survey. Another Washington Post-ABC News poll, released on the eve of President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech to Congress Tuesday, found that 65 percent of respondents oppose the so-called surge of more than 21,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq, while 48 percent called the war the most important issue today. The findings of the BBC poll echo those of another major survey of 14 foreign countries released last June by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. It found that Washington's global image had slipped over the previous year, particularly in Europe and Asia, as well as predominantly Muslim countries, and that Washington's continuing intervention in Iraq appeared to be the main cause. The new BBC poll found that the most negative views were evoked by policies pursued by the Bush administration in connection with its global war on terror and the Middle East. Nearly three in four respondents overall (73 percent) said they disapproved of Washington's role in the Iraq war. Opposition was particularly intense in Egypt, France, and Lebanon where more than three out of four respondents said they strongly disapprove[d]. At the same time, more than two out of three (68 percent) overall said the U.S. military presence in the Middle East provokes more conflict than it prevents. More than four out of five respondents in three Latin American countries Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico and in two mainly Muslim countries Egypt and Indonesia took that position. Conversely, only 17 percent overall said they thought Washington's military presence exercised a stabilizing influence in the Middle East. The most positive views on this question were found in Nigeria, the only country where a plurality (49 percent) said it was stabilizing, the Philippines (41 percent), and Kenya (40 percent). Perhaps not coincidentally, the same three countries were the only ones, aside from the U.S. itself, where majorities of respondents said Washington's influence in the world was mainly positive. On related issues, 67 percent of all respondents said they disapproved of Washington's handling of detainees at Guantanamo, while only 16 percent, concentrated in Kenya, Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and the U.S., said they approved. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of respondents overall also said they disapproved of U.S. policy during last summer's war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, compared to 21 percent again concentrated in the same five countries who said they approved. Opposition to the U.S. role in the conflict, during which Washington strongly backed Israel and repeatedly defended it in UN Security Council deliberations, was particularly intense in Argentina (79 percent strongly disapproved of the U.S. role), Egypt (78 percent), Lebanon itself (76 percent), the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (71 percent), France and Brazil (63 percent). Sixty percent of respondents overall said
