Your young people are growing up illiterate, ill, and bent on rites of
death
and suicide, while you, in effect, are living on the kindness of
foreigners,
including America and the United Nations. Every day your officials must
beg
for your daily bread, dependent on relief trucks that carry food and
medicine into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while your criminal Muslim
fundamentalist Hamas government continues to fan the flames of a war it
can
neither fight nor hope to win............
***Comments: Palestinian Arab brethren....The outside world saw the
under-development of her country.Basically,while their Arab neighbours
enjoy
plenty of billions of USD $,with Oil prices sky high,having good education
and excellent quality of life,excellent infrastructures and buildings,the
poor and self-deceived Palestinians only wallowed in self-pity.Some people
have live their life begging for so long,will they forsake their beggarly
elements tools?
While Hamas and Hezbollah kept planning and hating their neighbour
Israel,and USA,hoping to get as many as possible to hate the
Jews,so-called
friends of their cause, continue to send their children to USA to learn
and
get education.
Even Abdullah the Prime Minister of Malaysia,son- in- law,Khairy,studied
in
USA.Is he ready to bite the hands that feed him?He will,and mark my
words,bite the hands that feed him.
People of misery always try to get as many as possible people around
them,to
become what they were---Miserables.The usual refrain,how can you live in
luzury while your brothers live in misery?So,come and be miserable,and
suffer anad die just like your PLO Brethren.What they never tells you
were,they were inspired from the Dark side,and they are wicked people,and
they offer no solutions for troubles and problems,except hatred,and
hatred.
They have one great set of skills,Telling Lies,Slanders,Driving wedge
against Families and Countries.
Their success was shown in Qana's tragedies,where the world shows outrage
against Israel for the civilian's death,but it was all stage by Hezbollah.
Imagine a country has nothing to contribute to world's peace,and yet could
gain sup****t from people who wanted Peace,and Anti-war Nuts by the droves.
A people of violence could attract people of Peace to their side.
Their TV daily shows are skills on how to be suicide-bombers,die and
die.They called it 'bravery"while the West calls it foolishness,and there
are no 72 vrigins at the other side of Hell.
PLO had so far received great kindness from every quarter of
world,especially UN and USA.Their officials live a beggarly
livestyles,begging food and supplies from others to help survivals.And
many
sanction their livelihoods like that.
When their Officials told their counterparts that USA is no longer
sup****ting them financially,anger rose up.Why did USA,a country whom we
hate, stop sup****ting us?Why USA did not practice Love to us,and this is a
country that is suppose to bless her enemies,right?
Indirectly,the entire Middle Eastern country preach one serious message,"
USA and Israel must be the nations of Love and Kindness and Mercies,and
their God must be real,while our Allah and his prophet Muhammed must be
false".
Indirectly,they testify of great benevolence of Israel and USA,and how
they
bless the world,with their gifts of technologies,and human warmth.While
the
Islamic world offers hatred,divisions and wars for everybody.
Actions speak louder than words.
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Dear Palestinian Arab brethren:
The war with Israel is over.
You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your
children.
We, your Arab brothers, may say until we are blue in the face that we
stand
by you, but the wise among you and most of us know that we are moving on,
away from the tired old idea of the Palestinian Arab cause and the
"eternal
struggle" with Israel.
Dear friends, you and your leaders have wasted three generations trying to
fight for Palestine, but the truth is the Palestine you could have had in
1948 is much bigger than the one you could have had in 1967, which in turn
is much bigger than what you may have to settle for now or in another 10
years. Struggle means less land and more misery and utter loneliness.
At the moment, brothers, you would be lucky to secure a semblance of a
state
in that Gaza Strip into which you have all crowded, and a small part of
the
West Bank of the Jordan. It isn't going to get better. Time is running out
even for this much land, so here are some facts, figures, and sound
advice,
friends.
You hold keys, which you drag out for television interviews, to houses
that
do not exist or are inhabited by Israelis who have no intention of leaving
Jaffa, Haifa, Tel Aviv, or West Jerusalem. You shoot old guns at modern
Israeli tanks and American-made fighter jets, doing virtually no harm to
Israel while bringing the wrath of its mighty army down upon you. You fire
ridiculously inept Kassam rockets that cause little destruction and delude
yourselves into thinking this is a war of liberation. Your government,
your
social institutions, your schools, and your economy are all in ruins.
Your young people are growing up illiterate, ill, and bent on rites of
death
and suicide, while you, in effect, are living on the kindness of
foreigners,
including America and the United Nations. Every day your officials must
beg
for your daily bread, dependent on relief trucks that carry food and
medicine into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while your criminal Muslim
fundamentalist Hamas government continues to fan the flames of a war it
can
neither fight nor hope to win.
In other words, brothers, you are down, out, and alone in a burnt-out
landscape that is shrinking by the day.
What kind of struggle is this? Is it worth waging at all? More im****tant,
what kind of miserable future does it ****tend for your children, the
fourth
or fifth generation of the Arab world's have-nots?
We, your Arab brothers, have moved on.
Those of us who have oil money are busy ac***ulating wealth and building
housing, luxury developments, state-of-the-art universities and schools,
and
new highways and byways. Those of us who share borders with Israel, such
as
Egypt and Jordan, have signed a peace treaty with it and are not going to
war for you any time soon. Those of us who are far away, in places like
North Africa and Iraq, frankly could not care less about what happens to
you.
Only Syria continues to feed your fantasies that someday it will join you
in
liberating Palestine, even though a huge chunk of its territory, the
entire
Golan Heights, was taken by Israel in 1967 and annexed. The Syrians, my
friends, will gladly fight down to the last Palestinian Arab.
Before you got stuck with this Hamas crowd, another cheating, conniving,
leader of yours, Yasser Arafat, sold you a rotten bill of goods - more
pain,
greater corruption, and millions stolen by his relatives - while your
children played in the sewers of Gaza.
The war is over. Why not let a new future begin?
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Youssef M. Ibrahim, a former New York Times Middle East Correspondent and
Wall Street Journal Energy Editor for 25 years, is a freelance writer
based
in New York City and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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>
> 03-16) 04:00 PDT Rabat, Morocco -- A war of words over the Berber
> and Arabic languages is heating up in Morocco, threatening to divide
> the kingdom in much the same way the battle between French and
> English speakers divides Canada.
>
> Berbers were Morocco's first inhabitants, and today they are still
> the majority, accounting for about 60 percent of Morocco's 30
> million citizens.
>
> But when it comes to speaking their views, they are treated like a
> minority by the members of the dominant Arab culture.
>
> "More than 40 years after independence (from France), the government
> still doesn't want to teach the Berber language and preserve or
> promote the culture, " says Ahmed Lachgar Agwilal, a Moroccan-born
> San Franciscan who is a representative of the Amazigh (Berber)
> Commission for Development and Human Rights in America.
>
> "If you want to be Moroccan," he says, "you have to speak this
> language."
>
> The government disagrees.
>
> "Arabic is the official language of our identity, our Koran and our
> nation. The Moroccan citizen is duty-bound to speak his national
> language," says Khalid Shebal of the government's Institute for
> Arabization.
>
> At the police registries where Moroccans go to officially designate
> their childrens' names, non-Arab names like Jurgurtha and Messina --
> the names of ancient Berber kings -- are blacklisted. Only Arabic
> names like Hassan and Ahmed are allowed.
>
> "To Berber militants, this is a case of trying to completely
> eradicate any Berber heritage," Jalali Saib, a leading activist who
> teaches at Rabat University, told the BBC earlier this year.
>
> The first language of most Moroccans is some form of Berber,
> generally called Tamazight, though there are a number of variants.
> But the constitution recognizes only Arabic as the official
> language.
>
> Arabic was imposed on the Berbers by the Muslims who conquered
> Morocco in waves of invasions beginning in the seventh century. Its
> influence waned a bit during the French colonial period, but after
> Morocco gained its
>
> independence in 1956, it surged again. In the 1970s, the government
> launched a campaign to impose stricter standards for the use of
> Arabic in place of French in government and education.
>
> Today, Berber activists say the "Arabization" of Morocco has led to
> discrimination and has marginalized their people. But the government
> has resisted calls for recognition of Tamazight as an official
> language of Morocco,
>
> fearing that the crusade will spawn a separatist movement.
>
> Morocco's Berbers are "people in their own country who don't exist,"
> complains Mahjoubi Aherdan, the charismatic leader of the National
> Popular Movement, a political party that represents rural Moroccans,
> many of whom are Berber.
>
> Even in schools in predominantly Berber areas, lessons are not
> taught in Tamazight but in Arabic. Government jobs are off-limits to
> those who speak only Berber, and Tamazight is prohibited in the
> courts; all legal do***ents must be translated into Arabic.
>
> Television programming follows suit. One government-affiliated
> channel, 2M, broadcasts a mix of Arabic and French. The other, RTM,
> broadcasts predominantly in Arabic, with only 5 to 10 minutes a day
> of news in Berber.
>
> Berber activists blame Arabization for the high illiteracy rate in
> Morocco - - 56 percent of its citizens cannot read -- because Berber
> children often drop out when confronted with teachers who speak only
> Arabic. They also blame it for the continued poverty of most
> Berbers. Fifty percent of Moroccans live on less than $50 a month,
> and most of the poor are Berbers.
>
> Language is all-im****tant to Moroccan Berbers because it is the main
> attribute that unites their pluralistic culture. Though most Berbers
> are Muslim, some are Jewish and others are Christian. They are
> ethnically mixed and spread over the country, from the Rif mountain
> range in the north to the Atlas Mountains and the desert in the
> south.
>
> In Algeria, where Berbers make up 25 percent of the population,
> tensions have sometimes exploded into riots and bloody
> confrontations with police. The "Tamazight Spring" uprising of 1980
> mobilized Berber anti-government sentiment,
>
> and hundreds were killed in the "Black October" riots of 1988. More
> recently, thousands of Berbers rioted in 1998 over a government
> decree making Arabic the official language of Algeria and the
> subsequent assassination of Matoub Lounes,
>
> a well-known musician and Berber activist, reputedly by the Armed
> Islamic Group, a fundamentalist insurgency.
>
> Moroccan Berbers have been less violent in their resistance to
> Arabization. But the controls on political expression have loosened
> since Mohammed VI ascended to the throne in 1999 after the death of
> his father, Hassan II, and Berber activist organizations have become
> better financed. As a result, Berber calls to re-examine Moroccan
> society have grown louder.
>
> Last March, Berber activists drafted and submitted to the government
> the "Berber Manifesto." It called on the state to recognize
> Tamazight as a national language, teach Tamazight in schools,
> license a Berber television station, allot government money to speed
> up development in historically neglected areas, and end restrictions
> on registering Berber names for their children.
>
> Soon afterward, a government commission issued a much-publicized
> education charter calling for sweeping reforms of the Moroccan
> education system. The charter was commissioned by the late King
> Hassan II, who raised Berbers' hopes in 1994 when he said in a
> televised speech that Tamazight should be taught in schools, a
> pledge that was never fulfilled.
>
> Berber organizations denounced the education charter. They pointed
> out that only two of its 100 articles deal with the question of
> Tamazight in school. The first said Tamazight could be used in
> primary school only to "facilitate the learning of the official
> language" -- Arabic. The second said that beginning this year,
> certain universities would have the means to study Tamazight and
> Berber culture.
>
> The charter's provisions are "insufficient," says Lachgar. "The
> government has to provide money for teaching Tamazight because it's
> our language, it's our culture."
>
> Not all Berbers agree. While the majority are poor, there is an
> entire class of super-rich Berbers. Discriminated against in areas
> like education and government, they have flourished as businessmen
> and have bought up entire neighborhoods of Casablanca, such as the
> enclave known as California, where mansions resemble those in
> Beverly Hills.
>
> Some ardently sup****t the Berber cause by funding activist groups,
> but others resist it. Says Ahmed Lousoure, a 34-year-old factory
> manager in Casablanca: "What good is Tamazight outside of Morocco?
> Our king is trying to modernize the country, not take a step back."
>
> And there are divisions even among Berber activists.
>
> Some militants are pu****ng for a political party exclusively for
> Berbers, while moderates worry that it would be interpreted as
> separatist, allowing the Berber movement to be written off.
>
> Lachgar, who will travel in August to a U.N. conference on racism
> and indigenous peoples' rights in Durban, South Africa, to make the
> case for official recognition of the Berber language, shrugs off the
> government's suggestion that official recognition of Tamazight could
> lead to a separatist movement.
>
> "They just want to confuse people," he says. "Nobody wants to
> separate because they consider all this land their land."
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
> Who Are the Berbers?
> Long before San Francisco's waterfront was known as the Barbary
> Coast, the North African coast was known as Barbary (from the Latin
> word for foreigners), and its inhabitants were the people now known
> as Berbers. Today, they number about 20 million and call themselves
> Imazaghen, which means "free and noble men."
>
> Spread across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and, to a lesser extent,
> Libya and Egypt, they were conquered during the Arab invasion that
> started in the seventh century and, after fierce resistance over
> several centuries, were converted to Islam.
>
> Despite the conquest, Berbers retained their distinct culture, in
> which women have more freedom than among Arabs, and decisions are
> made communally. Two Berber tribes, the Almoravids and Almohads,
> built influential Islamic empires in northwestern Africa and Spain
> in the 11th to 13th centuries.
>
> The development of a written Berber language was suppressed by the
> waves of Arab invasions as Arabic was adopted for all official
> do***ents. In the 10th century, the Bourghwata kingdom translated
> the Koran into Berber, but the kingdom was vanquished by Sunni
> Muslim puritans, who burned the Berber Koran. Now, 11 centuries
> later, a Berber version of the Koran is about to be published.
>
> In later centuries, Berbers stubbornly resisted domination but were
> eventually pacified by the French, who ruled most of Morocco from
> 1912 to 1956.
>
> In the post-colonial period, Berbers have been politically divided.
> Some fought the king, including the plotters of several coup
> attempts on Hassan II in the 1970s, but others, including much of
> the officers' corps, have been loyal to the monarchy.
>
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