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February 2009

How can we explain the success of Hamas ?

INTERVIEW : Grégoire Lalieu and Michel Collon

by Mohamed Hassan

For a lot of medias, the case seems clear: the Hamas is terrorist, fundamentalist and fanatic. Though, this movement has won the last elections and his popularity increases among the Palestinians. Why? We raised the question to Mohamed Hassan, co-author of Iraq, Eye-to-eye with the occupation, and one of the best Middle-East specialists.

What is really the Hamas?

Hamas is a political movement coming from the Muslim Brotherhood, which is one of the oldest political movements in Egypt. The word “hamas” means awakening, erupting… It’s an islamo nationalist movement, which we could compare to the Irish catholic nationalist movement. In 1916, the Irish Republican Army has developed against the colonial British occupation. As the Irish were Catholics and the British settlers were Protestants, the occupier tried to make it a religious conflict. Religion can be utilized to mobilize people for a cause.

READ ON at Global Research, February 12, 2009

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Azmi Bishara on Al Jazeera’s bila houdoud



Comment from the friend who sent me this : “Today I watched Azmi’s interview for the third time in a row. In addition to being characteristically exceptional, in the genetic sense of the word, this interview is among his finest. He’s certainly the best rocket we’ve got; both in warhead radius and projectile range. He’s an arsenal to be proud of. The more I listen to him, the more I worry the israelis would ultimately try to get him. He does magic with words.

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From Aunt Ziona a spoof zionist web site

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

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Oy, now that the voters in Isroel have realised it is not really Jewish to be left, our ratalachs are patroling all over the land to make sure that there are no remaining farblongjid leftniks.

Nu shoin, the Left is for luftmenschen. We do not like to share. We much prefer to take and take, and never to give back.

But look at our beautiful sons of Yisrael with their lichticheh punims, Bibi’le, Avigdor’le and Barak’le. This is what Auntie calls a bunch of proper glat Kosher butchers.

When they are on patrol together, I can feel in my kishkas that our corridor for Yiddishe redemption is just around the corner.

United Against the Left

Farblongjid (far-blunge-jed) – completely lost and confused, either in one’s head or on the ground. “God forbid you should ask for directions! Now we’re completely farblongjid!”
Glat – smooth, flawless, the way it’s done in kosher abbattoirs.
Kishka – guts, intestines. “I was so upset, I was eating my kishkas out!”
Lichticheh punims (lich-tich-eh) literally, “lit up.” Happy, shining, radiant, beaming. A big smiling face is a lichticheh punim.
Luftmensch – an “air man”, a space cadet, someone with their head in the clouds, someone who dreams big but never acts.

Posted by Auntie Ziona at 1:29 PM

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Everything that has a Beginning has an End

by edna spennato

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L’Oreal: Makeup for Israeli Apartheid!

Posted by OPGAI on Tue, 12/23/2008 – 08:40

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23 December 2008 – In this holiday season, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, BNC*, calls upon people of conscience all over the world to boycott all the products of the French cosmetics giant, L’Oreal**, due to its deep and extensive involvement in business relations with Israel, despite the latter’s continued occupation and apartheid policies against the indigenous Palestinian people.

L’Oreal’s operations in Israel began in the mid-1990s, motivated in part by political considerations. Since then, L’Oreal Israel, the company’s subsidiary in Israel, has operated a factory in the Israeli town of Migdal Ha’emek in the Lower Galilee. The settlement of Migdal Ha’emek was established in 1952 on lands belonging to the ethnically-cleansed Palestinian village of al-Mujaydil, whose original inhabitants are still denied the right to return to their homes.

Like almost all other Jewish settlements built in the midst of Palestinian villages in the Galilee, inside Israel, Migdal Ha’emek discriminates against Palestinian citizens of Israel, denying them the right to buy, rent or live on any part of the town, simply because they are “non Jews.”

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Arrests over Israel boycott in Tesco’s

A group of people took produce labeled as WEST BANK as country of origin from a TESCO store in Swanseas City Centre. The two filled their trollies with dates, fresh herbs, fruit and salads. The trollies, full of produce were up-turned at the supermarket entrance and covered in fake blood to represent the lives lost in Gaza. Reported by undercurrents for http://www.visionon.tv

Relayed from Auntie Ziona’s Ketchup as a Weapon of Mass Distraction

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Disappeared Free Gaza Activist Theresa McDermott Found in Israel’s Ramleh Prison

Dimanche, 08 Février 2009 20:10 Écrit par Free Gaza Movement

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Scottish activist Theresa McDermott has been found in Ramleh prison four days after she was “disappeared” by the Israel government after being forcibly removed from a seaborne Lebanese aid mission to Gaza. In early February Theresa responded to a call for support from internationals from the organizers of a Lebanese humanitarian aid voyage to Gaza aboard the Togo flagged ship, Tali. Theresa was one of only 9 passengers aboard the cargo ship on February 4, 2009 when Israeli gunboats intercepted it, boarded and forced the ship to Ashdod port in Israel

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Turkey Probes Israel’s Gaza War Crimes

A Turkish state prosecutor has launched an investigation into claims of Israeli crimes against humanity and genocide during a recent deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip.

“We submitted the complaint against those who we could prove were in some way responsible for giving orders for the attack on Gaza,” Meryem Sari, an attorney of the Mazlum-Der rights group, which submitted the complaint, told Reuters on Friday, February 6.

The group accuses 19 Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak of committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

“The complaint asks that Turkey be given the right to try the people mentioned,” said Sari.

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Gaza fishermen face daily dangers – 04 Feb 09


Weeks after Israel’s war on Gaza, the suffering of people in the Strip has not ended.

Israel maintains a blockade, on land, in the air and at sea. For fishermen in Gaza, making a living has become harder and more dangerous, as Al Jazeera’s Mike Kirsch reports.

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