Danny Ayalon on the Palestinian Refugees

Danny is back with another video, this time about the Palestinian refugees. 

The video titled "The truth about the Refugees" but he can't be further from it. 

The video mentions the 800,000.00 Arab Jews who were forced out of their home countries by the corrupted Arab regimes in Iraq, Morocco, Algeria...etc. Yet he fails to remember many decided to stay regardless to their country regimes practices. Which match Israel's practices against the Arab population from early 50's until our present time.  

Later on, Danny talks about the Palestinian refugees conditions in the host countries. as most of them have been denied the right of citizenship, work, health cares, and free movement, which is true. All of those Fascist practices are the Palestinians refugees reality in Lebanon.

Then he talks about how the Palestinian refugees having their own UN agency "feeling special", the UNRWA while the rest of the world's refugees have the UNHCR. 

He mentions UNHCR duties in helping refugees to settle down in the host country, and how the refugees loses the refugee status if they got a citizenship from a recognized country, and finally how the refugee status wont be passed through generations. Unlike the UNRWA, who limits its duties in managing the Palestinian refugees daily life, such as food, schools, clinics..ect.

Danny forgot one simple fact, the UNRWA is a UN agency to manage the Palestinian refugees life, until the world find a political solution satisfies all parties. Unlike the UNCHR who have sole duty, solve the refugee issue with any mean necessary, which is not just, at all. 

All refugees want to go home, and the world should help them in doing that. Not just the Palestinians.

You don't need Books to see Injustice

A video in Arabic for an Egyptian worker in the Tahrir Square explaining why he is protesting. I translated the point the draw my attention the most from this 6 minutes video posted in December 17, 2011. 

The uploader wrote in the description "لو مش فاهم مين و ليه الناس بتنزل" "If you don't understand who and why people are protesting." 

If you don't understand Arabic, I tried to translate what I thought is important! 

Cameraman: "Why you came to the Tahrir?"

Worker: "For justice!"

Cameraman: "Why, didn't they do anything?"

Worker: "They didn't do anything, and they wont do, they always use the Budget as an excuse. while construction work is progressing in the 5th compound, for banks and corporations, for the rich, why those people business don't get interrupted, why when it come to the poor, things stops, No! Rice is expensive, Sugar is Expansive,(...). 

The Muslims Shaikhs as well, all of them, they only say, Allah said, Muhamad said, we know what they said, do we look infidel to you. Do what Allah said, and what Muhamad said, and we will follow, but you come and ask me to accept poverty while you enjoy wealth.

And the Muslim brotherhood, as soon as they made their deal with the rollers they declared the country as their own prize, 30 years in the oppressor jails, but now the whole country is their prize."     

After watching this video over and over and over, I could think of nothing, but how wrong I was when I talked about "educating" the people, or thinking I know better than they do. 
I thought of all the people who spend hours discussing Trotsky and Marx, and how small they are comparing to this man. how small am I for thinking that I know better. I had to read to learn, he lived it.

so, my dear thinker who spend their lives discussing Trotsky and Marx in closed rooms with clouds of smoke and tons of coffee, GO FUCK YOURSELF 

First they came.....

A friend of mine asked me to speak in her class, mainly to talk about my twitter experience and citizen journalism, to a bunch of Journalism student in Bierzait University. I talked about twitter, facebook, blogs, etc and how we usually use them to pass news "ideas, and random thoughts too", and to campaign for actions such as Freedom waves "the 2 boats headed to Gaza about a month ago".

As part of my talks, I mentioned the protest we did in solidarity with the Egyptian revolution and how this protest were suppressed by the Palestinian Authority, and how someone tweet made it all the way to Al Jazeera. At this point one of the student said "ohh yaa, the PA suppressed them because they chanted for over throwing the regime!" -please note, we were not discussing the reason legitimacy of the protest and suppressing it- I didn't response to this remarks and went on Talking, yet in my mind I was thinking, Is Suppression excusable?

As I am writing those lines I remembered an incident happened during Jan25 revolution in Egypt, the Egyptian national TV as part of it's propaganda campaigns called several Egyptian celebrities asking them to comments on what was taking place in the Tahrir Square, an actress "Samah Anwar" during a phone calls said "Burn them all". Few weeks later, Mubarak steps down. When she was asked to comment on her earlier statement, she said "they told me the people there, were all Ekhwan(Muslim brotherhood)"

Burns them all

Those 2 separate events, Justifies suppression of protesters based ideas, believes, and faith. don't get me wrong, its the same everywhere, right wing, left wing, Muslim, Christians, Jews, Sunnah, Shiaa, Fatah, Hamas, Jabha, Ekhwan, Salafis, Wahabi, every group, everywhere support the suppression of the other group by the government mercenaries "also known as the Police". The will stand there look to the other group's suffering with a big smile, "you deserve it, for speaking against your master!". They all forget! Nothing last for ever.

In the other hand, many people who are no one master, the average person in the street, who cant care any less about what happening around him, and usually manipulated by corporate or regimes media such, the Egypt and Syrian TV's make a good "funny" examples.
Those people usually justify suppression by saying "they deserve it those Ekhwan are ruining the country!" as someone once commented on a friend status on facebook.  those "someones" doesn't ideologically hate the Ekhwan or any other group, those people were just mislead by the regime medias. With simple logic and a small reminder "Ideologies, faith and political affiliation is not an excuse for oppression" they will be brought back to the people path, or at least shutting them up.

In the end, will leave you with Martil Niemoller words, it might help you understand.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Best

Ahmad

In Solidarity with Egypt

Earlier tonight a group of Palestinian gathered at Al Manarah sq. in Ramallah, Palestine in solidarity with the Egyptian people who decided to take the street again, and return to Al Tahrir after the military dictators failed to meet the Jan25 revolution demands. 

The protest started in Friday November 18, until writing those lines the number of dead passed 30, and the injured is more than 1000. 

Palestinian holds a sign that read "we want a military code that can protect Egypt and liberate Palestine"

Palestinian holding signs during the protest

In Solidarity with Alaa

In Solidarity with the Egyptian blogger, tweep and political activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, Alaa is currently in Jail for refusing to cooperate with the Egyptian military persecution.

I don't know how me or you can help, I can think of nothing but praying for him and for the 15000 Egyptian civilians taken to military courts. Pray for the Revolution in Egypt.

Alaa wrote from inside "Arabic"

نبدأ من الأول: ازيكم، أنا علاء، جندي مشاه في الثورة، فيه اللي ضحى أكتر مني بكتير، و فيه اللي أشجع مني بكتير، و فيه اللي دوره أهم مني بكتير.
أنا علاء و فخور جدا أني بعمل اللي أقدر عليه و بفاجئ نفسي أحيانا بمدى اللي أقدر عليه. و عارف نفسي و عارف ايه اللي مقدرش عليه. و بحاول متأخرش أبدا و بحاول أتغلب على الخوف دائما و بحاول أكون في الصفوف الأمامية بانتظام.
لو شفتم فيا شجاعة أو شهامة أو جدعنة اعرفوا إنها مستمدة من أمي و أخواتي البنات الأصغر مني و مراتي (اللي فراقها أصعب حاجة في الحبس).

Agendas in Tahrir Square

I am Starting my posts on this blogs, with this video made by some of the Egyptian Activist in the Tahrir square, regarding the "Agendas" Mr Omar Suliman spoke about..  

Talking no more, the video will speak of itself, Enjoy 

A