Some Links

Arab League Secretary General Visits Palestine

- Finally

Israel to set up commission to investigate flotilla raid

- And next, suspects in murders and rapes will be trying and sentencing themselves

The Red Cross speaks about Palestine

- But who is the Red Cross? Israel ignores the UN, most of the International community and many respected NGOs, so what's another?

$1 Trillion worth of Minerals in Afghanistan found by the Pentagon

- The beginning of the end for Afghanistan, also, what is the Pentagon doing digging in the Taliban's backyard?

Alllllllright, so I'm taking a break from my summer vacation to say this about the recent attacks on the Free Gaza Flotilla...


Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, India, the UN (like you care what they say anyways, unless they favour taking away Iran's "nuclear arsenal"), Brazil and to a lesser extent the France and the US all see your true colours, and its not the blue of your flag, its the red of Palestinian and Turkish blood.

Best Quote, any guesses as to who it's by?

"I think the current frustration and ensuing bullying tactics of the Israeli government manifested themselves through the continued occupation of Palestinian land and numerous policies of disparity reverberate from the astonishment of Jewish settlers from 1948 until present to the fact that the Palestinian people did not simply yield their land of free accord to the influx of 'chosen people'. Further frustrations emanate from the fact that the Palestinians will simply not disappear and have achieved a semblance of international solidarity."

Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

* Courtesy of Wikipedia.org in English

Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenian: Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր) is a national holiday in Armenia and is observed by Armenians in dispersed communities around the world on April 24.^[1] It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide from 1915 to 1923. In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, hundreds of thousands of people walk to the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial to lay flowers at theeternal flame.

The date 24 April commemorates the Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital in 1915, of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, most of whom would be executed, which was a precursor to the ensuing events.

The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանություն, translit.: Hayoc’ C’eġaspanowt’yown; Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı)  – also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime (Մեծ Եղեռն, Mec Eġeṙn, Armenian pronunciation: [mɛts jɛˈʁɛrn])  – refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction (genocide) of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I.^[1] It was implemented through wholesalemassacres and deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between one and one and a half million.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination.^[7][8][9]

It is widely acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides,^[10][11][12] as scholars point to the systematic, organized manner in which the killings were carried out to eliminate the Armenians,^[13] and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust.^[14] The word genocide^[15] was coined in order to describe these events.^[16] [17]

The starting date of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.^[18][19] Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abusecommonplace.

The Republic of Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate description of the events (see, Denial of the Armenian Genocide).^[20] In recent years, it has faced repeated calls to accept the events as genocide. To date, twenty countries have officially recognized the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars and historians accept this view.^{[21][22][23][24]} The majority of Armenian diaspora communities were founded as a result of the Armenian genocide.

BDS: First Steps at UC Berkeley

Palestinian Student Urges UC Berkeley Senate To Divest From Israeli War Crimes

Another Succinct post, watch the video and seriously think about contacting UC Berkeley's Student Union in support of its divestment (as this will reinforce their decision and demonstrate popular support).

Bibi: You know you've made some wrong life decisions when your mentality holds up an international peace process....

Netanyahu refuses to budge over Jerusalem construction

Check this out, I have exams so this will be THE succinct post of the week.

Yom Ha'atzmaut

LINK: Obama: We share unbreakable bond



Palestinian deporatations



Why is that Israel loves to celebrate by cutting down the Palestinians? If you all recall this past Passover was marked by the closure of border crossing with the West Bank, and now Israel wants to celebrate its independence, a most (simultanesouly) solemn and celebratory occasion for any nation, by initiating a new wave of deportations.


I question the age olf Israeli maxim that states Jews have a historically imperative and sacred link to the holy land that supercedes the right of the Palestinians that have an equal if not greater link to the land (in which they still live). 


While most youth getting drunk across the world celebrating Israel (as per the plethora of facebook posts I have seen, although this is by no means the case with everyone) might be blissfully unaware of the human rights abuses by Israel and its convictions by the UN, the reality is that it is morally corrupt to campaign for a country that makes such a mockery of human morality. 


Added to this is this curious factoid: How many nations, regardless of their regional affiliation, actively campaign for acceptance and aide as much as Israel? People are quick to point out Puerto Rican parades or Haiti day events, but I retort: These are events meant to encourage solidarity with diaspora communities and cultural understandings. Certainly there aren't any Israelis here, are they? Israel is the promised land, they are all there, for sure?


The curiously high profile that Israel is promoting, along with the usual holocaust memorials (Allah yar7amuhum) and various seditious lobby groups really reflects badly on its street cred; why are they trying so hard? And why is Bibi Netanyahu, like the blundering bully that he is, mixing these high profile promotions with a crackdown on human rights and freedoms for the Palestinians. It's almost like he's forcing a subconcious connection between rejoicing in Israel's freedom and subjugating the Arabs. So it is with that that I ask, What are you getting at? Do you not know how ridiculous you are making your country look.


However, aside from my usual rhetoric, I will concede that the foundation of Israel does indeed mark the culmination (or not - as evidenced by the preoccupation with Israeli promotion overseas) of a people's struggle for nationhood, however unsuitable and tragic the circumstances of that victory is. As the Palestinians say, Happy Yawm al-Nakba (lit. Day of catastrophe).