I came to know about this from a video made by Congressman Ron Paul, he was talking about a US House of Representatives Resolution (H.CON.RES 362) that requires a naval blockade on Iran. I later came to know that it has been pushed by the American Pro-Israel Lobby. It asks from Bush to stop all shipments of refined petroleum products from reaching Iran. It also “demands” that the President impose “stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran.”
This resolution has quickly attracted 146 co-sponsors and counting, this is an old number it is higher now, I think maybe 220. So the analysts have said that this will need a US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. And by the way, in the senate a same kind of resolution have been introduced (S.RES 580) and have gained co-sponsors as fast its sister. If you still do not understand, to fully understand this, I can’t find anybody better than Ron Paul to explain it here it is:
Ron Paul have talked about it in the U.S. House of Representatives the next day after creating the above video:
After all this, do you still think there is no war coming ?!
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July 12th, 2008
I have been watching many channels lately showing documentaries, interviews and special coverage talking about how it all happened, since 1948 and until today. And everytime I see a well done documentary I wish that it had English subtitles or an English dubbed version.
Although I know about Aljazeera English, but I got used to watch the Arabic channel with my dad, anyway, when I was watching some videos in the Aljazeera (Arabic) youtube channel I clicked on a related video which made me jump to Aljazeera (English) youtube channel, and there I found what I was looking for.
A three part documentary about how it all started, the third part still to air on May 19th 2008. The first episode was titled “Pioneers”, episode two “Conflict” and the yet to be aired third episode “The End of the Dream?”.
I have only watched the second episode, and I do recommend you to watch it, actually I recommend you to watch all of the three episodes.
For more information visit the documentary’s page in Aljazeera English website, to find full info and links to the youtube videos.
Here is the second episode titled “Conflict”, watch:
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May 16th, 2008
My brother went to an event on EARTH DAY in the American University of Dubai, and they had a well known Palestinian folk singer, he is nicknamed as”Abu Arab”. I had the video for a while, its just a part of the concert, I wish I had the full thing. He does have a website, not sure if it is official or not but it has some songs to download, its called Ya Bladi.
Here is the video:
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May 16th, 2008
Today the 15th of May is the Nakba day, today is the 60th year of the Nakba, for those who do not know Nakba means “The Catastrophe”. On the 15th of May 1948, 60 years ago, Israel which was a newly created state committed ethnic 
cleansing in Palestine, destroyed hundreds of villages and exiled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Now those refugees are in millions and Israel still deny them their right of return. They are the oldest and largest refugee population who are still waiting a resolution.
I didn’t live it, my father did not live it, we both heard of it, we both listened to thousands of stories, and saw many many documentaries but we could not describe how it was or what it felt like. Actually my father experienced another big event in Palestine, it happened in 1967 and it is called Al-Naksa which means “The Setback”, its the six days war, its when Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza strip.
Now, I am 32 years old and lived in Dubai all my life, but since I was young and still until today my father keeps reminding us of Palestine, keeps telling me how people used to be, how neighbors used to act, and how that everybody always found happiness in the middle of darkness, pain and suffering. How people helped each other and how people generally used to be nice and kind, he didn’t say that there were no bad people, we are still on earth but he always said that majority of people used to be nicer more caring and more respectful than now, people back then understood the real meaning of things, they understood the real meaning of friendships the real meaning of family, people will always help each other always.
He always tells me how things were simpler back then, how people’s needs were so basic, but he also tells me how his father used to work so hard, how all men had to work hard to bring food on the table, but the story that I guess is imprinted in his mind and he will never ever forget is his story on how when he was 16 years old he woke up on the summer of 1967 finding himself in a ghost neighborhood, all his neighbors are not in their homes, empty homes, empty village.
His father was on a business trip and was not in the house, so he took his six years old little brother and ran to find others running too, it was quickly understood what was happening, he kept running until he reached a farms area and there the Israeli planes started bombing, so he started seeing dead bodies on the way and people dying in front of his and his little brother’s eyes, he keeps telling me how lucky they were that they were between hits, while they were running the Israeli aircrafts would fly low and hit and fly up again and so on all the way until they reached a high fence, he quickly threw his brother, yes he physically threw him to the other side and then he climbed and went to the other side himself. Still they had to keep walking, not only them but a huge number of people they walked and walked seeing people crying, shouting, injured, and dead. He saw a father with his kids crying over the body of the mother, he heard people crying asking for help, he saw women mourning their husbands, sons, and daughters.
His little brother is tired, he carried him, and kept walking, carefully moving, until after hours they reached the Jordanian borders and after passing the border and on his way to Amman he suddenly saw his uncle driving a truck, so he drove them to Amman to meet with his father later that day.
I always have asked him to write his experience, he keeps telling me “There are no words to describe it, as much as you try, there are simply no words”.
So in the end I would like to say one thing more, Israel thinks that we will forget, that time will make us believe the lie that is Israel. We all say no, we will never forget, and those are not just words, those are facts, we never forgot, and we will never forget, Israel might fool mislead misinformed Americans and Europeans, but not us. We have the history, generation after generation we will talk and we will tell, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters, WE WILL TELL.
Palestine I never saw you, but my heart beats for you, you are the reason, you are the dream, and I will see you, this darkness will go and this sadness I feel will leave and I will see you LIBERATED soon.
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May 16th, 2008
I was checking out youtube today and searching for different kind of new videos for Hillary, Obama, Edwards, Kucinich and Ron Paul, and I found this old video of Ron Paul which was submitted to youtube today. Simply amazing, Ron Paul two years ago have warned that to gain support to nuke Iran either by USA directly or through Israel that a “Gulf of Tonkin” type incident will occur. Again this is before TWO YEARS!!
Ron Paul have been right on many things by now, he predicted a number of things that happened years later, he amazing predicted what will happen if USA invaded Iraq, and that Iran have stopped their nuclear program, and he also predicted the recession that USA is heading towards. Day after day I realize that Ron Paul is simply the real deal, he knows what he is talking about and he simply does not bullshit around like other candidates. My advice to Mr. Paul is that if he did not win as a republican that he needs to enter the presidential race as an independent.
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January 14th, 2008
A new initiative is gaining support in Israel, when you read it you just laugh and feel sad for whoever came up with this supposedly INITIATIVE. Every time there is slight possibility that maybe, just maybe , there might be a new solution for the Palestinian/Israeli situation, the fear starts crawling into those Israeli’s in a huge way.
Even if they are sure 100% that those so-called summits, such as Annapolis summit, are just full of bullshit and just PR parties. Nothing good comes out of it for anybody anyway. But still every time someone comes up with a ridiculous solution, that he knows would never be implemented, just to disrupt whatever is supposedly being done to come up with some logical solution.
The latest genius that came up with this new initiative is Knesset member Benny Elon. His super clever plan is the following. The UN Refugee Camps are dismantled and the refugees are given rehabilitation packages and the option of moving to outside participating countries, where agencies would work to help with resettlement, employment and housing solutions.
Read more after the jump… really crazy plan…
Refugee’s who wish to stay in the West Bank are given the Jordanian nationality, and can stay in the territory “controlled by Israel” while the Jordanian Kingdom would be their home country.
No more Abbas administration, there would be no more Palestinian Authority and weapons will be collected from militias. He says billions of dollars is being splashed yearly on finding a solution for the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. So those billions would be spent to dismantle the camps and help the refugee’s get rehabilitation and move to other countries.
He is depending on a 2004 survey that states that about 50 percent of Palestinian society would not rule out the option of permanently moving to another country if they had the ability and means to relocate.
I would like to give Benny Elon some really bad news, there is no Palestinian on this EARTH who would leave their land for any kind of shiny offers. They will never leave their land for you. Don’t even dream about it. The kind of transfers that happened in the old days will never happen again. Whatever Israel do, shoot them, bomb them, kill them in any way, they will never leave their country, they will never leave their land, they will never give the chance to you to call PALESTINE “israel”. The days will pass, the years will pass, and Palestinians will stay Palestinians and Palestine will stay Palestine, you cant erase their identity, whatever and however you try.
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November 25th, 2007
Is your favourite match not airing on any of the channels you have access to?, worry no more, there are number of really good websites that provide links to streams for the matches. “Live Footy” is a handy website that provides us with streaming links for nearly all sport events in Europe and the Americas. So Enjoy, and if a link doesn’t work, don’t worry, there are tons of other alternatives, one of them for example is http://www.football4less.com.
After the jump, Live Footy available links as of this minute.
14:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Finland - Azerbaijan 
15:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Wales - Ireland
16:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Bulgaria - Romania
17:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Scotland - Italy
18:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Israel - Russia
18:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Norway - Turkey
19:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Germany - Cyprus
19:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]FYR Macedonia - Croatia
Links Will Follow @ Saturday Morning
19:30 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Netherlands - Luxembourg
Links Will Follow @ Saturday Morning
19:30 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Poland - Belgium
19:30 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Greece - Malta
Links Will Follow @ Saturday Morning
19:45 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Northern Ireland - Denmark
19:45 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Serbia - Kazakhstan
Links Will Follow @ Saturday Morning
21:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Spain - Sweden
21:00 GMT [Euro 2008 Qualifying]Portugal - Armenia
[Via LiveFooty]
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November 17th, 2007
Today 21 matches will be played, 42 countries trying to qualify for the Euro 2008, some already lost hope by bleeding points match after match, but some still hopeful to qualify for the championship which will be held in Austria and Switzerland, from the 7th to the 29th of June 2008. Here in middle east it was already announced who bought the TV rights of the championship, Aljazeera Sport Channels.
In my opinion the most important matches today are (GMT TIME):
17:00 Scotland X Italy
Group B (0:2 Away Score) [Abu Dhabi Sports, Dubai Sports 1, Kuwait Sport, Nile Sports, Aljazeera Sport 1, Iraqi Sports Channel, Saudi Sports, ShowSports1]
18:00 Norway X Turkey
Group C (2:2 Away Score) [Aljazeera Sport +1]
19:30 Poland X Belgium
Group A (1:0 Away Score) [ART Sport 3, Aljazeera Sport 2]
19:30 Netherlands X Luxembourg
Group G (1:0 Away Score) [Abu Dhabi Sports, Dubai Sports 1, Kuwait Sport, Iraqi Sports Channel, Saudi Sports, ShowSports1]
21:00 Spain X Sweden
Group F (0:2 Away Score) [Aljazeera Sport 1]
The full schedule for todays matches after the jump…
UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifiers *GMT Time*
14:00 Finland X Azerbaijan
Group A (0:1 Away Score)
15:00 Wales X Ireland
Group D (0:1 Away Score) [Dubai Sports 1]
16:00 Latvia X Liechtenstein
Group F (0:1 Away Score)
16:00 Bulgaria X Romania
Group G (2:2 Away Score) [Dubai Sports 1, ART Sport 4]
17:00 Scotland X Italy
Group B (0:2 Away Score) [Abu Dhabi Sports, Dubai Sports 1, Kuwait Sport, Nile Sports, Aljazeera Sport 1, Iraqi Sports Channel, Saudi Sports, ShowSports1]
17:00 Moldova X Hungary
Group C (0:2 Away Score)
17:00 Andorra X Estonia
Group E (1:2 Away Score)
18:00 Norway X Turkey
Group C (2:2 Away Score) [Aljazeera Sport +1]
18:00 Lithuania X Ukraine
Group B (0:1 Away Score)
18:00 Israel (The Zionist Entity) X Russia
Group E (1:1 Away Score)
19:00 Albania X Belarus
Group G (2:2 Away Score)
19:00 Germany X Cyprus
Group D (1:1 Away Score) [Aljazeera Sport +2]
19:00 Macedonia X Croatia
Group E (1:2 Away Score)
19:30 Poland X Belgium
Group A (1:0 Away Score) [ART Sport 3, Aljazeera Sport 2]
19:30 Netherlands X Luxembourg
Group G (1:0 Away Score) [Abu Dhabi Sports, Dubai Sports 1, Kuwait Sport, Iraqi Sports Channel, Saudi Sports, ShowSports1]
19:30 Greece X Malta
Group C (1:0 Away Score)
19:30 Czech Republic X Slovakia
Group D (3:0 Away Score) [ART Sport 4]
19:45 Serbia X Kazakstan
Group A (1:2 Away Score)
19:45 Northern Ireland X Denmark
Group F (0:0 Away Score)
21:00 Spain X Sweden
Group F (0:2 Away Score) [Aljazeera Sport 1]
21:00 Portugal X Armenia
Group A (1:1 Away Score)
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November 17th, 2007
Don’t worry, David Beckham is not coming to Arsenal, well he is, but not as a player. Thank God. Basically he wants to be part of the England team to qualify to Euro 2008, so he needs to train and get fit, and for that he needs a club, and here comes Arsene Wenger to the rescue.
Beckham’s club LA Galaxy refused to loan him to any english club, but accepted him getting the training he needs in england. He will be joining wenger and his squad for training, although watford and tottenham also offered beckham their services.
Anyway I don’t expect England to qualify, they have a match against croatia and even if they win it and russia win israel they are out, and russia will win israel by the way.
The goalkeeper of Israel who is russian born already announced that he wants russia to win and that israel will throw the game.
To be honest, as an arsenal fan, I don’t give a hoot this guy is coming to train in our club, I just don’t know why the news gets hyped up just because he is doing something, oh beckham did this, oh bekcham did that, as an Arsenal fan i am angry on wenger for giving this guy a chance to do anything, and don’t give me this crap about him having a good influence on our players, thats just BS.
So Beckham is training in Arsenal, yappadooda… We just won the Championship…
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November 15th, 2007
