tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post1607024583138881277..comments2024-03-27T15:36:44.737-07:00Comments on Haq's Musings: The Neighborhood Bully Strikes AgainRiaz Haqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-58697480438666505762010-05-22T22:05:15.056-07:002010-05-22T22:05:15.056-07:00Here's an OpEd by Yosi Sarid in Haaretz about ...Here's an OpEd by Yosi Sarid in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/a-tip-for-the-shin-bet-1.291377" rel="nofollow">Haaretz</a> about Israeli settlers campaign of terror in occupied Palestine:<br /><br /><i>Bullets are fired, trees are chopped down, fields are set ablaze, window panes are shattered and houses are subject to pogroms while the representatives of law and order keep themselves safe and at a distance.<br />By Yossi Sarid<br /><br />It's impossible to ignore any longer the calming presence of the Shin Bet security service in our lives - from the hummus in Gaza to Noam Chomsky in Bir Zeit.<br /><br />This hyperactivity demands an explanation: How can we explain that one arm is long and powerful, when it comes to those who wish to destroy us, whereas the other arm is short and delicate, when it comes to those exacting a "price tag."<br /><br />At the beginning of the week, Aysar Zaban from a village near Ramallah was shot in the back and killed. He was 15 years old and will no longer throw stones at cars. They're looking for the gunman, and there's no chance they will find him.<br /><br />How do I know? Very simple: Not a single settler has ever been caught. There have been hundreds of "terror-settler" events and all the avengers are still walking about free. There is evidence and there are traces, but there is no justice.<br /><br />Bullets are fired, trees are chopped down, fields are set ablaze, window panes are shattered and houses are subject to pogroms while the representatives of law and order keep themselves safe and at a distance. Soldiers and policemen already understand the principle; the spirit of the commanders explained it to them.<br /><br />How does a person dare make such accusations, just after Yaakov (Jack ) Teitel was finally caught? For 12 years he murdered Palestinians and planted explosive devices, and had he not made the foolish mistake of harming Jews as well - even though they were leftists - he would never have been found.<br /><br />Now it has been ruled that his mental state makes him unfit to stand trial - as if Teitel has suddenly fallen ill with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The right to go mad like a cow is reserved for Jewish terrorists only.<br /><br />And if he's so crazy, how was he so cunning as well, managing to deceive the Shin Bet with such sophistication for so long? </i>Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-77024686172312437362010-01-10T20:18:38.005-08:002010-01-10T20:18:38.005-08:00Here are some excerpts from an interesting comment...Here are some excerpts from an interesting commentary by <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/i-just-saw-clip-on-aljazeera-arabic-of.html" rel="nofollow">Juan Cole</a> on the Khost suicide bombing: <br /><br />"Although Pakistani troops fighting in South Waziristan had found Arab passports and other effects suggesting a small presence of Arab fighters with the TTP, al-Balawi had clearly joined the movement and given it his allegiance. It seems to me an alarming development, as the Aljazeera anchor also noted, that Arab jihadi volunteers might now be enlisting under the banner of the Pakistani Taliban rather than, as in the past, al-Qaeda or one of the Afghan insurgent groups. The Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan is only about 7 years old, there never having been Pakistani Taliban until the early 21st century--it was a phenomenon of the Soviet ethnic cleansing of Afghans, which forced 3 million into refugee camps in Pakistan, where many became radicalized. (And were encouraged in that direction by the Reagan administration).<br /><br />Many intelligence specialists had insisted that the Khost bombing was the work of the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan. But I read al-Balawi's emotionalism about the Mahsuds as a clear indication that he was working for them rather than for the Haqqanis. He must have repeated seven or eight times that Baitullah Mahsud would be avenged. The militant founder of the TTTP was killed by a US drone strike in South Waziristan in August."<br /><br />"Al-Balawi's sad biography in fact ties together the whole history of Western, including Israeli, attacks on the Middle East. Al-Balawi's family is Palestinians displaced from Beersheba by Zionist immigrants into British Mandate Palestine, who in 1948 ethnically cleansed about 700,000 Palestinians from what became Israel. Most Palestinians in Jordan are bitter about the loss of their homes, for which they never received compensation, and some still live in refugee camps. The British Empire and the United States supported this displacement of the Palestinians and to this day the US government often attempts to criminalize even charitable aid to the suffering Palestinian people."<br /><br />"The Arabic press is confirming that al-Balawi was further enraged by the Israeli war on poor little Gaza last winter. A physician, he volunteered to be part of a group that intended to go to Gaza to do relief work for the victims of Israel's brutal targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure. (The Israelis were trying to destroy the fundamentalist Hamas party, which rules Gaza, and gave as their pretext the occasional rockets Hamas fired into Israel, though in fact there had been a truce for much of 2008, a truce of which the Israelis coldly took advantage to plan their war.)<br /><br />The Jordanian secret police arrested al-Balawi to prevent him from going to Gaza. It may be that he had to agree to work for it as a quid pro quo to regain his freedom."Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-8301096365583749832009-01-03T21:46:00.000-08:002009-01-03T21:46:00.000-08:00This time around, The timing is very important! Bu...This time around, The timing is very important! Bush has left the office and the president-elect Obama is yet to join.<BR/><BR/>However the representatives of USA is supporting these attacks diplomatically. This is the reaon why Hatred for USA and Israel is mounting in the whole world and nothing can end terrorism in the world till Israel/USA stop these activities.<BR/><BR/>I can guarantee 90% peace in the world if issues of Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq and Afghanistan be resolved soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com