the old gentile hate is back in euroland

http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7bDFD2AAC1-2ADE-428A-9263-35234229D8D8%7d/4RESPONSE%20MARCH%202005.PDF

who armed saddam

http://www.defendingliberty.com/iraqweapons.htm

what you will not see in the new york times

http://zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/

Left wing anti-semites at so called peace demos

iranian human rights?

http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4985&view=next

THANK A GI FOR YOUR FREEDOM

http://www.interviewwithgod.com/memorial/

thank you all who have served our country

All gave some
SOME GAVE ALL

http://www.gop.com/News/MultiMedia/VideoPlayer.aspx?ID=1001&T=2

never again means never again

http://www.artelino.com/articles/tomikichiro_tokuriki.asp

NEWSWEEK GO FUCK YOUR SELF

http://ridingsun.blogspot.com/2005/05/newsweek-america-is-dead.html

TURKISH BIGOTRY

Turkish Tabloid Enrages Germany with Nazi Comparisons.

Turkey is suffering something of an image problem in Europe these days. First came those unfortunate and truly appalling images of riot police using truncheons, tear gas and brute force against a group of women demonstrating for equal rights to mark World Women’s Day last week. Then came the women’s claims that they are so used to being kicked around that they consider it normal; they professed awe that the rest of the world found the TV images outrageous. Now, yet another scuffle — this one involving German Interior Minister Otto Schily — has Europe wondering if maybe Turkey, which badly wants membership in the European club, isn’t, as many detractors claim, too much of a jellyfish on human rights and otherwise unprepared to be welcomed into Europe.

The latest brouhaha circles around Schily — known in Germany as Iron Otto for his stern, no nonsense efficiency — and his successful push to ban a radical Turkish tabloid called Vakit from German newsstands. The paper regularly publishes inflammatory and often anti-Semitic statements, Schily charged. Indeed, in a Dec. 2004 article, the tabloid stated, “There was no Holocaust. The so-called gas chambers are also a lie. It’s nothing more than Zionist music.”

The ban — which is completely legal according to a German law forbidding the denial of the Holocaust — took effect in February. Now, Vakit has launched an over-the-top smear campaign that equates Schily with Hitler, an infamous media hater who closed all outlets that disagreed with his fanatical views. For seven days in a row, the tabloid has featured scathing stories depicting Schily as an anti-free-speech tyrant. One shows him with a black swastika on his arm, another poses him in front of a Nazi flag and in a third, a cartoonist has drawn a Hitler mustache on him. In a March 4 cover story, he appears under the blaring headline “Heil Otto! The Oven is Ready.” Germany may be well on its way to digesting its Nazi past, but one truism remains: If you want to rile up a German — particularly a male political leader — connect him to Hitler.

Matt Hales sick anti-semitic harassment

There was a sick anti-semitic attack in chicago tonite. Judge Lefkwitz (recently had her mother and husband murdered) was sitting in a resturant when a anti-semitic bigot held up a anti-semitic poster in her face. The federal marshel who was her protection detail ran out side to try to get him but he got a way.

Judge Lefkwitz was the judge who put Matt Hale a REAL NAZI in jail recently. By the way she is a gentile.

IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT THE JUDGES HUSBAND AND MOTHER WERE RECENTLY MURDERED A WOMAN IN DEEP GRIEF IS HARASSED HOW SICK CAN YOU GET?

NAZI DEFACES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL

Why am I not suprised

Pat Buchanan has his head up his ass

a case of cranial rectal insertion

BY ANDREW METZ
STAFF WRITER

May 12, 2005

Was World War II worth it?

In the inflammatory world view of Pat Buchanan, the short answer is no. The war that stopped the Nazis' global campaign and the mechanistic extermination of European Jewry was actually not worth the effort.

The commentator yesterday offered equally provocative answers to other questions: Why destroy Hitler? And why venerate FDR and Churchill?

On the radio and Internet, Buchanan framed his positions as amplification of remarks made over the weekend by President George W. Bush that the pact ending the war brought on a Stalinist domination that was "one of the greatest wrongs of history."

But Buchanan's comments on the Don Imus radio show and in an essay posted on the Web site of his organization, The American Cause, went much further. He suggested that because Germans voted Hitler in, they did not need to be liberated, and that Britain and France drew Germany into the wider conflict.

He did not mention Jews or the Holocaust - the most outrageous omission for Yaffa Eliach, a Holocaust expert and survivor. "For me it is very important to present the truth, to show the murder," Eliach said. "The idea was to kill Jews."

Abraham Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, called Buchanan's comments "immoral" and "bordering on Holocaust denial. "But, you know, he has been there before," Foxman said. "Pat Buchanan in the past has challenged whether or not there were crematoria."

Veterans were also insulted.

"That is more or less saying they fought for the wrong reasons and the sacrifice was futile," said Veterans of Foreign Wars spokesman Jerry Newberry. "Buchanan apparently hasn't given much thought to what the world would have looked like if Hitler and his henchmen would have succeeded."

Buchanan did not return calls yesterday.

Former Mayor Ed Koch offered this blunt rebuttal: "I believe that no decent human being should ever sit down at the same table with Pat Buchanan and I am shocked that otherwise responsible, respectable citizens share platforms with him on Sunday shows."
Copyright 2005 Newsday Inc.

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS PAID IN BLOOD PART 2

"The song of life of those who fell 'was cut off in mid-course', but they fell so that the song of life of the people of Israel will never stop, and so that your song may also go on - the song of those they loved and cherished most - so that it will never end.

"I pray that this will be your comfort."

The main Remembrance Day memorial will take place Wednesday at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl and simultaneously at 43 military cemeteries around the country. A two-minute siren will sound at 11 a.m. A ceremony will also take place at the memorial for fallen Beduin soldiers at the Hamovil junction in the Galilee.

The prime minister is to speak at Mount Herzl. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz will speak at Tel Aviv's Kiryat Shaul.

Remembrance Day is to be marked officially by lighting memorial flames and placing wreaths on graves. The Defense Ministry has already placed a miniature flag on the graves of all the fallen soldiers in military cemeteries across the country. In addition, black memorial ribbons will also be placed on the graves.

This year is the second year that the Defense Ministry has provided a service to make it easier to locate the graves of the fallen. It not only provides the block and parcel of a fallen soldier's grave, but also gives a map of the best route to take from the gates of the military cemeteries.

The service is available on a special Web site sponsored by the Defense Ministry's Department for Commemorating Soldiers and programmed by a civilian firm.

The site can be reached at: www.izkor.gov.il/izkor80.htm. It is only in Hebrew and there are no plans to provide it in other languages for the moment, defense officials said.

The site requests a name, even partial, and it then provides the biography of the fallen, a photo and the circumstances of his death. Two maps are also available; one a general map of the military cemetery with the suggested route to the grave, the other of the block with the grave clearly marked.

Mourners who have difficulty walking but who want to visit graves at military cemeteries can call Yad Sarah for help. Its wheelchair-accessible vans will take the disabled at no cost to and from military cemeteries at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Kiryat Shaul in Tel Aviv, Segula in Petah Tikva and in Haifa, Netanya and Beersheba. The service has been arranged in cooperation with the Defense Ministry and Yad Lebanim. Call 1-700-501-800 in advance.

Judy Siegel contributed to this report.

THE PRICE FOR FREEDOM IS PAID IN BLOOD

Israel mourns its fallen
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN AND JPOST STAFF




Yom Kippur War widow at her husband's grave-site.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski


Honorary guard comprised of Air Force, Navy and Infantry soldiers stand alongside flag at half-mast at the Kotel on Tuesday night
Photo: Channel 1

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The nation bowed its head Tuesday evening, Remembrance Day, mourning the 20,368 servicemen and women who have fallen in its defense since November 1947.

Including all those who fell defending the Land of Israel since 1860, the number reaches 21,954.

In the past year, 169 members of the police, IDF, Border Police, Prisons Service, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and other organizations have been killed in the service of the state.

Remembrance Day officially began Tuesday evening, when President Moshe Katsav opened the ceremony at the Western Wall. Representatives of bereaved parents and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon were attending the ceremony.

A one-minute siren sounded across the country at 8 p.m., as citizens stopped in silent commemoration.

"Tonight all the people of Israel are standing in silent, bowing our heads, filled with pain and agony," President Katsav told the crowd at the Wall.

"The torches we are lighting today here are like the eternal candle that was lit in the Temple, a light which was never put off; it lights our faith in the future. We choose to remember the fallen here, at the kotel, where our temple once stood.

"The price we paid for independence was extremely high. We are making every effort that the next generation will be able to put down the guns.

"We are again facing difficult and complex decisions. There are many hardships on the way to peace – but we shall walk toward it, side by side.

"Tonight, as fresh flowers are put on the graves, there are no disagreements. We forget all internal strife and remember: We are one people. We are one nation, with one past and one destiny.

"The fallen have given us the most precious thing in the world. We make a vow today to be worthy of their memory."

In his address, Chief of Staff Ya'alon vowed never to forget.

"A nation which knows the price of independence gathers tonight at our eternal capital to remember those who fell in the service of the state. Silent members in our nation that paid with their lives.

"We came to remember those who will always remain young in our imagination, so near but yet so far."

The commander of the IDF added, "As chief of staff and throughout 37 years of service, I have always been with you dear families, in every step I take and in every decision I make.

"Today, the day we engrave in our hearts. We remember those who paid with their lives; from the city, village, kibbutz, whether new Olim, Beduin, Circassians and Druse. Today, we came to acknowledge that we are here because of their sacrifice."

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spoke earlier Tuesday, at a ceremony for the fallen ,of his personal grief as a former soldier and commander.

"I see the faces of my friends, my commanders and those who served under my command - familiar faces covered in dust, furrowed in effort. I hear voices cut off by the sound of metal, a deafening boom of explosions. I smell the sweat and fire of the battlefield. In the soul of every fighter and every commander who led soldiers, are many friends, and each of them hold a warm place in their heart, like an album with photographs which have yellowed over the years, but still show a refreshing view of other, nostalgic times.

"Your pain is our pain, your grief is our grief, because the fallen are precious children to us all, and for us they gave their lives. They are deserving of eternal gratitude and eternal glory. Israel's magnificence, which includes 57 years of independence and accomplishments unprecedented among nations - is thanks to them.

Continued

the price for freedom is paid in BLOOD

Israel mourns its fallen
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN AND JPOST STAFF




Yom Kippur War widow at her husband's grave-site.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski


Honorary guard comprised of Air Force, Navy and Infantry soldiers stand alongside flag at half-mast at the Kotel on Tuesday night
Photo: Channel 1

Advertisement




The nation bowed its head Tuesday evening, Remembrance Day, mourning the 20,368 servicemen and women who have fallen in its defense since November 1947.

Including all those who fell defending the Land of Israel since 1860, the number reaches 21,954.

In the past year, 169 members of the police, IDF, Border Police, Prisons Service, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and other organizations have been killed in the service of the state.

Remembrance Day officially began Tuesday evening, when President Moshe Katsav opened the ceremony at the Western Wall. Representatives of bereaved parents and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon were attending the ceremony.

A one-minute siren sounded across the country at 8 p.m., as citizens stopped in silent commemoration.

"Tonight all the people of Israel are standing in silent, bowing our heads, filled with pain and agony," President Katsav told the crowd at the Wall.

"The torches we are lighting today here are like the eternal candle that was lit in the Temple, a light which was never put off; it lights our faith in the future. We choose to remember the fallen here, at the kotel, where our temple once stood.

"The price we paid for independence was extremely high. We are making every effort that the next generation will be able to put down the guns.

"We are again facing difficult and complex decisions. There are many hardships on the way to peace – but we shall walk toward it, side by side.

"Tonight, as fresh flowers are put on the graves, there are no disagreements. We forget all internal strife and remember: We are one people. We are one nation, with one past and one destiny.

"The fallen have given us the most precious thing in the world. We make a vow today to be worthy of their memory."

In his address, Chief of Staff Ya'alon vowed never to forget.

"A nation which knows the price of independence gathers tonight at our eternal capital to remember those who fell in the service of the state. Silent members in our nation that paid with their lives.

"We came to remember those who will always remain young in our imagination, so near but yet so far."

The commander of the IDF added, "As chief of staff and throughout 37 years of service, I have always been with you dear families, in every step I take and in every decision I make.

"Today, the day we engrave in our hearts. We remember those who paid with their lives; from the city, village, kibbutz, whether new Olim, Beduin, Circassians and Druse. Today, we came to acknowledge that we are here because of their sacrifice."

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spoke earlier Tuesday, at a ceremony for the fallen ,of his personal grief as a former soldier and commander.

"I see the faces of my friends, my commanders and those who served under my command - familiar faces covered in dust, furrowed in effort. I hear voices cut off by the sound of metal, a deafening boom of explosions. I smell the sweat and fire of the battlefield. In the soul of every fighter and every commander who led soldiers, are many friends, and each of them hold a warm place in their heart, like an album with photographs which have yellowed over the years, but still show a refreshing view of other, nostalgic times.

"Your pain is our pain, your grief is our grief, because the fallen are precious children to us all, and for us they gave their lives. They are deserving of eternal gratitude and eternal glory. Israel's magnificence, which includes 57 years of independence and accomplishments unprecedented among nations - is thanks to them.

Continued

turkish anti-semitism

Anti-Semitism in Turkey

By: Amed Demirhan

May 2, 2005

Historically anti-Semitism all most always has been related to general intolerance, racism, and xenophobia. In modern Turkey this elements have the main ingredients of foundation of the Turkish Republic. In republican era there have been up and down with anti-Semitism and some times high-ranking government officials have been speaking positively about Jews and Israel and even claming to be protectors of the Jewish minority in Turkey. However, in recent years anti-Semitism and racism become very dangerous, and not just targeted to small minority of Jews in Turkey but to the “Donme” the Jews that were converted about 300 years ago to Islam and “Turkism”, and to Jews in general.

In the past Jews were forced to relocation in 1924, forced to pay higher taxes or forced to bankruptcy by force of government, for example in 1942 infamous “Wealth Tax” that directed to non-Muslim minorities. In 1955 they were targeted in Istanbul together Greek and Armenians. In late 1980s and in 1990s Jewish or “Donme” business people were subject of “Ulkucu Mafia” a state sponsored extreme rights group was taking money from Jews by force and illegally. Some Jewish businessman had to move to the USA and Israel.

However, recent anti-Semitism is more dangerous, in the past it was limited to small marginal leftist, Marxist, Islamist, and fascist groups, and all most of them were controlled by the state; now anti-Semitism is becoming a mass movement like 1930s Europe. Some people seemed surprised to see Hitler’s book become best seller, in reality there are many more anti-Semitics books and articles recently have been published and they are more dangerous than Hitler’s book. For example, the Dr. Yalicin Kucuk a former Marxist his book titled “Tekelistan” about Jews and specifically about donme, it has more conspiracy in it than Hitler’s book. This book become so popular he had to write several other books and among many other Pan-Turkist/Pan-Islamists become Dr. Kucuk’s main readers. In addition Yalcin Soner’s book about “Done” was one of the best seller in Turkey for long time. Mr. Soner’s book is comparable with Dr. Kucuk’s book. All major newspapers are daily full with anti-Semitic remarks. These conspiracies includes Jews or “hidden Jews” been in charge of the Turkish state, been behind separatist movements, Islamist movements, been in charge of America, or Israel Zionist conspiracy to take over South Eastern part of Turkey. The type of conspiracy dependent to the ideology of the writers, for example if an Islamist write like Sevket Eygi he will claim Turkey’s ethnic conflict is invention of the Jews, Kemalist-nationalist will claim Jews are in charge of America and they try to divide Turkey, and so on. Fighting against ant-Semitism is as important as fighting against Nazism, neo-Nazism or any totalitarian regime or ideology. One of the important ways fighting against anti-Semitism in Turkey is defending freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of assembly, and Western pluralistic democracy.





















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cousins?

Baqi Barzani



In 2001, a team of Israeli, German, and Indian scientists discovered that the majority of Jews around the world are closely related to the Kurdish people -- more closely than they are to the Semitic-speaking Arabs or any other population that was tested. The researchers sampled a total of 526 Y-chromosomes from 6 populations (Kurdish Jews, Kurdish Muslims, Palestinian Arabs, Sephardic Jews, Ashkenazic Jews, and Bedouin from southern Israel) and added extra data on 1321 persons from 12 populations (including Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Berbers, Portuguese, Spaniards, Arabs, Armenians, and Anatolian Turks). Most of the 95 Kurdish Muslim test subjects came from northern Iraq. Ashkenazic Jews have ancestors who lived in central and Eastern Europe, while Sephardic Jews have ancestors from southwestern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. The Kurdish Jews and Sephardic Jews were found to be very close to each other. Both of these Jewish populations differed somewhat from Ashkenazic Jews, who mixed with European peoples during their diaspora.

Research has just begun into the ancient ties between Kurds and Jews. It would be interesting to see if the various Jewish groups have as strong a family tie to Kurds in the maternal lineages as they do in the paternal lineages. Preliminary studies indicate that Jewish populations in Eastern Europe and Yemen have maternal origins that contain much more non-Israelite ancestry than their paternal origins. Despite this admixture with other groups, the Jewish Judean people ultimately began their existence in an area within or nearby Kurdistan, prior to migrating southwest to Israel. This exciting research showing that Kurds and Jews may have shared common fathers several millennia ago should, hopefully, encourage both Kurds and Jews to explore each others' cultures and to maintain the friendship that Kurds and Jews enjoyed in northern Iraq in recent times (as chronicled in Michael Rubin's recent article "The Other Iraq"). As Rubin indicates, the Kurdish leader Mullah Mustafa Barzani once visited Israel and met with Israeli government officials. Rubin refers to the Iraqi Kurds' "special affinity for Israel" and writes that "In the safe haven of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Jews and Israel are remembered fondly, if increasingly vaguely." Let us hope that this relationship can be renewed and strengthened.

Sadly, a fleeting glance at the history of Iraq since its independence ascertains that the 2,700-year-old Iraqi Jewish community has suffered horrible persecution, particularly as the Zionist drive for a state intensified. In June 1941, the Mufti-inspired, pro-Nazi coup of Rashid Ali sparked rioting and a pogrom in Baghdad. Armed Iraqi mobs, with the complicity of the police and the army, murdered 180 Jews and wounded almost 1,000. Additional outbreaks of anti-Jewish rioting occurred between 1946-49. After the establishment of Israel in 1948, Zionism became a capital crime.

In 1950, Iraqi Jews were permitted to leave the country within a year provided they forfeited their citizenship. A year later, however, the property of Jews who emigrated was frozen and economic restrictions were placed on Jews who chose to remain in the country. From 1949 to 1951, 104,000 Jews were evacuated from Iraq in Operations Ezra & Nechemia; another 20,000 were smuggled out through Iran.

With the rise of competing Ba'ath factions in 1963, additional restrictions were placed on the remaining Iraqi Jews. The sale of property was forbidden and all Jews were forced to carry yellow identity cards. After the Six-Day War, more repressive measures were imposed: Jewish property was expropriated; Jewish bank accounts were frozen; Jews were dismissed from public posts; businesses were shut; trading permits were cancelled; telephones were disconnected. Jews were placed under house arrest for long periods of time or restricted to the cities.

Persecution was at its worst at the end of 1968. Scores were jailed upon the discovery of a local "spy ring" composed of Jewish businessmen. Fourteen men - eleven of them Jews - were sentenced to death in staged trials and hanged in the public squares of Baghdad; others died of torture. On January 27, 1969, Baghdad Radio called upon Iraqis to "come and enjoy the feast." Some 500,000 men, women and children paraded and danced past the scaffolds where the bodies of the hanged Jews swung.



Saddams pursuit for nuclear, possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction, funding the militant Palestinian accelerated the initiative that he is an immense threat to Israel national security and him and his Baath party has to be dealt with military force. To achieve this goal, The United States and Israel turned to their long-term allies for aid. Key architects of the pre-emptive and military use of force to push the invasion of Iraq were the Jewish neo-conservative members of congress and the influence of American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), long considered one of the most lobbying groups. At present, Israeli intelligence and military operatives are at work in Kurdistan, providing training for Kurdish commando units and, most important in Israel’s view, running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria. Israel feels particularly threatened by Iran, whose position in the region has been strengthened by the war. Israel is concerned the United States will not be successful in stabilizing Iraq after the transfer of sovereignty on June 30, and the elections scheduled for January 2005. Many of the agents in the region are believed to be Mossad operatives investigating Iran's nuclear capabilities. The former Israeli intelligence officer acknowledged that since late last year Israel has been training Kurdish commando units to operate in the same manner and with the same effectiveness as Israel’s most secretive commando units, the Mistaravim. Kurds are offering the biggest sacrifices for their Allies in the ongoing war. They are performing the toughest tasks that American commando units had been unable to do—penetrate, gather intelligence on, and then neutralize the leadership of the Shiite and Sunni insurgencies in Iraq. The Kurdish-Israeli collaboration inevitably expanded, the Israeli said. Some Israeli operatives have crossed the border into Iran, accompanied by Kurdish commandos, to install sensors and other sensitive devices that primarily target suspected Iranian nuclear facilities.

The Kurdish residents of the safe haven envision a region where Jews and Kurds live in absolute peace, and not only accept Israel, but also uphold the Jewish state’s success as a model to be implemented in their own troubled land. As one university professor commented, "What we want is to get rid of Saddam so that we can do what the Jews did in Israel. We have a Diaspora. People will work furiously hard. All we need is security." A Kurdish pharmacist from Baghdad, visiting friends in the safe haven, told how a mullah who had come to fill a prescription had commented that he would "welcome an Israeli flag over Baghdad so long as they threw out Saddam and then left us to our business. We couldn’t care less about Arab nationalism," the mullah told the pharmacist. "We’re not crazy like Syria. We just want to rebuild our country. Israel has expressed its strong support for the creation of an independent Kurdistan. Independence for Kurdistan purports debilitation of Arab nationalism, foiling Turkeys prop-up and security declaration for Israel.

Baqi Barzani

kurdish people

http://kurdistanblog.blogspot.com/

please check this blog out.

interesting

King Abdullah II is deeply preoccupied in restructuring governance in his realm according to a self-designed pattern of democracy. This revolutionary process is going forward quietly step by step. This month, he appointed a new government shorn of policy-making authority in the fields of foreign affairs, defense and home security, prerogatives that will pass to the royal court. Furthermore, he is acting to decentralize parliament in Amman.

But along with these radical reforms, the Jordanian king’s peripheral sight is fixed on his western neighbor. He has not missed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s descent deeper day by day into the morass of disorder and revolt.

Last Tuesday, April 11, US president George W. Bush and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon debated the chances of propping Abbas’ rule up against collapse. Next Thursday, two senior American officials, deputy head of the national security council Elliott Abrams and undersecretary of state for Near East affairs David Welch, will be visiting Jerusalem and Ramallah to try and determine its feasibility.

But according to our Amman sources, Abdullah thinks the Palestinian Authority under Abu Mazen is sinking rapidly and may be beyond saving. What interests him most is the July 17 Palestinian election and its potential impact on stability in his kingdom given his large Palestinian population. Hamas’ prospects of sweeping the election improve as Abbas weakens. Of one thing Abdullah is certain: he cannot afford a Hamas takeover of Palestinian government in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian Hamas terrorist group is not isolated or autonomous; it is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihadist movement which is strongest in the Arab world. A Brotherhood-dominated government in Ramallah would point a knife at the Hashemite throne in Amman.

Abdullah is therefore turning over the possibility of Jordan moving in to fill the power vacuum that would be formed on the West Bank by Abu Mazen’s downfall.

Last week, the Jordanian ruler set up a new body called the Commission for Determining Jordan’s National Agenda. Its eight sub-committees were entrusted with drafting new laws for the redistribution of legislative authority among provincial parliaments still to be created.

DEBKAfile’s Amman sources reveal that the king has decided on three provincial parliaments for Irbid in the north, Salt in the center and Kerak in the south. Each will elect a government to administer the province.

A royal decree will cut down the central parliament in Amman from 110 to 80 seats. Two more royal reforms are of critical importance.

1. He has adopted the Ottoman Empire’s term wilaya for the new provinces. DEBKAfile’s experts note that the historical term pertained to large territories, often whole countries. All biblical Palestine was one; Iraq, two.

2. The new cabinet headed by Adnan Badran that was sworn in April 7 has one third more Palestinian ministers than the former Fayez government. However, the only post with real authority was awarded the Palestinian-Jordanian economist Basem Abdallah, whose job it is to reform the economy. The Bedouin tribes of the south and their 34 deputies in the national assembly are protesting bitterly over the increment in jobs for the Palestinians at their expense. The king has not taken them into his confidence about his plans to empty many of the government’s functions of content and share out legislative powers among provinces. He wants to see the process in place before it is unveiled.

As for the West Bank, the Jordanian king would not be surprised if a breakdown of the Abbas government in Ramallah produced an invitation from Washington, pro-Jordanian elements among the Palestinians - and even possibly Israel, for him to step in and sort out the mayhem in the West Bank.

Such an invitation might lead to consideration of a plan to make the territory the Jordanian kingdom’s fourth wilaya. The Palestinian Authority already has a muqataa - the Ottoman Empire’s term for a governing administration under the Sultan. It would retain broad powers in such local fields of operation as employment, education, and general services to the population, while West Bank representatives would be integrated in the Palestinian faction of the disempowered central parliament in Amman.

Abdullah’s aides are seeking to muster a majority of royalist supporters for the three Jordanian provincial governments. The headhunt is led by Jordan’s elder statesman Zeid al-Rifai, many times prime minister in Amman, his son, Samir Rifai, one of the king’s closest advisers, and the speaker of parliament, Abd al Hadi Majali.

DEBKAfile’s Washington sources have no doubt that the king discussed his West Bank concept with Bush during their White House talks in March. Neither gave the game away in their public appearances later. The president only praised “His Majesty’s” steps for democracy in general terms, making no commitments. He may have set Abdullah’s suggestion aside as a possible Plan B for consideration if the Palestinian Authority crisis becomes terminal. Our American sources are certain Sharon was clued in on the Jordanian option when he visited the presidential ranch in Texas last week.

Whatever becomes of this as yet unformed notion, a Jordanian-Palestinian province on the West Bank might open up some fresh thinking on ways of keeping some Jewish settlement blocs in situ – if not under full Israeli sovereignty then at least under Israeli administration – under give-and-take accords.

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The genocide on the Kurdish people continues.

The only way to end it is for the Kurds to have a state of there own so they can defend themselves.

NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN

anti semitism

Anti-American notes found in pack of Wellington GI accused of deserting Army








Associated Press

May 5, 2005, 12:50 PM EDT

WELLINGTON -- An Army sergeant who left his Georgia post six months ago was tracked down at his parents' home after a notebook with anti-American and anti-Semitic writings was found in his discarded backpack.

Karim Iraq, 25, was arrested as a deserter and is being held without bail at the Palm Beach County Jail, sheriff's officials said.

His father said the soldier fled Fort Stewart after the Army extended his enlistment because he had soured on the U.S. military mission in Iraq. The father said the soldier was also harassed over his Palestinian heritage.

``He was feeling rejected or discriminated against for the last year or so.... He said he'd been made fun of all of the time. He never fit in. They made fun of his name. They always looked at him like he's an outsider,'' Zayed Iraq said.

Karim Iraq was arrested Tuesday, a day after the backpack was found Monday at a gas station within miles of his parents' home in this West Palm Beach suburb. The father said the bag was probably left there by a burglar who had broken into the soldier's truck days earlier.

Authorities said a notebook inside the backpack contained handwritten notes cursing the military, freedom and the United States. A message reading ``Die you know who you are!!!'' appears with an image of the Star of David in a circle with a line through it.

``He's a dangerous guy with anti-American slogans and a deserter. It's someone we want to get off the street immediately,'' sheriff's Capt. Gregory Richter said.

Zayed Iraq said his Detroit-born son was proud of his service in Iraq and Kuwait on two previous tours but had become disenchanted and did not want to go back to the Middle East for a third time.

``It's not like he hates the U.S. He's been here all his life. It's the only country he ever knew. Half the country doesn't agree with the president,'' Zayed Iraq said.

Iraq's commander will determine whether he faces administrative punishment or a court-martial.

For administrative purposes, the Army classifies a soldier as a deserter if he fails to report for duty for more than 30 days. However, that doesn't necessarily mean criminal charges of desertion will be brought.

Military law defines desertion as fleeing military service with no intention to return or to ``avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service.''

If he is court-martialed, the maximum penalty under normal circumstances is up to five years in prison. During war, the maximum penalty is death, but no U.S. deserters have been executed since World War II.

Judy Orihuela, spokeswoman for the FBI's Miami office, said the matter was being handled by the military.
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