"All Truth passes through
Three Stages: First, it is ridiculed...Second, it is Violently Opposed...Third,
it is Accepted as being Self-Evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer -
"There is madmen in the world, and
there are terror."
- George W. Bush -
"Terrorists may now be employed at
nuclear reactors in the United States just as terrorists enrolled in flight
schools in the U.S."
- Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. -
"I do not know with what weapons World
War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein -
BROADWAY MUSICAL FROM HELL
In the planning stages,
an all black rap revival of The Music Man. "Now either you
are closing your eyes to a situation that you do not with to acknowledge,
or you are not aware of a caliber of disaster indicated by the presence
of a crack house in your community. W-e-e-ell, you got trouble my friends,
Right here, I say trouble right here in Motor City..."
ART FROM HELL
Okay, get this. Using satellite global
positioning
systems, people drive around town creating
giant pictures like this elephant in Brighton.
More here.
DON'T SUPPORT TERRORISM
Buy as many illegal drugs as you want
but don't buy gas from companies that get their oil from the Middle East.
Major companies that import Middle
Eastern oil
(for the period 9/1/00 - 8/31/01).
Shell
205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco
144,332,000
Exxon/Mobil
130,082,000
Marathon
117,740,000
Amoco
62,231,000
At $30/barrel, these imports amount
to over $18 BILLION!
Here are some large companies that
do not import middle Eastern oil:
Citgo
0 barrels
Sunoco
0
Conoco
0
Sinclair
0
BP/Phillips
0
QUIZ FROM HELL
Which death was funniest?
a) Billy Wilder
b) Milton Berle
c) Dudley Moore
d) The Queen mum
LETTERS FROM HELL
AL BIEREH, West Bank:
As I write the Israeli army is going
from neighborhood to neighborhood demanding all males from 16-60 exit their
homes and gathering them at a local school (Mugtarabeen) yard. My sister-in-law
just called and advised that her husband, Mohd Yacoub, was one of the tens
that were rounded up in her area.
The Israelis have taken over Al-WATAN
local TV channel in Ramallah and is airing programs that are anti-Palestinian.
This aggression is much more than the tanks you are seeing on CNN.
Electricity is off in several areas.
We were without it for the most of yesterday. Israeli tanks make systematic
rounds through the neighborhoods. Gunfire was heard most of the night.
A lot of physical damage is being done
to the city, but that is secondary right now while human loss that still
threatens us.
The real damage is to the children.
Sharon has created another generation of resistance that will not know
the notion of reconciliation or have hope for peaceful co-existence.
The US and Israel will torture the
word terrorism for months and years to come, but the Palestinian resistance,
armed and otherwise, that the Palestinians will embark on for years to
come will be all the more legitimate and justified given the terror of
37 year of military occupation and 18 months of aggression led by an Israeli
war-criminal cabinet. Frankly, I do not think that Palestinians will give
a damn from now on how the powers-to-be term their struggle.
And as for the suicide bombings that
Sharon has bluffed the world into believing he is stopping with his aggression,
well, painfully they will increase, to the disliking of all, even those
under the occupation. More and more Palestinians will now equate life and
death and undertake actions that reflect such a mental and physical condition.
Our Palestinian brothers and sisters
within Israel have taken to the streets today in commemoration of LAND
DAY and to call for an end to the latest Israeli aggression.
No one here is surprised at Sharon's
actions or the US' pitifully inaction. But we wonder where is the Israeli
public? Where are those that know damn well that when all is over and done
they are going to live with us, happily or not? Do they know that their
silence will create an amount of hate that will need decades to repair?
Do they care? Can they not see a people in desperation? Do they not have
limits to their personal involvement in humiliating a whole people? Do
they not fear their children's lives as they rampage Palestinian cities?
As for Arafat, Sharon has put Israel
in a corner. If he is killed, the ramifications in the region will bring
many black days on Israel. If he lives, the Palestinian people will have,
yet again, defeated Sharon with barely no resources.
Well, I leave to spend some time with
my daughters before becoming a prisoner of the occupation...
Sam B. Saturday, March 30 2002 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
March 31, 2002
Dear Friends
Since all of you are worried and some
send me a lot of emails that I can not answer all but I will now in the
last week I have been in Ramallah, Palestine's temporary capital.
The situation is fucked up. Arafat
could be killed anytime and the Israeli army is going crazy killing, massacres
all the shit in the world since Adam is now in Ramallah.
They attack every hospital and search
and destroy. All ambulances can not move unless they call the Israeli army
which means any injured people are dead.
In the beginning there was some light
resistance but every Palestinian bullet has a tank shell respond.
The journalists are being asked to
leave which we did not coz if we do that means holocaust in Ramallah without
coverage. They started with taking media buildings. We have been kicked
out.
This day a bank was robbed by the Israeli
army. Palestinian poor policemen like traffic police were slaughtered.
Every policeman is a target.
There is no water, electricity nor
telephones except for places far from downtown and far from president Arafat's
office and finally I got Internet so I emailed you my friends.
Food is now a very big problem. People
who need hospital have to go to the moon. I feel so sad and angry if this
continues people will die starving and more Ramallah is isolated for 4
days with 24 hours curfew. The Israeli speakers say,
"there is a curfew and whoever goes
out of his house will be killed"
Events are developing and Sharon will
not stop whatever happens and the Palestinian people now are in danger.
Genocide, war crimes and no respect for medical staffs or media personalities,
even a cameraman was shoot in his jaw.
I wish this will end soon but it does
not seem so. I went today to a house were 22 people live in. Most are children
in one room were the army controlled all their building.
Tanks are more than cars in Ramallah
and anyway all the cars we can see are smashed.
I am fine do not be worried. I miss
you all. I love you all and I promise to be careful and not stupid.
With love, Ahmad
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I'm here in Aida Refuge Camp outside
of Bethlehem. Bethlehem is apparently under siege. H. is in Ramallah at
the compound with Arafat and was just heard on a Palestinian TV channel.
There are apparently about 50 internationals in the compound. Tension is
very high here.
Earlier in the day we heard that tanks
had surrounded Bethlehem. We heard also that Arafat has vowed not to leave
and has his gun and said he would become a martyr.
There were two events in Bethlehem
yesterday -- we marched, about 80 internationals, to Beit Jala and confronted
Israeli soldiers in tanks. Later in the day there was a huge march to angle
Square with hundreds of people.
Today, Eid (Easter), we joined hundreds
of people in Beit Sahour and marched to the center where Palestinian officials
made speeches and children burned an Israeli flag from the roof of a building.
We are going now to our Palestinians
families in the camp and expect some heavy Israeli attacks tonight. Will
write again as soon as I can.
Gale T.
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We got a call from our friend Tzaporah
(a Jewish American woman from Minneapolis) at 3 a.m. this morning. She
is in Ramallah, where the Israelis have Arafat's compound surrounded and
are shelling him. She is only a few houses away. She was sitting on the
floor whispering. She told my husband how the Palestinian women and children
are trying to escape from Ramallah, and soldiers in jeeps chase them and
snipers shoot at them.
The snipers have taken over the rooftops
and are shooting anyone that moves, women and children included. The Palestinians
are running out of food. The Israelis have shut off the electricity. They
won't let anyone leave.
Anyone who ventures onto the street
is shot at. Tzaporah has been shot at. All this, while they/we demand that
Arafat put an end to the violence. The hypocrisy of it leaves me stuttering
with rage. The Israelis are firing their tanks into the compound, and going
room to room, shooting with automatic weapons. There are perhaps 50 "internationals"
in there, trying to shield the Palestinians.
The Israelis announced a few minutes
ago that in one hour they will storm the compound. We believe they mean
to kill Arafat. If they do, there will be no stopping the war. Many Palestinians
didn't much like Arafat before this escalation, but if the Israelis kill
him, Arafat will be, as a Palestinian friend of ours put it, "what Jesus
is to the Christians."
CNN has been showing suicide bomb footage
nonstop, but there isn't a word about how they're mowing down civilians
in Ramallah. The suicide bombings are shown as a freak of nature, without
context, with no explanation of the utter despair and overwhelming anger
that drives such an act.
I cannot bear to listen to the inarticulate
jingoism of Bush, but was shocked that he referred to "Homeland Security"
for Israel, equating their "security" with our own. His remarks essentially
give Sharon carte blanche to commit another massacre, perhaps exceeding
the scale of those he already bears responsibility for in Sabra and Shatilla.
Is the "security" of Israel (read colonial
occupation and war crimes) worth the risk of igniting World War III?
Caitlin R.
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IT IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE HERE THERE ARE
DEMONSTRATIONS EVERY WHERE AND THEY ARE ASKING THE GOVERNMENT TO OPEN THE
DOOR FOR JIHAD SO EGYPTIANS CAN GO FIGHT THE ISRAELIS. THE ISLAMIC COLLEGE
TOLD MUBARAK THAT THEY DOD NOT CARE ABOUT HIS AGREEMENTS AND THEY WANT
THE GOVERNMET TO ALLOW THEM TO GO AND FIGHT. EGYPT 30/03/2002.
Wael. R.
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The mighty US-tax funded Israeli army
that has taken over local, private Palestinian TV channels in Ramallah
is now broadcasting hard core pornography. It started last night and is
now on again (3:45pm).
I guess this is how Israel plans to
stop suicide bombers and build healthy neighbors.
I close with two quotes sent by a friend
"The hottest places in hell are reserved
for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
-- Dante
"The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke
Sam B.
Bush is 100%
behind Israel.
CHILDREN'S
SONG FROM HELL
War on Terror
(to the tune of Frere Jacques)
War on terror
War on terror
How's by you?
How's by you?
How's by you Osama?
Did you have a trauma?
Hope it's true
Hope it's true
War on terror
War on terror
So what's new?
So what's new?
Feeling sort of bomby?
Wanna call your mommy?
Oh boo hoo
Oh boo hoo
War on terror
War on terror
Feeling blue?
Join the queue
Palestine bombed daily
Soon will be Israeli
Quite a coup
Quite a coup
(Sing as a round till you puke)
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Then again, maybe things
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