Blog For Palestine

Seattle Arab-Americans are weak, disorganized and incapable of doing anything. This is about to change. Working with a couple of people we have drafted a plan to pull together and act on several fronts. The document will be presented tomorrow at an organizing meeting ahead of an open community meeting to be held this saturday.

Ahead of the meeting I’ve put together a website to be ready by saturday, check it out - www.seattlearabamericans.net. I know that the name is a little bit lame, but it’s the best thing I could think of…

Another big ticket item is a humanitarian aid project. There’s going to be another meeting this week to talk about this, I’ll update…

-Tineen

A protest that was planned today to take place in a suburb of Seattle to demand a cease fire has been canceled.  This is in light of some events that happened late last night where a Pakistani man went into a Jewish center and shot 6 people killing one.  The organizers of the protest felt that because of these events there might be a hostile response to the peaceful protest.

This response is very silly.  If anything these events should have made us more determined to protest.  To say that all violence is unacceptable.  To show that the logic of violence against civilians is tragic and to emphasize that Israel’s actions are no different.  Unfortunately the Seattlites decided to run and hide.  I actually don’t think it had anything to do with worrying about any conflicts at the protest.  I think the real rationale that remains unspoken is that a lot of these “organizers” are more worried about being lumped in the public eye with the shooter.

Let’s be honest, this is going to happen no matter what.  The accusation of anti-semitism are going to come to anyone that demands that Israel act in a legal and humanitarian way.  There will be racist accusations that all Arabs are violent and bloodthirsty.  There are classic tools of the pro-Zionist camp and we cannot succumb to these methods.  We need to find ways to combat them.

Anyways I’m off to slap some people on the back of the head for canceling this protest.

-Tineen

I seriously believe that Condasleeza Rice should officially change her name so that she recieves the honors she properly deserves.  From this point on everybody should refer to her as “Condasleeza Rice El Sharmouta” God knows that’s the only way I’ve managed to refer to her in the past couple of weeks.

-Tineen

As hundreds of innocent Lebanese and Palestinians civilians continue to be murdered, the San Francisco Gate took a little time today to mourn the death of an occupation soldier. I’m not sure whether I’m supposed to laugh or cry when I read something like this. The SF Gate took everything that is vile and evil about the conflict and asked us to sympathize with it.

The article relays the story of a young immigrant coming from the Ukraine five years ago to lead a better life in Israel (Oh Israel how generous you are by opening your arms to every person of the right religious identity while the indigenous people of the land languish in Refugee camps). About how he joined the army and volunteered to join units on the front lines (poor guy had a thirst, and the only thing that can quensh it was some Arab blood. About how he bravely fought and got killed while in the Lebanese village of Maroun El-Ras helping and injured comrade who was shot by the evil arabs. (I’m not sure why these violent arabs would do such a thing to lovely young soldiers especially after almost two weeks of the Israelis killing hundreds of innocent civilians and totally annihialating the Lebanon. You would think that the Israeli army would get better treatment when they invade)

Is the SF Gate actually serious. They actually dedicated an article to mourn a bloodthirsty, violent, racist, colonial soldier who was killed while in the midst of invading another country and while the rest of his army is on a murderous rampage.

-Tineen

Ali speaking about the conflict on KPFK.  Ali speaks with the moral outrage and the passion that is needed.  I am very disappointed by other arab-americans who are not capable of critisizing Israel’s barbarism fearing that they step out of line with the mainstream media.

Israeli attacks against Palestine and Lebanon continue unabated.  The actions of Israelis are by all measures barbaric.  The IDF, with the full backing of the Israeli government and the vast majority of Israeli society, have launched a murderous war aimed squarely at the civilian population of Palestine and Lebanon.

Many people are asking the question why is Israel doing this.  They answer is simple and it is something that the Israelis have no problem stating publicly.  The IDF is trying to restore it’s so-called deterence power, something that has been harmed by the success of the Lebanese resistance against the occupation in the south and by the Palestinian intifada which perserveres despite the most oppressive of Israeli measures.  What isn’t discussed is that the Israeli plan for projecting its deterence power is through the dual policy of eliminating all direct or indirect challenges to its power which it is doing directly against the Palestinian and Lebanese and which it is cooperating with the US  when it comes to Iraq, Iran and Syria.  Another critical portion of Israel’s deterrence forumlation that is revealed in the current attack against Lebanon is that Israel is building its “mad dog” image, that it will act without restraint and in the most barbaric ways against anything that threatens its supremacy.

The distinction that needs to be made is that Israeli society’s obsession with military superiority isn’t rooted in security as some might think but rather in an obsession with ethnic supremacy.  Israel is a country and society that was built on a racist ideology and as such any threats to its right to total belligerence is a threat to its nazi like superiority fantasies.  This is the reason why Israelis almost unanimously support the most vicious of attacks and the killing of massive numbers of innocent civilians since they believe this asserts Israeli racial superiority.

-Tineen