^^What is so funny about people abusing the deen to fight another one who is also abusing the deen for his own purposes?

^^^Do you have something to say about the video? :confused: if so spit it out.

AfricanOwn Killing or rather fighting only breeds more enemies and does not really slove anything. Where there is smoke there is normally a fire, however small, I don't think repressing is the answer, as these hit and runs will continue, they need to deal with it some other way.

MAshallah, looks great.

This is so not funny. Accudubililah, it is hard to keep up at this rate.

Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land {Part 1} For those who can't watch it, you can read it below: The Israeli - Palestinian conflict dominates America and news coverage of international issues. Given that news coverage is America's main source of information on the conflict. It becomes important to examine the stories the news Media are telling us. And to ask the question does the news coverage reflect the reality on the ground? Prof. Robert Jensen Journalism, University of Texas-Austin, USA. "One of the things you have to keep in mind when you are looking at how media report on something like Israeli - Palestinian conflict. It is not only understanding what is there in the story but more importantly what is not there or being left out. In that sense, absence is as vital as the presence in terms of how people make sense of the story. CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING" Alisa Solomon Journalist, The Village Voice USA The context that is often missing from the current reporting is that the Palestinian uprising is the revolt against the 34 year (actually 38) long occupation and if there is no occupation in the story then the story does not make any sense and the occupation is frequently missing. Seth Ackerman Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, USA A typical TV news reporter for example of some ABC news will show dramatic pictures of these confrontations, where Palestinians are confronting Israeli troops and the troops are responding. The most Americans donʼt understand the history of the conflict and this is an example of riots that are going on where the authorities are taking measures to crack down. What is not mentioned is the fact that these confrontations are taking place on occupied territory and the Israeli troops which are there are defending an occupation that does not have any international legitimacy. Major Stav Adivi, reserves Israeli Defense Forces, Israel. The American Media are concentration only on the violence but not on the reasons and the basic facts of occupation. Hanan Ashrawi Palestinian Legislative Council, West Bank This is not presented as an army using its arsenal against young people who are largely unarmed and who are protesting because of the occupation, the siege and total oppression over the nation. The lack of context is so dramatic that only 4% of the network news reports on the occupied west bank and Gaza strip mention that the west bank and Gaza strip are occupied. Seth Ackerman The Israeli military sends its troops into the occupied territories to defend what is considered to be an illegal occupation and when the population there resist Israel is presented as being under attack. Hanan Ashrawi They donʼt present it as Israel is the aggressor or Israel is killing people on their own land in their own homes as an occupied nation but it is presented as Israel is defending itself. Hussein Ibish American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, USA Israel's basic posture is anything but defensive. Israel is the only country in the world right now which in contravention to the UN security council resolutions maintains tens of thousands of heavily armed troops outside and inside its borders in someone elseʼs country for the sole purpose of taking their land away from them and in the process forcing them to live under the worst form of tyranny imaginable which is a foreign military dictatorship. Hanan Ashrawi The tanks, gunshipʼs, snipers are all on Palestinian land and I donʼt see why they have to protect themselves on our land if they have occupied our land. That context is always missing. So even if Israel is busy murdering people in our land it is always presented as a part of the self defense mechanism of Israel. Naom chomsky Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA When Israel in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend themselves against population aggression. You cant defend yourselves when you are militarily occupying somebody elseʼs land, call what you like it but this is not defense. Public relations works not only by controlling the content of media reports but also by making sure that some voices are never heard. The marginalization of the Israeli peace movement in the American media is an example of how this works. Seth Ackerman says It is being the point of view that of the Israeli peace movement for years that the fundamental cause of the conflict is Israeli occupation in Palestinian land and settlement policies. But that view in the United States is considered extremely marginal and you rarely see that view is put forward in the American media. Gila Svirsky Coalition of Women for a just Peace, Israel. We in the women's peace campaign Israel, organized a mass vigil of women in black and a mass march through the streets of Jerusalem with two thousand women strong both Israelis and Palestinians. Can you picture that dramatic moment of two thousand women dressed in black marching down the streets of Jerusalem so that we hung banners on the walls of the old city saying peace in three languages Hebrew, Arabic and English and Guess what IT DID'NT GET INTO THE MEDIA. Prof Neve Gordon Ta'ayush (Arab-Jewish Partnership), Israel. That is not the kind of image that the media wants to create because then all these images of Jews and Arabs working together of Palestinians wanting peace would create a kind of dissonance and would contradict that kind of message the media has been giving us for years and years, then how do u explain it? YOU CANT EXPLAIN IT.. Prof. Robert Jensen Israeli public relations machine knows that if the views and voices of Jews who disagree with its policies will become public it would be impossible to maintain the lie that any criticism towards Israel is by definition Anti-Semitic. In fact the accusation of Anti-Semitism is been Israelʼs most effective strategy in silence in descent and American journalism in particular have been targets of this tactic. Robert Fisk Journalist, The Independent, UK Any environment in which journalist or any person steps forward and starts making serious criticism of Israel, of Americas relationship with Israel, the unconditional support for Israel, the failure of any serious pressure to be put upon Israel by the united states to prevent the building of further settlements for Jews and Jews only on Arab land or any suggestions on the war between the Israelis and the Palestinians as a colonial war will be met by a definite chorus of accusations, slanderous and lying that they are that the person who brings up that subject is some form of Anti-Semite or racist and this remains the constant weapon that is used. Prof. Robert Jensen The fact that Anti-Semitism is a lie that are well in the world today makes it all the more important to differentiate between the real Anti-Semitism it needs to be condemned and opposed in its own right and its misuse as a PR strategy. Trying to scare people in the silence by conflating any criticism in the Israeli policies as Anti-Semitism. In fact the tracks of the real threat that Anti-Semitism does oppose. Robert Fisk ........Because they are Anti-Semites and there are racist in the world. And if this continued campaign of abuse against decent people and trying to shut them up by falsely accusing people of Anti-Semitism continues, the word Anti-Semitism will begin to become respectable and that is a great danger. Then the really bad guys which are around and they are people who would want burn synagogue just like they are people who would want burn the mosques will start coming of their own. Provided by: http://www.dictatorshipwatch.com/

Europe is Israel's largest market for exports, with total trade with the EU amounting to more than €25.7 billion in 2007. The European Parliament has the power to take action to put real pressure on Israel! URGENT: Please Take Action NOW! 1) Contact your MEP and ask them to take action to support Gaza. Here is a sample letter: Dear (Name of MEP), I am outraged at the current events in Gaza, where Palestinians are being killed in large numbers due to Israeli attacks. I am also shocked to learn that the Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said that "it will continue as long as necessary". As my MEP I urge you to take urgent action to oppose these attacks. I look forward to your response. Thank you, (your name) Contact Your MEP Now! Follow This LINK for contact details of your UK region's MEPs (Or for all European MEP's offices at the eurpoean parliament follow THIS LINK ) P.s. Following the campaign against the Israel-EU agreement, MEPs voted to to suspend approval for the proposed support for Israel. Jazak'Allah khair to all those who contacted them. Now your brothers and sisters need you to give a few more minutes of your time - please contact your MEP now!

When you read the statements from Israeli and US politicians, and try to match them with the pictures of devastation, there seems to be only one explanation. They must have one of those conditions, called something like "Visual Carnage Responsibility Back To Front Upside Down Massacre Disorder". For example, Condoleezza Rice, having observed that more than 300 Gazans were dead, said: "We are deeply concerned about the escalating violence. We strongly condemn the attacks on Israel and hold Hamas responsible." Someone should ask her to comment on teenage knife-crime, to see if she'd say: "I strongly condemn the people who've been stabbed, and until they abandon their practice of wandering around clutching their sides and bleeding, there is no hope for peace." The Israeli government suffers terribly from this confusion. They probably have adverts on Israeli television in which a man falls off a ladder and screams, "Eeeeugh", then a voice says, "Have you caused an accident at work in the last 12 months?" and the bloke who pushed him gets £3,000. The gap between the might of Israel's F-16 bombers and Apache helicopters, and the Palestinians' catapulty thing is so ridiculous that to try and portray the situation as between two equal sides requires the imagination of a children's story writer. The reporter on News at Ten said the rockets "may be ineffective, but they ARE symbolic." So they might not have weapons but they have got symbolism, the canny brutes. It's no wonder the Israeli Air Force had to demolish a few housing estates, otherwise Hamas might have tried to mock Israel through a performance of expressive dance. The rockets may be unable to to kill on the scale of the Israeli Air Force, said one spokesman, but they are "intended to kill". Maybe he went on: "And we have evidence that Hamas supporters have dreams, and that in these dreams bad things happen to Israeli citizens, they burst, or turn into cactus, or run through Woolworths naked, so it's not important whether it can happen, what matters is that they WANT it to happen, so we blew up their university." Or there's the outrage that Hamas has been supported by Iran. Well that's just breaking the rules. Because say what you will about the Israelis, they get no arms supplies or funding or political support from a country that's more powerful than them, they just go their own way and make all their weapons in an arts and crafts workshop in Jerusalem. But mostly the Israelis justify themselves with a disappointing lack of imagination, such as the line that they had to destroy an ambulance because Hamas cynically put their weapons inside ambulances. They should be more creative, and say Hamas were planning to aim the flashing blue light at Israeli epileptics in an attempt to make them go into a fit, get dizzy and wander off into Syria where they would be captured. But they prefer a direct approach, such as the statement from Ofer Schmerling, an Israeli Civil Defence official who said on al-Jazeera, "I shall play music and celebrate what the Israeli Air Force is doing." Maybe they could turn it into a huge nationalfestival, with decorations and mince pies and shops playing "I Wish We Could Bomb Gaza Every Day". In a similar tone Dov Weisglas, Ariel Sharon's chief of staff, referred to the siege of Gaza that preceded this bombing, a siege in which the Israelis prevented the population from receiving essential supplies of food, medicine, electricity and water, by saying, "We put them on a diet." It's the arrogance of the East End gangster, so it wouldn't be out of character if the Israeli Prime Minister's press conference began: "Oh dear or dear. It looks like those Palestinians have had a little, er, accident. All their buildings have been knocked down – they want to be more careful, hee hee." And almost certainly one of the reasons this is happening now is because the government wants to appear hard as it wants to win an election. Maybe with typical Israeli frankness they'll show a party political broadcast in which Ehud Olmert says, "This is why I think you should vote for me", then shows film of Gaza and yells: "Wa-hey, that bloke in the corner is on FIRE." And Condoleezza Rice and her colleagues, and the specially appointed Middle East Peace Envoy, could then all shake their heads and say: "Disgraceful. The way he's flapping around like that could cause someone to have a nasty accident." Here

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt a country where 'the idea of service has simply ceased to exist' There was a day when we worried about the "Arab masses" – the millions of "ordinary" Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut – and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the Middle East. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his people? And now – after three decades of Hosni Mubarak – can Mubarak (or "La Vache Qui Rit", as he is still called in Cairo) restrain the anger of his people? The answer, of course, is that Egyptians and Kuwaitis and Jordanians will be allowed to shout in the streets of their capitals – but then they will be shut down, with the help of the tens of thousands of secret policemen and government militiamen who serve the princes and kings and elderly rulers of the Arab world. Egyptians demand that Mubarak open the Rafah crossing-point into Gaza, break off diplomatic relations with Israel, even send weapons to Hamas. And there is a kind of perverse beauty in listening to the response of the Egyptian government: why not complain about the three gates which the Israelis refuse to open? And anyway, the Rafah crossing-point is politically controlled by the four powers that produced the "road map" for peace, including Britain and the US. Why blame Mubarak? To admit that Egypt can't even open its sovereign border without permission from Washington tells you all you need to know about the powerlessness of the satraps that run the Middle East for us. Open the Rafah gate – or break off relations with Israel – and Egypt's economic foundations crumble. Any Arab leader who took that kind of step will find that the West's economic and military support is withdrawn. Without subventions, Egypt is bankrupt. Of course, it works both ways. Individual Arab leaders are no longer going to make emotional gestures for anyone. When Sadat flew to Jerusalem – "I am tired of the dwarves," he said of his fellow Arab leaders – he paid the price with his own blood at the Cairo reviewing-stand where one of his own soldiers called him a "Pharaoh" before shooting him dead. The true disgrace of Egypt, however, is not in its response to the slaughter in Gaza. It is the corruption that has become embedded in an Egyptian society where the idea of service – health, education, genuine security for ordinary people – has simply ceased to exist. It's a land where the first duty of the police is to protect the regime, where protesters are beaten up by the security police, where young women objecting to Mubarak's endless regime – likely to be passed on caliph-like to his son Gamal, whatever we may be told – are sexually molested by plain-clothes agents, where prisoners in the Tora-Tora complex are forced to rape each other by their guards. There has developed in Egypt a kind of religious facade in which the meaning of Islam has become effaced by its physical representation. Egyptian civil "servants" and government officials are often scrupulous in their religious observances – yet they tolerate and connive in rigged elections, violations of the law and prison torture. A young American doctor described to me recently how in a Cairo hospital busy doctors merely blocked doors with plastic chairs to prevent access to patients. In November, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm reported how doctors abandoned their patients to attend prayers during Ramadan. And amid all this, Egyptians have to live amid daily slaughter by their own shabby infrastructure. Alaa al-Aswani wrote eloquently in the Cairo paper Al-Dastour that the regime's "martyrs" outnumber all the dead of Egypt's wars against Israel – victims of railway accidents, ferry sinkings, the collapse of city buildings, sickness, cancers and pesticide poisonings – all victims, as Aswani says, "of the corruption and abuse of power". Opening the Rafah border-crossing for wounded Palestinians – the Palestinian medical staff being pushed back into their Gaza prison once the bloodied survivors of air raids have been dumped on Egyptian territory – is not going to change the midden in which Egyptians themselves live. Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the Hizbollah secretary general in Lebanon, felt able to call on Egyptians to "rise in their millions" to open the border with Gaza, but they will not do so. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the feeble Egyptian Foreign Minister, could only taunt the Hizbollah leaders by accusing them of trying to provoke "an anarchy similar to the one they created in their own country." But he is well-protected. So is President Mubarak. Egypt's malaise is in many ways as dark as that of the Palestinians. Its impotence in the face of Gaza's suffering is a symbol of its own political sickness. Independent

You are confused, just re-read waaxad tiri in the last two post. Yes it is a country, it only has one clan, but other somalis can come too, oh and it will have a the blue flag (you do know that belongs to and will stay with Somali right?) You should go back to the drawing board before you cheer.

Originally posted by General Duke: ^^lool. Ms SOL Warlord, get a map and check how large Puntland is. Bari, Nugaal, Mudug, Sanaag, SOOL together makes up the largets land area of Somalia and maybe even more than 40%. One family dominates this region a single Sub -clan Thus we need neither the British colonial history nor even your little triangle This is our country with access to the Red Sea & Indian Ocean. Any more questions dear.. Yes one more QuestION: This is a COuntry miya, with one SINGLE SUB-clan? Why thank you for that and no more qustions.

^^As usual, when you can't answer waax laag weyediyo, you start barking up other trees. Please nacnac laa faadiso, adiga iyo ciid kaal toon waax kama tiriyo. Bring who you want to help you out. When you make it your business to defend all kinds of quudun and qashabiir you cannot really expect people to respect you. You and your likes kab taa xaar kale ayaa daanta. No one from Yey camp can speak about SHAME, you don't know the meaning. :rolleyes:

LOOOL @ Ngonge

strengthening of WHICH state? Puntland or Somalia. Where do you get this 40% you have been throwing around all week? did it appear from thin air, like your 97% Yey supporters. Ruunta sheeka, you are celebrating because you want to show others you are united and behind your home boy, you want to show that despite lossing, you have not lost. Only it looks like you are gloating at the expenses of others.

DUKEY: If you want a picture, don't be too scared to ask, it is okay, I understand that you've been too busy as a cheerleader to do your GCSEs. JB fighting never solves anything, just look at where it go Somalia.

How long will these celebrations last ya Duke? Too much love can kill him you know. LOOOL @ He emanates the elixir of peace

^^You are where you started..., before you started speaking in double tongues that is dee

Duke has gone mad, another 360degree switch. Aah here comes Puntiland with its many leaders, the bold, strong heros, they are taking them all back to their home.

@ Che Seems reasonable enough though, she does not know you, anything could happen in the house, and it is bad practise and unislamic. When she was in the car, did she sit with her face towards the window ignoring you LOL P.s. Maybe her husband is very protective with special orders.

Israel's continuing massive military strikes on Gaza are an outrage that the international community must not allow to continue (Reports, 30 December). Palestinian rocket attacks that traumatise the lives of communities in southern Israel are also utterly unacceptable. Both sides must cease fire. Israel's actions are disproportionate and counterproductive to achieving either security for the people of Israel or peace in the Middle East. Physicians for Human Rights (Israel) have warned that "targeting of civilians and of medical facilities is a breach of international humanitarian law. The targets chosen by the Israeli military include also clearly civilian installations." Gaza is one of the poorest and most densely populated places on Earth. For the past two years, the blockade and previous Israeli strikes had already disrupted electricity supplies and access to clean water. Even before the current attack, Gaza's health system was near collapse. Hospitals are short of medicines, blood and essential equipment. Only half of Gaza's 58 ambulances are functioning. We call on the international community, and especially the high contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva convention, to intervene to stop the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire by all parties and for an embargo on the supply of military equipment to both sides. The international community must also assert unambiguously that there is no military route to peace in the Middle East and redouble its efforts to create a secure and independent state of Palestine alongside a secure and independent Israel. Richard Burden MP, Lyn Brown MP, Peter Bottomley MP, Sir Gerard Kaufman MP, John Hemming MP, Martin Linton MP, Karen Buck MP, Nia Griffith MP, Natascha Engel MP, Martin Salter MP, Paul Flynn MP, Rob Marris MP, Andy Love MP, David Drew MP, Neil Gerrard MP, Hywel Francis MP, Clive Efford MP, Ian Taylor MP, Phyllis Starkey MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Andy Slaughter MP, Jim Devine MP, John McDonnell MP, Frank Cook MP, Tom Levitt MP, Michael Connarty MP, Chris McCafferty MP, Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Simon Hughes MP, Danny Alexander MP, Sarah Teather MP, Madeleine Moon MP -------------------- We write to express our disgust, condemnation and concern at the attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip killing over 350 people - including women and children. There is little doubt civilian deaths will continue to rise as Israel shows no signs of stopping its offensive on the people of Gaza. The situation is bleak, with hospitals running out of medical supplies as the Israeli blockade continues to suffocate the people of Gaza. The region's power and infrastructure networks are on the verge of collapse with more than 85% of Gazans depending on UN food aid - which is at critically low levels. We call on the Scottish and UK governments to do all they can to pressure the Israeli government to halt attacks on the Gazan people who are being collectively punished for the actions of a minority. While we believe that Israel has the right to defend itself and its civilians from rocket attacks, it cannot be allowed to collectively punish, maim and kill innocent Palestinian civilians in the process. When the assault first began, Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak said the action would not be short and would become increasingly intense. We believe that a strong statement of condemnation of Israel's actions must be forthcoming from world leaders and political institutions before the air attacks escalate and ground troops sent into Gaza. We urge our leaders to do all they can to halt the killing of innocent lives and send a strong message of condemnation to the Israelis for their current attacks. Mohammad Sarwar MP, Katy Clark MP, Angus Robertson MP (Westminster SNP Leader), Jim McGovern MP, Jim Sheridan MP, Russell Brown MP, Mike Weir MP, Angus MacNeil MP, Anne Moffat MP, Tom Clarke MP, Mark Lazarowicz MP, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Alyn Smith MEP, Pauline McNeill MSP, Sandra White MSP, Jamie Hepburn MSP and 23 others Source: Open letters to The Guardian Has your MP voiced outrage over the infuriating Israeli bombardment of the innocent people of GAZA? If not, then you really should get cracking and call them up, demanding that they condemn the Israeli aggression and call for the government and the international community to stop this outrage immediately.

LOOOL @ jilbajoogsi your somali is naag! LOL I aint heard that word for yonks! LOL.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL ^^^ HAHAh That is creepy, Facebook is not for anyone who is over 30ish, even you should not be on there! Lol. LOL AAliyah has you under control. LOL

^^did not know charity was required on their part. Hello xabibty. Recovered from all those exams yet? Ngonge, green eyed....

^^^Do what I do, force other to fall in love with walking, soon enough you will have walking buddies like I do.

^^^By yourself? :eek: Did you take a weapon with you?? Careful.