How ironic?!

"Anti-apartheid activist Suzman dies" today: maybe it's just the cruel irony of the world that a lead anti-apartheid South African activist and thinker dies on the sixth day of the Israeli holocaust against Gazans. Or maybe she just dies of grief watching what the world had come to after her struggle for racial equality for decades.

Where's Obama in all of this?

So Obama is probably easing off some of the restrictions and sanctions placed over Cuba. Where does he stand on the Israeli genocide in Gaza again?! yea... he's the coming change, of color maybe but not in US loyalties to Israel and its destructive and hegemonic policy in the Middle East.

Israeli hesitation

Today the Israeli Army shows just how desperate they are. The toll of martyrs increases to reach at least 415 in addition to more than 2000 injured men, women, and children in Gaza. The Israeli army bombed the house of Dr. Nizar Rayyan, a high-ranking Hamas official and a condoner of human shield tactic, who refused to leave his house with his wife and children, killing Rayyan and his wife and three of his children. However, Olmert states that israel is not looking for a long-time war in Gaza belying the increasing anxiety in the Israeli ranks. Hama' missiles may be primitive but they proved to be far-reaching and effective in causing the Israeli administration to think twice about launching a land attack on Gaza, which they seem to be reluctant to start right now.

Perfecting idiocy, yet again!

Today Bush, finally and after 5 years, apologizes for the "Mission Accomplished" banner dislayed on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln carrier on which he arrived to Iraq Mrch, 2003 upon the invasion. He declares, and by "declare" I mean opens his mouth only to utter and emmit more of the nonesense he has developed an addiction for, that the banner and the speech that revolved around the message of the banner in 2003 was a mistake. A mistake. A simple *toot mistake! "I regret saying some things I shouldn't have said,'' Bush blabs. Well, I regret he saying things at all! There is nothing this sad excuse for a Yale graduate and US President should have said in the first place. It's interesting hearing him admitting to a numorous ammount of mistakes in the war on Iraq and not actually the war itself. What he is actually saying is that I am sorry for the way that we invaded Iraq and destroyed and looted the country but the concept still stands as sound and humane. He is sorry that the world CAUGHT him stealing rather than for committing robbery (so to speak of course).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20081112/pl_bloomberg/ahlrnlvfhsmc

Political Reversed Psychology

So Today is the US presidential elections!!! Yoooohoooooo!!! (ironic). Although I'm really interested in the elections from a cultural and social point of view, since the results will show how Americans have come to cope with racial and socio-economic issues and quandaries when it counts most. It's time for them to put their money (ballots) where their mouth has been for so long, paying lip service to political correctness concerning social and racial equity. But what's really interesting, on the political level that is, is the very recent and intense zionist analysis of the elections advantaging and preferencing Obama over McCain. Which seems to be very counter-mainstream considering the viscious attacks Obama was delivered because he is thought to be pro-Arabs and anti-Israel (very mistaken opinion if you ask me). Here is a good example of such a surprising opinion, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3616797,00.html (I found this on Angry Arab). So anyways, I was just thinking whether it's an honest opinion or a new strategy zionists have adopted in desperate time. After all, although the mainstream opinion has coupled McCain with Israel for so long, McCain's presidential chances have been retrograding rapidly. So maybe it is this connection that is hurting McCain's chances and the American people are finally disenchanted with Israel and it's zionist cause. If that's the case, rooting for Obama right now and giving him zionist support might just do the trick and damage Obama's (big) chances and bring McCain back into the picture. They must be really desperate to resort to such a cheap reversed psychology tactic at a time like this. I, for one, think that the zionist preference of Obama might turn out to be very true and be proven correct, nomatter how unwittingly it is made.

Universal Standards of Civilization

Universal Standards of Civilization: "Outrage as cleric weds girl, 12" : So who gets to decide what's the appropriate age for a "girl" to get married? who says it's 16, or 18, or whatever? not to mention that the rates and time of physiological and psychological growth and maturity varies according to geography, climate, social traditions, etc, is it that bad for a girl to chose to satisfy her sexual curiosity and needs within marriage lock instead of going off and getting pregnant without either a husband or anything to her name? At least we know that she isn't forced to marry (since it's against Islamic Shari'a), unlike what might happen if she reaches sexual maturity and turns to the wrong person which could result in rape or something as bad. ah PLEASE! just leave it alone and try thinking about solving ILLEGAL polygamy in the US. Why is it really Illegal and why is it practiced all the same?

Joe the Plumber has shown his "color"

Joe turns out to be a Zionist Republican: "'Joe the Plumber' Backs Claim That Obama Would Bring 'Death to Israel'". So what is so exciting about that? I don't really know except that it shows how engrained and prolifirated this political, economic, and identity attachment between the Us and Israel (Zionism) in the American society especially middle class. I think this attachement has been forged since 1948 and not about to dissalude any time soon or just because Obama has gotten this far or even gotten elected! it's naive to doom this relationship just because Obama won or even be shocked at Joe's stance since it's representative of most Americans' opinion about Israel as well. the US has been authoritarian for so long now that, even though it might be salvageable, Americans' sense of responsibility towards and solidarity with the Israeli and Zionist, against the Arab or the Muslim, has been soldified for so long and normalized.