THE HANDSTAND

APRIL 2007


EU and USA Governments intend increasing sanctions on Sudan's government and Seamus Heaney and Gunther Grasse open their mouths to beg for Darfur Relief. Are these authors so incredibly single minded that they cannot realise that , sanctions, casting a stone with a powerful hand, infers aggression? No government can be said to have the right to guide another one since George Bush and Tony Blair took power into their irresponsible hands.

The fuss about Angela Merkel's "secret" discussions behind the European Union reflect her childhood years in East Germany, as her father gathered people in their homefor secret discussion on the possibilities of re-uniting Germany. They merit the huge protest she has received against such activities.

Primarily Western Government interest are economic - "national " interests and their historic aggressions as applied in Palestine at present, and the Oil interests of all UN 's largest nations pervade our present times. The addition of nobel prize-winners to their ranks is appalling.There must surely be a general agreement about this - for sure, the whole world watches the Zionists manipulate the status quo of prominent people who could successfully censure them, using "anti-semitism" as a threat to that status - or otherwise Heaney and co would ask for Relief in Palestine.


The UN Partition Plan of 1947 recommended  that 56% of the land be set aside for a Jewish State, 42% for an Arab state  and 2% for an internationalised Jerusalem and its surrounds - the world has not said a word about the land that was seized by Zionist terrorists before the State of Israel was proclaimed on 14 May 1948.  Through a series of  shocking massacres, the territory assigned to the Jews suddenly became 77%  resulting in more than 750,000 Palestinians being forcibly expelled and  dispossessed of their homes, personal property and their homeland. The  Jewish State then came into being without waiting for the United Nations  Commission - prescribed in the Partition resolution - to hand authority  progressively over to the Jewish and Arab leaders for their respective  states.   And after the 1948 war, Israel declared Jerusalem its capital in  contravention of its internationally-recognised status of corpus separatum –  a status that is still recognised.  Effectively, the new state of Israel was  not only created in violation of, it continued to violate, the very  resolution which Israelis now look to as giving them sovereignty.  The Arab  state imposed by the UN Partition Plan without consultation and in  contradiction to the UN charter - which should have upheld the majority  indigenous Palestinians’ right to self-determination - has since been  deliberately and methodically whittled away by Israel, leaving nothing but  isolated non-contiguous parcels of land to some 4 million Palestinians.

Around 170,000 Palestinians remained in what became Israel, the largest  number of whom resided in the Galilee area, originally a designated part of  the Arab state under the Partition Plan.   These Palestinians also became  the victims of Israel’s land grab policy.  Over 438,000 acres, which was  more than the total Jewish land holdings at the time, were confiscated and a  further 400,000 acres were marked for confiscation.  After Israel won the  1967 war, the total territory of Palestine came under Israel’s rule. It  annexed East Jerusalem, despite the Holy City’s internationally recognised  status and began implementing its Jewish settlement program with a  vengeance.  Sonja Karkar


All these top writers are terrified of being thought anti-semitic and openly accused of it. And imagine the loss of income to all who create a market for James Joyce's Jewish book, Ulysses !!

The Zionists are busy in Africa too - there is no denying it. So take that discontented look off your face, Mr Heaney, yes, there was a free lunch for the Nobel Prize winner - but in the real world people all have thoughts of their own that nearly always concur on matters of common sense. Mr Pintermite, Bob Giltoff and Bonogood all fear the hot-rod of Judea in a history book - though ofcourse as Tony Blair said - you don't need knowledge of history to manage this stuff..................also

Bahrain's information minister talks about meeting Paul Bremer. He reports that he asked him whether he has read any book on Iraq's history, or whether he has read Hanna Batatu's book on modern Iraq. "No," said Bremer.

There is an Arab Government in Sudan and since they moved south into Sudan after the British left. There has not been anything the native Sudanese could do to alter the balance. Nor can they alter the prevailing history from centuries back of long droughts in the area.The Arabs had comandeered the Salt Trade, they came in with lorries, money and rifles. The herdsmen of Sudan had been already ruined by prevailing years of drought combined with overgrazing since the British left. A sad story that perhaps no one can remedy .
JB,Editor


AP (UAE)
08/02/2007
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, which opened with a preliminary meeting, does not have the legal authority of an international organisation and cannot impose penalties, but its main aim is to condemn leaders in history books, Mahathir said.
 

Kuala Lumpur: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad urged Iraqi insurgents yesterday to make the United States "pay a very high price" for its occupation of Iraq.

In his most provocative public remarks on the Iraq war yet, Mahathir said he wanted to "congratulate the Iraqi resistance" for successfully turning public opinion against US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "Make sure that the Americans will pay a very high price for their adventure," Mahathir said at an international anti-war conference in Kuala Lumpur. "Unfortunately, you may have to kill a lot of Americans. When the coffins go back, when the body bags are carried back to America, it will help the Americans to change their minds," Mahathir said to loud applause from 1,500 activists.

"If President Bush is willing to lead his army, but from the front, then by all means let's all go to war," he said. "But since he's not going to do that, I think we should strive with all our might to spread the new faith, the new belief that war is not an option, war is not a way of settling any dispute."

War crimes tribunal
Mahathir spoke after launching a tribunal that plans to hold trials based on complaints by Iraqis and Palestinians against world leaders including Bush, Blair, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Israeli ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, which opened with a preliminary meeting, does not have the legal authority of an international organisation and cannot impose penalties, but its main aim is to condemn leaders in history books, Mahathir said.
AP (UAE)
08/02/2007