"U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaking in Rome on Tuesday, said that an Israeli attack was an "apparently deliberate targeting" of the UNIFIL post. The victims included observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland."
This was, of course, a terrible thing to happen, but it was far from deliberate. The UN observers were in a combat area, and these things happen in combat areas. Israel issued an apology for this event - Israel has too much integrity to apologize for something they know they were right about.
Now, let's look at who made this comment.
July 26, 2006 "STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Swedish government knew in 2000 that
Saddam Hussein's government demanded kickbacks from companies participating in the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program, officials and news reports said Tuesday.
Anders Kruse, head of the (Swedish) Foreign Ministry's legal division, said Sweden had forwarded the information to the U.N. committee in charge of sanctions and was told the extra fees were widely known."
This proves that the UN, and Koffi Annan, knew what was going on. So, here we have a corrupt leader, of a corrupt organization, accusing Israel of purposely targeting some of it's people, while trying to protect itself from continued attacks by terrorists.
Kofi Annan needs to look in a mirror, point his finger, and say "You are guilty of apparently deliberate targeting of Iraqi citizens, for greed."
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
History by television: The dumbing of America
Yesterday, while standing in the checkout line of the grocery store, I overheard the conversation between the checker, and the young guy in front of me. The checker was commenting on how everyone that had passed through her stand had banana's.
She and the young man chuckled over the trend, and then the young man shared some information he had just learned. He told her about how he had watched the Three Stooges the previous night, and that in one scene they noticed some bananas, and were perplexed over this odd yellow fruit.
He went on to tell her that their interest was because nobody had really seen bananas before, they were new to the US.
At this point, I was intrigued that this young man confused farcical with factual. And I decided to look into this a little more, since I knew his statement was just a little, well, wrong.
In 1871, a railroad across Costa Rica was built by a Brooklynite named Minor Keith. He planted banana trees as he built his railroad, and imported bananas into the US. By 1898, Americans were consuming 16 million bunches a year.
The Three Stooges act started in the 1920's, nearly fifty years after bananas made their appearance in the US. So they would have been well aware of the banana.
It was a sad moment, to see that someone was deriving his history from a tv show, and one that was designed for silliness, at that. It was more disturbing that he felt so sure of his deduction that he shared it as fact publicly. If the checker has any sense, she'll question his info, and do the research. If not, she'll share it with others, who'll share it with others, and so on, until it becomes folklore.
And maybe one day we'll find it entered in Snopes.
She and the young man chuckled over the trend, and then the young man shared some information he had just learned. He told her about how he had watched the Three Stooges the previous night, and that in one scene they noticed some bananas, and were perplexed over this odd yellow fruit.
He went on to tell her that their interest was because nobody had really seen bananas before, they were new to the US.
At this point, I was intrigued that this young man confused farcical with factual. And I decided to look into this a little more, since I knew his statement was just a little, well, wrong.
In 1871, a railroad across Costa Rica was built by a Brooklynite named Minor Keith. He planted banana trees as he built his railroad, and imported bananas into the US. By 1898, Americans were consuming 16 million bunches a year.
The Three Stooges act started in the 1920's, nearly fifty years after bananas made their appearance in the US. So they would have been well aware of the banana.
It was a sad moment, to see that someone was deriving his history from a tv show, and one that was designed for silliness, at that. It was more disturbing that he felt so sure of his deduction that he shared it as fact publicly. If the checker has any sense, she'll question his info, and do the research. If not, she'll share it with others, who'll share it with others, and so on, until it becomes folklore.
And maybe one day we'll find it entered in Snopes.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Egypt promotes anti-Semitism and child martyrdom
"Egyptian cleric Sheik Muhammad Sharaf Al-Din appeared on a children's program on Al-Nas television on June 21, 2006, and told a story from Islamic tradition in which a Jewish woman tried to poison Muhammad.
After telling the story, in which the prophet of Islam is miraculously spared, the sheikh took a call from a child viewer. "Ruqaya, what did you learn from today's show?" the sheikh, Muhammad Sharaf Al-Din, asked the child. "I learned that the Jews are the people of treachery and betrayal...."Sheikh Al-Din interrupted the caller, shouting, "Allah Akbar!" Turning to the children in the studio, he instructed:
Say Allah Akbar! What did Ruqiya say? The Jews are the people of treachery and betrayal. May Allah give you success. We want mothers who teach their sons Jihad, the love of Allah and His messenger, sacrifice for the sake of Islam, and love for the countries of the Muslims. Loving the country of the Muslims. May Allah bless you, Ruqaya. That is the most beautiful thing I have heard - that the Jews are the people of treachery, betrayal, and vileness." http://www.memritv.org/default.asp
"An earlier episode (June 15, 2006) of the program for children on the same television station promoted death in the course of Jihad against "infidels." The host of the program, Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Nassar, of the Egyptian ministry of religious endowment, invited the children to "listen to a very beautiful story to learn about the courage of a child, and how, when a child is brought up in a good home, and receives proper education in faith, he loves martyrdom, which becomes like an instinct for him. He can never give it up.""
Egypt. One of the countries already boycotting Israel, seems to be joining extremist Muslims in their attacks against Israel. Egyptian President Mubarrak exudes a world view as a caring, honest person, yet allows this type of promotion to occur in his country. What kind of people would encourage their children to do what adults should be doing? What kind of people would send their children into battle?
Well, we saw the communists do it in Viet Nam. We saw Hitler forming ranks of young people in Germany. Now we see extremist Muslims doing it - not all Muslims, just those bent on world domination.
After telling the story, in which the prophet of Islam is miraculously spared, the sheikh took a call from a child viewer. "Ruqaya, what did you learn from today's show?" the sheikh, Muhammad Sharaf Al-Din, asked the child. "I learned that the Jews are the people of treachery and betrayal...."Sheikh Al-Din interrupted the caller, shouting, "Allah Akbar!" Turning to the children in the studio, he instructed:
Say Allah Akbar! What did Ruqiya say? The Jews are the people of treachery and betrayal. May Allah give you success. We want mothers who teach their sons Jihad, the love of Allah and His messenger, sacrifice for the sake of Islam, and love for the countries of the Muslims. Loving the country of the Muslims. May Allah bless you, Ruqaya. That is the most beautiful thing I have heard - that the Jews are the people of treachery, betrayal, and vileness." http://www.memritv.org/default.asp
"An earlier episode (June 15, 2006) of the program for children on the same television station promoted death in the course of Jihad against "infidels." The host of the program, Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Nassar, of the Egyptian ministry of religious endowment, invited the children to "listen to a very beautiful story to learn about the courage of a child, and how, when a child is brought up in a good home, and receives proper education in faith, he loves martyrdom, which becomes like an instinct for him. He can never give it up.""
Egypt. One of the countries already boycotting Israel, seems to be joining extremist Muslims in their attacks against Israel. Egyptian President Mubarrak exudes a world view as a caring, honest person, yet allows this type of promotion to occur in his country. What kind of people would encourage their children to do what adults should be doing? What kind of people would send their children into battle?
Well, we saw the communists do it in Viet Nam. We saw Hitler forming ranks of young people in Germany. Now we see extremist Muslims doing it - not all Muslims, just those bent on world domination.
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