The White House Moron Stumbles to the Finish

The Humiliation of America

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

“Early Friday morning the secretary of state was considering bringing the cease-fire resolution to a UNSC vote and we didn’t want her to vote for it,” Olmert said. “I said ‘get President Bush on the phone.’ They tried and told me he was in the middle of a lecture in Philadelphia. I said ‘I’m not interested, I need to speak to him now.’ He got down from the podium, went out and took the phone call.”

"Let me see if I understand this,” wrote a friend in response to news reports that Israeli Prime Minister Olmert ordered President Bush from the podium where he was giving a speech to receive Israel’s instructions about how the United States had to vote on the UN resolution. “On September 11th, President Bush is interrupted while reading a story to school children and told the World Trade Center had been hit--and he went on reading. Now, Olmert calls about a UN resolution when Bush is giving a speech and Bush leaves the stage to take the call. There exists no greater example of a master-servant relationship.”

Olmert gloated as he told Israelis how he had shamed US Secretary of State Condi Rice by preventing the American Secretary of State from supporting a resolution that she had helped to craft. Olmert proudly related how he had interrupted President Bush’s speech in order to give Bush his marching orders on the UN vote.

Israeli politicians have been bragging for decades about the control they exercise over the US government. In his final press conference, President Bush, deluded to the very end, said that the whole world respects America. In fact, when the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony.

Responding to mounting reports from the Red Cross and human rights organizations of Israel’s massive war crimes in Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted 33-1 on January 12 to condemn Israel for grave offenses against human rights.

On January 13, the London Times reported that Israelis have gathered on a hillside overlooking Gaza to enjoy the slaughter of Palestinians in what the Times calls “the ultimate spectator sport.”

It is American supplied F-16 fighter jets, helicopter gunships, missiles, and bombs that are destroying the civilian infrastructure of Gaza and murdering the Palestinians who have been packed into the tiny strip of land. What is happening to the Palestinians herded into the Gaza Ghetto is happening because of American money and weapons. It is just as much an attack by the United States as an attack by Israel. The US government is complicit in the war crimes.

Yet in his farewell press conference on January 12, Bush said that the world respects America for its compassion.

The compassion of bombing a UN school for girls?

The compassion of herding 100 Palestinians into one house and then shelling it?

The compassion of bombing hospitals and mosques?

The compassion of depriving 1.5 million Palestinians of food, medicine, and energy?

The compassion of violently overthrowing the democratically elected Hamas government?

The compassion of blowing up the infrastructure of one of the poorest and most deprived people on earth?

The compassion of abstaining from a Security Council vote condemning these actions?

And this is a repeat of what the Israelis and Americans did to Lebanon in 2006, what the Americans did to Iraqis for six years and are continuing to do to Afghans after seven years. And still hope to do to the Iranians and Syrians.

In 2002 I designated George W. Bush “the White House Moron.” If there ever was any doubt about this designation, Bush’s final press conference dispelled it.

Bush talked about connecting the dots, but Bush has failed to connect any dots for eight solid years. “Our” president was a puppet for a cabal led by Dick Cheney and a handful of Jewish neoconservatives, who took control of the Pentagon, the State Department, the National Security Council, the CIA, and “Homeland Security.” From these power positions, the neocon cabal used lies and deception to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, pointless wars that have cost Americans $3 trillion, while millions of Americans lose their jobs, their pensions, and their access to health care.

“These obviously very difficult economic times,” Bush said in his press conference, “started before my presidency.”

Bush has plenty of liberal company in failing to connect a $3 trillion dollar war with hard times. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities blames Bush’s tax cut, not the wars, for “the fiscal deterioration.”

Bush told the White House Press Corps, a useless collection of non-journalists, that the two mistakes of his invasion of Iraq were: (1) Putting up the “mission accomplished” banner on the aircraft carrier, which, he said, “sent the wrong message,” and (2) the absence of the alleged weapons of mass destruction that he used to justify the invasion.

Although Bush now admits that there were not any such weapons in Iraq, Bush said that the invasion was still the right thing to do.

The deaths of 1.25 million Iraqis, the displacement of 4 million Iraqis, and the destruction of a country’s infrastructure and economy are merely the collateral damage associated with “bringing freedom and democracy” to the Middle East.

Unless George W. Bush is the best actor in human history, he truly believes what he told the White House Press Corps.

What Bush did not explain is how America is respected when its people put a moron in charge for eight years.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.

taken from www.counterpunch.org

"ORANG ISLAM HARUS BUKA MATA! "..BUKAN SIBUK DENGAN HIBURAN DAN BERGADUH SESAMA SENDIRI!

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Wednesday 31 December 2008 - 16:19:31 Artikel ini ditulis bagi mendesak pihak kerajaan membuat penilaian dan mengkaji semula kebenaran pergerakan Freemason di Malaysia dan juga jika perlu Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan mengeluarkan fatwa menyenai penyertaan kaum muslim terutamanya bangsa Melayu di Malaysia menyertai pergerakan ini.

Sejarah awal Freemason dan matlamat pergerakan

Freemason adalah sebuah organisasi yang sangat bersifat rahsia. Freemason dicetuskan oleh para Ksatria Templar (Pejuang Salib) yang pulang ke Eropah dari Jurusalem setelah kalah dari perang salib.

Untuk bacaan lanjut di Wikipedia sila lawati link ini [link] dan buku tulisan Harun Yahya di [link] (buku boleh juga di download di link ini).

Secara ringkasnya, ada pelbagai teori tentang sejarah awal pergerakan ini, antaranya adalah apabila Freemason dikaitkan dengan Kesatria Templar atau sekumpulan kecil pasukan kesatria yang telah memerangi tentara Islam di Jerusalem.

Terdapat pelbagai legenda dan teori lain mengenai asal-usul kewujudan Freemason. Ada yang mengaitkannya dengan kultus Iris-Osiris pada zaman Mesir kuno. Ada pula yang mengatakan bahawa ia ditubuhkan pada abad ke-2 SM oleh ahli kitab atau pendeta Yahudi daripada mazhab Essene.

Sesetengah ilmuan Freemason berpendapat bahawa Freemason menjejak akar umbi mereka kepada pembinaan Haikal Sulaiman (King Solomon's Temple) di Jerusalem pada 967 S.M. Asas cerita itu tertumpu kepada seseorang yang bernama Hiram Abiff yang mendakwa mengetahui rahsia Haikal Sulaiman.

Maka berdasarkan teori-teori asal-usul ini, pendapat umum mempercayai selain daripada pergerakkan ini menjalankan aktiviti-aktiviti kepentingan Yahudi dan zionis yang berselindung di sebalik sosial, ada juga mempercayai bahawa matlamat akhir pergerakan ini adalah untuk membina semula Kuil Nabi Sulaiman di atas robohan Masjidil Aqsa. (rujuk: [link] ).

Aktiviti ritual dan kerahsiaannya

Pergerakan ini konon tidak membenarkan perbincangan mengenai hal agama dan politik dibawa ke dalam setiap perjumpaannya di 'Lodge Manson'nya (rumah pergerakan), kesemua bentuk Freemason berkongsi moral dan metafizik yang sama dan yang biasanya juga termasuk pengisytiharan perlembagaan terhadap kepercayaan kepada satu Tuhan Yang Maha Agung.
(sumber: wikipedia).

Apa sebenarnya yang berlaku dan bagaimanakah ritual-ritual mereka menjadi satu kerahsiaan yang amat kuat, sehinggakan semasa perjumpaan dijalankan pekerja-pekerja biasa di rumah pergerakan tidak dibenarkan melihat dan semua pintu dan tingkap ditutup rapat. Ada pendapat yang mengaitkan ritual-ritual mereka bersumberkan amalan kuno Yahudi. Namun begitu, pada masa sekarang ini terdapat banyak amalan ritual mereka ini yang telah tersebar luas di dalam youtube, para pembaca boleh lawati contoh di link ini: [link] dan banyak lagi link video di bawah yang membincangkan tentang apa itu sebenarnya freemason.

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Adakah pergerakan ini mengamal ritual-ritual sulit yang bertentang dengan agama Islam, maupun agama lain (ini kerana sejak dari dahulu, pihak Gereja Kristian juga amat menentang pergerakan ini)? Walau apapun berdasarkan maklumat yang ada, kerajaan Malaysia dan pihak berkuasa Agama Islam Malaysia hendaklah menjalankan risikan dan siasatan terperinci tentang aktiviti mereka ini, bukan sahaja dari segi ritual tetapi lebih penting matlamat pergerakan ini.


Bolehkah Ummat Islam di Malaysia menyertai Freemason?

PEWARIS MALAYSIA amat percaya bahawa freemason mempunyai ritual amalan dan bermatlamat bertentangan dengan Agama Islam, terlalu banyk komen-komen dan dokumentari negetif mengenai freemason yang secara jelas bertentangan dengan Agama Suci Agama Islam, antaranya kita boleh lihat di link video rencana di bawah;

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Seorang Ulama' yang prominen, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty (pensyarah kanan dan ilmuan Islam di Institut Islam Toronto, Ontario, Kanada) mengatakan:

"As far as I know, Freemasonry is a secret organization whose beliefs and practices are totally kept confidential except from those who are initiated into it. They have levels of secrets which are not divulged to those who are at lower levels. A Muslim should never fall prey or give allegiance to something which cannot be scrutinized by the firm criteria of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Whoever joins Freemasonry is like a person who writes a blank check; by doing so he agrees to give allegiance blindly to an authority to comply with their wishes no matter what they are.

No Muslim can surrender his will unconditionally to anyone but Allah. If anyone has done so, he is guilty of the most blatant violation namely shirk (associating partners with Allah). Allah says: "Do they have partners beside Allah who shall prescribe for them rituals that Allah has not sanctioned." (Ash-Shura: 21)"

Delving into the core of Freemasonry and its nature, we would like also to cite the following:

"The Society of Freemasons is a secret organization with aims which are never officially declared in public. It engulfs itself with a thick curtain of secrecy to the extent that any new recruit gives a most solemn oath not to reveal its secrets. He is made fully aware that he reveals these secrets at peril to his life. Admission to the society is not open to everyone. In fact, the Society of Freemasons recruits its members after careful study of their characters and positions. It also tries hard to enlist in its membership kings, presidents, ministers, leading politicians and highly influential people. Such people are given honorary membership that keeps them at the periphery of the society, which means that they do not share in its decision making and they are not let into its secrets. Only those who are prepared to work with dedication for the aims of the society are made aware of these secrets. This, too, after they have passed certain tests and been promoted from one degree to another in the hierarchy of the society.

What attracts people to join the Freemasonry is the assurance of mutual help which its members pledge themselves to give on joining. A Freemason is expected to give unlimited support to other members of the society. Members have certain signs by which they come to know each other, such as the way they shake hands with other people and certain additions in their signatures on letters, etc. In countries where Freemasonry is well established, this can be of great advantage to any member who shows dedication to the cause.

A number of people have written about the secret aims of the Society of Freemasons. These were largely ex-members who left the society after finding that they could not reconcile themselves to its aims and purposes. The majority of these cases were in countries where the society was not able to promote itself well, which, in turn, limited its membership. This forced it to promote certain members to higher degrees, which enabled them to know more of the secrets of the society. Through such people we know that the society has a very strict hierarchy that keeps members at a low degree until they have passed a very severe test of loyalty and dedication. We also know that the society serves the aims of world Jewry and derives its name from that particular purpose. A "mason" is a builder, and the Society of Freemasons aims to rebuild the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem after destroying Al-Aqsa Mosque because the Jews allege that the mosque has been built on the site of the destroyed temple.

Everything that furthers the interest of the Jews and promotes their position in the world is undertaken by the society. The cover of absolute secrecy and its strict hierarchy enables it to make use of the positions and influence of its non-Jewish members to serve the Jewish cause. We have to understand that many of its members work for the society trusting that they only serve the causes of liberty, equality and justice. They remain unaware that they simply serve the cause of giving the Jews supremacy in world affairs. Freemasonry has over the years earned itself a number of enemies, most notably the Catholic Church.

In view of all this, there is no doubt that if a Muslim joins the Society of Freemasons, he contravenes the teachings of Islam. The aims, policy and practices of this society are against the principles of Islam and violate its laws. For example, Islam believes in maintaining justice among all people, regardless of race, color, family, position or creed. A Muslim must be fair to all people. Islam forbids favoritism, nepotism and discrimination on any basis. Freemasons favor one another on the basis of membership of their society.

Islam respects other religions. Freemasonry deceives its members into thinking that they further the cause of a better humanity when they are actually furthering the interests of those who seek to give the Jews supremacy over all peoples of the world. Islam is the final message from Allah to man. It is the religion that supercedes all past divine messages, including Judaism.

Freemasonry seeks to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to rebuild the Temple of Solomon in its place. How can a Muslim, then, join such a society?

Islam believes in open methods and declared aims and orders its followers to be always truthful and to follow a straight path. Freemasonry shrouds itself in secrecy to cover its wicked practices. If its aims were truly to promote a better humanity, it would have come out into the open and declared its aims and policies. Only evil cloaks itself in secrecy because it wants to hide its repugnant nature."(sumber link: [link] )

Terdapat banyak lagi pendapat para ulama' yang mengharamkan orang Islam menyertai freemason atas alasan bertentangan dengan ajaran Islam dan aqidah umat Islam. Namun begitu jangan terpedaya, terdapat juga orang-orang yang kononnya 'bergerak ilmuan Islam' menghalalkan penyertaan ummat Islam di dalam pergerakan ini, sebagai contoh sebuah artikel bertajuk 'Islam and Freemasonry' oleh W.Bro. Shaikh Hatim Fidahussein Nakhoda PM, link: [link]
Pendapat-pendapat golongan ini dibuat demi kepentingan mereka sebagai ahli freemason!

Freemason di Malaysia dan rantau Asia Tenggara

Freemason pernah menjadi isu di Malaysia apabila Haji Sulaiman Palestin bertanding jawatan dalam UMNO. Ada dakwaan pemimpin tertentu ditaja atau menjadi ahli Freemson untuk melonjak naik dalam hierarki negara. Awal 1980-an isu ini kembali senyap dalam persidangan UMNO.

Di Malaysia, cawangan Freemason beroperasi sebagai Loji Besar Daerah Timur Tengah (District Grand Lodges of Middle East atau DGLME). DGLME secara rasmi bermula di Kuala Lumpur pada 20 Oktober 1916. Ia dipanggil Timur Tengah kerana pada awal kurun ke-19, setiap yang berada antara timur India tidak termasuk timur jauh (Hong Kong, China dan Jepun) dikenali sebagai Timur Tengah. Hanya pada kurun ke-20, istilah Timur Tengah merujuk kepada negara Arab dan Teluk. Cawangan ini bagaimanapun tidak mahu mengubah namanya kerana sudah biasa dengan nama tersebut dan tradisinya.

DGLME ini meliputi bandar yang luas termasuk bandar lain di rantau ini:

Singapura: 3 loji
Kuala Lumpur: 3 loji
Pulau Pinang: 1 loji
lpoh: 1 loji
Kuantan: 1 loji
Kuching: 2 loji
port Dickson: 1 loji
Port Klang: 1 loji
Taiping: 1 loji
Kota Kinabalu: 1 loji
Bangkok: 3 loji
Pattaya: 1 loji

Sumber: wikipedia

Kalau diperhatikan hanya negeri Kelantan dan Terengganu sahaja yang tidak mempunyai cawangan Freemason. PEWARIS MALAYSIA agak khuatir dengan kukuhnya pergerakan ini bertapak di Malaysia sejak sekian lama. Bahkan terdapat laporan bahawa terdapat juga orang-orang Islam atau Melayu menyertai pergerakan ini secara aktif atau sulit. Bahkan masa ini ada juga laporan kalangan ahlinya yang beragama Islam daripada golongan ternama, professional dan pemimpin.

Maka kita dapat melihat pembawakan isu-isu terkini semasa samaada secara kebetulan atau dirancang, bertepatan dengan matlamat dan ideology pergerakan ini, sebagai contoh hak persamaan antara Agama, dialog antara Agama, hak persamaan kaum dan banyak lagi. PEWARIS MALAYSIA khuatir dan berprasangka buruk bahawa isu-isu ini dirancang secara sulit atau digerakkan secara sulit oleh pergerakan ini ataupun pergerakan yang berhubungkait dengan mereka bagi mengucar kacirkan keamanan Negara.

Kerajaan dan Majlis Fatwa harus mengkaji dan mengeluarkan Fatwa bahawa umat Islam di Malaysia tidak boleh menyertai freemason atau terus mengharamkan pergerakan ini

Pergerakan freemason telah pun diharamkan di negara lain seperti Saudi Arabia, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, dan banyak lagi termasuklah Negara bukan bermajoriti umat Islam. Di Iraq seawal sebelum presiden Saddam Hussein lagi pergerakan ini telah diharamkan, namun semenjak Iraq diceroboh oleh tentera Amerika, freemason telah bertapak kembali dibawa masuk oleh Amerika di bawah naungan Grand Lodge dari Amerika.

Maka PEWARIS MALAYSIA mendesak:-

Satu kajian terperinci dijalankan oleh pihak kerajaan Malaysia tentang pergerakan ini.

Seterusnya membuat satu keputusan tegas mengenainya.

Para mufti negeri-negeri dan para ulama' di Malaysia membuat kajian dan memberi pendapat masing-masing tentang freemason.

Satu Fatwa dikeluarkan oleh Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan tentang samada umat Islam di Malaysia boleh atau tidak menyertai freemason.

Berdasarkan fatwa yang bakal dikeluarkan, mengambil tindakan segera dan tegas bagi menepati kehendak Fatwa tersebut.

Kalaulah isu Yoga yang sesetengah pihak anggap kecil (PEWARIS MALAYSIA: sentiasa menyokong penuh FATWA tersebut kerana melibatkan isu Aqidah) boleh dokeluarkan Fatwa, isu mengenai pergerakan ini telah lama sepatutnya ditangani dengan sepatutnya kerana ianya pada pendapat PEWARIS MALAYSIA bukan sahaja menyentuh isu aqidah tetapi lebih daripada itu, yang mana melibatkan perancangan sulit pihak zionis.

Sebagai penutup PEWARIS MALAYSIA amat berharap gesaan ini diambil perhatian penuh oleh pihak-pihak berkenaan.

Oleh Kamarul Irzuan Bin Hj Busu Piah, Setiausaha Agong, bagi pihak Jawatankuasa Penaja Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Warisan Ketuanan Melayu Malaysia-PEWARIS MALAYSIA (pewarismalaysia.blogspot.com)

PELANCARAN KEMPEN BOIKOT TERPILIH PRODUK YAHUDI/MENYOKONG YAHUDI - COKE, STARBUCKS DAN COLGATE DI PERINGKAT NEGARA

source: www.muslimconsumer.org.my

Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 21:24:25

SEKITAR MAJLIS SIDANG AKHBAR BAGI PRLANCARAN KEMPEN BOIKOT TERPILIH PRODUK YAHUDU/MENYOKONG YAHUDI-COKE,STARBUCKS DAN COLGATE DI SEMBANG, SEMBANG CAFE, THE MALL PADA 6 JANUARI 2008.

KENYATAAN AKHBAR BERHUBUNG PELANCARAN KEMPEN BOIKOT TERPILIH PRODUK YAHUDI/MENYOKONG YAHUDI - COKE, STARBUCKS DAN COLGATE DI PERINGKAT NEGARA

Persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia ( PPIM ) bersama NGO lain akan melancarkan Kempen Boikot Produk Terpilih Yahudi/Menyokong Yahudi – COKE,STARBUCKS,COLGATE peringkat Negara. Majlis pelancaran ini akan diadakan pada 9 Januari 2009 (Jumaat ) selepas solat Jumaat di perkarangan Masjid Negara.

Majlis Pelancaran Boikot Produk Yahudi/Berkaitan Yahudi peringkat Negara ini bertujuan bagi menggesa semua masyarakat pengguna di dalam Negara ini khususnya masyarakat pengguna Islam untuk memboikot produk terpilih milikan /menyokong Yahudi.

Ini bagi membantah kebiadapan, kezaliman Israel dan sekutunya ke atas rakyat Palestin. Masyarakat pengguna Islam di Negara ini harus turut serta dengan tidak menyokong produk terpilih ini bagi membantah kezaliman Israel dan sekutunya.

Rasional Kempen Boikot Terpilih adalah bagi memberikan kesan maksimum terhadap kempen boikot ini. Dengan menggunakan kuasa kepenggunaan iaitu dengan ‘hanya tidak membeli’ pengguna dapat melumpuhkan ekonomi syarikat terbabit dan menghantar isyarat yang jelas kepada Israel dan sekutunya Amerika Syarikat agar tidak menzalimi umat Islam di Palestin.

Kuasa Pengguna merupakan senjata terbaik dan boleh dilakukan oleh sesiapa sahaja untuk menyuarakan bantahan berhubung tindakan kebinatangan Israel dan sekutunya tanpa mengira agama dan bangsa. PPIM telah lama memboikot produk – produk ini atas dasar sikap tidak berperikemanusiaan negara mereka terhadap umat Islam.

Kita perlu bertindakbalas dengan bijak kerana bantahan melalui memorandum dan perarakan tidak akan memberikan kesan langsung kepada kaum yang zalim ini.

PPIM bersama badan NGO lain berharap masyarakat pengguna Islam akan bersatu bagi mengajar kebiadapan Israel dan sekutunya. Kain rentang berhubung juga akan dipasang di Masjid Negara pada majlis pelancaran tersebut. Umat Islam dijemput hadir bagi menjayakan pelancaran boikot terpilih produk Yahudi/menyokong Yahudi ini pada majlis pelancaran tersebut.

PPIM juga menggesa HDC menarik balik sijil halal yang diberikan kepada syarikat terbabit kerana ia ‘tidak halal’ kepada umat Islam kerana produk milikan Yahudi /menyokong Yahudi tidak sepatutnya diberi pengiktirafan dan status ‘halal’ di Negara ini.

Industri serta premis perniagaan juga wajar turut serta di dalam kempen ini dengan tidak menggunakan serta menyenaraikan produk milikan Yahudi / menyokong Yahudi di premis perniagaan mereka. Persatuan Pengusaha Restoran Muslim Malaysia (PRESMA ) telah lama tidak menjual COKE di rangkaian restoran milikan mereka bagi membantah kezaliman Israel dan sekutunya.

Pihak kerajaan dinasihatkan supaya menamatkan kontrak dengan syarikat milikan Amerika Syarikat bagi membantah kekejaman ini. Tindakan seperti ini perlu dimangkinkan dan pembabitan dengan syarikat di Negara ini perlu dihapuskan atau diminimakan semampu mungkin.

Pembabitan sepenuhnya masyarakat pengguna Islam amatlah diharapkan agar mampu untuk memberikan amaran jelas kepada Israel dan sekutunya supaya tidak terus menzalimi umat Islam.[END]

PPIM SENTIASA KONSISTEN DENGAN PERJUANGAN DAN AGENDA DEMI UMMAH. KEMPEN BOIKOT INI TELAH BERMULA DENGAN BOIKOT COKE PADA TAHUN 2002. ANTARA KOLEKSI BERITA DI LAMAN WEB PPIM BERKENAAN ISU BOIKOT (SEJAK 2004) SEPERTI : (SILA KLIK LINK)

1) http://www.muslimconsumer.org.my/ppim/ comment.php?comment.news.206
Berita No.206-ISRAEL TERUS MEMBUNUH. BOIKOT PRODUK-PRODUK YANG MENYOKONG ZIONIST LAKUKAN SEKARANG ( 28 Julai 2006 )

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Berita No.207-MASYARAKAT PENGGUNA ADA "KUASA" DAN MAMPU MENGAJAR KEBIADAPAN REGIM YAHUDI MELALUI KUASA BOIKOT PRODUK YANG MENYOKONG AGENDA YAHUDI ( 12 Ogos 2006 )

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Berita No.381-KE ARAH MEMPERKASAKAN PENGGUNA. PENGGUNA BIJAK MENJANA EKONOMI NEGARA (SARA LEE)

6) http://www.muslimconsumer.org.my/ppim/ comment.php?comment.news.484
Berita No.484-EMEL ADUAN PILIHAN-INFO : Gaza: Penjara Terbesar Dunia.( 04 January 2008 )

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Berita No.575-ADUAN PILIHAN-PETIKAN UTUSAN 26 JUN 2008-KEMENTERIAN PENGAJIAN TINGGI BENARKAN STARBUCKS BEROPERASI DI IPTA

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Berita No.613-EMEL PILIHAN-PROTOKOL KE 10 YAHUDI MENGANDUNGI 8 PERKARA..( 14 Oktober 2008 )

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Berita No.644-BOIKOT PRODUK YAHUDI BANTAH KEKEJAMAN ISRAEL DI PALESTIN DEMI MARUAH UMAT ISLAM ( 28 Disember 2008 )

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KEMPEN BERTERUSAN PPIM MENGENAI BOIKOT

1) http://www.muslimconsumer.org.my/ppim/ page.php?17
2) http://www.muslimconsumer.org.my/ppim/ yahudiboikot.html

PETIKAN BERITA BERNAMA 6 JANUARI 2009 [link]

PPIM Lancar Kempen Boikot Produk Yahudi Jumaat


KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Jan (Bernama) -- Persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia (PPIM) akan melancarkan kempen memboikot produk Yahudi secara besar-besaran di seluruh negara bermula Jumaat ini di Masjid Negara.

Setiausaha Agung PPIM Datuk Dr Ma'mor Osman berkata kempen itu bertujuan menggesa semua pengguna, termasuk umat Islam memboikot produk pengeluaran syarikat milik Yahudi.

"Kempen ini akan dijalankan bersama-sama dengan beberapa badan bukan kerajaan yang lain (NGO) termasuk Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association (MCMA), Majlis Permuafakatan Ummah (Pewaris), Persatuan Pengusaha Restoran Muslim Malaysia (PRESMA) dan Interactive Muslimah Association (Iman).

"Ini bagi membantah kebiadapan, kezaliman Israel dan sekutunya ke atas rakyat Palestin. Masyarakat pengguna Islam di negara ini harus turut serta dengan tidak menyokong produk terpilih ini bagi membantah kezaliman Israel dan sekutunya," katanya kepada pemberita di sini, Selasa.

Kempen itu adalah sebagai tanda protes serangan Israel ke atas Palestin sejak dua minggu lepas yang mengakibatkan lebih 300 rakyat Palestin terbunuh.

Dr Ma'mor berkata dalam kempen itu, PPIM akan turut menggesa Halal Industry Development Corporation (HDC) menarik balik sijil halal yang diberikan kepada syarikat-syarikat milik Yahudi kerana ia tidak sepatutnya diberi pengiktirafan dan status halal negara ini.

"Ini kerana hasil keuntungan daripada produk-produk itu digunakan untuk menzalimi rakyat negara Islam dengan mengeluarkan bom dan juga peluru," kata Dr Ma'amor.

Katanya menggunakan kuasa kepenggunaan, para pengguna dapat melumpuhkan ekonomi syarikat itu dan menghantar isyarat jelas kepada Israel dan Amerika Syarikat agar tidak menzalimi umat Islam di Palestin.

"Dengan cara ini, secara tidak langsung kita juga dapat meningkatkan produk keluaran tempatan," katanya.

-- BERNAMA

4 Cara membuang tabiat "buang masa"

Pepatah mengatakan "Angin yang sama meniup kita, ianya bergantung
kepada kita untuk melayarinya". Setiap insan mempunyai jumlah
waktu yang sama dalam sehari, iaitu 24 jam. Apa yang menentukan
kejayaan seseorang itu adalah kecekapannya dalam mengurus 24jam
seharinya.

Tabiat membuang masa, atau sering dikenali sebagai
"procrastination" adalah tabiat yang merugikan kita. Sering kali,
kita menunda-nundakan sesuatu kerja, sehingga produktiviti kita
untuk mencapai kejayaan menurun.

Berikut adalah 4 cara bagaimana anda boleh membuang tabiat buang
masa ini:

"Matlamat dikecilkan"

Seringkali kita membuang masa oleh kerana melihat sesuatu kerja itu
terlalu besar untuk ditangani. Adakalanya matlamat yang terlalu
besar menyebabkan kita kurang berkeyakinan dan kurang bermotivasi
untuk mencapainya. Dilihat seperti kerja yang bakal dilalui amat
besar dan tidak kesampaian!

Apa yang anda harus lakukan adalah, pecahkan matlamat yang besar
itu kepada matlamat yang lebih kecil. Matlamat untuk mengumpul 10
ribu ringgit mungkin bunyinya besar, tetapi sekiranya dipecah
kepada unit yang lebih kecil, iaitu menyimpan RM500 setiap bulan,
matlamat akan tercapai juga dalam masa 20 bulan

"Tingkatkan kekuatan tenaga"

Sering kali kerja ditunda atau kerja tidak dapat disiapkan adalah
kerana badan kita terasa penat. Mata kita terasa mengantuk dan
tubuh kita tidak rasa selesa untuk meneruskan sebarang kerja.

Sebab ini adalah, tidak kira sekeras mana anda kerja, tidak kira
berapa jam anda melakukan tugas anda, sekiranya badan anda tidak
mampu menahan bebanan tersebut, produktiviti anda akan berkurangan.

Ambil masa untuk berehat. Tubuh manusia boleh bertahan pada tahap
produktiviti yang tinggi dalam lingkungan 8-9 jam sahaja. Itu pun
sekiranya mempunyai tubuh yang sihat. Adakalanya, dengan hanya
melelapkan mata atau menambahkan masa tidur anda di malam hari, ia
akan menyegarkan semula tubuh anda untuk menjadi lebih produktif
pada keesokan hariinya. Sekiranya anda sering tidur 5-6 jam sahaja
oleh kerana kerja yang banyak, saya cadangkan anda tambahkan masa
tidur anda untuk menyegarkan tubuh anda.

Lakukan aktiviti senaman dari masa ke semasa, kata pakar kesihatan
tidak semestinya anda bersenam setiap hari, walaupun bersenam
setiap hari adalah terbaik. Tetapi, beri masa untuk bersenam selang
beberapa hari untuk menguatkan lagi tubuh anda dan daya ketahanan
badan anda dengan tekanan kerja.

Jaga makan dan minum anda. Kita di Malaysia adalah dalam keadaan
disadvantage oleh kerana makanan kita agak berat jika dibandingkan
dengan makanan barat. Tetapi, perhatikan daya ketahanan mereka di
barat gaya sihat. Tubuh mereka lebih kuat walaupun umur meningkat.

Makan seperti ahli sukan dan bersenam selalu. Tubuh anda akan rasa
sihat, badan anda akan rasa segar- ia akan menambahkan produktiviti
kerja anda. Tiada lagi rasa malas dalam memulakan sesuatu kerja!
Rujuk majalah Maskulin anda untuk tips-tips kesihatan yang
sememangnya akan menjadikan insan yang lebih produktif!

"Suara positif"

Bagaimana tindakan kita bergantung kepada suara yang sering kita
masukkan di dalam minda kita. Buang segala suara-suara negatif
seperti saya akan gagal. Saya tidak dapat melakukan kerja ini.
Orang lain tidak akan suka dengan hasil kerja saya. Gantikannya
dengan suara suara positif- saya akan berjaya, saya akan menyiapkan
kerja ini dengan sempurna dan orang akan memuji hasil kerja saya.

Jadi seorang yang optimis dan berfikiran positif, ini akan
memudahkan segala kerja yang anda lakukan. Walaupun mungkin keadaan
sekeliling menyebabkan perasaan anda lemah dan tidak bermaya,
masukkan gambaran-gambaran positif di minda anda.

Terdapat satu istilah ini mengatakan bahawa kita gembira oleh
kerana kita menyanyi. Dan bukan sebaliknya kita menanyi kerana kita
gembira!

Mereka yang optimis akan...
- Sering melihat segala kebaikan di keliling anda dalam apa
keadaan sekali pun
- Pelajari daripada apa sahaja kesusahan yang dilalui dan terima
dengan hati terbuka
- Sering mencari penyelesaian daripada maslalah, dan bukannya
memperbesarkan suatu masalah.

Orang yang berjaya sering mencerita tentang matlamat mereka. Mereka
sering berceirta tentang masa depan dan bukan mengungkit masa
silam. Lebih positif diri kita, lebih bersemangat dan lebih
produktif kerja yang dilakukan oleh kerana kita akan menjadi
seperti apa yang kita fikirkan selalu. Fikirkan boleh!

"Prinsip 80-20"

Bagaimana kalau saya katakan anda boleh menjimatkan 2 jam dalam
setiap hari anda. Sudah tentu, bunyinya agak menarik!

Prinsip Pareto ini mengatakan bahawa 20% daripada masa yang di
ambil untuk menyiapkan sesuatu tugasan adalah untuk 80% hasil
daripada tugas tersebut. Dalam erti kata lain, produktiviti anda
akan menurun selepas 20% masa anda diambil!

Oleh itu, bagaimana caranya menggunakan prinsip ini untuk manfaat
anda?

Mudah sahaja. Apabila anda ingin melakukan sesuatu tugas,
bentangkan tugasan tersebut di hadapan anda dan fikirkan strategi
bagaimana anda perlu menangani tugas tersebut. Apabila anda sudah
bersiap sedia dengan apa yang anda perlukan, terus mulakan tugasan
tersebut. Jangan berhenti, dan teruskan sahaja sehingga anda data
menyiapkan apa yang anda termampu. Mungkin ianya mengambil 1 jam...
atau 2 jam. Apa sahaja yang anda mampu lakukan, lakukannya.

Kemudian, berhenti! Ya... berhenti dari melakukan tugasan tersebut.
Ini kerana, anda telah mengambil 20% daripada masa anda yang
benar-benar produktif dalam menyiapkan kerja tersebut. Namun, kerja
tersebut sudah 80% siap!

Apa yang anda perlu laku kini adalah, alihkan perhatian anda kepada
kerja atau tugas yang lain. Mulakan tugas baru dan tidak perlu
hiraukan tugasan tadi. Untuk tugasan baru juga, lakukan yang sama
iaitu, beri tumpuan yang khusus 20% daripada masa yang perlu
diambil, kemudian berhenti. Lakukan perkara yang sama pada tugasan
yang lain.

Dengan melakukan prinsip pareto ini, anda dapat menyiapkan 80%
daripada kerja di tangan dalam 20% masa anda sahaja. Selepas
kesemua 80% tugas anda selesai, anda boleh kembali kepada tugasan
asal untuk menyiapkan 20% sehingga selesai. Kini, keadaan anda
sudah segar daripada tugasan asal, dan produktiviti meningkat semula.

Dengan menggunakan strategi Pareto ini, anda pasti teruja dengan
kecekapan anda menangani masa menyiapkan beberapa kerja serentak!

FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM

source: inminds.co.uk

FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM
EYE-WITNESS TO SABRA-SHATILA MASSACRE

Dr.Ang Swee Chai

"The slaughter of unarmed children, women, the aged and the infirm was shocking. For me, I was doubly outraged that I had to discover the truth about a brave and generous people only through their deaths. Until then, I never knew Palestinian refugees existed. As a fundamentalist Christian, I had been a supporter of Israel, hated Arabs and saw the Palestinian Liberation Organisation as terrorists to be loathed and feared."

Extract from the back cover of her book "From Beirut To Jerusalem"

Dr Ang Swee Chai talking at a London Mosque.
(Out of respect for Islam she wore a head scarf in the Mosque)

Dr Ang Swee Chai grew up supporting Israel. Arabs, she was told, were terrorists. But in 1982, on the television she saw the relentless bombing of Beirut by Israeli planes. Shocked, her view of Israel began to change. It was then that she heard of an international appeal for an orthopaedic surgeon to treat war victims in Beirut. The petit woman - she was just under 1.5 meters - resigned her job in London, bade her husband farewell and set out on a journey to civil war Beirut, there she was to eye-witness the Sabra-Shatila massacres*.

With her husband Francis Khoo, and some friends, Dr Ang Swee Chai helped to form the British charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), following the 1982 Sabra-Shatila massacres. In 1987, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat awarded Dr Ang Swee Chai the "Star of Palestine" the highest award for service to the Palestinian people.

In her talk, given at a West London Mosque on 10th December 2004, she shares with us some of her experiences of Lebanon and Palestine. Many of the slides she uses in her talk are reproduced below with relevant captions and a time code so that you may follow the slides with the audio.

We thank Dr Ang Swee Chai for her talk, all slides are copyright Dr Ang Swee Chai as are the extracts we have quoted from her book 'From Beirut To Jerusalem', we also like to thank Mehfil-E-Ali for their help. Any additional images used that were not part of the original presentation are marked [+] . Any additional reporting is ours and we alone are responsible for it.

* Sabra-Shatila Massacre: In September 1982, just a few weeks after the Palestinian men had surrendered their weapons under an internationally brokered peace deal, and were deported from Beirut leaving their families under the protection of an international peace keeping force, the Israeli army invaded Beirut, violating the peace treaty, and some 3000 defenceless Palestinian women and children were rounded up in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and systematically murdered in cold blood. (For a repeat of this tragedy see Srebrenica in 1995 - only that time it was 8000 Muslim men who were slaughtered after they had handed their weapons to the UN forces who had guaranteed them a "safe haven").

[3:20] I've called it "From Beirut to Jerusalem" because within my own heart I share this fervent wish that one day the Palestinians will be able to return from the refugee camps in Lebanon, that my friends can go back to al-Aqsa and pray as their forefathers had. Its something they all want to do but they can't do now.

The Siege

The 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon killed over 30,000 civilians. The siege of Beirut lasted for 70 days, Beirut was subjected a relentless barrage of air, naval, and artillery bombardment. The Israeli bombardment was random and indiscriminate. Food, electricity and water supplies were cut off - over 500,000 people were driven from their homes. The IDF calculated that they had used some 960 tons of ammunition in trying to destroy the city.

The price asked by Israel to stop the destruction of Beirut was for the 14,000 PLO fighters to abandon the city - leaving behind their families. The US brokered peace deal guaranteed the safety of the Palestinians left behind in the camps - a multinational peacekeeping force would be deployed to protect them.

The US didn't honour its word and three weeks after the PLO evacuation they withdrew the multinational force giving the green light to Israel to invade West Beirut and massacre the Palestinians in the camps.

[6:30] As you can see these were some of the bombs that Israel had - killing many people

[7:40] Finally the cease-fire came and we were able to make our way across the green-line in to West Beirut. This was the Beirut I new - the Beirut for weeks before I'd watched on television - blocks and blocks of buildings being bombed out and destroyed - only this time it was real, life sized, 3 dimensional and frightening

[8:10] The coast line of the beautiful city of Beirut - also known as the pearl of the Middle-East - was shelled by Israeli gun boats and reduced to wreckage.

[8:20] But more frightening are the number of new weapons they tested in Lebanon - that time it was the first time Israel exploded phosphorous bombs. So that when phosphorus hits someone it just burns for days and days and then if you wash it - it will burn even more, and the victims just died of phosphorus burns. But this is a different kind - this is called a vacuum bomb. What would happen is that the bomb would go in to a centre, build up very high TNT value, and suck the whole building down - this is an 11 floor building that was sucked in to a heap of rubble, buried within it are 200 people. When I arrived and saw this for myself I know that a doctor can't do much - it is a very humbling experience... I could do nothing to help those people who were buried and killed in this one single bomb attack.

[10:40] Farewell message left by a Palestinian forced to evacuate Beirut... 14,000 Palestinians [men] were forced to leave Lebanon within the evacuation which means that 14,000 families have been broken up, because each family have given up their men - either a father or an eldest son or somebody important, leaving behind women with young children and old people with no men to look after them. In a middle-eastern culture this is a catastrophe. You can image 14,000 families and from these families you take the oldest son out, you take the father - force them to leave and never to come back. That was the price Israel demanded from the PLO in order to stop the bombing.

[12:40] I was seconded by the International Red Cross to join a group called the Palestinian Red Crescent Society - this was quite a culture shock to me because I am joining a Red Crescent - a Muslim organisation - but it was the beginning of a road, the beginning of a journey, beginning of a way where I learnt.. and that is my [Red Crescent] ID Card which I cherish...

[13:15] Gaza Hospital in Beirut, inside the Sabra-Shatila refugee camp

[15:00] Gaza Hospital was protected by the International Red Cross, despite that Gaza Hospital has been bombed - it was 11 floors high and the top 2 floors were blown off, the doctors quarters were shelled..

[15:25] Photo from 6th floor of Gaza Hospital. At the time the Palestine Red Crescent Society ran 13 clinics and 9 hospitals - and the Israelis had selectively bombed and destroyed every single one of the clinics and hospitals - killing patients and killing doctors...

[20:30] There was 3 weeks of peace [following the PLO evacuation], then suddenly on the 15th of September something horrible happened - the international peace keeping force decided to withdraw... and israeli planes flew in and 500-600 Israeli tanks started to roll in to Beirut city [violating the peace treaty]. Before this Beirut city was surrounded by Israeli tanks but never invaded like that - the Israelis had bombed Beirut from the air and seiged the city and denied water and medicine to the people, but this time the tanks are comming - and you can see the tank shelling. [photo] You can see the Mosque in south Beirut - that was the first shell that fell - it was from an Israeli tank. They began to surround the refugee camps in all directions. By about mid-day there was streams of shell smoke comming from everywhere and everybody was very frightened knowing that something horrible is going to happen...

At 4:30pm news arrived at the Gaza Hospital that Israeli troops had invaded Akka Hospital [just outside the camp], nurses had been raped and killed, doctors and patients shot dead.

Extract from p55 & p79 of the book "From Beirut To Jerusalem"

The Massacre

The phalange militia were Israel's proxy in Lebanon, their members were recruited from the Maronite Christian community. They were payed for, trained and armed by Israel. They were effectively an extension of the IDF, and were usually sent in to do the dirty work.

After Sharon's army had taken West Beirut and sealed off all escapes routes from the Palestinian refugee camps, Sharon ordered the phalange in. The official order from Sharon read "for the operation in the camps the phalange should be sent in"*. Knowing that the camps were full of unarmed civilians - mainly women and children, only around 150 phalange were deployed. The testimonies of the survivors suggest that both Israeli soldiers and their mercenaries the Phalange entered the camps and participated in the massacre**.

The Israelis supervised the operation from their forward command post, a six story building overlooking the camps. From there they gave logistic support and relayed orders to the soldiers on the ground. Concerned that reports of the on-going slaughter would leak out, the soldiers were ordered to continue the killing through out the night - to facilitate this the Israelis lit up the sky with flares all night long. The idea was to kill as many Palestinians as quickly as possible, before international pressure would put a stop to the operation. Over 3000 elderly men, women and children were murdered. Next the evidence had to be buried quickly - so the Israelis send in bulldozers. Houses were packed with bodies and demolished to form mass graves. One such mass grave contained a thousand bodies.

*see BBC Panorama "The Accused" 2001.
** Survivors interviewd on 22 Sep reported that many of the soldiers who did the killing did not speak Arabic and Israeli newspapers (in Hebrew) and Israeli food rations were found left behind. A young boy, Munir, who was left for dead under a heap of 27 bodies confirmed that he has seen both Israelis and Phalange murdering people, when he was brought to Gaza Hospital on 17 Sept. (Src: 'From Beirut To Jerusalem' pgs 61, 69 & 71)

[22:20] The next morning, early in the morning after prayer time, women went to the well and water points to get water for the family and right there they were shot, some of them killed. [photo] This was the first lady that came in, with her elbow blown off, this was her x-ray.

[22:40] And following her a lot of people were shot in their homes and they were brought in to the hospital - many of them died in the mortuary. By no means were they terrorists - [photo] this was an old man that lived next to the hospital - I knew him very well - they killed him.

[23:00] Young children like that [photo] were dying [shot] for no reason

Giving Life

In the theatre, I operated on a woman and a child. The woman had major surgery for a gunshot wound of the abdomen. It was a difficult operation, as I had to remove a third of her liver, and anastomose - or join together - transected large and small bowels. She was waking up from the anaesthetic, when the child was brought back from the theatre recovery room. i nipped back in to see both of them and remind the nurses in intensive care to give both of them blood transfusions. I was told that the packet of blood being transfused into the woman was the last one. The child had been wounded by a hand grenade chucked into the midst of a group of little kids. He had lost a fair amount of blood through a severed splenic artery, but otherwise he was stable after his operation. Both needed blood and they were of the same blood group. The Palestinian woman overheard the nurses talking to me and asked us to give blood to the child instead of her. Then she asked for some painkillers and died shortly afterwards.

Extract from p61 of the book "From Beirut To Jerusalem"

[23:05] My own nurses were also shot, and by evening the next day the whole hospital was teaming with people - about 3000 people - fleeing in to the hospital saying that gunmen had broken in to the homes of the people in the camps and started shooting whole families. They were very very frightened, they were hoping that by staying in the hospital somehow because of the foreign doctors and the International Red Cross observer status that they would be protected - but that was not true of course...

[24:30] On 18th September [72 hours in to the killing] a tank came in and ordered all foreigners out of the hospital at gun point. That was the time when we were very worried because we thought that if we are gone they will probably come in and kill our patients. But at the same time you can not argue with a machine gun and we were just forced out. And as I came out of the hospital I saw groups of women and men and children all rounded up by soldiers and while I was passing them one woman tried to give me her baby but that was not allowed and she was forced to take the baby back, and I fear the worst because for many days afterwards I came back looking for the mother and child - I couldn't find any of them.

[25:30] For the first time we were out from the basement operating theatre and we can see what has happened - whilst we were operating, trying to save a few lives, the people of the camps were massacred - killed - their bodies left rotting.

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Old man tortured - eyes gouged out - before being murdered

To Kill Not Enough

The truth hit me painfully...Besides being shot dead, people were tortured before being killed. They were beaten brutally, electric wires were tied round limbs, eyes were dug out, women were raped, often more than once, children were dynamited alive. Looking at all the broken bodies, I began to think that those who had died quickly were the lucky ones.

Extract from p67 of the book "From Beirut To Jerusalem".

[26:45] The homes people had come to rebuild were destroyed - if you look at these houses you will find that the paint is still fresh - its just painted and probably not even dried. And if you go beyond the broken walls you find the families were broken - there was no one left - food was half eaten - furniture half smashed - the people gone - buried in mass graves.

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A mothers agony - her children slaughtered mercilessly

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For what crime was this child murdered?

[27:20] These are mass graves. You can see the tank tracks - they have just dug up shallow graves and buried all the bodies in the rubble. They have just bulldozed all the houses - actually if you have been watching the television its very much like Jenin [below] recently in Palestine, but on a bigger scale. About 3000 people were killed in those three days, and in this mass grave alone 1000 bodies were buried there.

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The centre of Jenin after the recent Israeli massacre
- whole streets missing - destroyed - flattened and buried under rubble
- rubble so high that the lower floors of buildings still left standing
have disappeared under the rubble.

[28:10] There were orphans every where and as you walk around you see children standing in front of walls with bullet holes, where their families were lined up and killed.

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Families lined up outside their homes and executed

[28:35] Children without homes - there is no where to go for the coming winter

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The "lucky" survivors - now homeless orphans

[28:45] I want to talk to you about this family because it is such a typical and yet painful event. This family was from a village near Jerusalem. Their village is completely gone - it doesn't exist anymore - when Israel was formed they found themselves in South Lebanon. South Lebanon was bombed, so the family found themselves in another refugee camp called Tel al-Zaatar in east Beirut. In 1978 Tel al-Zaatar was massacred -3000 people died. So this family escaped from Tel al-Zaatar and found themselves in Shatila camp. When the evacuation took place the family had enough - they said they were going to stay, so they stayed in Shatila camp. And the massacre came, and of the whole family 27 members were killed!

[30:10] This is Munir, at the time Munir was only 9 years old. Munir was shot 3 times together with 27 members of his family. And as the dead bodies fell on him, he fainted - which was a good thing because the gunmen thought he had died and left him alone. After they left his friends came and took him to the hospital.

[30:50] I visited Munir's grandmother Hajjar. His grandmother at the time was in South Lebanon and when she heard that there was a massacre in Shatila the 72 year old lady was very worried so she walked 20 kilometres - all the way from South Lebanon to Shatila camp. And when she arrived she knew her family was gone. Hajjar was mourning for her family but I went in to her house because she's Munir's grandmother and I asked her what have you to say Hajjar? Then she broke out and told me all this in arabic:

Whats there left to say? There is nothing left to say.
Our flowers still blosom and our oranges give fragrance,
our sparrows sing their usual songs,
yet my children are no where to be found.

Beirut - you took all I had,
and you took my last important life,
my heart lies dead on your streets.

Abu Zuhair, my fine young son
was cruelly cut off from his roots on your soil.
Abu Zuhair - you who found your way from Tel al-Zaatar
with a Kalashnikov in your hand, to meet me Shatila,
how come you are slaughtered like a sheep?
What have I got to say?

Crow of ill-omen - please,
who told you of my where abouts?
Bearers of coffins, please move slowly
so that I can see my loved ones once again
Oh God! Please wait, just wait and Your will be done.

How I envy those of you who were around when my children died. Did you let them die thirsty?
Or were you kind enough to give then a drink?

Life - what life is like to us?
Our hearts have died and our tears have dried
for all the men and women who fell.

God All Mighty give us patience,
and our children - may our love be a lantern to Your path
and may God show me the holy way

Doctor, please go away -
you have reopened all our wounds,
we are so weary, what is there to say?

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[35:10] Everyday I go back to the refugee camps - to the hospital, and we walk up and down. Each time we find a new mass grave, we find bodies and sometimes, now we are talking about October, it was decaying and the stench horrendous. You cant even recognise the bodies -usually you find the identity card or a piece of jewelry or something like that, and the families identify the bodies, take it back and buried it and there was crying.

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Terrified women and children being taken away in a truck
(image captured by a Danish cameraman - BBC "The Accused" 2001)

The Stadium

I walked towards the sports stadium. I had not found the strength to visit this area before. At sunset, it looked hideous. People had been killed here, people were buried here: I seemed to hear their voices echoing mournfully in the wasteland. This place had been pounded incessantly by Israeli aeroplanes during the siege. During the massacre, it was occupied by the Israelis, and the camp people told me that trucks of men, women and children were taken to the stadium by the Israelis, and many had 'disappeared'.

The body of a little child I had once treated had been found in the stadium on 18 September, the day of the massacre. With other little children, he had been blown up by a hand grenade thrown into their midst. All around the stadium I could see cloths, mostly women's clothes. Angry survivors told me large numbers of women had been forced en masse to undress, and were raped by the soldiers before they were killed.

Extract from p90 of the book "From Beirut To Jerusalem".

[35:40] One day something good happened, this boy whom I treated just before the massacre spotted me - little Mahmoud came out and started to put his arms around me "Dr Swee! Dr Swee!" and I said "Oh Mahmoud!", he said "we saw the soldiers take you - all the foreigners, to the UN building and thats where they killed everybody so I thought you were dead" So he was so happy and started to cry, and I realised that poor Mahmoud has lost his family - he was now an orphan.

[36:15] And suddenly a whole lot of children - Palestinian children from every where began to crowd around me, and the little girl said "Doctor can you take a picture of us?" I said "of course I will". "You must take a picture of us now because there is the Shatila camp - tomorrow maybe the camp will be destroyed and there will be no more Shatila, but al least today we are here and you can take a picture and show your friends all over the world this refugee camp and show them we are the children of Shatila". And as I began to focus the camera they decided to put their hands up and make a victory sign and said "and we are not afraid". This picture was taken in October 1982, since then I have been back to Lebanon many times, and each time I go back I carry a copy of these pictures hoping I can find them - of course I never found any of these children. But now looking back I realise they didn't ask me bring the pictures back to them - they said take the pictures and show it to the whole world, to show the whole world how the Palestinian children of Shatila camp were not afraid. So I am showing it to you now.

Palestinian Compassion

After the massacre, some of the very soldiers that took part in the slaughter amazingly turned up at the hospital for treatment - six of them had fallen off the rooftop of one of the camp houses while arresting Palestinians. The natural reaction was to turn them away, but before Dr Swee could do this the Palestinian administrator intervened:

...in a loud voice I told them there was no doctor around.It was easy to get them to believe me, as they assumed I was a little Asian nurse. Then I felt someone gently tugging at my white coat: it was Azziza, the hospital administrator. She wanted to talk to me in private.

'Please, Swee, you have to treat these people. I know what you are thinking. But believe me, my family have suffered so much - and I ask you to do this, for our sake. We were forced to leave Jerusalem, then the siege, then the massacre - all these wounds are still sore, but we cannot deny anyone medical care. We are the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, and our principles compel us to give medical care to all alike, even our enemies.'

Extract from p92 of Dr Ang Swee Chai's book "From Beirut To Jerusalem".

[39:10] Within a few months of our formation [of Medical Aid for Palestinians] the Palestinians were attacked - there was another camp war, many of my friends were killed and this time they were under siege so the bodies had to be buried in the Mosque - the martyrs had no where to be buried.

[39:40] Gaza Hospital was burnt and it was difficult to look after patients, we had to do operations without masks, without gloves, without electricity..

[40:00] This 82 year old lady came from Germany, all she wanted to do was get this van and drive around all the refugee camps to the displaced people and give them milk... the children love her, her name is Rita so they call her Mama Rita, and from Mama Rita to Mama Halib - meaning milk mother.

[41:00] In 1987 we were still working in Shatila, but Shatila camp has become like that [photo]. 1987 was also the United Nations international year of shelter, so 100s of resolutions were passed about how everyone has a right to a home but it by-passed the Palestinian people. The refugee camps were destroyed - not rebuilt, people lived in this and when the rains fall the whole lot collapsed and all of them had to be evacuated in to... [see below]

[41:40] ...shelters like this - all partitioned. So these are abandoned buildings and the UN would just put up curtains and within year back curtain would be a family. So the cycle has completed - from people in Palestine in to tents in Lebanon, and then they converted their tents in to cities, the cities were destroyed, and now their children are now back to living in this kind of shelters - grim and depressing with no future and yet it was in 1987 in one of these shelters that we learnt of the first Palestinian Intifada. The first uprising - the Palestinians under occupation in Gaza and West Bank had decided to oppose the occupation and rose up against the Israeli occupation.

First Intifada

[42:40] This is the women of Gaza, and the children of Gaza. they were demonstrating before Israeli tanks. Now it takes a lot of courage to stand before Israeli tanks who can actually just shell them and kill them - but they are not afraid. So it is a very special moment when ordinary people stood up against a might military force - I think the Israeli army is the fourth largest army in the world in terms of armourments and fire power.

[43:20] This is a Palestinian refugee living in Jabaliya camp, but that day Abu Mohammad has taken me to this heap of rocks - that was his grandfathers home. the Israelis came and dynamited it and put a prohibition on it so that no one from his family can go and live there or rebuilt it. Now the interesting thing is that all around it trees were planted and every year millions of American pilgrims visit the Holy Land and they look at the trees planted by Israel, but it was only the Intifada that actually makes some of them look at the bulldozed building and the rubble and the homes that have been destroyed so that the trees could be planted...

See Video of Israeli soldiers breaking the bones of Palestinian prisoners (23s, 445Kb realmedia) (Tip: watch it after you have finished listening to the talk as the same player is needed for watching the video)

Breaking Bones

During the first Intifada the entire world saw footage of Israeli soldiers beating up young Palestinian prisoners, breaking their bones with large rocks, rifle butts and metal bars. Defense Minister Rabin explained in an interview with Army Radio that he had ordered his soldiers to break the bones of Palestinian stone throwers. (Its disgraceful how the media has since recast this war criminal - Rabin as a peacemaker).

The deliberate policy of breaking the limbs of Palestinians meant that victims would be crippled for a long time. A fractured limb takes a good few months to mend, and then an equally long time to be rehabilitated to full functional status. As an orthopaedic or bone surgeon, I know that there is no way to hurry the process of bone healing. If all four limb bones are broken, then the injured person will be quite useless for up to a year. Meanwhile, if he was the sole breadwinner, his family would starve.

Extract from p287-288 of the book "From Beirut To Jerusalem".

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8 year old Muhammad had his bones crushed by Israeli soldiers to prevent him from picking up a stone. His friend Hassan's (right) 3 year old brother was also beaten up by the soldiers, resulting in fractures. [Al-Ahli Hospital Gaza, from BBC Documentary "Life Under Occupation", shown in 1989] A survey carried out by the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme found that 1 in every 22 Palestinian children (4.5%) had their bones broken by the IDF (2779 children surveyed).

During the first Intifada, I was attached to Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital as a United Nations consultant surgeon and had treated many of those injured. My hospital grounds were often raided by troops hunting for young people they were after; maternity wards were invaded by fully armed Israeli soldiers, scornful of women in labour. Patients lying on my operating table were threatened. A BBC TV crew filmed 'Life Under Occupation', featuring some of us working under those intolerable conditions. My male nurse [who is shown treating Muhammad in the above photo] spent two years in prison following the documentary. The military made my continued stay in Gaza untenable, and it took several years before I could return.

Extract from p307 of Dr Ang Swee Chai's book "From Beirut To Jerusalem".

[45:20] This is inside Jerusalem - the occupation - where israeli soldiers can beat up anybody or strip anybody and arrest anybody

No Fear

'This anxious Palestinian mother had to go to the Israeli Security to ask for the release of her nine-year-old son, who'd been captured for throwing stones. Not so long ago, the boy's father was detained by the Israelis, and he was still on the wanted list. So the boy's father couldn't go to claim his son, and had to send his wife instead. She was a teacher. The Israelis told her, "You're a teacher. You mustn't teach your nine-year-old son to hate." She replied, "A nine-year-old should never hate anyone. The occupation taught him to hate the soldiers, I did not teach him that. Remove the occupation, and let my son learn to love your people."

'Palestinian kids appeared all over the place, making victory signs with their wee hands. The kids knew no fear. The Israelis arrested a three-year-old boy for throwing stones, and they threatened him: "You're only three and shouldn't know how to throw stones at us. Someone must have taught you. Tell us who taught you, or else..." The little boy replied, "My brother." That was it. Fully-armed Israeli soldiers picked up the toddler and stormed into his home looking for his brother. They found him in a corner playing - he was only one year older than his baby brother!'

Mike Holmes, a Scottish member of MAP, related the above incidents from his first trip to the Occupied Territories in early 1988 (during the first Intifada), from p287-288 of the book "From Beirut To Jerusalem".

[45:35] Curfews - Barbed wires sealing up whole villages, denying them any right of leaving the village. Even locking up the windows for days and days. There is no need to have a reason to put a curfew on a village - you just declare a curfew so everybody will be packed in to their houses - they cannot look out, children cannot laugh and then Israelis just go in to the houses and arrest anybody they like or demolish a house - blow it up. That is curfew.

[46:05] When they talk about rubber bullets, plastic bullets, tear gas - they all kill! Now days the Israelis dont even use these, since the second Intifada they use live bullets..

[46:30] Rubber bullets is actually metal - I've taken out the rubber coating on one of them so its solid metal - if you fire point blank it can actually kill someone. Tear gas shot in to a crowded place like this with no where to escape can kil a whole lot of people.

[46:50] These people [including the child below] were shot with a rubber bullet - the x-ray showed the metal bullet in the head.

[49:10] Our western media talks about peace, but they have forgotten the main ingredient of peace which is justice. I've known this for a long time. This was peace - lebanon 1982. After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon there were five peace plans. All of them failed because none of the peace plans talked about justice. And today - the same, people talk about peace - the road map and so on - but which one of them talks about justice? Certainly there can be no peace without justice...

A Question and Answer session followed the talk.

KENYATAAN AKHBAR BERHUBUNG KEMPEN BOIKOT TERPILIH BAGI MEMBANTAH KEKEJAMAN ISRAEL MENYERANG PENDUDUK AWAM PALESTIN

source: persatuan pengguna islam malaysia

Saturday 03 January 2009 - 15:26:32

KENYATAAN AKHBAR BERHUBUNG KEMPEN BOIKOT TERPILIH BAGI MEMBANTAH
KEKEJAMAN ISRAEL MENYERANG PENDUDUK AWAM PALESTIN

PPIM mendesak masyarakat pengguna Islam negara ini bertindak memboikot produk keluaran Negara-negara yang menyokong tindakan Israel menyerang Palestin hingga menyebabkan kematian umat Islam di negara itu.

Boikot terpilih merupakan antara tindakan yang boleh dilakukan oleh umat Islam di negara ini bagi menyuarakan rasa marah terhadap tindakan biadap tentera Israel melakukan keganasan ke atas saudara seIslam di Palestin.

Setiap umat Islam perlu bertindak bagi membantah kekejaman ini dan hanya melalui kuasa kepenggunaan, kita dapat mengajar kuasa - kuasa besar barat yang menyokong keganasan terhadap umat Islam di Palestin.

Ini kerana sebarang protes dan bantahan berhubung kekejaman Israel dan sekutunya tidak akan mendatangkan kesan kepada Israel dan sekutunya kerana golongan biadap ini tidak akan menghiraukan sebarang bantahan walaupun daripada seluruh umat Islam di dunia.

Justeru PPIM menyarankan boikot produk terpilih bagi menghantar isyarat jelas kepada pembuli dunia dan sekutunya bahawa umat Islam di Negara ini tidak akan bertolenrasi berhubung kekejaman yang dilakukan ke atas Palestin.

Industri hotel, pasaraya serta kementerian juga harus turut serta dalam kempen ini bagi menyuarakan bantahan mengenai tindakan zalim Israel dan sekutunya. Hotel serta pasaraya seharusnya menyokong dengan tidak menggunakan dan menyenaraikan barangan kempen boikot terpilih ini di hotel dan pasaraya mereka.

Umat Islam merupakan masyarakat yang sering bertoleransi dan menghormati kepercayaan kaum lain, tetapi apabila berlaku penindasan terhadap saudara seIslam kita harus menyuarakan bantahan demi memperjuangkan maruah dan hak umat Islam.

Seluruh masyarakat pengguna di negara ini tanpa mengira fahaman politik, agama dan bangsa juga wajar membantah keganasan kejam ini melalui kempen boikot terpilih. Maklumat lanjut berhubung produk kempen boikot terpilih bagi membantah kekejaman Israel boleh dilayari di laman web PPIM

Boycotting to Bring about a Change!

source: persatuan pengguna islam malaysia

Saturday 03 January 2009 - 17:21:01

All but the coldest of hearts can sympathise with the plight of the Palestinian people as a result of the recent carnage brought upon them by the Israeli government.

What more can be done to dehumanize a people?

After having built a wall to imprison the people of Gaza, denying the Palestinians access to medical, economic and humanitarian assistance; now, the Israeli government is once again determined to kill off man woman and child militarily.

This has all been and is taking place while the rest of the world watches or does very little.

Yes, there are calls for an immediate ceasefire, have the superpowers use their influence to broker peace and even calling for the Israeli regime to unconditionally dissolve the illegal settlements.

There are also those who would take up protest signs and burn flags in front of embassies with the mistaken notion that those inside or the governments they represent care about these demonstrations.

Friends; the truth is; they don’t care. They see your demonstration as a means for you to release some steam.

They know that after your demonstration; you will return home feeling as if you have accomplished something by making them (foreign government officials) take note.

Realise something… Protests signs effigy and flag burning are yesterday’s tactics and yesterday’s news.

In short: They do not work!

Why? There is absolutely no incentive for any Change in the status quo to take place.

Real Change only comes about when it’s in the self interest of those who can bring about the change desired.

Realizing this; what can we as peace loving people do to bring about a change in the plight of the Palestinian people?

Pick up stones to throw at Israeli tanks and gun ships? This has only served to cause further death and destruction on the Palestinian people.

Write letters of protests to the leaders of the governments around the world? They will probably end up in the trash bin.

The only intervention other than God is for the peace loving people around the world to enact an Economic Boycott on those who finances support the injustice brought about on the Palestinian people.

If all the people of the world; who believe in Freedom, Justice and Equality collectively boycott products of companies that support this barbaric behavior towards the Palestinian people then and only then will there be a Change.

Where can we start?

We can bring about an immediate impact, if together we stop purchasing Coca Cola, Colgate and stop going to Starbucks!

Why these?
1. Their (Coca Cola, Colgate and Starbucks) finances support the government that is oppressing the Palestinian people.
2. They (Coca Cola, Colgate and Starbucks) are visible in the global market and have products and services that are neither essential or there exist viable alternatives.

Therefore, we again propose for all those who stand up for Freedom, Justice and Equality to prove it by immediately boycotting Coca Cola, Colgate and Starbucks.

Do not let the profit from your purchases of their products be used for the destruction of your fellow human.

Let us bring about change and let these corporations (Coca Cola, Colgate, and Starbucks) experience the same economic isolation their support has placed on the Palestinian people.

Let us bring about a change to the bottom line of these corporations who care nothing for the suffering of others as long as their profits continue to flow in while the blood of others flows out!

Let us not abdicate our responsibility to bring about Change to a man who eloquently speaks about it, but has been eerily silent to speak for a people who have for much too long suffered and died for it!

Change! Let’s change by putting down our protest signs and pickup our moral backbones and through an economic boycott bring about Real Change!

Muneer A. Rasheed
International Consultant