Piracy...

Thanks USA...

After all it was Obama that got Osama...

http://gulfnews.com/business/features/the-spoils-of-piracy-1.804626

The full article is worth reading should you want to learn something new.

Peace.

Sheikh MBZ and Prez Obama

Cool picture of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (AD Crown Prince) and President Obama in Washington, presumably yesterday 13/4/2010.



From WAM:

http://www.wam.org.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamPhoto&cid=1267001201230&pagename=WAM%2FWAM_E_Layout

Let’s Talk About Israeli Racism

An amazing post from a fellow blogger:

Just yesterday, I wondered to a friend if maybe Benjamin Netanyahu is disrespecting Barack Obama in part because he is black? And lo and behold, David Bromwich wrote today in the Huffington Post:

“Racism as much as fear drives the Israeli policy toward Palestinians. This has always been known. But who now will deny that there is also, in the Israeli distrust and visceral ridicule of Barack Obama, an undercurrent of racism?”
He goes on to point out the parallel between racism against Palestinians by the Israeli settler movement, and racism against blacks by their staunchest supporters in the U.S., the white evangelicals he calls Christian Zionists. It is almost as if, their segregationist fantasies defeated here at home, the religious right is projecting them onto the Holy Land by helping the settler movement to build an apartheid state.

“The operation of Israeli racism against a black American president is powerfully enforced by the settler movement and by its American allies, the Christian Zionists. … Settler racism and Christian Zionist racism (associated with the ‘birther movement’ in the U.S.) converge in a belief in the political and the social superiority of Israeli Jews over Palestinians — a superiority that for the Christian Zionists corresponds (in ways that need no comment) to the natural superiority of American whites to blacks.”
He calls on Americans to become aware of the racist nature of the Israeli settlement project, and its implications for American security interests.

“Will Americans now stop calling the annexation wall — which cuts off West-Bank Israeli colonists from their Palestinian inferiors — ‘the security fence’? It is a wall. Its function is only partly to secure. It is there also to separate, to mark off, and to overawe. … The separation produces…a condition of constant inequality. It seems too weak to call the result ’segregation.’ Ehud Barak, a solid authority one would have thought, has recently called it apartheid, and language that is accurate in the eyes of the defense minister of Israel should be good enough for Americans. …
“The existential threat in the vicinity of Israel is not extermination but expulsion. And Israel is the agent rather than victim of that threat. The project is being carried forward by legalized acts of dispossession, by harassment, by deprivation of useful work, and by the deliberate infliction of misery.”
Fortunately, he feels that Americans are starting to become aware of these ugly truths. Beginning with the war in Gaza, and continuing through the diplomatic crisis surrounding Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, forty years of self-imposed silence in the American media, which have prevented a frank discussion of Israel’s policies, are starting to fray.

“So the door to an honest discussion of Israel and Palestine has been opened wide. Too wide for AIPAC, and all its journalistic outlets, to close with their usual dispatch. We are in possession now of the realistic knowledge that Israel’s policies endanger American troops and American interests; that by creating new terrorists, those policies also threaten the security of the United States. …
“It is one thing to sacrifice yourself for a friend in the cause of justice; another to sacrifice yourself for a friend in the cause of injustice.”

http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2010/03/17/israeli-racism/

IRAQ>N

Barack Has a Dream...

More artwork from The World of Dreams



Simply Brilliant.

Obama Welcomes Ramadan

Interesting how he has to assert that he's Christian!

I bet he wouldn't mention this if he was talking about a Jewish or Hindu festival?

Obama Interview

I love that kid!

President Barackuda

I just learned about this not-so-affectionate term for President Obama yesterday, and I found it quite funny that some people attack him by calling him (or his supporters) as Barackuda!

This of course is a play on words for a popular type of fish, the Barracuda which is a fish known for its voracious predatory skills. Personally, I think it's a nice complement to the 44th President of the United States of America, but some might not think like Al Arab.

Sorry for the lack of a better image, but it's only right to credit the owner here.

This probably started last year in 2008, which puts thing in perspective given that the GOP guys lost.

More info here.

New Hampshire Greets Obama With a Gun

For more info:

http://www.alternet.org/rights/141923/gun-nut_outside_obama_townhall_linked_to_gop_%27stop_obamacare%27_effort/

Ok, so let's get the facts straight. President B. Hussein Obama visits New Hampshire state for some kind of public gathering and is greeted by a guy clearly holding a gun and holding a sign with the most ugly of meanings:"It's time to water the Tree of Liberty." which is a very famous quote by a former American president. I'll let you read the article to get the full juice.

However the full quote (which was not quoted) is:

"Sometimes it is necessary to water the Tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants"

Really horrible stuff. And there are shits out there that defend this stuff calling it freedom! Yeah right! Try carrying more than 100ml of liquids anywhere near an aircraft cabin before being stopped... where's my freedom?