Jefferson Corner

Who would believe that the Arabic news satellite Aljazeera would take off a program and documentary on Fairouz to bring George Bush live from Ohio to tell his lies? But this is exactly what happened on Thursday night at 17.15 GMT few minutes in the program on perhaps one, and together with the late Om- Kulthoum the most beautiful and powerful voice.
Om-Kulthum has her style but Fairouz is a special phenomenon with a mesmerizing soft voice and with a wide range of music and song that she was able to entertain generations of Arabic listeners from Morocco to Bahrain from Aleppo to Sana’a.
Fairouz was that special voice that sang love songs, sad songs, nationalist songs, funny songs. She sang for people and for counties. She sang for causes and for cities. Most of all she sang for all of us. We loved and will always love her voice, her music and the themes that inspired her music.
With hardly any documentary on the first lady of music, Aljazeera started the documentary with a visit to where she was born showing pictures of the young Fairouz and showing pictures of Fairouz with her long time music partner and husband, with some of the old and most beautiful songs, only for the station to interrupt the program and bring that stupid man, George Bush alive from Ohio to tell us and Arab viewers why he was at war in Iraq.
Having not learned from over 4 years of lies and more lies, George Bush again, try to us in the US and tell Arab audience that his was on Iraq was part of his war on terror, part of his war on Alqaeda. George Bush in his message in Ohio as to win votes and to intimidate the US Congress that finally caught up with his lies and that finally woke up to its responsibility, albeit late with more than 3,500 brave American soldiers killed in a senseless war and with more than 700,000 Iraqis dead and more than 2 millions exiles as refuses seeking to escape the death and destruction that George Bush’s Tel-Aviv mafia brought about.
While this mafia, with the exception of their godfather, Dick Cheney all left the stage to more lucrative jobs at the World Bank and at Georgetown, poor George was left holding the bag after sticking it to the US tax payers with more than $ 500 Billons that the war on Iraq has cost and of course not to mention the invaluable lives lost because of his war and the ineptness of those who planned, and managed the war.
Now George Bush is desperate to keep the war going telling us that his stupid war is succeeding when we see on the daily news the Talibans are every where in Afghanistan and with Osama Bin Laden somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan and with his was in Iraq igniting a very ugly and destructive civil war that only Iraqi can excel at with daily suicide bombing and with daily truck and car bombs that kills innocent people before any thing else.
One has to ask Mr. Bush how can you claim you are winning the war on terror when there is terror every where, nurtured by your incompetence and reckless leadership? How dare you tell us to give you more chance to succeed when you have been nothing but failure for the last 4 years? A total failure at your war on terror and total failure of your domestic programs at home. Your tenure in office has been nothing but jinks for America and the world.
I never could understand why Aljazeera or for that matter Alarabyia and Al-Ekhbaryia, all leading Arabic satellite station interrupt their programs to bring George Bush live from Ohio to tell Arab viewers his views on the war on terror and on the need to keep the funding going to keep the his stupid and reckless war going. Of course the Iraqis with their vindictiveness and their disregards for any human values are not helping to bring an end to this war. The Sunnis and Shiites are both supporting George Bush and his war against the Iraqi people and in turn against the American people.This is lost war from the very start. The wrong war for the wrong reasons and in the wrong country. It was a war well planned by Bibi Netanyahu friends and partners in the Reagan and Bush administration and it was a war promoted and managed by the Likudists in Washington, DC. It was an Israeli proxy war fought and paid for by American and Iraqi lives and of course paid for by American tax payers. The only beneficiaries of this reckless war are the NeoCons who are out to destroy America, and so far they are succeeding at it. Fairouz that very beautiful voice that sang for Jerusalem, as the wounded city and the grandest of all cities was taken off the air to allow the man who funds and sponsor the continued killing of Palestinians, who continue to fund the Apartheid Wall and the man who continue to sponsor the ugliest military occupation in the last century. Perhaps all 3 networks got their instructions from Washington. How could any one listen to George Bush when they can listen to the very beautiful and serene voice of Fairouz.

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Several theaters in New York, Miami and Toronto cancelled the planned staging of the play, “My name is Rachel Carrie” the young American activists who was killed by and American made bulldozer in Gaza few years ago as she tried to defend and stop the uprooting of trees and destruction of homes by an Israeli army driving by hate.
The cancellation of the show, which had a very successful run in London, should not come as a complete surprise. This story reminded me of the time when as young activists in New York City we wanted to show a documentary about the forced exiles of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by Jewish terrorists back in 1948
An agreement was reached with the operator of the theater in Mid-Town only to be cancelled when he knew that we planned to show a film about Palestinian exiles and of course about the behavior of Jewish terrorists. We end up showing the film within the compound of the UN as the only place with a free speech zone in New York City.
For the most part and it is sad to say, that when it comes to Israel and when it comes to the criminal actions of Israel the American Jewish community for the most parts shut off its eyes, its ears, and its conscious and refuse to admit that the Israeli Wall is nothing but an Apartheid Wall designed to prevent terrorism, but as a way to steal ad rob Palestinians of their homes and farms and destroy their community. They refuse to accept that Jewish Only Road for the Jewish settlers and trespassers are apartheid and they refuse to accept the idea of separate cards and separate colors and separate license plates and destructions of tens of thousands of Arab homes and the refusals to give permits to Palestinians to build on their own properties are nothing but simple Jewish Apartheid.
In the US there are very few possibilities for any readers to get published any editorial comments in major news papers let alone publish any features in the editorial pages. When this happens and it does happen once in great while it is considered a major event celebrated by the Arab and Palestinians communities as a public holidays. News media hardly ever invite Arabs to give their point of views and of course Congress hardly ever has Arab staff experts on its payroll preferring to get its experts from the many Israeli and Jewish shops in town. There is simply no equal opportunity for Arabs when it comes to the issue of Israel and the Israeli Occupation of Palestinians and Arab land.
Publishers and editorial managing editors always exercise “self censorship” let they cross the lines and always leery of the advertising power of major advertising companies that simply can kill any publication that cross the red line.
The Jewish community has its watch and attack dogs on college campuses and in the class rooms and they have the same in the media giving its dogs some nice sounding names like Campus Watch and Accuracy in Media and Flame among others.
With that kind of environment, no wonder there are hardly any open and full fledged debate on the Arab-Israeli issues and conflicts. No wonders why we as citizens in the US can debate whether God exists or not. We can debate whether God is a man or woman, we can debate George Bush whether he is smart or simply stupid. We can debate the creation. We can openly debate Moses, Jesus, and Mohamed and can debate racism, and many social and political issues with some varying degrees of rigors. But we never have the chance to openly debate US partnership with Israel and the Occupation, or the influence of the Jewish and Zionist lobbies on decision making process in the US. I would like to know why is it that this issues that has cost US tax payers over a trillion dollars, and have cost the US so many lives most of it gunned down by the Israel Army. I ask the question why the murder of some 36 US navy personnel by the Israeli Air Force does not merit a Naval Board of Inquiry when the alleged funding of Palestinians terrorism by Professor Sami Al-Aryan merit the spending of some $100 millions on his trial and the flying at tax payers expense some 40 Israeli witnesses. Lyndon Johnson did not have the balls or the courage to order a naval board of inquiry into the murder the crew of the USS Liberty. Why the murder of Rachel Corrie by the Israeli Army does not merit or own State Department opening an investigation and the flying of the FBI agents to investigate? Why the murder of Palestinian-Americans by Israeli army and settlers does not merit opening an investigation when the murder of an American Jew makes the entire government jump from its seat and shake the White House and the US Congress. We only ask our government to treat its citizen in the same way, whether they are murdered or killed by Palestinian or Jewish terrorists. Yes, it is Apartheid and its censorship.

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