Friday, November 18, 2005
Monday, November 7th , 2005
Good morning…
I do not know the meaning of the events going on in France these days?
There are some angry people setting fires to stores, schools, governmental buildings, and private companies, burning more than 2000 cars within 10 days… in various suburbs around the capital Paris…
It captured our attention some months ago, the repeated stories about fires breaking in residential buildings inhabited by immigrants from African origins… we didn't understand whether those were the acts of French extremists who do not want the immigrants to remain among them, or they were actually the indications of the misery in which these minorities lived, in apartment buildings without the least minimum standard of security factors…
That violence and anger on the streets says that some injustice was inflicted upon those people, and to an extent it was hidden, but now its details got to the whole world…
Perhaps it was some form of apartheid in getting jobs or personal rights, or employment opportunities… but it is a painful thing.
And what shall the government do?
Will they arrest hundreds, to stop the riot?
Do these events signify that there is a real economic deadlock of which the French government suffers, emerging as unemployment, then the anger of the poor classes? Or are there some unjust laws that segregates the people; this one is a genuine French, and this one is an immigrant, the first has full rights; work, social security and health insurance… while the second has none of those?
I mean, I remember the legislation concerning forbidding wearing the veil in the French public schools a few years ago, which contained a lot of injustice to those communities, depriving them of personal rights, or the right to express their identity…
I do not know… we all wonder at what is happening there…
Perhaps the coming days will carry the answers to us…
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As for Iraq, the state is still the same…
The occupation forces is besieging Iraqi towns near the Syrian border; bombing houses, killing whomever they want, and no one knows what is happening there; perhaps it is the finishing-off of the remains of an Iraqi resistance that target the occupation soldiers with daily military operations, for the number of the dead American soldiers jumped to more than 2040, the Iraqi government is sending troops of the new Iraqi army to join the Americans, even if by form only, to bestow a legitimacy implying that the Iraqi government is in agreement with what is happening, and that there are some strangers on the borders, who are being chased, and liquidated…
The Iraqi government calls the occupation forces: The Multi-National Forces…
What a nice, romantic name…
We insist on calling them by their real, ugly name: The Occupation Forces, and nothing shall change the reality, even if they change the names…
We are the Iraqi people… and those are the occupation forces. That is the story in brief…
***********************************
A few weeks ago, we watched the trial of Saddam Hussein, for the murder of about 148 Iraqis in Haweeja, more than 20 years ago….
And by the Will of GOD, the Iraqis shall put on trial all whose hands are stained by killing the innocent people in Fallujah, Al-Qaim, Hadeetha, Al-Karrabilla, Al-Dilooia'a, and others…
There will come the day when we put the criminals in cages, and read them the prosecution list…
And all the people shall know then what really happened in those Iraqi towns….
GOD grants victory to the unjustly treated, even if after a while…
*************************************
The next month there is a new Iraqi election…
We do not hope for beautiful, "rosy" issues, nor for results that would fulfill our ambitions, by bringing totally nationalistic men and women, who can achieve the people's hopes in freedom, justice, and independence, but we do hope the next elections would be a little better than the last one, meaning; it would have more transparency, and would bring cleaner personalities…
And "cleaner" means: less corrupt in administration, more nationalistic in thought and action, less loyal and bent towards the occupation, and more merciful to the Iraqi people.
The first priority of the new leaders should be to achieve the least minimum amount of national unity among themselves, and provide the good livelihood to the Iraqis, by way of: reducing the embezzlement in the state administration, to provide enough public funds to employ people, improve their economic incomes, and rehabilitate the infrastructure of the country; water supply, electricity, sewage pipelines, and communications… billions of dollars were stolen out of the public Iraqi funds since the fall of Baghdad until now…. The first of which is the $ 9 billion that "disappeared" in the days of Paul Premer, and which he denied ever knowing about it…. He "established" the principle of stealing out of the public funds, and was an ideal epitome for the rest of the Governing Council members, to the ministers, and whoever officials who followed them…
How many projects could have been accomplished for the Iraqis, if that money would have been saved in the treasury?
How many employment opportunities could have been created, so that many Iraqi families could have lived by, and guarantee a good livelihood?
All of Iraq has turned into a giant robbery, since the occupation entered it…
Since the first day when they broadcasted the pictures of the fools who stole vases from the palaces, laughing, trotting…. And the series of robbing Iraq started…
And we have a parable that says: The abandoned money teaches the theft…
Of course, who shall judge who?
They are all thieves…..
And the Iraqi people are the victims……
*************************************
In the coming elections, 228 political formations shall take part, and 21 coalitions, (actually, they are all in all 100 political formations), so the total sum will be 328 formations, or group, or party…
In truth, there are four lists that will be the major ones, that will decide who will come into the next National Assembly, and of whom the new government will be formed…
The Kurds list, which will be the winner in the Kurdish regions without an opponent…
Then, there will be a hard competition between the remaining three lists: The Shia'ats clergy list, the list of Ayyad Alawi and the personalities with him, who are more pure than him, and the Sunny Parties list…
America perhaps supports Ayyad Alawi more than the others…
When he appears in TV interviews, he seems a pure nationalistic, more national that all of us, criticizing the policy of America and the occupation forces….
But the actual reality says: what did he do when he was in the interim government, as a Prime minister?
Didn't he sign the agreement for the occupation forces to bomb Fallujah and destroy it?
Fallujah was the beginning of the series of bombing Iraqi towns, under the pretext of eliminating insurgents and foreign terrorists….
And we know that they are killing the Iraqi resistance that is targeting their soldiers…
How do we trust this man, while we have a black experience with him?
Who guarantees that he will change his course towards the better?
As for the rest, the leaders of the Shia'ats Parties, they are losers and miserable, they have nothing but the speech of silly sectarianism, and their limited, narrow horizon, and they will fall, not this time perhaps, but in the next time, I mean; time can surely enlighten people and open their eyes, and can surely make these leaderships fall, those who came to drag us back to the mentality of the dark middle ages….those who divide us, not unite us….
GOD bless those who gather the Muslim's word, and unite them….
As for the Sunny Parties list, they have a better chance than the last elections, but if they do not broaden their horizon, and identify themselves as Iraqi National Parties, their support will remain limited… they must extend their popularity base to include all the Iraqis who oppose the occupation of Iraq and its vicious policies, they must include Sunnies, Shia'ats, Arabs, Kurds, Turkmans, and others from the hues of the Iraqi people… that is how this list will be the hope of the Iraqis… and if they do not win enough seats this time, they will get a better position in the next, next time, when they broaden their base…
Time is the best teacher….
Now, the conditions are sad in Iraq, and the national resistance's entity is still fresh, but by the passage of time, we hope she would get older, its body would be stronger, and its experience will ripen, so as to gain the people's assent, their respect, and the legitimacy of representing them….
I know that the presence of the occupation in the picture will deform everything…and will not let things go as we like them to go… but we have faith that everything will go on by the Will of GOD, not by the occupier's will…
We have faith that GOD sees us, hears us, and will grant victory to the truthful among us…..Amen.
*****************************
Translated by May/Baghdad.
Good morning…
I do not know the meaning of the events going on in France these days?
There are some angry people setting fires to stores, schools, governmental buildings, and private companies, burning more than 2000 cars within 10 days… in various suburbs around the capital Paris…
It captured our attention some months ago, the repeated stories about fires breaking in residential buildings inhabited by immigrants from African origins… we didn't understand whether those were the acts of French extremists who do not want the immigrants to remain among them, or they were actually the indications of the misery in which these minorities lived, in apartment buildings without the least minimum standard of security factors…
That violence and anger on the streets says that some injustice was inflicted upon those people, and to an extent it was hidden, but now its details got to the whole world…
Perhaps it was some form of apartheid in getting jobs or personal rights, or employment opportunities… but it is a painful thing.
And what shall the government do?
Will they arrest hundreds, to stop the riot?
Do these events signify that there is a real economic deadlock of which the French government suffers, emerging as unemployment, then the anger of the poor classes? Or are there some unjust laws that segregates the people; this one is a genuine French, and this one is an immigrant, the first has full rights; work, social security and health insurance… while the second has none of those?
I mean, I remember the legislation concerning forbidding wearing the veil in the French public schools a few years ago, which contained a lot of injustice to those communities, depriving them of personal rights, or the right to express their identity…
I do not know… we all wonder at what is happening there…
Perhaps the coming days will carry the answers to us…
*****************************************
As for Iraq, the state is still the same…
The occupation forces is besieging Iraqi towns near the Syrian border; bombing houses, killing whomever they want, and no one knows what is happening there; perhaps it is the finishing-off of the remains of an Iraqi resistance that target the occupation soldiers with daily military operations, for the number of the dead American soldiers jumped to more than 2040, the Iraqi government is sending troops of the new Iraqi army to join the Americans, even if by form only, to bestow a legitimacy implying that the Iraqi government is in agreement with what is happening, and that there are some strangers on the borders, who are being chased, and liquidated…
The Iraqi government calls the occupation forces: The Multi-National Forces…
What a nice, romantic name…
We insist on calling them by their real, ugly name: The Occupation Forces, and nothing shall change the reality, even if they change the names…
We are the Iraqi people… and those are the occupation forces. That is the story in brief…
***********************************
A few weeks ago, we watched the trial of Saddam Hussein, for the murder of about 148 Iraqis in Haweeja, more than 20 years ago….
And by the Will of GOD, the Iraqis shall put on trial all whose hands are stained by killing the innocent people in Fallujah, Al-Qaim, Hadeetha, Al-Karrabilla, Al-Dilooia'a, and others…
There will come the day when we put the criminals in cages, and read them the prosecution list…
And all the people shall know then what really happened in those Iraqi towns….
GOD grants victory to the unjustly treated, even if after a while…
*************************************
The next month there is a new Iraqi election…
We do not hope for beautiful, "rosy" issues, nor for results that would fulfill our ambitions, by bringing totally nationalistic men and women, who can achieve the people's hopes in freedom, justice, and independence, but we do hope the next elections would be a little better than the last one, meaning; it would have more transparency, and would bring cleaner personalities…
And "cleaner" means: less corrupt in administration, more nationalistic in thought and action, less loyal and bent towards the occupation, and more merciful to the Iraqi people.
The first priority of the new leaders should be to achieve the least minimum amount of national unity among themselves, and provide the good livelihood to the Iraqis, by way of: reducing the embezzlement in the state administration, to provide enough public funds to employ people, improve their economic incomes, and rehabilitate the infrastructure of the country; water supply, electricity, sewage pipelines, and communications… billions of dollars were stolen out of the public Iraqi funds since the fall of Baghdad until now…. The first of which is the $ 9 billion that "disappeared" in the days of Paul Premer, and which he denied ever knowing about it…. He "established" the principle of stealing out of the public funds, and was an ideal epitome for the rest of the Governing Council members, to the ministers, and whoever officials who followed them…
How many projects could have been accomplished for the Iraqis, if that money would have been saved in the treasury?
How many employment opportunities could have been created, so that many Iraqi families could have lived by, and guarantee a good livelihood?
All of Iraq has turned into a giant robbery, since the occupation entered it…
Since the first day when they broadcasted the pictures of the fools who stole vases from the palaces, laughing, trotting…. And the series of robbing Iraq started…
And we have a parable that says: The abandoned money teaches the theft…
Of course, who shall judge who?
They are all thieves…..
And the Iraqi people are the victims……
*************************************
In the coming elections, 228 political formations shall take part, and 21 coalitions, (actually, they are all in all 100 political formations), so the total sum will be 328 formations, or group, or party…
In truth, there are four lists that will be the major ones, that will decide who will come into the next National Assembly, and of whom the new government will be formed…
The Kurds list, which will be the winner in the Kurdish regions without an opponent…
Then, there will be a hard competition between the remaining three lists: The Shia'ats clergy list, the list of Ayyad Alawi and the personalities with him, who are more pure than him, and the Sunny Parties list…
America perhaps supports Ayyad Alawi more than the others…
When he appears in TV interviews, he seems a pure nationalistic, more national that all of us, criticizing the policy of America and the occupation forces….
But the actual reality says: what did he do when he was in the interim government, as a Prime minister?
Didn't he sign the agreement for the occupation forces to bomb Fallujah and destroy it?
Fallujah was the beginning of the series of bombing Iraqi towns, under the pretext of eliminating insurgents and foreign terrorists….
And we know that they are killing the Iraqi resistance that is targeting their soldiers…
How do we trust this man, while we have a black experience with him?
Who guarantees that he will change his course towards the better?
As for the rest, the leaders of the Shia'ats Parties, they are losers and miserable, they have nothing but the speech of silly sectarianism, and their limited, narrow horizon, and they will fall, not this time perhaps, but in the next time, I mean; time can surely enlighten people and open their eyes, and can surely make these leaderships fall, those who came to drag us back to the mentality of the dark middle ages….those who divide us, not unite us….
GOD bless those who gather the Muslim's word, and unite them….
As for the Sunny Parties list, they have a better chance than the last elections, but if they do not broaden their horizon, and identify themselves as Iraqi National Parties, their support will remain limited… they must extend their popularity base to include all the Iraqis who oppose the occupation of Iraq and its vicious policies, they must include Sunnies, Shia'ats, Arabs, Kurds, Turkmans, and others from the hues of the Iraqi people… that is how this list will be the hope of the Iraqis… and if they do not win enough seats this time, they will get a better position in the next, next time, when they broaden their base…
Time is the best teacher….
Now, the conditions are sad in Iraq, and the national resistance's entity is still fresh, but by the passage of time, we hope she would get older, its body would be stronger, and its experience will ripen, so as to gain the people's assent, their respect, and the legitimacy of representing them….
I know that the presence of the occupation in the picture will deform everything…and will not let things go as we like them to go… but we have faith that everything will go on by the Will of GOD, not by the occupier's will…
We have faith that GOD sees us, hears us, and will grant victory to the truthful among us…..Amen.
*****************************
Translated by May/Baghdad.
# posted by Faiza Al-Araji @ 5:02 pm 
