Michael Jackson: 1958-2009
"King of Pop" Was Entertainment World's Most Influential Performer - And Tabloid World's Most Disturbing Celebrity




Michael Jackson: 1958-2009

The "King Of Pop" had a life full of number one hits and personal scandals
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(CBS/ AP) Michael Jackson, the moonwalking former child star who became known the world over as the "King of Pop" before his life and career deteriorated in a freakish series of scandals, has died. He was 50.

A person with knowledge of the situation says Jackson died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.

His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.
Jackson's 1982 album, "Thriller" still is the top-selling album of all time, and Michael Jackson was the top performer in the world through much of the 1980s. But somewhere along the way, Jackson went from the king of pop to wacko Jacko.

Some say it started with an accident during the filming of a TV commercial that burned his scalp severely and led to a dependence on prescription pain killers. He became an increasingly reclusive and odd figure.
He was married briefly to Elvis Presley's daughter, then to his skin doctor's assistant. Jackson was a father of three, despite ongoing speculation that they could not be his natural children. He sparked one of his many scandals when he dangled one of the children over a balcony, causing concern of his parenting skills.

All of those scandals paled to the ongoing suspicion of child abuse. He paid one boy more than $20 million to make his allegations go away, but it happened again one day in November 2003.

The charges stemmed from a documentary in which Jackson stated again his belief that having young boys in his bed was completely natural.

"It's very right. It's very loving. That's what the world needs now," Jackson said at the time.

Much of the world saw it differently. Jackson was arrested, handcuffed, booked and eventually stood trial. The court case was a surreal spectacle befitting Jackson's bizarre way of life, including dancing on top of SUVS, pajamas worn to court, and a string of celebrities walking in and out of the courthouse in Santa Maria, California.

"Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court," Jackson said.

But the inconsistent testimony from the boy and his family members, including a truly bizarre five days on the stand from the boy's mother, convinced the jury Jackson was not guilty. Still, the acquittal never completely put to rest the questions surrounding Michael Jackson., a curious figure who leaves behind a legacy of staggering musical genius, and stunningly bad judgment.

Jackson has kept a largely low profile in recent years but in March, he announced he would perform a series of London concerts scheduled for July.

Jackson was a master of memorable performances and a man whose real life remains a mystery. Michael Jackson also leaves legions of fans with an ongoing fascination with the one-time and some would say forever king of pop

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Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation?
Announcing a new on-line database: www.whoprofits.org

Now, more then ever, Israeli activists need a powerful global movement to help us build a just peace in Israel/ Palestine. Looking for effective tools for ending the occupation, we have launched a new website listing companies directly involved in the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. The grassroots initiative, of the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace, includes a database and an information center, and reflects an on-going two-year effort, rigorous research, documentation and site visits.

This unprecedented on-line resource already lists about 200 companies, and hundreds more will be added during 2009, offering an extensive and intricate mapping of the corporate aspects and interests in the continued occupation. The website offers a new useful categorization of all corporate interests in the occupation, and exposes specific examples of direct involvement of many international and Israeli companies for the first time. In tracing ownership links it shows in detail how some of Israel's largest corporations are tied in with the occupation.

The database allows for advanced searches, such as: Which U.S. corporations support the West Bank military checkpoints? Which of the companies are listed in the London stock-exchange? What settlements' production is formally registered inside Israel? Note, however, that the on-line data is always partial, always growing, and please send us any relevant information, further requests for information or suggestions.

As Israeli activists, we feel obligated to try and educate ourselves and others about the economic incentives and corporate involvement in the occupation, but this is not enough. You can support our efforts by continuing this investigation in your own country, by informing others of our website, or by sending us a much needed donation.

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Not war by other means
By Akiva Eldar
After the idea of the "enlightened occupation" was brought down atop thousands of people, both Israelis and Palestinians, the Jewish mind has concocted something new: "bringing down Hamas." For 20 years, until the first intifada, politicians pledged that if we give them enough carrots, the Palestinians will come to love their masters. After it became clear that even the biggest carrot, the "generous proposals" we advanced at the negotiating table, would not appease our neighbors, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak pulled out the stick.
When it comes to the policies in the territories in general and in the Gaza Strip in particular, the sole difference between Livni and Barak and the right is that the right proposes using a bigger club. Much to their surprise, not only does Hamas refuse to be dismantled, its standing in Arab public opinion and the territories was strengthened by Operation Cast Lead. And that is just the beginning.
Despite the long years of conflict, endless wars and military operations, we have not learned that our standard of "victory" or "resolution" is completely different from that of our adversary. Despite the losses and destruction, the Second Lebanon War was "seared" into the Arab consciousness as Moshe Ya'alon's failure and as a heroic victory over the strongest army in the Middle East. Precisely because of the many children killed in Gaza, Cast Lead has been assured a place of honor in the ethos of the struggle of the Palestinian David, armed with primitive Qassams, and the Israeli Goliath, with his F-16s. After all, no reasonable person expected Hamas or Hezbollah to beat the Israel Defense Forces on the battlefield. By the same token, in the international, regional and Palestinian arenas, the jailer of 1.5 million Gazans has no chance of deciding the battle by military means.
When they hear the proud declarations of Israel's leaders, to the effect that "deterrence" has been restored, Hamas' leaders certainly laugh themselves to death, and not just because of the rockets that continue to fall on the people of Ashkelon. The threat of a few more bombs on Gaza deters them like the death penalty deters a suicide bomber on the way to carry out an attack. If every casualty in Sderot is one more vote for the right, then every dead child in Gaza is one more vote for Hamas. And, according to those who contend (to a large extent correctly) that Hamas is Iran's agent, another vote for Hamas constitutes another gift to Iran. The siege on Gaza, which struck a fatal blow to the people's livelihoods there, fortifies Hamas' standing. An occupier who prevents the sick from getting to the hospital and students from going to university should not be surprised that these people do not consider the occupier to be Hamas' enemy, but rather the enemy
of the Palestinian people.
A pledge to topple Hamas by military means is like a pledge to make "economic peace" with the Palestinians. It seems anything but needless to point out that we are dealing with a political conflict, not a military or economic one. Hamas is not a "terror organization," but a movement that won an election held with the international community's blessing, and with Israel's permission. When the adversary is a political party, no matter how violent, it is impossible to turn on its head the rule of famous military philosopher Carl von Clausewitz, changing it to "politics is a continuation of war by other means." Or, as Livni put it in her recent Haaretz interview, "Operation Cast Lead should be treated as a military operation with military goals."
Whether Livni likes it or not, Cast Lead had political goals, and they ran counter to the strategic goal she is supposedly striving for - a Jewish and democratic state. The road there could have been short, if it were possible to wipe Hamas out. Unfortunately, racist parties are an integral part of our region's political landscape. If Yisrael Beiteinu was part of a unity government, Hamas can be, too. Only a long-term cease-fire, accompanied by a real diplomatic context, can pull the rug of popular support out from under Hamas and restore it to its natural proportions.

Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on January 28, 2009, Printed on January 29, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/122810/
What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the very same "children of Israel" described in the Old Testament?
And what if most modern Israelis aren't descended from the ancient Israelites at all, but are actually a mix of Europeans, North Africans and others who didn't "return" to the scrap of land we now call Israel and establish a new state following the attempt to exterminate them during World War II, but came in and forcefully displaced people whose ancestors had lived there for millennia?
What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora -- the story recounted at Passover tables by Jews around the world every year detailing the ancient Jews' exile from Judea, the years spent wandering through the desert, their escape from the Pharaoh's clutches -- is all wrong?
That's the explosive thesis of When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?, a book by Tel Aviv University scholar Shlomo Zand (or Sand) that sent shockwaves across Israeli society when it was published last year. After 19 weeks on the Israeli best-seller list, the book is being translated into a dozen languages and will be published in the United States this year by Verso.
Its thesis has ramifications that go far beyond some antediluvian academic debate. Few modern conflicts are as attached to ancient history as that decades-long cycle of bloodletting between Israelis and Palestinians. Each group lays claim to the same scrap of land -- holy in all three of the world's major Abrahamic religions -- based on long-standing ties to that chunk of earth and national identities formed over long periods of time. There's probably no other place on Earth where the present is as intimately tied to the ancient.
Central to the ideology of Zionism is the tale -- familiar to all Jewish families -- of exile, oppression, redemption and return. Booted from their kingdom, the "Jewish people" -- sons and daughters of ancient Judea -- wandered the earth, rootless, where they faced cruel suppression from all corners -- from being forced to toil in slavery under the Egyptians, to the Spanish massacres of the 14th century and Russian pogroms of the 19th, through to the horrors of the Third Reich.
This view of history animates all Zionists, but none more so than the influential but reactionary minority -- in the United States as well as Israel -- who believe that God bestowed a "Greater Israel" -- one that encompasses the modern state as well as the Occupied Territories -- on the Jewish people, and who resist any effort to create a Palestinian state on biblical grounds.
Inventing a People?
Zand's central argument is that the Romans didn't expel whole nations from their territories. Zand estimates that perhaps 10,000 ancient Judeans were vanquished during the Roman wars, and the remaining inhabitants of ancient Judea remained, converting to Islam and assimilating with their conquerors when Arabs subjugated the area. They became the progenitors of today's Palestinian Arabs, many of whom now live as refugees who were exiled from their homeland during the 20th century.
As Israeli journalist Tom Segev summarized, in a review of the book in Ha'aretz:
There never was a Jewish people, only a Jewish religion, and the exile also never happened -- hence there was no return. Zand rejects most of the stories of national-identity formation in the Bible, including the exodus from Egypt and, most satisfactorily, the horrors of the conquest under Joshua.
But this begs the question: if the ancient people of Judea weren't expelled en masse, then how did it come to pass that Jewish people are scattered across the world? According to Zand, who offers detailed histories of several groups within what is conventionally known as the Jewish Diaspora, some were Jews who emigrated of their own volition, and many more were later converts to Judaism. Contrary to popular belief, Zand argues that Judaism was an evangelical religion that actively sought out new adherents during its formative period.
This narrative has huge significance in terms of Israel's national identity. If Judaism is a religion, rather than "a people" descended from a dispersed nation, then it brings into question the central justification for the state of Israel remaining a "Jewish state."
And that brings us to Zand's second assertion. He argues that the story of the Jewish nation -- the transformation of the Jewish people from a group with a shared cultural identity and religious faith into a vanquished "people" -- was a relatively recent invention, hatched in the 19th century by Zionist scholars and advanced by the Israeli academic establishment. It was, argues Zand, an intellectual conspiracy of sorts. Segev says, "It's all fiction and myth that served as an excuse for the establishment of the State of Israel."
Zand Gets Slammed; Do His Arguments Stand Up?
The ramifications of Zand's argument are far-reaching; "the chances that the Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic people are much greater than the chances that you or I are its descendants," he told Ha'aretz. Zand argues that Israel should be a state in which all of the inhabitants of what was once "British Palestine" share the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship, rather than maintaining it as a "Jewish and democratic" state, as it's now identified.
Predictably, Zand was pilloried according to the time-tested formula. Ami Isseroff, writing on ZioNation, the Zionism-Israel blog, invoked the customary Holocaust imagery, accusing Zand of offering a "final solution to the Jewish problem," one in which "No auto da fe is required, no charging Cossacks are needed, no gas chambers, no smelly crematoria." Another feverish ideologue called Zand's work "another manifestation of mental disorder in the extreme academic Left in Israel."
That kind of overheated rhetoric is a standard straw man in the endless roil of discourse over Israel and the Palestinians, and is easily dismissed. But more serious criticism also greeted Zand's work. In a widely read critical review of Zand's work, Israel Bartal, dean of humanities at the Hebrew University, slammed the author's second assertion -- that Zionist academics had suppressed the true history of Judaism's spread through emigration and conversion in favor of a history that would give legitimacy to the quest for a Jewish state.
Bartal raised important questions about Zand's methodology and pointed out what appears to be some sloppy details in the book. But, interestingly, in defending Israel's academic community, Bartal supported Zand's more consequential thesis, writing, "Although the myth of an exile from the Jewish homeland (Palestine) does exist in popular Israeli culture, it is negligible in serious Jewish historical discussions." Bartal added: "no historian of the Jewish national movement has ever really believed that the origins of the Jews are ethnically and biologically 'pure.' " He noted that "[i]mportant groups in the [Zionist] movement expressed reservations regarding this myth or denied it completely."
"As far as I can discern," Bartal wrote, "the book contains not even one idea that has not been presented" in previous historical studies. Segev added that "Zand did not invent [his] thesis; 30 years before the Declaration of Independence, it was espoused by David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and others."
One can reasonably argue that this ancient myth of a Jewish nation exiled until its 20th century return is of little consequence; whether the Jewish people share a common genetic ancestry or are a far-flung collection of people who share the same faith, a common national identity has in fact developed over the centuries. But Zand's central contention stands, and has some significant implications for the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Changing the Conversation?
The primary reason it's so difficult to discuss the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is the remarkably effective job supporters of Israel's control of the Occupied Territories -- including Gaza, still under de facto occupation -- have done equating support for Palestinian self-determination with a desire to see the destruction of Israel. It effectively conflates any advocacy of Palestinian rights with the specter of Jewish extermination.
That's certainly been the case with arguments for a single-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Until recent years, advocating a "single-state" solution -- a binational state where all residents of what are today Israel and the Occupied Territories share the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship -- was a relatively mainstream position to take. In fact, it was one of several competing plans considered by the United Nations when it created the state of Israel in the 1940s.
But the idea of a single, binational state has more recently been marginalized -- dismissed as an attempt to destroy Israel literally and physically, rather than as an ethnic and religious-based political entity with a population of second-class Arab citizens and the legacy of responsibility for world's longest-standing refugee population.
A logical conclusion of Zand's work exposing Israel's founding mythology may be the restoration of the idea of a one-state solution to a legitimate place in the debate over this contentious region. After all, while it muddies the waters in one sense -- raising ancient, biblical questions about just who the "children of Israel" really are -- in another sense, it hints at the commonalities that exist between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Both groups lay claim to the same crust of earth, both have faced historic repression and displacement and both hold dear the idea that they should have a "right of return."
And if both groups in fact share common biblical ties, then it begs the question of why the entirety of what was Palestine under the British mandate should remain a refuge for people of one religion instead of being a country in which Jews and Arabs are guaranteed equal protection -- equal protection under the laws of a state whose legitimacy would never again be open to question.
Joshua Holland is an AlterNet staff writer.
© 2009 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
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The African Union on Monday called on the international community to provide urgent relief for the war-weary Gaza Strip.

The 53-member organization called on the United Nations to investigate human rights violations during Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza, as well, calling preliminary evidence of such behavior “massive, indiscriminate and disproportionate,” according to an African news agency.

But the AU applauded the unilateral ceasefire presented in mid-January, calling on both sides to respect them, “in order to create conditions that are most conductive to a lasting solution to the conflict.”

"The AU renews its support for and solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle to regain their fundamental rights, including the right to existence as an independent state with Jerusalem" as its capital, the union said in a statement.

The AU also urged Israel to “put an end to its aggression against the Palestinian people, lift the embargo it imposed on them and open without delay all border crossings to allow for the free movement of goods and persons, most importantly humanitarian aid.”

Meanwhile, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was elected to represent the AU as its leader. He has been outspoken about the plight of Palestinians in recent weeks, as well as for unity among African nations.

Religious leaders reinforce campaign to save Jerusalem

02.02.09 - 20:04

PNN exclusive / Maisa Abu Ghazaleh – Under the title “Aggression on Gaza…targeting of Jerusalem,” religious leaders held a conference Monday in East Jerusalem.
The dangers surrounding the city cannot be overstated, was the resounding point, along with timing of the attacks on Gaza exploited to further settlement policy.
“The world must take immediate action to save the city and its Islamic and Christian sanctities,” said Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi. “And the internal division only serves the Israeli government in achieving its objectives that seek to destroy.”
Jerusalem is still considered the capital of an independent Palestinian state and the Israeli administration is defying the United Nations and international law with the continued takeover.
Projects were suggested to save the city including a weekly program focusing on the city to broadcast on Muslim and Arab satellite channels. Support for residents who are facing increased pressure to flee their homes is also crucial, conference goers said.
Conference moderator Sheikh Jamil Hamami said, “Jerusalem is central to our faith and civilization. The assault on the Gaza Strip that is ongoing charges us to increase our unity and we are optimistic that the new US president will be a positive actor.”
Head of the Supreme Islamic Conference, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, said that the Israeli excavations under Al Aqsa Mosque and the Al Haram As Sharif compound “threaten heritage, history and civilization.”
He told the group of several hundred gathered today, “Jerusalem is forgotten by many right now and we must protect it as the focus is on Gaza, but we must say that we appreciate the position of the Turkish Prime Minister at Davos and the courage and tenacity of thousands.”
Sheikh Sabri went on to address the Israeli attacks on the Silwan neighborhood where part of the United Nations school collapsed yesterday due to excavations under Al Aqsa. “Our history, our character, is under direct attack.”
He added a call to the UNESCO to increase its role in defending Islamic holy sites.
At Monday’s conference Patriarch Michel Sabbah also addressed the necessary focus on Gaza while directly addressing the internal Palestinian divide. It “has fostered the Israeli ability to further its schemes,” calling on Palestinian factions to return to unity. “We are issuing a call to action to save Jerusalem as our historic Arab, Muslim, Christian city.”
Sheikh Ra’ed Salah who heads the Islamic Movement inside the Green Line also called for Palestinian unity and said that the Old City of Jerusalem is under direct and is undergoing Judaization at a heightened pace.”
Governor Adnan Al Husseini called on international institutions to lend a direct hand in saving Jerusalem.http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4695&Itemid=29

Winograd member: Disturbing similarities between Gaza, Lebanon wars
Prof. Ruth Gabizon says that like war against Hizbullah in 2006, goals of
recent military offensive in Strip were unclear and it ended with
'insufficient ceasefire'
Vered Luvitch

"Israel has a tendency to belittle its enemies," said Prof. Ruth
Gabizon, a former member of the Winograd Committee, which probed the failures of
the Second Lebanon War in 2006.

Speaking at conference held by the Institute for National Security Studies on
Wednesday, Gabizon said "we like to call them (enemies) terrorists; we look
down on them and underestimate their legitimacy.

"We must understand that we are facing a stubborn enemy that will not
surrender easily. They are very serious as far as their sense of righteousness
is concerned," she said.

Gabizon claimed that part of the failure in Lebanon stemmed from the fact that
the war's goals were unclear, saying that the situation was similar to the
one the IDF faced during the recent offensive in Gaza.

The professor said that both wars ended with an "insufficient"
ceasefire, adding that "the conflict in Gaza is not over."

Retired Judge Eliyahu Winograd, who headed the Commission, told the conference
that the IDF's conduct during the operation in Gaza proved that it had drawn
lessons from the war in Lebanon, at least as far as its relationship with the
media was concerned.

"There were no leaks by senior officers; the decision to prohibit soldiers
from bringing their cell phones to Gaza was implemented in full, and the policy
of accessibility to the press, which was supported by the previous chief of
staff (Dan Halutz) was abandoned," he said.

Winograd said the entrance of reporters into the battle zone in Gaza was
carried out in coordination with the army, adding that the IDF
Spokesperson's Unit was the main source of information for the media.

"It appears that the reporters and anchormen internalized the lessons of
the Second Lebanon War and did not compete with one another for scoops,"
Winograd said. "The press cooperated with the Military Censor."

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There are many and various reasons for youth's corruption and his problems. Man, during the period of his youthfulness has a lot of physical, mental and intellectual developments. That period is an evolutionary one in which man experiences rapid development in his transformation. Hence the need for providing him with means of self-control and curbing of his self-defiance as well as wise leadership that can lead him to the straight path. Youth corruption can be attributed to many factors, prominent among them are:

1. Joblessness

Joblessness is a disease that kills mental, intellectual and physical capabilities. As a matter of fact, it is inevitable that human being should move and work and if he is deprived of work and movement, his brain becomes beset, his intellect becomes exhausted, and movement of the mind becomes weak and devilish insinuations and malicious thoughts take control of his heart. Evil and wicked intentions may occur to him as a result of the depression that befalls him out of his joblessness.

In order to be cured of this disease, the affected youth should get a vocation that suits him like reading, writing, trading or any other thing that can stand between him and his joblessness and which is capable of making him a sound and useful member of his community whether he does the work for himself or for others.

2. Estrangement between youths and elders

This problem appears in a situation where some elders see corruption in their youths and just stand aloof without making any effort to correct them having lost hope in their reform and consequently hating them or being scared of them and paying non-challenged attitude to their conditions whether they are good or bad.

These elders have already concluded that youths are all corrupted and therefore nurse psychological grudges against every youth, a situation that tears the society apart and causes both elders and youths to regard each other with contempt and disdain. This, indeed, is one of the dangers that encircle the society.

This problem however can be solved if elders and youths endeavour to remove the estrangement and alienation that exist between them. Both should bear it in mind that society- with its youths and elders - is like a single body, and if a part of it decays, the decadence will affect the whole body. Elders also are requested to feel the sense of responsibility rested on their shoulders towards their youths and eliminate the hopelessness of youths' piety in their minds because Allah is capable of doing everything.

For, how often a person straying far has been guided by Allah who thereafter became a torch of guidance and a reformer.
Youths on their part, should hold their elders in high esteem. They should respect their views and accept their directives because they have achieved degrees of experience and reality of life which youths have not achieved. Therefore when elders' wisdom are added to youths' energy the society becomes prosperous by the will of Allah.

3. Getting in contact with corrupted people and keeping their companies

This situation has a lot of psychological, mental and moral influence on the youth. That is why the Prophet (ًٍٍٍِSAWS) said: "Man is on the religion of his intimate friend, so let every one of you look critically for whom to befriend."

Solution to this problem is that the youth should choose a righteous, good and intelligent person as his companion in order to benefit from his goodness, righteousness and intelligence. He should consider people very well before befriending them by studying their conditions and reputations. If they happen to be people of noble character, upright, religious and of good reputation, they are his object of long cherished wish and his acquired booty. He should therefore stick to them.

If on the other hand they happen to be people of opposite characters, he must be cautious of them, keep away from them and should not be carried away by their sweet-talk and fine outward appearance.

4. Reading of destructive books, magazines, newspapers, etc

This type of literature makes one skeptical about his religion and faith and drags one from excellent morality to the abyss of degeneration which naturally leads to kufr (disbelief) and depravity if the youth does not have a strong resistance power in terms of deep Islamic education and mental acuteness and sagacity that can enable him differentiate between truth and falsehood and between what is useful and what is harmful.

Also, reading of this kind of literature turns the youth upside down because it meets fertile ground in his mind and thinking without any hindrance and get its roots strengthened and its stem solidified. It also reflects in his rationality and life.

The solution to this problem is to immediately shift from reading such literature to books that inculcate the love of Allah and His Prophet (SAWS) in one's heart and those books that help in actualizing faith and virtuous deeds. He should patiently endure reading of those books because his soul will put up a strong fight against him in order to coerce him into reading what he was used to before and will make him feel bored and irritated at reading useful books.

Example of him is like a person who wrestles with his soul so as to force it obeys Allah and the soul instead insists on wallowing in falsehood and distraction.

There are many useful books that help in this situation, most important of which is the Noble Qur'an and its Tafseer (explanation) written by scholars who based their exegesis on authentically transmitted ahadeeth [Traditions of Prophet Muhammad (SAWS)] and unequivocal common sense. Equally important and useful are books on ahadeeth and writings of scholars that are deduced and inferred from the two above mentioned sources.

[Summarized from: Youth's Problems in the Light of the Qur'an and Sunnah]



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Please place this plea to your concerned country-authority, its people, politicians.
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"Quanti bambini, quante donne, quanti innocenti dovranno essere ancora uccisi prima che qualcuno decida di intervenire e di fermare questo massacro?
ROMA - Tantissime, e continuano ad arrivare, le adesioni all'appello promosso da Acli, Arci e Legambiente insieme ad altre organizzazioni nazionali, gruppi locali, personalita', famiglie, cittadini e cittadine. Un appello rinnovato per raccogliere l'invito lanciato oggi dalla Tavola della Pace per incontrarsi ad Assisi sabato 17 gennaio (ore 10) e continuare a chiedere il cessate il fuoco nella Striscia di Gaza.

"Iniziamo a costruire nelle nostre citta', nelle nostre comunita', nelle scuole, nei luoghi di lavoro, una grande partecipazione- affermano gli organizzatori- per essere in tanti e tante ad Assisi e gridare: 'C'e' un modo per evitare il massacro di civili. C'e' un modo per salvare il popolo palestinese. C'e' un modo per garantire la sicurezza di Israele e del suo popolo. C'e' un modo per dare una possibilita' alla pace in Medio Oriente. C'e' un modo per non arrendersi alla legge del piu' forte e affermare il diritto internazionale'.

Cessate il fuoco in tutta l'area; ritiro immediato delle truppe israeliane; fine dell'assedio di Gaza; protezione umanitaria internazionale".

Nell'appello, la Tavola della Pace afferma: "Quanti bambini, quante donne, quanti innocenti dovranno essere ancora uccisi prima che qualcuno decida di intervenire e di fermare questo massacro? Quanti morti ci dovranno essere ancora prima che qualcuno abbia il coraggio di dire basta? La guerra deve essere fermata ora. Non c'e' piu' tempo per la vecchia politica, per la retorica, per gli appelli vuoti e inconcludenti- continua il testo-. E' venuto il tempo di un impegno forte, autorevole e coraggioso dell'Italia, della comunita' internazionale e di tutti i costruttori di pace per mettere definitivamente fine a questa e a tutte le altre guerre del Medio Oriente. Senza dimenticare il resto del mondo. Giovani, donne, uomini, gruppi, associazioni, sindacati, enti locali, media, scuole, parrocchie, chiese, forze politiche: a ciascuno si chiede "di fare qualcosa". (Dires - Redattore Sociale)

Send this letter to all the email addressess of international org and country leaders

Please STOP GENOCIDE IN GAZA, STOP INFENTICIDE IN GAZA.
You are meant to maintain peace. Ask nations to mount pressure, send peace keeping force to Gaza, if it needs. Explel itruders from Gaza.
We can not tolerate more, stop the barbarism

United Permanent Missions
Please place this plea to your concerned country-authority, its people, politicians.
Stop triggering humans.

TO- UNITED NATIONS
inquiries@un.org ,

afgwatan@aol.com , albania@un.int , algeria@un.int , andorra@un.int , themission@angolaun.org , argentina@un.int , armenia@un.int , australia@un.int , azerbaijan@un.int , bangladesh@un.int , bahrain@un.int , info@bruneimission-ny.org , prun@foreign.gov.bb , belarus@un.int , blzun@aol.com , bihnyun@aol.com , botswana@un.int , bulgaria@un.int , bfapm@un.int , burundi@un.int , cambodia@un.int , canada@un.int , capeverde@un.int , caf@un.int , chile@un.int , colombia@colombiaun.org , congo@un.int , costarica@un.int , cuba@un.int , pmccyprus.un@verizon.net , un.newyork@embassy.mzv.cz , dpr.korea@verizon.net , drcongo@un.int , nycmis@um.dk , djibouti@nyct.net , domun@onecommonwealth.org , drun@un.int , egypt@un.int , elsalvador@un.int , mission.newyork@mfa.ee , fiji@un.int , france@un.int , gambia@un.int , germany@un.int , ghanaperm@aol.com , grenada@un.int , guatemala@un.int , missionofguinea@aol.com , guyana@un.int , haiti@un.int , hungary@un.int , unmission@mfa.is , iran@un.int , ireland@un.int , italy@un.int , jamaica@un.int , mission@un-japan.org , missionun@jordanmissionun.com , kazakhstan@un.int , kenya@un.int , lesotho@un.int , libya@un.int , lithuania@un.int , repermad@verizon.net , malawinewyork@aol.com , malaysia@un.int , maldives@un.int , nicaragua@un.int , sknmission@aol.com , rusun@un.int , misiune@romaniaun.org , unmoldova@aol.com , korea@un.int , portugal@un.int , misunphil@aol.com , onuper@aol.com , paraguay@un.int , pngmission@pngun.org , emb@panama-un.org , mission@palauun.org , malionu@aol.com , oman@un.int , samoa@un.int , netherlands@un.int , nepal@un.int , nauru@un.int , namibia@un.int , myanmar@un.int , mozambique@un.int , mongolia@un.int , monaco@un.int , fsmun@fsmgov.org , mexico@un.int , mauritius@un.int , mauritania@un.int , marshallislands@un.int , pakistan@un.int , swaziland@un.int , malawiu@aol.com , myanmarmission@verizon.net , nauru@onecommonwealth.org , cuba_onu@cubanmission.com , uruguay@un.int , tzrepny@aol.com , uk@un.int , tuvalu@onecommonwealth.org , turkmenistan@un.int , tto@un.int , tongaunmission@aol.com , timor-leste@un.int , thailand@un.int , slumission@aol.com , slovenia@un.int , ethiopia@un.int , stp1@attglobal.net , saudi-mission@un.int , seychelles@un.int , sierraleone@un.int , tajikistanun@aol.com , mission@newyork.mfa.sk , sweden@un.int , somalia@un.int , pmun@southafrica-newyork.net , slpmny@aol.com , sudan@sudanmission.org , suriname@un.int , svgun@aol.com , singapore@un.int , zimbabwe@un.int.org , yemen@un.int , vietnamun@vnmission.com , venezuela@un.int , vanunmis@aol.com , usa@un.int , vertretung-un@nyc.rep.admin.ch , blzun@belizemission.com , niger@nigerun.org , delun@mfa.no , poland@polandun.org , sanmarinoun@hotmail.com , senegal.mission@yahoo.fr , syrianmission@verizonmail.com , uno_us@mfa.gov.ua , german-mission-consulate-gic-1@n... , un.newyork@mfa.no , support@glocksoft.com , ask@israel-info.gov.il , mission@bahamasny.com , nzmissionny@earthlink.net , unmission@belembassy.org , newyork.rp@mae.etat.lu , delgaliviaonu@hotmail.com , delbrasonu@delbrasonu.org , cotedivoiremission@yahoo.com , cromiss.un@mvp.hr , equatorialguineamission@yahoo.com , sanomat.yke@formin.fi , mission@greeceun.org , honduras_un@hotmail.com , india@un.int , indiaun@prodigy.net , imission@nyc.rr.com , kuwaitmission@msn.com , mission.un-ny@mfa.gov.lv , mission@nyc.rep.llv.li , newyorkun@diplobel.be -----------------

COUNTRIES

Government, Politicians and People of the nation

Please STOP GENOCIDE IN GAZA, STOP INFENTICIDE IN GAZA.
We are meant to maintain peace. Ask nations to mount pressure, send peace keeping force to Gaza, if it needs. Explel itruders from Gaza.
We can not tolerate more, stop the barbarism

Tell
United Nations
Please place this plea to your people, politicians.
Stop triggering humans.

ই-মেল :

presec@presec.tirana.al , postmaster@minjash.tirana.al ,
dragc@gg.dz , pmo@candw.ag , spyd@presidencia.gov.ar ,
president@president.am , premier@dpac.tas.gov.au , vklima@spoe.or.at ,
bcc@btl.net , foreign@barbadosgov.org , infogrp@president.gov.by , info@belgium.be ,
celcom@camnet.cm ,
pm@pm.gc.ca , altatalk@gov.ab.ca , pcmbrava@mail.cvtelecom.cv ,
webmaster@presidencia.cl , ceo@ceo.gcn.gov.hk , pastrana@presidencia.gov.co , rherrera@ns.casapres.go.cr ,
admin@president.hr ,
pioxx@cytanet.com.cy ,
president@hrad.cz ,
stm@stm.dk ,
pmoffice@cwdom.dm ,
correspondencias@presidencia.gov.do ,
lpolanco@serex.gov.do ,
webmast@mmrree.gov.ec ,
webmaster@presidency.gov.eg ,
presidente@casapres.gob.sv ,
sekretar@vpk.ee ,
valitsus@rk.ee ,
info@fiji.gov.fj ,
paavo.lipponen@eduskunta.fi ,
presidentti@tpk.vn.fi ,
office@presidpress.gov.ge ,
mail@primeminister.gr ,
homerule@gh.gl ,
alvaroarzu@guate.net ,
Viktor.Orban@meh.hu ,
cfwang@hlhg.gov.tw ,
david@althingi.is ,
webmaster@taoiseach.irlgov.ie ,
ask@israel-info.gov.il ,
staff@relay.regione.abruzzo.it ,
jpm@kantei.go.jp ,
info@nic.gov.jo ,

vice_president@whitehouse.gov ,
comments@whitehouse.gov ,
consultassre@gmail.com ,
chancery@president.lv ,
info@lp.gov.lb ,
gidirg@president.lt ,
kanceliarija@lrvk.lt ,
admin@foreign.gov.mv ,
statepas@intnet.mu ,
foreignaffairs@mail.fm ,
Elbegdorj_TS@prime.pmis.gov.mn ,
iczmerc@iafrica.com.na ,
provincie@flevoland.nl ,
odin@ft.dep.telemax.no ,
prime.minister@ministers.govt.nz ,
presidente@presidencia.gob.ni ,
www@cm.gov.nc.tr ,
cfwang@hlhg.gov.tw ,
frank-fhp@maf.org ,
govspkmn@mozart.inet.co.th ,
presoftt@carib-link.net ,
cankaya@tccb.gov.tr ,
ddlbsl@tccb.gov.tr ,
mofa@starcom.co.ug ,

number10@petitions.pm.gov.uk ,
postmaster@ribbon.kiev.ua ,
oda@mail.gov.if.ua ,
prime_minister@tavrida.crimea.ua ,
ens@odsadm.odessa.ua ,
press.nio@nics.gov.uk ,
comexpri@bolivar.funmrd.gov.ve ,
slobodan.milosevic@gov.yu ,
state@zamnet.zm ,

primeminister@pak.gov.pk ,
postmaster@mininfo.pna.org ,

presssecy@alpha.nic.in ,
presidentofindia@rb.nic.in ,
manmohan@sansad.nic.in ,

ofasin@presidencia.gob.pa ,
primeminister@pm.gov.pg ,
oppto_martin@pres.gob.pe ,
inka+@qenqo.rcp.net.pe ,
erap@erap.com ,
ppdoadn@butuanonline.com ,
capitol@bgo.cyberspace.com.ph ,
listy@prezydent.pl ,
cirinfo@kprm.gov.pl ,
guv@kappa.ro ,
president@gov.ru ,
secretariat@tatar.ru ,
pmoffice@candw.lc ,
ppo@seychelles.net ,
tomaz.lovrencic@vlada.sigov.mail.si ,
darinka.ilovar@up.sigov.mail.si ,
communications@po.gov.za ,
premsa@iafrica.com ,
for_min@sri.lanka.net ,
burpres@sr.net ,
ppcu@realnet.co.sz ,
regeringen@regeringen.se ,
peter.w.frey@ag.ch ,
info@sip.etat.lu , president@albd.org , postmaster@mx.parliament.govt.nz , postmaster@ag.ch , postmaster@maf.org , postmaster@ag.ch , paavo.t.lipponen@gmail.com , homerule@g.gh.gl , homerule@gh.gl , postmaster@presidencia.gob.do , postmaster@maf.org , postmaster@serex.gov.do , ask@israel-info.gov.il , postmaster@mininfo.pna.org
israel: ask@israel-info.gov.il
palestine: postmaster@mininfo.pna.org


white house: comments@whitehouse.gov
vice-president@whitehouse.gov

GRAZIE

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/188714?recruiter_id=21288242

http://causes.com/stopwar


Shobuz Bhai

http://causes.com/stopwar

আর কত মেরে থামবে শিকার, গণচিঠি দিন দেশে দেশে

http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/kakshalikgangchil/28898192


(কিছু মন্তব্য দেখে নীচের দিকে কিছু কথা যোগ করতে বাধ্য হলাম। এই পোস্টে এমনহলে মূলসুরটাই কেটে যায়। অনুরোধ করছি, সেই ধরনের কথা,মনোভাব বর্জন করার।অন্যকথাও কিছু আছে)

আমরা ব্লগ থেকে সংগঠিত হয়ে গিয়ে নিজেরা সরিয়ে আনতে পারিনা মৃত্যুর কোলের শিশুদের, মানুষদের। চাইলেই ট্যাঙ্কগুলোকে লাগাতে পারিনা চাষের কাজে। এইগুলি হতে পারে না আ্যাম্বুলেন্স।
যারা চাকরি করতে এসে গুলি ছুড়ছে তাদের মনে করিয়ে দিতে পারি না, বন্দুক ফেলে দাও কিংবা একবার ঘুরিয়ে দেখ মুখ নির্দেশকারির দিকে।
শিশুরা যারা মিসাইলে লেখে ভালবাসার কথা, তাদের বুঝিয়ে দিতে পারি না, তোমাদের বুকে কেন বোনা হচ্ছে ঘৃনার বীজ,শত্রু কোথায়।আমরা হয়ত নিজেদের জায়গার একটা মিছিলও করতে পারি না, পারি হয়ত।

আজ পুঁজিবাদের এই আগ্রাসনে, রাস্ট্রায়ত্ত পুঁজির স্বার্থ কী নিদারুন চেহারা নিচ্ছে আমরা তা বুঝতে পারছি অনায়াসে। নিজের সন্তানের মুখে চোখ রেখে অন্তত আমরা শিউরে উঠতে পারি সেই প্রতিফলনে, গাজার শিশু, ইসরায়েলি শিশু তার বাবা-মায়ের সাথে আমাদের কোন পার্থক্য নেই।

বাংলাদেশের যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচার চেয়ে এই ব্লগাররা অনেক সংঘঠিত ভাবে কাজ করছেন। গনস্বাক্ষরে চাইবেন বিচার। এখন কিন্তু সেরকম সময়ও আর নেই , গাজার জন্য।
নীচে চিঠি রাখলাম সঙ্গে পৃথিবীর প্রায় সবদেশের কতৃপক্ষের ই-মেল আই ডি, রাস্ট্রসংঘের টা এবং তাদের বিভিন্নদেশের অফিসগুলোর ঠিকানা।
আমরা অন্তত তাদের প্রত্যেকদিন মেল করে মনে করিয়ে দিতে পারি ভয়াভয়তার কথা।
যারা অন্য ব্লগগুলোতেও যান, তাঁরাও এইগুলি নিয়ে সেখানে পোস্টদিন।
ঠিকানাগুলো সব ইন্টারনেট থেকে সংগৃহিত, পরীক্ষা করে দেখা হয়নি তবে যতদূর সম্বভ অফিসিয়াল সাইট থেকেই নেয়া হয়েছে।

রাস্ট্রসংঘের মহাসচিব এবং তাদের বিভিন্ন দেশের কর্তাদের দিচ্ছি
এই চিঠি। এখানে সব সদস্যদেশ এবং অন্যদু'একটি দেশ রয়েছে এতে আমরা প্রায় সব দেশেই পৌঁছব। যতটা পারি ভাগ ভাগ করে দি্যেছি কপি করার সুবিধার্থে।

United Nations

Please STOP GENOCIDE IN GAZA, STOP INFANTICIDE IN GAZA.
You are meant to maintain peace. Ask nations to mount pressure, send peace keeping force to Gaza, if it needs. Explel itruders from Gaza.
We can not tolerate more, stop the barbarism

United Permanent Missions
Please place this plea to your concerned country-authority, its people, politicians.
Stop triggering humans.

প্রথমটা আই ডি টা মহাসচিবের
inquiries@un.org,

afgwatan@aol.com, albania@un.int, algeria@un.int, andorra@un.int, themission@angolaun.org, argentina@un.int, armenia@un.int, australia@un.int, azerbaijan@un.int, bangladesh@un.int, bahrain@un.int, info@bruneimission-ny.org, prun@foreign.gov.bb, belarus@un.int, blzun@aol.com, bihnyun@aol.com, botswana@un.int, bulgaria@un.int, bfapm@un.int, burundi@un.int, cambodia@un.int, canada@un.int, capeverde@un.int, caf@un.int, chile@un.int, colombia@colombiaun.org, congo@un.int, costarica@un.int, cuba@un.int, pmccyprus.un@verizon.net, un.newyork@embassy.mzv.cz, dpr.korea@verizon.net, drcongo@un.int, nycmis@um.dk, djibouti@nyct.net, domun@onecommonwealth.org, drun@un.int, egypt@un.int, elsalvador@un.int, mission.newyork@mfa.ee, fiji@un.int, france@un.int, gambia@un.int, germany@un.int, ghanaperm@aol.com, grenada@un.int, guatemala@un.int, missionofguinea@aol.com, guyana@un.int, haiti@un.int, hungary@un.int, unmission@mfa.is, iran@un.int, ireland@un.int, italy@un.int, jamaica@un.int, mission@un-japan.org, missionun@jordanmissionun.com, kazakhstan@un.int, kenya@un.int, lesotho@un.int, libya@un.int, lithuania@un.int, repermad@verizon.net, malawinewyork@aol.com, malaysia@un.int, maldives@un.int, nicaragua@un.int, sknmission@aol.com, rusun@un.int, misiune@romaniaun.org, unmoldova@aol.com, korea@un.int, portugal@un.int, misunphil@aol.com, onuper@aol.com, paraguay@un.int, pngmission@pngun.org, emb@panama-un.org, mission@palauun.org, malionu@aol.com, oman@un.int, samoa@un.int, netherlands@un.int, nepal@un.int, nauru@un.int, namibia@un.int, myanmar@un.int, mozambique@un.int, mongolia@un.int, monaco@un.int, fsmun@fsmgov.org, mexico@un.int, mauritius@un.int, mauritania@un.int, marshallislands@un.int, pakistan@un.int, swaziland@un.int, malawiu@aol.com, myanmarmission@verizon.net, nauru@onecommonwealth.org, cuba_onu@cubanmission.com, uruguay@un.int, tzrepny@aol.com, uk@un.int, tuvalu@onecommonwealth.org, turkmenistan@un.int, tto@un.int, tongaunmission@aol.com, timor-leste@un.int, thailand@un.int, slumission@aol.com, slovenia@un.int, ethiopia@un.int, stp1@attglobal.net, saudi-mission@un.int, seychelles@un.int, sierraleone@un.int, tajikistanun@aol.com, mission@newyork.mfa.sk, sweden@un.int, somalia@un.int, pmun@southafrica-newyork.net, slpmny@aol.com, sudan@sudanmission.org, suriname@un.int, svgun@aol.com, singapore@un.int, zimbabwe@un.int.org, yemen@un.int, vietnamun@vnmission.com, venezuela@un.int, vanunmis@aol.com, usa@un.int, vertretung-un@nyc.rep.admin.ch, blzun@belizemission.com, niger@nigerun.org, delun@mfa.no, poland@polandun.org, sanmarinoun@hotmail.com, senegal.mission@yahoo.fr, syrianmission@verizonmail.com, uno_us@mfa.gov.ua, german-mission-consulate-gic-1@netlink1.net, un.newyork@mfa.no, support@glocksoft.com, ask@israel-info.gov.il, mission@bahamasny.com, nzmissionny@earthlink.net, unmission@belembassy.org, newyork.rp@mae.etat.lu, delgaliviaonu@hotmail.com, delbrasonu@delbrasonu.org, cotedivoiremission@yahoo.com, cromiss.un@mvp.hr, equatorialguineamission@yahoo.com, sanomat.yke@formin.fi, mission@greeceun.org, honduras_un@hotmail.com, india@un.int,indiaun@prodigy.net, imission@nyc.rr.com, kuwaitmission@msn.com, mission.un-ny@mfa.gov.lv, mission@nyc.rep.llv.li, newyorkun@diplobel.be ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
এটা দিচ্ছি রাস্ট্রগুলোকে
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Government, Politicians and People of the nation

Please STOP GENOCIDE IN GAZA, STOP INFANTICIDE IN GAZA.
We are meant to maintain peace. Ask nations to mount pressure, send peace keeping force to Gaza, if it needs. Explel itruders from Gaza.
We can not tolerate more, stop the barbarism

Tell
United Nations
Please place this plea to your people, politicians.
Stop triggering humans.

ই-মেল :

presec@presec.tirana.al, postmaster@minjash.tirana.al,
dragc@gg.dz, pmo@candw.ag,spyd@presidencia.gov.ar,
president@president.am, premier@dpac.tas.gov.au, vklima@spoe.or.at,
bcc@btl.net, foreign@barbadosgov.org,infogrp@president.gov.by, info@belgium.be,
celcom@camnet.cm,
pm@pm.gc.ca, altatalk@gov.ab.ca, pcmbrava@mail.cvtelecom.cv,
webmaster@presidencia.cl, ceo@ceo.gcn.gov.hk, pastrana@presidencia.gov.co, rherrera@ns.casapres.go.cr,
admin@president.hr,
pioxx@cytanet.com.cy,
president@hrad.cz,
stm@stm.dk,
pmoffice@cwdom.dm,
correspondencias@presidencia.gov.do,
lpolanco@serex.gov.do,
webmast@mmrree.gov.ec,
webmaster@presidency.gov.eg,
presidente@casapres.gob.sv,
sekretar@vpk.ee,
valitsus@rk.ee,
info@fiji.gov.fj,
paavo.lipponen@eduskunta.fi,
presidentti@tpk.vn.fi,
office@presidpress.gov.ge,
mail@primeminister.gr,
homerule@gh.gl,
alvaroarzu@guate.net,
Viktor.Orban@meh.hu,
cfwang@hlhg.gov.tw,
david@althingi.is,
webmaster@taoiseach.irlgov.ie,
ask@israel-info.gov.il,
staff@relay.regione.abruzzo.it,
jpm@kantei.go.jp,
info@nic.gov.jo,

vice_president@whitehouse.gov,
comments@whitehouse.gov,
consultassre@gmail.com,
chancery@president.lv,
info@lp.gov.lb,
gidirg@president.lt,
kanceliarija@lrvk.lt,
admin@foreign.gov.mv,
statepas@intnet.mu,
foreignaffairs@mail.fm,
Elbegdorj_TS@prime.pmis.gov.mn,
iczmerc@iafrica.com.na,
provincie@flevoland.nl,
odin@ft.dep.telemax.no,
prime.minister@ministers.govt.nz,
presidente@presidencia.gob.ni,
www@cm.gov.nc.tr,
cfwang@hlhg.gov.tw,
frank-fhp@maf.org,
govspkmn@mozart.inet.co.th,
presoftt@carib-link.net,
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হোয়াইট হাউস: comments@whitehouse.gov
vice-president কেও লেখা যেতে পারে।
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সংযোজিত: কয়েকটা মেইল বাউন্স করতে পারে মেইল বক্স ভর্তি না অন্যকারনে, সেগুলিতে মনোযোগ দেয়ার দরকার নেই,ঐরকম অধিকাংশ ক্ষেত্রেই দ্বিতীয় কোনোও আই ডি জুড়ে দেয়া হয়েছে পোস্টে।
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যে সব দেশের সরকারের ঠিকানা ২য় চিঠিতে আছে সেগুলি হল

Afganistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and BarbudaArgentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, AzerbaijanBahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin,Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China,Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Congo (Rep.), Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic,Denmark, Djibouit, Dominica, Dominican Republic,Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia,Fiji, Finland, France,Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana,Haiti, Honduras, Hungary,Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran,Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast,Jamaica, Japan, Jordan
Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan,Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta,Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar,Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Cyprus, North Korea, Norway

Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu,Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam,Western Samoa,Yemen, Yugoslavia,Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Oman,Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru,Philippines, Poland, Portugal,Qatar,Romania, Russia, Rwanda,Saint Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, San Marino, Sao Tome And Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka,Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria

ই-মেল এ কপি করতে অসুবিধা হবে বলে পাশাপাশি দিলাম না

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এই পোস্টে কিছু মন্তব্য দেখে, এই অংশটি যোগ করছি :

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গাজার মানুষ বাঁচুক, তা সে মুসলিম না অন্যকিছু তার খবরের দরকার নেই। গাজার মানুষ বাঁচাতে গিয়ে ইসরায়েল মানুষ পাল্টা নিধনে মারা যাক, তা চাই না। উপরেও সেটা লিখেছি।
এই পোস্টি দয়া করে কোন ধর্মীয় গোষ্ঠির উপর আঘাত এই দৃষ্টিকোন থেকে লেখিনি। দয়া করে সেরকম কোন বিচার থেকে কোনো কমেন্ট করবেন না, যাদের কাছে মানুষ মারা যাচ্ছে, শুধু এটাই কোন পয়েন্ট না, সাথে অন্য অনুপান চান, তারা দয়া করে এখানে লেখা বিরত রাখুন। কারন এতে মূল উদ্দেশ্যটাই মার যায়। এইরকম রেসিস্ট অনিভবের ফসলই কিন্তু আজেকর গাজা। মূল শত্রু কারা সেটা চিন্হিত ও বর্জন করুন, সেটা পুঁজিবাদি আগ্রসান যারা ধর্মকে একটা অস্ত্র হিসাবে ব্যবহার করে।

কোন কেয়ামত চাইনা আরও কী ধ্বংস দরকার। কিসের পর কী কেয়ামত আসে বলে কেউ বলেছেন।কোন বিতর্ক করে এই পোস্টির মূল ভাবনাটা ঘুরিয়ে দিতে চাই না, আপনারাও বর্জন করুন প্রতিক্রীয়াশিল মোনোভাবের মন্তব্যগুলিকে।
হিব্রু'র উত্তর দিতে পারি কিন্তু তার আগে দরকার শিশুদের, মানুষের মৃত্যু বন্ধ হওয়া।মৃত্যু নিয়ে না হয় ধর্ম নাই হল। মৃত্যু মানে সবার কাছেই এক, গাজার শিশু, ইসরায়েলি শিশু তার বাবা-মায়ের সাথে আমাদের কোন পার্থক্য নেই।
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১৮ ই জানুয়ারী, ২:৩০
ইসরায়েল সিসফায়ার করবে বলে মুখে বলেছে, ৩০ মিনিট আগে নাকি তা শুরু হয়েছে কিন্তু সেনা,বন্দুক,গোলা-বারুদ নিয়ে বসে আছে গাজাতেই , তাদের প্রোয়োজনে আবার শুরু করবে বলে । আগ্রাসন। এ কেমন সিজ -ফায়ার !!!!! ভাঁওতা মনে হয়, আসলে মানূষ মারতে আরও ছুতো সাজানো হচ্ছে।
জেনেভা কনভেনসনের কিছুই মানা হচ্ছে না।
আমরা এখনই চিঠি লেখা বন্ধ করছি না। আরও দুটো লাইন যোগ করছি তাতে।মানুষ মারাই লক্ষ্য।
পৃথিবীতে যুদ্ধ বন্ধ হোক।



Collected by

Shobuz Bhai ( http://causes.com/stopwar )

from somewhereinblog.net

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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/90_25.php

Moderate quake hits northeastern Bangladesh
2 hours ago

A shallow, 4.9-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Bangladesh early Sunday, meteorologists said.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was centred 115 kilometres (70 miles) north of the capital Dhaka at a depth of 5.2 kilometres and struck at 12:51 am (1851 GMT Saturday).

There were no reports of any damage or casualties, but the tremor was felt in Dhaka and a police spokesman in Mymensingh, the district nearest the epicentre, told AFP it sparked panic there.

A meteorologist at Bangladesh's Storm Warning Centre said it had measured the quake at 5.6 on the Richter scale, according to local media reports.

Bangladesh last month announced plans to step up its earthquake response contingency plans.

The South Asian nation sits on active tectonic plates and is frequently jolted by tremors. The last major earthquake struck in 1896.


AFP- Report

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M.S.A. Shobuz

Italy declares state of emergency over immigration

Saturday, 26 July , 2008, 16:40

Rome: The Italian government announced a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday in reaction to a phenomenal increase in illegal immigration to the country's south.

The Silvio Berlusconi government's move is to provide local authorities with greater means to deal with the rising tide of illegals arriving by boat.

Interior Minister Roberto Maroni plans to build new intake centres throughout the country, the daily La Repubblica reported.

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According to the interior ministry, nearly 11,000 people illegally migrated to Italy in the first half of 2008, twice as many that came in the same period in 2007.

The Italian government called a state of emergency with a wave of refugees in 2002 and it was renewed annually - even under the centre-left government of Romano Prodi. As the intake centres in February 2008 seemed sufficient, the Prodi government limited the emergency measures to the three southern regions of Calabria, Sicily and Puglia. The Berlusconi government at the behest of the Interior Ministry has now widened the powers to the entire country.

Warning of the introduction of a "police state," the country's opposition attacked the measures sharply, calling them abhorrent. "Italy does not need inhuman and extraordinary measures," said parliamentarian Rocco Buttiglione, the Turin-based newspaper La Stampa reported on Saturday.

In response, Maroni criticised what he claimed was the opposition intention to make the state of emergency seem like an entirely new development, and called the opposition position "the worst Italian politics."

The Interior Minister is to face Parliament on Tuesday.

Berlusconi, who was elected Prime Minister in April, had declared the fight against illegal immigration a priority. A first step was the passage this week of a package of new security laws brought forward by the conservative government.

The number of illegal immigrants in Italy is estimated at around 650,000. Tens of thousands of refugees attempt the dangerous journey in less-than-seaworthy boats from North Africa into southern Europe each year.

Overnight another 73 would-be immigrants arrived in two boats at the Italian island of Lampedusa.



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M.S.A. Shobuz

CASO PROBLEMA:¿COMO MEJORAR EL FUTURO?
AUTOR: Germán Augusto de la Espriella Luque-
Fecha: 04/07/2008
Guía para realizar la Actividad
Seleccione de su experiencia pedagógica un caso problema, preséntelo y plantee las alternativas de solución, justifique de manera sintética el modelo en el cual se circunscribe.
Incertidumbre: El Problema
Ante los acontecimientos de país, se comenzó a trabajar en diferentes medios sobre el tema de Reconciliación y Perdón. “Se trabajó básicamente el mismo seminario en todo el país, en colegios, empresas y otras instituciones. Y comencé a preparar material para un libro. venía con una trayectoria de trabajo social voluntario, humanitario. Una de las cosas que sucedieron en ese momento es que estaba en un cambio personal, porque después de tanto trabajo social y demás, yo no podía proponer un cambio, así fuera bien intencionado, de personas que estaban en desventaja en la sociedad: los de la calle del cartucho, en orfanatos, en ancianatos… el trabajo era estéril. Queriendo cambiar la situación de personas que en el fondo no querían cambiar. En ese trabajo fui visitando las diferentes cárceles del país. Pero el contacto era vertical: ellos los pobrecitos a los que yo les llevaba regalos. él Papa Noel payaso”1

Es así como se van llenando de preguntas problémicas :
Si los seminarios, exposiciones y demás recursos pedagógicos de Reconciliación y Perdón habían servido en otros ámbitos, servirían también en el medio carcelario?
¿Cómo se modifican las actitudes antisociales en la cárcel?
¿Qué tipo de seres humanos son aquellos que han sido retirados del marco social?
¿Cómo es la relación y la influencia de la Cárcel en la sociedad?
¿Son verdaderamente criminales todos los reclusos o son producto de la sociedad violenta?

Estas y otras preguntas hicieron que finalmente se formulara un problema de investigación social y su pertinente propuesta pedagógica, las cuales concretaran un procedimiento a seguir, con miras a un acercamiento más preciso de la realidad carcelaria, de sus ocupantes y a propuestas pedagógicas que lleven a la solución de problemas sociales que podrían emerger de tal encierro. Así pues, se plantea como pregunta problémica:
PROBLEMA RESUMIDO:

¿Podrá existir para los sindicados en las cárceles, una verdadera transformación personal y social, que los haga reinsertarse a la sociedad de forma funcional y que mostrando sus capacidades de auto perfección, elijan expresarse prodigiosamente para crear una sociedad provechosa para todos?



Alternativas de Solución Planteadas

Entre otras identifico:
1.Buscar un aprendizaje social que permita direccionar soluciones a gran escala dentro del país.
2.Distinguir los pasos que se llevan a cabo dentro del proceso de un individuo que es sindicado, culpado y penalizado, la dirección que toman y su seguimiento.
3.Valorar la labor de los distintos estamentos judiciales, y diseñar una propuesta de acción humanista, que sirva de solución a los problemas sociales.
4.Escuchar las voces de los internos, sus historias, sus sueños, su realidad y la manera como hacen frente a la misma. Es decir, facilitar el encuentro.
5.Con el resultado diseñar un plan Educativo en reconciliación.
6.Personalizar el proceso hacer ajustes.
JUSTIFICACIÓN DEL MODELO
Observando que:
Pese a los esfuerzos realizados en materia de garantía en Derechos Humanos a partir de la reforma Constitucional del 1991, persiste de forma compleja el conflicto en todos los ordenes.
El debate existente respecto a la concepción de delitos atroces y la posible alternatividad jurídica.
Las condiciones de los seres humanos recluidos en las cárceles, son degradantes de los mismos. Los principales problemas incluyen:
- Hacinamiento
- Trato inhumanos y degradantes.
Los reclusos, sindicados y condenados, se encuentran muchas veses
mezclados.
- Las condiciones higiénicas y sanitarias son deficientes.
- Falta de apoyo y de recursos jurídicos para los reclusos.
- Ausencia de facilidades para la educación, el trabajo y la recreación.
La degradante imagen de los sindicados, con la consecuente estigmatización social y personal, que los incapacita para buscar un cambio.
El informe de la Misión Internacional de la ONU sobre Derechos Humanos y situación carcelaria en Colombia titulado, « Centros de Reclusión en Colombia: Un estado de cosas Inconstitucional, y de flagrante violación de los derechos humanos »

Lo anterior muestra un diagnóstico negativo de la política criminal y la concepción penitenciaria y los procesos de cambio de actitudes y adquisición de habilidades sociales, familiares y personales de los internos que permitan al sindicado emprender un nuevo proyecto de vida constructivo y favorable para el y la sociedad.
El camino se encontrará a través de un proceso inminentemente pedagógico, como propongo en el ensayo “JUSTIFICACION SOCIAL DE LA EDUCACIÓN”
“Creo profundamente que la educación es la llamada a interpretar, definir y perfilar el nuevo rumbo a seguir.
Donde los docentes adquieren un cariz místico, donde se requiere seres de valor, carácter y principios capaces ser protagonistas y no espectadores y mucho menos meros seguidores de las pautas que demandaran el derrotero de la sociedad feliz y sobreviviente”
Propongo desde la construcción del pensamiento la implementación de pedagogías alternativas o no tradicionales como el pensamiento lateral de Edwar de Bono y el aprendizaje significativo de Ausbel
El aprendizaje significativo desde la concepción del problema donde hacemos un acercamiento a la realidad del interno valorando su experiencia como punto de partida con el propósito de que se produzca conexión entre los conocimientos previos y las habilidades a desarrollar, pues tenemos la certesa que no existe otro modo de abordar el problema para producir el resultado deseado ya planteado.
“Un aprendizaje es significativo cuando los contenidos: Son relacionados de modo no arbitrario y sustancial (no al pie de la letra) con lo que el alumno ya sabe. Por relación sustancial y no arbitraria se debe entender que las ideas se relacionan con algún aspecto existente específicamente relevante de la estructura cognoscitiva del alumno, como una imagen, un símbolo ya significativo, un concepto o una proposición” (AUSUBEL; 1983 :18).
Edwar de bono nos proporciona herramientas de conexión diferente a los que provienen del pensamiento critico que su falla es en la presunción de que las percepciones y los valores son comunes, universales, permanentes o incluso generalmente aceptados".” ya que los problemas enunciados no se resuelven identificando y quitando la causa. Hay necesidad de diseñar un camino hacia delante aun cuando la causa permanezca en su sitio. "
De Bono aboga por las posibilidades desconocidas de futuro frente a las certezas inoperantes del pasado creando una conecion de rompimiento con el pasado pero aprovechandolo como punto de partida, por la exploración abierta e intuitiva frente a la rigidez de la clasificación; por el diseño de "caminos hacia delante" (de lo que puede ser) frente al análisis de lo que es; por las líneas y oportunidades de movimiento y acción (pensamiento para el diseño de la acción) y para crear oportunidades de cambio
No hay encasillamiento ni crítica, no hay choque ni disputa, ni juicio inicial preconcebido de verdadero o falso. Hay una exploración amplia, profunda y eficaz del tema o situación, en razón de o que la gente piensa y desea conseguir. Se centra más en las posibilidades de futuro, en las líneas de acción para mejorar la situación

Subject: My Father Died Alone in Gaza by Ramzy Baroud
Weekend Edition, Apri1 5 / 6, 2008



My Father Died Alone in Gaza

There are No Checkpoints in Heaven


By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.counterpunch.org/baroud04052008.html



I still vividly remember my father's face - wrinkled, apprehensive,

warm - as he last wished me farewell fourteen years ago. He stood
outside the rusty door of my family's home in a Gaza refugee camp wearing old
yellow pajamas and a seemingly ancient robe. As I hauled my one small

suitcase into a taxi that would take me to an Israeli airport an hour
away, my father stood still. I wished he would go back inside; it was
cold and the soldiers could pop up at any moment. As my car moved on, my

father eventually faded into the distance, along with the graveyard,
the water tower and the camp. It never occurred to me that I would never
see him again.



I think of my father now as he was that day. His tears and his

frantic last words: "Do you have your money? Your passport? A jacket? Call me
the moment you get there. Are you sure you have your passport? Just
check, one last time"



My father was a man who always defied the notion that one can only be

the outcome of his circumstance. Expelled from his village at the age
of 10, running barefoot behind his parents, he was instantly
transferred from the son of a landowning farmer to a penniless refugee in a blue

tent provided by the United Nations in Gaza. Thus, his life of hunger,
pain, homelessness, freedom-fighting, love, marriage and loss
commenced.



The fact that he was the one chosen to quit school to help his father

provide for his now tent-dwelling family was a huge source of stress
for him. In a strange, unfamiliar land, his new role was going into
neighboring villages and refugee camps to sell gum, aspirin and other small

items. His legs were a testament to the many dog bites he obtained
during these daily journeys. Later scars were from the shrapnel he
acquired through war.



As a young man and soldier in the Palestinian unit of the Egyptian

army, he spent years of his life marching through the Sinai desert. When
the Israeli army took over Gaza following the Arab defeat in 1967, the
Israeli commander met with those who served as police officers under

Egyptian rule and offered them the chance to continue their services
under Israeli rule. Proudly and willingly, my young father chose abject
poverty over working under the occupier's flag. And for that, predictably,

he paid a heavy price. His two-year-old son died soon after.



My oldest brother is buried in the same graveyard that bordered my
father's house in the camp. My father, who couldn't cope with the thought

that his only son died because he couldn't afford to buy medicine or
food, would be found asleep near the tiny grave all night, or placing
coins and candy in and around it.

My father's reputation as an intellectual, his passion for Russian

literature, and his endless support of fellow refugees brought him
untold trouble with the Israeli authorities, who retaliated by denying him
the right to leave Gaza.




His severe asthma, which he developed as a teenager was compounded by

lack of adequate medical facilities. Yet, despite daily coughing
streaks and constantly gasping for breath, he relentlessly negotiated his
way through life for the sake of his family. On one hand, he refused to

work as a cheap laborer in Israel. "Life itself is not worth a shred of
one's dignity," he insisted. On the other, with all borders sealed
except that with Israel, he still needed a way to bring in an income. He

would buy cheap clothes, shoes, used TVs, and other miscellaneous goods,
and find a way to transport and sell them in the camp. He invested
everything he made to ensure that his sons and daughter could receive a

good education, an arduous mission in a place like Gaza.

But when the Palestinian uprising of 1987 exploded, and our camp
became a battleground between stone-throwers and the Israeli army, mere
survival became Dad's over-riding concern. Our house was the closest to

the Red Square, arbitrarily named for the blood spilled there, and also
bordered the 'Martyrs' Graveyard'. How can a father adequately protect
his family in such surroundings? Israeli soldiers stormed our house

hundreds of times; it was always him who somehow held them back, begging
for his children's safety, as we huddled in a dark room awaiting our
fate. "You will understand when you have your own children," he told my

older brothers as they protested his allowing the soldiers to slap his
face. Our 'freedom-fighting' dad struggled to explain how love for his
children could surpass his own pride. He grew in my eyes that day.


It's been fourteen years since I last saw my father. As none of his
children had access to isolated Gaza, he was left alone to fend for
himself. We tried to help as much as we could, but what use is money

without access to medicine? In our last talk he said he feared he would die
before seeing my children, but I promised that I would find a way. I
failed.

Since the siege on Gaza, my father's life became impossible. His

ailments were not 'serious' enough for hospitals crowded with limbless
youth. During the most recent Israeli onslaught, most hospital spaces were
converted to surgery wards, and there was no place for an old man like

my dad. All attempts to transfer him to the better equipped West Bank
hospitals failed as Israeli authorities repeatedly denied him the
required permit.

"I am sick, son, I am sick," my father cried when I spoke to him two

days before his death. He died alone on March 18, waiting to be
reunited with my brothers in the West Bank. He died a refugee, but a proud
man nonetheless.

My father's struggle began 60 years ago, and it ended a few days ago.

Thousands of people descended to his funeral from throughout Gaza,
oppressed people that shared his plight, hopes and struggles, accompanying
him to the graveyard where he was laid to rest. Even a resilient
fighter deserves a moment of peace.


Ramzy Baroud teaches mass communication at Curtin University of
Technology and is the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle
of a People's Struggle. He is also the editor-in-chief of

PalestineChronicle.com. He can be contacted at: editor@palestinechronicle.com