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You may have noticed that this blog wasn't updated with a "Happy New Year". The thing is the new year didn't start happy. Israel keeps bombing the innocent civilians of Palestine. The death toll at the moment stands at 765.
When we hear of the death of one person, we feel sad. Millions felt sad when Bernie Mac died. When Anna Nicole Smith died. When Foe died on the pitch. the examples are numerous.
But 765? It's only a number. You don't know them. Stalin said it best: "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic."
People are angry, this blogger included. Today, a Rally to express this rage started out after Friday prayer.


Here is my $0.02 analysis:
Israel claims that Hamas is shooting at Israel and that they hide between civilians. Thus the civilian deaths. Lets analyze this:
1- Hamas could be hiding between civilians. But after 765 civilian deaths, this is proven to be a failed tactic as Israel will bomb you anyway. Hence, if I was a civilian, I wouldn't harbor Hamas in my house. No sense the two of us dying. My civilian death will add nothing.
But this is not the case, is it? As I see more civilian deaths every day; this leads me to...

2- Hamas is NOT hiding between civilians. Which would make sense as Israel claims rockets are still being fired at them. Which means they're not dead yet nor their machinery is destroyed. If this is so, then the only reason I can think of to continue the raids...

3- Israel is killing civilians on purpose to: a) inflict internal pressure on Hamas to cease. And b) Decrease the number of Palestinians anyway.

So I do think that Israel is committing mass war crimes here.

Another catalyst for killing Arabs is Money. Someone somewhere is making money off of it. Rationale:
Israel is the #1 recipient of American foreign Aid.
$2.4 Billion is given away to Israel per year. This will change starting 2009 to be $30 Billion per annum for the next 10 years (That is a total of $300 Billion, my friends).
Purpose?

Virtually all of this money is used to buy weapons (up to 75% made in the U.S.).

So the US gives money to Israel, but forces it to spend three quarters of it on American weapons.
In plain simple English, to me American friends:
Someone is taking your tax dollars, giving it to Israel, and is TELLING Israel to give it to certain arms merchants.
You may as well just give the money to the Arms merchants yourself!

If I was an Arms merchant who can get access to these billions upon billions, I would certainly "secure" my friends in the government who would "facilitate" such laws. I would also be tempted to "increase demand" in Israel by, well, I dunno. Faking attacks? Spreading rumors? Inciting Hamas (or any other) to strike? Having Israel in need of Arms gives me the Ferrari liquidity I need.

People, the ones dying in the middle are innocent. If you have to be a skeptic then most of them are innocent and I don't buy this collateral damage crap.
Do something about it. I'm not talking about mere donations. That is simply giving the man a fish. Please, do something to break this vicious cycle. I implore you.

Burning Warehouse. LIVE.

Yesterday, as customary, I went on to play a bit of footie. We gather around at 4 and kickoff once we are all there.
I headed first towards "The Centre" to buy me some socks only to see a great pillar of black smoke on the horizon. We drove in a little bit closer.
A warehouse was burning. Huge fire and lots of smoke. There were Police Vehicles and two Fire trucks.
I took a couple of pictures and started capturing video.
I am of course unfamiliar of fire fighting at all. So everything I say here could be knocked out by a single informed opinion. But it looks to me like there wasn't enough fire trucks on the scene. A single hose battled for about 15-20 minutes while I was there with no extra support making the blaze only spread to other directions.
Akhbar Alkhaleej said that fire fighters fought for more than three hours. They reported it was owned by Mr. Ghulam Alnamlaiti, and threatened 10 other warehouses plus high voltage lines.
AK also reported that over 50 individuals and 18 vehicles fought the fire. I don't know about that. Maybe eventually they were 50 and 16 other trucks came, but that isn't the number I saw, (just watch my video below). They Also reported that a truck needed only 3 minutes to refill its water tank from Bapco. Hmm.. Plausible but I didn't see any more trucks coming in with fresh water.
A great deal of thanks must go to Mr. Hassan Ali Almiraaj, who Alayam reported, gave all his water resources of his farm to assist in the fight. That is a noble thing to do.

Anyhow, I am a bit concerned about this. Whether how true the numbers are or how much I can rely on our fire fighters. Don't get me wrong, this is a brave thing they are doing. And I am sure they are more than capable. It just seems to take allot of time to act or coordinate with other officials. Kinda scary that.