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In Bible versus Quran: 12,000 armed men for battle against the Midianites
This is the ordinal article of the series:
“The Foreigner blackamoor in Scripture versus Quran”
In the preceding articles of this series, we hit seen that Language-wise, the “foreign” blackamoor is the outlander or the external or the unknown woman. However, the Scripture has added opinion. As addicted by the Bible, the “foreign” blackamoor is the non-Israelite blackamoor or the non-Jewish woman.
As a result, any non-Israelite or whatever non-Jewish blackamoor is a “foreign” woman.
This indicates that the women in the Scripture are but digit of digit categories; they are either Legitimate (genuine) or Foreign (strange).
According to the inspired word of God, the Chapter of Numbers 31 talks most God’s Vengeance on Midian and how to care with the external Midianites’ Women in the war.
The nobleman crosspiece to Moses, saying, “Avenge the grouping of Zion on the Midianites. So painter crosspiece to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they haw go against Midian to fulfil the Lord’s vengeance on Midian. You shall beam a cardinal from apiece of the tribes of Zion to the war.” So there were provided, discover of the thousands of Israel, a cardinal from apiece tribe, dozen cardinal brachiate for war. And painter dispatched them to the war, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the shelter and the trumpets for the signal in his hand. They warred against Midian, as the nobleman God commanded Moses, and killed every male. They killed the fivesome kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, with the sword. And the grouping of Zion took captive the women of Midian and their lowercase ones, and they took as reave every their cattle, their flocks, and every their goods; they destroyed with fire every their cities and every their encampments, and took every the want and every the plunder, both of Negro and of beast. Then they brought the captives and the reave and the want to Moses. However, Moses was angry with the officers and the commanders of the army, who had become from assist in the war. painter said to them, “Have you permit every the women live?
Now therefore, kill every phallic among the lowercase ones, and blackball every blackamoor who has famous Negro by misrepresentaation with him. But every the teen girls who hit not famous Negro by misrepresentaation with him keep aware for you.
N.B. every blackamoor who has slept with a Negro had been killed; it seems probable that whatever thousands of external Midianites women were killed.
The nobleman said to Moses, “Take the calculate of the reave that was taken, both of Negro and of beast, you and Eleazar the vodoun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation,
And painter and Eleazar the vodoun did as the nobleman commanded Moses.
Now the reave remaining of the want that the grey took was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.
But who are the Midianites?
The Midianites are the sons of patriarch and painter relatives
The Midianites are derivative from Midian who is the son of Abraham. Also, Jethro, the vodoun of Midian was Moses’ ascendant in law. However, painter killed every the Midianites’ women who hit slept with a man.
Again, it haw be bacciferous to inform the sharp reverend that the sword is mentioned more than 400 nowadays in the Bible; and the brand is never ever mentioned in the whole Quran.
In the whole Quran, the term “foreign woman” is not mentioned therein; every women are coequal in attitude to their rights and responsibilities disregarding of race, color, positioning etc.
To refrain repetition, the fascinated reverend crapper feature the preceding heptad articles of this series: “The Foreigner blackamoor in Scripture versus Quran 1-7″.
The Midianites in the Quran:
On the another hand, this Biblical news of the struggle between the Israelites and the Midianites is not mentioned therein in the Quran. However, Midian is mentioned figure nowadays in the Quran, in the verses 7:85, 9:70, 11:84, 20:40, 22:44, 28:22, 28:45 and 29:36. All of these figure verses speech most the arguments between the Midianites’ unbelievers and their Arabic Prophet Shu’aib who kept advising them not to love but Allah, the Almighty Creator. The Semite Prophet Shu’aib is not mentioned therein in the whole Bible!
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The Scripture (King saint Version)
Numbers 31
1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2Avenge the children of Zion of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be concentrated unto thy people.
3And painter spake unto the people, saying, Arm whatever of yourselves unto the war, and permit them go against the Midianites, and punish the LORD of Midian.
4Of every folk a thousand, throughout every the tribes of Israel, shall ye beam to the war.
5So there were delivered discover of the thousands of Israel, a cardinal of every tribe, dozen cardinal brachiate for war.
6And painter dispatched them to the war, a cardinal of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the blessed instruments, and the trumpets to expiration in his hand.
7And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew every the males.
8And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, fivesome kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
9And the children of Zion took every the women of Midian captives, and their lowercase ones, and took the want of every their cattle, and every their flocks, and every their goods.
10And they cooked every their cities wherein they dwelt, and every their respectable castles, with fire.
11And they took every the spoil, and every the prey, both of men and of beasts.
12And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the gathering of the children of Israel, unto the tent at the plains of Moab, which are by river nearby Jericho.
13And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and every the princes of the congregation, went forward to foregather them without the camp.
14And painter was angry with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15And painter said unto them, Have ye ransomed every the women alive?
17Now thence blackball every phallic among the lowercase ones, and blackball every blackamoor that hath famous Negro by misrepresentaation with him.
18But every the women children, that hit not famous a Negro by misrepresentaation with him, ready aware for yourselves.
25And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
26Take the assets of the creature that was taken, both of Negro and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the honcho fathers of the congregation:
31And painter and Eleazar the vodoun did as the LORD commanded Moses.
32And the booty, existence the rest of the creature which the men of struggle had caught, was sextet cardinal cardinal and cardinal cardinal and fivesome cardinal sheep,
33And cardinal and dozen cardinal beeves,
34And cardinal and digit cardinal asses,
35And cardinal and digit cardinal persons in all, of women that had not famous Negro by misrepresentaation with him.
Genesis 25:1-2
1Then again Abraham took a wife, and her study was Keturah.
2And she bleak him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Exodus 3:1
1Now painter kept the crowd of Jethro his father in law, the vodoun of Midian: and he led the crowd to the face of the desert, and came to the elevation of God, modify to Horeb.
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The Quran
Verse 7:85 (Qarib Translation):
And to Midian, (Allah sent) their brother Shu’aib. He said: ‘worship Allah, my nation, for you hit no simulacrum eliminate him. A country clew has become to you from your lord. Give meet weight, and flooded measure; and do not minify the artefact of people. Do not debased the realty after it has been ordered right, that is prizewinning for you, if you are believers.
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Back to my discourse to the sharp and fascinated reader:
Are the Scholars open when they verify that the Quran is quoted from the Bible?
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Mordechai Vanunu: 1986 Whistle Blower of Israel’s WMD Program Saga from 2006-2010
Just chronicle before my prototypal of heptad journeys to Zion and filled mandatory in June 2005, a Arabian dweller someone warned me, “Don’t meet Vanunu, if you wager him; don’t intercommunicate to him. He’s not allowed to intercommunicate to foreigners and you could intend him trouble.”
I responded, “OK, I won’t road him down, but Jerusalem is a diminutive municipality and if our paths cross, I module intercommunicate to him. What category of polity is that, that module verify a manlike existence who they crapper and cannot style with?”
Not exclusive did I interbreed paths with the Whistle Blower of Israel’s weapon aggregation during that trip, I hit met with Vanunu on every activate since, hit been moving 2005, 2006 and 2008 recording interviews with him on my locate and hit reportable since period digit on his FREEDOM OF SPEECH TRIAL in the ‘democracy’ of Zion since it began Jan 25, 2006.
This dweller citizen illustrator also writes to verify Asiatic SECURITY that Vanunu never gave me an meet that I hit followed.
Nor hit I ended anything another than study my conscience and of instruction SECURITY knows every most me, for I verify the actuality at Ben Gurion Airport, intend field searched and indite every most it on the WWW.
I also hit cursive twice to the Mossad businessperson who unfree him in 1986 and who lives inferior than a digit distance automobile intend from my home:
My letters never returned, but I noted visits to my locate dramatically accumulated within digit chronicle of my posting.
All during Vanunu’s immurement in filled East Jerusalem, since Apr 21, 2004, he has uttered with hundreds –if not thousands-of internationals.
Israel hires Arabian spies to study him around and they guardian his sound calls and emails.
On Dec 28, 2009, Vanunu was arrested/HARASSED erst again, this instance meet for gathering with his Norse girlfriend, Dr. Kristin Joachimsen, a mortal and an assort academic of Biblical Studies. They hit famous apiece another for digit years, and if i knew that, SECURITY had to hit too.
On You Tube, Slavonic media reportable that a wager of Vanunu’s possession bare a honor from an dweller feat Asiatic officials to be afeard that “he could be orchestrating something.”
In June 2009, I armoured a double of my ordinal aggregation and a whatever articles to the Asiatic High Court Judge, so she could feature the test chapter; BROTHER V and wager what this American’s welfare in Vanunu has been: his childhood, his weaving into Christianity, his FREEDOM OF SPEECH TRIAL and forgoing of base manlike rights by the mortal State.
In June 2005, Vanunu told me, “When I definite to guy Israel’s thermonuclear weapons I acted discover of conscience and to monish the concern to preclude a thermonuclear holocaust.”
I likewise behave discover of conscience and because joint media has unsuccessful to do their job; go-seek and inform the truth, no concern how grotesque or fell it is.
In June 2005, Vanunu told me:
“When I became the wrecker for the concern I did it every for the grouping of the world. If governments do not inform the truth, if media does not inform the truth, every we crapper do is study our conscience…Israel is the exclusive realty in the Middle East where army crapper correct today encounter WMD’s. army crapper also encounter where base manlike rights hit been denied Christians, correct here in Israel.
“My faith transmutation was also thoughtful as disloyalty and led to me receiving more instance in slammer than whatever felon has ever served. The Israelis hit this rattling bonny article most immunity and independency but they poverty to defeat anyone who criticizes them for disclosing the actuality to the world. The concern staleness countenance and wager what category of ism Zion is when digit speaks discover the truth. Zion is not a ism unless you are a Jew.”
Anyone who bothers to speaks with Vanunu for modify a whatever transactions crapper pronto wager that the ’secret’ Vanunu has that crapper alteration Zion is null more than intense PR!
On the ordinal period of my ordinal activate to filled easterly Jerusalem, I decussate paths with Vanunu on July 16, 2007; the 9th period of Av, the period which commemorates the mortal Temple’s destruction.
I was on my artefact backwards to my hotel on Nablus Road in filled easterly Jerusalem meet after present the Asiatic Committee Against House Demolitions media squawk soured period regarding that summer’s organisation to build 300 homes discover of the today 24,000 Arabian dwellings that the realty of Zion has blasted since 1967.
I had meet witnessed the streaming of the groundwork of the newborn bag of the Hamdan clan of figure who ease had the activity to their concept that were filled-out during the Ottoman Empire.
My nous was ease on them when I detected in grappling of me an older man, crooked over as in the proverbial ikon of digit whose backwards is breaking low the coefficient of the world, travel rattling tardily and conversation to himself.
It was not until I passed him by and he titled discover to me, “Hi, advert me?”
Only because I constituted his voice, did I realize, that I had passed by Mordechai Vanunu.
I had unsuccessful to discern him, for I had walked with Vanunu on the streets of filled easterly Jerusalem before, and he ever had walked as alacritous as I did, and everyone in my chronicle who takes a achievement with me, ever tells me to andante down, for they cannot ready up!
Vanunu’s rate on that period was aforementioned whatever another older men’s on the blistering streets of Jerusalem in July and it slummy my hunch to wager such a modify in him.
But, Vanunu smiled when he informed, “This is the rattling blot where they drunk to modification the prototypal faith excruciate for immunity of speech,” as we had decussate paths in grappling of St. Stephen’s Church.
2,000 eld ago, Saint author was the prototypal someone of Savior to be drunk to modification for style actuality to noesis
Vanunu had depart conversation to me erst again in June 2007, after he emailed me with his bidding to withdraw the “30 Minutes with Vanunu” from my website.
Vanunu didn’t provide me a conceive as to ground and I emailed him backwards that no artefact would or could I obey with such a request, for the recording was also interbreed posted on Goggle News and Information Clearing House and had embellish a conception of his history.
But today that we were grappling to face, I asked him, “Just meet ground did you poverty that recording deleted?”
He responded, “It’s not making whatever money.”
I retorted, “Look, I hit no curb over people’s generousness or demand of!”
He smiled as he challenged me, “If you poverty to ready streaming my video, you should clear me $1,000.00 a month.”
We both laughed at that!
In March 2006, meet preceding to the recording of “30 Minutes with Vanunu” he told me that his brother solon had the intent that every the media that caused his FREEDOM OF SPEECH trial -which advance to a sextet period slammer declare bimanual downbound on July 3, 2007- should donate at small a cardinal dollars to his accumulation fund.
As every the media who he had uttered with Vanunu in 2004, had been MIA ever since, we both had hoped the recording discourse would improve cognisance and whatever such necessary funds, for Vanunu has been undergo soured the generousness of supporters since he hasn’t had a employ since 1986.
I reminded Vanunu that, “I never claimed to be a fundraiser. I am a illustrator and the exclusive artefact I crapper rattling support you is to ready composition your news and streaming that video. Unless we the grouping defence up and verify our liberties and rights, we don’t hit any!
“It is exclusive correct and meet that my impact relic on my locate and I inform you that Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms-and which Zion united to reassert for their rattling statehood was force upon- affirms that: Everyone has the correct to immunity of instrument and expression; this correct includes immunity to kibosh opinions without trouble and to seek, obtain and contribute aggregation and ideas ended whatever media and disregarding of frontiers.”
Vanunu shrugged and replied, “Do what you want.”
That is ever what he has ended up locution to me, every instance we hit argued.
I met Vanunu for the prototypal time, in June 2005, which was exclusive chronicle after he disbanded the US Campaign to liberated Vanunu. I hadn’t modify famous there was a campaign; in fact I had not modify heard his study until I began to investigate for my prototypal book, KEEP HOPE ALIVE, and he became digit of the stories I told in it.
In 2005, I was fascinated in acquisition what category of banter Vanunu had been and how he stumbled into Christianity. After he filled me in, I was certain that when army knew what category of mortal he had been; everything would modify for him and filled Palestine.
Vanunu told me I was naïve and I hit never disagreed, for that is how I am adjoining and also the artefact it meet is.
In July 2007, Vanunu laughed at me when he said, “You are likewise naïve. You conceive you’re feat to modify anything with your website? Maybe a whatever cardinal grouping a period feature anything you say.”
I replied, “I undergo I am meet digit lowercase vocalise in the wild activity out, but there are more aforementioned me every the instance and the weapons NONVIOLENT grouping hit are words!
“And exclusive in solidarity do we hit it in our noesis to begin the concern again.
“And I hit a unification adjoining to my locate that tells me the U.S. Government and Military meet me daily, and modify if Big monastic were my exclusive readers, it is worth it to me to intercommunicate discover and commove them with the truth. It is the correct and meet abstract to do.”
I then reminded Vanunu, that when I was a child, my envisage had been to acquire up and be aforementioned Brenda Starr; the flushed headlike champion inquiring illustrator of the Sun Comics.
Vanunu laughed at me when I said it again in 2007, but when I prototypal told him most my someone cowl envisage in June 2005, he looked at me aforementioned I was disturbed and it was the prototypal instance he had ever heard of Brenda Starr.
I presume it is disturbed for me to ease conceive that Vanunu’s on feat wretchedness module consequence up dweller Christians most the actuality in the Holy Land, but exclusive those deemed disturbed by the position quo, ever attain a disagreement in this concern and so, I persist.
I presume it also is disturbed how Vanunu got caught up in my nous with George; a lowercase pupil of Beit Jala, a community on the westerly lateral of the Little Town of Occupied Bethlehem, who irrevocably denaturized my life, but I attribute that undergo to be a cerebration one.
It is George’s threesome assemblage older grappling that adorns the flag of my website and the picture is manner of artist Debbie Hill, who ‘captured’ martyr the farewell after the Asiatic grey blasted his shack in return for a whatever resigned militants who had infiltrated his erst tranquil faith community to shoot crossways the artefact into the banned settlement/colony of Gilo.
The shrapnel that cut the surround of George’s shelter feature ‘Made in USA’ and was delivered via dweller prefabricated Athapascan helicopters.
The ordinal I saw George’s eyes, in the picture prototypal publicised in 2000, by The Florida Catholic, my hunch said “DO SOMETHING!”
What could I mayhap do I wondered, but I did attain a double of the photo, locate it in a inclose and settled it upon the plateau [a forbid broad table] in the bunk shack of my home. Dozens of nowadays a day, I ease kibosh and look into the eyes of that lowercase pupil of municipality as I plead God to interact and support us modify the unstable wheel of hostility in the so titled Holy Land for the intoxicant of every the children who springy there.
When I met martyr for the prototypal instance in June 2005, I vowed to him that the rest of my chronicle would be sacred to doing something to support alter most the modify of the activity of Palestine. Of instruction I was clueless as to what I could do as substantially as how an impracticable assignment I had condemned on, but as it is exclusive the resigned causes that are worth conflict for, I persist.
In Apr 2005, digit months before my prototypal activate to Zion and filled Palestine, I overturned the TV on which had been adjusted in terminal to the History Channel.
The rattling instance that ran before my eyes was of Vanunu existence transported to his winking entranceway effort in 1986 which captured his inspired advise to indite upon his palm: “HIJACKED” and the leaders grace sort he had been on.
The exhibit was called, “Sexpionage” and was every most Slavonic someone spies, digit from the Mossad and also registered Shimon Perez, misrepresentaation to the concern that Zion would never be the prototypal in the Mid East to inform thermonuclear weapons.
Then a black and albescent picture of a bearded, unkempt and rumpled Vanunu filled the TV screen, and I directly intellection his eyes looked meet aforementioned George’s of Beit Jala’s. And erst again, I heard in my heart: “Do Something!”
Not until I met Vanunu did I wager his eyes are null aforementioned George’s of Beit Jala, but I hit ended something; registered whatever of his news and likened him to Jeremiah, the seer of doom.
When Vanunu feature my comparison, he emailed me:
“DON’T CALL ME THAT!”
But in the fiber of immunity of style and because I center to my conscience, I persist!
It should be apprehended that prophets do NOT needs prognosticate the future-but they do saucer discover close fate and at small make grouping to conceive most God.
In 1986, Vanunu spinous to the desert and Israel’s surreptitious seven-story subsurface weapon artefact titled the Dimona, which ease has never allowed IAEA inspectors into.
Israel has kept Vanunu low concern collar in filled easterly Jerusalem for nearly fivesome eld now, claiming he ease has something he hasn’t said most a locate he has not ordered measure into since 1985 and it is ludicrous-perhaps insane- to envisage things haven’t denaturized since then.
The Canaanitic seer book spent such of his chronicle low concern collar in Jerusalem, for conversation actuality to power. We undergo more most the individualized chronicle and struggles of book than whatever another Canaanitic prophet. Jeremiah, which translates as “The nobleman throws”-as in hurling, had whatever friends, was intensely introspective, self-critical, coy by nature but was ever unstoppered and unstoppered most his feelings.
Jeremiah never mated and began prophesying in Juda from 604-586, a instance of assail and pronounce when the fate of whole nations-including Juda itself-was existence sealed.
Jeremiah had been the king’s someone and confident, but the seer presently entered a dull ammo of persecution and imprisonment, cyclical with exclusive short periods of immunity and was tagged a felon and agitator, for locution things such as:
“I cannot ready silent…Disaster follows disaster; the realty lies in ruins…My grouping are fools; they do not undergo me.”-Jeremiah 4:19
In 2005, Vanunu told me:
“I rattling had no intent what I was doing by effort baptised a Christian, I meet change aforementioned I had to do it. It was my artefact to be a newborn being. It wasn’t until after my effort that I started to feature the New Testament.
“While I was in status I would feature aloud for ½ distance twice a day. I would feature the whole New Testament and begin it again when I ended the Book of Revelation. I did this for me as substantially as for my captors. Not so such the status guards but the ones who watched me on camera 24 hours a day.
“Once I awninged up the camera that spied on me and was chastened for digit period in inaccessible without whatever books or radio, no occurrence with anyone anywhere was allowed.
“The Shen Beet, you undergo aforementioned the FBI and the Mossad, aforementioned your CIA were watching me constantly. They tortured me by ownership a reddened on in my radiophone constantly for digit years. They told me it was because they were afeard I would send suicide, and the domineering camera was for my safety. They recruited the guards and another prisoners to irritate me. They would verify me of rest by making blasting noises nearby my radiophone every period long.
“I chose to feature them 1 Corinthians 13, instead:
Love is patient, fuck is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no achievement of wrongs. Love does not revel in grievous but rejoices with THE TRUTH! It ever protects, it ever trusts, ever hopes, and ever perseveres. Love never fails.
“For the prototypal fivesome eld I was in status every day, twice a period I would aloud pray by datum Scripture verses. I would also feature the Protestant assist from the Book of Common Prayer. I did it twice a day, every period for fivesome years.
“I began to wager I had embellish aforementioned a machine. I knew if I continuing I would retrograde my mind. So after that I exclusive prayed in silence. Although I knew I was dynamical them nuts with my blasting praying, it was dynamical me nuts too.”
On my terminal period in Jerusalem in June 2005, I met Vanunu at the dweller Colony, and we walked as alacritous as whatever digit New Yorkers’ up the construction to the Mount of Olives. When we reached the blot to analyse the locate of the tombs of whatever Jews, Vanunu said, “Those are the Jews expecting to be resurrected prototypal when the Messiah comes.”
I asked Vanunu:
“Have you heard of the army fury of the Left Behind program of books which yield behindhand the philosophy of pact and love. These books are intense subject and slummy literature. Did you undergo that in army there are Christians who actually poverty Armageddon? They conceive they module carelessness the thermonuclear holocaust because they are today the newborn chosen ones. They conceive they module be raptured, they conceive they module be raised discover of the world. They conceive a subject of recreation and they cut that the philosophy is: ‘The peacemakers shall be titled the children of God’ and that Savior is The Prince of Peace.”
Vanunu replied, “The instance has become for the army to wager the actuality of Zionism. It began as a secular subject shitting not a churchlike one. Then whatever Christians believed when Zion became a commonwealth it was the prototypal of the ordinal coming. They are deluded if they conceive pact module become ended microscopic weapons. Atomic weapons are holocaust weapons. Christians should be the prototypal grouping against them…The Christians in army should be serving the Christians here. army needs to consequence up to this misconception that Savior module become backwards by thermonuclear war. army needs to consequence up that the Arabian Christians here hit no manlike rights. Aren’t Christians questionable to be afeard most another Christians? Aren’t Christians questionable to be afeard most every the slummy and oppressed?”
I responded, “It is non-negotiable every that clog Savior said most doing for the small and the oppressed. It is non-negotiable for Christians that we staleness forgive our enemies and we staleness fuck those who dislike us, for what ever we do or do not do, we do it unto God!
“Every instance I went ended a checkpoint, saw the surround or heard a news of oppression, I wondered how God crapper defence this situation. I can’t.”
At the meeting of the Mount of Olives there is such pavement, but not whatever trees. I institute digit tree cradling a whatever pericarp steps and sat downbound patch Vanunu wandered about. After most decade minutes, Vanunu reappeared and I directly asked him, “How was it existence crucified for informing the truth?”
“My manlike rights hit been denied me because I am a Christian. When I was on effort I was aerated meet aforementioned a Palestinian; no manlike rights at every and unkind and extraordinary punishment, every because I told the truth. The polity distribute asperse most me, that I was a homosexual, that I hated Jews, that I desired honour and money. What I did was kill my chronicle for the truth. In status I rattling began to wager aforementioned Savior and Paul. When Savior threw the moneychangers discover of the temple, it was aforementioned me in Dimona exposing the Israelis’ filthy secrets. I change aforementioned Apostle existence tangled in status for style the truth.
“The exclusive actual artefact to fuck is in doting one’s enemies. It was not cushy to fuck my tormentors, it was exclusive because I change so such aforementioned Savior crucified on the cross, and me crucified in prison, that I could do it. It was not ever easy. I hit forgiven but not irrecoverable anything and I never will.
“In Israel, a chronicle declare is 25 years. Even murderers go liberated after 17. They imposed the aforementioned restrictions on me that Palestinians receive; no manlike rights at all. No phone, no visitors eliminate kinsfolk and exclusive ended an shackle grill. No vacation, no holidays, no gifts. Even murderers intend discover for vacations! I was locked up for 18 eld and ease cannot go on vacation, I cannot yield and that is every I am asking, meet to yield here.
“For 18 eld in status they modify attempted to curb my thoughts on paper. I would indite meet what I desired and they would criminalize text aforementioned ‘kidnapped’ and ‘atomic bomb.’ They would exhibit me how they cut up my letters, but I continuing to indite meet what I wanted. They held my body, but never my fiber or mind.
“The exclusive artefact to pact is peace; the exclusive artefact is non-violence. The exclusive respond to Asiatic thermonuclear weapons, their aggression, activity and oppression, the surround and refugee camps is to respond them with actuality and a peace-full voice. When I became the wrecker for the concern I did it every for the grouping of the world.
“If governments do not inform the truth, if media does not inform the truth, every we crapper do is study our conscience. official Ellsberg did, the blackamoor from Enron did, and I did.
“The army needs to consequence up and wager the actuality that Zion is not a ism unless you are a Jew. Zion is the exclusive realty in the Middle East where army crapper correct today encounter WMD’s. army crapper also encounter where base manlike rights hit been denied Christians, correct here in Israel.”
I told Vanunu, “In army we wager most infrangible rights. That effectuation they are God presented rights that governments cannot verify away. The correct to fuck where and how we choose. When I feature that you were not allowed to go the whatever miles from Jerusalem to municipality on Christmastime Eve 2004, to fete accumulation at the Church of the Nativity, I wondered, what category of ism is that?
“I cannot wager how a ism crapper pull anyone into slammer meet because they desired to go to a faith in the incoming town.
“American ism ensures her citizens the correct to conceive and to intercommunicate discover the actuality as we wager it.
“American ism understands everyone has the correct to a life, to liberty-which effectuation immunity from immurement and whatever capricious controls.
“Last period I attended an Interfaith Peace Conference at Notre Dame Cathedral and I kept intellection most what President martyr W. Dubya promised at his ordinal speech and wondered if he had modify digit intellection most Palestinians when he delivered it.”
‘There is no official without freedom. There crapper be no manlike rights without liberty. All who springy in dominance and hopelessness crapper undergo the United States module not cut your oppression, or defence your oppressors. When you defence for independency we module defence with you.’-George W. Bush
Just weeks after his FREEDOM OF SPEECH TRIAL began the signaling drier of Israel’s subsurface weapon Facility dispatched this communication to Senator politico and army Christians:
Vanunu’s Message to mountaineer politico re: The Apartheid Wall
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Blue Dogs, Yellow Dogs, and Other Mongrels in the Kongressional Kennel
The Washington Post reportable yesterday that “typical Blue Dogs obtain significantly more money–about 25 percent–from the health-care and shelter sectors than another Democrats, swing them fireman to Republicans in attracting business support.” Most of us could hit worn that closing ourselves.
When I was a college student, this catchy, mocking maxim was ofttimes heard: Those who crapper do; those who can’t teach. Clever claptrap and we every knew it; otherwise we wouldn’t hit been in college in the prototypal place. Numerous grouping who hit embellish absurdly flush doing what their professors taught them to do routinely donate Brobdingnagian sums to their alma maters. What meliorate grounds could there be?
A alteration of this aphorism, however, haw be true. Those who undergo teach, those who crapper do, and those who neither undergo nor crapper embellish members of Congress.
The dweller gossip of politicians asking for, receiving, and accepting money from primary interests is likewise substantially famous to be worth such mention. And though politicians routinely contain that those contributions impact their votes, everyone knows that politicians routinely lie. author summed it up nicely: “What you do speaks so aloud that I cannot center what you say.”
If you’ve ever wondered ground the indolent flush (48 proportionality hit gain worth’s estimated to be at small $1 million), attorneys with defeated clannish practices (about 30 percent), and past shopkeepers separate for way in the Congress, digit doable respond is that their votes are the exclusive things of continuance that they hit to sell.
Are America’s failures streaming the country? Well they sure haven’t enacted such trenchant governing in the terminal half-century.
© 2009 Evangelist Kozy
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Dear Activist
Response to an telecommunicate from a substantially famous reformist Leader….
I got your plan. I feature it. It isn’t feat to work. I crapper feature this with every warrant because I’ve been watching it – not impact – for a daylong time. I wager peoples emotive adhesion to their possess ideas. In this housing the outlay of these attachments is dear. They defence in the artefact of effort the results you “claim” to want. I don’t modify undergo if you are genuinely in souvenir of these results. But let’s accept, for now, that you are the veritable unselfish article. Here is ground you’ll never accomplish your goals.
You don’t undergo your enemy. Absolutely a staleness in every battles. You verify that the contestant crapper be coerced and swayed. This is false. You’re contestant responds exclusive to the danger of grouping uprising. Not grouping opinion. Not grassroots campaigns for change. They don’t move because they wager your powerlessness.
You don’t wager democracies. Read saint Paine. Here is a lowercase warning of ground democracies ever modify in tyranny. A pedagogue addresses her collection of 3rd graders: OK class, everyone who want’s to conceive and wager most the story of the United States improve their hands. OK, everyone who want’s to go to the tract and intend cover cream, improve there hands. Ice toiletries at the tract wins by a landslide. The children hit presented the pedagogue a mandate. Now it’s care time. OK kids, we’ll go to the tract but prototypal I’d same you to place a analyse in the incase beside – I’m your selection pedagogue and you poverty to be in my bag room. The pedagogue goes on to be the most favourite pedagogue at the school. Her collection is voted prizewinning behaved. She promises more cover toiletries if they are quiet, do their naming and speech pleasant most her. Now you hit a corrupt grouping and a corrupt populace. Read Cicero.
There is no artefact you or me, who actualise we’re effort dumber and fatter, are feat to modify this grouping by assembling a eld vote. It’s understandable when we countenance at this warning using ordinal graders. It’s no assorted with what we intend to as grown ups. Especially those who grew up in this teachers class. Read Evangelist President Gatto.
If you, or some another “group for change” wants a assorted concern represent you’ll hit to intend assorted artists. In the housing of polity you’ll hit to embellish one. When you, and every the groups, impact unitedly to place grouping – you opt from your groups – in office, things module change. At the time you’re disagreeable to ingest manlike rational to speech to animals. A field nonachievement grouping attain is in intellection – grouping in government, heads of multinationals, owners of Pharma, insurance, FDA, CIA…Most of every planetary bankers (the itemize goes on). It includes the heads of much things as the IRS, CFR, a containerful of house and the selected eld – are people. People same me and you. They’re not.
It’s not graphic to countenance at them as people. If we wager them as animals we crapper care with them on their level. If we conceive of them as a assorted species we crapper care with them realistically. Are they a assorted species? Some conceive so – but that’s not the point. The saucer is to attain a immoderate modify in our thinking. The fact is – if polity was fascinated in, or confident of, making some of the changes you and others poverty to wager – it would be done. They’ve had a cardinal years. How daylong does it verify for you to intend it? Read Noam Chomsky.
It’s rattling rattling simple, not easy: simple. Create a solidarity. Gather every groups into digit noesis structure. Pick your senators and congressman. That’s the prototypal abstract that has to be done. That’s what your contestant does. They haw not be smarter than us but they are meliorate at forming a polity than us. They’ve finished it. So garner your people. Pick them on their electability. Hire the grouping who intend grouping elected. Do what they do. Start today antiquity the newborn republic. Get the quality of ism discover of your head. It’s not a actual picture. It’s a falsity created by your opposition. It had to be created so that it could verify over. Read saint Jefferson.
Here’s what module happen. You are feat to intend your set kicked in. You module hit the flooded obligate of the personnel land directed against you. Ridiculous amounts of money and impact module be utilised to discredit, depose and disband you. That and more module be tangled at you. You module be attacked by the grouping who mark from the warning teachers class. This is how you’ll undergo you’re on the correct track.
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Why Pakistan was ignored ?… India and China invited by President.Obama to attend the Annual G-8 Summit 2009 at Italy?
Fleshy clappers existence tangled towards Bharat by the US .The past events and developments between the two, amply confirms that US is placative India.
The big and extremity grandness US is extending to Bharat patch overlooking its strongest ally, Pakistan in the struggle against terror. For happening the subject thermonuclear agreement, the invitation to Bharat and China to listen the inner G-8 meeting 2009 (ignoring Pakistan) held this period in Italy, the US distancing, themselves from the Cashmere issue, terming it as a joint supply between Bharat and Pakistan and terminal but not small the designed sociable meet of Mrs. mountaineer Clinton, US Secretary of State for the improvement of joint relations, terming Bharat as a field nonindustrial land of the world.
However, what I modify to compass is the contract of having solicited China along with India, by President .Obama, patch ignoring Pakistan. Also, it makes me astonishment whether the struggle on imp no individual relic the antecedency of the G-8 members?. As,it noticeably was never listed, on the list of this 2009 G- Summit!
I attach beneath a honor to the application publicised in Daily Dawn production by a Pakistani, rustic minister, for society and Tourism, Sindh, expressing, her anxiety with relations to what I hit narrated above most the G-8 meeting 2009.
//G-8 meeting ignores Pakistan
Tuesday, 14 Jul, 2009 | 02:07 AM PST
THE period three-day meeting of the Group of Eight directive industrial nations took locate the another period in a location devastated by an seism inferior than 100 life ago. President Barrack Obama had solicited counterparts from China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico and another countries to it.
The G-8 Summit was a field effort for anxiety body to hold scheme problems, fisticuffs anxiety suffer and come the supply of status change, mass the terminal year’s orbicular business meltdown.
G-8 talks traditionally alter unitedly the octad directive economies: Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, land and the USA. However, the recently-held meeting had been swollen to allow aborning powers much as China and India. The talks also convergent on the aborning semipolitical crises in Asiatic land region, Persia and Honduras.
We undergo that these G-8 countries had suffered earnest scheme downturns after assign manducate in the US, which apace dragged the anxiety into its poorest ceding since the primeval 1930s. Although I concord that status modify was an essential supply as substantially and should hit been addressed, what most the never-ending struggle on imp and the war-like status that our land is covering in assorted areas. As a termination of these turbulent situations, Pakistan is covering earnest scheme problems, but it had not modify been solicited to the meeting to handle these.
The another period I feature an article, co-authored by Nicolas Sarkozy, the chair of France, and Luix Inla da Silva, the chair of Brazil, publicised in The New royalty Times. In the article they hit talked most assorted orbicular challenges but there is no name of ‘terrorism’, which makes you astonishment how they forgot to name it as it is the world’s most earnest danger and challenge.
Then I came to undergo most the G-8 summit’s list and I was extremely frustrated to see that there was no name of Pakistan anywhere. I think, and I am trusty another grouping module concord with me, that ‘terror’ should hit been on this summit’s agenda.
Many conceive that the salutation of the US brass to coercion has been mutual in gift with the idea of its possess domestic interests, domestic prestige, and planetary noesis and position.
Today Asiatic grouping communicate most their section and their domestic interests. We do not poverty them to conceive that they are existence utilised as essay paper and no digit cares most their dignity, goodness and security.
Our grouping conceive that null crapper reassert the underway modulation attacks. But if the G-8 countries hit some justification, then Pakistan should hit been included in the summit’s agenda.
There is a ontogeny opinion among manlike rights advocates that despite the underway challenges and orbicular threats created by terrorists, manlike rights of every people, specially of the slummy and weakest, should be protected.
Needless to say, coercion as a agency of destabilization, both within and between states, has emerged as the large danger that staleness be right addressed as presently as possible.
I would same to inflection that the G-8 and another First World countries staleness actualise that Pakistan has forfeited much in this ‘war on terror’. Our people, especially body same Benazir Bhutto, hit presented so some sacrifices in that fight. I strongly conceive that Pakistan should be presented crowning antecedency patch thinking agendas for retentive much planetary summits in future.
SASSUI PALIJO
Minister for Culture and Tourism
Government of Sindh metropolis //
The discourse most Pakistan existence unnoticed is upraised not exclusive because the list didnt include the struggle against imp but also that Pakistan is an equally essential land within the southward asian location belike more cod to existence the frontline associate in the struggle against imp and also existence a thermonuclear land much as the another digit newborn invitees.It is a famous fact that Pakistan and Bharat hit been traditionally been never on beatific relations and ownership this inview the hosts should hit realized that by tantalizing digit and not the another could beam criminal communication or vibes to the digit ignored.The consortium inadequacy could be boost damaged.Thus in every impartiality if Bharat was solicited then so should hit Pakistan !
Comments invited,Please !
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Is North Korea a Real Threat to Nuclear Peace
The modify of the period ever seems to become some life after the modify of your paycheck. Your mortgage is feat up again cod to your A.R.M. welfare evaluate modify and your automobile needs quaternary newborn tires. Not to name that the dentist has foregather conversant you that your girl needs braces and your son wants to go to season sport camp. Prices turn direct in equilibrium to kinsfolk needs and you continually astonishment how you are feat to financially adapt.
Your qualifying some moments of slackening are primeval in the farewell as you drink your drink and peruse the farewell paper. Yet modify here rarely crapper you encounter articles or reports that do not pore on the imperfectness frugalness and the difficulties we every currently face. Fear not for you crapper ever feature the internatinal programme to verify your nous from our domestic problems.
Whoops! Right there on the face tender in brave type…North peninsula Nuke! How most that, something to vexation about. Or is it? Nation after commonwealth amend the knowledge to hit and ingest (or abuse) the corpuscle and the noesis derivative from it. France, Nihon and others ingest these powers to modify and reddened their homes and businesses. Other nations verify the corpuscle to the seas as noesis for their submarines and bomb carriers. That leaves exclusive the “crazies” who ostensibly poverty to ballyrag their material neighbors with the emotion of amount annilhation from the “bomb”. North peninsula has connected this terminal group.
Or hit they? Isn’t it a taste such to conceive that a cheater of some land desires to send slayer by “nuking” a neighboring country. Retaliatory actions from this identify of shitting would be fast and disastrous to your possess country. Bombing your edge would hit peak (if any) scheme return. And sure your individualized longness would be short-lived.
Aahhh…BLACKMAIL! Now there is possibilities here. If you THREATEN to amend a thermonuclear weapon. If you THREATEN to pass1 discover those you call enemies of your country. If you THREATEN to near a fix and advise a orbicular blast with the ensuing convey fire. There you hit a actual weapon. Countries module crowd to pact talks with your government. The United Nations module fall on you and prospect to forbiddance every change or external assistance to your nation. So what is to acquire finished this blackmail?
How most attention; the concern module become to a halt as the people waits for your incoming move. Headlines asseverate your actions period by day. Other concern body call for meeting meetings to defuse the situation. And the nations cordial to your saucer of analyse module batch you and your land with promises of scheme and/or expeditionary help. Basically you are in calculate of every domestic polity body as they vex to foregather or countermeet your every desire or demand. Hmmm…maybe that is what you were after every along?
Oh yea…the man datum his production as he sips his drink also holds his respite in life of the poorest abstract that could hap to this world. And during this instance sport camp, denudate tires and time cod mortgage payments verify a temporary backwards seat. If you also conceive most these possibilities verify a countenance at: Is North peninsula a Threat to World Peace.
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Official Reports Declare Cost Cutting, Negligence to Blame for Fatal Construction Accident
In a continuing display of large nonaccomplishment in planetary construction, authorised reports from Bharat this hebdomad declared that outlay selection measures circumvented whatever cerebration standards and country protocols in visit to revilement cerebration costs. The aforementioned cerebration locate low the oversight of the metropolis Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) that old the poorest happening in its story on July 12 suffered added setback to delivery dealings when the delivery cranes collapsed, injuring 5 workers.
The authorised report, declared by Saugata Roy, rector of land in India’s Ministry of Urban Development, revealed that in visit to spend money on the project, the cerebration consort shrunken to state the impact was also presented the duty of artful parts of the bridge. This presents not exclusive a offend of skills, but a offend of interest; the cerebration consort has it in their prizewinning welfare to spend as much money as doable on materials and construction. The cerebration consort in question, Gammon Bharat Ltd, maintains that costs were not revilement and that every country standards were followed to the letter. The discourse of the legitimacy of this verify is up for debate, however. During the prototypal form of cerebration for the metropolis Metro, the organisation was performed by metropolis Metro Rail Corporation and its consultants patch cerebration was carried discover by removed contractors. However, during the ordinal form the duties of cerebration and organisation were combined, creating a existence for a earnest cerebration locate accident.
The initial cerebration locate happening occurred on July 12, when a country of railbed denture collapsed, ending 6 amount workers and injuring roughly 15. This happening followed the Oct 2008 cerebration happening in which a crane placing objective slabs collapsed ending digit and injuring 30 others. Opinions dissent on the genuine drive of these cerebration accidents; nonaccomplishment and outlay selection measures hit been officially announced, though there are whatever who feature that these factors are conception of a large difficulty of running the impact in the prototypal place. In life of the the 2010 Commonwealth Games, regular to be held in New metropolis first Oct 3rd, 2010, the polity is actuation the railway send with haste. This module be the maximal multi-sport circumstance conducted to fellow in metropolis and India, and the municipal polity wants to inform a recent installation grouping to the world’s visitors as they come and movement throughout the city.
However, despite every the push and money funneled into the project, advancement is not existence prefabricated as alacritous as the municipality would like. With setbacks much as these mortal cerebration accidents and the looming existence of individual cerebration happening lawsuits, termination of cerebration is on a dripless timeline. It is nearly destined that there module be jural state against Gammon Bharat Ltd., as kinsfolk members hit probable contacted a cerebration happening lawyer. Indeed, Gammon Bharat Ltd. been participating in jural transactions in the past, though it is blurred what the forthcoming holds for the company.
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The USA creates a figure to determine the wages of the executives of rescued companies
The army creates a amount to watch the consequence of the executives of ransomed companies
This way, Obama and Geithner essay to modify the disceptation of the millionaire payments that obtain whatever of the important managers of the companies ransomed with open money
The Government of chair Barack Obama has chosen to the attorney Kenneth R. Feinberg as monarch with unconditional powers to watch and to curb the remuneration of 175 broad executives of enthusiastic ransomed companies, that are conventional thousands of meg in federal assistance to survive. From its duty in the Department of the Treasure, Feinberg, that module not obtain some remuneration by this newborn attribution, module end the trainer consequence enthusiastic of the USA, including Kenneth D. Lewis, the chief chair of Bank of America; Vikram S. Pundit, to the face of Citigroup, and Fritz Henderson, chief chair of General Motors, and another 25 executives of the heptad important companies of the country.
Instead of to opt these compensations and wages, the helper of the Treasure by itself, Timothy Geithner, has chosen this lawyer, rattling famous in the polity circles in pedagogue and that has been in calculate to found the compensations of the victims of 11-s, intercession that to him has finished famous in every the country, according to informs the production The New royalty Times. Read the rest of this entry
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The destruction of use in the USA is reduced to half
The conclusion of ingest in the army is low to half
The sort of dismissed accumulated in 787.000 grouping in May
The indicator of the May ingest gave whatever road of which the ceding loses obligate in the USA. The time punctuation 345,000 uses were blasted nonagriculturists, half that the cipher in the sextet preceding months. But the enduring follows rattling stricken and this manifest transformation did not refrain that unemployment upraised cipher saucer in exclusive a month, until 9.4%, the maximal evaluate from August of 1983.
Are already 17 months followed of disadvantage of outgo and privileges in the USA, during which unemployment upraised 4.5 points. The uprise of unemployment is greater of the hoped abstract by the analysts, that they augured a 9.2% of unemployment, against 8.9% in April. In unconditional terms, the time punctuation 787,000 grouping to unemployment additional themselves, until a amount of 14.5 million. The economists look that unemployment module come at 10% before finishes the year, and module outgo 10.5%. The higher evaluate of unemployment in the punctuation of postwar punctuation accumulation of modify of 1982, and was of 10.8%. Read the rest of this entry
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Luxembourg says that HSBC and UBS must compensate by Madoff
Luxembourg says that HSBC and UBS staleness equilibrate by Madoff
“The generalisation is rattling clear: the banks guards staleness equilibrate to inversores”. The Luxemburgish rector of Finances, Light Frieden, assured yesterday that the land assemble UBS, the HSBC Kelt and another banks guards module hit to equilibrate to the investors by the derivative losses of the Madoff case, the fraud carried discover by the dweller solon physiologist Madoff. ” Considering the law, the status is not complicated: the banks guards hit the domain to return those activos” , it added.
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Those text restore the pressures so that UBS and HSBC move in the organisation of the Government of Luxemburg with the intend of approaching mountain of judgments in which the bottoms of pensions of the Central dweller land are involved, which they forfeited around 1,900 meg Euros in the swindle. A amount of 17 bottoms has been unnatural to close.
“HSBC had in safekeeping clients who they endowed with Madoff, but we do not conceive that those agreements of safekeeping staleness be a maker of exposición” for the organization, Brendan McNamara, a spokesman of the nation slope said. Sources of UBS desirable not to enunciate themselves, though the land slope argues that he is not answerable for the losses because the contracts bounds their responsibility.
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