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And it takes three to do a threesome. If only more Americans would open their eyes like this guy: The US will not dare to criticize Israel for its Crimes By Charley Reese The Israelis bulldozed another 14 Palestinian homes this week in a refugee camp in Gaza. The United States said the act was "provocative." Actually, it was a war crime. Actually, what the Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians has been correctly characterized by the International Red Cross as war crimes and by a United Nations official as "an affront to civilization." But, hey, you misled, sleeping Americans, you don't know what a breakthrough it is for the U.S. State Department to utter even the mildest criticism of some Israeli atrocity. "Provocative." Wow. Golly gee whiz. Old George W. Bush promised he would provide leadership, and that's real leadership, calling a war crime "provocative." Finally, after eight months of refusing to utter even that bland a criticism, he managed to say the destruction of homes so precious to such terribly poor people is "provocative." It is such an improvement over Warren Christopher. When he was secretary of state, the Israelis were indulging in one of their periodic and gratuitous artillery attacks against villages in south Lebanon. A group of about 100 Lebanese women and children fled to a United Nations compound for safety. It didn't matter. The Israelis fired on it deliberately, as a subsequent U.N. investigation demonstrated. They were all killed, along with the U.N. peacekeepers. Bits and pieces of their flesh hung like grotesque decorations, dripping blood from shattered debris and blasted trees. Do you know what Christopher said? "The United States urges both sides to show restraint." I wonder how he expected the shattered flesh of the dead Lebanese women and children to show restraint. Perhaps he thought that they should not bleed so profusely from their wounds. I think that was the very first time I felt ashamed to be an American, listening to that rat-faced, cold-blooded international lawyer brushing off an atrocity like a crumb on his expensive coat sleeve. One day, Americans are going to wake up from more than 50 years of Zionist propaganda and suddenly feel like strangers in a strange land, to borrow the title of an old science-fiction work. They're finally going to see the simple truth: Israelis drove Palestinians out of their own country and confiscated their land and wealth. Israelis refused to allow (and still refuse) Palestinian refugees to return, despite United Nations resolutions instructing them to do so. In 1967, the Israelis attacked and took the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Since then, they have ruled it and still rule, despite U.N. resolutions against their actions. Now, after dragging out so-called peace negotiations for 10 years-how can the simple question, "When are you going to withdraw from the territories you illegally occupy?" take 10 years?-the drama is heading toward a climax. The Israelis have tried economic strangulation. They have tried to force the Palestinians to accept a chopped-up pseudo-country. They have tried killing their children, demolishing their homes and assassinating their leaders. They tried uprooting their agricultural orchards and sealing the Palestinians off from normal travel. By the way, where are you environmentalists while the Israelis commit this environmental atrocity? Don't you know how long it takes for an olive tree to reach maturity and start bearing fruit? I thought you were concerned about the environment. Oh, excuse me-not when it's a Palestinian environment. My mistake. I sometimes forget who is a hypocrite and who isn't, because there are so many these days. What's next, of course, is for the Israelis to take off the bloody glove and commit one super massacre in an attempt to drive the Palestinians out or to break their spirit. This is what the Palestinians expect. They are bracing for it. They know that the Israelis have elected the one politician, Ariel Sharon, willing to do it. They figure they can absorb that blow. If the survivors can rise from the rubble and say to the Israelis, "You can bury us here, but you can never drive us out of our own country," then the Israelis will have exhausted their options. They will dump Sharon and replace him with somebody who will finally, at long last, do some serious talking. It's already terrible what the Palestinians are going through, and this new assault, when it comes, will be far worse. They need the support now of decent people with the courage to stand up for human rights. As you can see, the Bush administration prefers to remain on its knees. Most members of Congress are afraid even to do that. They prefer the supine position, total prostration. If you can't find the courage to speak out against evil financed with your tax money, then at least watch as Palestinian children show you how real men and women live and die with honor!

LOL!!! If Yoko Ono were to marry Sonny Bono, imagine what her full name would be.

@Meshugger: Please read my reply to Sand. My point is that the Iranian government's treatment of its Jewish citizens is not as bad as it's cracked up to be. The Iranian government is not perfect, no government is. I even consider the treatment the Jewish people receive in Iran is better than how the US government treats its black and Hispanic citizens. I think the holocaust definitely occurred, and I'm certain Mr. Ahmadinejad realizes this. However, Mr. Ahmadinejad questions the reasons and the effects of the holocaust. And in his speech, he said that the responses he received were allegations and insults. He believes that there is more to the story than the official history. I honestly can't see anything wrong with that. Agreed. Well, you just might change your mind after reading this: This list was randomly selected group of massacres and not all of them: YEHIDA MASSACRE 13 December 1947: men of the Arab village of Yehiday (near Petah Tekva, the first Zionist settlement to be established) met at the local coffee house when they saw a British Army patrol enter the village, they were reassured espeically that Jewish terrorists had murdered 12 Palestinians the previous day. The four cars stopped in front of the cafe house and out stepped men dressed in khaki uniforms and steel helmets. However, it soon became apparent that they had not come to protect the villagers. With machine guns they sprayed bullets into the crowd gathered in the coffee house. Some of the invaders placed bombs next to Arab homes while other disguised terrorists tossed grenades at civilians. For a while it seemed as if the villagers would be annihilated but soon a real British patrol arrived to foil the well organized killing raid. The death toll of 7 Arab civilans could have been much higher. Earlier the same day 6 Arabs were killed and 23 wounded when home made bombs were tossed at a crowd of Arabs standing near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. In Jaffa another bomb killed six more Arabs and injured 40. KHISAS MASSACRE 18 December 1947: Two carloads of Haganah terrorists drove through the village of Khisas (on the Lebanese Syrian border) firing machine guns and throwing grenades. 10 Arab civilians were killed in the raid. QAZAZA MASSACRE 19 December 1947: 5 Arab children were murdered when Jewish terrorists blew up the house of the village Mukhtar. AL-SHEIKH VILLAGE MASSACRE 1 January 1948: On that night around two hundred Zionists armed with hand grenades and machine guns sneaked into a small village called al-Shaikh village (5 km South East of Haifa). The attackers came through the southern hills (most possibly from Nisher Jewish settlement wich lies about 5 km south of the village). They attacked the houses on the edges of the village with hand-grenades and finished off with machine-guns killing around 40 of the Palestinians inhibitants of the village, mostly women and children. DEIR YASSIN MASSACRE 9-10 April 1948: The massacre that became the symbol of Zionist aggression against the Palestinians as well as Zionist treachery. The Mukhtar of the village had agreed with the Zionists to provide information on the movement of strangers in the area as well as other intelligence provided their village is spared. The Zionists were not to keep their side of the promise. In an operation which was called Operation Unity, the Haganah co-operated with the Irgun and the Stern Gang in this operation. At 4:30 am on Friday 9th April 1948 surrounded the village which was overlooked by two Jewish settlements, Givat Shaul and Montefiore. For two days Zionist terrorists killed men women and children, raped women and stole their jewellery. A chilling account of the massacre is given by a Red Cross doctor who arrived at the village on the second day and saw himself - the mopping up - as one of the terrorists put it to him. He says that the "mopping up" had been done with machine guns, then grenades and finished of with knives. Women's bellies were cut open and babies were butchered inthe hands of their helpless mothers. Around 250 people were murdered in cold blood. Of them 25 pregnant women were bayoneted in the abdomen while still alive. 52 children were maimed under the eyes of their own mothers, and they were slain and their heads cut off. The Jewish Agency and the commander of the British ground troops knew of the massacre while it was going on, however, no one intervened to stop it. NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE 13-14 April 1948: A contingent of Lehi and Irgun entered this village (near Tiberias) entered the village on the night of 13 April dressed as Arab fighters. Upon their entrance to the village the people went out to greet them, the terrorists met them with fire, killing every single one of them. Only 40 people survived. All the houses of the village were raised to the ground. BEIT DARAS MASSACRE 21 May 1948: After a number of failed attempts to occupy this village, the Zionists mobilized a large contingent and surrounded the village. The people of Beit Daras decided that women and children should leave. As women and children left the village they were met by the Zionist army who massacred them despite the fact that they could see they were women and children fleeing the fighting. THE DAHMASH MOSQUE MASSACRE 11 July 1948: After the Israeli 89th Commando Battalion lead by Moshe Dayan occupied Lydda, the Israelis told Arabs through loudspeakers that if they went into a certain mosque they would be safe. In retaliation for a hand grenade attack after the surrender that killed several Israeli soldiers, 80-100 Palestinians were massacred in the mosque, their bodies lay decomposing for 10 days in the mid-summer heat. The mosque still stands abandoned today. This massacre spread fear and panic among the Arab population of Lydda and Ramle, who were then ordered to march out of these towns after they were stripped of all personal belonging by Israeli soldiers. Yitzhak Rabin, Brigade Commander then says: "There was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march ten to fifteen miles to the point where they met up with the legion." Most of the 60,000 inhabitants of Lydda and Ramble came to refugee camps near Ramallah, around 350 lost their lives on the way through dehydration and son stroke. Many survived by drinking their own urine. The conditions in the refugee camps were to claim more lives. DAWAYMA MASSACRE 29 October 1948: The following is the testimony of a Jewish soldier who participated in the occupation of the village of Dawayma (in the Haifa subdistrict): "...They killed between 80 to 100 Arab men women and children. To kill children they factured their heads with sticks. There was not one home left without corpses .... One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a building he was about to blow up... Another soldier prided himself on having raped an Arab women before shooting her to death..." The massacre was perpetrated by the 89th Battalion, the authors of Lydda massacre. SHARAFAT MASSACRE 7 Febraury 1951: Israeli soldiers corssed the armistice line to this village (5 km from Jerusalem) and blew up the houses of the Mukhtar and his neighbors. 10 were killed (2 elderly men, 3 woemen and 5 children) and 8 were wounded. KIBYA MASSACRE 14 October 1953: 9:30 pm about 700 regular Israeli troops attacked the border Jordanian village of Kibya, north west of Jerusalem. Using mortars, machine guns, rifles and explosives they blew up 42 houses, the local schools and the mosque. Every man woman and child found by these ciminals was killed. 75 innocent villagers were murdered in cold blood. The raids were ordered by Ariel Sharon. KAFR QASEM MASSACRE 29 October 1956: Israeli frontier guards started at 4 pm what they called a tour of the Triangle Villages. They told the Mukhtars of those villages that the curfew from that day onwards was to start from 5 pm instead of 6 pm. They reached Kafr Qasem around 4:45 and informed the Mukhtar protested that there are about 400 villagers working outside the village and there is not enough time to inform them of the new times. An officer assured him that they will be taken care of. Then the guards waited at the entrance to the village. 43 Kafr Qasem inhabitants were massacred in cold blood by the army as they returned from work, their crime was violating a curfew they did not know about. On the northern entrance of the village 3 were killed and 2 were killed inside of the village. Amongst the dead were men, women, and children. Lutanat Danhan was touring the area in his jeep reporting the massacre, on his wireless he said "minus 15 Arabs" after a while his message on the radio to his H.Q. was "it is difficult to count". AL-SAMMOU' MASSACRE 13 November 1966: Israeli forces raided this village, destroyed 125 houses, the village clinic and school as well as 15 houses in a neighbouring village. 18 people were killed and 54 wounded. THE SABRA AND SHATILA MASSACRE 15-18 September 1982: After the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon Phalangist puppets of the Israelis massacred over 3000 Palestinian men, women and children under the watchful eyes of the Israeli army. A body count by the International Committee of the Red Cross revealed 2750 dead, the real figure is thought to be much higher and may never be known. OYON QARA MASSACRE (RISHON LEZION: 20 May 1990: An Israeli soldier lined up Palestinian laborers and murdered seven of them with a sub-machine gun. 13 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in subsequent demonstrations at the massacre. AL-AQSA MOSQUE MASSACRE 8 October 1990: Israeli police opened fire on worshipers in al-Aqsa mosque killing 22 people. THE IBRAHIMI MOSQUE MASSACRE 25 February 1994: A Jewish terrorist, from Keryat Arba' settlement massacred 50 worshipers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil (Hebron) and wounded about 200. Later massive demonstrations took to the streets of Palestine and the Zionist army responded by live ammunitions, killing 23 and wounding hundreds more. Reports indicate there were 3 Jewish settler gunners, not only one. THE JABALIA MASSACRE 28 March 1994: A Jewish undercover police opened fire on Palestinian activists brutally killing 6 and injuring 49. Some of the wounded activists were taken out of their cars and shot in their heads to death. ERETZ CHECKPOINT MASSACRE 17 July 1994: Palestinian sources reported that the occupation forces had committed Sunday morning a disgusting massacre against Palestinian workers at Eretz Checkpoint. Eyewitnesses and Israeli sources reported that 11 Palestinians have been shot dead and 200 injured. Israeli sources also reported that 21 Israeli soldiers including 1 settler were injured. Two soldiers were shot by bullets, one died. As reported by Palestinian and Israeli sources, the scene was described as a war zone which lasted for 6 hours. Four Israeli tanks and helicopters were brought by the occupation forces, while a number of settlers took part firing at Palestinians. Protests had spread all over the Occupied Territories. In Gaza, Palestinians raised black flags and called for revenge. In Ramallah, shops closed while several clashes were reported. Several clashes were reported at Hebron University yesterday, and today two Palestinians were shot in Hebron. These are just some of the massacres committed against the Palestinians by the Zionists. If the raids on southern Lebanon old and new were to be taken account the true magnitude of Zionist crimes against humanity could start to emerge. If one were to go into the gruesome details of the atrocities committed in 1948 the "mopping up operations", the deliberate humiliation and massacre of Arabs and the desecration of the holy places of both Muslim and Christian as well as the looting of these holy places and personal property by the Israeli army and settlers, one might just start to appreciate what Zionism is all about.

Wow... The States are breaking up? Why?

Well... It's certainly still within your right to do so. And for the record, I wasn't trying to convert you or anything.

Let me explain something to you BOY! What exactly is a "crime against humanity"? This concept goes all the way back to the Nuremberg Charter of 1945 for the trial of the major Nazi war criminals. And in the Nuremberg Charter of 1945, drafted by the United States Government, there was created and inserted a new type of international crime specifically intended to deal with the Nazi persecution of the Jewish People. The paradigmatic example of a "crime against humanity" is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish People. This is where the concept of crime against humanity came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission determined that Israel is and have been doing to the Palestinian People: Crimes against humanity. Legally, just like what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews. The Precursor to Genocide Moreover, a crime against humanity is the direct historical and legal precursor to the international crime of genocide as defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The theory here was that what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish People required a special international treaty that would codify and universalize the Nuremberg concept of "crime against humanity." And that treaty ultimately became the 1948 Genocide Convention. In fairness, you will note that the U.N. Human Rights Commission did not go so far as to condemn Israel for committing genocide against the Palestinian People. But it has condemned Israel for committing crimes against humanity, which is the direct precursor to genocide. Since 1945, even before Israel was recognized as a (state), Israelis have NEVER stopped to commit all kinds of violation of the international laws that protects civilians under occupation. Mr. Ahmadinejad is fighting to end this injustice. Hell yeah I'm gonna support him!!! "And I fail to see how I made any sort of racist comment towards you. I thought I made it pretty clear that by "Indonesian hippy who laughs at his jokes that nobody else here laughs at" I was referring to you." Ok fine! You're not a racist. But lemme just say that you truly are your father's son. You know what I'm talking about, dont'cha sweetie...

@Sand: Yes it does. Please allow this humble Muslim to explain to you a few things about Islam. Okay, first of all I would like to say that basically everything is permissible in Islam unless stated otherwise. This is very generic and almost 99% of Muslims will agree on this. To really know Islam, the first thing you must do is to differentiate between the actual teachings of Islam and local traditions and culture. In the middle east the majority of Muslim women wear veils and burqas. One can argue that because the middle east consists mostly of deserts, wearing a burqa or a veil is appropriate because it protects you from dust and wind. If you go to a Muslim country such as Indonesia or Malaysia, you will find that women wearing burqas are actually the minority here. Regarding the military, I honestly don't know much about how they do it in the middle east. But in Indonesia there are lots of policewomen and even female fire fighters. Why? Because there aren't any teachings in Islam that states a woman is not allowed to work! Muslim Women can't get a driver's license??? Are you friggin kidding me Sand?? I'm sorry to say but this the most retarded thing I have ever hear you say. There are LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of muslim women drivers here in Indonesia. If you ever visit Jakarta, stop a cab and with any luck, the cab driver could be a woman. Oh and did you know that our 5th President was a woman? Homosexuals.... Ok here's the thing. I've stated earlier that everything is permissible in Islam unless stated otherwise. Unfortunately (or fortunately depends on how you look at it), homosexuality is forbidden in Islam. There's no ands/ifs/buts about it. Now I don't pretend to understand why this is so, but as a Muslim I will follow the teachings of the Qur'an. The same is true with incest, bestiality and y'know sex that involves body wastes like umm sh!t etc (I have no idea what the term is). Islam, however, does not call for the extermination of homosexuals. There is this one Indonesian performer who used to be a man. A couple of years ago he went under the knife to change his sex, and nobody seem to have any problems with her/him performing on TVs. He/she is even a devout Muslim. I'll continue this later.

@Sand: Let me make one thing clear to you Sand. Islam DOES NOT support bigotry, fascism and discrimination!!!! Islam does not recognize the caste system found in Hindu, slavery and above all, Islam teaches equality. Iran has one of the largest Jewish community in the middle east, and the Iranian government acknowledges their every right. They even have a representative in parliament. If you don't believe me, feel free to do your own research. If, as you say, Mr Ahmadinejad is no better than Bin Laden, there wouldn't be a single Jew left alive in Iran today. "Shot on sight" What? No trial? Mr. Ahmadinejad is not an idiot. He's a professor at a university and teaches regularly. So what if he's a theist? It doesn't change the fact that he's a very intelligent man. He questions the holocaust because of his firm believe that there just might be 'inaccuracies' in popular history. What is so wrong about that? Is it not the mark of an intellectual to question things? It's a shame Bush didn't got the balls to debate Mr. Ahmadinejad at Columbia University. I would've loved to watch Mr. Ahmadinejad PWNED Bush's hairy behind! ---------------------------------------- @TheArchitect: For your information, I'm not the only one who strongly believe in Mr. Ahmadinejad. Almost a billion Muslims around the world see him as the Imam (spiritual leader) we've been searching for all this time. He's influence is increasing even as we speak. What about your precious George W Bush? Can you say the same about him? Oh and thank you for your slightly racist comment. It was swell. ------------------------------------------ @Messhuger: You're right. I apologize for letting my emotion get the better of me. When those lunatics hit the twin towers they didn't just victimize the innocent 3000 people that were killed that day. They also victimized a billion+ Muslims around the world that absolutely had nothing to do with it. And now every time I go online I have to deal with idiotic comments and videos that said Islam this and Islam that and everything that goes with it. After a period of ignoring I guess I kinda snapped. Anyway, let's get on with it shall we and I'm not gonna tell you what you don't already know. The root of Islamic extremism is Palestine. I'm sure most people here know this, but choose not to care for some unknown reason. The US since 60 years ago have been stealing the Palestinian lands to form the ever expanding state of Israel. The Iranian government since the days of Khomeini, have been continuously fighting the US's unfair middle eastern policy. You must understand that although there are 'factions' within Islam, most of us Muslims agree that the forming of the state of Israel is unacceptable for reasons mentioned above. The US with its godlike power have 'crippled' almost all Muslim countries around the world. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no longer a threat since the assassination of King Faisal (some believed it was staged by the US). Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia etc are Muslim countries that pose no real threat to the US' hegemony due to lack of resources. But then Mr. Ahmadinejad came along with his plans on acquiring nuclear program. And just like the previous great leaders of Iran, he is a man that inspires hope. It's no wonder that the western world sees him as some homophobic, bigoted whatever even comparing him to Hitler no less (though he hasn't done anything to deserve that). The western Media (controlled mostly by Jews) is successful in shaping the opinion of the public that Mr. Ahmadinejad is out the destroy the world. The power the media has over the mindless masses truly frightens me. Mr. Ahmadinejad stated time and time again that the Nuclear program he is trying to acquire would be of peaceful purposes. Honestly, even I don't buy that. I'm not saying he's gonna actually use it against Israel or the US, but it's indeed a powerful bargaining chip. After all, power conceived is power perceived. Or is it the other way around? Doesn't matter. So Mess, to answer your question as to why I support Mr. Ahmadinejad. Here's my answer: He fights to liberate our fellow Muslims in Palestine. He fights for justice!

@Everyone: Hahahaha.... man the double standard in this forum sickens me! I only made like two 'humorous' posts and almost everyone here like: "grow up" "don't be such a troll" etc etc... But when guys like Tale, the architect or Kaftan Barlast do it you guys are like: "Oh man that was funny" "Tale wins" "Kaftan, you are so cool" :yucky:

I just like stirring the pot. Hehehe.... Seriously, for some reason GDM I find your posts to be the most... I dunno... boring I guess. I honestly feel kinda bored and uninterested in what you have to say no matter how 'provocative' they might be.

No, they do not deserve imprisonment, they deserve deportation. I believe in following the law, doing as the law states, and if you get caught breaking the law then you deserve punishment. If you don't like the law you work on changing the law. One does not have the right to pick and choose what laws he or she obeys or not obey. However, my views on law and punishment is not the topic here. Ummm no, but your double standard IS.

1 & 2. Well, you have your indoctrinations and I have mine. Besides, he kinda reminds me of Salahudin. 3. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha........ As if the US isn't doing it already..... :lol:

President Ahmadinejad is a revolutionist. He is the only leader who has the balls to stand up to the unrivaled ruler of the entire world (George Warmonger Bush). I can't believe you Americans chose a monkey to lead your great country. But wait, maybe you didn't! Maybe the election was rigged!! So much for democracy. Let's face it, the US government is BULLSH!T! They're the ones that started this whole mess in the middle east by UNJUSTLY backing up the forming of the state of Israel! No amount of rationalization can ever make the stealing of the Palestinian lands acceptable. "But he wants to destroy Israel and kill every Israeli citizens.." For the time being, those are just words. Innocent until proven guilty. I can't say the same about the Israelis/Bush killing Palestinians and Syrians and Lebanese and Afghans. "But he wants to go NUCLEAR..." Good!!! It's about time a Muslim country goes nuclear!!! I've always wanted to say: "Shut the hell up or I'll nuke your ass back to the stone age!" "Israel has the right to exist..." Well what about the Palestinian? Don't they have rights too? Are they less of a human being than the Israelis? Than you Americans??? You guys are so full of it!

I believe the correct statement is: "We don't have homosexuals like in your country." You're right about that university being idiotic. They can't even show proper respect to their guest. *gasps*.... I disgust you? Why? Is it because I speak the truth and you can't handle it?

I'd like to thank you now, but refer to two points made in the introduction given about me, and then I will be open for any questions. Last year, I would say two years ago, I raised two questions. You know that my main job is a university instructor. Right now as president of Iran I still continue teaching graduate and Ph.D.-level courses on a weekly basis. My students are working with me in scientific fields. I believe that I am an academic myself, so I speak with you from an academic point of view. And I raised two questions. But instead of a response, I got a wave of insults and allegations against me, and regretfully, they came mostly from groups who claimed most to believe in the freedom of speech and the freedom of information. You know quite well that Palestine is an old wound, as old as 60 years. For 60 years, these people are displaced; for 60 years, these people are being killed; for 60 years, on a daily basis, there's conflict and terror; for 60 years, innocent women and children are destroyed and killed by helicopters and airplanes that break the house over their heads; for 60 years, children in kindergartens in schools, in high schools are in prison being tortured; for 60 years, security in the Middle East has been in danger; for 60 years, the slogan of expansionism from the Nile to the Euphrates has been chanted by certain groups in that part of the world. And as an academic, I ask two questions, the same two questions that I will ask here again. And you judge for yourselves whether the response to these questions should be the insults, the allegations and all the words and the negative propaganda, or should we really try and face these two questions and respond to them? Like you, like any academic, I, too, will keep -- not get -- become silent until I get the answers, so I am awaiting logical answers instead of insults. My first question was, if, given that the Holocaust is a present reality of our time, a history that occurred, why is there not sufficient research that can approach the topic from different perspectives? Our friends refer to 1930 as the point of the departure for this development; however, I believe the Holocaust, from what we read, happened during World War II after 1930 in the 1940s. So, you know, we have to really be able to trace the event. My question was simple. There are researchers who want to push the topic from a different perspective. Why are they put into prison? Right now there are a number of European academics who have been sent to prison because they attempted to write about the Holocaust, so researchers from a different perspective, questioning certain aspects of it -- my question is, why isn't it open to all forms of research? I have been told that there's been enough research on the topic. And I ask, well, when it comes to topics such as freedom, topics such as democracy, concepts and norms such as God, religion, physics even or chemistry, there's been a lot of research, but we still continue more research on those topics. We encourage it. But then why don't we encourage more research on a historical event that has become the root, the cause of many heavy catastrophes in the region in this time and age? Why shouldn't there be more research about the root causes? That was my first question. And my second question -- well, given this historical event, if it is a reality, we need to still question whether the Palestinian people should be paying for it or not. After all, it happened in Europe. The Palestinian people had no role to play in it. So why is it that the Palestinian people are paying the price of an event they had nothing to do with? The Palestinian people didn't commit any crime. They had no role to play in World War II. They were living with the Jewish communities and the Christian communities in peace at the time. They didn't have any problems. And today, too, Jews, Christians and Muslims live in brotherhood all over the world, in many parts of the world. They don't have any serious problems. But why is it that the Palestinians should pay a price, innocent Palestinians? For 5 million people to remain displaced or refugees of war for 60 years are -- is this not a crime? Is asking about these crimes a crime by itself? Why should an academic, myself, face insults when asking questions like this? Is this what you call freedom and upholding the freedom of thought? And as for the second topic, Iran's nuclear issue -- I know there's time limits, but I need time. I mean, a lot of time was taken from me.

Full Transcript "We love all nations. We are friends with the Jewish people. There are many Jews in Iran living peacefully with security. You must understand that in our constitution, in our laws, in the parliamentary elections, for every 150,000 people we get one representative in the parliament. For the Jewish community, one-fifth of this number they still get one independent representative in the parliament. So our proposal to the Palestinian plight is a humanitarian and democratic proposal. What we say is that to solve the 60-year problem we must allow the Palestinian people to decide about its future for itself. This is compatible with the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations and the fundamental principles enshrined in it. We must allow Jewish Palestinians, Muslim Palestinians and Christian Palestinians to determine their own fate themselves through a free referendum. Whatever they choose as a nation everybody should accept and respect. Nobody should interfere in the affairs of the Palestinian nation. Nobody should sow the seeds of discord. Nobody should spend tens of billions of dollars equipping and arming one group there. We say allow the Palestinian nation to decide its own future, to have the right to self-determination for itself. This is what we are saying as the Iranian nation." President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Show'em what your made of Mr President!! Show the world who the REAL terrorists are!

The Brits and Americans need to get out of Iraq ASAP, and let the UN Peacekeeping troop take over. I doubt a multinational peacekeeping troop would do something as crazy as

D'ya think?

Water Runs Dry - Boyz II Men -

Look no offense ok guys, but RUGBY SUCKS!!!! I mean what's the point of that game anyway? Is it anything like American 'Football'? You know, a game where you try to steal the other team's umm... land while wearing that stupid looking tights. Kinda resembles the US's foreign policy. LOL!!!! The greatest game in the world is soccer! The real football! Go Man United!

LOL.... You guys still at it?

Oh man.... In Australia, I had to put up with Pauline Hanson's One Nation crap. And now this???

@Guard Dog: Thanx for your concern. Fortunately, the epicentrum of the earth quake was miles offshore and it was deep enough so it didn't create any tsunamis. But the shockwave did reach Jakarta, and it lasted for a few minutes. It was kinda scary. @TrueNeutral: It's ok if you don't like it man, I am after all still learning. @Sionn: @Stewdawg24: Man I gotta admit. When it comes to playing guitar, you Americans are the best. Andy McKee: Awesome!! Antoine Dufour: Cool!! SRV: Divine... *sigh* Compared to them, I'm just a friggin noob.