Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Joker: A Temporary Detour in American Politics Called Trump

Having a Trump in American politics is not something new. America's path to be the number one nation on earth, the strongest military in modern times,the place to live and start new beginnings for tens of  millions of people from around the world, from all backgrounds, has periodically been interrupted by temporary detours, roadblocks, potholes like Donald Trump and others.

But America has always managed to rise above and around the blocks and has always went back and forth and leveled fields and the roads and has always tried, sometimes not completely successfully, to correct the wrong and advance the right or what it considers as right.

America's path into greatness has never been easy and has never been dictatorial and has never been imperialistic; America believes in win-win situations, American wants to be a partner not a foe; America invites you to come to America not because it is easy but because there is hope for all if they work hard to advance and have a chance to advance and a chance to be part of the great nation that is a composition of nations and of all ethnic groups and of all religions and faiths humanity ever known.

America started as bunch of colonies that found common grounds, kicked out the occupiers who did not understand the New World,  and created a pragmatic federal system and genuinely expanded south and west and created what is known now as the United States of America.

America while trying to find its path, committed atrocities when it enslaved  Africans and segregated the country and dehumanised the humans but at the same time, the same America, corrected the path, freed the slaves, forced the south to retreat and join the Union of the brave and the free; America topped its corrective path by electing a black president in 2008 and reaffirmed it's choice and reelected the same man in 2012 giving him a mandate and confirming its willingness to do whatever it takes and brings whoever it needs regardless of background to govern and bring results and correct the path and eliminate the detours.

In the 1950s a demagogue was elected senator and created a detour of destruction and hate; Eugene Macarthy did not last long, was defeated and America went back to politics the American way: We debate, we argue, we calibrate and then we vote. We play politics and we wear different hats but we are not ideologues and we are not stubborn unless as a nation confronted with a common enemy and clear and present danger. And even in such dire circumstances we will still argue, delibrate and debate and reject and approve but majority at the end of the day we will move forward and never backward.


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Sunday, January 17, 2016

مصر السيسي اليوم: السيسي بقالة برلمان و مجلس قعدة و نواب بقلم: جميل محمد الشوا

البلمان البلمان يلا بينا على البرلمان

السيسي بقالة ياحلاوة برلمان اة برلمان، ومجلس نواب من غير أسنان

فتحت الجلسة؛ اقعد واقعدي دي الناس في كل حتة مستنية والفرجة حاجة ببلاش كدي

وعبعال المحامي بقى ريس برلمان

وهيصة ومولد و هلمة وازعرينا؛

ياواد و بابنت فين السوداني والفيشار الجلسة فُتحت والفرجة لحظة وحتبتدي..

بص بص آه دة الي هناك؛ مش دة حمودة صبي العالمة ودة مرتضى ابن الدايخة ومين اللي هناك بص هناك ..الشعب 
بيتحزم في البرلمان ..

خد يا واد عندك هنا ٢ شاي و واحد قهوة و سحلب وينسون وقرفة و متنساش الفكة..

سيد برعي للشلة: عايزين رشة سجاير دة الريس بيندة و مش عايزين شوشرة ووجعة دماغ امال فين البوفية عايزين 
نفتح ونبتدي ابونية..

سمع هس عبعال رقع بالصوت دة برلمان يولاد مش قهوة السنترال

الدستور فين الدستور، عايزين الدستور يا ريس؛ الدستور بيقول ....بيقول الكستور حلو وفي الشتا دفاة مضمون

واه يا شعب لا بالديمقراطية عاجب ولا بالديكتاتورية عاجب ولا بإخوان ولا بجيش؛ يا شعب يللي بس خواجة يعجبك ويقدر يحكمك.

 جميل

The Israeli Arabs and the Lost Identity and Dignity

Jewish and Arabs lived in historic pre-1948 Palestine together but mostly separate long before 1948 and the establishment and independence of the State of Israel; both are genuine citizens and both are genuinely belong to the place and the land and both relate to the place and the land. No one can tell the other to leave, no one should dare to tell the other to leave; the land is for both of them and it is for them to cherish and to keep.

Arabs became a minority in a land that never paid attention to anything called a majority or a minority, wars that followed the UN resolution to divide the land caused the Arabs to leave, not Israel; if Arab countries have accepted the 1947 UN partition resolution 181, there would have been the State of Palestine next to the State of Israel and accordingly Jewish population did not drive the Arabs out of their homes, but the Arab armies that caused what is known the Palestinian refugees. these are pure historical facts.

Once the Arabs in Israel come to accept the above, they for sure would get back the sense of belonging they lost and  they would start looking at the land as theirs as well as the Jewish population; neither one is a guest and neither one can kick out the other-never.

The legitimacy of the State of Israel is not based and it should not be based on the UN 1947 Resolution to divide the land but the legitimacy of Israel is based on the right, the genuine right of the Jewish people to share the land and to raise their flag on their part of the land.

The Arabs in Israel must learn and believe in the concept described above and at the same time, Arabs in Israel should not feel the need to emulate Israeli Jewish, not at all, but genuinely live as themselves in their country as Israeli citizens in a country with different ethnic and religious backgrounds. The Arabs in Israel must start living with dignity and self-respect; things that they chose to lose long time ago.




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Saturday, January 09, 2016

Trump and Bundy and America

Both billionaire Donald Trump and rancher Bundy think that by themselves they can reshape America and retake America and change history; both cannot be more wrong and both cannot be more deceiving and both cannot be more dangerous and both need to be confronted and defeated. A forgone conclusion, Trump will be defeated at the ballot boxes, but Bundy the rancher, the cows raiser, must be defeated legally and by law enforcement. Bundy is an occupier, an aggressor, an intruder while Trump is playing the role of the fascist.


Most Americans know that Mr. Trump will never be President of the United States but he can influence things and make the political arena more tense and even, ironically, to many more exciting; before Trump got in, America had a Republican presidential field that was so dull and Hillary as the only thing going; imagine. Through stupid but calculated and deliberate remarks about Mexicans and American Republican politicians- he called Texan Perry stupid which is true by the way and called John McCain a loser- and Muslims, Trump got America again jumping and interested in politics and that I tell you is not an easy thing to do.


Until Donald Trump took center stage, the Jack of the Republican Party was none but the famous Texan Ted Cruz


People need to understand at the end of the day Trump is part of a big circus and show that is called US presidential elections; a show that will produce a president who will never ever have the name of Donald Trump


The job of Donald Trump is not to elevate Americans but to entertain blue collar America, to play the joker, the jackass in a suit; American presidential elections is the biggest political circus on earth, it is the biggest commercial enterprise in history, it is the largest fair and show in the universe; Americans from east to east celebrate democracy in unique ways; Trump is part of the show, someone has to play to the tunes of the times we are in, someone must play ugly the role.


But people can choose to get radicalized by demagogues who spread hate like the American Trump and the French Le Pen , or people car reject demagoguery because demagoguery at the end of the day will bring and contribute to hate and crime and terrorism; in the first half of the 20th century, Germans and Italians and Japanese fell to demagoguery and the results were crimes against humanity


But will naive and deceived southern Republicans wake up and realize that Trump is nothing but a "Jack"with a mic who will make Hillary president


However, again,  at the end of the day, the two clowns and entertainers on the Republican side - Donald the Trump and  the Very Wrong Ben Carson could end up setting the stage for Jeb the Son of Bush to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States and with his Mexican wife and his bilingual skills beat Hillary and become our 45th President


Majority of Americans made up their mind earlier, before “Jack” Trump Appeared, not to bring slick willie to the White House again, but now, the chips are down


The other ‘Un-American’ is rancher Bundy and his family; and the questions that keep keep coming up are:  What is the difference between the Iranians who took American hostages in Tehran in 1979 and the Bundays in Oregon who are holding the US Government and the American people hostages to their greed and hostility towards America and what it stands for


What is the difference between ISIS and Donald Trump and the Bundy family who is now attacking US properties and challenging US government in Oregon


What is the difference between the thugs of Hizbulla and Lebanon's Rasputin Nassralla and the Bundy thugs in Oregon


Is there any difference between Lebanese Hizbula or Hamas in Gaza and the Bundy family in Oregon who is now attacking US government in Oregon

The Bundy cowboys of Oregon have a history of challenging the authority of the US government and the time is now to use legal means to apprehend lawless militias

Oregon where the Bundy ranchers occupy federal land starts to look like Beirut where thugs and warlords rule the streets


Those in Oregon and elsewhere that carry arms and occupy federal lands and challenge the authority of the United States are enemies of the United States and law and order must be restored

We as Americans need to do two things simultaneously if we decide to do things: Clean the garbage outside the US and clean and collect the garbage inside the US as well to have picture complete


The big question today goes to our man in the White House: What is Obama going to do to restore the prestige of the federal government in Oregon where the Bundy ranchers are showing the feds the middle finger...

We have to show empathy with President Obama in his goal to build a legacy away from just being the first African-American president but at the same time we as Americans need to see action; we need as Americans to see effective gun control; background checks and also we need as Americans to get the Bundys out of federal land and property in Oregon and into the courtroom where they belong.


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Donald Trump

Americans Reacting to Trump Demagoguery

Americans Reacting to Trump Demagoguery

Americans Reacting to Trump Demagoguery

Trump and China

Jeb Bush Struggles

Bundy

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