* price Tag in the West Bank...by Jamil Shawwa

I mentioned before, few times, that when it comes to the Israeli Palestinian relations, and interactions, and ” incidents and accidents”, in the West Bank and Gaza or in the State of Israel, I take no other choice but  a very careful approach on how to analyze and how to describe.

I personally cannot just isolate an incident, no matter how big or small, from the big picture of the Israeli Palestinian issues, and the Israeli Arab and Islamic countries future relations and the overall politics and history of this conflict in the Middle East. According to this report from the *Washington Post, link attached, the Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu and his deputy, Moshe Yaalon, described the attack by settlers near Jerusalem on the Ghayada Palestinian family on 08/22/2012- Jamila Ghayada in the picture- as “act of terrorism” .

The family is being treated now in Israeli hospitals as the picture and the Post report clearly show. The Palestinian leadership is absent, as usual, from a reaction to this attack or coordination in the West Bank with the israeli side to draw lines, or something, that would make both the settlers and the Palestinians safe. **The settlers’ situation is not settled yet, but it should be. And the Israeli society is fed up with a fringe among the settlers who are attacking their own military and government.

A group that is willing to terrorize their own Israeli citizens-Operation Price tag which is derived from a term that setters will revenge for Israelis killed by Palestinians in settlements in the West Bank, check links below-  to gain political landscape or to blackmail for what should be negotiations over the final status and the establishment of the Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Again, Israeli settlers in the West Bank can and should be able to have dual citizenship, if they choose to do so, and live as Israeli Palestinians in the West Bank. 

The new Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank could with the state of Israel become the two countries that actually have large populations of the three divine religions live side by side, next to each other and in each other, and having the citizenship of both states.

*“price tag,” a campaign of retaliation against Palestinian violence or Israeli policies they view as limiting their efforts to claim what they see as their biblical birthright" http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/settler-violence-against-palestinians-raises-alarm-in-israel/2012/08/24/14511b7e-ec77-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html

** Settlements.... by Jamil Shawwa
http://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com/2010/09/settlementsby-jamil-shawwa.html

Anders Breivik; The Face of Terrorism..by Jamil Shawwa

Do you want to see and know the different sides and faces of terrorists these day; just take a look at Anders Breivik. He killed and slaughtered  humans that he never met, never talked to, they never harmed him, they never knew that he existed. But he knew where they were, and out of sick hatred and fanaticism, decided to massacre them. They, the families of the  victims today, did not get justice, they got some sort of closure, and this killer,  from Norway, Anders Breivik, got a presidential media coverage, and exposure and oh, yes, 20 years in detention where he will be fed and treated well, and taken care of and pampered....I wonder if justice in Norway was served today.

Related:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57499614/norway-court-anders-breivik-sane-going-to-prison/ 

http://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com/2012/07/america-americagun-control-is-out-of.html

The Loss of the ANC....South Africa's Tragedy..by Jamil Shawwa

The killing and murder  of over 30 miners in Marikana, South Africa, last week was the straw that broke the camel's back.

It was a  premeditated murder from the police in this South Africa's city.  Shooting to kill innocent, poor, helpless, desperate miners...Even during apartheid, South Africa was not that brutal. It is a shame that needs to be investigated and those perpetrators need to be brought to justice.

This incident is a stain not only on the government of South Africa and the idiot that calls himself president, Zuma, but it is a stain on South Africa's historic leader, Nelson Mandela. It is Mandela's party and his men, that shot to kill. Mandela needs to issue a statement even at this stage of his life and at this time of his retirement. It is a responsibility that historic leaders must take in any country as long as they are alive.

I think its time for South Africa to declare a popular revolution against the tyranny and corruption of the ANC, The National African Congress, the one that ended apartheid but started a parallel system of the defunct apartheid.

ANC enslaves the majority of South Africa, same as another “ liberation” leader is doing in Zimbabwe. I really think Africa needs to revolt; terrible situations everywhere, corruption in in the richest Nigeria, South Africa is corrupt and diseases infested, Zimbabwe is terrible, the white minority there is facing prosecution and nationalization, so instead of white discrimination, now blacks are discriminating. Liberate Africa now from the Africans, and give it back to the Africans..

Read also:

*FIFA South Africa........... by Jamil Shawwa

and a report from the Washington Post today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/south-african-mining-unrest-spreads/2012/08/22/622a4202-ec9b-11e1-aca7-272630dfd152_story.html

Britain and Ecuador; No Morality but Settling Accords..by Jamil Shawwa

Obviously and historically, we can easily come to the conclusion that there is no lost love between the British and their "friends" across the oceans  in South America. It was the Falklands in 1982, and now the Swedish Assange, the creator of Wikileaks, who was indicted in England, in London, on sexual assaults and was supposed to be extradited to Sweden to stand trial for the alleged crimes he committed while he was in his home country. Instead, he managed to fool the British, somehow, and escaped to the Ecuadorian embassy and asked for political asylum. Of course Ecuador has nothing to lose, and Britain has everything to lose from this humiliating episode. The least, of course, its prestige, or what is left from it.  Ecuador on Thursday, raised its finger in the face and the prestige and the legal system of Great  Britain and granted Assange Asylum on"moral" grounds as its president, Correa, claimed. Of course morality has nothing to do with it, But being on the spotlight and having Ecuador, that probably you only hear of it, never, everything to do with it. Today in a meeting in Quito, the capital of Ecuador-Ecuador so far is the one calling the shots, as if the matter did not take place in London and as if it does not concern the British- for Foreign ministers of the neighbouring countries, all have the same lost love with Great Britain, when the Ecuadorian president suddenly joined the meeting-sure, it's such an opportunity, world media is on him- and repeated the " high grounds of morality" that demand that he stands for Assange...by the way similar calls are being heard by some Britons in England. So we have a "standoffish" now that should end from a legal point of view, according to my understanding, in Britain not granting safe passage to Assange. But politics, usually, plays or it has the upper hand in final outcomes like this one. The US is silent, publicly, which is understandable because Assange is wanted here to stand trial for leaking our correspondence that we did not know how to protect..How will it be resolved depends on Britain’s resolve.. and how it will handle. Let us see if *David Cameron will repeat the Margaret Thatcher’s bold Falkland episode but this time instead of sending the Armada eight thousand miles to Argentina, he will send British Swat team downtown London and restores Britain's lost prestige.

*Café au lait ………………………………..The Evolution of David Cameron
http://www.facebook.com/notes/jamil-shawwas-report/caf%C3%A9-au-lait-the-evolution-of-david-cameron/321129437945098

Theodor Herzl and Abdul Rahman Al Kawakibi...by Jamil Shawwa

In English, and poetic lines in Arabic, below, the describes a conversation between Al Kawakibi and his book of Reform..


There was a time in the early 20th century when very few individuals inspired nations to build or rebuild their countries and nations, and to do good and not evil for humanity. The people of the State of Israel in the Middle East had Theodor Herzl, the Palestinians in the very same Middle East  and the very same timeframe did not have anybody. Israel grew and thrived, and the Palestinians are still trying to figure out how to dig tunnels in Sinai to smuggle “stuff”. In 1947, the UN granted two people, two states, one accepted and build a country and a nation, and the other blindly and arrogantly and ignorantly, refused- since then the palestinians have been bought and sold by their own. And since then, the Palestinians have been using the same  brand of hypocrisy but instead of the model of the 1947, every year, the same model, but different year attached to it and that model did not drive to a state. Syria also was inspired by a reformer  by the name of Abdul Rahman Al Kawakibi, from Aleppo, the battlefield city now of the final days of a tyrant named  Al Assad. Al Kawakibi called upon his people in the very early years of the  20th century to rise, and to do good for themselves, to kick the oppressors, their own Syrians, out of their minds and hearts, and to kick fear away and build a secular, democratic country. He was only one, and could not mobilize anyone. Herzl mobilized the world. Al Kawakibi could not, not out of deficiency in him, but out of deficiency in his people; contrary to Herzl. Here it is, in Arabic,...meanwhile, I have no doubt that in Heaven Herzl now is congratulating and shaking Al Kawakibi’s hands.....and Al kawakibi is returning the favor.. The poetic lines are about a conversation that I wrote between Al Kawakibi and his book, about a bid they both had that things will change and that the oppressors will disappear from Syria..the Title is “Al Kawakibi Smiles...”

الكواكبي يبتسم ......
بقلم جميل محمد الشوا

فجاة ظهر الكواكبي بعد طول غياب و ليس نسيان
وابتسم و فكر و نظر و مسك كتابة و كلم كتابة
وقال لكتابة اللي بصبر بينول
وانا صبرت, ازا بتتزكر الرهان اللي قبل مية سنة تراهنا علية


..كتابه رد علية وقال له, يا مصلح, انا بتزكر بس لسه القمر ما طلع و لا هل..
رد الكواكبي و قال,ما تتهرب يا كتاب
القمر قبل ما يكون قمر, بيكون هلال
اطلع فوق, الهلال نور و طلع,
و قول يا كتاب, هل ممكن يطلع قمر من غيرهلال....

جميل

A Contract with the House of Windsor...by Jamil Shawwa

In the US we  started to watch the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics few hours after the actual ceremony took place. NBC wanted as it did with the opening ceremony to have the events broadcasted in TV prime time in America, which translates to  8:00 PM-tons of commercials and business. A little background information. Great Britain decided as it did with the opening ceremony, to honor its history. And to honor the House of Windsor. In an era where the royals have become more and more irrelevant, the House of Windsor reinvents itself and now Britain cannot imagine its existence without the House of Windsor. In such a showcase of loyalty to history, the British today as they did seventeen days ago, have renewed the queen’s and the royal family contract with Britain. This London 2012 Olympics to the British was about an empire that was and has been, about a history that will never repeat itself except in James Bond movies and videos of John Lennon, and recordings of Winston Churchill. But it was also a contract for the future, the future of the royal family and what it means to them. The British in the London 2012 Olympics told the world that in every one of them, in their DNA, there is a sample from the House of windsor, an image that reminds them of who they are, and who they have been. The British, with all their old and new ethnic mosaic, feel that their identity, self respect, existence, is connected directly with these royals, with the future of the royal family, with William and Kate and Harry and even with Pippa..I mentioned before that England every now and then shines, but in all the occasions that it shined, those occasions were somehow connected with that sharp little old lady with the silver hair, that was escorted seventeen days ago from that old office in that old palace, in that old city, by that old loyal agent, James Bond, and was parachuted, or her substitute, it does not really matter, to the new olympic field, and appeared in her new designated box, and did not smile, but looked very seriously, to a world that her family built over centuries, passing by her, giving her one last hurrah..

Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar....by Jamil Shawwa

I'm getting first hand exposure on this tragedy that has been going on in Myanmar for actually almost two hundred years. Based on reports, the Muslim minorities known as the Rohingya, in the Arakan state, have been denied citizenship and basic human rights since the province officially has been part of Burma, Myanmar now. According to news reports, the recent tragic escalations and bloodshed in the relations between the majority Buddhists and the minority Muslims started when three Muslim men allegedly raped a Buddhist woman. The president of Myanmar, Thein Sein , today, said that the bloodshed is not sectarian but it is about revenge. The Noble Prize winner and human rights worldwide famous Suu Kyi is not involved and does not want to be involved, based, again, on reports. Basically and by taking first look, obviously, there is tragedy and injustice, somewhere and somehow, more to come.. Status updates via VOA, Pakistan Daily times, The Nation and others.

The Monkey In The Middle …....by Jamil Shawwa

I was so naive, thinking that I can set in peace, try to chill, and mind my own business, for a change, that  all of  sudden  I  was awoken by a loud shout out, but not one of those motivational  shout outs for doing a good job, no, but a shout out that beneath it  lies  events that need to be unfolded and completed. The kids had a conference, not sure if the evil power was part of it, but the decision was to reject and deny daddy  moments of peace, harmony and tranquility that I thought that I can smuggle away for myself for just few moments or so. The kiddies, God bless them, refused to leave me in peace, of course not, daddy in peace, no way, must interrupt the old man’s thought process and quietness.. and they shouted again, no, this time, they gave an order, in a unified voice; hey, daddy, come over, so this time I jumped and I complied without questioning, bad habit- but I did not want to shout back, I'm trying to reduce the shouting process in this household- and went to the shouts source and looked at them in silent protest, and  without moving my lips, but with anticipation like George H. W. Bush, Read My Lips, to the democrats, but instead of the lips, I used the eyes, I thought my looks would substitute for my hesitation to ask, expecting as usual something that might not be in my best interest...They looked back in challenging eyes and started, and said, come and play with us, we are playing Monkey in the Middle and we want you to be the Monkey. I said first thanks for the compliment, Monkey is not bad after all, I expected a worse term, a  favorite animal of mine that I often use to describe “ smart” politicians and it starts with the letter "Jack", but thanks God, this time I was spared the resemblance and the reminder. I said ok, what is monkey in the middle, do I have to dance or something or sing, or what. They said nothing of that and those things that you have mentioned are the last  things  we want you to do. We heard you singing and we saw you dancing and they rolled their eyes, looked at each other and back at me and said, all you have to do is to stand in the middle and try to catch the ball that we are tossing back and forth. Ok, I thought, not bad, it could have been worse, like asking me to go for ice skating or something but monkey is ok, monkey is good. And I stood in the middle, baffled, expecting the worse, again, looking  like Peter Sellers in that scene in “Shot in the Dark”, when he went to arrest an alleged perpetrator and found himself in a Nudie Colony and did not know what to do. Anyway, the middle it is, a good place to be, you can see how the ball is going and where and why, you can see the parties playing the game, but there is a problem which is that you need to focus on the ball and not the players, because if you have more than two players, which is how it is usually with a game like this, you cannot keep swinging, or circling to see who is doing what, but if you  focus on the ball up in the air, it is much easier to catch, and once you catch the prize, I mean the ball, then its your turn to be on the aisle and throw the ball to the other parties like Ping Pong and the monkey in the middle is like the net in the middle. Middle Grounds, is it good or is it bad, usually you do not get paid to be in the middle, but you get the joy and the freedom, but then, once you catch the ball, if you choose to catch it or if you get an invitation to be the monkey in the middle and take turns, you are no longer in the middle but you are a party of a game from the inside and not from the outside, so its like a cycle or a circle, it does not have clear rules, except for playing the game, and exchanging roles back and forth....and everyone at some point has to be the Monkey in the Middle..of course that is if you decide to catch the ball and not just standing in the middle avoiding on purpose or not, catching the ball..

Mosque in America; Joplin, Missouri Style... by Jamil Shawwa

Multiple domestic terrorists/criminals/mentally sick, hitting people and targets in the US; a Mosque in Missouri that keeps “getting burned” after a federal judge said that its ok to build a Mosque in the community of Joplin. *The second, a terrorist, criminal, mental case, call him whatever you want, goes to a movie theater in Aurora Colorado and kills dozen and injured dozens. A confirmed domestic terrorist, gender and race self- claimed supremacist, goes to an American temple, Sikh, Indian, and kills people. So what do we make out of these incidents, all besides the perpetrator, show complete incompetence in predicting the times we live in, the necessity to have some sort of security and surveillance, you cannot depend on the goodwill of the people, although the “normal” are the majority humans all over the world. **As for Joplin, the State of Missouri and the FBI need to provide - if proven there is criminal motives behind the fires and there is based on the evidence and facts from the FBI itself-, protection for this place of worship and place of God, or the Mosque and the community need to create some sort of surveillance or community protection. The time is now for America to
have its eyes wide open; terrorism does not have a specific shape, or color, or background, or religion; it comes in all colors and all sizes and all shapes.

**facebook from 07/18/2012 http://www.facebook.com/jamil.shawwa
*ArabAmericanWire from 07/30/2012 America America; Gun control is out of Control by Jamil Shawwahttp://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com/2012/07/america-americagun-control-is-out-of.html

Syria's Update Now ….08/06/2012 by Jamil Shawwa

That is it for Syria’s Al-Assad; there is no way that the Summer will end and Al Assad is still in office. The whole regime is collapsing, the top person below Al Assad, the prime minister, ran away, defected today, and few weeks ago, the whole security apparatus, including Al-Assad’s brother in law, the husband of his eldest sister, Bushra, got killed in bombing of their meeting location. The regime is vanishing and collapsing  like tiny soldiers on a Chessboard. Aleppo, to everyone’s surprise, might be the last nail in Al Assad’s coffin. The Summer of Syria is underway, and the Middle East is on a verge for the first time in its history, ready for the historic conciliation among its countries and among its followers, the sons of Abraham, the followers of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Terror in Milwaukee Wisconsin …...A Crime against America By Jamil Shawwa

We are not talking here about just Sikh, we are talking about American citizens that have been murdered by an American citizen. So the direct motive based on the background of the murdered Americans and the background of the murderer, and the reports thus far, is hate, domestic terrorism based on national origins, ethnicity and way of life, an American way of life, that is the bottom line. This crime  was against America and what it stands for and not just about a Nut going to a temple and commiting a crime.

من شفيقة القبطية لمصر الإخوانية اليوم 08/04/2012 بقلم جميل محمد الشوا

من شفيقة القبطية لمصر الإخوانية اليوم 08/04/2012 بقلم جميل محمد الشوا

شفيقة القبطية النهاردة مصرية...

و لسة كمان، شفيقة القبطية، كانت مصرية قبل مصر ما كانت مصرية...

شفيقة بالصوت اليوم رقعت و ندهت و قالت انت يا عبيد  يا مكرم وانت يا نحاس  يا مصطفي وأنت يا ساويرس يا نجيب..

مين دول، اللي حرقوا و قتلوا و نهبوا و سرقوا  في ابو العلا بولاق ،و  في دهشور وقبل كدة في الزاويه الحمرا وفاسيوط..

نط ساويرس و قال، يا خالتي، و نط النحاس و مكرم و قالوا يا ختي...

بيقولوا مصريين و جدودهم سلفيين..

و الأقباط غرب ماهماش مسلميين و لا مصريين و مصر اليوم إخوانية .وعل جبينها زبيبة  سلفيه...

و شفيقة بأعلي صوت شخطت و بعلو حسها ردحت..و قالت بس ، انتوا إيه اتجننتوا و في دمغاكم اتطاسيتوا وتناسيطوا، إخوان أية و سلف أية و مسلمين بس, ليه..

مش ممكن دانا كنت بمصر الفرعونيه والاسراىيلية  والمسيحية والإسلامية و كلهم كانوا صحاب و خوان و جيران..،

دانا خواتي فاطمة و ماريكا و راشيل...

روحوا قبل الفطار دلوقتي و اطرودوهم، دول أنا فكراهم، من دوقنهم فاكراهم...

روحوا وانا القبطية شفيقة....

عل الفطارفي رمضان للمدفع  مستنية، بس أوعوا في السكة تتوهوا و عن الكنيس و الكنيسة والجامع تزوغوا.

 جميل 

Chick-fil-A Mission; Religious Straight Chicken...by Jamil Shawwa

Chick-Fil-A can probably use freedom of speech in the first amendment to voice opinions, but if and once the company starts to discriminate based on sexual orientation or based on its own religious and political beliefs, then here where advocates can step in and file lawsuits. Nevertheless it is not something that we hear every day or even every decade, that a business would do something like this. We should not probably discard the profit factor here; the owners know based on their calculations that using the religious card is profitable and has been profitable. the owners of Chick -Fil-A are claiming God’s message to increase traffic at their doorsteps.http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chick-fil-a-day-20120802,0,1647505.story

The Tea Party...a footnote in a footnote...by Jamil Shawwa

The Tea Party Movement in America is nothing but a passing footnote in the history book of  American politics. Such movements appear from time to time in democratic countries as a wake up call, a shock and a serious reminder to the establishment, the Democratic party and the  Republican party in the US, and politicians who get too comfortable and too cozy with politics as usual that they become so complacent with the status quo and become so stale and take their voters and constituents for granted. The Tea Party technically is on the Right of the Right, the Right of the conservative Republican party, and it does have supporters in sporadic parts in America, but nothing more and nothing less. Check it out here on ArabAmericanWire from 11/03/2010 “Report Card To Obama......By Jamil Shawwa”
http://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com/2010/11/report-card-to-obamaby-jamil-shawwa.html  

America America..Gun Control is Out of Control....by Jamil Shawwa

On Friday 07/20/2012, a masked man in a Batman movie character costume, went to a movie theater in Aurora Colorado at the midnight premiere of the new Batman movie, not carrying a movie ticket to watch the show but an AK-47 to kill people, moviegoers, innocent spectators.


He went through the ticket line, I'm assuming that he bought a ticket, and went through the doors, no security and no metal detectors, just young boys or girls clipping tickets, or elderly senior citizens doing the same thing, nothing in between except for greedy theater owners that have no regard or sense for minimum security to provide their patrons, or city and state and country that are not aware of the need to monitor, minimum monitoring- no freedom infringement- places where thousands of people attend to enjoy and not attend to be killed.


In the same night, hours laters, Michael Bloomberg, the Republican Mayor of New York City confronted in frank way the politicians running for offices and especially the presidential candidates, The Democrat Obama and the Republican Romney, to start to do something about this issues, gun control, and to stop sidestepping what is, according to millions of Americans, detrimental to them to feel safe in malls, movie theaters, schools and streets.


Today, 07/30/2012, Reuters released a poll, a survey, showing that almost half of Americans asked, support some sort of gun control and purchasing. We are no longer talking about a hobby to hunt, but  sickening minds that want to kill.


On 07/22/2012, president Obama interrupted his campaign, and flew to Aurora to offer his condolences and support to the families of the victims. There, Obama said, "AK-47s belong on battlefield, not streets" .The following Thursday Time had the gun control matter and the Aurora murders on the cover with a cover story title of " How Guns Won" stating from Time’s perspective that Americans are not for gun control and basically it is an issue that will not be resolved in favour for  the advocates of gun control.


The US Constitution Second amendment grants Americans "the right to bear arms" and the Supreme Court largely and historically has uphold this amendment but has interpreted it with variations ,occasionally, based on lawsuits and challenges to it.


After the failed assassination attempt of president Reagan in 1981, the Brady Law was introduced to require background check before purchasing guns. But it did not factually prevent crime, most murders that were in the style and magnitude of the Aurora killings and killer were by individuals with no criminal record, mostly people who "suddenly" decided to act.


Now, what is the solution, we have a constitution that grants the right but it does not say what type of weapons and for what. I mean what if someone decide to purchase a canon, can they just claim that the constitution grants that to them.


Today it was reported that James Holmes, the alleged killer, of the Aurora movie theater purchased 6000 round of ammunition online;ammunition that he used to kill people and not hunt birds and dears.


What about the online gun purchasing and ammunition being delivered to killers and psychopaths doorsteps. Can advocates and politicians and even regular citizens through their elected officials, if the politicians dare to challenge the strongest lobby in America, the Gun lobby, the NRA, raise the issue, and try if not to redefine the gun laws and second amendment, but limit the types, the means and ways that people can purchase guns and ammunitions.


Do people need battlefield guns to feel safe in their homes and use if needed for self defense , or do they purchase battlefield guns to substitute and supplement a dangerous and deadly inferiority complex and a mind that is ready to snap at any provocation or to imitate any movie villains.


We are basically giving people a licence to kill and not license of self protection. Same applies to our laws that provide people a licence to kill such as “ Stand your Ground law” that allowed a killer in Florida back in February of this year to track an innocent teeanger, an unarmed walking person and  kill him in cold blood.


Does killing other humans became so easy and so simple that societies cheer to a certain extend killers with licensed guns, or say at least the killer did not steal the gun, but bought it legally like any commodity.


Are we having killers treated like movie stars, with protection and entourage wherever they move and bunch of lawyers on their side complaining  about how “harsh” society was on them.


Few months ago, in Norway, a deranged, hateful person, went on a killing spree and “eliminated” over seventy souls claiming that he is doing it to “clean” his country from foreigners changing the lifestyle of his country. That killer is now so close to run for office with all this media frenzy around him, saluting the press Corp, and making statements that news publish as if coming from an “authority” in human relations.


The time is now for a new contract that does not depend on the goodwill of humans, but on laws and regulations that do not eliminate the US constitution’s Second amendment, but makes it human and fair and just and competent and finally proactive and preventive.


Check updates and related since first published:

Chris Kyle

A Profile of a Terrorist; a homegrown terrorist: The South Carolina Black Church Murderer

Sandy Hook Elementary School

Umpqua Community College

The Lafayette

Sandy Hook Elementary School 2

Republicans and Democrats

South Carolina Black Church 2

Norway Killer Anders Behring Breivik

Norway Killer Anders Behring Breivik 2

..بنت من حلب بقلم جميل محمد الشوا ..07/26/2012

البنت الحلبية اليوم .. شامية. و حمصية       

والأسد والعلوي  والبعثي بالدبابات بحاصرا بدو  يؤدبا

والبنت الحلبية بتصرخ هالمرة صرخة حقيقية، مو  صرخة دلعية و عل عوايدا غنجية،   ولجوزا بتقول ,  ابن عمي، مين هيدا اللي بالصاروخ والدبابات  بصحن البيت  بيؤمر و بيتعنتر..و بيدق عل الباب     

دقة همجيه ...شبيحية...

روح ابن عمي و اطرد السوري الهمجي الغريب، بدي روح عل السوق اتسوق. الكبة الحلبية عل النار والفحمة يا دوبك مستويه...

ما نقصا  الا شويه و شويات ابن عمي...بس الغريب بصحن البيت بالدبابات مانعا...

اطلع ابن عمي، خياتي   بالشام و حمص و أدلب ودرعا شروا الكوسا الجاهز المؤور  والاكله اكلوا، ما ضل  الا بنت حلب عل السوق تروح و بخياتا تلحق ..  

و تحط الطبخة عل النار و تخلصا...

جميل محمد الشوا

Open Borders; The Palestinians, The State of Israel and Egypt...by Jamil Shawwa

The expected decision of Egypt to open its borders, with no permits or visa needed, is commendable. The people of Gaza and the West Bank should have the “Freedom of Travel”. But in the same token, the neighboring countries;The State of Israel, Jordan and Egypt, have also the right to demand like any other country in the world, that borders are for people and goods to cross and for business to flourish and not for suicide bombers and enraged terrorists to kill and attack. Every country has the right to protect its borders, and frankly speaking, if those TV fanatics and their puppet masters in the Middle East did not send suicide bombers into Israeli territories, Israel, probably, would not have imposed such restrictions on the borders, or build walls. The Palestinians now have a golden opportunity, again and again,  to not get manipulated, by lowlives that only want to see them  fall further into the abyss...Do not close your lifelines...open roads, and build bridges..

من مصر الثورجية لمصر الإخوانية ....بقلم، جميل محمد الشوا 07/23/2012

و في الصباحية؛ صباحية ٥٢، والشلة اللي هيا...ظباط صغار في غفلة من الزمان، قاموا و قالوا للي قاعد في المنتزه و عابدين و راس التين، قوم و روح ، دي مصر دلوقت بقت حرة و انت يا وعدي غريب عليا و مصر مش تكية..

قام شال تاجة وأعطاه لناصر و الشلة هدية...

و تعظيم سلام لملك  ورق الكوتشينة..

وابتدأ المشوار بكلمه في الراديو للسادات..

والشعب هلل و قال فرجت ، اهو حاكمنا نجيب و الشلة...

و في ليله ضلمه القمر فيها استخبى, نجيب بعد ما شرب الكأس ،اتشال خلسه.. 

و ناصر و عامر كلوا الكحكة، و عامر بالحشيش بعدها حبس الحتة..

و قام ناصر يبرطع بالحته و قال للفلاح بالغيط، قوم ياصحبي دا نت بقيت صاحب الحتة...

وروح جروبي ، دة في مارون جلاسيه و حاجات حلوة

و راديو و مترو دول بقوا ملك الحتة ..

والمصري بطيبته صدق الكدبه..وفي السكة يا عيني اتبهدل واطرد واتضرب

و اتزل و برضة قال لناصر والشلة ، فين الحته، دانتوا برضة اهل بلد..و إحنا اتوعدنا بالكحكة...رد ناصر و قال ، يا غشم يا عمي انتوا صدقتوا الكدبه، دي كانت من ابو ذيد الهلالي حته  و خلصت التوتة...روح بيتك و سك عل اهلك و بابك لبعتلك نصر و بسيوني والشلة يخلوك تشوف في عز الضهر نجمة و كحكه...

و في يناير في عيد الشرطة.. وقف الشعب و قال أنا عايز الكحكة اللي اتوعدت من ٥٢ و ليها و بيها اتعشمت و حطيط في عيني كحله ...

و مشي في الميدان و زعق و قال كفاية...دانتوا لا اهل بلد ولا حكاية...  

دانتوا فراعنة و حدوتة راحت

بره بقي روحوا طرة و سكوا عل الباب من غير رجعة.. 

و المشير و  الفريق والجيش قالوا ماشي، خدوا الكحكة بس إحنا قاعدين نحرس الحته...

والشعب كحل صباعة و خد الكحكة ...و عل الجبين رسم زبيبة.،،

و قال يا مرسي الزناتي يا بوالعباس يا فتوه أنا عملتلك من جبيني و عل جبيني زبيبة، خدها واذا عايز كلها بس اوعى تنسى الحكاية، حكاية الكحكة و صبرنا من ٥٢  و الاف السنين عل الحته...

بقلم،

جميل محمد الشوا 

The Curse of Alexander Haig; Romney's Edition by Jamil Shawwa

In 1981, President Reagan was  subject to an assassination attempt; his VP George H.W .Bush was not immediately available so the Secretary of State  Alexander Haig and the third in command in the administration, in a press conference before the White House Press Corps, announced "I'm in now in control" and that was it for him, few months later, he resigned and was forgotten and outcast from American politics. Now Romney is saying that "I'm  not in charge" of the Bain investment firm that he owned, and that as of 1999, he owned but did not manage, that he had nothing to do with the decisions the firm made or outsourcing or closing businesses in the US and laying off people. The curse of in charge and not in charge is coming back to haunt another Republican politician . Haig was a Republican presidential material as many thought but Romney is different , he is going to be the Republican party nominee for president and if Haig was done after that episode, Romney to the contrary still have a chance to manage the " in charge or not" by the time of the Republican Convention, otherwise it will add to other hurdles waiting for him by the time of the first debate with the democratic nominee for president Barack Obama. The time is not in favor of Mitt Romney;Bain is in the shadows.

Circumcision in Germany...by Jamil Shawwa

Headline: "**German circumcision ban unites religions, worries doctors"

Reporting Vehicle: The Chicago Tribune

My Note:

Circumcision for boys is not only a tradition but a world wide practice. In the United States, and based on what doctors and nurses told me personally, 99% of the boys born in America get their extra part removed immediately after birth. This is a fact across the board, meaning it covers all religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam; The Divine religions. And it covers others faiths, Hinduism, Buddhism, and so on and so forth. In Europe and the Middle East, my understanding is that the practice is mostly done through followers of Judaism and Islam. Now, it seems based on AP and this article attached from the Chicago Tribune, that the law in Germany in not clear regarding this matter and accordingly society leaders  particularly of Judaism and Islam need to raise it legally and demand clarity. Circumcision according to medical reports is healthy, normal, and does not and never affected any performance whatsoever or any human aspect. For girls, it is a different story, no religion or faith allows it, and it is practiced in backward pockets in the Middle East and other parts of the world, as far as I’m concerned, and it violates -again according to all doctors and medical scholars-the female right to have normal healthy, emotional and sexual life.

**http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-germany-circumcisionbre86b0xf-20120712,0,2634170.story 

Washington DC and Suburbs: Two Nights and Day Two No Electricity Update by Jamil Shawwa

Lines and lines in front of Gas stations;lines and lines in front of the grocery stores; not sure why, we cannot put anything in the refrigerators.

Not much police presence; America is handling itself without much authority on the road..

We the drivers and the commuters are organizing traffic at crossroads; we are more than usual courteous, we go in turns, and we turn in turns...

Virginia and DC; the most affected declared emergency, deployed the National Guards, but we do not see them, they are there, I think, if we need them...

Congress and the President are silent; they live here, but it would not be prudent to talk electricity now, and they have electricity although living in no electricity zones...But I’m not going to play politics here, our Federal Government and constitutional departments must function regardless if the other neighbouring streets have or have not electricity. National defence is the bottom line friends, or Mates as the Aussies would say...

The electric companies, Dominion, PEPCO and others are issuing hourly progression reports; they never talk about what happened or how, they never talk about where it happened, they never talk about what are they going to do to prevent it from happening again. They just talk that they are repairing, and they are. But the other information, we Americans, do not need to know.

The lucky ones  have generators; very few though, in my neighbourhood, only one, others .luckier, probably, flooded hotels around here, The Ritz Carlton and the Four Seasons are fully booked..and Motel 6 as well..But again, not to play politics,  it could be because the 4th of July holiday on Wednesday..Wait a minute; it cannot drag that long, on the fourth of July we celebrate America’s birth, no way without electricity, no way without fireworks...but the electric companies are telling us that it could take weeks before full restoration....

Average Americans like me flooded McDonalds and Starbucks for free electricity, free Air Conditioning and free Internet...But as a courtesy at least order something...

Public Libraries are open, Cooling centers are open;and this is America. You have or you have not, there is a place for you. But  you need to learn, and you need to go to that place and try at least to reach it..

The Day Obama Was in Court; The building of a Legacy.....by Jamil Shawwa

This week, couple of day apart, The US Supreme Court upheld the cornerstones of the Obama presidency; Immigration Law and Health Law. In 2008, Barack Obama became president when America was down economically but not militarily, America did not have Health system for its citizens and America did not have a comprehensive immigration policies to deal and handle the illegal immigrants flooding its borders- America until now does not have a national strong immigration policies; it has laws but not policies. It has the vehicle but not the wheels or the fuel to drive and to make it happen. Accordingly, some States within the Union decided to take matters in their own hands, for both Health and immigration- The federal government was lacking and is still lacking in taking care of business with strong comprehensive policies. But, regardless, it did not mean that the Union crumbles and it did not mean that each State can act on its own when it comes to matters that in the constitution are in the heart of the inherent American federal system. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Health act into Law and since then, States and the Republican party launched lawsuits against the constitutionality of the Law; the main or the focal point has been that the federal Government cannot force people into a health system and if they do not, then they have to pay penalty; Today the Supreme court upheld the Law. On immigration, the State of Arizona and its political establishment from the governor to a sheriff of a little town, also took matters into their own hands, and issued a controversial law, that if passed nationally would have destroyed a foundation of the United States as one country with national policies handled primarily through Congress and the President. The Federal government challenged the law and yesterday it won. Obama had his days in Court, and came out not as an accidental caretaker president that in 2008 a bad economy carried to office, but came out with a legacy that probably will carry him into the ultimate goal of any US president; to be reelected. Obama was not the only US government entity that built a legacy, the Supreme Court today and its chairman, John Roberts, built a legacy  by upholding pillars and  cornerstones of the inherent powers of  Federal government.

Ahmad Shafiq; The Accidental Egyptian Phenomenal by Jamil Shawwa

Until this moment I cannot comprehend [me] using the name Shafiq and attach to it the word or the description,  Phenomenal- he has been the furthest from it, until last week . Ahmad Shafiq- the former prime minister under the deposed president Mubarak and the military and intelligence candidate for president in Egypt- despite a probable or possible defeat to the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi, did a miracle.  I cannot keep my amazement about how good this Shafiq did in the elections. I mean he was nobody, nothing, no party, even worse, was the last Prime Minister of the deposed ruler. And accordingly and from pure elections and political skills; he deserves the applause and he should capitalize on his success. Shafiq now, based on the Egyptian people and based on over 12 million votes,about 50%, and based on him beating the religious machinery, regardless of the presidential elections results, merely based on the percentage of votes he got, has a historic chance now to build a power base with the military and the majority of the Egyptian people to create a new world class Egypt. I really  cannot believe what I just said. Is it possible, a  world class country called Egypt? So Shafiq got it all; whether he is going to use it, or whether he will turn on the engine of the base he got; is another big question. Egypt's destiny is in the hands of its people, anyone who thinks otherwise, does not know or does not want to know or running an agenda, its ok. Either the Egyptians will make it or break it. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions ", the Egyptians need to work to build a country, they need to vote, then need to stay and find solutions within their country. They need to stop living as a society in conspiracy theories. The way and style and attitude Some of the Egyptians portrayed after hearing the claim of  victory in the night following the second elections day last week of the Muslim Brotherhood in the presidential elections, reminded me of the same way Egypt acted after it was  soundly defeated in the 1967 war; in other words, in complete denial. Songs and propaganda and poems- from the era of the ultimate deceiver, Abdel Nasser- the creator of the 1952 political system and the creator of the Arab countries dictatorship-and headlines that are not real. The Egyptians are not used to transparency in governing and in a way of life in general. The State is not found publicly; just read the rumors about the health condition of Mubarak and the thousands of hearsay published daily about everything; some even talk about an international conspiracy against Egypt- I’m shocked and my Jaw drop and I cannot bring it back every time I come across such nonsense. The Muslim Brotherhood might have won and results can be disputed and challenged before the Commission and the Courts but living in denial will never help-it never did. 101 Democracy and Sports teach us that  people win and people lose but you keep going and trying. Shafiq and the presidential elections proved that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a dominating power in Egypt and will not be a dominating power in the Arab countries-once those countries follow the Egyptian example of strong State system- at this stage, military and intelligence, later the moderate majority with democratic institutions. The results were so close, again, that I'm appalled by anyone who  claims or whines that Egypt is lost- to the religious apparatus. The results were a miracle-seriously. Egypt is on the right path to democracy and prosperity  but going through historic changes in a way that will prove right, down the road. Things might look messed up but Egypt is not small and is not irrelevant; it is big and it is important and it is relevant. The Army must have a role transitioning to the civic society. And democracy along the rule of law must progress and it is progressing. It is not easy but it is not impossible. Regionally, The Egyptians will continue with the State of Israel and future credible and elected Palestinian partners in the West Bank and Gaza, the ultimate quest for peace in the Middle East which is the establishment of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza, side by side  with the State of Israel.

A Clear Choice For Egypt....”.Vote For The Crook” The Lesser of two Evils....Ahmad Shafiq For President...

The Egyptians  today go to the polling stations for the second round to choose a new president;
the first real presidential elections for head of state in thousands of years; no exaggeration...The Egyptians last year ended the rule of the pharaohs that lasted thousands of years. Today they have to make a choice between a former military general and the Muslim Brotherhood candidate. The choice is clear, to millions of Egyptians as well, the military general and not the Muslim Brotherhood candidate. Ahmad Shafiq, whom I described once as a tasteless, no personality, colorless person, is the only choice now and he is the lesser of two evils. My first choice for this era in Egypt was Omar Suleiman, the former intelligence chief, and the last vice president by the time the former president abdicated last year, but he chose not to run now. In Egypt as I mentioned before two entities run the show; The intelligence and the military- like many countries in the Middle East and the world. This formula has to continue for the time being but through a democratic process, kind of.. Egypt is not a regular country in the Middle East; Egypt is a pioneer in the peace process with the State of Israel and the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza, the largest Arab country, and a major if not the most important Islamic educational center in the world. *President Obama chose Egypt in 2009, two years before the revolution ended the rules of the pharaohs, as the place from which to address the Arab and Muslim countries- check link below from ArabamericanWire about that visit. Egypt borders the State of Israel, it borders the Gaza Strip, the future Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza. It borders Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Egypt has to transition to democracy with a military oversight- by the way it will happen even if the Muslim Brotherhood candidate wins; no other choice for now. Shafiq, the military and intelligence candidate, will be able to work with the Military leaders, of course, of the country to build a foundation for a new and democratic Egypt, will help to write a new constitution that in my opinion should establish a secular Egypt and will help in the new parliamentary elections to replace the one that the Egyptian Constitutional High Court ruled couple of days ago as unconstitutional; the one the Muslim Brotherhood had a majority. On the other hand, if the expected new parliamentary elections is held and the Muslim Brotherhood wins, then they should form the government. I expect the new president first job is writing a new constitution, and then preliminary elections. **David Brinkley, the late famous TV personality and the former ABC anchor of “ This Week with David Brinkley” once said “ Vote For the Crook” in describing the only two choices for the governor of louisiana; a former KKK leader, David Duke, and a former governor, Edwin Edwards, who was famous and on record of being corrupt. Brinkley’s quote applies to Egypt now.
*President Obama's Cairo University Speech 06/06/2009
http://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com/2009/06/president-obamas-cairo-university.htm**Poor Gaza! By Jamil Shawwa 06/25/2007
http://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com/2007/06/poor-gaza.html

Irani The Israeli and Abraham The Egyptian by Jamil Shawwa

Irani is at his usual place, with his touristic gadgets and antiques- few antiques, mostly new stuff- and souvenirs; he is the first thing that greets tourists buses visiting the Clock Tower in Ashkelon, in the State of Israel-about ten miles away from Gaza. Buses line up, tourists go down to enjoy this small Mediterranean City hospitality and buy from Irani, One of the best Falafel sandwiches and Pizza in Israel were in Ashkelon, last time I was there probably not after 1989-I came to America in 1990. The drive from Gaza to Ashkelon is about 17 kilometers, imagine, how close Gaza to Ashkelon, and vice versa. Actually living in America; a US citizen, and driving miles and miles, sometimes daily, every time the 17 kilos, about 12 miles come to mind, I get shocked, so close;nothing. Exactly like driving from where I live in Northern Virginia  to downtown Washington DC. Irani is a good pleasant hospitable man, like the city he is from; always welcoming and we always greeted him by his name; Irani, maybe because he was originally from Iran and immigrated to Israel- I do not think though that was his real name. He was in his mid 40s. We never bought anything from Irani, we were not your typical tourists visiting the State of Israel, we used to drive often from Gaza for a change and to enjoy the city and to shop around- like many Gazans at that time. At some point I had a hairdresser- once I found few relatives at her hair salon having haircuts- I forgot her name, she used to have a salon in downtown Ashkelon, or the old part of the City. The Clock Tower, was the new Ashkelon, with fancy houses overlooking the Mediterranean and couple of country clubs. Irani always talked about peace but never in details, always in general terms, maybe because he was so kind that he did not feel that he needed to engage anyone in debates, also maybe because he was a merchant and a businessman, and as a businessman, he does not want to take sides. The bottom line is that he kept saying to us why we fight- The Palestinians, the Arabs and the Israelis- there is enough land for all of us to live in peace.  Abraham the Egyptian is another story; he is an American now lives in the DC area and works in a convenient store with other Egyptian youth, they are all over the place now-in DC. I go there, and Abraham is kind, he knows the order, delivers it as soon as he sees me and then he would ask the question, Mursi or Shafiq- the two candidates for president in Egypt- and I would not answer but say, what do you think Abe, the abbreviation of Abraham, he would answer with ( explicit) ...both of them..and he would say the same thing that Gregory the Greek told me, check the previous article here, that thanks God he is in America and away from Egypt. Before the first round of the Egyptian presidential elections that took place last month-the second phase this coming weekend-Abed and other Egyptians at that convenient store wanted Amr Moussa- Former Arab League Secretary General and former Egyptian Foreign Minister- to win; none  of those Egyptians wanted the Muslim Brotherhood candidates to win. I’m not sure if this is actually how they felt but it was what they communicated to me. Abe used to say before the first round that there is no way that the military in Egypt would allow a Muslim Brotherhood to be president, he used to say, hey, the military will be screwed if one of the other candidates win;he would continue to say, and another reason, how could Egypt elect president  that was in jail; that was Abe’s logic. Abe was referring to the fact that most of the Muslim Brotherhood leadership were at some point in jail during the era between 1952 and even before and 2011, and  especially during Hosni Mubarak, the last Egyptian president that represented  the continuation of the 1952 generation that ended the monarchy there and established a military regime that formally ended in 02/2011, but still governing through a transition period. Abe would ask and say, hey, Jamil, would or could such thing happen in America; where a person who was in jail could run for office; and I answered and say yes, they could run after they pay their debt to society and its up to the voters, technically, to decide; yes, it could happen. Now in Egypt the accusations to the Muslim Brotherhood leadership that were in jail, were  all political, they were under arrest for defying or being a threat to the state security as prosecutors used to claim. Some though were accused directly for being involved in terrorists attacks, especially the ones that took place in the 1990s. Abe still would look at me with suspicion not believing that a “criminal” as he would describe them, would run and could win. I dropped by the other day and there were two of them, Abe-Abraham- and his co worker Magdi, and both just started to say that they went and voted at the Egyptian Embassy but emphatically refused to say for whom they voted. I’m personally glad that they voted, and that is the bottom line, in my opinion, to vote.

Egypt and the Peace with the State of Israel..... today 06/04/2012....

Egypt should move beyond the 1950s and the 1960s demagoguery slogans that made Egypt lose its dignity before losing its assets,  to the 2012, to today. 


Meaning, presidential candidates who inject maliciously and intentionally the peace with the State of Israel which is the way of now and the future, in any campaign, should be exposed and dropped, it is as easy as dropping an empty plastic cup, in the recycle bin, I do not want to say the trash can. The path to a Palestinian State in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is now the responsibility of the Israelis and the Palestinians and no one else.


Egypt’s grand movement towards peace is a not a campaign slogan, but it is the normal and the only way for every and any country in the Middle East. The New Middle East will witness a Palestinian State in The West Bank and Gaza and will witness a Jerusalem, the city of peace, as an open city for all and a capital for both the State of Israel and the State of Palestine, in the West Bank and Gaza.