The Ultimate Terrorist Killed....The Demise of Bin Laden and a Word to the Palestinians...by Jamil Shawwa

The ultimate terrorist has met his destiny; a destiny he wrote with blood and murders. Today, I have a message to those lowlifes in Gaza- the Hamas organization and its idiot, Ismail Haniya- shame on you praising the ultimate terrorist, Gaza needs to put those "mini terrorists" and pretenders in the garbage cans now. The Palestinians need to start living like humans, need to be smart, enough of your sickening pretentious, and enough of your stupid hypocrisy, enough of allowing the criminals of Hamas and other so called organizations to manipulate you. Refuse to be mouthpieces to those semi humans, rise and reclaim your shredded dignity and kick them out once and for all. The choice is yours, go now to the streets of Gaza and kick them out and kick out any of your leaders who continue to manipulate you in the name of the Palestinian cause. The path is clear and the road to a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank is clear, as long as you have the right map and the right flash light so you can differentiate the evil from the good. Actually, you know who is who; the problem is the stupidity of not taking action.

The Trial of Pharaoh, Seven Thousand Years After, by Jamil Shawwa

Mubarak of Egypt’s bad luck brought him to govern in the era of the Internet, and facebook, and Twitter but mostly in the era of freedom and in the era of the Arab countries turn to breathe and feel what most of the world has been having for some time; democracy and human rights. Mubarak otherwise would have gotten away or at least would have not fallen the way he did. His predecessors were luckier, will, maybe not Anwar El-Sadat, he was assassinated, but at least to some it is better than to be overthrown by the same people that the Egyptian leaders for thousands of years never respected, never took into account and never felt that they even deserve any kindness or consolation. Mubarak’s  bad luck made him the sacrifice for the Egyptians thousands of years of suffering, and humiliation.  He is probably the least evil or the lesser evil among many. One of the worst was Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose stupidity and demagoguery made him wage a war that was in its idiocy worse than the war of 1948 that the Arabs waged and lost but still did not learn. Mubarak and his sons are on trial, dragged to jail, waiting for their prosecutors, 80 million strong, the population of Egypt, and millions of other Egyptians through out the history of Egypt and since those poor Egyptian slaves that built the pyramids,. The defence attorneys are few, they are disappearing, the Pharaoh fell, and the friends and the pretenders are gone. Ramses, and all the other Pharaohs are crying Hosni Mubarak and are cheering him in the same time, they did not have to go through what he and his family will go through. They do not want to be in his place. Mubarak however showed class when he left, I  predicted that he will leave, but did not predict that it would be that way, a revolution that no one, at least not us the ordinary people thought of, I still  encouraged it not only for him but for all the non elected Arab leaders. I personally understand how the Egyptians feel, and lived in Egypt and used to see the humiliation in their faces every day, everywhere, in police stations, in the streets, in the cafes, in the overcrowded buses, in living in grave yards, in the lines for a loaf of bread-if they could get even that and was not filled with screws and other stuff- in the lines for cigarettes, human lines were Egypt’s daily routine. But Mubarak did not invent that system, Nasser did, still, Mubarak shared the responsibility. But I do not encourage humiliating him, not Mubarak, show him grace, if you need to put him on trial, let it be, but do not try him on behalf of all the Pharaohs and do not try him on behalf of hundreds of millions of Egyptians through out history that have never been respected in their country. Treat Mubarak as Russia treated Gorbachev, let him live in peace for the remainder of his life. He did not kill his people as Saddam did, or Qazzafi the psychopath, or the king of Bahrain or the president of Yemen, or the butchers of Syria. He represented a system he did not create, he did not reform or change it and he bears responsibility, otherwise the rest would say the same thing, we did not create the system but found it. He just played a game and thought that he will get away with it, but once all was done, and the game was over, he left, he did not fight.  Let the last pharaoh rest in peace. There will never be again another pharaoh.

The Cowards of Gaza, the Cowards of Damascus, The Cowards of Tehran and the Cowards of Hezbollah…..…An X-ray by Jamil Shawwa

In the Middle East, right now, there are four "groups" that to call them human would be an insult and humiliation to humanity, to call them political groups, would be an insult to politics, already an insulting word, so we cannot add insult to injury. To call them parties, would be an insult to all the legitimate political and social parties around the world, to call them leaders, would be an insult to the word and meaning of the word leader which usually points out to those that inspire and those that motivate. So let us call them with a word they love, a word they respect, and a word that belongs to them, that is attached to them, and that is identified for them, Cowards.  Let us start with the Cowards of Gaza, Hamas, they are firing rockets, why, and now they are begging and kissing the feet and the behinds for restraint, but this is how cowards live and operate. They are lowlifes, no respect, although they won an election, but they won it because the other alternative, the PLO, was arguably, worse, politely putting it, corrupt. Again, the people of Gaza should rise against the terror of Hamas and the rest of the TV and multimedia terrorists groups, they are the occupier, not Israel, Israel withdrew from Gaza, was ready to withdraw from the West Bank and was ready to talk about Jerusalem and the Golan, but the cowards disappeared, they prefer to live in the dark, they are the night bats, they cannot survive the light, they prefer to fire rockets, and dig tunnels, and live like animals. They have taken the Palestinian people, who have been as complacent as anyone can be through out their history in this crime, as hostages. The Palestinians can drop all this trash, and can start anew, and can bring respect to people that have never had respect, the Palestinian people.  Throw out Hamas, now.

In Syria, we have worse situation, maybe, See, it is a competition as who the worst is, who is the most criminal and who is the most terrorist, and who is the most hypocrite and who is the most demagogue; this is an x-ray of the garbage of the Middle East. The Alawis, a fraction, less than 5% of the population, a gang, a mafia, a group of suicidal maniacs, they commit suicide if the party decides so, hijacked a country that matches the Palestinians in hypocrisy, and a country that has a reputation of having ill reputed merchants and politicians and a country where the majority Muslim Sunnis are weak, and where the grand Syrian Sunni families were unrealistic, naive and idiots, basically. The Ba'ath mafia rules Syria, but a group of Syrians are fighting back now; those are the freedom fighters that Syria never had or known, they do not want to be anymore attached to that garbage. Throw out the Alawis and Al-Ba’ath and that helpless, poor, irrelevant, disillusioned, Al-Assad, now.

Finally, so far, I am going to combine two trashcans in one, Hezbollah and Iran that is the lowlifes, the Mullahs, the Rasputins that run Iran. The two are interconnected and intertwined and they are the cousins of another sect, the Alawis in Syria, so you can see the connection, the three feed into each other, and the three live through each other. The Shia power has already risen in the Arab countries, and why not, but it is a twofold problem, first is  a Sunni majority that are so tyrant and ignorant that it never treated the Shia well- Check the Gulf countries, and the other is  Iran and the powers of the political hypocrisy, they are really are guns for hire, not sure how to explain it though, basically, I know that they act pursuant to political agendas and not ideology; yes, I think this is a good explanation. Hezbollah and Iran, again, pursuant to certain political agendas, as it seems or turned to be, might drag a semi country-Lebanon- into chaos as they did in 2006. See, if you look around, you see that once the Arab countries start cleaning up their trash, peace is here, Israel has no problem, the US, the EU, Russia, China, no one has a problem in granting the Palestinians their rightful place among the civilized nations, and grant them a state in the West Bank and Gaza side by side with the State of Israel, no one, except for the cowards, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Ba’ath and Alawis and the ultimate losers, the ultimate hypocrites and the ultimate joke and the ultimate clowns, the Mullahs of Iran, they do not want to see a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, they want to see destruction. The Mullahs enemies, their only enemies, are the Arab Muslim Sunnis. That is Iran, nothing more and nothing less and that concludes our X-ray for the day.

Go ahead; Make My day. Shut Down the Government...America America...by Jamil Shawwa

In 1981, and after the sounding defeat of Jimmy Carter, the new president, the Grand Old Party lifesaver, Ronald Reagan declared, “government is not the solution, government is the problem”. In 1993, Bill Clinton declared, “the era of big government is over”. Both presidents, a republican and a democrat, used that rhetoric during economic downturns like the one we live in now. Since then every president, every candidate for office tried to emulate and imitate and tried to get into this wagon or off the wagon of blaming the federal government for everything that goes wrong in this country, from their perspective. Almost all has been and is political rhetoric, no substance and false. America is the federal government; it is the glue that made America the greatest country on earth. The federal government is the government of the people and for the people and by the people and it is the fifty states combined and it is the union that we all live and breathe through its healthy and renewed veins. America loves to discuss, talk, argue, deliberate, and convince, this is how this country was built and this is how the constitution was crafted, out of excruciating years, months, days, and hours of deliberations. America’s lifeline and foundation is there for everyone who is interested to read, in the federalist papers and in the drafts of the constitution and in the bill of rights. The founding fathers of the republic, The United States, put the power over the purse in the hands of the elected body, the congress, and not in the hands of the elected executive, the president. They wisely knew that you need more than just one individual, even if that individual was the elected president of the United States, to decide what money can and where to be spent. We have witnessed an impasse like the one we are witnessing right now back in 1995, when few republicans, infuriated by the loss of George H. Bush and the winning of a little known southern state governor by the name of Bill Clinton, that they created what came to be known, for couple of years and then disappeared, as the republican revolution when bill Clinton got reelected in 1996 and defeated a good man but with no charisma, Bob Dole. They shutdown the government, showed people that they are meanies, they did not intend to, but republicans come across- in general- in the American psychic as inconsiderate meanies, and sometimes according to some as bunch of SOBs. Americans felt then, in 1995, and now, that they were out of touch, did not care about the elderly, women, children, all they cared about was to tell Americans, that you need to depend on yourself only, that it is you that can make or break things, that the government is not a babysitter, that if you do not work hard, no one really can carry you or your burden. The republican party’s message then and now is that America cannot afford to be a welfare state, America cannot pay for women abortion clinics; this one actually resides deep in religious reasons, many of them are religious christians that feel that clinics that cater to abortion and unwed mothers are sinners, and that the government cannot support such sin. In that particular one, they forget or try to forget the separation of state and religion or the separation of church and state, or the synagogue and state or the mosque and state, America now is for all and not only for church goers or mosque goers or synagogue goers. The news just updated of a tentative deal between president Obama and the republicans to avert a shut down of the government, but until when, no one yet is sure. The issue is not that, it is the blackmailing of America that some in the republican party use every now and then to get their way, but in the process and in the midst of all the political spinning and rhetoric, those extremists do not realize that they are hurting the very same country that they claim to defend and pretend that they care about. The government is the people, it is the women and children, it is the parks and the museums, it the military and the troops that stay day and night all over the world to make sure that we are safe here and that we have freedom here, and that our foundation is solid. The federal government is not a strange body that you need to fight, on the contrary, it is the very heart and soul of this country that you need to nourish like a baby, and protect. The problem is not the government, it is us, we the people who make the rules, and write the bills and the laws and create the policies and the politics. Do not attack the government, do not shut down the system, reform it, protect it, and keep it alive. Those tactics of shutting down the livelihood of the people will not work, they never did, in the past the republicans lost and they will lose again if the tactics continue.

The Maestro…..the Obama doctrine…... by Jamil Shawwa

Everyone right now talks about the two doctrines, well, maybe not everyone but those that are nosy like me. The Bush doctrine was based on “either with us or against us" no other choices. That doctrine came to life after the terrorist attack on America. At that time, in my opinion, the US did not have any other choice. We needed to confront that wave of terrorism and we needed to act immediatly. We did not have to negotiate, convince, or wok to find common ground. We still managed to form a huge alliance much bigger than we did in WWII when we confronted other groups of criminals against humanity. Now the situation is different, we do not need to use the Bush doctrine, we are doing a fantastic alliance building against a psychopath in Libya. The Maestro is taking position and is taking center stage, the orchestra is ready, he has to lead, there is no other choice, but he cannot lead alone, the orchestra has to match, has to play the right tunes, and has to deliver the right rhythms. America will continue to be the leader in world affairs, and in the Middle East, there is nothing but the US. Having said that, it is not a blind leadership, but a smart one, it is a leadership that based on many pillars, the UN is one, NATO, and within those two, we have the European alliance with Russia's tactical silence and the Asian's with China's always accommodating. England right now is managing the political efforts to topple Qazzafi and it is working very well. Cameron and Hague are transforming England back to world stage after years of irrelevancy. They are polishing the old empire, and they are renovating a role that is important to be palyed right now in the Middle East. France and England are the leading players in the orchestra with the Maestro making sure that they deliver the best they can. Qazzafi is already gone in my book; it is just a matter of time. But the doctrine will not go, this is the new role of America in the world, to lead with partners and with groups and with alliances, it has been like this but now America is giving more respect to those important partners and the partners just love the new American style. America’s strength resides in its ability to move and maneuver, in its ability to create win-win situations, and in its ability to preserve the balance of powers and in its genius in inventing ways to inspire others. Behind all this is a talented maestro that needs to continue to show his talents daily, or at least until November of 2012. If he is reelected, very possible, I do not see so far any other viable candidate on either side, Obama’s doctrine will flourish in ways that will make the 21 century another American century.

For Israel and For Palestine...a Table for Two. By Jamil Shawwa

The forces of darkness, evil, and hypocrisy continue to drag this poor but not naive people, the Palestinians, into the abyss. They go to homes and kill families and they expect the world to watch and say hurray. They are Satan in long dirty beards and without beards, wearing the flag of peaceful divine religions and brainwashing the innocent and the not so innocent. They blow buses, launch rockets and expect the world to sympathize and applaud. They are and the rest of those lowlifes, are the ones that keep making sure that the West Bank and Gaza never even come close to enjoy what the rest of the humans are enjoying; an independent state in the West bank and Gaza, where people can go to work, dream of the future, plan vacations for themselves and their families, travel and see friends and relatives and explore the world and it's beauties. The forces of evil and despair that are wearing the beards of hypocrisy are killing every hope in the land of peace and in the land of the three divine religions and they keep delaying the final status. But they are not alone, on the other side of the Isle, in the State of Israel, there are those that match them in fanaticism and hypocrisy, Their job- elements in the two societies- is to silence the moderates on each side and make them as despair as the rest and make them believe that the two cannot live together in two states and make them believe that an eye for an eye to the rest of it.  Abbas is crying and weeping like a  boutique girl in Amsterdam getting caught in the act, not ready for the next client, asking this and that to save him or asking this or that to tell Israel to do this or stop that. Those forces of darkness, some in their lousy, pretentious beards, in their deceiving appearance, in their criminal minds, are the wardens of the Israelis and the Palestinians and they are the tyrants that make sure that the Palestinians never wake up, make sure the stigma of terrorism is their name or their middle name. The Palestinians and the Israelis- maybe unintentionally- are helping the forces of evil; in Palestine, they are electing them, and in Israel, they are not clear on the policy and the future. Imagine the hypocrisy of a people, or maybe not, maybe it is not hypocrisy, maybe it is despair, maybe the Palestinians are desperate but they are afraid, they look around and they are afraid, they do not want to be called that they have forgot the forgotten cause, and that they do not want to be called the generation that has allowed what the previous generations did not allow. Well, I have news for the Palestinians, rise, and rise now, look around, and throw out your jailers and your wardens, kick them; vaccinate yourselves against them so they do not infect you again. Rise, go to the streets, no one can stop you, you, the Palestinians, can now make a difference, can now get rid of Hamas and the PLO and can now, elect people and can now call Bibi and Ehud and Shimon- as a sign of respect to the elder statesman- and tell them, I want to set now with you- I can provide the table and four chairs, ok maybe five but not more than six- and we are not going to leave the room until the Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza is born and we are not going to leave until every Arab and Muslim country recognize the ultimate right of the State of Israel to live in peace in it’s  internationally recognized borders with Jerusalem as it’s capital and the same Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza…What are you waiting for- I'm almost done- go to the streets, you have been manipulated by choice, for tens of years, maybe it is enough, maybe you will start dropping hypocrisy and self-deceive for other choices. Try, the Palestinians and the Israelis, something else, a new approach, and a new perspective and see if it works; you might be amazed beyond your wildest imaginations. Now is the time to act, because if not now, when.

Dancing and Singing at an Airport...Lebanon 2011 by Jamil Shawwa

The Lebanese are singing for their country; they are saying that their country has civilization. I know one thing about the Lebanese, all of them, they love Beirut. But, in a minute, they can destroy it in the name of their sect, religion, their political affiliation and their love. They have done it before.  The Lebanese are dancing in Beirut International Airport. I do not want to spoil the video but the Airport in Lebanon is under the control of Hezbollah. Those Lebanese are interesting human beings, they can dance together now, and tomorrow ...the same dancers could be fighting each other. The airport now is called Rafik El-Hariri International Airport. Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon, was killed in 2005. An International Court is looking to subpoena Syrians officials, Hezbollah officials and Lebanese former military commanders for his murder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccy-EQPH3LU  

The West Bank and The Gaza Strip…Rise….Part III- No historical or Religious Claims- Ongoing by Jamil Shawwa

The news reported yesterday that a person went and committed a crime, killed a family in a settlement in the West Bank. The State of Israel has the right to defend its citizens everywhere as many countries believe and might take action against individuals or against groups either in Gaza or in the West Bank. The cycle continues, once Israel takes action, some Palestinians might feel that they need to retaliate and take action against those that took the previous action. The cycle continues, killing and retaliating and organizations and individuals claiming historical or religious rights to this piece of land or that piece of land or over the whole land. Some might say that the settlements in The West Bank are illegal as they are built on a disputed land or lands that are still waiting for the final solution, others would reply and say no, these settlements will stay regardless and the people there will be citizens of the state of Palestine in the West bank and Gaza and some will say, wait a minute, these people have the right to settle anywhere in the land of Israel. The end game, not sure, it seems that everybody or the policy makers and certain groups behind them in both entities in Palestine and in Israel are content somehow with the status quo. Satisfied with the regular interactions that take place there and has been taking place since even before 1948. The problem is not outside the control-maybe- of both Israel and Palestine. The problem is not in the international community, or the great powers, the problem is there in the West Bank and Gaza and in the State of Israel and the solution is also there in Palestine and Israel. The first step is stop the talk from some Arabs and Israelis or some religious Muslim Arabs and some religious Jewish people about historical claims to the land, it will not work, both sides not only will bring so called facts or religious verses that support each side but will also bring the continuous cycle of hatred and the continuous cycle of wars and violence and will continue to feed those monsters on all sides of the isle that do not want to see a flourishing State of Israel and a flourishing State of Palestine. Leave history behind and look at now. Now we have the State of Israel and we have the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, period, nothing else, no other countries. We also have Jerusalem as an open city and a capital for both. We also have religious places that a skilled manager can manage for both people, if things get complicated and both continue to fight about "management". History right now is irrelevant in the land of peace and history is irrelevant in the land of the three divine religions, what is relevant is now, and the people that live there and the facts on the ground. The facts reflect the ultimate and the undisputed right of the Jewish people to enjoy their country, the State of Israel, as it is now. The facts also reflect the ultimate and the undisputed right of the Palestinian people to have their state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. History can be rewritten now, and history can be remade now. History starts now and not prior to 1948.

Tsunami in the Pacific and a Tsunami in The Middle East….Shockwaves…by Jamil Shawwa

What a trying day across the shores of the Pacific, it is reaching Hawaii and maybe the beaches of California. Warnings are issued for about fifty countries as news reports stating.  It seems technology did not predict or gave early warning to this ocean earthquake. Same as in the Middle East, the Arab and Iranians dictators did not know that their people are alive and breathing and did not see the early warnings smoke. The earthquake in the Pacific is claiming innocent lives as the one in the in the Middle East. We all want to control the Pacific earthquake, although it is impossible to prevent, but easy or easier to predict, but most of us want the human tsunami in the Arab countries and Iran to continue, hopefully peacefully, to drive those illegitimate dictators out of power one by one.

The Arab Monarchies…..Red Flag by Jamil Shawwa

I think *Jordan and Morocco can lead the Arab royalties into the first constitutional monarchies where the prime minister- from the party the wins the majority seats in parliament- would be the executive like in England, Japan and other countries in Europe. The royal families in Morocco and Jordan have the street-smart politics talent and this could be an ingredient for their survivals. Very tough though but let us see how they would evolve.

The rest of the monarchies, **Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and the other Gulf countries so far have not shown signs of the changing times, The bottom line is this; the monarchies in the Arab countries must evolve to endure.

   

*Read my piece about Jordan and the Hashemite on http://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com/2010/10/storythe-10-years-old-boy-in.html

**Read my piece about the evolution of Saudi Arabia on   http://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com/2010/12/prince-bandar-machiavelli-and-future-of.html

      http://arabamericanwire.blogspot.com

*In The Name Of The Divine Religions… A Bow by Jamil Shawwa

Compare the Westboro Baptist Church and the Congressman from New York, Peter King, and the suicide bombers in Pakistan that blow funerals. What is the common ground between the nuts, the fanatics here and the criminals in Pakistan; not much, both hijacked a religion and both in the name of a divine religion created new religions and new wave of hatred. No faiths, religions, or philosophies throughout history suffered as much as the three divine religions, not from sources strange to them but from those that claim that they belong to them. In America, the Supreme court said that it is legal for the Westboro Baptist Church to disrupt –by shouting and cursing- the funerals of the fallen soldiers, in Pakistan, they take liberty to kill themselves and others in the suspicious shadow of the silence of the law.

* facebook post 03/09/2011
Check my posts from 03/09/2011, 03/02/2011 and 03/04/2011

“The West Bank and The Gaza Strip…..Rise.. Part II”….detour by Jamil Shawwa

The new Palestinian State in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip should not identify itself with a specific religion. Religions are personal business; they are not a State business. The West Bank and Gaza should embrace the three divine religions in particular because the bastion of the three religions is Jerusalem, the Capital of the State of Israel and the Capital of the State of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza side by side with the State of Israel. Hamas must understand; it is up to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to make both Hamas and the PLO to understand that the land does not belong to either one of them but to the people there and to their free well to elect those that can carry the message of peace and tolerance. I really believe that the time is now for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to rise, and rise high against the PLO and Hamas and all other organizations that failed the Palestinians in the past generations and decades and elect new people, strong, confident, popular individuals to take charge. The Palestinians live in a nightmare right now that is called Hamas. Every time they talk, Hamas, they remind me of those idiots’ hypocrites in Iran

Jamil’s note on China--------------- Across the Pacific with Jamil Shawwa

News Reports: China wants to crack down on possible demonstrations asking for freedom and democracy and the end of the totalitarian communist party rule.

My Comments: You cannot be the second most powerful nation on earth and in the same time suppressing and oppressing your people, over one thousand and three hundred million of human beings. You cannot continue to claim that politics belong to the party, the communist party, and that the Chinese should be happy by just living well, and eating well, and driving cars. Not at this age and time that you can get away with such dictatorial hypocritical slogans. The Chinese products are all over the globe, well made, cheap and practical, now the world is returning the favor and exporting to China its most valuable commodities, freedom and democracy.

“Mrs. Abdeen…..Allow Me To Think loudly" by Jamil Shawwa

I hear your voice right now, Mrs. Abdeen, telling me that Abdeen is written with an I and not double E. I still do not do it, Mrs. Abdeen, the same mistake it seems, not sure, if it is stubbornness or what or is it slow thought process, in other words, if I am out of it. But how can I be out of it if I recognize it, how can anyone  be out of something if they know what they are doing, and they know that it might be wrong but still doing it. See, I am writing it with double E again. My name could be written with an I or double E but I have always wrote it with an I, but for some reason, I write your name with double E. The point I am trying to make- about time I think- is that both could be right, so why we humans sometimes torture ourselves in trying to be perfect and usually in the process, we become far from perfection. I have many more questions, Mrs. Abdeen, but I do not want to bring back too much memories of that pupil you had in Jerusalem in 1974, who was an ok student but a student who was full of questions, probing everything you say and requesting sources and backups until your eyes would start rolling and then and only then, he would stop asking.  “Listen” that was your favourite word for us to become quiet or refocus. I do not look back, Mrs. Abdeen, I cannot, I do not live in the past Mrs. Abdeen, I just cannot, and I do not cry over something that is done, although it might have been a treasure that was lost due to stubbornness or stupidity or both. Still, Mrs. Abdeen, it is the same problem, knowing something that is not good but still doing it. Maybe it is the trial and error that we humans must live by; it is the nature of the curious human to test, to try, to examine, to push the boundaries further. I think this is how great things happen in life when we just try, when we do not stop, when we do not get timid and afraid. There is something going in the Middle East right now Mrs., Abdeen, in the Arab countries at this moment, people are going to the streets but they are not sure of the outcome, they are not sure if what they are doing is right or wrong, they are just going, and they are venting and for the first time in the history of the Arabs, the rulers are listening, they have no choice anymore, Mrs. Abdeen, but to listen, who would have thought that this day would come, who would have thought that the poor, the hungry, the disfranchised, the hopeless, the humiliated in the streets of  Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain, Algeria, Tunisia and every other Arab country would just say Enough, we have had it, and just rise like a bright summer morning sun . I wonder Mrs., Abdeen, what would have happened if the people just sat back and just thought if what they are doing or going to do is right or wrong.

Amr Mousa; Wrong for Egypt………Stop Sign by Jamil Shawwa

I have monitored Amr Mousa, the former Egyptian foreign minister and the current secretary general of the Arab league, over the years and came to the conclusion that this person is the last one Egypt needs to have as president at this stage of its history. When Amr Mousa talks, you get the feeling that you are before a person with no skills or intellect. When he acts, you feel as if he still belongs to the same school that ruined Egypt for the last sixty years. I saw him once in the World Economic conference in Davos on stage with the Israeli president Shimon Peres and the Turkish Prime Minister Ardogan, he was setting and looking like a trapped mouse, pretending that he was not listening to Peres and in the same time pretending to cheer Ardogan. A fluid man, not a compliment, and a mild personality. A typical government employee, not a leader. Egypt needs a parliamentary system where the parliament rules and a prime minister as the head of state as in Israel and Iraq, England, and other countries. Bring Mousa to office and you will have another carbon copy of Mubarak but on a lower scale and lesser brightness. Now of course if he gets elected in free elections, then that is another story, but I think the Egyptians who suffered for thousands of years from the rule of the ancient and modern pharos are smart enough not to elect this boring, annoying, talentless person as their president.

The civility of a Revolution…Passing Thought by Jamil Shawwa

Are revolutions supposed to be civil, by the name itself, it means and indicates chaos or uprisings against a system or governments or tyrants or to seek independence, so how can they be civil. The historic facts though contradict that contrast. All revolutions in the past two hundred and fifty years starting with the mother of modern revolutions, The American Revolution, in 1779, have debuted peacefully. The American was peaceful and turned confrontational when they the Americans did not have any other choice. The French revolution followed in 1789, and in the beginning it was a civil- kind of, the French had deep-rooted hatred against a rigid rotten class system in France at that time- but not until the bloodthirsty, Robespierre and his mates took over that the French became extremely violent. Same during the Russian revolution in 1917, not until the Bolshevik took over that the revolution became bloody. The Indians led by Gandhi gained their independence through peaceful revolution, and they sat an example for people around the world that a universally considered just cause could have a chance to flourish peacefully. The Iranians in 1979 revolted peacefully against a naive and an idiot Shah, the clerics took over and they started executing everyone that was not in line with there menacing motives and hypocritical goals. In the pre 1948 historic Palestine, both the Jewish people and the Arab people resorted to violence to achieve their goals of independent state when the politics at that time did not support the demands, and when politics agreed with the demands, the Arabs in Palestine did not agree with the United Nations resolution 181 to form two independent countries, the Jewish agreed, and since then, they- the Jewish people- have had a flourishing country; the State of Israel, and the Palestinians are still trying- since then- to get their act together and build a state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The problem in the West Bank and Gaza is that the politics there has been connected and chained to a political system that has been and still corrupt- The Arab political system- so their- the Palestinians- only hope is that they look inward and focuses on them and decide regardless of what the other Arabs decide and regardless of what Iran wants. I think the new country based Arab political system- in formation right now- will result in normal democratic countries that no longer feel the need to adopt the Palestinians as a cause, or no longer need to manipulate, this is a better description, the Palestinians to justify their own dictatorships. The bottom line is this; democratic Arab countries will make peace with the State of Israel, will help with Israel, the United States, and the world community in transitioning the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza into a democratic and civil country that lives in peace with all its neighbors including the State of Israel. Finally, the peaceful revolutions in the Arab countries will prove to be the best barrier against the ultimate terrorist’s organizations led by Al-Qaeda and other mini wannabes, hypocritical, showy, extremist fractions, like Hezbollah and Hamas.

A Deranged Beast….Updates From Jamil Shawwa

He is no longer just a joke, a sick joke,

He is no longer just a clown, a terrible clown,

He is no longer just a “mad dog” as Reagan once described him and he is no longer just the “crazy boy of Libya” as Sadat of Egypt many times called him,

He is no longer just a Jackass and a psychopath as your obedient servant here honored him with such titles- I got a call from “The Iraqi Donkeys Association” protesting him calling him a donkey; they are right, they felt insulted.

He is a criminal, a terrorist, a deranged beast, an animal that is spreading havoc and death all over Libya.

The Libyans probably will be paying the highest price humanity has not paid for a long time, and they have the noblest task to get rid the human race from such a crazed person, but the Libyans feel that it is worth paying; they are doing the world a great favor and we are returning the favor by writing about this saga of triumph.

A View From America…and a View from the Middle East.....Jamil Shawwa

*What! A Web site blocked, here in America! Check my post below from Saturday. The demonstrations are spreading through out Wisconsin, Ohio and the Midwest. It seems that we in America are getting some vibes from The Middle East. But America is the grand democracy and when people go to the streets, they protest against programs and against elected politicians and not tyrants and they know that they can change them in the coming elections. In America, there are already programs to remove governors through due process, referendum, impeachments, and even presidents through impeachment by both Chambers of congress. Nixon was going to be impeached and Bill Clinton was impeached in the House but got away in the Senate. America does not usually protest persons per se, but protest laws and programs as it is happening right now. In America, there is hope and this is what America preaches all over the world, hope. The republicans are playing the same game they played with Bill Clinton in 1995 when they shut down the federal government over budget. They lost then, and they might lose again with Barack Obama. The republicans love to lose, it seems. It happens in politics when you do not have leadership or when you do not have smart leadership. What do you expect from a party that adores a pinhead by the name of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Ron Paul and others.




* From CNN: “A left-leaning website that union supporters used to rally protesters in Wisconsin was partially blocked as demonstrators gathered in the state Capitol over a controversial budget bill.”

From Sigmund Freud to the Arab Heads of State and Iran…by Jamil Shawwa

I am sure that Sigmund Freud was foreseeing and thinking of the future when he wrote his famous cycle of grief, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and then Acceptance. He must have been thinking of that part of the world that would have bunch of dictators that believe that they were given divine authority to suppress and oppress their people and enslave them. Sigmund Freud was genius not only in foreseeing the tragedy of the Arab leaders or should I say the tragedy of the Arabs and the Iranians for having such tyrants running their affairs but also in providing those leaders with the Elixir, psychoanalysis that will help once time comes, and it came, to handle the situation of being kicked out of office, out of their palaces of fear and out of their golden cages. Sigmund Freud was probably thinking mostly of the new Nero, Qazzafi, and his sons and he knew that the Middle East would have someday psychopaths like Qazzafi that could benefit from his landmark analysis. The signs then were there, the Turks were in the Arab countries so the puzzle is solved and the signals were clear as to who would succeed them. I have a question for Sigmund Freud, is it possible for someone like Qazzafi to recognize this cycle of grief on his own and will the Libyan people give him the chance to get through it, or will they take a short cut and kick him before he gets into the fifth part, Acceptance.

A Psychopath in Libya….by Jamil Shawwa

The psychopath is killing his people left and right and the world is watching, but what can the world do, the psychopath has been in power there since 1969. He has been torturing, abusing, and kidnapping people since then, many of whom were not Libyans. Fortunately, the world can do something and it is doing right now. The smart communication, the technologies are exposing the tyrants all over the world. The cell phones and the text messaging are flowing like the ocean waves and like the rivers running deep. Technology is the tyrants’ worst nightmare and Qazzafi of Libya is one of humanities worst nightmares. He is the butcher of Libya- new title added to his cartoonish titles- and he is the new Nero that burned Rome. Mubarak, Bin Ali, and Kim Jung IL are angels in comparison to him; ok, maybe Kim Jung IL is an exaggeration here but still. A low life and a sick joke, Qazzafi, a piece of political trash that societies could have from time to time through out history. The Libyans are on their own, but the whole world is supporting through what we are doing right now, writing, exposing, and showing and stripping the human animals like Qazzafi from the last tiny piece of leaf that they are behind, hiding.