If there is war  then there will be arms sales and corrupt leaders supporting these activities and guess who benefits from such sales - who are the largest arms dealers in the universe? Israel and the US. They will be out of business.. Meanwhile there are illusions that put mud in our eyes while we are intoxicated or doped with sex or sports fantacies created by Hollywood. We are told we have freedom to choose  but guess what  -you can only choose within the rules of their war games-  a favorite quote "you are either with us or the terrorists"  

Many main stream Anglo Saxon s in the US are now fed up quietly  and right so that their funds  are being milked by the Jewish State daily to the tune of 2.5 million dollars and their real interest lies with doing business with the Arabs and Africans who have the oil and the minerals they need so much.  Israel is so desperate that I fear they may drop a nuclear bomb on Baghdad when the economic situation blows out.

I hope that does not happen as they themselves will suffer too. The  debt of Argentina is a classic example of what can happen if we succumb to the world bank racist elite whose only interest is to put third world nation in constant debt so they can be squeezed anytime they do not support the war on terrorism.

 

I am praying that God intervenes to help us out of this quagmire/ We are all suffering from this stupid conflict orchestrated by two mad generals Arafat and Sharon.

Good day and keep praying for peace.

Habib Diab Ghanim  

>From: Dave Manneh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Israel's Bedouin:-Zionsim is an evil and it has to seen as such. >Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 09:47:04 +0100 > >************************** >culled from BBC online. > >Zionsism equates to Nazism + Racism + Intolerance and Disresprect for others. >The Arab population in Israel are under thesame subjugation and tyranny >like the Palestinians. >Promises made to them are never kept and their land and most importantly water >has all but being confiscated, and development seems to skirt their regions as >if they are a colony of lepers. >Zionsim is an evil and it has to seen as such. > > >Regards >Manneh > >************************************ > >Israel's Bedouin > >By Middle East analyst Fiona Symon >The shootings on 9 January of four Bedouin soldiers in an attack on an Israeli >army post by the Palestinian militants has thrown into sharp relief the >position of these descendants of Arabic-speaking desert nomads. > >The dead men - one of whom was an army officer - were members of a battalion >composed almost entirely of Bedouins. > >It had apparently been assigned the dangerous task of patrolling the southern >Gaza Strip. > >For the Bedouin, there's been a huge gap between the promises made to them and >what has been delivered > >Dr Alean al-Krenawi, Ben Gurion University >Bedouin Arabs make up about 10% of Israel's Arab population and are, therefore, >a minority within a minority. > >Most of the Bedouin - around 125,000 - still live in the Negev, while around >60,000 live in the Galilee area of northern Israel, according to Dr Alean al- >Krenawi, director of the Centre for Bedouin Studies and Development at Ben- >Gurion University. > >He says there are close to 30 tribes altogether, some of whom also live in the >areas under Palestinian Authority control between Jericho and Jerusalem, and in >Gaza and the Jordan valley. > >Dr Krenawi says the Israeli Bedouin see themselves as Arabs first and foremost, >but have a tradition of good relations with the Israeli state. > >Many have served in Bedouin units of the Israeli army, where they have been >valued for their tracking skills. > >Land dispute > >Israel, however, has never recognised their ownership of the land, and they >have suffered a series of land expropriations and evictions, forcing their >communities into smaller and smaller areas. > >Although some families have reached an agreement with the state of Israel, for >most Bedouin, the issue of land ownership is unresolved, says Dr Krenawi. > >He estimates that less than 10% are now able to maintain their traditional >pastoral way of life, because of lack of access to land and water. > > >And the transition to a modern way of life has been particularly difficult for >the Bedouin because they lack the skills and education to adapt their way of >life, he says. > >Having lost their traditional livelihood, the rate of unemployment among the >Bedouin is very high and they represent the poorest of the poor in Israel, says >Dr Krenawi. > >About half the Negev Bedouin live in villages recognised by the state, which >have access to basic facilities like water and electricity, but half live >in "unrecognised" villages. > >Lack of basic needs > >Their plight has caught the attention of a number of advocacy groups, including >the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). > >Ms Banna Shoughry-Badarne, a lawyer for ACRI, says: "All problems start from >the fact that the Bedouin live in villages established before the state of >Israel, and therefore not recognised by the state. The state refuses to give >them any infrastructure." > >Unrecognised villages have no water or electricity and their inhabitants are >forced to travel long distances to school or for health care, she says. > >In her view, the Bedouin are subject to the worst human rights violations of >any community in Israel, being denied basic rights such as access to water, >education and health care. > >Relationship with Israel > >She points out that around Beersheba, where most of unrecognised Bedouin >villages in the Negev are located, there are 104 agricultural settlements for >Jews, but none for the Bedouin - even though agriculture and animal husbandry >is the traditional Bedouin way of life. > >Even in the Negev's officially-recognised villages, facilities are poor and >there are no jobs. "They are industrial villages, but without industry," says >Ms Shoughry-Badarne. > >All this has taken a toll on the relationship between the Bedouin and the >state, says Dr Krenawi. > >In the early days of the state of Israel, the Bedouin believed in co-existence >and established good relations with their Jewish neighbours, but these have >begun to deteriorate as a result of economic hardship. > >Bedouin soldiers serving in the army go home and are struck by the difference >between the way their families are forced to live and those of the Jewish >soldiers, says Dr Krenawi. > >"For the Bedouin, there's been a huge gap between the promises made to them and >what has been delivered," he says. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~