Letters to the Editor, April 27, 2006

Donations for Palestinian Health Work Committees (Non-Government Organizations)

Beneficiary Name : Union of Health Work Committees - UHWC

Beneficiary Account No.: 9500-470-7

Bank Payee: Arab Bank PLC-Gaza Branch Swift: ARAB PS22

USD Corrsp. Bank: Credit Suisse, Zurich Swift Code: CRESCHZZ80A

Euro Corrsp. Bank Swift Code: ARAB FRPP OR ARAB DEFF

The GBP corrsp. Bank swift code: ARAB GB2L

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or this one:

Beneficiary Name : Union of Health Work Committees - UHWC

Beneficiary Account No.: 100919

Bank Payee: Bank of Palestine LTD 89

Branch: El-Remal Branch 454

Swift: PALSPS22

Latest Bombings in Egypt (Red Sea)

I would like to express my sadness of the latest bombings in Egypt (red sea).

As a frequent visitor to Egypt and to a country I feel is my second home. I would like to say to all the people how sorry we all are in Scotland U.K to hear this news and send our condolences to all concern.

We will return and enjoy our holiday to their beautiful warm and friendly country,

And hope the rest of the world rallies to their plight,

Our thoughts are with you.

Jim Hynd. Scotland, U.K

The definition of the occupation…

Occupied, terrorized, genocide – while the whole world is hypnotized,

Sixty years, incessant tears – no day passes by without countless fears,

For our lives, our wives, our children’s cries – yet the world turns away, and our spirits die,

For my land, I do stand – but I remain hopeless without a helping hand,

Oppression, suppression, depression – every aspect of my life, you’ve taken possession,

Our weapons are stones, to protect our homes – but your bulldozers win and terror roams,

Yours are tanks, helicopters, and military jeeps – to kill the young man, as his mother weeps,

You control our electricity, you control our seas – you control our streets, and uproot our trees,

You close our schools, our children can’t learn – you deny the refugees their right to return,

Suffering orphans, under your persecution – when they rise up, they face execution,

Families are separated, and farmers recall – the land they lost, by your Apartheid Wall,

Through your ‘diplomacy’, and your foreign relations – you attempt to justify and give credence to your occupation,

Palestine is my land, and I won’t let you take it – and while you put the world to sleep, I try to wake it.

Abdelnasser Rashid,
11th Grader

Fighting the Mahatma Gandhi way

Respected Sir,

even though the western recognition of terror in Palestine is biased, I support the idea of Mahtma Gandhi's grand son published a few month ago.

The Palestinian people will have wonderful results, when they start fighting for their rights in a peaceful way. After a period of deafening ears the West will give full support to the Palestine people. Most people in Israel and Europe are tired of bombings and bloodshed. Everybody should have the opportunity of a bright future.

With best regards

Trutz-Ulrich Stephani

A Dane living in India

Hilarious!! "I'm the Decider" (Bush's latest dopey line) set to "I Am the Walrus." Listen for a laugh!

http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

Mark Franklin

Simulation of fall out path of a bunker-buster

This is a shocking video with an audio sound depicting simulation of fall out path of a bunker-buster that peace loving people of the world need to be told what kind of military hardware these NEOCONS are planning to use in IRAN and beyond.

www.ucsusa.org/global_security/nuclear_weapons/nuclear-bunker-buster-rnep-animation.html

This animation depicts a proposed weapon with a one megaton yield. The funding for this weapon was cut in 2005 defense appropriations. However, the United States still has a B61-11 nuclear 'bunker buster' in its arsenal which has a 340 kiloton yield, which could still cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and spread radiation to other countries.

www.ucsusa.org/global_security/nuclear_weapons/nuclear-bunker-buster-rnep-animation.html

Abdallah Albasha

The Goebbels Diaries, 1939-1941

Translated & Edited by Fred Taylor; G.P. Putnam & Sons, NY, Page 272, March, 1941).

For those of you who have seen the film, Downfall, you will already be cognizant of some of this material. If you've missed it, you can get it as we did, your library will access the DVD for you to bring home and watch. It's a worthwhile film to watch.

If you have gleaned any of World War II history and the end times of Hitler, you will have heard of Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels was one of Hitler's henchmen.

The Goebbels family was very close to Hitler, Goebbel's wife, Magda, and their children whose names all began with "H". Their children died in the Bunker at the end, for Magda and her husband put them to bed and gave them poisoned pills, as they did not wish to live other than with Hitler's party, the National Socialists.

The Goebbels were a very close family at this period. Formerly, Goebbels had had an affair with an actress which nearly ruined the marriage, but it would seem from then on that the marriage was intact.

Goebbels was involved in the art and opera world and the press. some interesting and negative notes about the filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl. But he hated the English. In this book you will see how dreadfully England was hit during World War II. Do we ever hear, read of the English Holocaust? No.

Now, I'm not trying to sell myself as a "Holocaust Denier," for indeed there was a Holocaust. I call it World War II, which was carried on against the Japanese, the Germans, the Italians, against Czechoslovakia, other Slavic countries, England and of course against the US. Everyone suffered. But we do not hear or read about the suffering of these groups.

In many instances in this book, Goebbels is in close touch with Hitler, or with him. Now, by March of 1941, in this diary, up to March 1941, when the camps were very much in existence, there is no mention of the camps, nor of gassing or getting rid of Jews, EXCEPT many mentions that they must leave the country. That doesn't sound like the Holocaust, details of which we are inundated with every day.

Here is one of Goebbels' statements about the Jews:

Vienna will soon be entirely Jew-free (judenrein). And now it is to be Berlin's turn. I am already discussing the question with the Fuehrer and with Dr. Frank. He puts the Jews to work, and they are indeed obedient. Later they will have to get out of Europe altogether. (G.P. Putnam & Sons, NY, Page 272, March, 1941).

Now, this does not at all sound like the fiends and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Yes, they didn't want the Jews in Germany. Yes, they hated them. BUT, Goebbels mentions that they must be sent out of Europe many times in this book. Certainly I have not done enough reading nor do I have any proof - but this small segment of the book does show that in March of 1941 - in his daily written diary, Goebbels, close to Hitler, seems to know nothing of camps where Jews primarily were gassed. And this was his private diary, written as it happened. If there were camps where the Jews were being murdered, not dying of disease or anything other natural death, then, surely these facts would be mentioned. He mentions everything, even his tiredness at night, and some very important moments during WWII.

There were many horrible, indecent prison camps, including those with torture, even here in the US, during World War II. Just why we must hear only of one ethnic group constantly, who choose to expose suffering of only themselves, doesn't meet the eye.

Carol Rae Bradford

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