اليوم أكفر بالعروبة

هذا ليس شعراً منظوماً أو نثراً منفولاً

هذا ما يسمى في الأدب... غضب

السعودية تتبرع بمليار ونصف للبنان

الكويت تودع نصف مليار دولار للبنان

الأردن يرسل مستشفى ميدانياً للبنان

الإمارات ترسل قافلة سيارات إسعاف للبنان

تونس تعلن الحداد ثلاثة أيام على أرواح أبرياء قانا في لبنان

والحبل جرار

لبنان وفلسطين، يا توأم الرجولة والعزة والصمود، لكما الله ونفسيكما

عندكما تنتهي الرجولة والشرف بورك لكما فيهما

من همّه بعد اليوم أن يُنعت حريصاً على شرفه عربياً مسلماً فليرفع إحدى الرايتين لا سواهما

اليوم تكسرت باقي الرايات

اليوم باتت تلك الرايات وسمة خذلان وعجزٍ وعار

اليوم تغرز باقي الرايات في التراب كرؤوس النعام

من شاء أن يخرج منها راية فليطعن بها صهيونياً أو يطعن نفسه أشرف له

لبنان وفلسطين ليست بحاجة لأموالكم وعونكم

أنتم من بحاجة لأن تحموا شرفكم

لبنان وفلسطين لا يحزنهما نقص تبرعاتكم

ما يحزنهما حقاً فشلهما في إفهام الطلاب الفاشلين معنى أن يكون المرء رجلاً

أعلم يقيناً أن العرب في قرارة أنفسهم يبتهلون إلى الله بالدعاء

لا لأن ينصر الأبطال في فلسطين ولبنان

بل لأن يحرق النفط العربي كي لا يطالب الأشراف بقطعه

وأن يزلزل الأرض تحت الجيوش العربية كي لا يندد الأشراف بصمتها

وأن يكتشف الفلسطينيون واللبنانيون بقدرة قادر أنهم ليسوا عرباً فيكفوا عن إيذاء طبلة الأذن العربية بولولاتهم

اليوم أكفر بالعروبة... حتى إشعارٍ آخر

Mr. Bush, I'm sorry, but you are clinically RETARDED!

Mr. Bush says: "The Middle East is littered with agreements that just didn't work, ... And now is the time to address the root cause of the problem". Until this point I thought someone has hit Mr. on his head and that the guy has finally woke up to see clearly after ages of blindness. Then he goes: "and the root cause of the problem is terrorist groups trying to stop the advance of democracies"! Excuse me Mr. Bush but you are wrong on this. The root cause is the implanting of a Zionist virus in the Arab region. The root cause is the British and American support of the Zionist state for 58 years. The root cause is the control of the Zionist lobby on the American administration and economy. The root cause is the double-standardizing of the UN and its ignorance to the thousands of the Israeli violations to International law. The root cause is that America keeps sticking its nose in other nations' affairs. The root cause is that for America an oil barrel is more worthy than a Muslim human. The root cause is that America supports the corrupt governing regimes in different areas of the world to secure its own interests. Peace will never pervade the Middle East until it is cured from Zionism, or in other words until Israel disappears, and it will. Mr. Bush I've had it with your stupidity. Mr. Bush toooot you so much!

Look into My Eyes ... Very touching

Look into My Eyes - By Outlandish Try Not to Cry - By Sami Yusuf and Outlandish

Get Out of UN... Now!

Following the frustrating news runs me so crazy. Rome's conference is calling for an international force and a full implementation of the UN security council resolution 1559. Some one is stupid here, either me or all those attending the conference. Please correct me if I'm mistaken on this. How would a limited-power int'l force in southern Lebanon help the Lebanese and save them from Zionist fire? The only thing it will and is going to do would be to prevent Hezbollah resistance heroes from approaching the borderline. Israel will still be free-handed to shell whole of Lebanon from North to South via air, sea and land without any tiny resistance. Israelis won't leave it to the rest of the world to finish their job, and they won't hesitate attacking 10 UN officers if they are within a short distance from one of their targets. Someone may argue that having a UN representation their would help attesting the Israeli crimes by an Int'l body. Come on, no one is giving a damn (excuse my French) about the UN except us. Oh, and by the way as the world really cares about the Israeli casualties and intends to secure the Zionist settlers (yes I mean all Israelis) from Hizbullah's rockets, don't the Palestinians deserve the most such a treatment from the international community to save their lives from the Israeli blood-thirsty army?! This leads me to the 1559 resolution mockery. I'm not going to discuss it's content. All what concerns me here is the fact that it is the only UN resolution Lebanon hasn't implemented so far, while Israel has been the main threat to international law by breaking hundreds of the UN resolutions since 1946. The nice thing about UN resolutions is that they are numerically ordered, thus we should all have no problem urging Hezbollah to implement the 1559 resolution once the 1558 resolutions that preceded it get fully implemented. Isn't this fair? Otherwise the whole UN is useless and double-standardizing and we should be in no need as Arab and Muslim countries to stay as members in such a corrupt institution. I've just remembered another thing. I listened to Amr Mousa's press conference in which he stated: "We all -the Arab foreign ministers- agreed unanimously that the peace process is dead"! There must be something wrong here. It's either Amr Mousa is not saying the truth about what happened in their meeting, or it's the Jordanian and Egyptian FMs who do not understand what it means to say "The peace process is dead". It is dead, deeeeeead! Israel is not our friend anymore, can't you understand you two *******s?!

Ok, now I'm ashamed of myself!

I realized today morning that there was an ignored email in my inbox advertising Amman Summer Festival. I wished that the festival organizers decided to cancel the event or at least modify it to show some solidarity with the Palestinians and the Lebanese. Few minutes ago I got shocked -or probably I shouldn't- when I watched the videos of the festival posted in Jad's blog. It wasn't the bands on the stage that shocked me, but rather the enthusiastic audience. What kind of insensitivity and apathy is this?! Now I fully believe the good guy who made the effort to answer my question: "Why is it only now that Jerish Festival organizers decided to cancel its events -due to the situation in Lebanon as they stated-?" It had nothing to do with Jordan or with the Jordanian organizers. It was the Lebanese and Syrian singers and artists who refused to sing in Jordan with their Families weep in Lebanon. It seems Amman Festival's organizers took all the needed precautions by making it a solely Jordanian festival and avoiding the invitation of Lebanese, Palestinian or Syrian artists. I was watching the films and I thanked God zillion times that I wasn't attended by anyone else. Otherwise I would have become speechless if I were asked on what Jordanians were celebrating! To add to my pain, I came across another even more frustrating peace of news today. My x-university, the University of Jordan, has been involved in research collaboration with the bloody Zionists at least since 2004, and not with any organisation but the worst of all, the Jewish National Fund (JNF). JNF is the main Jewish funding source for the Israeli brutal, racist, illegal, inhuman, criminal policy in Palestine. Its crimes are countless, just a small sample of these were complied by the Palestine remembered team. I wish I wasn't born to see the day in which my Jordanian university is shaking hands with the butcher while the UK's largest union of university teachers (NATFHE) are adopting a policy to boycott all the Israeli academic institutions. Will I see a demonstration in JU calling for the boycott of research with Israeli institutions? Never! Today I am full of shame and disgrace. Until further notice, if anyone asks me: where is Jordan? I'm going to say it is just at the northern edge of Antarctica. Aren't you Arabs in Jordan? Oh no no, we are Arams, you know, it's just a common mishearing. I thought you are Muslims, aren't you? What?! Muslims! In Jordan?! No way, I think you are mixing with another country. In Jordan we are still working on our own religion, it may need few more decades to see the light but I assure you it's gonna be amazing, crashing, wicked!

(Photo courtesy of Naharnet)

Jordanians, for God sake, stop making fun of yourselves!

Petra News Agency, 24 July 2006:

الطفيلة/24 تموز/ بترا/نظم اتحاد الطلبة بجامعة الطفيلة التقنية اليوم مسيرة طلابية حاشدة يتقدمها رئيس الجامعة الدكتور سلطان أبو عرابي بمشاركة الطلبة والهيئات الإدارية والتدريسية بالجامعة استنكارا للهجمة الشرسة الحاقدة التي تشنها إسرائيل على الشعبين الفلسطيني واللبناني. ورفع المشاركون في المسيرة الإعلام الأردنية وصور جلالة الملك وجابت طرقات الجامعة وكلياتها منددة بالهجمات المتواصلة التي يشنها العدوان الإسرائيلي على القرى والمدن العربية في فلسطين ولبنان.

Petra News Agency, 21 July 2006:

عمان 21 تموز/بترا/ انطلقت بعد صلاة اليوم الجمعة من امام المسجد الحسيني الكبيرمسيرة تضامن مع الشعبين الشقيقين الفلسطيني واللبناني استنكارا للعدوان الاسرائيلي الغاشمعلى اراضيهما وتدمير المدن والقرى وقتل المدنيين الابرياء الى ساحة امانة عمان الكبرى .ورفع المشاركون في المسيرة صور جلالة الملك والاعلام الاردنية ويافطات نددت بالعدوان الاسرائيليين الاثم على لبنان وفلسطين .وشارك الاف من الاردنيين في المسيرة وفعاليات نقابية وحزبية وشعبية . وكان حزب جبهة العمل الاسلامي حصل على موافقة محافظ العاصمة الدكتور سعد الوادي المناصير على تنظيم المسيرة.

Petra News Agency, 21 July 2006:

جرش/21تموز/بترا/انطلقت بعد صلاة الجمعة من المسجد الهاشمي في مدينة جرش مسيرة شعبية عبرت خلالها الفعاليات الشعبية والحزبية والنقابية عن مشاعر الغضب والاستنكار للعدوان الاسرائلي الغاشم على الشعبين اللبناني والفلسطيني وما يتعرض له الشعبان من قتل للابرياء وتدمير للبنية التحتية .ورفع المشاركون في المسيرة التي جابت شوارع جرش باتجاه الملعب البلدي الاعلام الاردنية وصور جلالة الملك عبدالله الثاني ولافتات حملت شعارات الشجب والاستنكار معربين عن تضامنهم مع ابناء الشعبين الشقيقين ومشيدين بالوقفة الاردنية الهاشمية والمساعي التي يبذلها جلالة الملك لوقف العدوان والمساعدات التي يقدمها الاردن للتخفيف من محنة الشعبين الشقيقين .واعقب المسيرة مهرجان خطابي القيت فيه كلمات معبرة عن وقوف ابناء الشعب الاردني الى جانب اشقائهم في مواجهة العدوان الغاشم. وكانت الفعاليات الشعبية حصلت على موافقة لاقامة هذه المسيرة من محافظ جرش محمد الرواشدة

Petra News Agency, 21 July 2006:

اربد/21 تموز/بترا/انطلقت مسيرة من امام مسجد اربد الكبير اليوم شاركت فيها فعاليات حزبية ونقابية للتنديد بالعدوان الاسرائيلي على الشعبين اللبناني والفلسطيني.ورفع المشاركون الذين تجاوز عددهم الالفين صور جلالة الملك عبدالله الثاني والاعلام الاردنية ويافطات تندد بالعدوان الاسرائيلي الغاشم على لبنان وفلسطين والذي استهدف المدنيين الابرياء والبنية التحتية فيهما .وحصلت الفعاليات المنظمة للمسيرة على موافقة المحافظ.

Are you sure that Jordanians know what is going on this earth?! Has anyone lied and told them it is Jordan or the king that is under attack? For God sake, if you do not know how to demonstrate or if you are doing it for some agenda other than supporting the Palestinians and the Lebanese then please stop making fun of yourselves and stay at home watching Aljazeera; try to learn from the Lebanese and the Palestinian resistance how a nation would defend their honor, or at least you can learn how to demonstrate and mobilise properly!

Neither the Palestinians nor the Lebanese want us to raise the Jordanian flag or the king's picture at this critical time. They want to feel that there are not alone; they want to see our support to their heroic resistance and our condemnation to the Israeli attacks on innocent civilians. I'm afraid they were mistaken when they expected that it was so obvious that the whole Arab and Muslim nation were backing them.

The Palestinians and the Lebanese want us to put pressure on our own governments. The minimum that our governments can do is to cut their diplomatic relations with both Israel and USA (Yes the Americans are now directly involved in the military operation on Lebanon by stepping up the delivery of special bombs to be used exclusively in Lebanon, not to forget that most of the Israeli military arsenal that has been killing the Palestinians for 58 years was provided freely by the USA).

Both the Palestinians and the Lebanese believe that they are all equal, and that if any of them get imprisoned no one will take a rest until they free their prisoners no matter how much it may cost them. These are not slogans or hot words for a manifesto but rather a pledge that has been engraved in stone by blood. This reminds me with the Three Musketeers' motto "One for all, and all for one", a statement of solidarity that is very well established in the Palestinian and Lebanese Consciousness. Free Palestinians decided they are not better than their heroes in Israeli prisons, thus they accepted to undergo the struggle to free them. The Lebanese decided they are not better than their prisoners or the Palestinians so the FREE Lebanese engaged in the fight to free their prisoners and the Palestinians'. I'm afraid the chain ends here as for the rest of the world -including us as Jordanians- they still think of themselves to be superior to the Palestinians and the Lebanese.

Forget the Palestinians and the Lebanese. In Jordan we don't even give our own prisoners in Israel a s*** -excuse my French-! I even have the doubt that one of the shameful peace agreement secretive clauses was to forget about those prisoners considering they are criminals from an Israeli perspective. If you think that we have the right as normal Jordanians to live in freedom and welfare when those who fought for our freedom and welfare -and honor- are still imprisoned then let me tell you that there is still a lot that we need to learn about honor, dignity and the definition of a MAN.

You know what? I'm not going to talk anymore. Let this photo say it all instead (ans excuse me if I was a bit harsh):

Brain Teaser

These are just quick thoughts that have just come across my mind. I still seek answers for them: 1. Why do the Arab people resent their governments for what is going on in Lebanon these days. What else can governments do? 2. Other than giving donations to the Palestinians and Lebanese, what else can Jordanians do?

3. Palestinians have been suffering from continuous and consistent killing, destruction and torture for ages and in particular after Al-Aqsa Intifada started, and Gaza has been under intensive fire for one month now. Why is it only now that Jerish Festival organisers decided to cancel its events -due to the situation in Lebanon as they stated-?

4. Yesterday I was in the anti-Israel demonstration in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon in London . It was so weird that no one was holding the British flag or any placard with a photo for Queen Elizabeth. Don't you agree it is?! (Images courtesy of Petra and saveleb.org) 5. I do miss the rallies and demos in UJ (University of Jordan). Has anyone got any pics for last week's one? I hope no casualties took place this time and that the security forces didn't use expired tear-gas grenades there -or something that was made in Israel-! I'm still seeking the answers. Can you help?