Mr Bagel: Palspeak

Monday, 21 May 2007

The Israeli airstrikes have destroyed a 6-month-old truce...
A.P. starts the Spin Again

By DALE GAVLAK, Associated Press Writer Sun May 20

SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan - Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Sunday his government would offer a counterproposal to an Arab peace initiative to resolve the conflict with Palestinians.

He urged Arab leaders to meet with Israel to hash out the issue.

Describe the Arab peace Plan as an Initiative, the Israeli one as a 'counter proposal', some would say thats an example of loaded language.

Arab countries have been trying to re-ignite the stalled peace process with their plan that offers Israel full recognition in exchange for a total withdrawal from lands it captured in the 1967 Middle East war and the creation of a Palestinian state.

Re-ignite the peace process? By lighting and firing hundreds of qassam rockets into Israel?

"The Arab League has proposed, fine. We will make a counterproposal," Peres said during heated discussions that included Moussa and Saeb Erekat, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at the World Economic Forum in Jordan.He did not elaborate on the counteroffer or say when it would be proposed.

Shock, horror, an A.P. journalist isn't included or privy to Israel's peace proposal...

Peres‘ offer coincided with a new outburst of violence in the Gaza Strip over the past week with a combination of Palestinian factional fighting and Israeli airstrikes on the Islamic militant group Hamas that has killed scores of Palestinians. The airstrikes, in reprisal for Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, have destroyed a 6-month-old truce between Israel and the Palestinians.

"...and Israeli airstrikes on the Islamic militant group Hamas that has killed scores of Palestinians",... gee that kind of makes it sound like the scores of killed Palestinians are Israel's fault. It would be more accurate to state the fact that the warring Palestinian factions are responsible for the more deaths than the Israeli airstrikes by a factor of over ten.

But the proposal has remained grounded with the Palestinian infighting in Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert‘s domestic problems after his handling of a summer war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon was sharply criticized. "If there is a counteroffer and a reasonable one, then we‘re all in business," he said.

...bit of padding here, to bulk up a rather poorly written puff piece.

"Mr. Peres, our negotiations have finished. ... Today, it‘s time for decisions," Erekat said. "Stop the bombardment of Gaza immediately and restart the truce between us immediately. We are willing to engage now in sustaining the cease-fire."

Stop the bombardment of Gaza? Why is it that when your busy Bombarding Israel cities such as Sderot we never here you say 'stop the bombardment', but as soon as you happen to eventually get return fire, you scream stop the bombardment? Why are you willing to engage now in sustaining the cease-fire?

You've had over six months to stop the continual barrage of rockets being fired apon Israel. The Palestinians have broken the cease fire so many times its beyond a joke. Tell me Erekat, exactly how many of the hundreds upon hundreds or rockets fired apon Israel have you tried to stop? How many Terrorist did you manage to catch? How many rockets have you seized? but now you want the return fire to stop?

"When I see what is going on in the occupied territories, and what is being said by other officials I really find myself at a loss," he said. "Who is speaking for the state of Israel?"

A better question would be, who is acting to stop the continual barrage of rockets from Gaza into Israel? We're supposed to believe you want peace but you can't even enforce a cease fire?!!

In Jerusalem, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev declined to comment because he had not heard Peres‘ proposal. Even though Israel sees the Arab initiative as "very positive," he predicted it would remain grounded.

More puff to try to infer the Israeli's dont want peace. Its not they dont want peace, they want it on fair and Just terms.

"Israel has no interest in stagnation and unfortunately, if the Arab initiative is take it or leave it, that will be a recipe for stagnation," Regev said.

Your offer is unacceptable, stop acting like the school bully demanding and making unreasonable requests. Show some level of compromise and Israel will reciprocate.

Peres adviser Yoram Dori also would not give details on the counterproposal or a timetable for its submission to the Arab League and Saudi Arabia.

Not suprising considering you're from the AP? I have a funny feeling Israel doesn't see AP as an essential element in peace negotiations.

"Our government, our Cabinet will discuss it, and we will submit our proposal to the Arab League and to the Saudis," he said.

and not to A.P. first... no surprise there.

Yes the Palestinians are very ready and willing to trade pieces as part of the piece process.

Erekat urged Israel to "solve the thorny issues" including the future status of Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories. If Israel doesn‘t cooperate, he warned the region would be doomed.

Which put another way is: Agree to the demands of the Arab states, or will will try to destroy your very existance.

"If we leave things to conflicts and wars and settling differences by bombardments and wars we will go into the 21st century in the vehicles of darkness and extremism," he said.

Yes, and unfortunately this describes Hamas in Palestine very well.

DALE GAVLAK: You should be ashamed at the facade you called Journalism.

References:
USA Today: Israel to offer counterproposal to Arab peace initiative, Peres says

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Sunday, 20 May 2007

What if? Examining a case scenario, its implications for Israel, the Middle East and World

Some thing happen a few days ago. In the ups and downs of the continual blood lust between Hamas and Fatah, it was buried. It could have and probably still will have major implications on at least a Middle East level.

YNet reported a few days ago:

Abbas cancels Gaza trip over assassination plot

Senior security official says visit cancelled following discovery of tunnel full of explosives placed by gunmen to blow up Palestinian president's convoy

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas canceled a trip to Gaza on Thursday after it was discovered that Hamas gunmen planned to blow up his convoy, a senior security official said.

"Abu Mazen's (Abbas's) visit to Gaza was canceled after the discovery of a tunnel under Salaheddine Road full of explosives placed by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigads to blow up (Abbas's) convoy," said the official.

"The explosives were found on the route that Abu Mazen takes to travel to Gaza," the source added.

An official in Abbas's office confirmed the report.

Dozens of Hamas and Fatah members have been killed in the past few days in heavy clashes. The tensions between the two factions were interrupted by a series of IDF air strikes in response to the firing of Qassam rockets at the cities of Sderot and Ashkelon.

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This is a major escalation in the conflict between the waring factions. It can't be ignored that it was a planned assassination attempt against Mahmoud Abbas, utilizing the very dialogue process which is supposed to stop the waring factions from fighting each other.

There's no doubt this is going to have serious implications in any future dialogue between Abbas's Fatah Party and Hamas.

The question is raised how could you trust Hamas to be at the table when they appear to have been scheming the assassination of Abbas. This will be an impediment to any agreement the Palestinians can reach with regards to the current fighting between the waring factions.

There's also another component of this which I have yet to see have any analysis.

Just imagine for one moment that the assassination attempt against Abbas had been successful?

That's a case scenario that would have had implications for both Fatah, Hamas, the Middle East and Israel within minutes of it happening.

Imagine the power vacuum that would exist if Abbas was eliminated. In the short term there would be a severe escalation in inter factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah.

Many questions are raised. Would it be the trigger to a full out civil war in the Palestinian territories? If so who has the most to gain? Fatah? Israel? the US? Iran? Hamas?

There's been some speculation that there may have been an order from Khalid Mashaal.

I would like to speculate, that it could have come from even further. Could it be that this was a strategy of Iran? Iran desperately wants to keep the focus on this area of the Middle East and Iraq. A civil war, with the resultant power shirt to Hamas would serve Iran's purposes extremely well. It would lesson the chances of any foreseeable air strike on Iran in the short to medium future.

It would open up a much needed second front against Iran's number one foe Israel.

I believe Iran and Khalid Mashaal have plotted scenario's of what would happen upon the demise of Abbas, and unfortunately for Western Powers, it would in my eyes result in a major shift of power.

Fatah would be an organization with out a command, ineffective, unable to respond to internal threats. The discord that would result internally for Fatah would present the perfect opportunity to Hamas to once and for all eliminate the threat Fatah poses.

There has been a continual power struggle between Hamas and Fatah ever since Hamas won the Palestinian election.

Western powers are forced into having to prefer the better of two evils. Hamas knows that there is a power shift happening. It knows that it can only for so long hold onto power before the populace starts to resent the lack of foreign aid. Fatah has started to make some serious inroads into the hold of Hamas on power, Haniyeh knows time is starting to run out.

There's no doubt that there would be serious implications for the Palestinian State if Abbas had been/was assassinated. The power vacuum I believe that would result would inevitably erupt in a civil war. The loser would be Fatah, with Israel facing a hardened and more entrenched Hamas, who post civil war, would be a very blood thirsty enemy indeed against Israel.

It doesn't bode well, its an ominous sign in the Palestinian landscape, and what ever happens this will end up being a turning point in Palestinian Politics and a serious escalation in Israel's war against terrorism.

That's my two cents. Mr Bagel.

Reference:
AFP: Published: 05.17.07, 21:58 / Ynet News

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Sunday, 19 November 2006

What's in a name? Palspeak 101

From the moment we are born, things get labeled. It's a boy, It's a girl. Very soon, we, as beings, are named. Through our formative years we told, good ,good, bad, yes,no. Our very beings are shaped with and by our reactions to the meanings and interpretations of words.

Language is all powerful. Ever since that leap in cognitive ability from monotonal ugh, which husbands are sometimes known to still use to the enriched variants of ugh ugh, people have communicated their thoughts, feelings and aspirations.

The utter complexity of communication and all its nuances both visual, kinestical and variants is beyond this post, but to be sure for each different way of subtlety communicating their is at least a 100 fold ways of mis interpreting.

This post is less about communicating and more about mis communication.

One of the fundamental basics of communication is that at least two people must have a universal understanding or a basis of common meaning.

From this we develop 'nuanced' meanings. These are meanings which superficially are not immediately apparent.

Our whole language contains 'nuanced' meaning, this meaning adapts and changes as fashions, life situations change.

Have your ever gone to use a word and then thought, mm that's not quite what I want to say? Well a lot of that is the 'nuances' that come with each word and with collections' of words.

George Orwell brought into common parlance the expression 'Newspeak', ' doublethink'. [REF]

I would would like to bring your attention to another form of speak. Its been around for many many years, but just lately it seems to have been picked up as the new Esperanto of the Anti Semitic world it's called ' Pal speak' it seems to have been heavily influenced by another relatively new arrival 'Hezspeak' and to a far lesser degree by PC speak.

Characteristics of 'Palspeak':

Double meaning

Triple intent

I present the developing dictionary of

Palspeak

I welcome additions, or editorial discussions on the nuances of certain words and their associations.

Palspeak: A Dictionary that is by its very definition, changing

The Palestinians have really been working the 'palspeak'

A:

Activist: - A terrorist was a militant now they're an activist.

Americans: People who are big Satanists who support little Satanists

and 24 Civilian casualties: - If you are even within ear shot of a Israeli operation, you are able to claim 'shock' as an injury and therefore artificially inflate casualties.

B:

Bomb: An incorrect term used to express the name of a gift given to Intellectually Challenged individuals utilized by Hamas.

C:

Charity Center: - A Hamas Terrorist Operations room that is targeted by the IDF.

Civilian Casualties: -
[1] People who when encouraged to, are stupid enough to stand next to a Palestinian gunman firing at the IDF.

[2] Militants who have dropped their gun and now are masquerading as civilians

[3] Unknown categorization of casualty , hence forth as default referred to as a civilian

Casualty Breakdowns: When 51 out of 100 civilians are casualties they're mostly civilians.[even if there's is no acknowledgement of militant casualty figures, and the source that describes who is a militant and who is a civilian is questionable.[See Lebanon casualty break up].
-When there's 9 civilians and one IDF soldier casualties they are called Israel casualties including Defense forces.
-When there women who are obeying military orders and enabling the escape of Terrorists they are ' protesting civilians'

Cooking Accident: - If you receive horrific burns from an accident making explosives, say you did it cooking, don't forget to come back 12 months later to kill the Israeli doctors who saved you're life.

Crude Home Made Rockets: - [1] Rockets which don't nearly hurt as much when your dead.

[2] Tp Minimise the effect[in the media] on Israel's population, we call them Crude Home Made Rockets.

D:

Denied access to needed Psychiatric services: - Suicide bomber intercepted before setting off Suicide bomb.

E:

F:

G:

Geneva Convention: - An international convention on the treatment of civilians and armed forces, ostensibly used to protect military activities by the Palestinians, by continually breaking the convention,using it to shelter military actions, but quickly pointing out when Israel may have contravened the convention.

Greenhouses: A project sponsored by American Jewry where Palestinians are reclaiming large tracts of former lush green houses and turning them into deserts.

H:

Homemade rockets: - see Crude Home Made Rockets

Honor Killing: - An unfathomable traditional law that mans that a Female Family member is murdered.

Hostage Negotiations: - More akin to ransom demands after kidnapping an Israeli

Held up in Mosque: - Instead of saying illegally using a religious structure to shelter from the IDF, you refer to it as Held up in Mosque. (Pinned down is acceptable)

Held up in Church: - See above, except defecate on floor and hostages can be killed

I:

Injustice: Suicide bomber caught Before they set bomb off, unreasonably expected to serve jail sentence for attempt.

IOF: - Israel Occupation Forces. [Known in Israel as the IDF,] I personally love this one, straight away put the Jews in the 'bad' category then its a matter of just ' how bad'.

Israeli Military target: -Anything or anyone in Israel, especially buses and shopping centers.

Israeli Soldiers: - Jewish Civilians. All Jews over the age of 18 are military as they have done ' National Service' and therefore are either in the Army or just about to be called up.

J:

Jewish Death: unimportant yet strived for eventuality

K:

Kassams: - Palestinian Rockets which due to their absence of any real targeting system are used to reign terror upon Jews(and Arabs) living in Israel.

L:

M:

Martyr: -[1] Member of a Palestinian family clan who has actually been murdered by the clan feuds that prevail in the Palestinian Territories, then misrepresented as an IDF casualty.

[2] See Post Injustice.

Metal Workshop: - Kassam Rocket factory

Mosque: - A religious building used to store arms and hide militants.

Most were civilians:- When there is any doubt to the make up civilians to 'militants', Palspeak rule 101, is used.

If they're Palestinian they're civilians. If they're Israelis they're Soldiers

N:

O:

P:

Peace Activists: - Often confused for Israelis, unfortunately the standard test of sticking a knife in to them seems to miss one rather minor important point.

Peace process: - The procedure Palestinians use to get more territory whilst conceding nothing.

Prisoners: - The term used to justify the kidnapping of Israeli Soldiers who were clearly in Israel and were clearly fulfilling defensive roles only. It is hoped by using this loaded word the World will see them as some how guilty.

Palestinian Moderate: - Any Palestinian who hasn't killed a Jew in the last 24 hours.

Peace talks: - Talks which Western Nations with little understanding for the real intentions of the Palestinians foist onto Israelis, they prove to be very advantageous to Arabs. They tend to provide a scope for getting our lost lands [See Settler] with no real commitment to peace. We generally make a temporary Hudna, until the ink on the treaty is dry and the Israelis have left, then we break the treaty by utilizing our 'un manageable' separate terrorist entities.

Protesting Women: -The use of human shields to stop Israel from keeping militants separated from civilians.

Q:

R:

Recruitment Drive: Putting Pressure on Israeli authorities to release Prisoners so they can come back as suicide bombers.

Refugee Status: - The Status A Palestinian Uses to justify receiving payments from the United nations 60 years after they started a war and then lost it.

Right of Return: - A Palestinian political strategy to get leverage on the Israel - Palestinian question. No Jews who were forced or chose to leave Arab countries have been compensated in any way. Nor have they been offered a ' right of return'. Yet Israel is expected by Palestinians to welcome the very people who are fighting to destroy Israel with open arms.

Red Crescent Ambulance: - These are emergency vehicles which are used for transporting suicide bombs and Palestinian militants transporting patients which the 'IOF ruthlessly targets'.

Resident: -A militant who is busy trying to kill Jews, is referred to as a 'resident' of 'Blah Blah'.

S:

Secondary Explosion: - Amazing Physical phenomena where a Targeted car, truck, building that wasn't being used to store bombs or munitions seems to keep exploding over a period of time.

Settler: - An Israeli who dares live in an area which is currently being targeted for absorption back into the Pre 1967 borders, when the Arab countries attacked Israel. If the Arabs had achieved their objective of driving the Jews into the sea, then the world would have never heard any more about it. But because they lost and forfeited terroritories due to their expansionistic and genocidal plans they now want that terroritory handed back to them.

Shahid: - Any one with the lack of Mental dexterity to actually doubt they will get 72 virgins when they blow themselves up into smithereens.
T:

U:
Unforeseen Domestic Accident: What happens when you store high explosives and munitions under your bed.

UN: - A rather ineffectual organization that is known to bring almost half its resolutions, sponsored by Arab countries, against Israel whilst simultaneously ignoring real countries experiencing genocide.

UN Resolution 1701: - A resolution created to bring about a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.

V:

Violence towards Women: - See Normal Palestinian Marriage

W:

Women Protestors: - If you're directed to march into battle to create confusion when Israel has successfully separated Militants from Civilians, make sure you're called this. Dying is permitted especially in crossfire situations where all deaths will be attributed to Israel Forces. Don't forget to bring extra clothing so militants can escape.

Work Accident: -When a Palestinian blows themselves and their family members up, it's an IAF attack until it comes out they were building bombs then its a ' work accident'. (usually only comes out due to factional arguments.)

X:

Y:

Z:

Zionists:

Despite its traditional historical meaning this meaning has been subverted and now means any Jew who in any way thinks they have a right to live peacefully in the' State of Israel '.