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War & politics: Sept 11th, bin Laden, Middle East news, from my own perspective.

26 March 2003   

 

The Clash: Safe European Home

weird googles.jpg Another song that goes through my mind at the moment. Is it so safe? (The song's about the yardies in Jamaica giving Strummer and his public school chums a tough time.) And the martian reference, which I forgot, doesn't the IraqI war coverage look like the set of a B movie martian film?

"Well, I just got back an' I wish I never leave now,
Who dat martian arrival at the airport?,
How many local dollars for a local anaesthetic?,
The johnny on the corner was a very sympathetic.

I went to the place where every white face is an invitation to robbery,
An' sitting here in my safe European home,
I don't wanna go back there again. "


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IMRA: Friday Sermon on Palestinian Authority Television

life is sweet.jpg ""Oh, people of Palestine, Oh, people of Iraq. The Crusader, Zionist America has started an attack against our Iraq, the Iraq of Islam and Arabism, the Iraq of civilization and history. It opened a Crusader Zionist war against Iraq. If Iraq is defeated, if the nation [of Islam] is defeated in Iraq - this will be our last breath of life... "

It gets worse! This is the stuff that sends shivers down my spine. It's being taught in every school in every Arab country.

"America will be destroyed, Allah willing, and Palestine, Iraq, and the Middle East will become a cemetery for oppressors..."

Watch and read such gems of thought: The "Life Is Sweet" Show: With the Family of Said Al-Khotari, the Suicide Bomber Who Blew Himself Up Outside the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, and Other Guests. From April 24, 2002 (Aired from Jordan). Such TV shows remind me of cosy Sunday evenings when I was a teenager, watching Songs of Praise, wishing there was something else on. Now with 100 channels on my TV, I still don't see the world for what it is. Lucky, I have the internet? Or, better I didn't know?

It is these teachings that we must stop or else this war on terrorism will never stop.

For days I've been humming to myself this song Killing an Arab by the Cure from 1979. I have no idea of the motives of the writer at that time, I guess there's some dichotomy. But this religious shit is getting to me.

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standing on a beach,
 with a gun in my hand,
 staring at the sea,
 staring at the sand,
 staring down the barrel,
 at the arab on the ground,
 I see his open mouth,
 but I hear no sound,

i'm alive,
 and dead,
 and the stranger,
 killing an arab.


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