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Ayoon wa Azan (The Umma Is Missing)
Jihad Al Khazen Al-Hayat 2004/04/24
Did the reader notice how news of Palestine and Iraq have become one and the same?
An Israeli occupation of Palestine with the help of the United States.
An American occupation of Iraq with an Israeli incitement.
Killing and destruction here. Killing and destruction there.
American fighter helicopters above the Gaza Strip.
American fighter helicopters above Baghdad.
Financing the American occupation, here and there.
Rafah= Fallujah.
Ariel Sharon says: we have killed nine terrorists in Gaza.
An American military spokesman says: we have killed 17 terrorists in Fallujah.
(How did Sharon and the American spokesman know that the killed were terrorists, although they were killed by American weapons from afar?).
Women and children among the victims in Palestine.
Women and children among the victims in Iraq.
Houses destroyed here. Houses destroyed there.
In Palestine, women weeping over their martyrs.
In Iraq, women weeping over their men.
A doctor at Gaza Hospital says that all injuries are in the head and the stomach.
A doctor at Fallujah Hospital says that 165 of the victims are women and children.
Street demonstrations against Israel (and America) in Palestine.
Street demonstrations against America (and Israel) in Iraq.
The young generation of demonstrators in Palestine hates Israel more than the old generation did.
The young generation of demonstrators in Iraq hates America more than the old generation did.
There are suicide bombers in Palestine, which did not exist prior to the occupation.
There are suicide bombers in Iraq, which did not exist prior to the occupation.
Ariel Sharon kills children.
Abdulaziz Al Rantissi is a pediatrician.
George W. Bush thinks Sharon is a pediatrician.
Sharon accuses Syria and Iran of helping terrorists in the "territories."
Bush accuses Syria and Iran of helping "terrorists" in Iraq.
Sharon refuses to deal with a Palestinian Authority (PA), then asks it to protect the occupation.
Bush accuses Syria and Iran of helping "terrorists," and then asks them to help the occupation in resisting the Iraqi resistance.
The Israeli policy is in the hand of the gangs of Likudniks and extremists.
The American policy is in the hand of extremist Likudnik neo-conservatives.
Bush says that Sharon is a man of peace.
Sharon does not label himself as a man of peace… he rejects the accusation.
Bush says that Iran's possession of nuclear weapons is a threat on the security of the Middle East, and a deadly danger on Israel.
Sharon wrote Bush's speech.
Bush says that the world must thank Sharon for his decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
Sharon wrote this speech also, and sat down to receive congratulations.
(The state of the Nazi crime, the state of occupation and expansion, Israel, is the biggest danger on the security of the Middle East; and America is its partner in crime.)
Sharon accuses the parties PA of cooperating with the Islamic factions against the occupation.
An American leader in Iraq says that 40% of the Iraqi security forces that the Americans trained stayed aside; 40% left the service; and 20% joined the resistance in its confrontations with Americans. (In another news item, one out of ten members of the Iraqi security forces joined the resistance).
Palestinian traitors and collaborators with the Israeli occupation.
Iraqi traitors and collaborators with the American occupation.
Promises everywhere.
Occupation here. Occupation there.
American fighter helicopters here and there.
Killing and destruction.
Rafah= Fallujah.
Women weeping; wrapped in black.
An old widow flagellating herself.
She lost her son, and her grandson.
The Umma is missing.
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