Wed 16 Feb 2011
YouTube has a political channel in CitizenTube. Footage from protest that uploaded get curated in YouTube CitizenTube channel. Example of Egypt
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Mon 7 Feb 2011
A disturbing picture about what Egypt’s security forces do in demonstration
Posted by arully under HumanRight , Law&Ethics , PoliticsNo Comments
Beware, this were disturbing videos. User your own discretion!
I hope Egypt people can get what they want.
Fri 1 Oct 2010
Masalah simbol pada ICRC ternyata sudah selesai
Posted by arully under HumanRight , PoliticsNo Comments
Gara-gara ngeliat banyak yang mencari informasi lewat Google tentang simbol PMI dan Google mengirim ke situs ini, jadi iseng mencari-cari informasi mengenai permasalahan simbol ICRC kembali. Ternyata masalah ini sudah selesai.
Tue 17 Aug 2010
Kemerdekaan Indonesia tidak lepas dari bantuan dunia Arab
Posted by arully under HumanRight , Law&Ethics , Politics , Way of LifeNo Comments
Abis baca sejarah peran negara2 di timur tengah dalam kemerdekaan Indonesia!. Sangat menarik dan perlu!
Fri 30 Apr 2010
According to BBC, Belgium’s lower house has voted for anti-face veil hijab. The passed law in Belgium is on the contrary to European Union principle, as summarized in what Amnesty International said: it would “violate the rights to freedom of expression and religion of those women who wear the burqa or niqab as an expression of their identity and beliefs”.
BBC also has graphical explanation for various type of Headscarves.
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Obama and Israeli PM meet amid dispute
Posted by arully under HumanRight , Law&Ethics , Politics1 Comment
via Obama and Israeli PM meet amid dispute – Yahoo! News.
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went two hours overtime in an unusually low-profile meeting Tuesday at the White House in the midst of a serious dispute about settlement construction.
It is highly unusual for a visiting ally not to be seen with the president, either for photographs or statements, and the treatment seemed linked to a crisis marring relations between the two countries.
At issue is Israel’s announcement two weeks ago, as Vice President Joe Biden visited the country, that it will build 1,600 new apartments in east Jerusalem, the largely Arab section of the disputed holy city. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state and have delayed new U.S.-sponsored peace talks over what they say is an Israeli land grab.
Biden was visiting Jerusalem when Netanyahu’s government announced the major building plan. Netanyahu said he was unaware of the move, blaming low-level bureaucrats, but Biden condemned the step in a written statement and Clinton followed up with an angry phone call to the prime minister.
but
On Capitol Hill, Netanyahu received a warm public reception from Congress on Tuesday, with a top Democrat and Republican joining to praise a leader who has refused to back down in a disagreement the White House says threatens new peace talks.
The bipartisan welcome underscored the breadth of congressional support for Israel even when a U.S. president wants to keep his distance. And it pointed to the limited options, beyond verbal rebukes, that the Obama administration faces in pressuring the Jewish state.
We have an interesting comment below:
As an American I am totally confounded how Israel is supported as a champion for democracy. There is nothing democratic about.
In a democracy we do not have one road for Israelis and one road for Palestinians. That is not democracy that is aparthide.
In a democracy we have freedom of religion. We don’t say you have to be at least 50 years of age before you can enter a certain place of worship. We don’t call that democracy we call it religeous persecution.
In a democracy we do not kick people from their homes and then tell them they can never return. In the 1948 military operation thousands of civilians from present day Israel, afraid for their lives, fled to present day West Bank, never to be allowed to return to the homes where their families had lived peacefully for hundreds of years. We dont call that democracy that is called ethnic cleansing.
In a democracy we don’t erect checkpoints where Israelis are not stopped and Palestininas have to stop and get frisked. Thousands of Palestininas have to stop at 3 or 4 checkpoints on their way to work and again on their way home. The gates of many of the checkpoints are closed at night. Mothers have given birth and some have blead to death from complications of giving birth while their husbands begged to be let through so they can make it to the hospital. Basically your neighborhoods gate is closed at night and it is not opened even for medical emergencies. We don’t call that democracy that is aparthide, that is inhumane.
In a democracy we don’t bulldoze the homes of a criminal. We punish the person who has comitted the crime. We do not make homeless the innocent occupants of a home where one individual may have committed a crime. That is not democracy it is an attrocity.
(UPDATED) do you know that there is “New Law Requires the President to Report to Congress Periodically On Actions Taken By the Administration to Ensure Israel’s Military Advantage“?
Mon 21 Sep 2009
Hard core settler and their status in the World
Posted by arully under HumanRight , MediaNo Comments
When we read something like this coming from a people who belong to so called free democracy country:
A second principle states that independence for Israel will be achieved only by bringing Jews to the land “and the removal of all hostile elements from the land.”
Mishmeret Yesha, which stands for “Guardians of the Jews of Judea, Samaria and Gaza,” trains armed response teams in settlements to fight off Palestinian invaders, plants vines and olive trees around the West Bank to claim it for Jews and keep it away from Palestinians, and pushes the creation of jobs and development for Jews. It rejects working with or acknowledging any legitimacy to Palestinians.
“The Arabs have to understand that they can’t stay here,” asserted Israel Danziger, who runs the hard-line organization and rejects the word “Palestinian.” “There is no in-between possible.”
Mr. Danziger spoke as a dozen men in their 20s were training with M-16 automatic rifles in the settlement of Yitzhar. Most had served in the army, all were religiously observant and all rejected any legitimacy to the idea of being moved to make room for a Palestinian state.
then we call them civilized people.
But when peoples who are oppressed and chased away from their own land by the settler, asked for a true justice, a civilized media call them as terrorist.
NYT is brave enough to put a report with words like Jewish terror is not new
Mon 22 Jun 2009
The Great Firewall of Persia vs The Great Firewall of China
Posted by arully under HumanRight , IT , Media , Politics , Security1 Comment
According to WSJ.com’s article, in term of censorship Iran can do more by doing deep packet inspection compare to China.
But it is understandable as Iran’s Internet user is 23 million, compare to China’s 300 million strong. Because of China’s geography, China’s monitoring infrastructure is decentralized, compare to Iran’s centralized policy. Because of this policy, when Iran activated deep packet inspection to monitor traffics, users felt an access slow down especially after the June 2009 election.
Sat 16 May 2009
Macaroni was forbidden to bring to Gaza
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The Time has new report on Gaza condition. I’m speechless reading this report 
What kind of country that easily imprison and starve more than 1 million people in a tiny place called Gaza?
Israel’s list of goods allowed into Gaza is short — food, medicine, and recently, paper for schoolbooks. Its list of prohibited items is long, and sometimes bizarre. Macaroni was only recently removed from the forbidden list. Netanyahu is reportedly willing to let in more food, but as UNRWA’s Ging observes: “Bringing in immediate humanitarian aid isn’t enough. There’s no construction, no re-construction, no economy left in Gaza. You’re creating the conditions for more extremism.”
Thu 12 Mar 2009
You Can Critics US Gov, but not Israel
Posted by arully under HumanRight , Law&Ethics , Politics , StrategyNo Comments
Interesting quote from Andrew Sullivan article related about Freeman nomination as Director of National Intelligence Council:
Obama may bring change in many areas, but there is no possibility of change on the Israel-Palestine question. Having the kind of debate in America that they have in Israel, let alone Europe, on the way ahead in the Middle East is simply forbidden. Even if a president wants to have differing sources of advice on many questions, the Congress will prevent any actual, genuinely open debate on Israel. More to the point: the Obama peeps never defended Freeman. They were too scared. The fact that Obama blinked means no one else in Washington will ever dare to go through the hazing that Freeman endured. And so the chilling effect is as real as it is deliberate.
Salon.com also has an article reporting about this, but major news outlet muted.
(updated 090312) Washington Post editorial put blame on Freeman while the reader differ with that assessment
Recorded report from Al-Jazeera:
(updated 090313) NYT has a report about this
