........hayatını saf vicdanın, saf adaletin peşine salmış tuhaf insanlara akıl erdirebildiğimizde, insanın yepyeni, olağanüstü bir tanımını yapabileceğiz. O tanıma yakışacağız.

Yildirim Turker (Radikal, 03.03.2008)

TANRI'NIN GÖZYAŞLARI

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Boynu bükük buğday başakları
Bu çorak toprak, bu susuzluk
Tanrı'nın kuruyan gözyaşları

Bir büyük gözaltı hayatımız
Ölü çocuklar coğrafyasında
Kayıplar destanı hikayemiz
Melekler anaların dilsiz yasında

Bebeler ergen doğuyor
Ninniler kahramanlık masalları
Yaşayan bu kanlı haritada
Taşırken iki büklüm onca yası

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SEZEN AKSU





Savaş propagandası yaparken az biraz saygılı, edepli olun!!
Gidenlerin anaları, babaları, yakınları var.
Savaş makinesi değil; insan yavrusu, ANA kuzusu onlar.

PERIHAN MAGDEN (26 Subat, Radikal)

Doktor Habas'in ardindan

George Habaş ölmeden yaklaşık 2 hafta önce Filistin'in yeni başbakanı Salam Fayyad'ı dinlemeye gittim. Ekonomik gelişme ve kalkinma odakli konusmasinda Fayyad guvenlikle ilgili sorulara cevap vermekten ozellikle kacindi. Arafat'in olumunden sonra goreve gelen Abbas yaptigi atamalarla gerginlik yaratan taraf olmak istemedigini en acik sekilde ortaya koydu. Fayyad'in atamasi artik adim atma sirasinin Israil'de oldugunu gosterir mi bilmiyorum. Fakat emin oldugum bir sey var; Arafat ve Habas gibi isimlerin tarih sahnesinden cekilmeleri ile birlikte Filistin yonetiminde kisiler degil yonetim anlayisi da degisiyor. Misyonlarini tamamlayip ayrilanlarin arkasindan gelenler gerillalardan cok burokratlar. Silahin degil ekonominin dilini daha cok kullaniyorlar. Ama yine de bagimsiz Filistin devleti kuruldugunda ilk hatirlanmasi gerekenler Ebu-Ammar ve El-Hakim.

I had listened the newly appointed Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad at about two weeks before George Habash passed away. By focusing on economy and development, Fayyad spent less time for the questions on security. Coming to the power after Arafat, Abbas, with his appointments, proved that he does not want to escalate the tensions in the region. I am not sure on whether the appointment of Fayyad reveals it's Israel's turn to take the new step. But I am a hundred percent sure that after the leaders like Arafat and Habash, not only peoples but also logic of governance in Palestine is in transformation. The ones who came after Arafat and Habash are more bureaucrats than guerillas. They use the language of economy not the language of arms. However, Ebu Ammar and El-Hakim are the number one figures that we need to remember after the establishment of independent Palestine.

Today, we had a small (but not confidential) meeting with an Israeli diplomat in GWU which aimed to discuss Israeli policy in the Middle East. After hearing the meeting, I got excited as it's a good opportunity to learn Israeli point of view from the first hand source. As it can be predicted, the meeting automatically turned a platform on which Israel's policy towards Palestine is discussed.

According to my inferences; shortly; security, land for peace, Hamas, removing some of the Jewish settlements were the key words of his speech. It can be said that these keywords are relevant for all discussions on Arab-Israeli conflict. However, the "deployment" of these words have deterministic effect in providing clues for us to understand the perspectives of discussants, authorities and all the other actors who more or less take part in this conflict.

If Hamas attacks on Israeli towns are responded by heavy air raids which kill innocent Palestinians as well as the Hamas members, we should question the implementation of collective punishment policy of Israel with the same tone that we use when we condemn Hamas attacks.

If Israel desires a real peace in the region, it should realise that respect for territorial integrity of independent countries is one of the "sine quo non"s of peace. Moving from this fact, Israeli decision makers may ask themselves " WHY DID ISRAELI AIR FORCES FLY OVER SYRIA WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION IN 2007?"

Take the policy of the "removing the Jewish settlements" from Gaza and West Bank. If Israel wants to sit at the peace table with Palestinians, it should withdraw from the idea that removal of the Jewish settlements is Sharon's gift to Palestinians. NO! It's a small portion of Israel's requirements before sitting at the peace table ! So, please stop setting inferiority-superiority relation over this requirement! And stop presenting the responsibilities as gifts!

I don't know whether Israel does it consciously but bombing Gaza and killing innocent people after Qassam rocket attacks enlarge the way of radicalization in the region. Radicalization, high level of threat perception, heavy air raids, suicide bombings, societal fear.... How can I define the death circle in Arab-Israeli conflict more accurately?!!

Kivanc

addios Fidel

Fidel'in Gelisi Gidisi

fidel cok insan bir dev
agarmis saclari sakallariyla karli bir dag
gozlerinde gulec kardelenler aciyor
sesi titremeyen bir ses
umudun sesi

demirele turkiyeyi ovmusuz
mesut beyi de adam yerine koymusuz
bu laf kitliginda asmalar budamiyor fidel

son konusmasinda
yukari yarim kurenin asagi yarim kureyi ezmesine
kuresellesme dendigini bildirdi

sade konut monut davasi ilede yetinmedi
emperyalizm yuzunden insanligin altindan
topragin nasil kaybini anlatti.
sosyalizmin teslim olmadigini temsil etti.

hosgeldin fidel
gidisinlede bizi yine nahos cakallarla basbasa biraktin.

CAN YUCEL

Resim: www.leftbooks.com/ store/media/fidel.jpg

a sound that we have missed for a long time

Australian government said sorry to Aborigines after Australian people did. The picture is the combination of Aborigine and Australia flags.

"We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians," Australian PM, Kevin Rudd.

I do not know what Australian racists would think about their PM. But, humanity must be proud of him. Extremely "rational" decisions which are confined by national borders and ethnic identities do not involve the words like SORRY. The ones who internalize the idea that nationalism is constructed and politically artificial thing can break their chains as Rudd did.

Now, we should let Rudd's decison be the first fallen piece of domino stones!

The Muslim Brotherhood: Political Struggle and Disintegration

an article by Kivanc Ozcan

ABSTRACT

This article aims to examine the Muslim Brotherhood organization, which is founded by Hasan Al-Benna in 1928 in Egypt, in relation to its struggle with the Mubarak regime and to the disintegration of the organization itself. Today, in respect to its popular support and political achievements, the Muslim Brotherhood can be defined as the biggest mass opposition movement in Egypt.
First, the repression that the organization has been facing in recent years and the strategies that have been developed to respond to the authoritarian regime are going to be discussed in this article. In this context, political strategies of both the Mubarak regime and the organization are presented for a comparison.
Second, this article, in general, try to read the internal divisions within the organization and factors which led to these divisions. In particular, it seeks to explain the disintegration of the organization between radical, conservative and old guard, and moderate, pragmatic and young generation.
Third, debates, which are continued between the Brotherhood, the Mubarak regime and the West, over the concept of democracy, are taken into consideration under the subtitle Sincerity Tests. In this part, suspicions and main arguments of these actors towards each other are shortly given.