44개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
혁명을 위해 뭘 할 건지
아무도 이야기하는 사람이 없는 것 같다.
그저 하루하루 살기 바쁜 사람들.
다 노동자라고 하고, 또 투쟁을 한다고 한다.
과연 그런가?
스무 고개를 넘는 일도 아니고
뭐가 그리 다른 할 일들이 많은지 모르겠다.
갈 곳은 뻔한데도 아직도 계속 엉뚱한 짓을 하며 투쟁한다 한다.
왜 그런가?
따뜻한 곳에서 결코 나오지 않는 사람들
혁명을 위해 뭘 할 건지 별로 고민하고 싶지 않은 사람들.
쉬운 길이라 하며
전혀 엉뚱한 길을 가고 있는 많은 사람들.
그저 하루하루를
투쟁을 위장해 투쟁하고 있는 사람들.
그래서 바쁜 사람들.......
노래by
Thanx to 同志,
where I found it just one hour ago...
P.S.
^^today this blog has "BIRTHDAY": 1 YEAR old... aeh~ better young, or whatever...
축하^^(Yo, thanx! Well, c'mon - no problem..)
Hamas swaps bullets for ballots in attempt to sweep away old guard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1688818,00.html
Islamist movement poised to be the second largest party and win Gaza outright
Wednesday January 18, 2006
The Guardian
"The police told us we were Hamas. We told them we are Change and Reform. We went around and around. They wanted us to admit we were Hamas so they could charge us, but we didn't," said Sheikh Abu Teir.
The police would not have found it very difficult to have made the link. Sheikh Abu Teir was released from prison six months ago after the latest stint of a total of 25 years in Israeli jails for serving in Hamas's armed wing, for membership of a terrorist organisation and distributing weapons.
But locking up Hamas candidates - about a quarter are in Israeli jails - only bolsters their credibility among Palestinian voters, who generally see all security prisoners as political martyrs. It has helped fuel Hamas's surge in the polls to close to 40% of the vote, only marginally less than the establishment Fatah led by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. And the gap is closing.
After the election, the Islamist movement is almost certain to be the second largest party in the Palestinian parliament, and to win outright in the Gaza strip. That presents a dilemma for Israel, and the US and Europe, which must decide how to deal with an organisation they call terrorist but that has evident electoral support.
But it also poses a problem for Hamas, which has to define its role within a system built around a negotiated peace deal with a country the Islamist movement refuses to recognise.
To compete in the elections, Hamas has largely retreated from "armed resistance" - its strategy of murdering civilians in suicide bombings and shooting soldiers - in favour of a political pragmatism some Palestinian analysts believe will make it difficult for Hamas to return to a sustained violent campaign.
The Hamas manifesto hinted at the change when it left out any reference to the call in the group's founding charter for the destruction of the Jewish state.
"We were political since day one but the armed resistance was at the forefront," said Sheikh Abu Teir. "Now we studied the situation and we read the situation. There was a truce that ended at the beginning of this month and there is still quiet by us. That doesn't mean the possibility of resistance is ended but a political decision was made that political work is superseding the military work. That means we are investing in the present situation to the maximum."
Hamas boycotted the last Palestinian parliamentary election 10 years ago on the grounds that the Oslo peace accords were a surrender of Islamic lands, and menaced electors by declaring that anyone who voted was defying God.
But afterwards it increasingly infiltrated the political scene, building popular support by providing myriad social services as ordinary Palestinians grew increasingly disillusioned with the corruption and mismanagement of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.
The decision to capitalise on burgeoning popular support among Palestinians increasingly weary of violence was not unanimous in Hamas, and Sheikh Abu Tier says the organisation's prisoners in Israeli jails were instrumental in deciding that it should run for election. "The prisoners tipped the balance in favour of political participation. They are well educated. Many are professors, engineers, doctors. That was the result of vision. They were a decisive factor and I was one of them in favour," he said.
Hamas did well in local elections last year and bolstered its support in the run-up to next week's vote with a reputation for efficient, clean government in the towns it now governs, such as Qalqilya and Beit Hanoun.
"I was called in for interrogation in Jerusalem," said Sheikh Abu Tier. "The [Israeli] interrogator said to me: you people have credibility with the people. This is the testimony of the enemy."
But the rapid growth in political support for Hamas leaves it with the dilemma of whether to go into government with Fatah led by Mr Abbas, who is committed to negotiation over armed resistance and a state built on the occupied territories with no claim to Israel.
"We are going to decide whether to join the government according to its programme," said Mahmoud al-Zahar, one of the most prominent Hamas leaders in the occupied territories. "Our aim is not to cooperate with the Israelis economically, politically, socially, on security. They are the enemy. They killed our people. They are responsible for the long-standing suffering of the Palestinian people. So how can we cooperate with them?"
Sheikh Abu Teir says the continued rejection of cooperation excludes the possibility of negotiations. "The PLO negotiated with them for years and recognised them, and what did it get the Palestinians?" he said. "When Abbas says the platform for negotiations is Oslo, we all know who destroyed Oslo. What happened after 2000 [and the outbreak of the second intifada] destroyed everything that went before it."
But for all the insistence on both sides that it would be impossible to work together, Israeli officials and the military and Hamas mayors and councillors are already cooperating in the administration of towns such as Qalqilya. Israeli officials are privately admiring of the elected Hamas leaders they deal with, regarding them as being efficient and businesslike. Dr Zahar said that if Hamas were to win the election, and in a position to determine the Palestinian government's policy, it would look to the Arab world. He said the aim would not be to fight Israel but to ignore it.
"We have to run very effective self-defence and take responsibility economically, politically and socially through cooperation with the Arabs, not with the Israelis," he said. "We will reform this system, we have to be rid of the corruption. We are ready to establish an independent state on one square metre, but at the same time we will not renounce one square metre. Our first priority is not Israel but Palestine."
Mr Abbas has warned Hamas that whatever its view of Israel, it cannot remain an armed group and sit in parliament. The acting Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has said that Hamas joining the Palestinian government would block peace efforts.
"There can be no progress with an administration in which there are terrorist organisations as members," he told the US president, George Bush, last week. The US has threatened to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority if Hamas joins the government without disarming, and the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, has warned that money will be withheld if Hamas joins the administration without recognising Israel's right to exist.
Hamas leaders say the problem could be resolved by integrating the movement's fighters into the Palestinian security forces. But persuading Hamas to drop its charter calling for the destruction of Israel, and recognising the Jewish state's right to exist, is a more complicated matter.
"It's our land," said Dr Zahar. "Nobody among our sons and grandsons will accept Israel as a legal state. Historically, they occupied this land as the British occupied it. Israel is a foreign body. Not in this generation, not in the next generation, will we accept it here."
But asked if that meant Hamas would continue to try to destroy Israel, Dr Zahar said that would be for the next generation to decide.
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Jerusalem police on Wednesday arrested a parliamentary candidate from the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while he was holding a press conference in a hotel in East Jerusalem. | ||||
Israel had threatened to bar Palestinian candidates from campaigning in East Jerusalem for the January 25 parliamentary elections. On Sunday, the cabinet said it would allow limited voting in the disputed city, but would not allow Palestinian militant groups, such as Hamas and the PFLP, to participate.
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Jenin raid by I"D"F... (J'lem Post, 1.18)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1136361103663&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Two soldiers were wounded - one moderately and one lightly - by Palestinian gunfire during an operation to arrest fugitives in Jenin.
Soldiers surrounded a house where one of the Fatah Tanzim-affiliated fugitives was believed to be hiding; a gunman opened fire at troops as he attempted to flee from the house, moderately wounding a soldier.
Soldiers returned fire, wounding the fugitive who was then detained and handed over to security officials for questioning.
As troops began to pull out of the city, more gunmen opened fire, lightly wounding another soldier.
During the operation, soldiers uncovered 10 pipe bombs in the city.
In Jenin, the Fatah Tanzim are considered to be the most active terror organization, responsible for numerous attacks against Israel.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, security forces arrested 12 Palestinian fugitives.
In Tsurif, southwest of Bethlehem, soldiers surrounded a house where a fugitive was believed to be hiding. Shortly after, they spotted a Palestinian fleeing from the building; they opened fire at his lower body.
The man was wounded lightly and taken to a hospital in Israel.
Soon after, it was discovered that he was the Islamic Jihad fugitive the troops had intended to arrest.
In the same operation, two additional fugitives were arrested.
In villages north of Tulkarm, four Islamic Jihad fugitives were arrested. In Ramallah, one Fatah Tanzim fugitive was caught.
In Bethlehem, one Hamas man and one Fatah Tanzim-affiliated fugitive were arrested.
In Hebron, one suspect involved in terror was arrested, and in Yata, south of the city, security forces arrested a weapons dealer.
In the Gaza Strip, shots were fired at an IDF post located near the southern Gaza security fence.
VERSHBOW vs KIM Jr.
...^=^...
Korea Herald(bourgeois S. Korean daily) is writing today:
The United States will continue to suppress North Korea, by taking a hard-line policy against various issues including the North's alleged counterfeiting of U.S. currency and its nuclear program standoff, a Korean public institute said in a report released yesterday...
U.S. Ambassador to Korea Alexander Vershbow also alerted South Koreans yesterday that people should be worried over the North's regime, which "is wasting its resources developing nuclear weapons and counterfeit bills, drug-dealing and money-laundering to survive."...
Read more here: 'Washington will continue to suppress North Korea'
Chosun Ilbo: U.S. Envoy Takes N.Korea Campaign Online
And last but not least 조선중앙통신(KCNA):
Pyongyang, January 16 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) checked a round-table conversation with journalists of the U.S. ambassador in Seoul on Jan. 12, according to the south Korean KBS. The U.S. ambassador was scheduled to have a round-table conversation with Internet journalists at the building of the south Korean Internet Journalists' Association.
The KCTU castigated the U.S. ambassador for making reckless remarks slandering the north as a "criminal regime" and strongly opposed his call on the association.
He could not appear in the venue owing to the fierce protest of the KCTU and had to give up his schedule.
...it's just to vomit!
Check out following loathsome stuff:
No comment is necessary, I think...
"EVIDENCE"!
A NEW GENERATION OF "BOAT PEOPLE"..
N. Korean leader in Guangzhou
Jan. 14, SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is photographed on a pleasure cruise in China's Guangzhou region on Jan. 13, by
Japanese broadcaster TBS... (Yonhap)
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060114/630000000020060114123455E6.html
International Herald Tribune(1.14):
VIP in southern China? Rumor says it's Kim
Washington Post(1.14):
Kim Apparently in China's South
....
On one side the entire story about Kim Jr., "the disappeared", is just funny, it's just a crazy joke. But on the other hand it shows a really serious situation...
First of all, as I know, there are no political "leaders" - actually "leaders" are always unnecessary, useless^^ - who were/are visiting the PRC in secret... except the "Sun of the 21st Century"(KCNA), a.k.a. Kim Jong-il.
So there must be reasons why he and his gang is acting like that.
1.) Perhaps they know that in fact no-one - except the poeple who are forced because of political duties, such as the talks about the nuclear issue - wants to invite them, or even to see them.
2.) Or they(Kim Jong-il...) know that there are(perhaps many) people who, if they would know that Kim Jr. and his gang is in their neighborhood, just would like to ... them. Simply they are just to afriad to be in the public.
3.) Or possibly, especially the "Sun of the 21th Century" is just... LUNATIC!!
But even just one of this reasons is applicable, this is at least abnormal!
But if "only" the reasons no. 1 and/or 2 are applicable, we should ask ourselves: WHY...?? Because lastly it is no fun, not at all!
Kim-spotters hunt elusive leader
Friday January 13, 2006
Guardian
Missing: one North Korean dictator. Recognisable by bouffant hair, Elvis glasses, worker's tunic and obsequious hangers-on.
Last seen in heavily guarded train crossing the border into China. May be shopping in Shanghai, receiving medical treatment in Guangzhou or trying to avert nuclear war in Beijing.
Such frenzied speculation surged in north-east Asia yesterday as Kim Jong-il, the leader of the world's most reclusive state, was reported to have made a rare trip outside his homeland.
If true, it would be only the sixth time since 2000 that the head of the workers' party has ventured out of North Korea. Because of assassination fears the previous visits, all of them by train, were shrouded in secrecy and not confirmed by any of the involved countries until Mr Kim was safely back in Pyongyang.
Security concerns are likely to have increased since his last trip in April 2004, which ended only hours before a huge explosion close to a section of the railway on which he had been travelling.
The latest flurry of rumours was prompted by a reported sighting of Mr Kim at the Chinese border station of Dandong at dawn on Tuesday morning. According to South Korean media, troops sealed off the area and rail officials took part in a 15-minute welcome ceremony.
The North Korean embassy in Beijing has cancelled all its usual activities. The Chinese foreign ministry refused to either confirm or deny that Mr Kim was in the country. Government spokesman Kong Quan acknowledged that a visit was planned, but said he was not yet authorised to reveal the timing.
US officials, however, appeared to be in little doubt. "I understand we have some North Korean visitors here today," said Christopher Hill, who is in Beijing as the top US negotiator at six-party talks aimed at denuclearising the peninsular.
This has been enough to prompt a spot-the-dictator competition among media organisations. South Korea's Yonhap news agency placed Mr Kim in Shanghai, saying he had flown there while using the train as a decoy. Reuters speculated he was heading to Beijing to meet senior Chinese leaders, or merely passing through en route to Moscow. Russia's Itar-Tass news agency, which is the only foreign news organisation to have a bureau in Pyongyang, said Mr Kim is still at home and the VIP on the train was a member of his family.
But yesterday most of the attention focused on Guangzhou, the capital of southern Guangdong province. The city's best hotel, the White Swan, has been requisitioned by the government for three days, metal detectors have been installed and traffic has been cordoned off.
Mr Kim's motives are as unclear as his whereabouts...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,1685507,00.html
...and "our beloved"(^^) Chosun Ilbo wrote this:
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200601/200601130022.html
But anyway, it's better to believe nothing, because in reality...
Who knows???
From am8:00 KCTU radio until(at least) am8:30 was broadcasting nationalist stuff(about 'uri minjok'/우리 민족...and so on..). I was complete shocked..
Just yesterday KCNA "reported": 'A New Year gathering was reportedly held in Seoul on Jan. 6 under the sponsorship of the Reunification Solidarity for the Implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and Peace of the Korean Peninsula in south Korea. Han Sang Ryol, permanent chairman of the Reunification Solidarity, Jon Jae Hwan, chairman of the Emergency Measure Committee of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions ...at the gathering referred to the fact that the might of united workers, peasants and youths and students was demonstrated in the struggle to build a new life and a new system last year..'
Actually I couldn't believe this "report"... But now...
...
More about it later...
Yesterday(1.11) Jerusalem Post(the propaganda paper of the Israeli rightwing.., in my opinion...) published following article:
'Hamas win would destroy PA'
The security establishment painted a grim picture of the aftermath of the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections, warning that a strong Hamas victory would lead to the total destruction of the Palestinian Authority, the only body Israel has been able to negotiate with. Security officials warned that the new situation will have severe repercussions on future dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians.
Describing the "no-win situation" Israel will be forced to reckon with, security officials declared that a significant Hamas win may spur Fatah factions to stir up trouble and resort to violence, perceiving the move as the only way to serve its interests and reach Hamas's level of popularity. "Everything achieved by Israel and the PA in the past will be lost," a security official said Tuesday.
If PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas decides on the other hand to postpone the elections at the last minute, or resign, the decision could spur Hamas to renew its violence against Israel.
"All in all, the elections will not pass quietly," an official said.
Rivalry and tension surround the different Fatah factions vying to be elected. A Hamas victory means there will be no mutual base for Israel to enter any kind of dialogue, said the officials, adding that no one in Hamas - even Ismail Haniya, considered a pragmatist - would agree to recognize the State of Israel or put terror aside for the sake of entering a dialogue. Israel would have no proper Palestinian leadership to address.
"The future looks bleak. It is clear that, whatever the outcome, Israel will be faced with an upsurge in violence and a breakdown in the situation," an official said.
"No matter how you look at it, nothing good will come out of the situation. It is a shame that the US is unable to understand the situation and the new reality Israel will be faced with. It is possible that we will witness the last democratic elections to take place in the PA," one of the officials said.
The officials were unwilling to divulge how the situation would affect the Gaza terminal crossings or other projects and agreements reached between Israel and the PA in the past.
According to estimates that have reached the security establishment, officials assess that Abbas will postpone the elections at the last minute in an attempt to avoid confronting an almost certain Hamas victory. Recent reports that reached the security establishment portray Abbas as a weak soul incapable of taking charge of the situation. The aides that surround Abbas are pegging their hopes on his failure and perceive him as a man unable to cope with the internal pressures he is confronted with. Security officials did not rule out the possibility that Abbas may resign.
Abbas's biggest mistake, they said, was the strategic decision not to confront Hamas, because that enabled Hamas to continue with its ongoing activities uninterrupted. Abbas's weakness can be seen in his failure to uphold any of the agreements he signed with Israel. "In West Bank cities where the PA received security control he failed to disarm fugitives and reign in extremists," an official said.
The chaos and lawlessness that rage through the PA-controlled areas continues without any real attempts by the PA leadership to halt the situation and restore law and order, the officials added.
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz's announcement on Tuesday that Israel will permit east Jerusalemites to vote in the upcoming Palestinian elections took some security officials by surprise. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommended that Israel refrain from making its stand on the issue official and wait until the last minute in order to evade being blamed by the Palestinians for possible hitches," one security official said.
The official noted, however, that Israel had in 1996 informed the Palestinians that east Jerusalemites would be permitted to vote in Israeli post offices in east Jerusalem as well as in Abu Dis. "We are reverting to the same policy we upheld in past elections," he said.
Israel said it was willing to facilitate the process on election day. However, the officials warned, under no circumstances would Israel allow Hamas activists or others belonging to terror groups to campaign in east Jerusalem.
One official disagreed with the decision, implying that the ban on Hamas campaigning was "a kind of absurdity, a situation whereby east Jerusalemites armed with envelopes will cast their votes in ballot boxes located inside Israeli post offices."
The officials also added that, in the West Bank, if a Hamas fugitive arrives at a checkpoint he will be arrested by security forces.
"Israel does not intend to initiate any operations on the Palestinian election day, but if a wanted fugitive shows up at a checkpoint he will be arrested. The Palestinians have been informed of this," an official said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1136361055346&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
At the same day the more "liberal democratic" daily Ha'aretz wrote this:
Well, and if you feel really boring, you have nothing better to do... read the "Talkbacks"(over 250.., including discussings about the massacre in Sabra and Shatila..) here("East Jerusalem Palestinians will be able to vote in PLC elections"):
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/667685.html
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happy anniversary, comrade. keep up the great struggle!부가 정보
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THANX, dongji!!부가 정보