CINA

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Following interesting (because it's a kind of objective, in my opinion..) article about the latest developments in Venezuela was published yesterday in the German bourgeois ("To fight your enemy you must study him/her", Lenin!!^^) magazine Der Spiegel:

REMOTE CONTROL "SOCIALISM"
Chavez on Every Channel

For Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, television is the ultimate instrument of power. Now, despite every protest, he has let the license expire for RCTV, a private station that has long been critical of the government. The country's last remaining opposition channel must now fear for its future, too.

Using water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets, the police used brute force against the close to 5,000 protesters. They had gathered on Monday to protest the shutdown of private TV channel Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), which had been critical of the government. Afterwards, small groups of demonstrators engaged in skirmishes with the police in several locations in the Venezuelan capital. At least three demonstrators and one policeman were injured.

"'Socialism' of the 21st Century" in action
5.29, Caracas: Riot cops - or simply death squats(??) - against protestors

Protests also occurred in the university town of Valencia on Monday. Four students were injured. At the protest rally in Caracas, RCTV anchorman Miguel Angel Rodriguez called out: "They will not silence us!" But the new public TV channel Tves was already broadcasting on RCTV's former frequency by then.

Venezuela's new public television channel Tves went on the air at 01:50 a.m. with a weighty historical movie: "Bolivar eterno" ("Eternal Bolivar") was the title of the mammoth work on South America's liberator. The show was produced last year by the Villa del Cine foundation, created by President Hugo Chavez in order to battle the "dictatorship of Hollywood." The show was followed by a morning workout program (07:00 a.m.), a documentary film on an expedition to Greenland (09:36 a.m.) and a brief seven-minute portrait of a cattle breeder (10:30 a.m.).

Though ratings haven't been released, it seems likely fewer people tuned in than had watched the soap operas on the private RCTV channel, which previously broadcasted on Tves's frequency. Its license expired on Sunday night. The channel's stars and starlets sang the national hymn with tears in their eyes during the final minutes before closing down. Then a giant "Fin" ("The End") flickered across the screen before it went black. Shortly thereafter, Tves began broadcasting.

The Inter American Press Association (SIP) criticized the Venezuelan government's refusal to extend RCTV's license as a blow against freedom of the press. The European Union also criticized the muzzle placed on the private channel, noted for its criticism of the government.

The action taken against RCTV represents yet another step in Venezuela's shift towards authoritarianism. When Chavez was first elected in 1999, the government controlled only one TV channel and two radio stations. Today it controls four government-owned TV channels, including the international news channel Telesur, and seven radio stations.

Chavez cherishes television as an instrument of rule, and he's on the air almost daily with his own program "Aló Presidente." The "socialism of the 21st century" he wants to implement works by remote control: Zap through the channels in Caracas and you'll always see the president's face somewhere. Each of the state leader's public appearances is broadcast live on the state channels. Those who miss out on his golden words can make up for the lapse by tuning in to one of the numerous rebroadcasts.

Private Channels as Propaganda Weapons

But the private channels aren't exactly bastions of independent journalism either. The two largest channels RCTV and Globovisión are abused by their owners as political and propaganda weapons against the government. Those in Venezuela who want to inform themselves about the political situation have to tune in to CNN en Español or the BBC over the Internet. No channel that is independent and critical of both sides exists in the country. Indeed, the media are as divided as Venezuela itself: Either you're for the president or you're against him.

Chavez has settled an old score by with the blow dealt to RCTV. The channel supported a putsch against him five years ago. The tradition-rich channel, whose earnings came mainly from its telenovelas, sided with the businessmen and military officers who had planned the coup d'etat.

When Chavez returned triumphantly into the presidential palace 48 hours later, the channel's days were already numbered. While Chavez chose not to close RCTV down, he never minced his words about his decision not to renew the channel's license beyond 2007. RCTV refused to be intimidated by the threats: On the orders of Marcel Granier, the channel's director and now self-styled frontline fighter for freedom of the press, RCTV's journalists engaged in vitriolic attacks against the president every day.

Cooperation with Capitalist Media Moguls

Generally speaking, Chavez doesn't really have a problem with capitalist media moguls -- that is, as long as they're not hostile to him. Chavez has reached a kind of silent handshake agreement with discrete tycoon Gustavo Cisneros, owner of a giant media empire and one of the wealthiest men in Latin America. As part of it, Cisnero's TV channel Venevisión, the largest and most important private network in the country, spares the president from critical reporting. Millionaire friends like whiskey importer Arturo Sarmiento have also had licenses for new private channels arranged for them by Chavez. "Politics has no business on TV," says Sarmiento.

Now the opposition has only one channel left with which to wage its political battles -- the private network Globovisión. Its journalists valiantly continue their attacks on the president. They like to refer to Chavez's dark skin and lower-class origins. Class and race hatred are part of the Venezuelan propaganda war.

Globovisión's license expires in 2014. Experts doubt the license will be extended -- assuming Chavez is still in power then.

In fact the government asked the public prosecutors office on Monday to investigate the channel because it allegedly called for attempts on Chavez's life. The supposed proof consisted of images, aired by Globovisión as part of a feature, of the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, to which the song "Have faith, this doesn't end here" could be heard. "They incite the assassination of Venezuela's president," Venezuelen Information Minister William Lara said.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,485461,00.html

☞ Protest in Venezuela - pictures

☞ SOBRE LA NO CONCESIÓN A RCTV

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While parts of the German ruling class and their collaborators, aka the state, are "welcome" the protests against the G8-summit - for example the minister of interior W. Schäuble (actually he's one of the most conservative hard-liners in the gov't!! More about it later..) the German police yesterday performed in Hamburg their first "public training"(^^) likely(??) under the motto

'Provoke and Smash the Anti-G8 Protest/Movement'

Yesterday (5.28) at least 6,000 activists gathered on the streets of Hamburg to protest against the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) and the comming G8-summit. There was a massive police presence and the entire march was surrounded by several riot police lines.

The procession was repeatedly stopped and provoked by the cops, while snatch squads and other units tried permanently to penetrate the demo. Water cannons, pepper spray, kicks and punches were used repeatedly. So the organisers eventually decided to call the demonstration off and participants then dispersed in small groups. A large part of the demonstration, however, was 'kettled' by police while other were 'hunted down' as they headed back to a social center. At least 86 people were arrested, some still detained.  

☞ We declare war on the leaders of the world... (GipfelSoli, anti-G8solidarity)

☞ ASEM-G8 Protest in Hamburg

☞ Violence in Hamburg Streets.. (Der Spiegel, German bourgeois magazine)

☞ ASEM-G8 Protest in Hamburg - pictures

☞ G8: On German media coverage (indymedia Germany)

☞ A Protest Culture Attempts to Reawaken Itself (Der Spiegel)

Related stuff in SK (南朝鮮^^):

☞ Anti G8 첫번째 회의록 (seoulidarity)

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Following call for the

 
Arirang Int'l Korean Music Festival
in Almaty/Kazakhstan (2007.8.11/12)

was sent about three weeks ago (eh, sorry that I'm so late!!) around the world:

"My name is Olga Kang. I`m the representative of 4th generation of Koreans in
Kazakhstan.
In this year the Association of Koreans in Kazakhstan celebrate the 70th anniversaryof residing of Koreans in Kazakhstan who were exiled from the (Soviet) Far East in 1937..

(The) Association of Koreans of Kazakhstan within the framework of 70th anniversary of residing of Koreans in Kazakhstan invite the young and talented performers of the
Korean song to take part in “Arirang” the International Korean Music (Song) Festival on August 11-12, 2007 in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan. We`re cover all expenses including two way tickets.
So, we are looking for participants from other countries for "Arirang"."
 

So, whoever is interested to participate should contact as soon as possible:
kanolga@yahoo.com (Olga Kang)

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Nowadays of course (nearly) everyone knows that in fact the US administration (CIA, etc..) were creating al-Qaeda.. Or that only with the active help of the western Imperialists (such as West Germany and the US) S. Hussein's Iraq got the technical possibility for the mass murder - with chemical weapons - of its Kurdish population (in the late 1980's).. Also today's "success" of Hamas as a result of Isreal's policy of supporting the Islamic "resistance" during the (first, actually the only) Intifada is (likeley) well-known.. (*)

But now we've got the evidence that the USA is supporting another part of the "Axis of Evil": the DPRK. It seems that the US military industry is exporting fire arms/machine guns/automatic rifles (in this case AR-15) to NK (perhaps for more beautiful Public Execution Performances/before usually AK-47 were used in NK..). Just see following picture ^^ (**):

* BTW.. that's NO joke!!

** Source of the pic: .."Public Execution" Performance

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Following story about the latest development in Berlin-Kreuzberg - the city district (similar like a "gu", such as for example Mapo-gu, Jongno-gu etc in Seoul) where I'm living since 20 years (except my years in Seoul^^) - was published some days ago in the German (bourgeois) magazine Der Spiegel:

MCDONALD'S IN ALTERNATIVE BERLIN
The French Fries are Coming - to Falafeltown!

In Berlin, of all places, a stronghold of the doner kebab, a bitter battle is raging over food culture -- a veritable clash of cuisines. The city's alternative Kreuzberg is gearing up to fight what would be the neighborhood's first McDonald's restaurant.

If anyone has the right to be worried these days in Kreuzberg, an alternative Berlin neighborhood, it's Hakan Sever. Sever, a man in his mid-30s, runs an establishment called Bistro Baghdad at the Schlesisches Tor subway station.

A doner kebab made of "pure lamb and veal" goes for €2.50 at his little restaurant, a mere two-minute walk from a small construction site that has been the cause of great controversy all across Berlin's many neighborhoods.

There isn't much to the site yet: a wooden fence surrounding an empty lot, graffiti-covered walls of abandoned buildings, a few wooden stakes in the ground and a sign, barely visible from the street, that sums it all up: McDonald's is building here.

But Sever is relaxed, almost maddeningly so. "It isn't a problem for us," he says, manning the rotating kebab maker in the Turkish fast food bistro his uncle started 24 years ago. He smiles and adds, self-confidently: "First they'd have to have our quality."

But the kebab seller seems to be the only denizen of Berlin's most alternative neighborhood who feels this laid-back about the issue. Kreuzberg enjoys a reputation for something it shares with practically only North Korea and Nepal nowadays: It's a McDonald's-free zone.

A Grassroots Movement against McDonald's

If a community group formed expressly to keep out the fast-food chain has its way, Kreuzberg will stay that way. And judging by the 100 or so local residents who attended its first meeting roughly two weeks ago, the group is already turning into a true grassroots movement -- an anti-burger movement, so to speak. The planned restaurant has become such a hot-button issue that everyone seems to be talking about it to the media. Franz Schulz, the district's mayor, is upset with the postal service, which sold the lot to McDonald's practically overnight -- and in violation of its own commitment to the city. Martin Stern, the head of the local school district, is worried about all the garbage and about the damaging effect the restaurant could have on the company that currently leases his cafeteria.

The movement opposing the new McDonald's even has its own Web site, KeinMcDoofinKreuzberg.de (NoMcStupidinKreuzberg.de), an e-mail mailing list and a high-profile political supporter, Hans-Christian Ströbele, a Green Party member of the German parliament, or Bundestag, who notes: "This is very unhealthy food."

"NO" to McDirt!!

"No McDonald's!" graffiti has already begun appearing on building walls in the neighborhood, while a MySpace page takes the anti-burger sentiment a few, more drastic steps further. It depicts a demolished restaurant with broken windowpanes and even issues a dark threat to the company's clown-like mascot, Ronald McDonald: "Look out, Ronald! Something's burning here." The tabloid Bild, sounding alarmed or alarmist, depending on one's point of view, interprets the clip as a potential terror threat.

But the clip and other voices opposed to the planned fast food restaurant are in fact sounding the alarm against a burgers-and-fries offensive in a neighborhood where culinary tastes are decidedly more Middle East than Mid-America. The battle over cuisine brewing in the neighborhood is especially ironic given Berlin's reputation as a bastion of greasy spoon fast food like the doner kebab. For the dreadlocked adolescents who while away their time sitting around Kreuzberg's Görlitz Park, and whose idea of a "Happy Meal" more likely includes humus and a water pipe, there is only one politically correct position: to resist the onslaught of the burger imperialists.

And how does the anti-burger crowd respond to the argument that Western fast food is no less healthy than the local Middle Eastern fare? Isn't falafel fried? A doner kebab delivers about 550 calories, compared to "only" 505 in a Big Mac. And wasn't there some report on the news about spoiled meat being used in doner kebabs? Who cares, they say. Super size Kreuzberg? Over our dead bodies!

The company's original plans call for the construction of one of its trademark rectangular boxes -- enough space for 100 guests and a drive-in window nestled under the familiar golden arches -- on Skalitzer Strasse, across the street from a high-school and not far from two other schools. The US-based company purchased the site from the German postal service five years ago, and local authorities have already issued a building permit. Construction could start tomorrow -- theoretically.

Heirs to the Legendary Kreuzberg Protest Culture

The anti-McDonald's community group met a second time last Wednesday evening to plan its next steps. The members of the fast food opposition movement are noticeably young. They are the heirs of the legendary Kreuzberg protest culture that was once behind the hoisting of a red flag -- absent the golden arches, of course -- on the nearby Georg von Rauch building. It was a movement that marched to the tune of a song by the band Ton-Steine-Scherben (Clay-Stones-Shards) titled "Macht Kaputt was euch kaputt macht" ("Smash the Things that are Smashing Your Life"). The band used to jam just around the corner from the current McDonald's construction site.

There is also some measure of tradition behind the clash of cuisines. In the past, protestors would toss fecal matter and plastic bags filled with paint into expensive restaurants, a practice that became far more deadly when someone decided to use a hand grenade instead in the early 1990s. But there is one big difference between the protestors then and now: While the bourgeoisie was once the target of their animosity, today's loathing of McDonald's has heavy political overtones -- especially in a neighborhood where overly zealous police activity (more...) leading up to the G-8 summit already has tensions running high.

For the Kreuzberg protestors, McDonald's is the prototype of the soulless, profit-maximizing, globalized giant corporation that exploits its workers, produces downtown trash in the form of food wrappers and containers and, by clearing rainforests and buying up the beef from vast, methane-farting herds of cattle, accelerates climate change -- not to mention the deleterious effects of fast food on an increasingly overweight German population. There is, or at least once was, some truth to all of these accusations.

But not everyone is as worried about McDonald's impact on the big picture. One couple that lives near the site is more concerned about the potential increase in traffic and the stench from the fast food joint's deep fryers.

The people at McDonald's are taking the signals from Kreuzberg seriously. Indeed, they are no strangers to opposition to their restaurants. When McDonald's first announced plans to move into the Chinese and Italian markets, local food aficionados predicted the demise of their own gastronomic cultures. Now it's Kreuzberg's turn.

For years the company has been providing consumers with detailed information about calories, ingredients and the origins of every pickle slice on its burgers. The company's main US Web site includes "testimonials" from Americans of African and Hispanic origin. Perhaps they'll add one soon about Kreuzberg's alternative culture. It wouldn't exactly be a first. McDonald's has already injected a dose of health consciousness into its menu by offering salads and yoghurt, and in England it even sells "halal" burgers -- the meat comes from animals slaughtered according to Islamic dietary rules. Capitalism is flexible.

According to Alexander Schramm, the company's German spokesman, who seeks to downplay the controversy and displays a willingness to engage in discourse, "we are interesting in talking to Mr. Ströbele and the community group." All controversy aside, McDonald's has apparently -- and wisely -- chosen to delay construction until at least after the G-8 summit.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,484170,00.html

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Lebanon refugees talk to Al Jazeera   
   
Thousands of Palestinian refugees continue to flee Nahr al-Bared refugee camp after three days of clashes between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam. More than 80 people have died in what has been described as Lebanon’s worst case of internal fighting since the 1975-1990 civil war.

Al Jazeera spoke to Palestinians from the embattled refugee camp about the clashes they have endured and the destruction they are slowly coming to terms with.

Murtaja El-Hajj, 38,  UNRWA sanitation officer

"This is a repeat of the 1948 Palestinian Nakbha, when the state of Israel was created," el-Hajj said.

El-Hajj was born at Nahr al-Bared refugee camp and now lives there with his wife and children.

He said he refuses to leave his home because he has nowhere else to go.

 
"As long as my family is OK I will stay put," he said, speaking from his ground floor apartment, surrounded by his wife and children, brothers and neighbours.

About 50,000 refugees live in the camp and as many as 10,000 Palestinians have fled to the nearby Beddawi refugee camp.

Others have travelled to Tripoli, and many have gone to stay with their families in neighbouring towns.

El-Hajj said a "tranquil calm" loomed over the refugee camp after sporadic fire dominated the early hours of Wednesday morning.

 
With no drinking water, infant milk, electricity or running water, residents of the camp are suffering.

 
"Medical supplies are scarce. The few clinics in the refugee camp are functioning with no anaesthetic as we speak," el-Hajj said.

 
Scent of death

 
"The smell of dead corpses is overwhelming," he told Al Jazeera.

 
"This has been a grave massacre. There are dead people collapsed under rubble and we have no way of getting them out."

 
Mosques, schools and clinics have been destroyed. Even the graveyard was shelled, exposing once-buried human bones.

 
El-Hajj said that UNRWA aid trucks were bombed yesterday and an electric generator provided by relief agencies to generate water supplies has been destroyed.

"We are not against the Lebanese army, but why should we, as civilians, suffer? We want the world to see what's happening to us," he said.

Fadwa Sanadaqa, 23, university student

Sanadaqa evacuated Nahr al-Bared refugee camp on Tuesday evening along with her brother, Ahmad, also a university student.

"We got into a pick-up truck with our neighbours, we covered ourselves in a blanket and held out a white flag, to keep the snipers away," she said.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, from her new whereabouts in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, she described the fear she encountered in the past three days.

Fatah al-Islam snipers had taken over the roofs of many of the houses in the camp.

"They would aim at the Lebanese army from our roofs and above our garages so that the army fire back at us and they did," she said.

People in the camp are starving and the aid is not reaching everyone, Sanadaqa said.

She hopes things will get better so that she can go back to the camp and just check up on her grandfather's house where, she was staying with her brother.

But she will never go back to live there, even if it "becomes safe to go back".

Faisal Ashkar, Nahr al-Bared refugee camp

Ashkar who has also been witness to the past three days of violence, spoke to Al Jazeera on Wednesday.

He left Nahr al-Bared refugee camp on foot last night and made his way to the neighbouring Beddawi refugee camp.

 
He condemned the Palestinian authorities for not caring enough and not portraying to the outside world just how much the Palestinians are suffering.
 

"The Palestinian authority has not given honest statements of the last few days of violence," he said.

 
"We do not need food or water, who needs that when their house has been destroyed?"

Ashkar has been unable to reach his family members as most communication has been lost.

He described the state of the camp to be in "total destruction" when he left.

Communication with Ashkar was lost, as his mobile phone battery ran out, and Al Jazeera was unable to complete the interview.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/275FBBFE-2C1C-4C6C-A7DA-8DC3FDFBE789.htm

Related articles, etc:

☞ Fatah al-Islam vows to fight on

☞ Fatah al-Islam given ultimatum

☞ The End Nears for Militants in Lebanese Camp (Der Spiegel, incl. photos)

☞ Inside Nahr al-Bared (video report)

☞ Interview with Fatah al-Islam leader (video)

For more informations please check out:

☞ Angry Arab News Service

☞ Decentering Damascus

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Latest news from Absurdistan (aka the German State):

G8: Ban on demonstrations up to 6 kilometres 

Press release by  Heiligendamm Starmarch Coalition (20th May 2007)

 
Lawyer: "Prohibited zones are unprecendented in the history of the German Federal Republic."

Special department "Kavala" slow to process other registered demonstrations.
During the G8 summit there will be a ten day ban on demostrations and assemblies within as well as 200 metres around the fence in Heilgendamm.
From the 5th to 8th of June, i.e. during the summit meetings, this zone will be extended to a 4km area around the fence. Demonstrations are to be kept at a 6km distance to the conference hotel.

This weekend, on behalf of the starmarch coalition, a group of lawyers lodged an urgent law suit against the injunction at the court in Schwerin. In the appeal the lawyers state that, although the G8 delegations have no legitimacy to do so, they make decisions that have serious international consequences. This is why international protest should be made visibile to them. The "sentiments of the state guests" that the police do not want to upset, must play a secondary role.

Excerpt from the law suit:

"Protests against international politics carry special weight - they must be given the space to be expressed and to be taken seriously by the heads of states of the G8 countries along with the international public. Effective public visibility means specifically that international media must have access to the protests. The necessary visibility of the protests can only be guaranteed if the protests are able to generate media attention at the actual location where events are taking place. The basic right of association is even more important at such supranational events than at national ones."

According to the Hamburg-based solicitor Carsten Gericke, the demonstration bans are for the most part unlawful: "The prohibition zones designated by Kavala are unprecedented in the history of the German Federal Republic", he explains. "If organisers wishing to obtain the permission to demonstrate cannot hold their event, then their rigt to association is irrepairably violated. This is because the demostration in question is irrevocably relevant to the event taking place within the area of the ban," he further elaborates.

The police are also claiming that "extraordinary threats" to the G8 summit exist. However, there are no indications of such a threat. In the law suit that has been lodged it states that the German police and the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution have been forced to admit that "sustainable indications of serious threats or dangers have not been able to be brought forward by the office dealing with the issue."

Furthermore, the suit criticises the police organisation Kavala: "Creating a special department "Kavala" within the Rostock police force to process this injunction is unlawful", Gericke writes. Equally, the creation of this special department with hundreds of civil servants has led to a situation in which the registration of many assemblies and demonstrations have not been processed at all or only very slowly:

"The effect has been that the office has not acted in accordance with its constitutionally determined duties to cooperate because this special department had to first be made operational and is staffed by external civil servants. Because of this, the rights of the organisers registering the demonstration have been denied."

Other registrations have also been affected by the ban. The organisation "Jewish Voice" has registered a protest rally with 150 activists from Palestine and Israel on June 5th. The 5th June is the 40th anniversary of the start of the Six Day War. The organisation has still not even received a written response to their request.

"We are very pleased with the broad and even international media response and sympathy with the protests against the G8 summit", say the organisers of the star march on June 7th. International calls to demonstrate against the G8 continue.

[Starmarch Coalition]

Related stuff:

☞ A Long Hot Spring - a Season of Protest (Der Spiegel)

☞ A Taste of the Coming Showdown

☞ 매일 '민주주의' (독일)

For more news/informations about the Anti-G8 Struggle:

☞ G8 Germany 2007 (indymedia UK)

☞ dissentNetwork

☞ Anti-G8 Alliance for a revolutionary perspective

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Racist assaults are on the rise in Germany

Black Man Beaten, Stabbed for Speaking English

The long list of racially motivated assaults in Germany has just got longer with the beating and stabbing of a Ghanaian man caught speaking English outside a night club in an eastern town on Friday night.

An African man was beaten and stabbed by three German teenagers outside a nightclub in the latest of a long series of racist attacks in eastern Germany.

Police said the 22-year-old man, named only as Daniel G., had enraged the three 18-year-old men because he had been speaking English to his girlfriend. The doorman of the nightclub in Nauen near Berlin had refused to let him into the club and he was talking to his girlfriend about it when the three assailants approached him.

"Why are you speaking English, Nauen is in Germany," one of them shouted, the newspaper Bild reported. Another man pushed him to the ground and they started kicking him. One of them pulled out a knife and stabbed him.

Police said the victim, a trainee retailer from Ghana who has lived in Berlin for over four years, managed to defend himself with pepper spray. He and his girlfriend fled to the railway station with the attackers in pursuit but police arrived in time to stop them attacking him again. The victim was taken to hospital with a stab wound to the kidney but it wasn't deep enough to be life-threatening.

Two of the attackers were caught and confessed to the attack. They face assault charges but have been granted conditional release pending the court case. The third assailant faces no charges because he was deemed to have played only a minor role.

Racially motivated attacks are a frequent occurrence in Germany, especially in the eastern part (the former German Democratic Republic) where far right/fascist parties are now represented in three of the region's five federal states.

The domestic intelligence agency recorded a total of 919 assaults motivated by far-right extremism/racism (i.e. fascisism) last year, up from 816 in 2005 (according to the Ministry of Interior). 

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Well, while last week's news were full with reports about the daily street battles (mainly between Hamas and Fatah, the two parts of the Palestinian "Unity Gov't") in Gaza, now - since last Friday - the news are dominated by the daily IDF/IAF attacks  against targets in the Gaza Strip.

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The Lotus Flower, "made" in..

..the DPRK/North Korea..

..and (simply blooming) in the ROK/South Korea