Thursday, 29 December 2011

Lane's Arabic-Engish Lexicon

The best Arabic-English lexicon is Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
Here is a link to 5,100 articles, by root, done by Edward Lane.

Each "root" has its own article, and its own PDF file.

Here is the link to the lexicon :
Lane's Arabic-Engish Lexicon

SPECIAL NOTE FOR ONLY MAC USERS :
These are PDF files, which are not supported in the browser on a Mac.
So the only way to view it is to download the individual PDFs.

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Iran's Threat To "Wipe Israel Off The Map"

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvwg1ZlDgBk&feature=share

The "Wipe Israel Off The Map" Hoax
What Ahmadinejad really said and why this broken record is just another ad slogan for war
From http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/260107offthemap.htm

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, January 26, 2007

Barely a day goes by that one can avoid reading or hearing yet another Israeli, American or British warhawk regurgitate the broken record that Iran's President Ahmadinejad threatened to "wipe Israel off the map," framed in the ridiculous context that Israelis are being targeted for a second holocaust.

This baseless rallying call for conflict holds about as much credibility as Dick Cheney's assertion that Saddam Hussein was planning to light up American skies with mushroom clouds.

Today it's the turn of would-be future British Prime Minister David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, who repeated the "wipe Israel off he map" fraud
in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, using it to qualify his refusal to rule out a military strike on Iran under a Tory government.

Did Ahmadinejad really threaten to "wipe Israel off the map" or is this phrase just another jingoistic brand slogan for selling the next war in the Middle East?

The devil is in the detail, wiping Israel off the map suggests a physical genocidal assault, a literal population relocation or elimination akin to what the Nazis did.

According to numerous different translations, Ahmadinejad never used the word "map," instead his statement was in the context of time and applied to the Zionist regime occupying Jerusalem.

Ahmadinejad was expressing his future hope that the Zionist regime in Israel would fall, not that Iran was going to physically annex the country and its population.

To claim Ahmadinejad has issued a rallying cry to ethnically cleanse Israel is akin to saying that Churchill wanted to murder all Germans when he stated his desire to crush the Nazis. This is about the demise of a corrupt occupying power, not the deaths of millions of innocent people.
The Guardian's Jonathan Steele cites four different translations, from professors to the BBC to the New York Times and even pro-Israel news outlets, in none of those translations is the word "map" used.

The closest translation to what the Iranian President actually said is, "The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time," or a narrow relative thereof.
In no version is the word "map" used or a context of mass genocide or hostile military action even hinted at.

The acceptance of the word "map" seemingly originated with the New York Times, who later had to back away from this false translation.

The BBC also wrongly used the word and, in comments to Steele, later accepted their mistake but refused to issue a retraction.

"The fact that he compared his desired option - the elimination of "the regime occupying Jerusalem" - with the fall of the Shah's regime in Iran makes it crystal clear that he is talking about regime change, not the end of Israel.

As a schoolboy opponent of the Shah in the 1970's he surely did not favor Iran's removal from the page of time.
He just wanted the Shah out," writes Steele.

"It's important to note that the "quote" in question was itself a quote,
writes Arash Norouzi, "they are the words of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Islamic Revolution. Although he quoted Khomeini to affirm his own position on Zionism, the actual words belong to Khomeini and not Ahmadinejad.
Thus, Ahmadinejad has essentially been credited (or blamed) for a quote that is not only unoriginal, but represents a viewpoint already in place well before he ever took office."

Professor Juan Cole concurs, arguing, "Now, some might say, "So he didn't say, 'wipe off the map,' he said 'erase from the page.' What's the difference?

Anyway he's saying he wants to get rid of Israel.
Ahmadinejad was not making a threat, he was quoting a saying of Khomeini and urging that pro-Palestinian activists in Iran not give up hope -- that the occupation of Jerusalem was no more a continued inevitability than had been the hegemony of the Shah's government.

Whatever this quotation from a decades-old speech of Khomeini may have meant, Ahmadinejad did not say that 'Israel must be wiped off the map' with the implication that phrase has of Nazi-style extermination of a people.
He said that the occupation regime over Jerusalem must be erased from the page of time."


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Ahmadinejad DID NOT Threaten To "Wipe Israel Off The Map."

Sunday, 11 December 2011

Deterrent Power

Deterrent Power is the potential to counter any threat from an enemy, by relying on one's own forces.

If Gaddafi had sufficent "Deterrent Power", such as nuclear weapons, then Libya would not have been attacked.

Also, many seem to think that Gaddafi was some cruel leader, but do you really think that even at his worst, that Gaddafi was worse than the United States???
Are you even aware of how cruel the American Government has been, especially how they have caused the deaths of millions upon millions of people around the world, often of innocent civilians??
For example, the million people in Iraq who died as a result of the Bush actions, resulting from the sanctions and attacks??

Or consider even how the United States supported Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi attack against your country Iran, in a war that caused the deaths of one million people??
Or the up to ten million people who died in the Korean war?
Or the up to two million people who died in the Viet Nam war?
We could go into the thousands of illegal lynchings, often of innocent lynching civilians in the US.
Or we could look at the over 15,000 executions by the US.
We could study the major terrorist activities committed by the US in Nicaragua.
Or then there are countless numbers of false flags and black operations committed by the US.
And the list goes on and on of the deaths that the United States has caused to tens of millions of people,
the majority being innocent civilians.

The fact is that the United States is a terrorist regime.
Some people may deny that, but those people are just being fools.

Yet Gaddafi NEVER caused anywhere near that amount of trouble and of deaths that the United States has caused.

Also, the fact remains that Gaddafi was one of the best leaders to his own people, out of almost any leader at anytime, any where.
NO American leader lifted up his own people anywhere close to how Gaddafi lifted up his own people and their living standards.

Gaddafi's problem is that he did NOT have enough "Deterrent Power" to keep the United States from attacking Libya. IF Gaddafi had nuclear weapons, then the United States would NOT have attacked Libya.
That is for sure.

Anyway, understand this, "Deterrent Power" prevents an aggressive country from attacking another country.
For decades, United States has wanted to use their US military to attack Russia (Soviet Union).
The NUMBER ONE reason why United States has not gone to war against Russia, is that Russia has the ultimate "Deterrent Power", which is nuclear weapons that would have been used against the United States.
THAT is why they fought the "Cold War".
Ever since after World War Two, NO country has started a war against the United States, because the US has the ultimate "Deterrent Power", which is nuclear weapons.
IF the US did not have nuclear weapons, then many countries would have used their militaries to go to war against the US and attacked the US.
It was exactly seventy years ago today (December 11, 2011) that Hitler declared war against the US, but at that time, Hitler did not know about the American atomic bombs.

Similarly, the same goes for Japan.

So, what you need to know is that it is reasonable and rational for your country to have nuclear weapons as a "Deterrent Power" to protect Iran from an attack by the United States and/or Israel.

I do NOT promote any country to have nuclear weapons.
NO ONE SHOULD HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

But nuclear weapons are an irreversible fact of life.
So, if one county has nuclear weapons, then other countries have the right to have nuclear weapons to ONLY be used as a "Deterrent Power". It is a matter of moral relativism.