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Gaza massacre
Andy Battaglia:
Tariq has hit the nail on the head. If the powers in the Arab world would stand up to the west instead of showering them with gifts, perhaps change could be found. What Tariq mentions about man-made islands and 7 star hotels is what is just so exasperating even when it comes to issues like funding research to cure thalassemia. At the Dubai conference, I spoke with Dr Michael Sadelain, about what is the main obstacle to running gene therapy trials...money. Dr Sadelain talked about how at a conference that attracted hundreds of thal patients from Saudi Arabia, that he wanted to make an appeal to the Saudi Arabians for $3 million to help finance the trials. While one sheik bought a jet for over $300 million, no money has come to fund this research, even though so many of their fellow countrymen suffer from thal. I have also used connections through diplomatic channels to ask money from the Kuwaiti princes, one of whom is a good friend of the ambassador I know. This ambassador has a thal daughter. Again, nothing came from the efforts. These greedy leaders enjoy things as they are and have no interest in helping their own people, let alone helping others in the Muslim world.
We can point fingers all day at the western nations that took away the land from the Palestinians and put Israel in their midst as a way of having a foothold in the Mideast, so we will always have an excuse to take the oil. It has been in the interest of the western powers to keep the Mideast unstable so that the governments there can be easily manipulated and controlled. In the 1970's people like Cheney and Wolfowitz designed the Plan for a New American Century (PNAC) which states exactly what I just said. Keeping the Mideast in a perpetual state of unrest is the plan and so far it has worked as they hoped, as the US was able to attack Iraq and kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis with impunity. Until the leaders of these Mideastern countries stand up and unite to change this state of affairs, this is how it will stay. No US president will ever stand against Israel as this would be political suicide. The only solution can come from the countries in the Mideast because the US and Israel will never leave the area in peace. Israel will continue to steal Arab lands and label as terrorists anyone who opposes their actions.
Nothing will change until countries like Saudi Arabia replace their corrupt kings and decide to lead rather than bow to the wishes of their US protectors. How many countries are like Saudi Arabia and have tens of thousands of US troops stationed there, solely to keep themselves in power?
Manal:
Tariq
--- Quote ---Muslim govts and muslim leaders, all they do is call a conference, talk nonsense and go back home to their life. They are all paid enough to enjoy their good night sleeps in their palaces
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I totally agree about this 100%
--- Quote ---Only Iran is the country whose leader is a true leader and who has guts to show thumbs down to Bush in front of the whole world.
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Totally disagree, when it came to practice where is their role now??? They have been accusing everybody of betrayl. what did they do now. It is all about INTERESTS
Sharmin
--- Quote ---An American man runs this website. A man who does not have thal, nor does any member in his family. He travels all over the world and for years has answered all of our queries night and day. His mission is to learn more and more in order to help us fight this disease - he worries about our iron levels and transfusion requirements. It is an American girl whose picture appears on the top of this page a girl who lost her life but left behind this site to help all of us - to unite us so that we can share our feelings and conquer this disease. Sajid was a Pakistani muslim who gave up a chance at life so that a little boy in India could live.
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I am sure Andy knows that we are mainly talking about goverments, not people and we all do respect all nationalities, what we all condemn is the politics not the people, the people of the US, Pakistain , India, Isreal, Palastien,... the common peole are only hoping to live in peace no more and just have the simple life. We are criticizing the politics in general and this include all the world including our own leaders, i hope we all have the same understanding.
Finally i am really happy on how we all disscuss a sensitive issues, though we all come from different culters, but we have great respect to each other. Whether we agree or disgree what i like is the tone of respect wehave for each other
One important conclusion:[/u]
After reading all about this thread, don't you think that thalassemia is really something soooo minor and easy to deal with and there are other hardships in life that God had saved us from, So we have to thank him, i guess :wink
Hope the coming year will bring more peace
manal
Manal:
Andy, you are totally right , this is the solution, i totally agree to each and every word. You understand the situation so right. None of the leaders work for the people.
Come on Andy, i am really so impressed an expert in thalassemia and Polticis, hats off my friend
manal
Dori:
it's terrible, really, really terrible.
I also think about the fact what Andy said - the ironic thing.
I haven't read all your message though.
For me it feels like Lebanon 06. I got a friend in Lebanon and I was so scared all the time.
They are just all liars.
I know about the EU, but WHY don't you hear ANYTHING of Obama? ???
I hope that the world will someday know peace.
Dore
p.s. I hope I didn't said anything against the rules of this forum...?
Sharmin:
Manal,
I completely agree with you:) I also believe that the leaders fail us and cause people to hate one another and that is why I was pointing out what great things we can do regardless of where we come from. Western governments have manipulated the entire world to get what they want - they use other countries as their pawns. The corrupt leaders and governments brew hatred in people which is heartbreaking and devastating - but that is their whole plan. If everyone were to like each other then and there was stability then their plans would fail. Everything that Andy has written is the point of view my dad has been telling us since we were children, and he has been warning us to not fall into the trap of believing the media around us. It is too bad that it is not stopping and that the effects continue to be so devastating. May there be peace someday.
Sharmin
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