THE SIGHTLESS BIRD
Cecil Callahan
SENIOR INVESTMENT PROFESSIONAL ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS, PRIVATE EQUITY , ESG, RENEWABLE ENERGY
WHAT CAME FIRST FALLUJAH OR GAZA ?
FULLUJAH, A PLACE WHERE ALL GROUPS THAT HATED AMERICA COULD TRAVEL TO AND TAKE A CHANCE ON LIFE.WHAT CAME FIRST FALLUJAH OR GAZA ?
FULLUJAH, A PLACE WHERE ALL GROUPS THAT HATED AMERICA COULD TRAVEL TO AND TAKE A CHANCE ON LIFE.
THE TEAMS OF HATE ARE ALWAYS IN SEARCH OF A NEW STADIUM, A NEW GAME. THE FANS WILL COME.
SECOND BATTLE OF FULLUGA
Second Battle of Fallujah
Part of the Iraq War
7 November – 23 December
Casualties and losses
95 killed, 560 wounded[10] (54 killed, 425 wounded from 7–16 November)[11] 8 killed, 43 wounded[11][12] 4 killed, 10 wounded[13][14]
Civilian casualties: 581–670 killed (Iraq Body Count) 800 killed (Red Cross)
GAZA OUT THE BOTTLE
Gaza was part of the Ottoman Empire before it was occupied by the United Kingdom (1918–1948), Egypt (1948–1967), and then Israel, which in 1993 granted the Palestinian Authority in Gaza limited self-governance through the Oslo Accords. The more things change the more they stay the same. Gaza continues to be a place without destiny.
Israel captured the Gaza Strip from Egypt in the Six-Day War in 1967. Pursuant to the Oslo Accords signed in 1993, the Palestinian Authority became the administrative body that governed Palestinian population centers. Israel maintained control of the airspace, territorial waters and border crossings with the exception of the land border with Egypt which is controlled by Egypt.
Gaza, a land in a bottle.
In 2005, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip under their unilateral disengagement plan.
EARLIER
On August 26, 1979, my founding partner of Goodworks International, former UN Ambassador Mr. Young met with Zehdi Labib Terzi, the P.L.O. observer to the United Nations, barely a week after President Carter's “crisis of confidence” speech to the nation and Cabinet shakeup.
The Young Terzi discussion also took place at time of high tension between Israel and the United States.
U.N. Ambassador, Andrew Young announced his resignation soon after the meeting, the Ambassador took full responsibility for his actions. “I could not say to anybody that given the same situation, I wouldn't do it again, almost exactly the same way,” he said.
However, Israel has already charged the Carter Administration with tilting toward the P.L.O. under pressure from Arab oil states. At a White House dinner on July 30, Mr. Carter compared Palestinian aspirations to those of American blacks in the struggle for civil rights.
Really? Carter and Civil Rights
In 1970, Sanders was an urbane former governor and increasingly successful attorney, and Carter was an ambitious former state senator and a peanut farmer.
Four years earlier, Carter, one term governor of Georgia, had been the loser, watching segregationist Lester Maddox beat him to become Georgia’s governor.
The Plains Georgia Democrat, who had earlier struck many as an idealistic modern politician, learned his lesson in that beating. He swung racist rightward in his next campaign, ruthlessly destroying an opponent his campaign team ridiculed as “Cufflinks Carl.” A key Carter campaign strategy was to criticized Governor Carl Sanders for placing African American (DOAS) business partners in the Atlanta Hawks ownership deal.
During a visit by Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat to Vienna the State Department disclosed, the United States Ambassador to Austria, Milton A. Wolf, met three times with the P.L.O.'s Vienna representative. Reacting to Mr. Young's encounter, Senator Jacob K. Javits said, “I prefer to hold his boss responsible — to wit, the President.” The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson asked: “Is Andy Young a fall guy in shifting policy?”
PEACE, A METAMORPHOSUS
CAMP DAVID, EQYPT RETREAT
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland.
The two framework agreements were signed at the White House and were witnessed by President Jimmy Carter. The second of these frameworks (A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel) led directly to the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
The UN General Assembly rejected the Framework for Peace in the Middle East, because the agreement was concluded without participation of UN and PLO and did not comply with the Palestinian right of return, of self-determination and to national independence and sovereignty.
Would you include the UN?
Syria and Egypt have demonstrated that one could not include others in a successful military action against Israel or any action in the Yom Kipper War.
The others were only informed after the war begun.
The UN should accept the ex ente offered.
The Camp David Accords goals for Egypt and Israel:
Egypt regained the Sinai Peninsula that Israel had captured during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Israel received its first formal recognition from an Arab state.
A PRICE FOR PEACE
EGYPT
U.S. assistance to Egypt has played a central role in Egypt's economic and military development and in furthering the U.S.-Egypt strategic partnership and regional stability. Since 1978, the United States has provided Egypt with over $50 billion in military and $30 billion in economic assistance.
EGYPT AND ARAB AFRICA COLONINATION
Egypt is African and has African problems. Ethiopia recently completed a Nile hydro dam. The consequence is threat to the Egyptian water supply. An usual green threat
As the world's oldest Christian nation, Ethiopia is finally at peace with Islamic Somalia but has its own civil war. Ethiopia needs hydro power for agriculture. Starvation is chronic and it has an authenticated Africa Jewish population. Ethiopia, as most Christian, does not want exposure to the Middle East conflict. Ethiopia often appears to minimized exposure to sub-Sahara Africans
ARAB AFRICA SETTLEMENTS
The colonized North Africa Arab states, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco etc.. want nothing to do with the Arab Israeli conflict after surviving the Arab Spring.
The indigenous people of North Africa are predominantly Berber. The Berbers live mainly in Morocco (between 35 percent-60 percent of the population) and in Algeria (about 15 to 33 percent of the population), as well as Libya and Tunisia, though exact statistics are unavailable. Most North Africans who consider themselves Arab also have significant Berber ancestry.
To consider yourself Arab is to consider yourself the Advantaged group. This is the case in other states such as Sudan. The claim of an Arab or Advantaged is a cultural path, it is not physical appearance. It is assimilation as in America. Where many immigrants pass as the Advantage.
AFRICA’S OCCUPIED POPULATION
The Berber peoples had several choices; living in the mountains, resisting Arab dominance, or moving into the Arab community, where Arab language and culture were dominant. Many chose a mountain life, where their descendants remain today.
The Berber influence is why Israeli Morocco relationship is favorable. However, the King is Arab, the King. is benevolent.
Today Berbers often live in the mountains and in smaller settlements throughout the North African terrain. Of the region's major cities, only Marrakech has a population with a strong Berber identity. During the days of the Arab conquest, the invaders took control of the cities, for the most part ignoring the rural areas.
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Berber village in the high Atlas in Morocco (Imlil valley)
Similar to the situation in many Western societies such as Native peoples in the U.S., Aboriginals in Australia, and Lapps in Norway, the Berbers were considered to be second class citizens until the middle of the twentieth century. In some areas of northern Africa, the Berber people continue to be looked upon as 'illiterate peasants' dressed in traditional garments.
The plight of the the Berber is the Apartheid of the North African Arab world.
As with many other indigenous peoples throughout the world, the Berbers had begun to rise up in the latter years of the twentieth century, speaking out against the undervaluation of their culture and identity.
Major points of protest have been the absence of a written language and the lack of political influence. This has been most obvious in Algeria, where the situation had been so tense during the 1990s, that foreign commentators had speculated about the prospects for a civil war and a partition of the country.
ARAB OCCUPATION OF JEWISH LAND
It would be difficult to determine whether Jewish Berber tribes were originally of Jewish descent and had become assimilated with the Berbers in language, habits, mode of life—in short, in everything except religion—or whether they were native Berbers who in the course of centuries had been converted by Jewish settlers. It is the second option which is considered as more likely by researchers such as André Goldenberg or Simon Levy.
The question on the origins of the Berber Jews is also further complicated by the likelihood of intermarriage. However. this may have been,
A unity in the fight against the Arab conquerors.
BEFORE CHRIST AND MUHUMMAD
As the Berbers pursue a path to restore their place in North Africa as pre-Arab colonization, The heritage of Hannibal, the great Carthaginian general and statesman or Berber general, Tariq ibn-Ziyad, who captured the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal). Known as al-Andalus, the territory became a prosperous cultural and economic center where education and the arts and sciences flourished.
These memories are lost due to the Berber withdrawal from Spain was 1492. The year of Columbus voyage which was navigated by a Berber.SAUDI ARABIA
Jared Corey Kushner
“The House Oversight panel, under Democratic leadership, launched a probe into the $2 billion investment Kushner secured from the Saudi Private Investment Fund (PIF), which is controlled by the crown prince. At a 2% hedge fund fee and 20% carried interest. The fees are $280,000,000 before compounding and 20% of a conservative unleveraged carried interest IRR of 25% or an additional $100,000,000.”
Larry Fink’s Bet on Saudi Oil Money
"Mr. Fink finds himself on the back foot once again, with BlackRock appointing the head of the Saudi oil giant Aramco to its board. Analysts say the move is about money, not optics."
The idea is that all Arab nations will finally become allies with Israel, bringing peace to the previously tumultuous region. At the heart of the new deal is Saudi Arabia, now having surpassed Egypt as the Arab countries' uncontested leader, backed with soft-power and vast, oil-generated coffers.
And now they are making peace without the Palestine.
I don’t have a solution but can see a problem.
THE PASSIONS OF TWO KINGDOMS
Princess Diana's romance with Dodi Fayed, the Egyptian-born film magnate, was just beginning when the two died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.
Dodi was the Saudi bright Knight of the Khashoggi clan. A light brighter than the Saudi Prince, MBS . Khashoggi Kingdom has more than enough in the bank and is flushed with love and humanity.
I recall a coffee break and introduction meeting with a journalist named Khashoggi. During the conversation There was a quiet whisper of confidence “it was not an accident”.
I thought Diana had a gotten away free. It was implied by some that relationship with an Arab man was unacceptable for the UK Royal family.
Show me a kingdom and will show you human rights violations and conspiracies will follow.
Jamal Khashoggi would be killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
His ex-wife is the aunt of Lady Diane's Fayed lover killed in the crash. Let the theories flow . Conspiracy theorist promote the theory that the U.K. was not happy with the Arab lover look.
Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em Fayed better known as Dodi Fayed, was an Egyptian film producer and the son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. This
made Fayed the first cousin of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist, dissident, author, columnist for Middle East Eye and The Washington Post, and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.”
“Saudi activist and journalist living in the United States, was brutally murdered by a hit team carrying out the orders of the Saudi government. His strangling and dismemberment inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul was an appalling reminder of the dangers that dissidents—even those who have fled abroad—face from authoritarian regimes.”
Despite an unequivocal assessment by US intelligence agencies that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the Khashoggi operation, he has faced no meaningful accountability. Worryingly, the United States and other leading democracies are actually pursuing closer diplomatic and cultural relations with Saudi Arabia, even as its crackdown on dissent grows worse.
Khashoggi’s murder may be the most notorious case of transnational repression by the Saudi regime, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg. In 2018, authorities in the United Arab Emirates detained women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul and forcibly sent her back to Saudi Arabia, where she endured solitary confinement, torture, and sexual harassment during her initial 10-month imprisonment.
Khashogggi’s dealth appears to be a systematic human rights crack down in the 2017–2019 Saudi Arabian purge. Much was cloaked under a shield of. government crackdown on corruption.
Although authorities suspended Loujain prison sentence in 2021, she remains under surveillance and can’t leave the kingdom. A Saudi teenager, Manal al-Gafiri, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for posting on social media in support of Saudi political prisoners.
Saudi Arabia. 2015 and 2017, three Saudi princes mysteriously vanished, and all had previously spoken out or acted against the regime. The highest-ranking of the three, the disinherited Prince Sultan bin Turki, a resident of Geneva and then Massachusetts, had been waging a campaign for Saudi political reform and suing the government for allegedly kidnapping him in 2003 when he disappeared with hardly a trace after boarding a government plane.
THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS RANGING FROM THE TREATMENT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY MEMBERS TO THE UNFAVORABLE EXPERINCES PURSUING THE HAJJ.
The Hajj: One of the five pillars of Islam is that each believer is called, at least once in their lives, to make the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that starts and ends in the holy city of Mecca located in today's Saudi Arabia.
BACK TO KHASHOGGI
Khashoggi served as editor for the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al Watan, turning it into a platform for Saudi progressives. Khashoggi fled Saudi Arabia in September 2017 and went into self-imposed exile. He said that the Saudi government had "banned him from Twitter", and he later wrote newspaper articles critical of the Saudi government. Khashoggi had been sharply critical of the Saudi rulers, King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He also opposed the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
Al Arabiya reported that Khashoggi once tried to persuade bin Laden to quit violence. In 1995 he was sent to Khartoum by the Saudi government to convince bin Laden to abandon jihad, which Crown Prince Abdullah promised would be reciprocated with a restoration of bin Laden's Saudi citizenship and readmission into Saudi Arabia.
· During their first meeting, bin Laden claimed to have moved on to peaceful agricultural and construction projects and repeatedly condemned the use of violence, but refused to allow Khashoggi to record his statements.
Khashoggi criticized the Saudi war on Yemen, writing "The longer this cruel war lasts in Yemen, the more permanent the damage will be. The people of Yemen will be busy fighting poverty, cholera, and water scarcity and rebuilding their country. The crown prince [Mohammed bin Salman] must bring an
end to the violence," and "Saudi Arabia's crown prince must restore dignity to his country – by ending Yemen's cruel war."
This the confession of a man that once managed investments for the Saudi Arabia Commercial Bank. My conspiracy theory is that the Crown King is the puppet master. The war is the Saudi Palestinian Solution to clear the way with Israeli recognition.
This is my conspiracy in honor of Khashoggi.
Second Battle of Fallujah
Iraq War Operation Al-Fajr, Operation Phantom Fury
Second Battle of Fallujah, (November 7–December 23, 2004), also called Operation Al-Fajr (“Dawn”) and Operation Phantom Fury, joint American, Iraqi, and British military campaign during the Iraq War that crushed the Islamic insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, in the Sunni Muslim province of Al-Anbar. After the First Battle of Fallujah (April 4–May 1, 2004) left resistance fighters and foreign Muslim extremists in control of the city, the U.S.-led coalition decided to mount in November a follow-up campaign to retake the city to prevent a further spreading of the armed opposition to the U.S.-occupation of Iraq.
Iraq War, 2004
Fallujah was a stronghold of the deposed Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, and after the First Battle of Fallujah, the city became a magnet for Iraqi resistance fighters and foreign Muslim volunteers. In November, the occupation forces decided to turn Fallujah into a trap where they would encircle the insurgents and destroy them. The city was surrounded with checkpoints to prevent insurgents from arriving or leaving. Realizing what was to come, 300,000 civilians fled the city. Intense shelling
and air strikes pounded the city before the coalition troops moved in on November 8. The urban fighting was fierce, with concealed sniper positions and booby traps a severe danger. A great deal of destruction was caused by troops blowing holes in the walls of houses rather than risk a possibly booby-trapped door. After several days of street fighting, the city center was secured, but pockets of resistance endured for several weeks, each having to be reduced at a high cost in lives. The insurgents in Fallujah were largely destroyed, and the resistance never again challenged the coalition in open combat, but small-scale attacks across Iraq multiplied. Some 110 coalition forces were killed and some 600 wounded in the battle; some 3,000 insurgents were killed or captured. An unknown number of civilians, estimated to be in the thousands, were also killed.