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| US State Department press briefing, 7/3/2012: | |||
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| يا مصر قومي وشدي الحيل | |||
| كل اللي تتمنيه عندي | |||
| لا القهر يطويني ولا الليل | |||
| </big></big></poem><small>]، يا مصر قومي</small> | |||
| <center><poem><big><big> | |||
| مصر الحرة مين يحميهــــا | |||
| نحـميهـا بـسلاحـنـــا | |||
| أرض الثورة مين يفديهـا | |||
| نفـديها بأرواحـنــا | |||
| </big></big></poem><small>] ،]</small> | |||
| <poem><big><big> | |||
| اللهم ارحم شهدائنا | |||
| (‎آمين) | |||
| </big></big></poem><small>صلاة الفجر، ميدان التحرير، ١٢ فبراير ٢٠١١</small></center><br /> | |||
| MS. NULAND: Well, I don’t think I’m going to justify that with a response one way or the other. I mean, you know where we are on foreign military intervention in Syria.<p>Listen, before we leave Syria, I just want to take the opportunity, if you didn’t see it, to draw your attention to the Human Rights Watch report that was released today that identifies some 27 detention centers that Human Rights Watch says Syrian Government intelligence agencies have been using since the Assad crackdown on pro-democracy protestors. The report found that tens of thousands of Syrians are in detention by regime security and intelligence agencies and that the regime is carrying out inexplicable, horrific acts of torture, including – well, I’m not going to repeat them here, but I’ll leave it to you to read the report. And in many cases, the Human Rights Watch asserts that even children have been subject to torture by the Assad regime. | |||
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| |In summer 2004, as acres of olive groves were being uprooted to make way for construction of a 24-foot high concrete wall extending well into Palestinian territory, and enclosing the rest of Palestine into numerous walled enclaves dotted with checkpoints that control mobility, protesters asked soldiers guarding the bulldozers why they were destroying cultivated Palestinian fields. The heavily armed soldiers pointed their rifles at the protesters and yelled, 'They are foreigners here. This all belongs to us'. In a poignant display of performative emotion, an elderly Palestinian woman from the village stood in front of one of the few remaining olive trees in a devastated field of uprooted trees littering the landscape and, holding an olive branch, angrily chanted, 'They can come from Poland, they can come from Russia, they can come from America, and they can come from Ethiopia, but this will always be ours! This is Palestinian land.' --<small>{{cite journal|last=Peteet|first=Julie|title=Words as Interventions: Naming in the Palestine–Israel Conflict|journal=Third World Quarterly|publisher=Taylor & Francis|volume=26|issue=1|year=2005|pages=pp. 153-172}} p. 162.</small><br /><br / >The settlers, who endlessly declaim their love for the country, love it the way a rapist loves his victim. They violate the country and want to dominate it by force. This is visibly expressed in the architecture of their fortresses on the tops of the hills, fortified neighborhoods with Swiss tile-covered roofs. They don’t love the real country, the villages with their minarets, the stone houses with their arched windows nestling on the hillsides and merging with the landscape, the terraces cultivated to the last centimeter, the wadis and the olive groves. --<small>{{cite news|title=<span class="plainlinks"></span>|last=Avnery|first=Uri|authorlink=Uri Avnery|publisher=]|date=25 September 2010}}</small><br /><br />The treatment meted out to Jews in Germany and other European countries is a disgrace to its authors and to modern civilisation; but posterity will not exonerate any country that fails to bear its proper share of the sacrifices needed to alleviate Jewish suffering and distress. To place the brunt of the burden upon Arab Palestine is a miserable evasion of the duty that lies upon the whole of the civilised world. It is also morally outrageous. No code of morals could justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another. The cure for the eviction of Jews from Germany is not to be sought in the eviction of the Arabs from their homeland; and the relief of the Jewish distress may not be accomplished at the cost of inflicting a corresponding distress upon an innocent and peaceful population. --<small>{{cite book|title=The Arab awakening: the story of the Arab national movement|last=Antonius|first=George|publisher=H. Hamilton|year=1939|authorlink=George Antonius}} cited in {{cite book|title=The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East|publisher=Harper Perennial|year=2005|page=451|last=Fisk|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Fisk}}</small> | |||
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| QUESTION: Do you see that report as credible and solid, and you’re putting – you’re endorsing it? I mean, you’re saying -- | |||
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| <div style="text-align: center;"><poem><big><big> | |||
| عشرونَ عاماً وأنا | |||
| أبحثُ عن أرضٍ وعن هويّه | |||
| أبحثُ عن بيتي الذي هناك | |||
| عن وطني المحاطِ بالأسلاك | |||
| أبحثُ عن طفولتي | |||
| وعن رفاقِ حارتي | |||
| عن كتبي، عن صوري | |||
| عن كلِّ ركنٍ دافئٍ، وكلِّ مزهريّه | |||
| إلى فلسطينَ خذوني معكم، معكم | |||
| </poem></div></big></big> | |||
| MS. NULAND: We have no reason to believe that it is not credible. It’s based on eyewitness accounts, and they’re reporting from a broad cross-section of human rights figures inside Syria. | |||
| QUESTION: So the next time Human Rights Watch comes out with a report that’s critical of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians, I’ll assume that you’re going to be saying the same thing, correct; that you think that the report is credible, it’s based on eyewitness accounts? | |||
| ] graffiti on the West Bank wall. He retells a story about his encounter with an old Palestinian man. The man said his painting made the wall look beautiful. When Banksy thanked the man he got a reply that was unexpected. He was told "We don't want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall. Go home."<sup><span class="plainlinks"></span></sup>]] | |||
| MS. NULAND: As -- | |||
| QUESTION: And you’re not going to say that it’s politically motivated and should be dismissed? | |||
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| MS. NULAND: Matt, as you have made clear again and again in this room, we are not always consistent. | |||
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| QUESTION: So, in other words, anything that Human Rights Watch says that is critical of someone you don’t like, that’s okay; but once they criticize someone that you do like, then it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on? | |||
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| MS. NULAND: Matt, I’m not going to get into colloquy on this one. | |||
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Revision as of 21:19, 6 July 2012
US State Department press briefing, 7/3/2012:
MS. NULAND: Well, I don’t think I’m going to justify that with a response one way or the other. I mean, you know where we are on foreign military intervention in Syria.
Listen, before we leave Syria, I just want to take the opportunity, if you didn’t see it, to draw your attention to the Human Rights Watch report that was released today that identifies some 27 detention centers that Human Rights Watch says Syrian Government intelligence agencies have been using since the Assad crackdown on pro-democracy protestors. The report found that tens of thousands of Syrians are in detention by regime security and intelligence agencies and that the regime is carrying out inexplicable, horrific acts of torture, including – well, I’m not going to repeat them here, but I’ll leave it to you to read the report. And in many cases, the Human Rights Watch asserts that even children have been subject to torture by the Assad regime. QUESTION: Do you see that report as credible and solid, and you’re putting – you’re endorsing it? I mean, you’re saying -- MS. NULAND: We have no reason to believe that it is not credible. It’s based on eyewitness accounts, and they’re reporting from a broad cross-section of human rights figures inside Syria. QUESTION: So the next time Human Rights Watch comes out with a report that’s critical of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians, I’ll assume that you’re going to be saying the same thing, correct; that you think that the report is credible, it’s based on eyewitness accounts? MS. NULAND: As -- QUESTION: And you’re not going to say that it’s politically motivated and should be dismissed? MS. NULAND: Matt, as you have made clear again and again in this room, we are not always consistent. QUESTION: So, in other words, anything that Human Rights Watch says that is critical of someone you don’t like, that’s okay; but once they criticize someone that you do like, then it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on? MS. NULAND: Matt, I’m not going to get into colloquy on this one.