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Talk to the Devil

Germany - My memo to Secretary Rice: a. get invested in Lebanon's future, b. start talking to the bad guys while thinking about incentives to get Syria to cooperate....

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Hello how are u all doing? Before I start I want to say my English Writing is not A* format but I do not care and I want to say that I do not want to fight in this message but instead to tell you about how I feel about all this and what is the truth behind it all if you know what I mean. I am a 19 year old Iraqi Arab who lives in the UK and also hates living in London not because of the UK being in my land that has been "foresakened" ever since Babylon but of how boring and old fashoined London really is. Anyway I am really mad at this world, but the real reason why I am mad is because what resources it has produced to this day that makes "Men" so mad and so greedy and so it makes them powerless over themselves in their minds and then makes money rule over them but not them having control over money, but I do not call these people "Men" but I basically call them "The Others." All they want is power and with money creates even greater power but with all this power and money that they have, they should make this world a better place so we all can live in peace as "One," but they they think they worked day and night for it and broke their back in the process but really they are too deep in their own greed to free themselves from it. These others are too weak, unconfident in their mind for them to come out to say on International news "We are the people who is behind all of this and we love what we are doing" and this is what exactly I would say to the world, but no they stay behind their doors and whisper among themselves, and this is why I am mad at these others (who I call them "F.I.T.Z" for short) and the world because it is the world that makes them like this because of its richness and also it is themselves that makes their minds lost but to be "Frank or should I say Myself," it is not the world that is doing this or our G_D (to be respectful) but really it is their "Intentions" that makes them like this who effects us all, but to be honest I may have similar intentions like them because what I really want is for the "World" to be together as "One" people, love, currency, economy, and mainly one leader to have the control of it all who was appointed by the people. This is why I say that this world makes "Men" crazy because when "Men" have power they want more power and then greed gets to them, and to be honest again I have tried to contact these "Others" or the "F.I.T.Z" so I can be among their small elite but now I know that I do not want to be governed but to govern "Myself" instead and to make this world better just like how it was before Mohammed, Jesus and Moses, for the world to be Babylon so we all can live as "One" and mainly in Peace and this is what I want in this life and if the "Intentions of the F.I.T.Z" is not what I think it is to make the world together then someone else who has more knowledge, creativity, power and soldiers, "He" who will make "Babylon" again,

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To the Devil who is here somewhere or is walking somewhere amongst us in these lands, I would just say to you, "You have done a Great job of creating the F.I.T.Z and making them think that they are smart, and I applaue to you but one thing I say to you, if you do not like me and "IF" you want to send me to "Heaven or Hell" then I will see you in Babylon, and if you want Babylon then we could either fight together now, as me to be your only trustfull man with you or we can be against each other as enemies, and myself as your "Nemesis" so I really do not know what to call you but I can say this "The Fallen Jin from the Heavens" please think about it while I am sleeping and you awake, because I do not have enough patience for this life.

Take care to you all and I hope I have not affended anyone in this message, and if the Washington Post does not submit this, then at least give it to your superior for him to give to his superior and etc. etc. And also I did tell you my English Writing aint all that.

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Peace shall come among all our Lands and if not Peace then it shall be something no human has ever seen before.
And I apologize for this Future to come, soon. I am sorry for what I cannot stop.

Musil:

Arranging players, Syria - U.S.A, Iran and Uran etc, is this THE problem? The well known "Gordian knot" of the Middle East is the dissent on the future of Israel. Uran in Iran is just a part of it.

(a) The borders of 67, as far as a two state solution is concerned, as a minimum. The most difficult part are the refugees, will they get their houses back, will they or their sons and daughters be able to become "Arab Israelis"?

"Impossible" maybe, but Eastern Jerusalem is nothing compared with this.

(b) Two states, Israel/Palestine, or one state, that seems to be the strategy of Iran etc? A two state solution today does not make a one state solution in some future impossible. When people have learned to live todether. To way into that future should be a win-win situation for everybody, Iran included. But they should not have to agree to a "permanent" two state solution.

Lets learn from the Lebanon.

MJ:

If Europeans want to protect Lebanese lives and pressure Israel, why don't they do more than just criticize US policy? Why don't they impost heavy tarrifs on Israeli imports until the violence stops? The EU, of course, is the largest recipient of Israeli exports. Through a tarrif regime, the EU could cripple the Israeli economy, thereby putting substantial pressure on the Israeli government to end the bloodshed.

David Ellis:

Is there ANYONE in our government with the courage and decency to take on the Zionists? I'm not holding my breath. Satan is a formidable adversary. But Mr. Kleine-Brockhoff has the right idea.

Riyad:

Mr. Brockhoff .. I agree with you. Syria is a key lynch-pin to a solution for Lebanon. However, in order to (i) disengage Syria from Iran and (ii) allow for peace to return to Lebanon, Syria must be compelled and incentivised. In its desire to shove Syria into a corner, the USA has painted itself in a corner with very few options(very bad position to be in politics). The USA must find a way to have dialogue with Syria and the only incentives that will get Syria to act in earnest are the ones you mention, namely (a) solution to the Golan Heights, and (b) acceptance by the Western world.

yasuyuki:

As Mr.Brockhoff suggests, diplomacy is an art to talk to your adversaries (the so-called bad guys). If Rice likes to talk to her likings such as Israel, and European Union and Russia (which she may not really like but a powerful powers) and neglect her duty to talk to Syria or Iran, she is a failure as a diplomat. The biggest problem of the current US government is that it does not have any idea on diplomacy.

jvd70:

Thomas, I am a European too, and after all the hurt that Hezbollah has caused not just Israel, not just the USA, not just Europe (1983, 58 French soldiers, Terry Waite, many other hostages) but their own people as well, isn't it time we went in there on the side of Israel and help them crush the terrorists?

War, some may say, is not the solution, but it's what the allies used to defeat the Nazis. The allies liberated the German people and my people from the ideology that had turned our nations into a nightmare. Now after 60 years Germany is the 3rd biggest economy on the planet and one of the top democracies as well. How wasn't war the solution? Germany commands the NATO forces in Afghanistan that kill Hezbollah fighters who don't wear uniforms, how are we to know how many civilians died at our hands there? We do what we believe is the right thing. In fact, we (Europeans) were not directly attacked by Al Quaeda and yet we are in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban. Israel was directly attacked, and our support for it would be like our support for the USA.

I would not like a war there, I want our diplomacy to work, but we are pressuring the wrong people. Iran and Syria need to be pressured to stop supporting terror, to stop supporting the military wing in Hamas, to give peace a chance. Perhaps we feel we should not get involved but West Germany already has blood on its hands in supporting the Maronite Christians in the Lebanese civil war.

If the Lebanese army dissolves and the groups rearm themselves in a l'histoire se repete of 1975, we only have ourselves to blame.

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