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360. Kishmeer - 2011-12-01 01:57:30 |
These are the words of Simon Deng, once a Sudanese slave. He is addressing the Durban Conference in NY.
I want to thank the organizers of this conference, The Perils of Global intolerance. It is a great honor for me and it is a privilege really to be among today’s distinguished speakers.
I came here as a friend of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. I came to protest this Durban conference which is based on a set of lies. It is organized by nations who are themselves are guilty of the worst kinds of oppression.
It will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel. The UN has itself become a tool against Israel. For over 50 years, 82 percent of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state - Israel. Hitler couldn’t have been made happier.
The Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people will know that.
But friends, I come here today with a radical idea. I come to tell you that there are peoples who suffer from the UN’s anti-Israelism even more than the Israelis. I belong to one of those people.
Please hear me out.
By exaggerating Palestinian suffering, and by blaming the Jews for it, the UN has muffled the cries of those who suffer on a far larger scale.
For over fifty years the indigenous black population of Sudan --Christians and Muslims alike --- has been the victims of the brutal, racist Arab Muslim regimes in Khartoum.
In South Sudan, my homeland, about 4 million innocent men, women and
children were slaughtered from 1955 to 2005. Seven million were ethnically cleansed and they became the largest refugee group since World War II.
The UN is concerned about the so-called Palestinian refugees. They dedicated a separate agency for them and they are treated with a special privilege.
Meanwhile, my people, ethnically cleansed, murdered and enslaved, are
relatively ignored. The UN refuses to tell the world the truth about the real causes of Sudan’s conflicts. Who knows really what is happening in Darfur? It is not a "tribal conflict." It is a conflict rooted in Arab colonialism well known in north Africa. In Darfur, a region in the Western Sudan, everybody is Muslim. Everybody is Muslim because the Arabs invaded the North of Africa and converted the indigenous people to Islam. In the eyes of the Islamists in Khartoum, the Darfuris are not Muslim enough. And the Darfuris do not want to be Arabized. They love their own African languages and dress and customs.
The Arab response is genocide! But nobody at the UN tells the truth about Darfur.
In the Nuba Mountains, another region of Sudan, genocide is taking place as I speak. The Islamist regime in Khartoum is targeting the black Africans - Muslims and Christians. Nobody at the UN has told the truth about the Nuba Mountains.
Do you hear the UN condemn Arab racism against blacks?
What you find on the pages of the New York Times, or in the record of the UN condemnations is "Israeli crimes" and Palestinian suffering. My people have been driven off thefront pages because of the exaggerations about Palestinian suffering. What Israel does is portrayed as a Western sin. But the truth is that the real sin happens when the West abandons us; the victims of Arab/Islamic apartheid.
Chattel slavery was practiced for centuries in Sudan. It was revived as a tool of war in the early 90s. Khartoum declared jihad against my people and this legitimized taking slaves as war booty. Arab militias were sent to destroy Southern villages and were encouraged to take African women and children as slaves. We believe that up to 200,000 were kidnapped, brought to the North and sold into slavery.
I am a living proof of this crime against humanity.
I don’t like talking about my experience as a slave, but I do it because it is important for the world to know that slavery exists even today.
I was only nine years old when an Arab neighbor named Abdullahi
tricked me into following him to a boat. The boat wound up in Northern
Sudan where he gave me as a gift to his family. For three and a half
years I was their slave going through something that no child should
ever go through; brutal beatings and humiliations; working around the
clock; sleeping on the ground with animals; eating the family’s
left-overs. During those three years I was unable to say the word
"no." All I could say was "yes," "yes," "yes."
The United Nations knew about the enslavement of South Sudanese by
the Arabs. Their own staff reported it. It took UNICEF - under pressure
from the Jewish -led American Anti-Slavery Group -- sixteen years to
acknowledge what was happening. I want to publicly thank my friend Dr.
Charles Jacobs for leading the anti-slavery fight.
But the Sudanese government and the Arab League pressured UNICEF, and
UNICEF backtracked, and started to criticize those who worked to
liberate Sudanese slaves. In 1998, Dr. Gaspar Biro, the courageous UN
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Sudan who reported on slavery,
resigned in protest of the UN’s actions.
My friends, today, tens of thousands of black South Sudanese still serve their masters in the North and the UN is silent about that. It would offend the OIC and the Arab League.
As a former slave and a victim of the worst sort of racism, allow me to explain why I think calling Israel a racist state is absolutelyabsurd and immoral.
I have been to Israel five times visiting the Sudanese refugees. Let me tell you how they ended up there. These are Sudanese who fled Arab racism, hoping to find shelter in Egypt. They were wrong. When Egyptian security forces slaughtered twenty six black refugees in Cairo who were protesting Egyptian racism, the Sudanese realized that the Arab racism is the same in Khartoum or Cairo. They needed shelter and they found it in Israel. Dodging the bullets of the Egyptian border patrols and walking for very long distances, the refugees’ only hope was to reach Israel’s side of the fence, where they knew they
would be safe.
Black Muslims from Darfur chose Israel above all the other Arab-Muslim states of the area. Do you know what this means!!!?? And the Arabs say Israel is racist!!!?
In Israel, black Sudanese, Christian and Muslim were welcomed and treated like human beings. Just go and ask them, like I have done. They told me that compared to the situation in Egypt, Israel is "heaven."
Is Israel a racist state? To my people, the people who know racism - the answer is absolutely not. Israel is a state of people who are the colors of the rainbow. Jews themselves come in all colors, even black. I met with Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Beautiful black Jews.
So, yes, I came here today to tell you that the people who suffer most from the UN anti-Israel policy are not the Israelis but all those people who the UN ignores in order to tell its big lie against Israel; we, the victims of Arab/Muslim abuse; women, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, homosexuals, in the Arab/Muslim world. These are the biggest victims of UN Israel hatred.
Look at the situation of the Copts in Egypt, the Christians in Iraq,and Nigeria, and Iran, the Hindus and Bahais who suffer from Islamic oppression. The Sikhs. We - a rainbow coalition of victims and targets of Jihadis -- all suffer. We areignored, we are abandoned. So that the big lie against the Jews can go forward.
In 2005, I visited one of the refugee camps in South Sudan. I met a twelve year old girl who told me about her dream. In a dream she wanted to go to school to become a doctor. And then, she wanted to visit Israel. I was shocked. How could this refugee girl who spent most of her life in the North know about Israel? When I asked why she wanted to visit Israel, she said; "This is our people." I was never
able to find an answer to my question.
On January 9 of 2011 South Sudan became an independent state. For South Sudanese, that means continuation of oppression, brutalization, demonization, Islamization, Arabization and enslavement.
In a similar manner, the Arabs continue denying Jews their right for sovereignty in their homeland and the Durban III conference continues denying Israel’s legitimacy.
As a friend of Israel, I bring you the news that my President, the President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir -- publicly stated that the South Sudan embassy in Israel will be built--- not in Tel Aviv, but in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people.
I also want to assure you that my own new nation, and all of its peoples, will oppose racist forums like the Durban III. We will oppose it by simply telling the truth. Our truth
My Jewish friends taught me something I now want to say with you.
AM YISROEL CHAI!
The people of Israel lives!
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358. Ricardo Simmons - 2011-11-23 22:57:14 |
| As a listener and contributor to wbai, I want to thank you for the constantly enlightening program "Talk Back" You are a pillar and mirror to the community. It is a pleasure to tune to your show because it is a spotlight on the Truth. God Bless and keep you Hugh. Like another hero of mine Gil Noble, you are needed even more than you know it these uninformed and troubled times. |
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357. Sheldon H. from spring valley - 2011-11-22 03:17:56 |
| I am a big fan of wbai and i just wanna say that i hope that you guys continue to enlighten your listeners. WBAI is one of akind and i appreciate the honesty and clarity of every program. i will promote WBAI until the day i pass on from this physical life.Hugh Hamilton Rocks.Power2thePeople. |
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353. Matt from Perth Amboy - 2011-10-05 07:17:06 |
Why should the Occupy Wall St. congregation be required to have specific demands in order to achieve legitimacy?
They are citizens who are so troubled by how their established State and Federal representatives have ignored them that they are willing to put a hold on their personal lives and risk mental and physical abuse to draw attention to this issue.
Politicians misrepresenting their constituents in deference to big money is nothing new but the accumulated consequences are reaching a critical level in our present global economy and approaching the pain threshold of our middle class.
At the same time, all the traditional avenues of relief available to a citizen are being corrupted or closed off - Social welfare programs, the courts and the legislators.
So now these events bring us to a point where citizens without anywhere else to turn for relief and without the money to buy political clout make a very visible public stand to demonstrate the magnitude of this problem by the intensity of their commitment.
Why should they be expected to have the capacity to find economic, social and political solutions to this worldwide dilemma? Politicians campaign by insisting they are best equipped to handle the complex issues facing our nation yet they are the very ones who brought us to the brink. If they can’t find the way out of this mess then why would anyone expect ordinary citizens who have banded together by desperate circumstances to quickly compose a list of specific demands that, if met, would offer some viable solution.
There is the notion that a worker’s only real leverage in negotiating a business struggle is holding back production. I see the members of Occupy Wall St. being involved in a social struggle where their leverage is in holding back their prescribed social duties. In this fight they refuse to continue their social roles formed by the infiltration of big money into all aspects of their lives. Before it was uncomfortable to deal with this corporate presence but they went forward without complaint. Now, instead of going to school or work or with friends or parents, they are down at Wall street, no longer silent and removing themselves from the norms of polite society.
What more should be expected from Occupy Wall St. other than what their very existence represents? The politicians who were elected to represent the interests of those they serve should do just that and not compromise their duty by serving the interests of corporations. No other demands needed. The detailed new policies that would be required could easily be accomplished by all the experts already elected. These officials don’t need someone to tell them how to do it, they need someone to tell them why they should change their allegiance.
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351. rudolph baynes - 2011-09-30 14:42:23 |
In an exchange with a caller concerning the service or the disservice performed by the UN, a caller mentioned the Int Court of Criminal Justice and its failure to prosecute former President George Bush and his VP Dick Cheney. Not mentioned is that the ICCJ does not have prosecurial power over the US since the US is not a member. However there may be other means other than the ICCJ.
On another note I find your analysis of who qualifies as a natural born citizen with the ability to run for president quite enlightening. I never thought about what you said. Thanks.
Thirdly I like the native Autralian music that you played yesterday. Keep expanding my knowledge. |
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