AMERICAN OPINION

Monsieur Meyer, je vous remercie pour votre bonne intention. J'ai pris note de votre avertissement, mais j'aurais bien voulu que que fassiez l'essai avec un texte neutre et non pas avec mes ecrits.

Je passe pour cette fois car j'ai pour vous beaucoup de respect et consideration.

Amicalement votre emile

Essayez plutot celui-ci, il traduit dans beaucoups de langues :

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Traduction de la blague citée plus haut :

A man trotts himself in Central Park in New York.
Suddenly, it sees a pitbull attacking a small girl.
It precipitates, catches the dog and ends up killing it, thus saving the gamine.
A police officer who saw the scene arrives and says to him: - You are a hero.
Tomorrow, everyone will be able to read with the one of the newspapers: "courageous new Yorkean saved the life of a child"
The man answers: - But, I am not New York!
- He well, one will read: "a courageous American saves a small girl" -
But... I am not American! - And what are you then?
- I am Pakistanais!
And the following day, the newspapers titrate: "an islamist extremist massacres an American dog under the eyes horrified at a small girl"

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday
Because it shows the American way
Welcoming people of all backgrounds,
As with goodness our heart abounds

Surrounded by family and friends
Enjoying the meal until it ends
Like one nation we deploy
Our love and heart, with joy

The celebration brings good luck
Some come by car, and some by truck
We all love to share a great feeling
On the best day of Thanksgiving

The generous always gives his best
The stingy hides pennies in the chest
How nice it is to sit with loved ones,
And be it every year even just once.

While we celebrate together
We send our love and prayer
To those who cannot join today
That they may find help on the way

Thanksgiving is showing us how
We can all be united in love
Differences become irrelevant
As we all feel the blessing hand.

Merci pour les francouses

Meyer,

Puis-je savoir la raison qui fait que tu me cites ici...?
Alors que je ne cite personne au sujet de ces traductions en anglais...?
Dans le JUDEO AUX PIGNONS????

Gaza Then and Gaza Today

On December 22, 2004, I wrote this article.

Press release Gaza unilateral Evacuation

It is very disturbing to read from one side, that Sharon is trying to resolve the problem with the Palestinians by convincing the President of the United States that a unilateral evacuation of the Gaza strip could advance the solution of the problem, and from the oder side, that the Palestinians, with or without Arafat, do not understand that this war has to stop and that they should consider these evacuations as a good will gesture of the Israelis. With all of Sharon's good intentions, this action will provoke some kind of movement. From the other side and according to Sharon this move is good for the security of the State of Israel, but there are a few questions, facts, and factors, which have to be asked and considered in this forced evacuation, if the Israelis want to have a good relationship with their neighbor.

This will create a precedent for all the Arab neighbours that Israel can be attacted and if they lose the war the israelis will surrender the territories like the one we have seen in Lebanon. Facts: the settlement population is partly composed of people who were one time evacuated from the Yamit settlement, in the Sinai desert when Egypt made a peace agreement with Israel. The governement of Israel should have a good backing from the people of Israel and in particular from the settlers themselves. There are third generation settlers where children and grand children are born in those Gazean settlements, and many of them died and are buried in these settlements.

They are many elderly and youths who are living in the settlements. These so called settlers had not volunteered to come to the Gaza strip if the consecutive governements had not invited them to settle this land, by enticing them with all king of perks. The Sharon governement, as much as its intentions are for the security of Israel, should not act against the democratic process and the will of the people, after all many have lost members of their families to defend Israel. I don't understand why the goverment of Israel does not agree to make a referendum and let the people of Israel speak their minds and why the United States is not supporting the democratic process in this case, while they always proclaim that they support the advancement of the democratic process everywhere in the world.

Another aspect that neither the news nor the government are talking about: If this self-imposed unilateral evacuation succeeds, what impact will it have on the population of Gaza, be it Palestinian, or Israeli, and in general, on those who live now in the settlements in the Gaza Strip, on those who live in the settlements in the West Bank, and on those who are living in the Golan Heights etc.? In my view the impact is devastating for all the people of Israel, civilian and military. It brings disappointment, despair, and for some it bring a feeling of guilt, and can create trouble in their family structure. It creates emotional and behavioral problems among the young settler generations. Many of the settlers could be psychologically sick for a generation. A forced move can create divorces amoung parents and can provoke anger, shame, sadness, distress, and feeling of frustration, of powerlesness and injustice. Such a population becomes a seed of unhappy citizens and a seed for future conflicts.

It is not my intention to influence the outcome of this political dilemma, but to bring these facts to the attention of the people of Israel, of the US and of Europe, and particularly to that of the Jewish people who are convinced that this solution would be in Israel's best interest. Emile Tubiana



Today, November 24, 2007,

Almost three years later, we can evaluate the results of the forced evacuation.

The uprooted settelers are still not resettled, ,any of them do not have a permanent home.

The Palestians have been chased away by Hamas with the power of weapons. The Hamas has succeded to kill, wound, and uproot their brothers and has converted those who stayed in Gaza to become Hamas members.

Since then, Israel has not stopped seeing rockets being launched every day by the Hamas, on Israel's towns and villages.

I believe that a few days before the Annapolis conference, these facts speak for themselves.

Are the Palestinians ready for a peace move or should Israel expect another Gaza in the West Bank, but this time with Russian weaponry which Israel just authorized?

My view about the course of history since 9/11

The Course of History

The September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in New York changed the course of history and forced us to change our strategy and the military tactics known to this day.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor the president wanted an immediate and strong response and the military wanted a measured response. To the attack on USS Cole, President Clinton responded with a few rocket attacks. The American people forgot very quickly the facts and the pain. The Islamic extremists want to destroy our way of life and to transform our country and people to Muslim Shariya (Muslim law) states. We should understand the danger and we should know what to do, to defend our country and our lives.

After the attack of September 11, our president declared a total war on El Qaida, on its allied and its supporters.

The need to apply new security measures will slowly, slowly, change certain old democratic rules at the expense of personal freedom and our way of life. The American way of thinking, and that of the world is about to change. It is worth noting that for the first time, the leaders in the US and in other countries are people born after WW2 or who were too young to grasp the effects of this cruel war that engulfed the whole world. That war had destroyed cities and villages in Europe, in North Africa, and in Asia and left thirty million people dead, more than one hundred million people injured or handicapped, without counting the suffering of the widows and the orphans. World War II was cruel and surpassed by far the El Qaida war in its intensity, scale and the number of soldiers and military gear it involved, and by the large geographic area it encompassed.

It was also the United States that had to intervene in North Africa, in Europe, and in Asia to redirect the course of history towards peace and prosperity.

Today we are facing change and we have not yet realized the magnitude and the direct and indirect consequences of this new method of combat and of war. George W. Bush and his team are maybe the only ones to have grasped the range and the magnitude of this change and of the way in which first the United Stated, and then the world must face this almost invisible enemy. While trying not to confuse Islam in general with radical Islam, the Western World will see itself compelled to admit its weakness and sooner or later, if it wants to survive, it will need to reconsider and re-evaluate certain aspects of its democracy in view of the phenomenon of Islamism. Islam from its part, if it wants to live with the Western World will also have to change many aspects of its way of life.

Radical Islam has also changed the course of Arab and Muslim history and has maybe given a false hope to the Arab and Muslim masses, that the Occident can be beaten, the same hope that the Palestinians thought of having acquired, when they launched the intifada against Israel.

In his time, Napoleon had changed the course of European history by forcing the kingdoms to go to battle with his army that was trained for a new way of combat. This is what Bin Laden is trying to do; he is forcing the Western World to fight against an invisible army, while the Occident, with its open movements and military corps becomes vulnerable. Arafat=s and Bin Laden=s mistake is, that this war will last a long time, and the one who will have the longer economical, military and social means and endurance will win. We tend to forget the evil, such as the El Qaida attacks. We prefer to put our head in the sand and we are unfair for the sake of politics, giving our enemies and friends the tool to fight us.


Bush has no choice than to win the Iraqi and Afghan wars for several reasons:

1. If the United States abandons Iraq, as a leader, we will lose the moral high ground and Iraq will become a haven for Arab and Muslim terrorists and will transform the Middle East into a fanatic dictatorial force that would threaten us and Europe. The Iranians would be the first to fill the vacuum left in Iraq and would help establish a Shiite Muslim Sharia (Muslim principles of jurisprudence). These facts alone would destabilize our Arab allies and would endanger the flow of oil.

2. Iran has already declared war and is threatening openly the destruction of our ally Israel and it will certainly not stop there. How can we call such a country, if not an evil country, as our president has declared it in his State of the Union? If we do nothing in the face of an evil, we give a free hand to the evil nation to triumph.

3 For the survival of the US as a world democratic power.

4. For the well-being of the Arab and Muslim world, if it does not want to fall back into a religious dictatorship

5. For the well-being of the world.

We saw the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which is older than 50 years and no one can see the end of it. The French-German wars lasted almost a century, similar to the English-French war, which lasted more than a century. We can expect that the United States will have to stay in Afghanistan and in Iraq as long as needed in order to stabilize the situation and to defeat the El Qaida. It may take 50 years or even more. Meanwhile the Middle East culture is transforming itself through the presence of television and of modern technology. The screen image projected by Al Jazira TV penetrates every Arab state, home and café, even if most of the time it is against America. This channel also projects the same reality on the ground, which, after a while will project the image of democracy and will change the Arab perception. .The screen images that reach us in our living rooms are also changing the American perception and culture. Fifty years ago, one could not imagine seeing so many foreign tourists in the American streets. This presence is helping the American economy, which is prospering. The presence of foreign people among us is also changing our way of life and our perception. The image of the election in Iraq, which penetrated the living rooms of the Arab world will have an indirect and certain impact on the Arab way of life and will slowly, slowly transform the Arab society. The American society has become more vulnerable because the people do not understand the meaning of terrorism and are influenced by a lot of propaganda in the American street. It comes from various so-called friends’ and foes’ spheres of influence which penetrate our living room trough media and the free internet. All this influence is changing the course of history for us and abroad without us even being aware of it.

If we continue this course, we will probably find ourselves in the middle of a war that we did not want, and for which we were neither prepared nor able to prevent it. In my view, our president was elected by the American people for the second term in the middle of the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan and in many other places in the world and at that time the United State Congress has not objected. Any president cannot easily change his strategy even if he wanted to. Can we change the rules in the middle of the game, without consequences?

All the presidential candidates, may they be democrats or republicans, except for a few, are confusing the American people for the benefit of their own political advantage and are sending our allies and our enemies a very mixed message. The fact of everyone complaining that the war is still not won and that it is not well managed is equal to someone cutting the legs of another person and complaining that he is too short.

From the beginning of the Bush administration, many political leaders and our European allies have together orchestrated a passive and sometimes a negative attitude towards this administration although they have voted for the war. I know from the experience of World War II and other wars that no leader is perfect. Those who are watching without any responsibility can easily criticize the one who is acting and carrying the burden. I understand that nothing is perfect, but as Americans we should unite in a common cause before it is too late.

Eventually, maybe after fifty or a hundred years, we will recognize the facts and we will probably salute our sitting president for his determination, despite all the pressure put on him from multiple directions in the middle of the war. This is my opinion.

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