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AFGHANISTAN DAN SEBAHAGIAN TEMPAT PAKISTAN MUSNAH-
Saturday, March 15, 2008
KEZALIMAN USA DAN SEKUTU DI IRAQ...
aziiM - "Anti Zalim Movement"
UMMAT iSLAM JANGAN LUPA cepat lupa betapa zalimnya US terhadap umat di Iraq. samada Muslim atau tidak... AZIIM akan melihat dari sudut pandang yg termampu dan mengangkat isu ini sehingga menjadi pelajaran buat kita semua sehingga ke anak cucu kita..
Lurching down Valencia Street in San Francisco last week, I all but stumbled over a homeless young man squatting against the wall of the now moribund New College. Begging his pardon, I could not help but note that he was leafing through a dog-eared volume scavenged from a nearby free book box serendipitously entitled "What We Owe Iraq." Indeed, my inattentiveness to the young man"s pedal extremities was the by-product of my contemplation of just that subject.
What do we owe Iraq for over a million dead and ten times that number wounded or otherwise devastated in five years of Bush"s unrelenting bloodletting?
For 5,000,000 people who have been uprooted and displaced from their homes, half of them forced to flee their homeland, 65% of them women and children, 80% of the children less than 12 years of age?
What do we owe Iraq for having perverted governance into an aggregation of death squads? For corrupting public officials and leveling essential services, leaving the nation in the dark most days, contaminating the water supply, destroying the agricultural sector in the birthplace of agriculture, and aiding and abetting the looting of the cradle of civilization?
What do we owe this country "where the first letter was written, the first law put, the first university built, the first money issued, and the first poetry written?" asks Eman Kammas, a fearless Iraqi journalist now forced into exile.
The $3,000,000.000.000 USD Joseph Stiglitz calculates this illegal war will cost U.S. taxpayers will not compensate Iraq in per capita reparations. The quotient of Iraqi blood shed in this genocidal exercise cannot nearly be repaid by all the hemoglobin extracted from the 4000 dead Americans who gave up their lives in this pointless fracaso. The blood they spilled is only a drop in this bottomless bucket.
What do we owe Iraq? The damage can never be quantified. "The debt is too great to comprehend," considers my colleague Sasha Crow, founder of the Collateral Repair Project whose NGO seeks to repair some of the damage done.
The book the homeless comrade on Valencia Street (was he a vet?) was perusing consists of a series of essays by one Noah Feldman, a New York University law professor and once senior constitutional adviser on "the ethics of nation building" to L. Paul Bremer"s Coalition Provisional Authority. On its now tattered pages, Feldman grapples with framing "the interests of the people being governed (read conquered) and our own interest in exercising power over them." The problem, as Bremer"s lawyer saw it, was how to build "responsible, capital-driven nations whose own citizens will not seek to destroy us" (sic.) Or. in other words, how to save Iraq by breaking it, an ethical quandary that 40 years ago perplexed the architects of the U.S. genocide in Vietnam.
Feldman"s moral compass only tackles the "nation-building" part and evades completely the legality of invading and breaking a sovereign nation. The constitution Feldman helped to write indeed handed Iraq over to the assassins and their U.S. sponsors. What we owe Iraq is to string Professor Feldman up from the nearest lamppost in Washington Square.
What Bush"s America thinks it owes Iraq was strikingly encapsulated in a recent New York Times dispatch that told of the "exceptional luck" of an Iraqi toddler. When Marines raided two year-old Amenah al-Bayati"s home in Anbar province to detain her father on suspicion of supporting the insurgency, they noted that her feet were turning blue, a sign of congestive heart failure. Captain Kevin Jarrard prevailed over the objections of Homeland Security to have the child flown to Tennessee for corrective surgery. "The kid couldn"t help who her daddy was," Captain Jarrard told the New York Times, adding that he now was friends with the imprisoned man. Amenah"s homecoming when she returned to Haditha was described by the Times as "a public relations coup" for the Marines.
In April 2005, a U.S. Marine unit killed 24 civilians in Haditha in cold blood, five of them children. The killers have since been absolved.
One thing we do not owe Iraq is another "public relations coup" but that"s what appears to be up ahead as the war de-accelerates. Youngsters maimed by the aggression that Professor Feldman rationalizes will be flown to the U.S. by "humanitarian" aid scams and faith-based Christian charities to massage the collective guilt of America for having slept through the massacre into coughing up big bucks. Celebrity telethons and "We Are The World" clone mega-concerts will follow. Reconstruction swindles with billions in contracts let to Halliburton and Blackwater (to protect the reconstructors) and the annexation of the nation"s damaged oil fields by Big Oil will drive the final neo-liberal nail into Iraq"s coffin. Just like the Feldman scenario, first we destroy "em and then we save "em. It"s the American way.
What we owe Iraq is about to become one more corporate boondoggle - if we let it.
In the years after the debacle in Vietnam, those who had savaged that country and those who had stood fast against the carnage considered this same question: what did we owe the people of Vietnam and their damaged land for our appalling war upon them both? Some returned to the scene of the crime to fraternize with the enemy and calculate the damage they had done. Vets" groups and peace activists took action to repair what collateral damage they could. Hospitals were built and potable water systems installed. Kids horribly burnt by our napalm were flown to California for plastic surgery. It seems almost axiomatic that once the U.S. has destroyed a nation, we are driven to repair it.
Who repairs the collateral damage is crucial in this equation. Should repair and reparations be relegated to the same profit-driven corporate entities responsible for the damage? Or are the people we have indiscriminately bombed best served by grassroots response?
Military euphemisms aside, collateral damage is the willful decimation of a civilian population designed to terrorize those who might consider resisting the conquest of their country. One antidote to this homicidal hypocrisy is collateral repair.
Collateral repair begins at home. Having read of the killing of an ambulance driver by U.S. troops in the northwest city of al-Qaim during the first days of "Operation Iron Fist" in October 2005, Crow began collecting small donations from her Seattle neighbors to repair a part of the damage, eventually providing the driver"s widow and four children with four walls and a roof and a few sheep. Others joined in and a Vets for Peace group installed a potable water system at the hospital whose ambulance had been crunched. The first effort blossomed into the Collateral Repair Project (www.collateralrepairproject.org) which seeks to soften some of the unspeakable damage Bush Inc. has inflicted upon the Iraqi people, person to person, family to family, hand to hand. and heart to heart.
Small things are accomplished: a kids" school uniform is paid for, a tank of propane to heat refugee hovels in winter is purchased, dollar reading glasses for sewing women are shipped over, soccer balls exchanged for toy guns - band-aids, yes, but as CRP asks "what else can we do?"
The dimensions of the damage are hard to comprehend. One does what they can and where they can do it. For the past year, Collateral Repair has focused on the nearly 1,000,000 Iraqis who have been driven into exile in Jordan, sometimes with only the shirt on their back, where they are hounded by authorities much as ICE beats up on undocumented Mexicans on the homefront.
Iraqi families who have sought sanctuary in Jordan now have until April 17th to pay thousands of dollars in fines for seeking refuge in that Hashemite kingdom or face deportation and possible death back to Iraq, or flee to a third country - the U.S. which instigated this butchery in the first place and where Homeland Security restricts refuge to collaborators, is not an option. However, its not all bad news - those Iraqis with $100,000 in the bank will be allowed to remain in Jordan.
Crow understands what we have taken from Iraq is irreplaceable, so she and her partner Mary Madsen work on the little things, the sewing machines, the price of baking a loaf of bread, a camcorder for Um Muna to record the ceremonies of life in her Amman refugee community. A collection we took up at my 70th birthday party paid for it.
What else can we do?
What we owe Iraq is our attention. It has faded as the years and the corpse heaps have piled up, remembered once a year on the anniversary of the invasion when those who have suffered this damage must live it 364 more days a year for five years now and how many more?
What do we owe Iraq? Not a new president who praises the U.S. killing machine and pledges "orderly withdrawal" by 2013. Not corporate solutions to the suffering of those we have treated so callously until now.
What we owe Iraq is to change the way America does business in the world and the only way to do that is to radically change this gangrenous system and root out the source of all this damage. What we owe Iraq is really nothing short of a revolution.
John Ross is back in Mexico and will now turn his attention to this beautifully chaotic republic for a while. If you have further information, write johnross@igc.org
Robert Fisk: A lesson in how to create Iraqi orphans. And then how to make life worse for them
Robert Fisk, The Independent - United Kingdom
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
It"s not difficult to create orphans in Iraq. If you"re an insurgent, you can blow yourself up in a crowded market. If you"re an American air force pilot, you can bomb the wrong house in the wrong village. Or if you"re a Western mercenary, you can fire 40 bullets into the widowed mother of 14-year-old Alice Awanis and her sisters Karoon and Nora, the first just 20, the second a year older. But when the three girls landed at Amman airport from Baghdad last week they believed that they were free of the horrors of Baghdad and might travel to Northern Ireland to escape the terrible memory of their mother"s violent death.
Alas, the milk of human kindness does not necessarily extend to orphans from Iraq – the country we invaded for supposedly humanitarian reasons, not to mention weapons of mass destruction. For as their British uncle waited for them at Queen Alia airport, Jordanian security men – refusing him even a five-minute conversation with the girls – hustled the sisters back on to the plane for Iraq.
"How could they do this?" their uncle, Paul Manouk, asks. "Their mum has been killed. Their father had already died. I was waiting for them. The British embassy in Jordan said they might issue visas for the three – but that they had to reach Amman first." Mr Manouk lives in Northern Ireland and is a British citizen. Explaining this to the Jordanian muhabarrat at the airport was useless.
Western mercenaries killed their 48-year-old Iraqi Armenian mother, Marou Awanis, and her best friend – firing 40 bullets into her body as she drove her taxi near their four-vehicle convoy in Baghdad – but tragedy has haunted the family for almost a century; the three sisters" great-grandmother was forced to leave her two daughters to die on their own by the roadside during the 1915 Armenian genocide. Mrs Awanis" friend, Jeneva Jalal, was killed instantly alongside her in the passenger seat.
The Australian "security" company whose employees killed Mrs Awanis and her friend – "executed" might be a better word for it, because that is the price of driving too close to armed Westerners in Baghdad these days – expressed its "regrets". The chief operating officer of Unity Resources Group claims that she drove her car at speed towards the company"s employees and that they feared she was a suicide bomber.
"Only then did the team use their weapons in a final attempt to stop the vehicle," Michael Priddin said. "We deeply regret the loss of these lives." He refused to identify the killers or their nationality. Westerners in Baghdad – especially those who kill the innocent – are once they are known, rich in regrets. But they are less keen to ensure that the bereaved they leave behind are cared for.
Karoon was sick and had papers allowing her to enter Jordan; the family assumed that her siblings would be permitted to enter the country with her. Mr Manouk, an electrical engineer in Co Down, said that he went to the office of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees in Amman and that they told him that the sisters had to come in.
"I also sought visas for them at the British embassy but the visa section said that the three had to be in Amman before they could do anything to help them. Karoon was told by the Jordanians she could come into Amman but that her other sisters could not. She would not leave her sisters. So all three went back to Baghdad the same day.
"I just could not believe this. At the airport I pleaded with the Jordanian security people to let me spend five minutes with my nieces – just five minutes only – but they refused."
Mrs Awanis had two sisters in Iraq, Helen and Anna, who are looking after the girls until Mr Manouk – or anyone else – finds a way of rescuing them.
"I have a Jordanian friend who had at first arranged to enrol the two eldest girls in the university in Jordan, but it was of no use," Mr Manouk says. "I had an awful evening at the airport. In my distress, I am writing to King Abdullah for his help. We are trying to get a settlement for my nieces with the Australian company whose people shot their mother. But they are not liable under Iraqi law. I want a proper settlement by law – through lawyers – not just a cash handout, which is the way Americans do things in Iraq."
Like so many Armenian families, the Manouks are overshadowed by a history of mass murder. During the Armenian genocide of 1915, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks, Paul Manouk"s grandfather – the three Iraqi orphans" great-grandfather – was taken from his family by Turkish policemen in a line of other men and never seen again. His father, then just six years old, survived along with his mother. "But my father"s sister, we believe, was taken by a Kurdish man as his wife," Mr Manouk said.
"My grandfather"s two other sisters had a terrible fate. Their legs had swollen on the long march south from their home in Besni, near Marash, and they could not keep walking, so my grandmother took the decision to leave them on the roadside and keep the son so that our "line" would survive. The two little girls were never seen again."
The family had almost reached the border of the Ottoman province of Mesopotamia – modern-day Iraq – on the long march of ethnic cleansing when, like tens of thousands other Armenians, they lost their loved ones through exhaustion and starvation. A million-and-a-half Armenians died in the genocide.
After the British occupation of Iraq in 1917, British troops escorted the remains of the Manouk family to Basra where one of the aunts looking after the three Awanis sisters still lives.
Their father, Azad Awanis, died after a heart operation in 2004. Mrs Awanis was driving her Oldsmobile taxi through the dangerous streets of Baghdad to earn money for her family after her husband"s death, little realising that her new job – and a bunch of trigger-happy mercenaries – would orphan her children.
Paul Manouk met his British wife in Edinburgh in 1974, when he was studying for a PhD in medicine. A normally imperturbable man, he describes himself as still being in a state of shock at the killing of his younger sister.
"I wonder what her face was like when she died. She wasn"t in a bad area. Marou was coming back from church when she was shot, along with her friend. Another woman, in the back of the car, was wounded." A 15-year-old boy survived. According to Mr Manouk, his sister was "riddled with bullets from the chest upwards".
UMMAT iSLAM JANGAN LUPA cepat lupa betapa zalimnya US terhadap umat di Iraq. samada Muslim atau tidak... AZIIM akan melihat dari sudut pandang yg termampu dan mengangkat isu ini sehingga menjadi pelajaran buat kita semua sehingga ke anak cucu kita..
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Lurching down Valencia Street in San Francisco last week, I all but stumbled over a homeless young man squatting against the wall of the now moribund New College. Begging his pardon, I could not help but note that he was leafing through a dog-eared volume scavenged from a nearby free book box serendipitously entitled "What We Owe Iraq." Indeed, my inattentiveness to the young man"s pedal extremities was the by-product of my contemplation of just that subject.
What do we owe Iraq for over a million dead and ten times that number wounded or otherwise devastated in five years of Bush"s unrelenting bloodletting?
For 5,000,000 people who have been uprooted and displaced from their homes, half of them forced to flee their homeland, 65% of them women and children, 80% of the children less than 12 years of age?
What do we owe Iraq for having perverted governance into an aggregation of death squads? For corrupting public officials and leveling essential services, leaving the nation in the dark most days, contaminating the water supply, destroying the agricultural sector in the birthplace of agriculture, and aiding and abetting the looting of the cradle of civilization?
What do we owe this country "where the first letter was written, the first law put, the first university built, the first money issued, and the first poetry written?" asks Eman Kammas, a fearless Iraqi journalist now forced into exile.
The $3,000,000.000.000 USD Joseph Stiglitz calculates this illegal war will cost U.S. taxpayers will not compensate Iraq in per capita reparations. The quotient of Iraqi blood shed in this genocidal exercise cannot nearly be repaid by all the hemoglobin extracted from the 4000 dead Americans who gave up their lives in this pointless fracaso. The blood they spilled is only a drop in this bottomless bucket.
What do we owe Iraq? The damage can never be quantified. "The debt is too great to comprehend," considers my colleague Sasha Crow, founder of the Collateral Repair Project whose NGO seeks to repair some of the damage done.
The book the homeless comrade on Valencia Street (was he a vet?) was perusing consists of a series of essays by one Noah Feldman, a New York University law professor and once senior constitutional adviser on "the ethics of nation building" to L. Paul Bremer"s Coalition Provisional Authority. On its now tattered pages, Feldman grapples with framing "the interests of the people being governed (read conquered) and our own interest in exercising power over them." The problem, as Bremer"s lawyer saw it, was how to build "responsible, capital-driven nations whose own citizens will not seek to destroy us" (sic.) Or. in other words, how to save Iraq by breaking it, an ethical quandary that 40 years ago perplexed the architects of the U.S. genocide in Vietnam.
Feldman"s moral compass only tackles the "nation-building" part and evades completely the legality of invading and breaking a sovereign nation. The constitution Feldman helped to write indeed handed Iraq over to the assassins and their U.S. sponsors. What we owe Iraq is to string Professor Feldman up from the nearest lamppost in Washington Square.
What Bush"s America thinks it owes Iraq was strikingly encapsulated in a recent New York Times dispatch that told of the "exceptional luck" of an Iraqi toddler. When Marines raided two year-old Amenah al-Bayati"s home in Anbar province to detain her father on suspicion of supporting the insurgency, they noted that her feet were turning blue, a sign of congestive heart failure. Captain Kevin Jarrard prevailed over the objections of Homeland Security to have the child flown to Tennessee for corrective surgery. "The kid couldn"t help who her daddy was," Captain Jarrard told the New York Times, adding that he now was friends with the imprisoned man. Amenah"s homecoming when she returned to Haditha was described by the Times as "a public relations coup" for the Marines.
In April 2005, a U.S. Marine unit killed 24 civilians in Haditha in cold blood, five of them children. The killers have since been absolved.
One thing we do not owe Iraq is another "public relations coup" but that"s what appears to be up ahead as the war de-accelerates. Youngsters maimed by the aggression that Professor Feldman rationalizes will be flown to the U.S. by "humanitarian" aid scams and faith-based Christian charities to massage the collective guilt of America for having slept through the massacre into coughing up big bucks. Celebrity telethons and "We Are The World" clone mega-concerts will follow. Reconstruction swindles with billions in contracts let to Halliburton and Blackwater (to protect the reconstructors) and the annexation of the nation"s damaged oil fields by Big Oil will drive the final neo-liberal nail into Iraq"s coffin. Just like the Feldman scenario, first we destroy "em and then we save "em. It"s the American way.
What we owe Iraq is about to become one more corporate boondoggle - if we let it.
In the years after the debacle in Vietnam, those who had savaged that country and those who had stood fast against the carnage considered this same question: what did we owe the people of Vietnam and their damaged land for our appalling war upon them both? Some returned to the scene of the crime to fraternize with the enemy and calculate the damage they had done. Vets" groups and peace activists took action to repair what collateral damage they could. Hospitals were built and potable water systems installed. Kids horribly burnt by our napalm were flown to California for plastic surgery. It seems almost axiomatic that once the U.S. has destroyed a nation, we are driven to repair it.
Who repairs the collateral damage is crucial in this equation. Should repair and reparations be relegated to the same profit-driven corporate entities responsible for the damage? Or are the people we have indiscriminately bombed best served by grassroots response?
Military euphemisms aside, collateral damage is the willful decimation of a civilian population designed to terrorize those who might consider resisting the conquest of their country. One antidote to this homicidal hypocrisy is collateral repair.
Collateral repair begins at home. Having read of the killing of an ambulance driver by U.S. troops in the northwest city of al-Qaim during the first days of "Operation Iron Fist" in October 2005, Crow began collecting small donations from her Seattle neighbors to repair a part of the damage, eventually providing the driver"s widow and four children with four walls and a roof and a few sheep. Others joined in and a Vets for Peace group installed a potable water system at the hospital whose ambulance had been crunched. The first effort blossomed into the Collateral Repair Project (www.collateralrepairproject.org) which seeks to soften some of the unspeakable damage Bush Inc. has inflicted upon the Iraqi people, person to person, family to family, hand to hand. and heart to heart.
Small things are accomplished: a kids" school uniform is paid for, a tank of propane to heat refugee hovels in winter is purchased, dollar reading glasses for sewing women are shipped over, soccer balls exchanged for toy guns - band-aids, yes, but as CRP asks "what else can we do?"
The dimensions of the damage are hard to comprehend. One does what they can and where they can do it. For the past year, Collateral Repair has focused on the nearly 1,000,000 Iraqis who have been driven into exile in Jordan, sometimes with only the shirt on their back, where they are hounded by authorities much as ICE beats up on undocumented Mexicans on the homefront.
Iraqi families who have sought sanctuary in Jordan now have until April 17th to pay thousands of dollars in fines for seeking refuge in that Hashemite kingdom or face deportation and possible death back to Iraq, or flee to a third country - the U.S. which instigated this butchery in the first place and where Homeland Security restricts refuge to collaborators, is not an option. However, its not all bad news - those Iraqis with $100,000 in the bank will be allowed to remain in Jordan.
Crow understands what we have taken from Iraq is irreplaceable, so she and her partner Mary Madsen work on the little things, the sewing machines, the price of baking a loaf of bread, a camcorder for Um Muna to record the ceremonies of life in her Amman refugee community. A collection we took up at my 70th birthday party paid for it.
What else can we do?
What we owe Iraq is our attention. It has faded as the years and the corpse heaps have piled up, remembered once a year on the anniversary of the invasion when those who have suffered this damage must live it 364 more days a year for five years now and how many more?
What do we owe Iraq? Not a new president who praises the U.S. killing machine and pledges "orderly withdrawal" by 2013. Not corporate solutions to the suffering of those we have treated so callously until now.
What we owe Iraq is to change the way America does business in the world and the only way to do that is to radically change this gangrenous system and root out the source of all this damage. What we owe Iraq is really nothing short of a revolution.
John Ross is back in Mexico and will now turn his attention to this beautifully chaotic republic for a while. If you have further information, write johnross@igc.org
Robert Fisk: A lesson in how to create Iraqi orphans. And then how to make life worse for them
Robert Fisk, The Independent - United Kingdom
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
It"s not difficult to create orphans in Iraq. If you"re an insurgent, you can blow yourself up in a crowded market. If you"re an American air force pilot, you can bomb the wrong house in the wrong village. Or if you"re a Western mercenary, you can fire 40 bullets into the widowed mother of 14-year-old Alice Awanis and her sisters Karoon and Nora, the first just 20, the second a year older. But when the three girls landed at Amman airport from Baghdad last week they believed that they were free of the horrors of Baghdad and might travel to Northern Ireland to escape the terrible memory of their mother"s violent death.
Alas, the milk of human kindness does not necessarily extend to orphans from Iraq – the country we invaded for supposedly humanitarian reasons, not to mention weapons of mass destruction. For as their British uncle waited for them at Queen Alia airport, Jordanian security men – refusing him even a five-minute conversation with the girls – hustled the sisters back on to the plane for Iraq.
"How could they do this?" their uncle, Paul Manouk, asks. "Their mum has been killed. Their father had already died. I was waiting for them. The British embassy in Jordan said they might issue visas for the three – but that they had to reach Amman first." Mr Manouk lives in Northern Ireland and is a British citizen. Explaining this to the Jordanian muhabarrat at the airport was useless.
Western mercenaries killed their 48-year-old Iraqi Armenian mother, Marou Awanis, and her best friend – firing 40 bullets into her body as she drove her taxi near their four-vehicle convoy in Baghdad – but tragedy has haunted the family for almost a century; the three sisters" great-grandmother was forced to leave her two daughters to die on their own by the roadside during the 1915 Armenian genocide. Mrs Awanis" friend, Jeneva Jalal, was killed instantly alongside her in the passenger seat.
The Australian "security" company whose employees killed Mrs Awanis and her friend – "executed" might be a better word for it, because that is the price of driving too close to armed Westerners in Baghdad these days – expressed its "regrets". The chief operating officer of Unity Resources Group claims that she drove her car at speed towards the company"s employees and that they feared she was a suicide bomber.
"Only then did the team use their weapons in a final attempt to stop the vehicle," Michael Priddin said. "We deeply regret the loss of these lives." He refused to identify the killers or their nationality. Westerners in Baghdad – especially those who kill the innocent – are once they are known, rich in regrets. But they are less keen to ensure that the bereaved they leave behind are cared for.
Karoon was sick and had papers allowing her to enter Jordan; the family assumed that her siblings would be permitted to enter the country with her. Mr Manouk, an electrical engineer in Co Down, said that he went to the office of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees in Amman and that they told him that the sisters had to come in.
"I also sought visas for them at the British embassy but the visa section said that the three had to be in Amman before they could do anything to help them. Karoon was told by the Jordanians she could come into Amman but that her other sisters could not. She would not leave her sisters. So all three went back to Baghdad the same day.
"I just could not believe this. At the airport I pleaded with the Jordanian security people to let me spend five minutes with my nieces – just five minutes only – but they refused."
Mrs Awanis had two sisters in Iraq, Helen and Anna, who are looking after the girls until Mr Manouk – or anyone else – finds a way of rescuing them.
"I have a Jordanian friend who had at first arranged to enrol the two eldest girls in the university in Jordan, but it was of no use," Mr Manouk says. "I had an awful evening at the airport. In my distress, I am writing to King Abdullah for his help. We are trying to get a settlement for my nieces with the Australian company whose people shot their mother. But they are not liable under Iraqi law. I want a proper settlement by law – through lawyers – not just a cash handout, which is the way Americans do things in Iraq."
Like so many Armenian families, the Manouks are overshadowed by a history of mass murder. During the Armenian genocide of 1915, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks, Paul Manouk"s grandfather – the three Iraqi orphans" great-grandfather – was taken from his family by Turkish policemen in a line of other men and never seen again. His father, then just six years old, survived along with his mother. "But my father"s sister, we believe, was taken by a Kurdish man as his wife," Mr Manouk said.
"My grandfather"s two other sisters had a terrible fate. Their legs had swollen on the long march south from their home in Besni, near Marash, and they could not keep walking, so my grandmother took the decision to leave them on the roadside and keep the son so that our "line" would survive. The two little girls were never seen again."
The family had almost reached the border of the Ottoman province of Mesopotamia – modern-day Iraq – on the long march of ethnic cleansing when, like tens of thousands other Armenians, they lost their loved ones through exhaustion and starvation. A million-and-a-half Armenians died in the genocide.
After the British occupation of Iraq in 1917, British troops escorted the remains of the Manouk family to Basra where one of the aunts looking after the three Awanis sisters still lives.
Their father, Azad Awanis, died after a heart operation in 2004. Mrs Awanis was driving her Oldsmobile taxi through the dangerous streets of Baghdad to earn money for her family after her husband"s death, little realising that her new job – and a bunch of trigger-happy mercenaries – would orphan her children.
Paul Manouk met his British wife in Edinburgh in 1974, when he was studying for a PhD in medicine. A normally imperturbable man, he describes himself as still being in a state of shock at the killing of his younger sister.
"I wonder what her face was like when she died. She wasn"t in a bad area. Marou was coming back from church when she was shot, along with her friend. Another woman, in the back of the car, was wounded." A 15-year-old boy survived. According to Mr Manouk, his sister was "riddled with bullets from the chest upwards".
KEZALIMAN TERHADAP ISTERI DAN SUAMI, APA SOLUSINYA?
aziiM - "Anti Zalim Movement"
Kezaliman terhadap isteri dan suami patut dibahas dan mencari kaedah terbaik untuk mnyelesaikannya dan apa peranan Jabatan Kerajaan atau Jabatan Agama Islam sebenarnya?? Kenapa boleh wujudnya kezaliman ini? Apakah kesan kepada anak-anak, kaum keluarga dan jiran tetangga?? Sekiranya anda ada pengalaman dan solusinya sila hubungi kami atau emelkan kepada kami.!!
Foto: Suami isteri bertengkar ..anak ditengah kebingungan??? apa salah aku??...apa dosaku hingga aku tersepit dicelah ego mereka..KENAPA MEREKA ZALIM ANTARA MEREKA??? AKU DIZALIMI MEREKA?? AKU MERANA KERANA MEREKA??
FOTO:BILA LELAKI DAN WANITA MENANGIS - APAKAH SEBAB DAN AKIBATNYA???
KEZALIMAN DI PALESTINE SAMPAI KAPAN/BILA???
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Soal Palestine..kenapa dibiarkan berlaku begitu lama oleh Negara Ummat Islam seluruh dunia?? mengapa OIC tidak beraksi atau sekadar gah nama sahaja?? Kemana perginya pemimpin ummat Islam?? Kenapa Negara-negara Arab berdiam diri dan membisu seribu kata?? Kenapa kita biarkan sdr kita dibunuh hampir setiap hari oleh Yahudi??..Terlalu banyak persoalan yang tidak terjawab...mari kita bahs bersama..untuk saudara kita!!!
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. I spoke with him a little, but when he sees me he begins to cry ... the situation in Sderot in general is very difficult, and I do not know how we can continue, how we can stay in the city. - Sderot resident Rima Haimov, whose ten-year-old son Yossi was wounded by a Qassam rocket. ("Doctors save hand of Sderot boy hurt by Qassam; 4 Palestinians killed in Gaza," Haaretz, 26 February 2008)
Dear Rima Haimov,
When I read your words the only thing I can say is that I feel sorry for your son, and that I can understand you as a mother and the traumatic events that your child is experiencing. I cannot deny the fact that life becomes very difficult in such circumstances when you realize that you and your family are in danger at any moment; I fully understand your worries, your feelings and concerns. I am addressing this letter to you with the hope that you will understand my pain too.
Like I feel sorry for your son, I feel sorry for my Palestinian children who are born and will die in Gaza, unable to have the chance of seeing other worlds, and who have to face F-16s, Apache helicopters and the Israeli army"s brutal invasions into Gaza. However, my children are not fortunate enough to have the excellent medical care that your son has. My children do not have the chance to run to a shelter and there is no alarm to tell them that there is a strike coming. My children cannot be guaranteed the love and care that your son found because all of their family might be killed in one strike, they might witness the death of their parents, or any of their dear family members as the Palestinians are targeted everywhere, even in their homes and among their children.
My children cannot find the counseling that your child will have to help him deal with his appalling experience. They have to keep their pain inside them, and recall it day after day. Even in their dreams they suffer from remembering the things they have witnessed.
My children are not children anymore; they lost their innocence and are forced to act like adults so they can protect themselves. They no longer cry to their parents because they realize that even adults are scared and also need comfort and security. Instead they swallow their pain and deal with it on their own.
When your child is sick or injured he has the chance to go to the best hospitals to receive treatment while my children have to live with their pain and injuries because they cannot go to a good hospital like you have in Israel. In Gaza, they can only wait for the pain to pass or count the days waiting for the end. They have learned how to face death fearlessly, because they hope to find justice and a better life in heaven.
While your child enjoys his new schoolbooks, my children have to use old, disreputable books because the borders are closed and even schoolbooks cannot be brought in.
My children have to face the extreme temperatures because of the electricity cuts. They cannot enjoy sitting in front of the electric heater in winter or the fan in summer. While you as a mother can plan for your child"s future, I cannot because my child is locked in a prison called Gaza, and he cannot dream of having the chance to receive a better education and work outside of Gaza.
While you as a mother can give your child all the promises of a better life, I can not give my child these guarantees, simply because we are both eligible to die in any moment by an Israeli strike, without any plans, dreams, nothing.
After all of this do you think that my children deserve their pain only because they are born to Palestinian parents? Do you think it is fair that they are treated in this way? Is it fair to be subjected to the sanctions that your government has imposed on us? I hope you can understand my pain too.
Sincerely,
Najwa Sheikh
Najwa Sheikh is a Palestinian refugee from al-Majdal located just north of the Gaza Strip. Shiekh has lived in refugee camps in Gaza her entire life where she is married and has three children.
AZIIM: Kami tidak dapat menterjemahkan keseluruhannya tapi mesejnya jelas..iaitu betapa anak-anak Palestin dizalimi, terbiar, menangis meronta ketika ibu bapa mereka dibunuh depan mata mereka, hilang waktu bermain dan tiada yang boleh dimainkan kecuali serpihan bom yang berselerakan di bumi mereka, mayat-mayat setiap hari bertaburan di depan mata mereka, muzik siaga dari ambulan kedengaran hampir setiap jam..tidur mereka beralas batu dan pasir, mimpi ngeri bom meletus atau roket dari Israel hampir-hampir setiap malam menemani tidur mereka..
Aduhai Anak-anak Palestin.panggillah nama-nama kami, sdr mu dari bumi yang lain..agar mereka datang berbondong-bondong membawa makanan, selimut, pakaian, tilam bantal dan kasih sayangnya..pangillah nama-nama sdr mu dari langit agar mereka datang membawa air unutk mu mandi dan minum, membersih tubuhmu yang hanyir, membersih pakaianmu yang lusuh, menyuci diri mu dari debu-debu halus panas dan dingin berpuaka,.. Aduhai anak-anak Palestine..panggillah nama-nama kami agar di akhirat nanti Allah selamatkan kami dari azabNya..amin..!!
B’Tselem: Israel demolished 667 Palestinian homes as mass punishment
Dr. Mohamed Saad Al Katatni
Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc
AZIIM; Beberapa saranan dari kami:
1. Ummat ISlam sedunia diseru mengutuk perbuatan Israel ini dan berdoa agar sdr kita di sana teguh pendirian untuk terus melawan kezaliman Israel.
2. Yang siap, yang memenuhi syarat dan mampu berjihad silakan tapi sebenarnya HAMAS sudah memadai kerana apa yang mereka perlu bukan personal tapi bantuan dalam bentuk lain..Paling menyayat hati ialah berapa ramainya anak-anak, orang tua, wanita dan orang yang kurang upaya terus menjadi mangsa..
3. Para orang kaya dari seluruh dunia sepatutnya ambil peduli terhadap sdr kita ini terutama kepada anak-anak yatim dan wanita-wanita yang suami mereka syahid atau ibu bapa mereka yang syahid..jika ada kemampuan silakan bawa mereka ke negara anda di mana saahja..terutama yang berdekatan. Tapi jika ada saudara yang lebih dari cukup dan berkemampuan apa salahnya menerima mereka sebagai keluarga atau mencarikan jodoh untuk para janda dan anak-anak terbiar itu..
4. Anak-anak terbiar ini..jika diberi pelajaran dan kesihatan yang cukup akan menjadi tenaga baru untuk meneruskan perjuangan mereka..
Gaza’s situation: frustration and determination
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MB Female Activists Condemn Killings Of Palestinian Women
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
In his weekly message, the Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mr. Mohamed Mahdi Akef, explained how the Muslim Ummah is sufferring from the late American aggression targeting its identity and threatening its spiritual and scientific fortunes. It wants to destroy our present and to confiscate our future in order to control the Ummah.
As for Palestine, he clarified that the West and America are supporting, and even adopting, the Zionist project frankly and they are keeping silent on the Zionist aggression for fifty eight years. In the same time they are punishing the Palestinian people when showing any resistance against that aggression calling it terrorism that must be confronted.
He added that the Palestinian resistance is achieving success every day, not only on the level of armed struggle, but also on the level of completing the real elements of the society and state, and on the level of spreading the awareness of the danger and ugliness of the Zionist project. The Palestinian people chose Hamas in free and fair elections to rule their country after long time of corruption. As a result, the occupation and its European and American protectors threatened the new government in order to meet the Zionist demands by recognizing the Zionist entity, adopting the forced agreements, destroying the infrastructure of the resistance groups and unconditioned negotiating with the occupier; else the Palestinians and their government would face economic sanctions and unjust siege. Moreover, we knew that U.S., which froze its aid to the Palestinians, allocated 42 million dollars to destroy the new Palestinian government and to urge the Palestinians to find an alternative. Additionally, one of the congress committees presented an anti-terror resolution against what it called "Palestinian terrorism"!
False calls of Western and American Democracy
Mr. Akef stressed that the above mentioned reaction is because they are facing a strong entity. The democratic choice of the Palestinians let the callers for freedom and democracy in the West to breach what they teach after realizing that their efforts to set Islam aside of politics during the last decades went in vain. It became clear that Western democracy, freedom and human rights are only tools to achieve the unfair and unjust Western and American goals. . . Muslim brotherhood members, by the grace of God, were at the forefront of those who looked suspiciously at the American calls for democracy.
He added that the only way our people can obtain their freedom is through their sacrifices, removing tyranny by themselves and realizing that the criminals who killed Muslims, plundered their fortunes and supported tyrants will not give them any thing except for evil goals.
He addressed the Muslim rulers, calling upon them to fear God who will call them into account. He asked them to end tyranny, realize the reality of the American and Western project, and to start supporting the genuine and resistant Islamic project. He added that the people will not forgive them if they do not support the Palestinian people. He called upon rich Arabs and Muslim to live up to Muslims, as this is an Islamic principle. He showed that Palestinians are asking for only some of their rights, spending their blood while protecting the dignity of the Ummah and standing against the Zionist occupier.
He showed to the solution to deter the new Western colonization project, is by trusting in God, sticking to Islam, making use of its powers and join their forces and their governments".
AZIIM: Mari kita merenung sejenak beberapa seruan yg dilontar oleh Syeikh Akef tentang Palestin....
1. Israel dibackup oleh Barat dan US demi untuk memastikan tidak menguatnya Islam di rantau Arab.
2. Sekalipun melalui sistem demokrasi HAMAS menang dari pemilihan rakyat tapi US tetap memanggil mereka sebagai teroris. Jadi apakah ada harapan dari sdr kita di Palestine untuk mendapat bantuan dari mereka?? tolonglah kita sedar dan jangan bermimpi, sdr kita tidak akan ada yang membantu kecuali dari kita semua terutama dari saudagar minyak di Arab dan sdr muslim yang punya rezqi lebih.
3. Sdr kita di Palestine telah menginfaqkan darah dan segalanya untuk maruah Islam dan Ummah ini, maka apakah kita hanya sekadar mendengar dan diam sahaja??
4. Kekuatan kita hanyalah apabila kita dekat dengan Allah, iltizam dengan Islam dan manfaatkan apa yang ada pada kita sekarang.
5. Alangkah baiknya jika sebelum kita tidur kita tatapi foto-foto sdr-sdr kita dari bayi, anak kecil, anak baru gedik, menjelang dewasa, perempuan dan lelaki separuh umur dan tua hampir setiap hari dibunuh tanpa sebab...!! kita ajak anak dan isteri kita merenung bersama betapa besarnya pengorbanan mereka untuk Islam...dan apa yang telah kita lakukan untuk Islam dan Ummah ini???
Rusia serah kereta perisai tanpa meriam kepada Palestin
22/03/2008 4:03pm
BAITULMAQDIS 22 Mac – Rusia semalam bersetuju dengan syarat-syarat Israel berhubung penyerahan kereta berperisai kepada pasukan keselamatan Palestin di bawah pentadbiran Presiden Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel pada November lalu bersetuju membenarkan kerajaan Palestin menerima 50 kereta perisai ringan Rusia tetapi tuntutan Palestin supaya kenderaan berkenaan dilengkapi meriam di atasnya telah mencetuskan pertikaian.
AZIIM; Nak buat apa dengan kereta perisai tanpa meriam?..Inilah bukti betapa kuatnya pengaruh Israel di kalangan negara Eropah dan ini juga bujti betapa kejamnya US terhadap penduduk Palestine...Janganlah diharap sangat pada mereka..!!!
25 Mac 2008
AZIIM: Beberapa info penting tentang Palestin secara umum dan terperinci. Ini adalah komitmen kami untuk mendapatkannya bagi kepentingan semua pihak terutama mereka yang ingin memberi bantuan ke sana. Cintailah dulu buminya maka nanti mengalirlah cinta-cinta yang lain...!!!..
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Posted on September 10, 2001
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| Palestinian Refugee Camps Listing (مخيمات الاجئين الفلسطينين) | eMail to a friend |
Posted on January 29, 2007
We have made our best to list the refugees that we are aware of. We need you to help up identify the missing camps, especially the ones in SyriaAcre - عكا City | eMail to a friend النسخة العربية |
| Town | Occupation Date | Distance From District | Map Location | 1948 Population | No. of Refugees 1998 | Arab Land Ownership | Jewish Land Ownership | Exclusive Jewish Colonies |
| Abu Sinan - ابو سنان | 12,871 | 0 | ||||||
| 'Amqa - عمقا | July 10, 1948 | 11 km northeast Acre | 18 | 1,438 | 8,833 | 6,060 | 0 | 'Amqa |
| 'Arab Ghawarina - عرب الغوارينى | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| 'Arab al-Na'im - عرب النعيم | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| 'Arab al-Samniyya - عرب السمني/ الصوانة | October 30, 1948 | 19 km northeast Acre | 8 | 232 | 1,425 | 1,872 | 0 | Ya'ara |
| 'Arraba - Buttof - عرّابة البطوف | 30,852 | 40 | ||||||
| 'Ayn al-'Asad - عين الاسد | 38 km east Acre | N/A | 0 | |||||
| al-Bassa - البصة | May 14, 1948 | 19 km north Acre | 1 | 3,422 | 21,015 | 25,258 | 4,178 | A military airport, Kefar Ro'sh ha-Niqra, Leman, Shelomi, Matzuva, Betset, & Khanita. |
| Bayt Jann - بيت جنّ | 34 km northeast Acre | 25,594 | 0 | |||||
| Bi'na - بعنة | 18 km east Acre | 14,833 | 0 | |||||
| al-Birwa - البروه | June 11, 1948 | 10 km east Acre | 23 | 1,694 | 10,401 | 12,939 | 546 | Kibbutz Yas'ur and Achihud. |
| Buqei'a/Peki'in - بقيعه | 31 km northeast Acre | 10,276 | 189 | |||||
| al-Damun - الدامون | July 15, 1948 | 11 km southeast Acre | 24 | 1,520 | 9,332 | 19,073 | 687 | Yas'ur |
| Dayr al-Asad - دير الاسد | 18 km east Acre | 8,366 | 0 | |||||
| Dayr Hanna - دير حنه | 23 km southeast Acre | 15,350 | 0 | |||||
| Dayr al-Qasi - دير القاسي | October 30, 1948 | 26 km northeast Acre | 10 | 2,668 | 16,384 | 26,619 | 0 | Alkosh, Netu'a, Mattat, and Abbirim |
| Fassuta - فسّوطه | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| al-Ghabisiyya - الغابسية | May 1, 1948 | 11 km northeast Acre | 15 | 1,438 | 8,833 | 11,771 | 0 | Netiv ha-Shayyara |
| al-Husseiniya - الحسينّيه | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Iqrit - إقرت | November 1, 1948 | 25 km northeast Acre | 6 | 568 | 3,491 | 21,711 | 0 | Shomera, Even Menachem, Goren, Gomot ha-Galil, & Yoqrat |
| 'Iribbin, Khirbat - خربة عربين/ القليطات | October 30, 1948 | 23 km northeast Acre | 2 | 418 | 2,565 | 11,422 | 0 | Adamit and Goren |
| al-Jadeida - الجديده | 9 km east Acre | 5,215 | 0 | |||||
| Jatt - جتّ | 29 km northeast Acre | 5,907 | 0 | |||||
| Jiddin, Khirbat - خربة جدّين | July 1, 1948 | 16 km northeast Acre | 16 | 1,740 | 10,685 | 4,238 | 3,349 | Yechi'am, Qiryat, and Ga'ton. |
| Julis - جولس | 12 km northeast Acre | 12,835 | 0 | |||||
| al-Kabri - الكابري | May 21, 1948 | 12 km northeast Acre | 11 | 6,218 | 38,183 | 37,308 | 0 | Kibbutz Kabri, Ga'ton, Me'ona, 'En Ya'aqov, and Ma'alot. |
| Kabul - كابول | July 15, 1948 | 14 km southeast Acre | Map | 10,336 | 0 | No settlements were built on village lands, however, most of the sarounding village's lands confiscated by the Israeli government for forestry purposes. | ||
| Kafr 'Inan - كفر عنان | February 1, 1949 | 33 km east Acre | 22 | 418 | 2,565 | 5,424 | 0 | Kefar Chananya |
| Kafr Sumei - كفر سميع | 29 km northeast Acre | 7,150 | 0 | |||||
| Kafr Yasif - كفر ياسيف | 11 km northeast Acre | 6,729 | 8 | |||||
| Kammana East - كمانه الشرقيّه | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Kammana West - كمانه الغربيّه | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Kh. Idmith - خربة إدمث | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Kh. Jurdeih - خربة جرديه | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Kh. al-Suwwana - خربة الصوّانه | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Kisra-Sumei - كسرا | 25 km northeast Acre | 10,598 | 0 | |||||
| Kuwaykat - كويكات | July 10, 1948 | 9 km northeast Acre | 19 | 1,218 | 7,480 | 4,668 | 0 | Beyt ha-'Emeq |
| Majd al-Kurum - مجد الكروم | October 29, 1948 | 16 km northeast Acre | 17,828 | 0 | ||||
| Makr - مكر | 8,661 | 96 | ||||||
| al-Manshiyya - المنشيه | May 14, 1948 | 2 km northeast Acre | 21 | 940 | 5,770 | 12,522 | 1,895 | Shamrat and Bustan ha-Galil |
| al-Mansura - المنصوره | November 1, 1948 | 29 km northeast Acre | 7 | 26,619 | 0 | Netu'a, Elqosh, Biranit, Mattat, and Abbirim. | ||
| Mas'ub - مُصعب | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| al-Mazra'a - المزرعة | 8 km northeast Acre | 3,116 | 4,001 | |||||
| Mi'ar - ميعار | July 15, 1948 | 17 km southeast Acre | 25 | 893 | 5,485 | 10,785 | 0 | Segev, Ya'ad, and Manof. |
| Mi'ilya - معليا | 25 km northeast Acre | 19,460 | 0 | |||||
| al-Nabi Rubin - النبي روبين | November 1, 1948 | 28 km northeast Acre | 5 | 12,548 | 0 | Shomera, Even Menachem, Kefar Rosenwald, and Shetula. | ||
| Nahf - نحف | July 15, 1948 | 22 km east Acre | Map | 15,649 | 0 | Carmiel | ||
| al-Nahr - النهر | May 21, 1948 | 14 km northeast Acre | 14 | 708 | 4,345 | 5,243 | 0 | Ben 'Ammi and Kabri. |
| Nawaqir - نواقير | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| al-Qubsi - القبسي | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| al-Rama - الرامه | 29 km east Acre | 23,701 | 0 | |||||
| Ras al-Nab' - رأس النبع | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| al-Ruways - الرويس | July 15, 1948 | 12 km east Acre | 26 | 383 | 2,351 | 1,159 | 0 | None |
| Sajur - سجور | 29 km northeast Acre | 8,172 | 0 | |||||
| Sakhnin - سخنين | July 15, 1948 | 23 km east Acre | Map | 70,181 | 0 | N/A | ||
| Salama - سلمه | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Sawa'id - سواعد | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Sha'ab - شعب | July 18, 1948 | 26 km southeast Acre | Map | 17,870 | 0 | Yavor, founded in 1951 and located just east of the village. | ||
| al-Shaykh Dannun - الشيخ دنون | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| al-Shaykh Dawoud - الشيخ داود | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Suhmata - سحماتا | October 30, 1948 | 25 km northeast Acre | 17 | 1,311 | 8,050 | 9,572 | 0 | Tzuri'el and Chosen |
| al-Sumayriyya - السُميريه | May 14, 1948 | 6 km north Acre | 20 | 882 | 5,414 | 7,935 | 0 | ha-Geta'ot and Shamrat |
| Suruh - سروح | November 1, 1948 | 28 km northeast Acre | 3 | 12,548 | 0 | Shomera, Even Menachem, Shetula, and Kefar Rosenwald | ||
| al-Tall - التلّ | May 21, 1948 | 14 km northeast Acre | 13 | 348 | 2,137 | N/A | 0 | None |
| Tamra - طمره | 30,549 | 0 | ||||||
| Tarbikha - تربيخا | November 1, 1948 | 27 km northeast Acre | 4 | 1,160 | 7,124 | 12,548 | 0 | Shomera, Even Menachem, Shetula, and Kefar Rosenwald. |
| Tarshiha - ترشيحا | December 1, 1948 | 27 km northeast Acre | Map | N/A | 90 | Meona, which was founded in 1949. | ||
| Umm al-Faraj - أُم الفرج | May 21, 1948 | 10 km northeast Acre | 12 | 928 | 5,699 | 821 | 0 | Ben 'Ammi |
| Western Buqei'a - بقيعة الغربية | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Yanuh - يانوح | 12,469 | 0 | ||||||
| Yirka - يركه | 13 km northeast Acre | 30,597 | 0 | |||||
| al-Zeeb - الزيب | May 14, 1948 | 13 km north Acre | 9 | 2,216 | 13,606 | 12,438 | 0 | Kibbutz Gesher ha-Ziv, Sa'ar, and Leman. |
| Town | Occupation Date | Distance From District | Map Location | 1948 Population | No. of Refugees 1998 | Arab Land Ownership | Jewish Land Ownership | Exclusive Jewish Colonies |
| 'Arab al-'Arida - عرب العريضه | May 20, 1948 | 6 km south Baysan | 24 | 174 | 1,069 | 700 | 1,362 | Sde Eliyyahu |
| 'Arab al-Bawati - عرب البواطي/خربة الحكمة | May 16, 1948 | 4 km northeast Baysan | 16 | 603 | 3,704 | 5,412 | 1,305 | None |
| 'Arab al-Safa - عرب الصفا | May 20, 1948 | 7 km south Baysan | 25 | 754 | 4,630 | 7,549 | 2,523 | None |
| 'Arab al-Zarra'a - عرب الزرّاعه | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| al-Ashrafiyya - الأشرفية | May 12, 1948 | 4 km southwest Baysan | 20 | 267 | 1,638 | 4,608 | 1,293 | Reshafim & Sheluchot. |
| al-Bira - البيرة | May 16, 1948 | 7 km north Baysan | 5 | 302 | 1,852 | 4,853 | 0 | None |
| Danna - دنه | May 28, 1948 | 13 km north Baysan | 4 | 220 | 1,354 | 5,177 | 206 | None |
| Farwana - فرونه | May 11, 1948 | 4 km south Baysan | 23 | 383 | 2,351 | 3,942 | 0 | Rechov, Chawwat Eden, and 'En ha-Natziv. |
| al-Fatur - الفاتور | May 12, 1948 | 11 km south Baysan | 29 | 128 | 784 | 709 | 0 | None |
| al-Ghazzawiyya - الغزاويه | May 20, 1948 | 2 km east Baysan | 17 | 1,183 | 7,266 | 5,323 | 7,625 | Ma'oz Chayyim & Newe Eytan |
| al-Hamidiyya - الحميديه | May 12, 1948 | 5 km north Baysan | 15 | 255 | 1,567 | 4,814 | 1,386 | Chamadya |
| al-Hamra - الحمرا | May 31, 1948 | 7 km south Baysan | 27 | 847 | 5,200 | 8,623 | 2,153 | None |
| Jabbul - جبول | May 18, 1948 | 7 km north Baysan | 12 | 290 | 1,781 | 5,407 | 20 | None |
| Jisr al-Majami' - جسر المجامع | N/A | 289 | ||||||
| Kafr Misr - كفر مصر | 4,629 | 4,462 | ||||||
| Kafra - كفرة | May 16, 1948 | 10 km north Baysan | 7 | 499 | 3,063 | 7,409 | 0 | None |
| Kawkab al-Hawa - كوكب الهوا | May 16, 1948 | 11 km north Baysan | 6 | 348 | 2,137 | 6,125 | 0 | None |
| Kh. al-Mazar - المزار / البشاتوة | May 16, 1948 | 1,810 | 11,113 | 14,510 | 2,252 | |||
| al-Khunayzir - الخنيزر | May 20, 1948 | 10 km south Baysan | 28 | 302 | 1,852 | 1,966 | 1,000 | Tirat Tzvi |
| Masil al-Jizl - مسيل الجزل/عرب الزيناتي | May 31, 1948 | 6 km southeast Baysan | 22 | 116 | 712 | 976 | 2,222 | Kefar Ruppin |
| al-Murassas - المرصص | May 16, 1948 | 7 km north Baysan | 13 | 534 | 3,277 | 9,936 | 3,002 | None |
| Qumya - قوميه | March 26, 1948 | 12 km northwest Baysan | 11 | 510 | 3,134 | 4,716 | 81 | 'En Charod and Geva' |
| al-Sakhina - الساخنه | May 12, 1948 | 5 km west Baysan | 18 | 615 | 3,776 | 1,088 | 4,985 | Nir David & Tel' Amal. |
| al-Samiriyya - السامريه | May 27, 1948 | 7 km southeast Baysan | 26 | 290 | 1,781 | 2,851 | 0 | Sde Terumot |
| Shatta - شطّة | N/A | 0 | ||||||
| Sirin - سرين | April 6, 1948 | 17 km north Baysan | 1 | 940 | 5,770 | 16,589 | 477 | None |
| al-Taiyiba - الطيبه | 7,127 | 8,492 | ||||||
| Tall al-Shawk - تل الشوك | May 12, 1948 | 5 km west Baysan | 19 | 139 | 855 | 65 | 3,116 | None |
| al-Taqa, Khirbat - خربة الطاقة | May 15, 1948 | 14 km north Baysan | 3 | N/A | 0 | Gesher | ||
| al-Tira - الطيرة/المرج/الزعبية | April 15, 1948 | 17 km north Baysan | 2 | 174 | 1,069 | 4,463 | 2,604 | Kibbutz Gazit, Kefar Qish, & Ma'dharare |
| Umm 'Ajra - ام عجره | May 31, 2048 | 4 km south Baysan | 21 | 302 | 1,852 | 2,708 | 1,218 | Shifa |
| Umm Sabuna, Khirbat - خربةام صابونة/عرب صقر | May 21, 2048 | 10 km northeast Baysan | 9 | 868 | 5,329 | N/A | 0 | Neve Ur |
| Wadi al-Bira - وادي البيره | 5,195 | 0 | ||||||
| Yubla - يبلى | May 16, 2048 | 9 km north Baysan | 10 | 244 | 1,496 | 2,051 | 1,758 | Moledet |
| Zab'a - زبعة | May 12, 1948 | 5 km northeast Baysan | 14 | 197 | 551 | 156 | 3,424 | Beyt Yosef & Doshe |
| al-Zawiya, Khirbat - خربة الزاويّه | May 15th-18th, 1948 | 11 km northeast Baysan | 8 | N/A | 0 | None |
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