When the world turns a blind eye to the use of prohibited weapons

Gaza and (the so-called) Israel’s right to defend itself

Gaza, Palestine, or the so-called (State of Israel), atrocities and crimes against humanity, crimes that US officials say about:

“I understand Israel’s desire to protect itself” George W. Bush – Jan 5 2009, the Oval Office in the White House.

“Israel has a right to defend itself” U.S. National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters in a press conference, Jan 3 2009.

Defend itself against who? Against unarmed civilians, Against childen? Against women? Against UN offices? More than 1133 deaths (as of Jan 16th 13:00UTC) most of them women and children (more than 370 children and 100 women) and more than 5200 heavy injuries (more than 50% women and children, 450 near death).

Targeting UN Offices in Gaza

Even when UN offices bombarded and turned into rubble [BBC: Strike at Gaza school kills 40] [HRW: Israeli Attack on School Needs Full UN Investigation], no official response was heard from the International Community condemning those acts. There were more than 100 women and children took shelter in the UNRWA complex school, Israel knows the exact position of that complex, and still, cold-blooded, bombarded it with prohibited weapons, White Phosphorus (WP) incendiary bombs [Wikipedia: White phosphorus], as it did in south Lebanon summer of 2006, causing more than 50 casualties [Global Security: Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons. Geneva, 10 October 1980] [Israel Uses Internationally Prohibited Weapons].

Use of US-supplied Weapons against Civilians

Most – if not all – of Israel’s weapons is US-supplied under US Foreign Assistance Act. Furthermore, any US weapons agreement states clearly that “the use of US-supplied weapons is controlled, particularly not to be used against civilians, under any circumstance”. Every time Israel is conducting offensive acts against the Palestinians, use of US-made heavy weaponry (F-16s, AH-64 Apaches, cluster shells, white phosphorus shells, depleted uranium, etc…) against civilians and civilian-populated areas is documented [HRW: Israel/Lebanon: End Indiscriminate Strikes on Civilians] [HRW: Israel/Lebanon: Israel Responsible for Qana Attack] [Information Clearing House: Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes] [HRW: Fatal Strikes]. So Israel is violating its own agreement with the US regarding the use of the US-supplied weapons against civilians, and on the other hand, the US is turning a blind eye to the well documented violations [amynaonline.org: Israel’s Violations of the US Foreign Assistance Act]. While Iraq was accused of manufacturing and using of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), and then after the US illegal invasion, CIA declared that the reports were “Wrong” [CNN: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq] about the accusation made against Iraq [Bush: invading Iraq was a mistake] [Aljazeera.net: Bush regrets Iraq war intelligence].

The Media is Targeted

Targeting civilians is a story by itself, and targeting media personnel is another story. Why would any (so-called) honest and justice-seeking army target media personnel and journalists while they (Israelis) know the exact location of their building? If anybody could answer this question. On the other hand, external media journalists are banned from the Israeli side to enter Gaza [The Guardian: Ban on foreign journalists skews coverage of conflict] [Haaretz: Top media executives protest Israel’s ban on journalists’ entry to Gaza], why? Are they trying to block the coverage of the holocaust they are committing against the civilians in Gaza? Is there anything Israel is trying to block the world from seeing? Are they trying to block the coverage of the killing of women and children in Gaza?, block the coverage of killing of journalists? block the coverage of bombarding UN offices there?
Israel has a long history of targeting journalists while they are doing their job unbiased and professionally. Any honest journalist who tries to deliver the truth to the world is killed or injured. Israel knows the exact location of the building which has most of the news agencies offices in Gaza, and intentionally bombarded it, injuring 2 Abudhabi channel correspondents with others and damaging electronic and photography equipment.

Demolition of Medical Locations

Overall the unjust and barbaric crimes against humanity, ambulances are attacked while they are on the move, several hospitals and RedCross medical complexes have been destroyed by the Israeli air and ground attacks [MAP: Gaza Hospitals Under Attack] [Scoop.co.nz: Israeli Missiles destroy Gaza Health Care Centre]. Hospitals, ambulances, medical personnel, clinics, and medical complexes are all targeted and destroyed intentionally and purposely. What is this? Another blind eye to what is happening.

Use of Prohibited Weaponry

Cluster shells, White Phosphorus shells, and depleted Uranium use against civilians and civilian areas in Gaza. While a single bullet kills a person, use of heavy and prohibited weaponry to mass-murder innocent civilian people is a crime against humanity [Information Clearing House: Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes]. Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of committing crimes against humanity in their unjust, brutal, and criminal acts of war.

Double-Faced World

While all of the killings and mass-murder actions done by the Israelis are documented, still the (so-called) Free World is turning a blind eye to what is happening in Gaza. One question would be asked here, are Gazan people sub-human? In the meanwhile, if any Israeli hurt, the whole world would stand still in condemnation and anger for that. The security council just (after a long debate) equalized the butcher, the mass-murderer and the victim in their latest resolution (1860). Instead of demanding a full, unconditional stop of all Israeli criminal activities, the resolution demanded a cease fire, and the difference is obvious, a cease fire equalizes both parties as an equal war parties, which is totally wrong in case of Gaza. What is happening there is a war crime, genocide, holocaust, crimes against humanity done by the Israelis.

Quotes from some Israeli War Criminals and Terrorists

Ben-Gurion commented on the proposed Peel Commission Partition plan as follows in 1937 (Note the premeditated plan to ethnically cleanse the Negev and Transjordan which were not allocated to the Jewish State by the Peel Commission):

"We must EXPEL ARABS and take their places .... and, if we have to use force-not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places-then we have force at our disposal."

(Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 66)
Ariel Sharon:

"Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don't care."

Who are the real terrorists? Would you open your eyes widely to what is happening in Palestine?
Do yourself a favor, read what really happening in Gaza at: Aljazeera.net: War on Gaza

Updating Dynamic DNS accounts using a script on Linux

Introduction

One of the requirements for having a domain name (typically) is to have a static IP, one that does not change frequently. Ordinary people face a problem, most (if not all) residential Internet services have dynamic IP addresses which change once a day (like what I have).
Companies like dyndns.com, changeip.com, no-ip.com, to name a few, have a service that you can use to have a domain name, either dedicated or shared, which can accept this kind of frequent change. All what is needed is either a router that support DDNS, or an application that is installed on a PC.

A Linux Script

Most, if not all, DDNS companies use APIs for their service, thus this article is about API and scripting.
Steps:

• Create a directory in /etc, let’s say cron.2min (2min refer to the cron timing):

cd /etc
mkdir cron.2min
chmod 755 cron.2min

• Add a new line in /etc/crontab:

0-59/2 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.2min

instructing the crontab to run anything in /etc/cron.2min every 2 minutes continuously everyday.

• Created a file called externalip.txt in /root directory and insert dummy data in it:

touch /root/externalip.txt
echo "2" > /root/externalip.txt
chmod 644 /root/externalip.txt

This file will be used to store the discovered external IP address by the next script below.

• In /etc/cron.2min, created a file called dynip.sh, with the contents as follows:

a=`cat /root/externalip.txt`
b=`wget -q -O - http://ip.changeip.com:8245 | cut -f 2 -d "=" | cut -f 1 -d "-" -s | grep -m 1 ^`
if [ $a != $b ]
then
# dyndns
wget --delete-after https://user:pass@members.dyndns.org/nic/update?hostname=yourhost >/dev/null 2>&1
# no-ip
wget --delete-after https://user:pass@dynupdate.no-ip.com/nic/update?hostname=yourhost >/dev/null 2>&1
# changeip
wget --delete-after https://nic.changeip.com/nic/update?hostname=*1&u=user&p=pass >/dev/null 2>&1
# opendns
wget --delete-after https://user:pass@updates.opendns.com/nic/update >/dev/null 2>&1
# update externalip.txt file
echo $b > /root/externalip.txt
fi

• Issue the following command:

chmod 755 /etc/cron.2min/dynip.sh

To make it executable.

What is Done

The script does the following:

1. grab the content of externalip.txt,
2. get the output of the link ip.changeip.com and extract the IP address only,
3. compare them, if not equal, do the updates, and then put the new IP address in externalip.txt
4. if equal, just quit