Portion (Shoftim) :
14. " When you come to the land which Hashem, your God, gives you and
possess it, and settle in it, and you will say, " I will set a King
over myself, like all the nations that are around me."
15. You shall surely set over yourself a king whom Hashem, your God
shall choose from among your Brethren shall you set a king over
yourself; you cannot place over yourself a foreign man , who is not
your brother.
16. Only he shall not have too many horses for himself, so that he
will not return the people to Egypt in order to increase horses, for
Hashem has said to you, " You shall no longer return on this road
again."
17. And he shall not have too many wives, so that his heart not turn
astray ; and he shall not greatly increase silver and gold for
himself . "
Corrections :
1. European intellectuals fighting against the Republicans , followed
by Franco's long years of dictatorship.
2. Gaddafi spent more on developing Western Libya than on developing
Eastern Libya.
3. In my opinion it is not OK for Gaddafi to kill either Black or
White Africans.
4. Perhaps the whole story would have been different if the impetuous
Saif al Islam al Gaddafi had not made that rumbustious declaration on
that fateful night in February that when they got into Benghazi within
a few hours they were going to exterminate the opposition....
On 3 Sep, 13:00, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Chika Onyeani,
>
> The Almighty, the Living and Eternal King, it is He Who is King of
> Kings and no other.
>
> In your eyes, Gaddafi may be the king of kings of Africa, but in my
> eyes, Herr Gaddafi who deposed his own King Idris of Libya is not even
> what you yourself calls a "Black African." and contrary to what King
> Gaddafi has been saying, all his bepple do not "love" him.
>
> As a matter of fact someone told me yesterday that there was unequal
> development in Libya and that Gaddafi had been spending more money on
> the east of Libya, than on the West. The moral of the tale? When you
> want all your people to love you then to begin with, you spray your
> money (the Libyan people's money) on them all, equally, not above all
> on your cronies worldwide and on your dear, dearer, dearest and most
> dearest family members.
>
> This is well documented: During this conflict, the pro-Gaddafi forces
> and mercenaries of the Libyan government has for a long time now been
> killing Black Africans - Black Libyans to begin with - and we are to
> assume that if we had Black African-Americans fighting on the side of
> the so called " rebels", Gaddafi would have urged his troopers and
> they would have been killing those "rats" too.
>
> Yet you mean to tell me that ostensibly, you (Chika Onyeani), Dr.
> Zuma, Mugabe and Ping have no qualms about glorifying Gaddafi for
> doing so? In that case it's a warped mindset that ascribes racism to
> one part of Libya and not to the other in this on-going war and not
> the same kind of mindset that rose up against apartheid in South
> Africa.
>
> Looka here:
>
> http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2011/02/21/so-who-is-...
>
> Over the years, I've known a number of Libyans of varying shades and
> complexions, Black and White Arabs and Berbers (for security reasons
> - their security - I cannot give you their names etc) but I assure
> you that they are not racists and would not be killing "Black
> Africans" in cold blood if they were not mercenaries fighting on
> Gaddafi's side - whether they had been coerced into fighting as
> mercenaries – or they are/were merely fighting for a few dollars
> more.
>
> In my view those who are captured should not be summarily executed
> but retained as prisoners of war. That would be in accordance with the
> Geneva Convention, wouldn't it?
>
> During the Spanish Civil War, many European intellectuals betook
> themselves over to Spain to fight against Franco:
>
> http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/col-spanishcivilwar.htm
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Intellectuals+in+the+Spanish+Civil+War...
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=+Foreign+intellectuals+in+the+Spanish+...
>
> We are also to assume that if some of the African cheerleaders for
> Gaddafi in this forum were as committed in their hearts and in their
> testicles as they appear to be committed in their mouths, they would
> have gone to the battlefront on behalf of their so called king of
> kings ( along with Jean Ping) to fight the good fight for him and to
> help him fulfil his dream of becoming not only Africa's first ping of
> pings but also the first president of the United States of Africa .
> But alas, many have got fat from too much largesse, as Hamlet said,
> are "grossly full of bread."
>
> Here's a song by one of my best friends an Hon.Mandinka warrior who
> is wisely staying home:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCqWNI1p_LI
>
> Finally.
>
> And the Nigerian Government and several Nigerian Governments of the
> past have been " Killing Black Africans" - you see what they did to
> the Biafrans, used starvation as a weapon of war, their own people,
> starved them to death.
>
> What do you have to squeak about that? Good or bad?
>
> Would like to add that there are a number of clarifications made in
> that excellent CFC article on the Boko Haram. Toni Johnson dispels
> some myths and some of what's said raises other questions that I
> should like to point out in responding to that and not to Chika
> Onyeani.
>
> That's what this thread is supposed to be about : BOKO HARAM:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Atlas+Shrugs+%3A+BOKO+HARAM&ie=utf-8&o...
>
> On Sep 2, 9:49 pm, Chika Onyeani <afrst...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >www.africansuntimes.com
>
> > WHY AFRICAN UNION IS RIGHT NOT TO RECOGNIZE THE LIBYAN REBELS
>
> > A rebel fighter about to machete another black African to death
>
> > "The decision of the African Union as articulated by both President Zuma and Dr. Ping is totally sound; however, not for the reasons they adduced, but for the fact that the rebels need to account for the killings of black Africans, not for the pretensions of "confusing them as mercenaries hired by Gaddafi," but because of the anti-black, racist and innate hatred of black Africans, even though there are a million dark Africans who are Libyan citizens and are maltreated as well. There is no reason beating about the bush with regards to this point: the African Union must finally come to terms about the racist attitude of Arabs and especially Arab-Africans towards mainland Africans. In the past, the African Union had dealt with this issue by sweeping it under the carpet for such a long time in the name of a united Africa. To do otherwise, is a disservice to the millions of mainland Africans who live in the other 48 states of the continent. It is to the ultimate commendation of Dr. Ping to have come out and boldly state the obvious: the so-called Libyan rebels are killing black Africans from mainland Africa, pretending that they are "mercenaries" hired by Gaddafi rather than their innate hatred of black Africans."
>
> > Before it was just a 'rumor', but yesterday African Union Commission Chairman, Dr. Jean Ping, came out boldly to state the fact that the Libyan rebels under the so-called Transitional National Council have been engaged in massive killings of black Africans from mainland Africa, as well as Libyans who have darker skins. This is a happening in Libya that the well-oiled propaganda machine of the Western media has conveniently refused to tell, but rather churning out stories about killings by pro-Gaddafi forces. The Western media is in such a frenzied hysteria about hanging Gaddafi that they have totally ignored massive abuses by the Transitional National Council.
>
> > CONTINUE READING
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