Richard M. Stallman (“RMS”), founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, confirmed his visit to Palestine after receiving an invitation from the free software and open source communities in Palestine.
Stallman’s visit to “Israeli”-occupied Palestine means a lot to Palestinian techies, free software advocates, and supporters of general freedoms around the world. Stallman calls for the freedom and right to disseminate knowledge for the advancement of people and the humankind progress, within a unique relation between software and general freedoms, which became an independent approach that is widely applied in computer science, and spread to non-technical domains.
The world of software and applications that we use, falls into two categories, the first is non-free & closed were the user have no knowledge on how it works nor how to develop it further, This category is the most common among users.The second category is the free open source software, which matches the 1st category in quality, however it complies with a set of freedoms that grants the user the ability and power to further develop & customize it and use is as a source of knowledge that can be built upon, publish and benefit from it in the advancement of human kind.
In recent weeks, Stallman has been under harsh criticism by Israeli media and tech associations for canceling his lectures at Israeli Universities which were added to his itinerary because of his visit to Palestine.
His decision to cancel the “Israeli” appearances was made after being briefed by the organizers on how visiting Israeli universities within his visit to Palestine goes against the guidelines of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) — a nonviolent strategy to pressure Israel to end the illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territory.
Stallman’s withdrawal from his Israeli appearances provoked the Israeli media, and tech communities in Israel, to attack Stallman in local and international forums in addition to the Israeli media, accusing him of going against the freedom principles he advocates, and suggesting that his decision was forced upon him by the Palestinian National Authority.
The Palestinian organizers deny all claims that the PNA was involved in organizing Stallman’s visit, maintaining that it is solely organized by autonomous Palestinian tech communities.
In response to the accusations of political bias in his decision to honor the PACBI guidelines, Stallman commented, “If I had considered the Palestinians’ insistence unjustified, I would have looked for a way around it, such as asking for other funds to speak at the Israeli institutions. However, I decided to go along with their demand because I see where they are coming from. Israel’s occupation policies are horrible; nonviolent Palestinian protests are crushed with persistent brutality. Palestinians who are against violence are looking desperately for an effective method of nonviolent resistance. I can’t blame them for it even if I don’t agree entirely with the details. So I decided to accept their boycott policy during this trip, and I cancelled my speeches at Israeli universities.”.
Stallman will be in Palestine July 14-18, 2011 for a visit arranged and hosted by Palestinian free software and open source communities. A variety of central event and visits to Palestinian academic institutions will be carried out during his visit, in addition to community related activities and programs.
Stallman launched the famous GNU Project in 1984 to provide a computational platform built entirely on free software, that offers tools that is being used in many world class application. Moreover the GNU Public License, GPL, governs the distribution of software in a way that ensures it’s freedom is widely used today, where most free licenses today followed the same path.
It seems the message sent by Israeli Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ( who belongs to the Jewish religion) to remove a page that called for a third palestinian intifada has resonated at the ears of Mark as today Facebook removed citing that it violated its terms as it called for violence. The page managed to get 313,343 members (likes).
The truth is that we have been following the page and did not find any calls to violence and that the page admin affirmed several times that his page does not call for violence and said that if Facebook removes the page all Muslims will boycott Facebook forever, as the “true face of Facebook will uncover.”
A statement from Facebook to CNN said “The page… began as a call for peaceful protest, even though it used a term that has been associated with violence in the past. In addition, the administrators initially removed comments that promoted violence,” ,…. “However, after the publicity of the page, more comments deteriorated to direct calls for violence. Eventually, the administrators also participated in these calls. After administrators of the page received repeated warnings about posts that violated our policies, we removed the page.”
Again We do not believe Facebook claims and here is the google cashe of the page and you will see if you know Arabic there are no calls for violence as for comments since when the page admin is responsible to monitor comments specially if the page has 313,343 members with thousand of comments on each update?
On the other hand if calls to violence in any Facebook page means that Facebook will impose it ban, Barack Obams’ page should be deleted because in his latest speech he called for violence against on his facebook page the army of the dictator Gaddafi, not saying that Gaddafi is a good man, but this is call to violence.
After thanking Facebook for restoring free palestine page in the last post we at ArabCrunch condemn Facebook decision it is very clear a racists one, and have no bases unless Facebook restores the page and deletes Barack Obama’s Page because he called for violence using on it.
Wondering why the CIA attacked MillatFacebook? Now you know why.
Israeli Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ( who belongs to the Jewish religion) to remove a page that called for a third palestinian intifada. The page has so far 319,270 members.
Yuli said that the page includes calls for violence, though by looking at the page we did not find any, the page admin also affirmed that his page does not call for violence and said that if Facebook removes the page all Muslims will boycott Facebook forever, as the “true face of Facebook will uncover.”
The page called for massive demonstrations on April 15th in occupied Palestine, neighboring Arab countries and across the world, demanding the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem from Israeli occupation.
It seems that Facebook will not close the page. It closed last week free palestine page citing that the accounts of all admins of the page have been deactivated for different reasons thus caused the closer of the page.
We connected free palestine page admin and said his account was not deactivated but another admin account was deactivated for no reason to later activate again, we are still waiting for Facebook to bring the page back.
Despite that “israel” has a peace treaty with Egypt since over 20 years and officials from both government meet regularly,seems “Israel” never stopped plotting and spying against Egypt.
According to Islammemo and a number of Egyptian news sites the ongoing investigation with the Egyptian spy Tariq Abdel Razaq Hassan revealed that the Israeli Mossad is behind the Internet outage that affected Internet traffic quarter one of last year.
During the outage ArabCrunch was present in Cairo by our founder Gaith Saqer who was attending ArabTechies Gathering. At the time Egyptian authorities said that Internet cables in the Mediation sea is behind Internet slowdown and outage in Egypt. The Investigation revealed that the Mossad has cut Internet cables between Egypt and Europe .
The Mossad spy also said that Israeli spy agency the Mossad used the internet and several websites to spread wrong information about Islam and Islamic Sharia in order to change the believes of main stream Arab Muslims.
Arstechnica says this happened after the site published second piece of coverage about the Stuxnet malware which hit Ithe workers of Iranian power plant. Iran said it had some evidence that “Israel” is behind the attack.
Arstechnica is owned by Condé Nast Publications the same owner of Wired Magazine who’s reporter is suspected of blatant violation of journalistic ethics by setting up a trap to Wikileaks suspected Whistle blower US army intelligence Bradley Manning and handing him over to the FBI.
Wired Magazine collaborator Adrian Lamo claimed that PFC Manning finally decided to be a whistleblower when he was ordered to process the arrest of Iraqi civilians who did nothing more than publish an academic paper about corruption in the Iraqi Provisional Governmet.
Condé Nast Publications also owns social media news sites Reddit.
The US State Department entered into competition against ArabCrunch with very “fair terms” under the pretext of “helping Muslims.” As part of the Obama’s Promise and engagement plans for entrepreneurship and tech innovation in the Muslim world as a new pillar to fight “extremism” or “terrorism”. And After we posted about a leak from sources with relevance to both US department of Defense and US State Department about the US administration plans to destroy Arabcrunch of “if we do not join them, they will destroy you”( The leaks are security level leaks to the US administration.) A wave of social media propaganda started against ArabCrunch on Twitter and elsewhere offline.
The main allegation is that “we come to ArabCrunch to read tech news not politics.” some said ” I was a fan, now you lost me, forever”!!
As we started to reveal more of the plots committed by the CIA, Mossad and the global Zionist movement to bring us down, the social media propaganda campaign grow. Now we see more blog posts by low level unpopular blogs attacking ArabCrunch and its founder with whatever they can by calling our posts as “rants” “ArabCrunch is a personal blog, no more professional” they are hallucinating. “He needs series help!!!”
Why now? why would these people take the effort and time to come and attack ArabCrunch with such a cheap way?
Well, most of the propagandist are Arabs or who have fake Arabic profile on Twitter. non of these people ArabCrunch attacked by name before, while some are self confessed Zionists and “Israelis”, So why they are attacking us?
Very simple reason, most of these people are paid social media mercenaries, all these tweets, blog posts with “ready made thread of comments” are mostly a propaganda campaign designed to mislead the public about the authority and credibility of ArabCrunch that it took us about 2,5 years of hard-work at night and at sun light. Why they are misleading the public?
This CIA leaked document shows that the US intelligence had plans to destroy Wikileaks since 2009 by attacking its heart which is its “trust,” so people around the world specially Americans discredit any leak on wikileaks as fake and not true!
So these people where just misleading the public to cover the crimes the CIA and Zionism committed against ArabCrunch and other Muslim independent websites. Whether it is an intentional move by most or unintentional by a few, who were miss lead by those poppets.
One of the tweets of the people who was tweeting with enthusiasm against us (claiming to be fans and then swithcing sides later!!) “made fun” of a certain Arab ruling family member linking them to ArabCrunch. In that country and by law insulting members of the ruling family means jail for about 2 years. The guy and those who Retweeed after him is never prosecuted and never go to jail!!!
We totally condemn that tweet and totally disagree with it and we wont link the person or the tweet here so we do not get into trouble by “miss understanding us” from the authorities in that country. However these are one of the attempts to bring trouble to us by any means possible.
Look at this Tweet here:
Mustapha said he never heard of ArabCrunch untill the other guy wrote “some propoganda” in his post about us, and he found us “a bunch of loonies.” Yet he has been following or knew about AC from at least 2009 as this Tweet reveals: (sorry Mustapha we had to link your Tweet, it was public)
To political and media observers, these propaganda campaigns are very old school tactics that are not new to the US administration, CIA, Mossad and Zionism and their history of blackmailing anyone who “do not join the good effort.” or “the good fight for the good cause!”
The US administration and hillary clinton has a history in misleading the public and launching propaganda against its enemies or rivals or basically anyone who “do not join.” In technology the hypocrisy was very clear when Hillary attacked China for infiltrating China’s regime oppositions’ email account on Gmail and called for Internet freedom in her speech. as she said “We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas,” citing China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt among the countries that censored the Internet or harassed bloggers!
In China Google shuts down its offices and rally the world, the pretext “free speech,” yet in our case, CIA and Zionism have freehand to accesses our email on google! no security, no privacy to sites that are from the Muslim world!
It is worth mentioning here for the sake of disclosure that Google founders Sergey Mikhaylovich Bri and Larry Page are both Jewish.While ArabCrunch founder is Muslim, Arab and a proud Jordanian his father is originally from Gaza strip of Palestine which is occupied by “Israel” a jewish run state.
Here is also a video of how US government treats journalists from Reuters:
We know some will come and say, “who is ArabCrunch compared to Aljazeera? or Wikileaks? Wikileaks is leaking sensitive data that “are deemed” threat to the US national security by exposing informants names! ArabCrunch is a tech blog not a political blog.” Some others said “what you are doing is propaganda to gain popularity” while others said ” You failed and this is to cover your failure.” another new soft attacks by both some Arabs and Zionests “we are unfollowing ArabCrunch because it is now a political blog.”
We refuted at the beginning of this post the political allegations, but we do not know which is true “are we losing popularity because we uncovered parts of the CIA and Zionists plots against ArabCrunch, or are we gaining??” Did we fail or are you at our glory?
Again all these claims are designed to mislead and confuse the silent majority of mostly American and European men and woman who refuse tyranny and blackmail to stop following ArabCrunch and to discredit us from any credibility with multiple contradicting claims and deceptions!
Its 100% true that our resources are not a match at any level to those who attacked us and to those of the US federal government or to those of the Zionist moment. We do not have half a billion to spend to buy one of the world’s top hosting companies. We can not pressure governments or orchestrate coupes ( even if we did we will never.) But our operational costs are low, even though the attackers are making their best to cut any chance of our growth or existence. Whether they are sources of news or revenues that can cover our costs. But our traffic is all times high, Generally, success or failure of any websites is based on traffic growth and We got that! All the thanks to God and then to you the reader. But US Admin is pressuring advertisers not to advertise on ArabCrunch.
It is true that we are not at the size of Aljazeera, it is true we are not a political blog, which we were wondering why would they attack us? are we a threat to US national Security? Are we a threat to Zionist Security and control on the world? We are not terrorists for sure, we have a nobel cause in helping entrepreneurs and geeks in the Muslim world and all over the world. But the CIA, Mossad or Zionism do not just attack or try to recruit political figures or Main stream TV stations in the Muslim world. Or only head of states. If you read the Entrepreneurship in Banana republic post you will know that they try to recruit or attack businesses and the media. The Social media front is nothing new to them with their attacks on Millatfacebook.
To conclude, one of the claims is that Arabs live under “conspiracy theory” and that ” in that part of the world ( Muslim world) often when they fail, they start to play the victim side!”
The truth is that conspiracy theory is no more theory when facts in the ground exist, conspiracy is lived everyday in the Muslim world, Why Palestinians were driven from their homes and land confiscated on almost daily bases? Why Palestinian Muslims and Christen woman and men are humilated in Israeli prisons and check points every day? Are they super powers? are they not victims or are the playing the victim side? did the 2 million innocent Iraqi children, women, men and the elderly, plaid the victim side? when the US federal government war machine systematically murdered all of them?
We have no political affiliations at ArabCrunch nor an ideology, we don’t consider anyone as enemy even the US administration and for sure we do not enjoy writing about the CIA Mossad and Zionism plots against us.
But we have the right to expose those who attack us and inform the public about “how things are being done with Obama’s promise to the Muslims world.” ArabCrunch was not the only site whose leadership is from an independent Muslim and Arab background, Millatfacebook was attacked by the same group: CIA and Zionism.
We want peace and we do not want to be involved in any politics, we are not just another commercial startup, ArabCrunch is a cause, our mission is to drive entrepreneurship and tech innovation in the Muslim world and the globe. And this mission requires to inform the public how things are being done in these 2 frontiers.
We are not anti- American or Anti Semitic, we are anti- injustice tyranny and blackmail of special interests at the US government. “Israel” is put into quotations simply because that area is a conflict area, this is not a political statement.
We understand carefully that CIA and Zionism will launch a strong retaliation against AC and Gaith Saqer bigger than just tweets for exposing their crimes and find out who our sources of leaks are. The nature of retaliation will be the usual fabrication of crimes that often happen to political opposition in most third world countries. When that time comes ( seems very soon), then the same people ( and new faces) who launched these smear propaganda against AC and its founder, will come yet again, to justify every byte of the fabrication.
This is not new, humiliation of Palestinians and Muslims men and woman around the world is not very recent. What is new is that social media and YouTube has made these footage public rather than hidden behind bars.
An “Israeli” female solider Eden Aberjil of the southern “Israeli” port town of Ashdod published in her Facebook profile a picture of her pausing in-front of humiliated Palestinian prisoners.
According to the Telegrpah the woman and her friend exchanged comments below the pic photograph “suggested how casually the picture was treated, including jokes and sexual innuendoes. ”
“You’re the sexiest like that,” her friend wrote.
“I wonder if he’s got Facebook!” the woman in the photograph responded. “I have to tag him in the picture!”
The telegraph reported a Palestinian authority sposkman saying” “to be proud of humiliating Palestinians. The occupation is unjust, immoral and, as these pictures show, corrupting.” Also the “Israeli military”criticized the young woman.
In today’s Press conference Lebanaon’s “Hezbollah” Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah, displayed a video of an “Israeli drone” video transmission Hezbollah managed to hack in 1996. “Before 1997, the Resistance managed to capture the transmission of an MK drone and we managed to access this transmission which enabled us of capturing the images transmitted by the drone as the enemy’s operation room was receiving them.” Nasrallah said. According to him a drone video feed Hezbollah hacked in 1997 has helped “Hezbollah fighters” to set up an ambush for “Israeli commandos” team who where in their way to conduct “military operations” in southern Lebanon.
In the press conference Hezbollah accused “Israel” of being behind the murder of the former Lebanese Prime Minster Rafiq Al Hariri. He was assassinated in Lebanon in February, 14, 2005. In his speech Nasrallah said that a lebanese “Israeli spay” has been “blackmailing” Hariri to think that Hezbollah was plotting to kill him.
Nasrallah also unveiled several intercepted videos from Israeli surveillance planes of the site of the 2005 murder of ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri prior to his assassination. He said that these Israeli drones had carefully monitoring Al Harrari’s motorcade. “Such footage generally comes as the first leg of the execution of an operation.” he added..
In his speech, Nasrallah showed a profile of different Israeli spies and said they used high tech equipment such as mobile phones that can monitor other mobile conversations.
In December 2009, Wall Street Journal reported that “Military groups” in U.S occupied Iraq managed to hack U.S. Military and CIA Predator drones using software programs such as SkyGrabber — now available for as little as $29.95 British Pounds.
Nasrallah hinted that his party has other evidence and secrets to be reveled at “the appropriate time.”
Israel has developed many drone types including Heron TP (Eitan) which is designed as a Multi-payload, Multi-mission platform The Dorn has a powerful Turbo-Prop engine, which enables the aircraft to climb and operate at altitude above 40,000 ft avoiding any airspace conflict with commercial aircraft traffic. And can fly for 36 consecutive hours with full mission payload and reach the Arab Gulf.
In what appears the result of the massive wave of cyber attacks against thousands of Israeli websites by turkish hackers following the “Israeli army” assault against the Flotilla the aid ship which left 9 unarmed Turkish citizens dead, Tens of Thousands of email address, passwords and personal details of Israeli web users appears to have been compromised and on the hands of Turkish hackers.
The number of users are around 100,000 according to Israeli blogger Erez Wolf of WE CMS (Hebrew link). Israeli security company However Maglan Research Labs said the number is has increased to 122,000 e-mail, credit card and PayPal account.
Erez blog post ( google translation to English) which was picked up by Israeli business website Globes, said that the hackers managed to obtain gmail, Facebook, MSN and even credit and bank accounts of many of Israelis. Erez also said that he found Excel spreadsheet with more than 32,000 e-mail addresses and passwords published on a Turkish forum including 142 e-mail addresses with an Israeli government suffix (gov.il) and 305 addresses with academic suffixes (ac.il). And some other belong to high profile Israeli sites Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi , Bank os Israel and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
However we could not find that forum post nor did Erez posted a link to it.
Shai Blitzblau technology director of Maglan Research Lab told the Globes “We already know about 12,000-13,000 e-mail accounts that have been misused, such as to send malicious code, viruses, and spyware through them without their owners aware of it.” He also said that Israeli hackers have retaliated by attacking around 60 Turkish government websites.
Early last month Turkish hackers have penetrated Facebook accounts of Israeli users, uploading videos and changing users status with anti- Israeli messages. This represent a new form of activism, as we reported on AC social media has been used for political causes from Obama to AlBaradi, to Hamas and by Anti torture activist in Egypt. But in normal cases users themselves rally with their own well to spread or support a cause. But in this case Israelis users on Facebook were forced to spread messages that condemns their own state and ideology and in support of the Palestinian cause. Someone might ask how Jordan’s print and publications law for example would operate, as the law seems to include a facebook & Twitter updates.
Richard M. Stallman (“RMS”), founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, confirmed his visit to Palestine after receiving an invitation from the free software and open source communities in Palestine.
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