New friends.. a massacre in Taiz, and how many sandwiches 126 mil $ buy

Tawakul wins nobel prize, as Yemen file goes to UN Sec Council

أصوات الشبكة مرة أخرى, حول المبادرة الخليجية

مرت المبادرة الخليجية لأنقاذ صالح و توريط الشعب اليمني بمراحل عدة و كان هدفها هو تعطيل الحراك الثوري في اليمن و استدراك الاحزاب بجزرة لا يزالوا يتمنوها, للخلاص من تبعات ثورة بدأها غيرهم و تولي زمام الامور في مرحلة انتقالية

أعتراض الشباب في الساحات كان مبكرا على المبادرة ككل و بالذات البند الخاص بمناعة صالح و عائلته

من جهة أخرى تحدثنا حول دعوة الفاضل علي صالح(على اساس)  بمنع الاختلاط في الساحات

أصوات الشبكة: الأطباء في قلب الانتفاضة اليمنية

كان هذا ظهوري الاعلامي الاول على قناة دولية, كانت المشاعر متقدة حينها بعد مجزرة جمعة الكرامة الذي قتل فيها قناصة تابعين للنظام اكتر من 35 شاب في ساعة المجزرة و توفي اكثر من 20 متأثرين بجراحهم خلال الايام التي تلتها.. و كنت قد شاركت بعلاج الجرحى في المستشفى الميداني و بعدها في أحد المستشفيات القريبة من ساحة التغيير

كان من حسن الحظ ان الأعلامية تاتيانا الخوري هو أول من قابلني في الاعلام الدولي, أحترافيتها العالية و مقدرتها على ادارة الحوار و اختيار الصور المناسبة كان اكثر من رائع

الجدير بالذكر ان في ذلك اليوم اصيب حوالي 625 شخص بالرصاص حسب احصائية نشرها المستشفى الميداني في حينه, و قد تم هذا كله في اقل من نصف ساعة فأذا فرضنا ان ما اصاب الناس هو 50% من الرصاص المقذوف فقد اطلق على مجموعة من المعتصمين المسالمين حوالي 1200 رصاصة في نصف ساعة فقط

و قلك نظام صالح مش دموي؟ ماذا تركت؟

polarization come!

I was talking to a young Egyptian politician the other day prior to me meeting a prominent American official, I knew this Egyptian guy for years as a friend and as a doctor, and although our political views differed we managed to be very good friends

the question that I had to ask him and delay his sleep for 90 minutes was: why do you guys in Egypt have it heavy against the Americans in your politics and what does he recommend regarding this big meeting of mine? he simply answered don't meet the man your interests don't match (just like our interests in Egypt don't match with the Americans! I could understand his logic, but I had to dig a little further knowing our situation in Yemen differed a bit, so I went further.. I know your party speaks to the American here and there! and he kept denying and he said it is a core fundamental issue for them not to speak to the Americans unless it s all in the open and very well documented and on Camera.

after 90 minutes of back and forth along those lines, I had to hang up our little chat and let my tired friend go to bed!

That was the starting point for me to think, how did all the parties ended up here, and where to head from here to the future?

my answer to self was (stupid ass governance along with dictatorships from the end of 70s till now) surly did no good from the Arabs side to present themselves to the world in one side.. and overly pragmatic and overly (lets stand with Israel for this time only) policy from the Americans that led to more polarization and to slogans like (American is the greatest devil)

The Arab spring is bringing an unprecedented chance for this polarization to end, however I still see all sides not investing to make it fade, in the contrary one can clearly see how limping the US foreign policy is behaving when it comes to expressing discontent towards their old dictator friends (we know he is a SOB but he is our SOB) to the over blaming of the US role in Arab politics and insisting on the the Americans said not to do this to us ??? ( I thought in your country u should be more relevant than the us (if u wanna play politics) other wise go do some gardening!

I don't like any anti sentiment, anti American or anti Iran for that matter in the Arab world right now, we wasted our chance to alliance with Iran in the 80s with our stupid Iraq/Iran war and we wasted our chance to play it well with the Americans in 50s

I can understand how difficult it was back then, since no1 knew anything about the other rather than orientalist tales and pillars of wisdom of the one and only Lawrence of Arabia (which i hate)

but this is not accepted now! why? because you are reading this!


** picture of the BBC Channel still thinking Tunisia had a crisis (rather than a revolution) on the day Ben Ali departed the country

Dont just stand there and whine!

It is absurd how many ppl are dealing with the revolutions in their countries as they are watching a tennis match on TV! they advice Nadal through the screen shouting Go left .. faster,, no no right u fucking idiot! revolutions ladies and Gentlemen is not a show on TV ending up by a tyrant going home.. today in Syria 80 people died in one incident, I lost a childhood friend in Syria, and some got imprisoned, I lost several people I know in Yemen as well, I know an Egyptian blogger who was stripped in public when the central security caught him in Jan 25th, and doctors who were trapped in the hospitals in Banghazi in Libya under air raids.. this is a very close call, very personal and very dangerous!

The situation is difficult, our phones are tabbed, we are being harassed at work (if we still have work left) we wake up everyday with all the possibilities of our lives to be shattered by a single wrong move! activists in the middle east are doing the arab spring without expeirence, no support, with everything to lose and nothing to win but the dignity that our regimes are trying to break since ever. then we find all sorts of ppl lecturing us on what to or not to do without real knowledge on the ground!

I had a call today from someone in Alhasba saying they had rotten bodies on the street and they dont know how to deliver them out! because the partys cant agree on what s a neutral car to pass in.. news about a possible outbreak of cholera in Abyan, and a devastating situation of IDPs in Aden scattered in schools! about 20'000 ppl are there now with no real support systems to catch them!

as of course impotent local NGOs fight over how to suck their donors and how to find routes to build a sustainable capacity bu.. blah blah blah barf!

ppl are dying on the streets because of Tyrants, and what everybody is lending is another lecture on what to do.. i will tell u what to so SHUT UP AND DO SOMETHING!

Taiz freedom squared stormed, fight resume with alahmars