"A Must See Video."

The following correction comes from Professor Peter Maher regarding the erroneoulsy reported destruction of the Serbian Orthodox church and library (in bold).

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This is a must see short video for everyone, exposing some of the greatest fraud in the main stream media regarding the Israeli conflict

 

http://www.aish.com/movies/PhotoFraud.asp

 

COMMENTS:  Regarding falsely orchestrating events and doctoring photos. 

 

Remember Dubrovnik where a media fraud reported that the Serbs destroyed the Pearl of the Adriatic, the city of Dubrovnik?  Read below the similarity between the alleged burning of Dubrovnik and the cover of U.S. News and World Report which shows a Hezbollah fighter overlooking a fire in Beirut.    The caption reads, "Wreckage of an Israeli jet billowing smoke in Beirut."  Upon closer look, it is not a war scene.  No, those are automobile tires burning in a garbage dump. 

 

Peter Maher, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, visited Dubrovnik, Croatia, to see for himself the truth about the war in the Balkans.  It should be noted that Dr. Maher, a Roman Catholic, not a Serbian Orthodox source, video taped the entire city, building by building and his footage was shown on Access TV Channel 19 in Chicago.

 

Dr. Maher wrote, "A few months earlier, the press was filled with stories that the Pearl of the Adriatic had been reduced to rubble. The stories were fakes."  Professor Maher goes on to explain just how it happened:  "The dramatic 'Dubrovnik burning' pictures were shot with long lenses. . . .But the smoke was from the fuel tanks of two pleasure boats burning in the Old Harbor ... Dubrovnik's Old City never burned and was never even targeted by the federal forces.   It was not navy guns that did the damage, but plastic and incendiary devices planted on the spot by Croatian forces.....I then asked the cameraman to take us to the building that was reportedly gutted by fire. Reports erroneously identified the destroyed building as the Serbian Orthodox church and library, but the fact is that, facing the Serbian Orthodox church, a burned out hulk of a building stood, burnt out and roofless, a four-level building.  It was the house belonging to Ivo Grbić an artist.  Adjacent structures were unscathed.  No naval guns could have done that.  Grbić was summoned in 2003 to testify in the Hague trial against Slobodan Milosevic, but the official story was that he could not come on account of poor health.  His paints, brushes, easels etc. were reported on a Croatian website to be housed in the Franciscan and Dominican monasteries.  It is unknown to me if these were newly acquired or if the artist's materials were removed before the fire.  On a wall facing the Grbić house we filmed a sign, ICONS in English, and in Serbian Cyrillic letters HKOHE. 

 

"Dubrovnik - "the Pearl of the Adriatic" -was not destroyed, but barely scratched.  We hope you will comply all the corroborating evidence of your findings from other honest witnesses. The PR orchestration has sqamped the facts until now." 

 

And of course, let us not forget the image of the wailing woman in this video - how many did we see, month after month, of Bosnian or Kosovo women and children wailing on the front pages of all our newspapers?  I do not denigrate their suffering because many of them did suffer needlessly, but intentionally by the Bosnian Muslim government of Alija Izetbegovic. But U.S. newspapers never showed photos of Serbian women and children suffering from NATO bombs, or their slaughtering at the hands of Agim Ceku, the Muslim war lord who today is walking a free man. 

 

If only we had had this kind of email/bloging during the war against the Serbian people, the lies would have been exposed immediately and perhaps, just perhaps, things might have been different - one would hope.   

 

'Nuf said.  Stella

The Balkan Mirror

...  Secretary of State James Baker said "we have no dog in this fight" -- but in the end America was the
top dog in the fight.  ...

 

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060814-100812-4051r.htm

WASHINGTON TIMES (USA)

OPINION

The Balkan Mirror
By Michael Djordjevich

Published August 15, 2006

Part one in a three-part series.

Together with the Middle East, the border lands of southeast Europe
known as the Balkans have been a region of the world where seminal events
and trends in human history have taken place. It has been called many names,
including "the powder keg of Europe" or "the graveyard of empires." The
conflicts in the region have also been a mirror of history.

Long before Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations," in the period
between the 14th and 19th centuries, the incessant ebb and flow in the
conflict between Islam and the West took place in the Balkans. Early in the
20th century, Serbian gun shots in Sarajevo ushered in World War I,
Communism and Nazism. At the end of the century, Bosnian Muslim
fundamentalists fired gun shots in Sarajevo, killing several Christian Serbs
at a wedding party and began a bloody war in Bosnia among Christian Serbs
and Croats and Muslims. This war may have well reflected in earnest the
renewed clash of civilizations.

The Berlin Wall fell at the end of 1989. The Soviet Union imploded and
the end of Communism as a global force followed. Balkan countries joined the
trend. However, the pivotal and largest state, Yugoslavia, rapidly descended
into a bloody civil-religious war and dissolution. This decade-long war at
the end of 20th century mirrored a number of important political, legal,
religious and geopolitical precedents for the post-Communist world. Of
particular significance are those involving America, the European Union and
the United Nations.

At first, the United States favored the preservation of Yugoslavia, or
at least its peaceful and orderly dissolution. Changing this position
abruptly, America did not oppose Germany's drive for the dismemberment of
Yugoslavia and then sided with Islamists in Bosnia. Secretary of State James
Baker said "we have no dog in this fight" -- but in the end America was the
top dog in the fight.

The international community's engagement in the Balkans have so far been
a textbook illustration of the dangers of contradictory policies, chronic
indecisions, confusion and ignorance about historical forces in play, double
standards and flawed precedents. America was not prepared for the peace and
the role of the only superpower in the world. Our leadership has failed in
this task so far.

Apparently, not much has been learned from this experience. We could
replace the location, inserting Iraq instead of the Balkans, and the
aforementioned assessment would be similar today.

The Balkan mirror also shows the impotence and irrelevance of the United
Nations. Any country and any people would be foolhardy to place their
destiny in the hands of this inept institution. With America's complicity,
the United Nations did nothing when its embargo on arms shipments was
violated by Iran sending planeloads of arms to Bosnian Muslims.
Subsequently, when veteran jihadists came to the country to fight Serbs, the
West was also supportive.

The Serbian province of Kosovo has been ethnically cleansed from Serbs,
Roma and other non-Albanians while 150 churches and many medieval
monasteries have been destroyed during 10 years of U.N. governance.

The mirror showed the duplicitous methods by which world media
influenced world opinion. With few exceptions, it has abused its power and
professional responsibility, failing to heed Ed Murrow's admonition to
examine all sides of a story and aim to elucidate, not advocate. It did the
latter and in general continues to advocate an Islamic agenda in Bosnia and
Kosovo.

The Balkan realities also show a great adaptability of Islamists to
present a worldly, democratic face. Readily accepted by the West, Bosnian
leader and fundamentalist Islamist Alija Izetbegovic was tolerated and
praised as a democrat. Nevertheless, in his book "The Islamic Declaration"
Izetbegovic asserted absolute validity of dominance of Islam: "There can be
neither peace nor coexistence between Islamic religion and non-Islamic
social and political institutions," he wrote. Later in the war, Mr.
Izetbegovic was influenced and financially and militarily supported by
fundamentalist Islamists (including Osama bin Laden). Similarly, some Kosovo
leaders, previously called terrorists and thugs by U.S. special envoy Robert
Gelbard, are now afforded respect in the United Nations and elsewhere.

The ugliest and most dangerous reflection in the mirror is that of
double-standards. As we are facing challenges and dangers of radical Islam
and terrorism worldwide, let's not dismiss the Balkan experience. Our
policies must contain moral dimensions. International agreements, legal
precedents and evenhanded treatment of warring people were not followed in
the Yugoslav tragedy. If we are to get out of the Middle East quagmire we
must change these policies. Failing to realize that by endeavoring to
resolve complex problems by double standards, we more often than not double
them in the end.

In addition, the Balkan Mirror has provided important and troubling
reflections upon Islam and the new world (dis)order.

Michael Djordjevich, an American of Serbian origin, founded and was the
first president of the Serbian Unity Congress.

letters@washingtontimes.com

Israel/Hezbollah vs. Kosovo War

 

Israel/Hezbollah vs. Kosovo War Part I

July 25th, 2006

Those of us intimately familiar with the 78-day 1999 Clinton/Blair war against Serbia recognize many similarities with the ongoing Hezbollah/Israel air war. For those of us who have experienced bombings as innocent civilians in our childhood, even if bombings date back to the WWII, the TV pictures of civilian sufferings on both sides are causing an outrage and a profound disappointment that such civilian sufferings are tolerated by the international community in the 21st century. Here are some notable comparisons between the Israel/Hezbollah and the Kosovo air wars.

Hezbolllah vs. KLA

Both Hezbollah and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are terrorist organizations. President Clinton’s special envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, said: “The UCK (KLA) is without any question a terrorist group.” Hezbollah is a first tier world terrorist organization with Al Qaeda being only the second tier. Iran created Hezbollah in1982. Iran and Syria have enormous influence as they provide hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic aid but Hezbollah is nobody’s puppet as President Bush and Israel have claimed. Despite its terrorist tactics Hezbollah has successfully recast itself as a legitimate political party. Its candidates advocate civic duty and responsible governance. Hezbollah enjoys support from 40% Lebanese Shiite population. It also has various supporters in Lebanese diaspora mainly in the South and North America. The KLA, a paramilitary wing of the Albanian mafia on the other hand, was supported by the government of Albania, Albanian narco-mafia, Albanian diaspora; Radical Islam such as Al Qaeda, government of Iran, various Saudi and other Wahhabi organizations, Organization of Islamic Conference as well as the U.S, British and German intelligence agencies.

Jupiter vs. Oxes

The U.S. not only doesn’t want to negotiate with Hezbollah but it does not want to negotiate directly with the legitimate governments of Iran and Syria despite the fact that Iran is probably the only party that can influence Hezbollah to terminate hostilities. The U.S. can influence Israel to stop slaughter of innocent civilians in Shiite neighborhoods instead of a tokenistic response thus far allowing Israel to “finish the job.” Thus far the legitimate and sovereign Lebanese government has received only lip service and an offer of humanitarian aid.

In contrast the U.S. and Germany exploited almost 100-year Serb-Albanian conflict to wrest the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia (15% of the Serbian territory) for their own purposes to strengthen their position in the Balkans. In order to accomplish this objective the Western alliance sided with the KLA insurrection from Albania into Kosovo and Metohija. From terrorists the KLA were instantly converted into partners and freedom fighters. Albanian terrorism, which as a matter of fact dates back to 1912 when Kosovo was liberated from the Ottoman Empire, was not a crime. When the insurrection was repelled primarily by the Serbian police forces the U.S.-led NATO, that defeated the Soviet Union without firing a shot, launched the 78-day air war of infamy against Serbia.

Nebojsa Malic, A tale of Jupiters and Cattle, ably quoted ancient Latin proverb created by Terence, a playwright of the Roman Republic: Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. What is permitted to Jupiter, isn’t permitted to oxes.  Jupiter is the Roman king of gods, the supreme god, and patron of the Roman state, identified with the Greek god Zeus. This ancient Roman rule is fully applicable for the 20th century as well as in the 21st century: Americans are Jupiter, Israel is Jupiter-light while Serbia and Lebanon are in the ox category.

Casus Belli

As in 1982, the Hezbollah/Israel war started with a minor incident. In 1982 it was a Palestinian assassination of an Israeli diplomat in London. On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah sent his fighters on a cross-border raid into Israel, where they killed eight soldiers and captured two as hostages. In recent years, Nasrallah has mounted several similar raids into Israel. Tough-minded prime ministers of Israel, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon, did not respond with an air war against Lebanon.

In contrast with Israel using a pinprick for casus belli there is an example of India. On July 11, Mumbai train bombings terrorist attack killed 207 Indians and wounded more than 800. The suspect is Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant group based in Pakistan. India did not retaliate by bombing Islamabad or Karachi but concentrated on the police work that led to arrest of three men ten days later. They have also arrested the organizer and the kingpin of Lashkar-e-Taiba in the Indian-controlled portion of the contested Kasmir province.

While Israel has used pinpricks to initiate wars, President Clinton used fabricated, staged massacres as casus belli both to bomb the Bosnian Serb positions in 1995 and all-out bombings of the Serbian infrastructure and civilians in 1999. Staged massacres and then blaming the Serbs for them were a pattern of Bosnian Muslim war strategy. Combined with highly cooperative partisan media, these staged massacres served as pretense to bomb the Bosnian Serb positions. Similarly in Kosovo, the KLA staged the Racak massacre, which was aided and abetted by the American man on the ground as the chief of OSCE observers, ambassador Walker. The Racak massacre was litigated during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the ICTY. Milosevic was obviously successful in his defense as illustrated with the fact that the British judge dropped the Racak massacre from the indictment of Milosevic’s successor, Milan Milutinovic, former deputy prime minister, two former army chiefs of staff and two generals. The six accused represent almost all of Serbia’s political and military top leadership in 1999. The judge stated that it “would be too difficult to prove exactly where the responsibility lies


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Israel/Hezbollah vs. Kosovo War Part II

July 26th, 2006

Right of Self-Defense

President Bush has daily stated that Israel has the right to defend itself. The UN charter recognizes that right but does it include launching an air war on civilians and the infrastructure? Did the same right apply to Serbia fighting the KLA terrorists on its own territory rather than the territory of a neighboring state?

On February 28, 1998 in response to killings of four Serbian policemen in the Drenica region of Kosovo the Serbian special police units launched a crackdown on the KLA terrorists. The action was directed at Adem Jashari whose clan constituted the core of the KLA organization. The Serbian forces killed Jashari and destroyed the KLA power base but also killed more than 50 Albanians including women and children. Almost instantaneously the U.S. threatened military intervention even without the UN Security Council approval. Secretary Albright said, “We know what we need to know to believe we are seeing ethnic cleansing all over again.” The Contact Group, representatives of the U.S, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Russia, announced measures aimed at applying punitive sanctions on Serbia and called for removal of Serbian forces from its own province. What would have happened if the Serbian air force by any chance bombed the KLA bases in Albania (Tropoja, Bajram Curi, Kruma, Peskopeja, Drac, Elbasan) or even pulverized Tirana, the Albanian capital? A textbook example of Jupiter vs. Oxes.

Disregard for Human Life

The terrorist organizations like Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, KLA and others have obviously no respect for innocent human life and that is why they are characterized as terrorists.  However, both Israel and the U.S.- led NATO have also exhibited a disregard for innocent human life and civilian infrastructure despite intensive PR campaigns to prove to the contrary and using the collateral damage terminology, the term I resent from the bottom of my heart. In the military lingo these are called strategic bombing campaigns aimed to flatten key economic resources and are usually designed to bend the targeted government to the will of the attacker or turn the populace against the government. The U.S. is one of the chief proponents launching campaigns in Vietnam, Iraq and Serbia. The U.S.-led NATO air campaign had an objective not only to punish Milosevic but also to teach Serbian people a lesson. Likewise Israel is teaching Lebanese people a lesson.

Use of U.S.-designed precision-guided bombs plus selection of strictly military targets should have avoided human tragedies like the one in Tyre where 72 victims of airstrikes were buried in a mass grave so that hospital can hold other bodies. One woman lost 24 members of her family. Israel bombed the Lebanese northern city of Tripoli, which has no conceivable relationship to Hezbollah. General Clark, supreme allied commander, bombed the Novi Sad bridges in Northern Serbia hundreds of km from Kosovo. He would have bombed the Belgrade bridges as well had it not been for the French president Chirac who saved them. The Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was even bombed. Similarly Israel bombed the UN border post killing four monitors. The UN Secretary General plus foreign ministers from China, Japan, South Korea and the 10 nation ASEAN bloc claimed that the attack was deliberate.

The effect of Israel strategic bombing campaign is likely to be much the same as General Wesley Clark’s in Serbia where the Serbian forces in Kosovo were not defeated and that in the Islamic world the growing numbers of civilian casualties are likely to turn Arabs and others against the Jewish state and its key ally, the U.S. and still not fatally wound Hezbollah. Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, said that Israel’s furious response was recruiting millions of new enemies. Similarly, the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has recruited millions of other enemies.

For most policymakers and people, moralization stops once they make up their mind as to who initiated the fight so that regard for human life during the fight is a nonissue. This is why the NATO governments and the media were so adamant in convincing the world of Serb atrocities so that once the fighting starts all moralization is out of the window because the belief as to who is guilty has already been settled.

Exodus of Civilians

The UN has estimated that 600,000 Lebanese civilians were uprooted in the first 12 days of Israeli aggression. They have been fleeing from Israeli bombs and responding to Israeli leaflets dropped by aircraft urging them to flee from Southern Lebanon.

The ICTY prosecutors claim that Serbian forces expelled some 800,000 Kosovo Albanians who fled into Macedonia and Albania. In his defense Milosevic claimed that the bulk of them fled from NATO bombs and in response to leaflets dropped by NATO urging them to flee. Local radio stations, including Radio Tirana, joined in. The exodus of civilians in Lebanon provides yet another piece of evidence that the Serbian forces in Kosovo couldn’t have had a monopoly on deportations as the ICTY indictment claims. Perhaps the judge will determine the blame allocation for the exodus!
 
Personal Criminal Responsibility

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour stated in Geneva that both sides could bear “personal criminal responsibility” for their assaults. “Indiscriminate shelling of cities constitutes a foreseeable and unacceptable targeting of civilians. Similarly, the bombardment of sites with alleged military significance, but resulting invariably in the killing of innocent civilians, is unjustifiable.” While serving as the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Ms. Arbour did not condemn both sides when NATO indiscriminately shelled the Serbia cities, including capital Belgrade, and killing civilians in houses, apartments, fleeing refugees, in hospitals, the Belgrade TV studio, on a pedestrian bridge, on a bus, in a car on unpaved mountain road, in a prison, etc. Furthermore, she did not condemn NATO bombing causing ecocide with long-term detrimental health effects to the population as a result of daily attacks on chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical plants, plastic factories, refineries, fuel storage tanks, the electric power grid, etc. Ms. Arbour had the power to indict NATO generals, like General Clark, but had no clear conscience to do so. Ms. Arbour was a servant to the Jupiter then. Under the orders from Jupiter she issued an arrest warrant for the first head of state even while the war was still in progress. For her obedience and outstanding services to the Jupiter she was first appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court and then to the present position of the UN Human Rights Commissioner.

http://serbianna.com/blogs/joksimovich/

Deception, Serbs, Islamic Fascists and a Forgotten Warning

Deception, Serbs, Islamic Fascists and a Forgotten Warning

By Mary Mostert

August 28, 2006

I am not a Serb. I am a garden variety American with ancestors from a variety of European nations – but no ancestors from Balkan nations. My interest in the issues involved in the break-up of Yugoslovia has been one of journalistic curiosity. Why do we never HEAR the Serbian side of any issue in the media? Where are the Serb spokesmen and historians?

For ten years I’ve searched for the answers. I have asked Serbs questions about issues and have primarily gotten puzzled responses from them. Many have questioned me back: “Why are you telling the truth about Serbs? Are you really a Serb who has changed your name? Are you married to a Serb?"

Somehow Serbs have maintained their traditional Orthodox Christian beliefs in spite of a 1000 year conflict with Catholic and Muslim neighbors. They also have been confronted with about 100 years of conflict with neighbors in a secular and atheistic 20th Century Europe. When I’ve asked Serb readers how come they maintained their faith in Jesus Christ, I’ve gotten puzzled and very short responses like: “It’s part of the Serbian culture!”

Yet, to me, a curious outsider, there seems to be some sort of deep-seated cultural memory among the Serbs that they themselves either can’t or won’t explain to the outside world. I finally concluded they had managed to survive hundreds of years of effort to force them to abandon their faith and adopt the conqueror's faith by teaching it within the walls of their homes and church to their children, and not talking much to "outsiders."

So, I find young Serbs with a strong feeling of BEING a Serb, but who were brought up in a communist nation that discounted spirituality. Yet, they still feel “Serbian” and appear to be returning to their church in spite of 60 years of atheism in their schools.

This seems to be true even among American Serbs – who still maintain a spiritual understanding that most secular, or even religious, Americans don’t understand. That is why I asked Father Benedict the questions I asked and appreciated his answers.

Then Genci Sala, who described himself as an “Albanian Islamic Fascist” read the interview with Father Benedict and angrily challenged me to print the “TRUTH” – i.e. the Albanian side of the Kosovo issue.

From a journalistic perspective, that was a golden opportunity. I was searching for “the real untold story” of the Kosovo situation.

From a religious history perspective, I thought that Father Benedict’s answers to my questions) and the answers to the same questions by Genci Sala, gave a good example of the two “sides” of an issue the international community is about to decide: Is Kosovo really Serbian or Albanian territory?

My first question for Father Benedict was: "Could you briefly tell our readers what was going on in Kosovo back in 1343 and why King Dusan built the monastery?"

Father Benedict: "In the XIV century Kosovo was the central part of the Serbian state and Christian spirituality. Like all rulers of his time (the Middle Ages), Tsar Dusan also wished to have his own endowment, that is, to build a monastery in which God would be praised to the end of the time and in which the name of the founder would be mentioned on Holy Liturgies until the second arrival of Christ. He did that by founding a place near river Bistrica, two and a half kilometers away from Prizren."

I was struck by the fact that Father Benedict matter-of-factly stated that King Dusan built “a monastery in which God would be praised to the end of the time and in which the name of the founder would be mentioned on Holy Liturgies until the second arrival of Christ.”

For secular Westerners of Europe and American, Islamic Fascists, anarchists, non-believers and even some Christian opponents of Orthodox Christianity, Father Benedict’s response is meaningless. However, for those who still believe that Christ WILL return, His Second Coming is at least 663 years closer than when Holy Archangels Monastery was built. In fact a growing number of Christians are beginning to talk about the signs of the Latter Days as described in the Bible in Chapter 24 of Matthew when “nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” That would be “the beginning of sorrows” when “they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.” That seems to describe the Serbs and the Jews these days. They are, indeed, hated of all nations.

However, non-believers, such as Genci Sala, scolded me for even asking the question. Sala wrote:

Sala:"Question 1 is wrongly formulated, and very biased in an answer expectation. King Dushan never built any monasteries in Kosova. If he built any, then, never, and I repeat, never would it be the monastery mentioned there.

"If you had at least the minimal historical education, you should have been well aware of the fact that Serbs weren't even close to Kosova at the time we're arguing.”

What actual international difference does it make which of these two people is telling this American journalist the truth? Well, it is the crux of the problem as defined today in International politics upon which an entire region’s future appears to rest. Who actually BUILT all those churches and monasteries in Kosovo? Sala urged me to read an “independent source.” Meaning, of course, an Albanian source.

Since I’ve been doing just that for several years, that wasn’t a difficult assignment. As recently as 2004 Holy Archangels Monastery was attacked and burned by “ a large mob of Albanians approaching the monastery itself and chanting KLA, KLA. Why? Sala doesn’t tell us. .

So, what DO “independent sources” tell us about this area in the past 500-663 years? For over 500 years Kosovo was controlled by neither Serbs nor Albanians, but by the Ottoman Turks who kept census records. Who was living in Kosovo when Holy Archangels was built according to archeological and historic records? It was not the Albanians. A Turkish cadastral tax census in 1455 showed: about 80% of present-day Kosovo had 480 villages, 13,693 adult males, 12,985 dwellings, 14,087 household.. By ethnicity the population was listed:

1. 12,985 Serbian dwellings present in all 480 villages and towns
2. 75 Vlach dwellings in 34 villages
3. 46 Albanian dwellings in 23 villages
4. 17 Bulgarian dwellings in 10 villages
5. 5 Greek dwellings in Lauša, Vucitrn
6. 1 Jewish dwelling in Vucitrn
7. 1 Croat dwelling

The best independent testimony available as to WHO originally populated Kosovo and who actually BUILT all those churches and monasteries can be found in the actual government records of the occupying Ottoman Turkish empire. Those records support Serbian written history.

Other independent records and research are from archeologists such as James R. Wiseman of Boston University in Massachusetts. His archeological studies support Serbian, not Albanian, claims concerning the history of Kosovo.. The only Albanian archeological evidence found so far in Kosovo go back only to the 19th century.

Another independent source is a map provided by the US Central Intelligence Agency which shows the boundaries of Kosovo from 1196 AD to the present.

Orthodox Christian Serbs and Jews in Europe were slaughtered by the millions during the 20th century by Islamic, Christian and atheistic fascists and communists. Today Orthodox Christians and Jews, as a class or ethnic group, who survived the 20th century holocaust are portrayed in the media as the group that is responsible for ALL the problems in the former Yugoslavia or the Middle East while deceivers and murderers are treated as their victims. The Kosovo Liberation Army was going door-to-door in Kosovo in 1999 ordering Albanians to flee - and then telling the world media the Serbs under the command of Slobodan Milosevic were driving them out.

On Mt. Olivet nearly 2000 years ago, Jesus Christ was asked by his disciples when he would come again to earth. Jesus didn't tell them when, but did warn them to look for the signs of his coming and to “Take heed that no man deceive you.” For more than a century most of the world seems to have followed one or another self-proclaimed fascist, communist or religious deceivers who have claimed they are the saviors who can bring peace to the world.

We are seeing this deception again in the 21s century as millions follow self-proclaimed saviors of the media, in European capitols and the United Nations who proclaim world peace will somehow result if we only will placate and appease the masters of deceit who blow up their own children to kill Americans and Jews, behead Serbian monks, burn down Orthodox Christian Churches, put bombs in pizza parlors to kill teen-ager while claiming THEY are the ones being mistreated. While NATO and the European Union has not arrested any of the Islamic fascists in Kosovo who beheaded a monk and burned down over 150 Serbian churches, they seem to have convinced even many young Serbs that all will be well if they will only turn in Serb leaders who are accused of committing a genocide that strangely never produced dead bodies. Once those leaders are in the Hague, the promise is membership in the European Union - which is portrayed as the economic salvation for Serbs.

Can world peace, be found through worldwide deception? I rather doubt it can.

 

 

Ruecker openly pro-albanian stand

 

August 30, 2006

Gracanica Monastery

RUECKER'S OPENLY PRO-ALBANIAN  STAND

 

Two highly-placed UN officials, Joachim Ruecker and Marti Ahtisaari have recently launched a fierce pro-Albanian propaganda campaign, promoting Albanian interests and wishes in the media in an effort to frighten the Serbs into believing that the final status of Kosovo and Metohija will inevitably be independence. Recent statements of these officials have caused a great deal of surprise, concern and, even, bitterness among the Serbian people

(Foto: Bishop Artemije travels throughout Kosovo and Metohija under military protection. Almost all Serbian cemeteries in Kosovo and Metohija are desecrated as in this photo.)

Particularly frequent were public statements by Mr. Ruecker, in which he openly shows his pro-Albanian orientation which is in essence pro-Islamic. In these statements Mr. R uecker goes as far as to reveal the "nature of the solution for the future status" of K&M   which he presents in the form of "inevitable independence." ("I don't wish to distance myself from my predecessor Soren Jesen-Peterson, if he told you that he considers independence inevitable…." he stated   for the BBC although his new appointment is to start only on September 1. Mr. Ruecker did not explain what parameters served as the basis for his reaching this conclusion regarding the final status while negotiatins are still in progress. Nor did he specify the manner in which it would be achievedâ€â€whether by consensus, imposition by force, or some third possibility. We fully expect from a diplomat of such a high rank to give us an explanation of his views.

But here we have to bear in mind the fact that a few weeks ago Germany had stopped all sale of weaponry to Israel, placing itself firmly on the side of Islamic terrorists. Some other European states (France, Belgium, Spain…) have embarked upon a similar path by giving support to or promoting global Islamic terrorism. In addition, the European Union has been giving 10 milion dollars a month to the Palestinian authorities, in full knowledge of the fact that these moneys would be used for purchasing, importing and training Muslim terrorists and their weapons of mass destruction.

Viewed in this light, these first public statements by Mr Ruecker, given before his assumption of duties slated for September 1, as well as the actions of his predecessorsâ€â€former chief of UNMIK or Commander of KFOR (Michael Steiner and General Kamerhofâ€â€fully support the conviction   that the real objective of Germany is to establish an Islamic state in the Balkans.

 

(Foto: Monastery in barbed wire. Kosovo reality.)

But should we take into account the "historical background," as we have been invited to do recently by Ruec ker and Ahtisaari, as they maintained that "historical heritage cannot be ignored, but must rather be taken into account when searching for a solution of the status of Kosovo and Metohija," referring to the priod under Miloševi?'s rule, we would have to remember that during World War II the allies of the German invader of Kosovo and Metohija were precisely the Muslim Albanians who, under the protection of the German occupying forces, were engaged in a most fierce genocide of the Christian Serbs, exterminating not only the people but also that people's heritage and all the traces of its existence on that territory. Even if we look only at the recent past, we shall see that during the last seven years under the international administration of Kosovo and Metohija Muslim terroristshave continued the process of erasing all traces of Christian people and Christian presence in the region by expelling 220,000 Christians from their homes, killing more than 1000 Christians, destroying more than 150 Christian places of worship, while, at the same time, permitting uncontrolled inflow of Muslims from neighboring Albania into Kosovo and Metohija, building more than 400 new mosquesâ€â€all of which was accompanied by an expansion of the Wahhabi ideology which is the basis for Al Qaida activities all over the world including Kosovo and Metohija.

Does it mean that Germany and Europe are supporting Islamic terror in Kosovo and Metohija in order to weaken, fragment and then destroy the Serbian state? If this assumption is correct, then it becomes quite clear why Mr. R uecker would make such a statement as "I can work in excellent collaboration with the Prime Minister Agim ?eku" who, by the way, stands accused of war crimes against the Christian Serbs as one of the leaders of the terrorist organization KLA. Another fact is made equally here, namely why not a single terrorist, or simple criminal, was apprehended, tried and brought to justice for a multitude of crimes committed against Christian Serbs during the seven years of international administrtion of the province.

But the fact is that Europe should understand that it does not pay to support terrorists because the terrible consequences of Islamic terror are becoming increasingly painful for many European countries.

However, when asked by a reporter of the German paper Handelsblat what the greatest difficulty in Kosovo and Metohija was, Riker answered "the difficult integration of the Kosovo Serbs."   He also accused Belgrade of preventing the Kosovo Serbs from integrating economically and politically. At the same time, in connection with the question of the non-existence of security and freedom of movement, he said that he did not "deny that here and there there are some problems with the freedom of movement." We ask ourselves, and we ask Mr. R uecker, how he would feel if he could not walk freely in the streets of Berlin, Dresden or Munich, as Christian cannot walk out freely in the streets of Priština, Pe?, Djakovica and other towns in Kosovo and Metohija for fear that they would be caught, maltreated, perhaps even killed by Islamic fanatics? Would he then say that "here and there there are some problems with the freedom of movement?"

The most recent examples of the absence of security and non-existence of freedom of movement for the Christians in K&M include a bomb thrown by a Muslim Albanian at a coffee shop in Kosovska Mitrovica leaving nine people hurt and an incident which occurred in the center of De?ani in which a Christian Serb was battered. It is worth noting that that Serb came to De?ani, his former home, as part of Project "Multiethnik Camp" designed to demonstrate that multiethnicity and coexistence are possible in Kosovo and Metohija.

This is why the proclamation of Mr. Ruecker's conviction that "the question of the final status will be decided by the end of this year" sounds both unreal and tendentious. R uecker must know that the Serbs will never accept the independence of Kosovo and Metohija in any shape or form. Moreover, he should also know that the Srbs are not, nor could they be, a minority in their own state; that treating them as a minority is an insult and a gross misrepresentation of facts. Consequently, no decision about the future status of Kosovo and Metohija can be made without the participation of the Serbs in the decision-making process, unless, of course, it is a forcibly imposed solution.

So many tendentious statements, such obviously pro-Islamic pronouncements, as we have seen in the last few days presented by the European media (ĒĒġ, DieWelt, Standard, Handelsblat) in almost identical form, even before the assumption of his duties as chief of UNMIK, we really could not have expected from Mr. Riker.

 
Press Department of Diocese of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija

 

Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Crumbling?

 

Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Crumbling?
Eleven years after the war ended, local political leaders are inflaming ethnic tensions and risking further instability  or even possibly violence
By DEJAN ANASTASIJEVIC/BELGRADE

Until recently, Bosnia-Herzegovina was often described as a shining example of succesful international effort in post-conflict reconstruction and nation building. Since the war ended eleven years ago, hardly a shot was fired, towns and villages were repaired, and many refugees have returned to their homes. But now, a month ahead of crucial presidential and parliamentary polls, ethnic tension spurred by local political leaders is running so high that Bosnia's relapse into war no longer seems unthinkable.

Bosnian Muslims, the largest ethnic group in the region, are pushing to dismantle Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity created by the 1995 Dayton peace accord and one of the two ethnically centered statelets, or entities, that comprise Bosnia. The other is the Muslim-Croat federation. Each has its own parliament, government and president. (Bosnia as a whole has a weak central government and a three-member presidency: one Serb, one Muslim and one Croat.) Bosnian Serbs are threatening to secede and merge with neighboring Serbia. "When I hear people talk on the news and in the cafes, I get the feeling that they're just about to jump at each other's throats," says Mirjana Topic, a student from the Bosnian Serb capital of Banja Luka. "All it would take is some fool's call for war."

Although Bosnian politicians have so far refrained from calling up voters in their constituencies to reach for the guns, they have done just about everything else to provoke and insult the opposing ethnic groups. Last Sunday Borislav Paravac, the Serbian member of Bosnia's collective Presidency, stated that the behavior of his Muslim colleague Sulejman Tihic was "idiotic." Tihic had previously said that those Serbs who do not accept his vision of Bosnia as a centralized state should pack up and move out of the country.

Considering the intensity and the general tone of Bosnia's dirty election campaign, it's almost a miracle that violent incidents involving Serbs and Muslims  who share many cultural traits, but not a religion  have been relatively few. Yet there were some: on August 11, an explosive device damaged the tomb of Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia's wartime (and Muslim) president; most Muslims blamed the Serbs, who for their part insisted that Muslims staged the explosion; the ongoing investigation has so far been fruitless.

But the main fault line is not so much religion, but the legacy of war: Muslims, who were ill-prepared for the war, took much more casulties than Serbs, who were well armed and supported by Serbia; they now feel that Serbs were unjustly rewarded by being allowed to have their own statelet in Bosnia. Tihic, and other leading Muslim politicians have repeatedly stated that Republika Srpska "is built on genocide and agression" and should therefore be abolished. Serbian leaders, such as Srpska's Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, would have none of that. "Serbs are sick and tired of being collectively treated as war criminals by Sarajevo," Dodik said in a newspaper interview on Monday. "In the end, we may have no other options but to call for a referendum. It would be, after all, a democratic solution."

It would, however, be ilegal, both by the Dayton peace accords and by Bosnia's constitution. Bosnia is actually not a fully sovereign state  it supervised by the Office of High Representative and its peace is maintained by international European force  and the representatives of the international community have clearly stated that no move towards secession would be tolerated.

"The general feeling is that all this talk on the referendum and the abolishment of Srpska is a bluff, but the stakes are getting higher every day," says a Sarajevo-based Western diplomat. "The real cause for concern is that nationalism seems to be the only game in town. No one is preaching tolerance  it just doesn't win any votes." The diplomat pointed out that Bosnia's poor state of economy, and high unemployment rate, are also a factor, providing fertile ground for populists and demagogues of all sorts. "It's much easier to play the blame game than to actually address this country's issues," he said.

Another cause for concern is that the issue of Kosovo  formerly Serbian province which is expected to become independent early next year  is also affecting Bosnia. The fear is that Serbia, frustrated by losing Kosovo, may seek to compensate by encouraging Bosnian Serbs to join with Serbia. Still, no political leaders in Belgrade have publically endorsed the referendum idea.

Meanwhile, apart from the graveyard explosion, and ocasional fistfights between Serbs and Muslims in ethnically mixed villages, the fiery words remain just that  words. "As usual, people retained much more common sense than the politicians," says Fuad Kovacevic, the editor of Onasa news agency in Sarajevo. "Almost everybody here is old enough to remember the war, and nobody wants it back." Slavo Kukic, a sociology professor in Mostar, agrees. "I'don't think it could happen again," he says. "After the first shot, everybody would just run away to the far corners of the world. We've been through hell once, and it was more than enough."

Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Crumbling?
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