Babak Esmaeili English Weblog

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution says those who advocate a “pragmatic” approach toward Israel should have learned to think twice.

“By now those who advocated a pragmatic approach under the illusion of the invincibility of the Zionist regime and who succumbed to surrender and compromise with the usurpers should have realized their mistake,” Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday.

Addressing an international conference in support of the Palestinians in Tehran, the Leader was referring to “those who entertained hopes of a peaceful coexistence with the Zionist”.

Some Arab leaders provoked outrage among the people of the Middle East by either remaining silent on the plight of the Palestinians or aiding and abetting Israel in its 60-year oppression of the Palestinian population.

Israel’s blockade of Gaza and the atrocities committed during its recent war on the territory “proved that the savage and criminal instincts of the fake Zionist state have not changed in the least since that early decades of the of the disaster in Palestine,” Ayatollah Khamenei explained.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in 1948 when leaders of the Zionist movement won the support of colonial European countries and the US to establish a ‘pure Jewish state’ under the Zionist slogan of a ‘land without a people and a people without a land’.

European leaders and Zionist officials justified the colonization of Palestine as the only way out of the massive wave of anti-Semitism that hit the Europe in the early 20th century.

Zionists benefited by gaining power over the native land of the Palestinians, but the establishment and the subsequent terror attacks against the Palestinian population gave rise to the philosophy of resistance and in recent years armed retaliation.

Israel’s December and January operations in the Gaza Strip killed nearly 1,350 Palestinians and injured around 5,450 others.

Tel Aviv carried out its operations using white phosphorous bombs, classified as a ‘chemical weapon’ by the US intelligence.

According to Ayatollah Khamenei, the Israeli aggression was in line with the “same policies and predatory and ruthless motives which created such tragedies as those of Deir Yasin, Sabra and Shatilla.” — operations in which Israel systematically massacred the Palestinians and intensified its grip on the land.

Although Tel Aviv has ended its major operations in Gaza, it continues to stage air strikes on the strip and to enforce a 20-month blockade on the sliver of land.

Gordon Brown was pictured having make-up applied after he landed in Washington for a meeting with President Barack Obama.

A quick-witted photographer captured Mr Brown having his face powdered shortly before exiting the British Airways jet that took him to the US capital on Monday.

It comes almost a year after Mr Brown was pictured with a large orange blob of make-up on his forehead at a Progressive Governance Summit in London.

Mr Brown had sought to distance himself from the image-conscious style of his predecessor, Tony Blair, who was in 1997 filmed wearing thick make-up as he responded to claims Labour had taken an improper donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the head of Formula One racing.

In 2005 it emerged that Mr Blair spent more than £1,800 of taxpayers’ money on cosmetics and make-up artists between 1999 and 2005.

In a parliamentary answer earlier this year, Mr Brown said he had spent nothing on make-up.

The Prime Minister will meet Mr Obama to discuss the global economic crisis among other major issues. Mr Brown is the first European leader to meet him since he was elected president.

He will also address Congress and is expected to warn against protectionism in the effort to tackle the crisis.

The two leaders are to appear briefly in front of the media in the Oval Office, rather than in a full press conference, as had been planned by Downing Street.

”Carter” American president in 1979:
 The revolution was an incredible and strange phenomenon. We had never thought that he will reach his goal! In fact, no one could guess it! all of us were astonished!!

”Margaret Tacher” English prime minister:
 It has always been a difficult thing for west to realize the mentalities of Ayatollah Khomeini! He was different from all politicians and even from all people of the world. He was living to another way!!

”Mikhail Gurbachev” The former leader of  former soviet union:
 No one could make Americans angry like him!! Ayatollah Khomeini was a great leader who used to guide people by their hearts, nor by tongue! Because every body knew that he was living like the usual people of the society, nor like rich people. He was actually a global reformer!

”Hafez Asad” The leader of Syria:
 He was our Muslim brother and we learned the life lessons from him. Imam Khomeini was a divine gift for all Iranians and all of the world’s Muslims to know their value better. We learned the way of fighting with powers and also the way of brotherhood and Islamic fraternity by him. He was a really excellent man!!

”Sheikh Yusef Jebraeil” One of the Palestinian religious leaders:
 Nowadays there is just one Islamic government all over the world that is Khomeini’s Islamic government! Because just this government users the religious laws. Other governments are apparently Islamic and I don’t know any other Islamic government except Iran! Muslims and scientists of Palestine know Imam Khomeini as a great, wise , brave and clever leader who was in charge of Muslims leading!