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Hey guys I read this article today were Israel, which runs kangaroo courts (and sadly gets away with it too with the help of the constant VETOs by the US in the UN) while killing civilians in Gaza and the WB decided to downgrade Arabic's recognised status (i.e. it's no longer considered an official language in the country) despite the fact that the majority people actually used to speak Arabic prior to the declaration of Israel and not Hebrew and a significant amount of the population still speak Arabic up until today.


Source for the article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44881554

Here's another more detailed article that talks about it: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-passes-law-entrenching-apartheid

Something I never noticed was how healthy Za'atar is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za%27atar
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/herbs-and-spices/zaatar.html
https://www.medicaldaily.com/zaatar-health-benefits-middle-eastern-spice-blend-fights-microbes-may-boost-brain-246726

Some days ago Turkey decided to launch an operation in Syria known as the "Olive Branch", the point of it is to capture Afrin and right now they seem to be advancing there. The US said that if they got attacked they would retaliate (which was directed at Turkey, I remember reading the article somewhere), do you think there will be a war between Turkey and the US? The relations between the two countries seem to have strained a lot nowadays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_military_intervention_in_Afrin

hi what do you think about Trump moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_recognition_of_Jerusalem_as_Israeli_capital

[What do we know about the deaths?]

I read this article today and was very sad to read.. What happened in Khan Sheikhun recently was completely barbaric and outrageous and that certain countries are still allowed to own chemical weapons when they should have been banned everywhere completely after WW2 shows how little countries care about preventing these kind of attacks and the fact that they are being used on civilians shows how cowardly some people (i.e. the criminals behind the attack) can be.. Who do you believe was behind the recent chemical attack? In the article there's a video of were Trump is giving a speech of where he pretends to care about the victims in Syria even though he has banned Syrian refugees from entering the US completely while he improves ties with the regime that's known for its war crimes and Russia

"The Syrian foreign minister has set out conditions for any UN investigation into the deaths of dozens of people from a chemical agent on Tuesday.

Walid Muallem told the BBC it would have to be non-political, involve "many countries" and "start from Damascus" before his government could accept.

He denied Syria had dropped chemical weapons from the air, despite facing widespread scepticism.

The UN children's fund has confirmed that at least 27 children were killed.

Russia, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's few allies, was challenged by the US and UK at the UN Security Council on Wednesday when it sought to argue the mass poisoning had been caused by the rebels' own chemical weapons.

Washington has hinted it might change its policy towards Syria in response to the deaths.

What do we know about the deaths?

Warplanes attacked Khan Sheikhoun, about 50km (30 miles) south of the city of Idlib, early on Tuesday, when many people were asleep, witnesses and activists say.


Two US military officials told NBC News that Syrian fixed-wing aircraft had been seen on US radar dropping bombs on a hospital in an area of Idlib "where al-Nusra Front operates".

Al-Nusra, which formerly had ties to al-Qaeda, changed its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham before merging with other groups this year to become Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

The opposition-run health directorate in Idlib province says at least 84 people, including 27 children and 19 women, were killed. Another 546 people were injured, many of whom remain in a serious condition.

Evidence has mounted that the victims were killed with a nerve agent such as Sarin.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said its staff had treated eight patients brought to a hospital on the Turkish border whose symptoms were consistent with such exposure.

Turkish Foreign Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Thursday that autopsies had confirmed that chemical weapons were used.


What is the Assad government's position?

Foreign Minister Muallem told BBC Arabic that the Syrian government would, together with Russia, consider accepting an investigation mandated by the UN Security Council, if its conditions were met.

Speaking separately at a news conference, he accused jihadist groups not party to a ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey of storing "chemical weapons in urban and residential areas".

The Russian military confirmed on Wednesday that the Syrian air force had launched air strikes in the Khan Sheikhoun area but said they had hit a rebel depot full of chemical munitions.

How plausible is the Russian version of events?

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commanding officer of the British Armed Forces Joint Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Regiment, told the BBC it was "pretty fanciful".
"Axiomatically, if you blow up Sarin, you destroy it," he said.

"It's very clear it's a Sarin attack. The view that it's an al-Qaeda or rebel stockpile of Sarin that's been blown up in an explosion, I think is completely unsustainable and completely untrue."
Hasan Haj Ali, commander of the Free Idlib Army rebel group, told Reuters news agency: "Everyone saw the plane while it was bombing with gas."

Will America intervene?

Mr Trump said on Wednesday: "My attitude towards Syria and Assad has changed very much... You're now talking about a whole different level."
However, he gave no details.

On Thursday Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said so-called Islamic State (IS) had to be defeated before Mr Assad left power.

"The process by which Assad would leave is something that I think requires an international community effort both to first defeat Isis [an old acronym for IS] within Syria, to stabilise the Syrian country, to avoid further civil war and then to work collectively with our partners around the world for a political process that would lead to Assad leaving," he said.

Asked if he and President Trump would organise an international coalition to "remove Assad", he replied, "Those steps are under way."

The statements came only days after the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said the US no longer prioritised the removal of President Assad - a shift in US policy from the Obama era.

Mr Trump has been promising a new strategy for Syria and Iraq and there have been some increases in troop numbers but this latest development will increase the pressure for more decisive action, the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue reports from Washington.

Has Assad used chemical weapons before?

The Syrian government was accused by Western powers of firing rockets filled with Sarin at Ghouta, Damascus, killing hundreds of people in August 2013.

President Assad denied the charge, blaming rebel fighters, but he did subsequently agree to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal.

Despite that, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has continued to document the use of toxic chemicals in attacks in Syria.

What are the chances of peace?

More than 250,000 people have been killed in Syria's civil war and, after more than six years, no political solution to the fighting is in sight.

A nationwide cessation of hostilities brokered by Russia and Turkey at the end of last year does not apply to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and IS, or US-backed Kurdish fighters.

The UN humanitarian adviser on Syria, Jan Egeland, has called for a 77-hour ceasefire in order to deliver aid to besieged areas.

"A war where children suffocate to death because of toxic chemicals is a very, very dirty war," he said."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39517960

My Pakistani friend sent me this yesterday, and I saw it on my Twitter feed and was very interesting to read and a very good policeman and a hero:

"A Hong Kong policeman of Pakistani descent has become an overnight hero after he talked a man out of committing suicide.

Ifzal Zaffar, 20, spoke fluent Urdu to the suicidal man, who was also Pakistani. The man had climbed up a crane at a construction site and police were called to the scene.

Zaffar climbed up the 65ft crane and exchanged words with the man, after which he agreed to come down and was taken to a hospital.

Zaffar, who is also fluent in Cantonese said to Apple Daily, ?I used the techniques we learned at the academy ? I think he felt safer knowing that I could talk to him in his own language.?

The 20-year-old joined the police force just under a year ago, and is the only Pakistani origin officer in the district.

Zaffar?s commanding officer praised the way the 20-year-old handled the situation.

The Muslim Council of Hong Kong also lauded Zaffar?s integrity saying, ?Bravo to this young man and thank you to the HK police force for bringing him in. Hope more such stories can be seen to show HK is indeed a multi-cultural city.?

The 20-year-old?s good looks have also been noted by media outlets, with him being branded ?pretty boy cop? and ?Hong Kong?s most handsome police officer?.

On an interview video shared by the Hong Kong Police on Facebook, people praised the young man?s actions.

?He is very handsome yet having a golden heart,? gushed Facebook user Nuna Priya.

?Mr Ifzal Zaffar, many citizen support you, pls keep on serving the society. Thanks!!!? wrote Baba Bebe Wong.

?Excellent Cantonese?good character?friendly personality?high spirit?he?s an [asset] to the Hong Kong police force,? Richard Chin wrote.

His interview can be seen below: (video)"

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1355509/pakistani-origin-hero-policeman-becomes-viral-sensation/

Saw this on my Twitter feed today and found it pretty interesting to read:

"How does Donald Trump's controversial executive order on immigration affect the video games industry?

Gaming is a global business, after all. Publishers and developers operate in just about every region of the world, and most support teams represent a vast assortment of nationalities.

Trump's executive order potentially spells trouble for those who make and sell games. For the next 90 days, travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen ? all predominantly Muslim nations ? are barred from entering the United States. A similar ban on travel from Syria also now stands indefinitely.

The next major gaming event on the horizon is the annual Game Developer's Conference, which runs from Feb. 27 to March 3 ? right inside Trump's travel ban window ? in San Francisco. That's why it was no surprise to see a swift response from the trade show's organizers, via Twitter.

The International Game Developer's Association ? which meets at GDC every year ? confirmed to Polygon that only two of its 8,000 members come from one of the seven countries affected by the ban. But that's not the point, the IGDA notes.

"[The] issue isn't necessarily the affect on these specific countries but on the general spread of xenophobia in the U.S. government and how it will certainly affect the U.S.'s ability to hire talent and remain globally competitive," the organization's executive director, Kate Edwards, noted.

The Entertainment Software Association issued a statement of its own on Monday, Jan. 30. This one directly addresses the new immigration policy, raising concerns that echo those pointed out in the IGDA's response.

Here's the ESA statement in full:

The Entertainment Software Association urges the White House to exercise caution with regard to vital immigration and foreign worker programs. As a leading force in technology and exporter of entertainment, the U.S. video game industry thrives on the contributions of innovators and storytellers from around the world. While recognizing that enhancing national security and protecting our country?s citizens are critical goals, our companies rely on the skilled talent of U.S. citizens, foreign nationals, and immigrants alike. Our nation?s actions and words should support their participation in the American economy.

We've reached out to a number of publishers and hardware manufacturers individually, and you can find those words below. Xbox-maker Microsoft issued a statement over the weekend.

Bethesda Softworks responded with the following statement:

We are a global company with employees of every race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. As such, we will always support diversity and acceptance over division and exclusion.

There's no public statement from EA, but a company spokesperson shared the following internal message from CEO Andrew Wilson:



A Ubisoft spokesperson had this to say:

Ubisoft?s video games are designed, developed and produced by multicultural teams of various beliefs and faiths from countries all over the world. We believe diversity in all of its forms fosters creativity and understanding. It enables us to create immersive, credible game worlds for our players, who are themselves increasingly diverse. Our finest achievements as a company, as an industry, and as a society are the product of collaboration that respects each other?s unique backgrounds, perspectives and talents. We oppose discrimination of any kind, and will continue to focus on inclusivity because we believe it is a value that brings us together and make us stronger.

Zynga reached out with both a statement from CEO Frank Gibeau as well as an internal email on the ban:



Capcom, Nintendo, and Square-Enix responded as well, pointing us to the ESA statement above. The Pok?mon Company opted against commenting on the matter.

Activision Blizzard and Sony have yet to respond to Mashable's comment requests."

http://mashable.com/2017/01/30/video-games-trump-immigration-ban/#U9WFQkp5Kqq1

Any other developer around? I'm wondering if you know where I can find the Qur'an (on all translations in English) in .sqlite format? I've tried looking and haven't been able to find one, and trying to convert one from .sql to .sqlite is giving errors

Trump (a warmongerer) who recently decided to agree on a deal with another warmongerer (King Salman) ordered an assault on civilians in Yemen:

"While the media attention has been focused on the death of one US serviceman who was killed during a raid in Yemen, one of the most tragic casualties of the assault ordered by President Donald Trump was an eight-year-old girl.

The raid took place over the weekend, as US forces attempted a ?site exploitation? attack that attempted to gather intelligence on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the extremist group behind several high-profile terror attacks, including the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in two years ago.

Though the United States hailed the operation as a success, reports from Yemen would seem to indicate that the price paid by Yemeni civilians and non-combatants was extraordinarily high.

?Don?t cry mama, I?m fine?
According to medical sources on the ground cited by Reuters, 30 people were killed by US soldiers, at least ten of them women and children in what appeared to be a case of disproportionate force utilised by the American commando unit who were sent in to retrieve intelligence.

Amongst the casualties was eight-year-old Nawar Al-Awlaki. Nawar is the daughter of US-born preacher Anwar Al-Awlaki who was the first American citizen to be assassinated in a US drone strike in 2011, decried by civil rights groups as an extrajudicial execution that denied him his right to a fair trial.

Two weeks after Anwar?s assassination, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman was killed in another US drone strike. Abdulrahman was a US citizen said to have been born in Denver, Colorado and was a child at the time he was killed on the authority of the Obama administration.

With Nawar?s murder, it appears that no relative of Anwar Al-Awlaki is safe, regardless of whether they are children or not, or even involved in terrorism or not.

In a Facebook post, Nawar?s uncle and former Yemeni Deputy Minister of the Environment and Water Resources, Ammar Al-Aulaqi said: ?[Nawar] was shot several times, with one bullet piercing her neck. She was bleeding for two hours because it was not possible to get her medical attention.?


?As Nawar was always a personality and a mind far older than her years, she was reassuring her mother as she was bleeding out; ?Don?t cry mama, I?m fine, I?m fine?,? Ammar?s emotional post continued.

?Then the call to the Dawn prayer came, and her soul departed from her tiny body.?


Nawar?s violent death came as a result of the Trump administration?s fight against so-called ?radical Islamic terrorism?. In his inaugural speech, Trump vowed to wipe it off the face of the Earth. Trump made no similar vow against other forms of terror, including state terrorism.

?She was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours,? Nasser Al-Awlaki, Nawar?s grandfather, told Reuters.

?Why kill children? This is the new [US] administration ? it?s very sad, a big crime.?

In a statement, the Pentagon did not refer to any civilian casualties, although a US military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they could not be ruled out. Instead, the US was preoccupied with the death of one US serviceman who was killed during the operation that ended up with Nawar and many other children dead.

Hailing the operation as a success, Trump said: ?Americans are saddened this morning with news that a life of a heroic service member has been taken in our fight against the evil of radical Islamic terrorism.?

Two more US servicemen were injured when an American V-22 Osprey military aircraft was sent to evacuate another wounded commando, but came under fire and had to be ?intentionally destroyed in place,? the Pentagon said.

Social media reacts
Social media was awash with anger at the death of Nawar, blaming the US for ?assassinating children?.

Mohammad Alrubaa, an Arab journalist and television show host, tweeted: ?This is Nawar Al-Awlaki that the American marines came to Yemen to kill?#American_terrorism.?

Mousa Alomar, a Syrian journalist, tweeted ?[US] marines killed Nawar Al-Awlaki and tens of women and children in Yemen. #US_terrorism_kills_Yemenis.?

Commenting on the fact that many civilian fatalities are justified as ?collateral damage? by US military and political officials, Yemeni politician Ali Albukhaiti tweeted: ?Nawar Al-Awlaki was not killed in an airstrike, but by a bullet fired by a marine and at close range. It is terrorism beyond terrorism, but it is defended and justified by a media that markets [such attacks].?

Though raids like this one in the rural Al-Bayda province in Yemen?s south are rare, the United States habitually utilises drone strikes to target individuals in what many deem to be extrajudicial killings, especially of its own citizens. Civilians are routinely killed in such drone strikes that are largely indiscriminate, but justified as a ?legal act of war? by the US Justice Department."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170130-us-soldiers-shoot-and-kill-8-year-old-girl-in-yemen/ (WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHICAL IMAGES)

"BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:45 P.M.) - The Russian Air Force has conducted nonstop airstrikes over the Deir Ezzor Governorate today, hitting several Islamic State targets around this desert province in eastern Syria.

Russian jets began launching airstrikes immediately over Deir Ezzor after the Islamic State terrorists seized the provincial cemetery and Jirayah village yesterday afternoon.

With the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) pinned down at the military airport, the Russian Air Force has been providing them with necessary air cover to drive back the Islamic State terrorists and recover lost points.

According to a military source in Damascus, the Russian Air Force has conducted over 85 airstrikes today, with most of the attacks taking place in the western countryside of the province.

The Russian Air Force is still conducting airstrikes at this moment, destroying a number of Islamic State vehicles, while also forestalling the terrorist group's progress near the provincial capital."

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russian-jets-nonstop-bombing-isis-deir-ezzor/

The situation in Deir Ez Zour as of now:






Image taken from https://twitter.com/PetoLucem/status/821057900231663617

Watched this video and found it to make a lot of sense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-F8whzJfJY

Do you think Vegan is a better lifestyle, why or why not?

This is one of the most bad news I've ever read today:

"BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) - The so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham" (ISIS) has reportedly seized the Tar Mountains and Al-'Amariyah District in Palmyra after a swift assault that began on Thursday.

According to a military correspondent at the T-4 Military Airport in east Homs, the remaining Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers inside the city are attempting to withdraw safely from Palmyra before the terrorist group seizes the final districts.

Despite repeated claims of reinforcements arriving, the Syrian Arab Army was greatly outnumbered during this terrorist offensive, which ultimately led them to concede large parts of the Homs Governorate's eastern countryside.

While Palmyra has not completely fallen, most of the city is surrounded by Islamic State terrorists, making the evacuation of the residents the top priority for the Syrian Arab Army and their allies."


Source:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/ancient-city-palmyra-verge-capture-isis/
https://twitter.com/leithfadel/status/807637226393915394

I saw this video today and it made me very sick and outraged.. The article regarding it:




http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/isil-executes-civilians-en-masse-iraq-161111131300074.html

I found this to be interesting to read today.. Mosul is a city in northern Iraq that will be fully recaptured by Iraqi and Kurdish forces very soon:

'Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the second most-wanted terrorist in the world, has been hiding in the group?s besieged stronghold of Mosul, encircled by the Iraqi army and allied militias, a senior Kurdish commander told the Independent.

In an interview on Wednesday, Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Iraqi Kurdistan?s head, Massoud Barzani, said that, though he has been lying low for the past eight or nine months, Baghdadi is most likely still alive and in the city.

?Baghdadi is there and, if he is killed, it will mean the collapse of the whole [IS] system,? Hussein argued, pointing to the vulnerability of Islamic State?s (IS, ISIS/ISIL) command structure, which has no suitable replacement for Baghdadi. According to Hussein, IS? leader has had to completely rely on other terrorist commanders in Mosul and the nearby city of Tal Afar, a largely Turkmen-populated city in the Nineveh Province.

While Hussein believes that Baghdadi?s demise will speed efforts to retake the country, his presence in the IS? self-proclaimed capital in Iraq may result in the jihadists resorting to desperate tactics to protect their kingpin.

?It is obvious that they will lose, but not how long this will take to happen,? he said, adding that the timeline of the battle for Mosul will be determined by several variables.

One such factor is whether the jihadists manage to blow up the five bridges over the Tigris River to cut Iraqi troops off from the western part of the city. So far, Iraqi special forces have managed to enter Mosul from the east for the first time since it was overrun by jihadists in 2014.

On Tuesday, soldiers from Iraq?s elite Counter Terrorism Service (CST) seized control of the state television station in the Gogjali neighborhood, making it the first major building in the city to be recaptured from IS.

?This is a good sign for the people of Mosul, because the battle to liberate Mosul has effectively begun,? Lieutenant-General Talib Shaghati said, as cited by Reuters.

Supported by Kurdish and Shite militias and backed by US-led coalition airstrikes, the Iraqi army has achieved major progress, particularly on the eastern flank.

?We are currently fighting battles on the eastern outskirts of Mosul,? CTS Lieutenant-General Abdul Wahab al-Saidi said, adding that elite forces under his command have pushed jihadists out of another eastern district.

However, despite the apparent gains, further advances into the city may come at a heavy price. Russia?s Defense Ministry has warned both the coalition forces and the Iraqi army that mass civilian casualties could result if they keep advancing towards the residential areas of the heavily populated city, pointing out that the it lacks humanitarian corridors for people to escape.

?We are hearing reports about an upcoming storming of residential areas populated by civilians that are murky, but extremely alarming, given the mass casualties that could result,? the ministry?s spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said.'

https://www.rt.com/news/365046-mosul-bagdadi-emir-hiding/

When Ali Moustafa Mosharafa died Albert Einstein in a confident tone said, "I cannot believe that Mosharafa is dead, he is alive through his researches. We are in need of his talents, it is a great loss, he was a genius. I used to follow up his researches in atomic energy, definitely he is one of the best scientists in physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Moustafa_Mosharafa#Death - "He died under mysterious circumstances on Monday, January 15, 1950. Press reports at the time suggested that he was assassinated by one of the Israeli Mossad's operations against prominent Arab scientists. International Scientific circles have never been so deeply moved at the death of an Egyptian scientist as they were at the death of the Egyptian genius Dr. A.M. Mosharafa. It was not surprising for Einstein, the greatest scientist of his time who was personally well acquainted with Dr. Mosharafa's genius and ambitions, to mourn him to the world as a great loss to science asserting that his name and achievements will never be forgotten. "[5]'

A question on Quora was asked titled "Why arabs genius can't be famous and why these genius are killed often if they want to go back to the natal country ?"

Someone that made good points replied with this:

"The killing is suspicious, but the Mossad was responsible for most of the killings, which aren't popular anymore (Killing Arab scientists were very popular during the 20th century, but it became rare in the 21st century).. The reason isn't clear, but mostly because the Israeli regime is constantly seeking to weaken Arab countries on the scientific, technological, and intellectual levels. And the assassination of scientists was particularly nuclear scientists, it was an easy method Israel used to prevent regional countries from acquiring nuclear expertise.

Let me clear this up, I'm not saying this from my hate to them, it's actually pretty much believed by most non-Arabs too.

The reason why scientists leave the Arab world/countries is very obvious, there's not enough support for scientific research and the scientific progress is not even comparable to that of USA in any Arab country (Egypt,and the country that existed 5 years ago called Syria were the best at the science field, yet both are in the worst list globally)

About getting famous, I don't know if you are talking globally or locally.. Locally, it's the same as anywhere else, an actress posting a no-makeup photo in Instagram gets way more attention than a scientific discovery.. But, they recently began giving them some attention locally..

At the end, scientists shouldn't stay in the Arab world, they wouldn't be able to do as much, and even if they did, the country will never benefit because our governments are more concerned about censoring criticism of them on the media than scientific research... On the other hand, they can go to USA or any European country, get funded to do research, invent or discover amazing things and do amazing scientific achievements, win prizes and even Nobel, get back to their homeland, get a tap on the shoulder and "good job", fly back to USA for a better quality of life... Or they can stay and be nothing.

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Here are some of the scientists believed to be assassinated by the Mossad:

(1) Egyptian scientist Dr. Yahya Amin al-Mushed, who was the chief of the Iraqi nuclear project;

(2) Egyptian nuclear scientist Dr. Samirah Musa, who was killed in a road accident in the United States in 1952 caused by an unidentified driver;

(3) Egyptian nuclear physicist Dr. Samir Naguib, who was assassinated in Detroit;

(4) Egyptian scientist Dr. Nabil al-Laqeeni;

(5) Palestinian nuclear scientist Nabil Ahmed Fleifel;

(6) Egyptian mathematician and physicist Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, who was a professor of applied mathematics and who contributed to the development of quantum theory as well as the theory of relativity and corresponded with Albert Einstein;

(7) Egyptian scientist Dr. Gamel Hamdan, who was killed by the Mossad and whose books and publications have all disappeared;

(8 ) Dr. Salwa Habib, who was killed by the Mossad after publishing her book ?The Israeli Influence in Africa? and whose murderer was never apprehended by the Egyptian police;

(9) Egyptian scientist Saeed al-Bodair, who had developed some pioneering theories in the field of microwave technology;

(10) Lebanese physicist Ramal Hassan Ramal, who was one of the 100 best physicists in the world and was dubbed the Edison of the Arabs; and

(11) Lebanese physicist Hasan Kamel al-Sabbah."

https://www.quora.com/Why-arabs-genius-cant-be-famous-and-why-these-genius-are-killed-often-if-they-want-to-go-back-to-the-natal-country



I then googled more and found this article published in 2007:

"Iran tops the American list of rogue states. Its decision to harness nuclear energy has made the US attitude to Tehran even more bellicose. If the US had its way, it would have, undoubtedly, struck Iranian nuclear facilities and reduced them to rubble.

But the US is aware of the calamitous ramifications of an Iranian adventure upsetting not only the region but sending its tsunami-like ripples to the regions beyond. So it would be rather safe to forecast that the US will not attack Iran in the immediate future.

Israel, apparently disappointed by the US hesitation to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran, is showing signs of returning to its policy of assassination to weaken or eliminate its enemies. Israeli intelligence apparatus Mossad reportedly assassinated Ardashir Hassan Baur, one of Iran?s top nuclear scientists, last month. Ardashir, who was instrumental in founding the Nuclear Research Center in Esfahan, was the director of the Center for Nuclear Electromagnetic Studies, the hub of Iranian nuclear activities.

The Sunday Times newspaper said Mossad was the most-likely force behind the assassination. Riza Pahala of the Stratfor, an American private establishment working in the area of espionage, said the Iranian scientist figured high in the Mossad hit list, as he possessed vital information about Iranian nuclear activities besides being the pivot of its nuclear facilities.

Israel has assassinated not only Arab leaders and scientists but Jewish citizens of Egypt and other parts of the Arab world as well. The purpose of killing the Arab Jews was to create a sense of insecurity among the Jewish communities living peacefully in Egypt and elsewhere so that they will immigrate to the Zionist state. Again it was Jewish terrorists, members of the Stern group to be specific, who committed numerous atrocities over a period of time against the British and Arabs, including the assassination of Count Bernadotte, the UN mediator between the Arabs and Jews in September 1948. Eminent Arab and Palestinian personalities such as founding chairman of the Palestine Authority Yasser Arafat and Hamas leader Ahmad Yassin were victims of Israel?s policy of eliminating their enemies or those who they considered to be enemies.

A major function of the Israeli intelligence is obviously to follow the activities of the Arab nuclear scientists and assassinate them with the express goal of depriving the Arab countries of capable scientists. For instance, Egyptian nuclear scientist Dr. Samirah Musa was killed in a road accident in the United States in 1952 caused by an unidentified driver. Israel did not like her because she used to voice deep concerns about the hazards of the increasing Israeli nuclear activities in the Middle East.

She also had, reportedly, invented a simpler method to develop the critical grade nuclear material from metals cheaper than uranium. Again, in 1967 another Egyptian nuclear physicist Dr. Sameer Najib was assassinated in Detroit after he conducted some successful experiments in the military application of nuclear science. Another suspected assassination by the Mossad agents is the mysterious death, in Paris in June 1980, of Dr. Yahya Amin Al-Mushed, chief of the Iraqi nuclear project. He was in France for detailed discussions regarding the French cooperation in the Iraqi nuclear reactor.

In July 1989, some unknown assailants shot Egyptian scientist Saeed Al-Bodair dead at his Alexandria apartment. He had developed some pioneering theories in the field of microwave. These are part of the Zionist scheme to keep the nuclear facilities away from the reach of Arabs and Muslims.

I wonder what would have happened if an Israeli scientist were assassinated by an Arab intelligence agency. All the Arab governments would, no doubt, be described as terrorists and sponsors of terror. The Western governments would, in the most brazen manner, display their hidden racist tendencies to hunt down every Arab. No amount of racist justification can conceal the state-sponsored terrorism practiced by Israel with the tacit approval of the United States.

Now the key question is who will protect the scientists of the Middle East from Israel?s assassination squads."

http://www.arabnews.com/node/294881

Why hasn't the Mossad been regarded as a terrorist organization?