Maybe for the moment. But Gaza will be a part of a Palestinian state! Even if it´s not accomplished in this season. We will not stop working for the Palestinians in Gaza and their rights, just because there are Hamas parrot clan humming their Syrian mantras, Iran´s paid jihadists making people suffer. Denying them their rights, claiming others are responsible for it and exploring the Palestinians in camps all over the Middle East! Destroying their mentally exhausted children, sending their women out to blow up themselves, if they are not being blown up while baking bread, while the Iranian president sits with a big grin on his face, and the Syrian "spinal cord", tapping their chest, puffing and puffing in their self righteous balloon, working against other peoples will, while Palestinians getting colder at their border!
The world will never accept such conditions for the Gaza citizens or Palestinians in camps!
Monday, November 26, 2007
So..
"Always, always, the pain and hurt of the city can break through and curdle the best intentions. Izhiman describes what it was like to cope with the aftermath of a suicide bombing. "We're trying to help the injured, and people are pointing at us, yelling, 'You're Arab! You did this to us, and what, now you're here to save lives?' It was like a knife in my heart." Adds Alian, "On the Israeli side, human lives are being lost, and the Arab side is demanding rights for statehood. I'm caught in between, angry and frustrated. All I can do is focus on my training and try to keep the wounded from dying."
Dome hysterical people yelling, shouting viewing with their arms wanting to forbid peace
Thousands of right-wing activists took part in the rally in Jerusalem's Paris Square and police closed streets in the surrounding area, At Monday afternoon's demonstration, speakers denounced the Annapolis conference and asked whether the government officials taking part in the talks really represented the Jewish people.
100 land mines and nine bombs hidden in the northern Sinai desert
Police have found more than a 100 land mines and nine bombs hidden in the northern Sinai desert, a security officer said Monday. Authorities believe Islamic militants had buried the explosives, but no militants were in the vicinity when the police, acting on a tip, uncovered the cache, said the northern Sinai security official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the land mines and bombs had been stashed in sacks buried a few meters in soil about 40 kilometers to the west of the Egyptian-Israeli border. Islamic terrorists have carried out three major bomb attacks in the Sinai since October 2004. The blasts in the resorts of Sharm el-Sheik, Taba and Dahab killed 125 people. The government blamed the attacks on a local Islamic militant group, which appears to have been inspired by al-Qaida ideology.
Smuggled from Syria
Lebanese customs authorities on Monday seized more than 2 million illegal pills that were allegedly being smuggled from Syria, the state-run National News Agency and security officials said. The Captagon pills - an amphetamine-like medication - were hidden in different parts of a bus that came from Syria, NNA said. The drugs were discovered when the bus was scanned at the Beirut Port before it was to be put on a ship going to Qatar, the agency said. Authorities showed an Associated Press photographer about 15 sealed sacks and several boxes that they said were filled with pills. Security officials said after the bus was scanned, dogs were brought to check the vehicle. The first group of dogs sniffed for explosives and found nothing, but drug sniffing dogs later found the pills, which were hidden mainly under the seats.
In a desolate northwest corner of Iraq's Anbar province nearly 2,000 victims of Iraq's sectarian divide live in a squalid encampment of tents
BAGHDAD - Masked gunmen stormed the family home of a pro-Baath journalist and killed 11 of his relatives, colleagues said Monday, as Shiite legislators denounced a proposal to ease curbs on former members of Saddam Hussein's ruling party, dimming hopes for national reconciliation.
Ahmad Haj Ali, a political analyst and member of Syria's ruling Baath party. "If Syria goes, it would have achieved what the others want without achieving anything for itself. The price will be extremely high," he said. Syrian lawmaker Mohammed Habash said Syria is the "spinal cord" of a front that includes Iran, the "resistance" in Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas.
In a desolate northwest corner of Iraq's Anbar province nearly 2,000 victims of Iraq's sectarian divide live in a squalid encampment of tents and garbage. Just a short walk away from the camp is the Syrian borderSince 2006 we've been targeted, especially after the attacks on the Shiite mosques in Samarra, because we are Palestinians," said Awad Dalah, an elder at the camp on the outskirts of al-Waleed. "We've lost about 300 people in Baghdad. Some were killed; others were kidnapped and just disappeared. "The Iraqi media talked about Arabs being involved, and Palestinians are Arabs and Sunni, so people started talking about us being involved, and the Shiite militias came after us." Our children are suffering. We are suffering. Just look. You think we want to live like this, in tents, with snakes around?" The al-Waleed Palestinian camp lies on the outskirts of the town, which if it wasn't at a border entry point with Syria and on the main Damascus-Baghdad roadThe Palestinian camp is even more depressing to look at: row upon row of tents, discarded fruit juice cans, water bottles, peelings, and other garbage everywhere. The pride of the camp, however, is an old one-story building repainted by the displaced Palestinians.
It's being used as a school. But the basic lessons for many of the estimated 700 children in the camp under the age of 15 aren't given by professional teachers. They're given by camp adults. The camp population is a blink over 1,900 now, up from 1,400 just a few weeks ago. And the promise is that it will continue to grow. International aid organizations fear increasing difficulties as winter approaches, and the United Nations is working to find new countries for its occupants but the process is slow. Food, tents, and cooking fuel are supplied by international aid organizations. There is also a new, U.N.-supplied generator for electricity and fuel given to run it.
Ahmad Haj Ali, a political analyst and member of Syria's ruling Baath party. "If Syria goes, it would have achieved what the others want without achieving anything for itself. The price will be extremely high," he said. Syrian lawmaker Mohammed Habash said Syria is the "spinal cord" of a front that includes Iran, the "resistance" in Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas.
In a desolate northwest corner of Iraq's Anbar province nearly 2,000 victims of Iraq's sectarian divide live in a squalid encampment of tents and garbage. Just a short walk away from the camp is the Syrian borderSince 2006 we've been targeted, especially after the attacks on the Shiite mosques in Samarra, because we are Palestinians," said Awad Dalah, an elder at the camp on the outskirts of al-Waleed. "We've lost about 300 people in Baghdad. Some were killed; others were kidnapped and just disappeared. "The Iraqi media talked about Arabs being involved, and Palestinians are Arabs and Sunni, so people started talking about us being involved, and the Shiite militias came after us." Our children are suffering. We are suffering. Just look. You think we want to live like this, in tents, with snakes around?" The al-Waleed Palestinian camp lies on the outskirts of the town, which if it wasn't at a border entry point with Syria and on the main Damascus-Baghdad roadThe Palestinian camp is even more depressing to look at: row upon row of tents, discarded fruit juice cans, water bottles, peelings, and other garbage everywhere. The pride of the camp, however, is an old one-story building repainted by the displaced Palestinians.
It's being used as a school. But the basic lessons for many of the estimated 700 children in the camp under the age of 15 aren't given by professional teachers. They're given by camp adults. The camp population is a blink over 1,900 now, up from 1,400 just a few weeks ago. And the promise is that it will continue to grow. International aid organizations fear increasing difficulties as winter approaches, and the United Nations is working to find new countries for its occupants but the process is slow. Food, tents, and cooking fuel are supplied by international aid organizations. There is also a new, U.N.-supplied generator for electricity and fuel given to run it.
Joint Israeli-Palestinian statement
An elusive joint Israeli-Palestinian statement on the contours of future peace talks is within reach, a senior member of the Palestinian delegation said Monday, hours before a high-stakes international conference on the Mideast was to begin. After months of trying to forge a joint declaration, Israel and the Palestinians have made an 11th-hour push in recent days to come up with a statement for presentation at the gathering, which is to be the first time that Israel, a large group of Arab states and international envoys from around the world sit down together to try to relaunch the peace process. "We will reach a joint paper today or tomorrow," Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior aide to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, told reporters.
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The municipality of the settlement-city of Ariel plans to evict from temporary caravan homes a number of former residents of the evacuated Gaza settlement of Netzarim, Mayor Ron Nahman said Monday. The eviction is slated to take place in five months, Nahman told Army Radio. The former Netzarim settlers said they had only recently succeeded in purchasing land on which to build permanent homes in Ariel, but were then notified by the Defense Ministry that as a result of a sweeping freeze on settlement activity announced ahead of this week's Annapolis conference, they would be unable for the time being to begin construction. The freeze was also to include Israel's declaration of willingness to dismantle illegal West Bank settlement outposts.
If Binyamin Netanyahu want´s another partner for peace, we suggest he go to Gaza, have a coup of tea and discuss your common view with Hamas
And if Binyamin Netanyahu want´s another partner for peace, we suggest he go to Gaza, have a coup of tea and discuss your common view with Hamas. And the Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman blaha blaha´s about how happy he is for no Palestinian state until Mahmoud Abbas regained control over the Gaza Strip from Hamas as he don´t expect Abbas to overthrow Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Constructive..This is a peace conference - Not your own private psychopathic battle field!
"Syria will attend the Annapolis conference in order to examine the US's commitment to peace," according to Monday's editorial in Syria's official daily newspaper Teshreen.
Or...You are just here to spread your bullshit and negativity and make an awful smell in the air as you have done before the conference even took place! And your anti-Israel rhetoric, anti-agreements, anti-peace, anti-everyone and anti-everything, blaming them for both your own and others actions, and negativity towards peace and towards everyone! "examine the US's commitment to peace"..Show your own commitment to peace instead of claiming to be there to examine the US! Straighten up, mind your words or we will collect every negative bullshit you have said and put it in here to be documented and showed what Syria have to contribute with, even in a peace conference to the rest of the world and for history!
Upon the breakup of the Ottoman Turkish Empire after World War I, Britain and France did some imperial trading at Golan. The territory had changed hands often throughout the centuries. Jews also had a long history here. Recall how Syria used the Heights to rain death and terror on Israelis below prior to the 1967 War--which it also largely instigated. In 1973, Israel was attacked on its holiest day, Yom Kippur, from the Syrian side of the Heights. Not long ago, an Israeli Prime Minister offered, as was done after 1967, an almost complete return of the Heights in exchange for true peace. The exception would cover a tiny stretch of land at the east side of the sea of Galilee´! Israel currently controls the passes Syrian tanks would use to roll down hill to kill Jews. Right now Syrian artillery and gunners can't do this anymore to Jews.
Despite appalling treatment of Kurds, native Jews, Lebanese, Palestinians and others; despite support for terrorists undermining Iraq's attempt at democracy; despite the great likelihood that many of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction found their way to Syria; despite Damascus' support of major terrorist organizations whose aim is the destruction of the Israel, giving safe haven to those organizations within its own borders; despite its record as mass slaughterer of any and all who decent, author of the infamous "Hama Solution;" etc., etc.
Despite the fact that Israel sits in a peace conference at the same time they being attacked by rockets from Syria´s supported militants from Gaza. Despite the fact that Nasrallah functioning in Lebanon to divide people, working against a presidential vote, inciting sectarian violence and claiming the US is responsible for doing that, in Syria´s interests. Despite the fact that it´s very much Syria that claiming the Palestinians can go back to 1948 as another lead to put obstacles in the way for peace, as we know that one can not go back in time. Despite the fact that Syria legitimizes war against the Kurds. Syria sits in a peace conference "examine the US's commitment to peace!"
We said: Bow you heads or we will sweep the floor with you! We´ll walk right over you! We´ll make a hole on your self-righteous- smug- conceited balloon you sitting in, in a second!
And we mean it!
Or...You are just here to spread your bullshit and negativity and make an awful smell in the air as you have done before the conference even took place! And your anti-Israel rhetoric, anti-agreements, anti-peace, anti-everyone and anti-everything, blaming them for both your own and others actions, and negativity towards peace and towards everyone! "examine the US's commitment to peace"..Show your own commitment to peace instead of claiming to be there to examine the US! Straighten up, mind your words or we will collect every negative bullshit you have said and put it in here to be documented and showed what Syria have to contribute with, even in a peace conference to the rest of the world and for history!
Upon the breakup of the Ottoman Turkish Empire after World War I, Britain and France did some imperial trading at Golan. The territory had changed hands often throughout the centuries. Jews also had a long history here. Recall how Syria used the Heights to rain death and terror on Israelis below prior to the 1967 War--which it also largely instigated. In 1973, Israel was attacked on its holiest day, Yom Kippur, from the Syrian side of the Heights. Not long ago, an Israeli Prime Minister offered, as was done after 1967, an almost complete return of the Heights in exchange for true peace. The exception would cover a tiny stretch of land at the east side of the sea of Galilee´! Israel currently controls the passes Syrian tanks would use to roll down hill to kill Jews. Right now Syrian artillery and gunners can't do this anymore to Jews.
Despite appalling treatment of Kurds, native Jews, Lebanese, Palestinians and others; despite support for terrorists undermining Iraq's attempt at democracy; despite the great likelihood that many of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction found their way to Syria; despite Damascus' support of major terrorist organizations whose aim is the destruction of the Israel, giving safe haven to those organizations within its own borders; despite its record as mass slaughterer of any and all who decent, author of the infamous "Hama Solution;" etc., etc.
Despite the fact that Israel sits in a peace conference at the same time they being attacked by rockets from Syria´s supported militants from Gaza. Despite the fact that Nasrallah functioning in Lebanon to divide people, working against a presidential vote, inciting sectarian violence and claiming the US is responsible for doing that, in Syria´s interests. Despite the fact that it´s very much Syria that claiming the Palestinians can go back to 1948 as another lead to put obstacles in the way for peace, as we know that one can not go back in time. Despite the fact that Syria legitimizes war against the Kurds. Syria sits in a peace conference "examine the US's commitment to peace!"
We said: Bow you heads or we will sweep the floor with you! We´ll walk right over you! We´ll make a hole on your self-righteous- smug- conceited balloon you sitting in, in a second!
And we mean it!
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Annapolis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Washington on Sunday ahead of a conference to be held in nearby Annapolis this week that U.S. President George W. Bush hopes will relaunch peace negotiations with Israel. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are due to hold further discussions in Washington on Sunday to try to reach agreement on a joint document to be presented at the conference, Abu Rdainah said.
*"Jerusalem should be an open city. Within Jerusalem, irrespective of the resolution of the question of sovereignty, there should be no physical partition that would prevent the free circulation of persons within it". "Palestine and Israel shall be committed to guaranteeing freedom of worship and access to religious sites within Jerusalem. Both states will take all possible measures to protect such sites and preserve their dignity."
*"Israel to remove all economic and other incentives luring Israelis into Occupied Territory". Freezing settlement constructions and any constructions until agreements have been established. And further activities in the West Bank shall be in consultation and cooperation with the Palestinians. Began withdraw trailers that have been placed resent in out posts as soon as possible.
*Recognize each others connection to Jerusalem and holy sites and the equal and common responsibility for your common heritage to the future and coming generations! You are here to take your common responsibility towards coming generations for your heritage and security! That´s yours core issue!
*And some hint or prediction of where in the process a timetable can be set! Try to write down some goals. We know this issue is very much connected with security. Work on cooperation. Israeli and Palestinian security and police forces are very much capable to cooperate. Don´t let politic stand in their way!
*The Palestinian authority will work with education minister and establish a functioning cooperation between school, parents and other responsible to offer children and youths meaningful activities after school, with volunteer's and adults presence. We want to see progress and actions in this issue at ones! In both calm and in restless areas.
*"Jerusalem should be an open city. Within Jerusalem, irrespective of the resolution of the question of sovereignty, there should be no physical partition that would prevent the free circulation of persons within it". "Palestine and Israel shall be committed to guaranteeing freedom of worship and access to religious sites within Jerusalem. Both states will take all possible measures to protect such sites and preserve their dignity."
*"Israel to remove all economic and other incentives luring Israelis into Occupied Territory". Freezing settlement constructions and any constructions until agreements have been established. And further activities in the West Bank shall be in consultation and cooperation with the Palestinians. Began withdraw trailers that have been placed resent in out posts as soon as possible.
*Recognize each others connection to Jerusalem and holy sites and the equal and common responsibility for your common heritage to the future and coming generations! You are here to take your common responsibility towards coming generations for your heritage and security! That´s yours core issue!
*And some hint or prediction of where in the process a timetable can be set! Try to write down some goals. We know this issue is very much connected with security. Work on cooperation. Israeli and Palestinian security and police forces are very much capable to cooperate. Don´t let politic stand in their way!
*The Palestinian authority will work with education minister and establish a functioning cooperation between school, parents and other responsible to offer children and youths meaningful activities after school, with volunteer's and adults presence. We want to see progress and actions in this issue at ones! In both calm and in restless areas.
*And the whole process with negotiations and follow up´s will be based on equal conditions.
* Comprehensive measures taken by Israel and Syria to start cooperation with security at Golan due to earlier documents. And taking actions to ease the conditions for Druze families at Golan, reunite them and establish conditions following UN conventions on human rights. And the rest will follow..
* The East side of the sea of Galilee´and it´s connection to Dan city may not be altered in any circumstances!
* We want a document signed between Israel and Syria stating their common responsibility for living up to human rights convention concerning families at Golan.
Peace camps, lawmakers, The Arab League. And thank you: responsibility
Hundreds of members of the left-wing peace camp gathered outside the Prime Minister's Residence on Saturday night, on the eve of his departure for the Annapolis conference, to show their support for the upcoming peace talks.
"The Arab League will participate for the first time in a peace conference with an Israeli presence," Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said on his departure Sunday. "We will say that there can be no normalization except in the framework of the Arab peace initiative and in the framework of total peace." "We will speak with all frankness and we will inform the world everything that happens at the conference," he added.Representatives from Peace Now and the Geneva Initiative joined MKs from the Meretz and Labor parties to address the demonstrators. "The message was that if the prime minister came to a real peace agreement, he would have the support of the Israeli public behind him," said Yariv Oppenheimer, secretary-general of Peace Now.
While Prime Minister Ehud Olmert traveled to the airport to leave for the US, demonstrators packed the narrow sidewalk and a nearby street junction carrying placards reading, "This is the time - choose peace" and "Yes to a peace treaty."
In recent weeks there has been increased criticism of the left-wing parties and organizations for remaining silent on Annapolis. Olmert, who was scheduled to leave for Annapolis early Sunday morning, has received increasing criticism from lawmakers across the political spectrum for attending the conference. While right-wing lawmakers have criticized him for taking part to please American interests, the Left has slammed him for not putting enough new issues on the table.
"It is important to let the prime minister know that he has a real opportunity here, and that the opportunity extends beyond the summit to do real things on the ground to change things, to get the peace process moving," said MK Ephraim Sneh (Labor) at the rally. Also taking part were dozens of university students, who had embarked on a "three-day march" on Thursday around and through Jerusalem to encourage Olmert to make an agreement. "If the summit addresses the need for compromises in Jerusalem, we will have succeeded. The students also orchestrated a "newspaper-exchange", delivering Palestinian newspapers to homes in Rehavia, while sending Hebrew dailies to Palestinian communities outside Jerusalem, to highlight the schisms between the two groups.
Source: J-Post
Olmert told journalists he hoped the meeting would "allow the launch of serious negotiations on all the core issues, which will lead to a solution of two national homes for two peoples."
During a meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Minister Without Portfolio Ami Ayalon appealed to Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to resist calls for the party to quit the government and to support "a diplomatic process that is essential to the existence of the state of Israel." Ayalon met Yosef at the rabbi's residence in Jerusalem on Sunday. Shas chairman Eli Yishai was also present during the sit-down. Ayalon communicated to Yosef his belief that Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party would quit the coalition following the Annapolis peace conference, a move that would endanger the Olmert government's ability to rule effectively. As a result, Ayalon called on Shas to "show responsibility, stay in the government and support a diplomatic process that is essential to the existence of the State of Israel."
Ayalon also told the Shas leader that Lieberman's projected resignation does not necessarily mean that Shas should follow suit. The minister said he hoped the government's stability would remain intact after the Annapolis conference. Yosef mostly listened to Ayalon's statements, however did not respond when the minister inquired into Shas' plans following the summit.
Senior politicians said The prime minister presented before the elections and the investigations his daring and ambitious plan, the principle of which was to leave the Palestinian territories, and he was elected on this platform. All of the attempts to doubt the motives for the political process are destined to fail." Olmert campaigned for prime minister in 2006 on his much-touted convergence plan to follow the Gaza disengagement by unilaterally withdrawing from West Bank settlements. The plan was since essentially discarded.
Source: Haaretz
Well...As lawmakers they should know that keeping Status Quo with the Palestinians is against human rights on both sides! Shouldn´t they..
Russian police detained opposition leader
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained opposition leader and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on Saturday when they broke up an anti-Kremlin protest eight days before Russia's parliamentary election.
Scuffles broke out between police and protesters in central Moscow after around 3,000 people tried to march to the central election commission's headquarters. "No election. For Russia. Against Putin," shouted the protesters, organized by the opposition Other Russia group, which accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of destroying personal liberties and the freedom of the press.
The umbrella group, which unites Kremlin opponents from liberal free market thinkers to anarchists, also says a parliamentary election scheduled for December 2 is unfairly weighted towards pro-Putin party United Russia. Police have cracked down on Other Russia marches this year, hitting protesters with batons and detaining hundreds, but they recently adopted a softer approach. On Saturday they kept their distance until a squad of riot police blocked the march.
Plain clothes police roughly pushed and pulled people into vans and police armed with batons grabbed protest leaders. Kasparov, a leader of Other Russia, was charged with public order offences and police said they would hold him for five days, said his spokeswoman.
Police detained about 60 protesters, a Kasparov spokesman said. Police declined to comment. After police broke up the march, protesters moved away in small groups and said they had expected the authorities to block the demonstration. "In a free country you can express your opinions but in Russia you can't," said Alexei Alexeyev, a 26-year-old protester. "The police are very aggressive and I fear them," he said, explaining that police had detained him for 12 hours at an opposition protest in March.
Putin, who is hugely popular in Russia, will step down as Russian president next year after his second and final consecutive term but has said he will continue to play a role in Russian politics. Young and old mingled at the protest, uniting the elderly who had lived in Soviet times with young students. Tatiana Manukova, 61, had wrapped up in woolly hat and thick coat to ward off the chilly Moscow air. "Censorship is all around us and our freedoms have decreased," she said. "Putin's way will not mean a better future."
By James Kilner and Tanya Mosolova; Editing by Charles Dick
Scuffles broke out between police and protesters in central Moscow after around 3,000 people tried to march to the central election commission's headquarters. "No election. For Russia. Against Putin," shouted the protesters, organized by the opposition Other Russia group, which accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of destroying personal liberties and the freedom of the press.
The umbrella group, which unites Kremlin opponents from liberal free market thinkers to anarchists, also says a parliamentary election scheduled for December 2 is unfairly weighted towards pro-Putin party United Russia. Police have cracked down on Other Russia marches this year, hitting protesters with batons and detaining hundreds, but they recently adopted a softer approach. On Saturday they kept their distance until a squad of riot police blocked the march.
Plain clothes police roughly pushed and pulled people into vans and police armed with batons grabbed protest leaders. Kasparov, a leader of Other Russia, was charged with public order offences and police said they would hold him for five days, said his spokeswoman.
Police detained about 60 protesters, a Kasparov spokesman said. Police declined to comment. After police broke up the march, protesters moved away in small groups and said they had expected the authorities to block the demonstration. "In a free country you can express your opinions but in Russia you can't," said Alexei Alexeyev, a 26-year-old protester. "The police are very aggressive and I fear them," he said, explaining that police had detained him for 12 hours at an opposition protest in March.
Putin, who is hugely popular in Russia, will step down as Russian president next year after his second and final consecutive term but has said he will continue to play a role in Russian politics. Young and old mingled at the protest, uniting the elderly who had lived in Soviet times with young students. Tatiana Manukova, 61, had wrapped up in woolly hat and thick coat to ward off the chilly Moscow air. "Censorship is all around us and our freedoms have decreased," she said. "Putin's way will not mean a better future."
By James Kilner and Tanya Mosolova; Editing by Charles Dick
Humpbacks are some of the most wonderful and mysterious creatures in the ocean, with the longest vocalization produced by any animal
Vessels from the groups Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace tail and harass the whaling fleet, while strong protests are lodged by environmental groups, many marine biologists, and officials from the United States, Australia and other countries. But this year those complaints have intensified, largely because Japan has added a new animal to its planned harvest of more than 1,400 whales from seven species — the humpback, Megaptera novaeangliae.
Whaling nearly wiped it out, reducing the humpback’s numbers to perhaps a 1,000 by the mid-1960s. Today, estimates put the total at roughly 30,000. They are considered at high risk of extinction by the World Conservation Union.
“Humpbacks are some of the most wonderful and mysterious creatures in the ocean, with the longest vocalization produced by any animal, including humans, with their bouts of song that last up to 23 hours,” said David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of a forthcoming book on whale songs and science.
Whaling nearly wiped it out, reducing the humpback’s numbers to perhaps a 1,000 by the mid-1960s. Today, estimates put the total at roughly 30,000. They are considered at high risk of extinction by the World Conservation Union.
“Humpbacks are some of the most wonderful and mysterious creatures in the ocean, with the longest vocalization produced by any animal, including humans, with their bouts of song that last up to 23 hours,” said David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of a forthcoming book on whale songs and science.
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