<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"  ?><rss version="2.0" xml:base="http://blog.sweetestmemories.com" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Memories Documented</title><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com</link><description>A home away from home, a drop of water in the desert and a straw in the ocean. This is where I dump my thoughts and offload my mind</description><language>en</language><copyright>Qwaider</copyright><item><title>Hani Obaid on How to end your Career with a Bang</title><description><![CDATA[ In the vote on whether to support Israel&#39;s genocide in Gaza, only 5 US congressmen voted against, and the only Muslim in congress abstained.Shame.Shame.Shame. ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1685#C27867</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1685#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1685#C27867</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:45:44 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on نوّاب ... كلاب</title><description><![CDATA[ Qatar has asked for the summit since the invasion started, right now it seems like Egypt and everyone who supports its stance of helping Israel enforce the blockade on gaza are going to the kuwait summit, and those who don&#39;t to Doha, and then there are those like Morocco who are so disgusted with both that they won&#39;t attend either.I don&#39;t think they walked out o ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1683#C27853</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1683#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1683#C27853</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:44:13 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Why Hamas can never be defeated</title><description><![CDATA[ Nizar,I was completely against Hizbollah provoking Israel, since mostly if Hizbollah leaves Israel alone, Israel will leave it and Lebanon alone, but Gaza is not the same story. Like you I prefer none&#45;violence, but that&#39;s when you have a choice. As it is Gazans have been under siege or getting attacked continuously even during the so called ceasefire, and even before t ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1681#C27805</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1681#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1681#C27805</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:34:04 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on So why do you -really- need an F16?</title><description><![CDATA[ Yeah why waste expensive munitions on civilians.The link didn&#39;t work for me, but is it streaming al&#45;aqsa, al&#45;jazeera, or al&#45;whatchamacallit ?! ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1682#C27791</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1682#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1682#C27791</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:04:38 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on بكل الإحترام، ممكن نتشطّر على الحمار؟</title><description><![CDATA[ I&#39;m with Rasha on this. Do you really blame people for not opposing their own countries ruler publicly knowing the consequences ?Don&#39;t confuse fear for loyalty.Besides, there&#39;s very little our leaders can do (Mubarak aside) that will be of consequence even if they were so motivated.The keyword right now is stabilit ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1680#C27755</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1680#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1680#C27755</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:34:04 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Gaza stats, stay up to date on your blog</title><description><![CDATA[ Well this type of statement doesn&#39;t exactly ask for dialog, and seeing how confrontational all of your previous comments are, there is no need for you to try to pretend to be a victim:Yassir said: This is truly disgusting...it looks like a scoreboard, talk dehumanizing a tragedy. You should be ashamed of yourself for creating such a disturbing &#39;counter.&#39; Do you  ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1672#C27736</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1672#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1672#C27736</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:46:06 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Blaming the victim mentality</title><description><![CDATA[ Yemenia,yes we weren&#39;t discussing equality directly. My apologies, I think I confused your comment with Miriam&#39;s where she seemed to think every man is a wimp unless he tries to go to gaza and fight. (all the Jordanians and Egyptians who did that are in jail by the way). Whereas Israel happily uses both men and women in its army, and happily kills men, w ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27735</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27735</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:39:36 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Blaming the victim mentality</title><description><![CDATA[ Thanks, I was worried there for a moment!Although I don&#39;t know what a (بردعة) is, I understand. ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27721</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27721</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:30:46 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Gaza stats, stay up to date on your blog</title><description><![CDATA[ it&#39;s very odd that yassir got upset with you when he saw the counter instead of getting upset with Israel which would be the normal reaction. I don&#39;t think his name is yassir ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1672#C27718</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1672#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1672#C27718</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:32:32 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Blaming the victim mentality</title><description><![CDATA[ Qwaider, I don&#39;t think he would agree with the necessity of using nukes first rather than having nukes available to respond and deter someone else uses them. Even Oppenheimer who was instrumental in the project to build the first nuke regretted it later, and for his trouble they called him a commie.Does your statement mean you believe the use of  ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27717</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27717</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:29:05 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Blaming the victim mentality</title><description><![CDATA[ Yemenia,Yes I know what you mean by &#34;real men&#34;. I emphasize that once women ask for equality, it has to be equality in everything, not just the equal pay, or equal rights, but equal responsibility. There&#39;s no best of both worlds scenario.Miriam, you missed the point. Ghandi is special because he achieved through none&#45;violence what oth ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27716</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27716</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:23:45 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Fighting for life</title><description><![CDATA[ Israel is betting on people of the US standing by them because they will feel like them &#45;&#45;&#45;&#45;&#45;&#45;&#45;&#45; rather because people in the US as you have often pointed out only get Israel&#39;s side of the story. Even condi Rice the other day announced that &#34;it&#39;s difficult to avoid civilian casualties in a densely populated area&#34;. Since when is she the Is ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1679#C27702</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1679#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1679#C27702</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:15:53 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Blaming the victim mentality</title><description><![CDATA[ Miriam, I think it&#39;s odd to call someone a wimp because they don&#39;t support violence especially if the person calling them a wimp isn&#39;t fighting either (shouting doesn&#39;t count). Besides wimps have changed the world. Some of my favorite world changing wimps:Jesus (although mythical)Martin Luther KingMahtma GandhiYemenia, why ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27699</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27699</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:05:05 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Blaming the victim mentality</title><description><![CDATA[ I know very well Israel is the aggressor, and that the main reason the ceasefire ended is the siege, nevertheless the Qassam rockets are still tactically very foolish. They might as well point them at each other.You see your little applet there that shows the bodycount in gaza, Some Israelis have setup a similar applet that displays the Qassam count since the year 2000! The ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27661</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1675#C27661</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:02:49 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Realistically... Is there hope?</title><description><![CDATA[ you&#39;re too optimistic! ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1677#C27659</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1677#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1677#C27659</guid><pubDate>Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:39:22 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on The Three-State Option</title><description><![CDATA[ lol next thing Bolton will be wanting to put Palestinians in crates and ship them to another continent. ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1671#C27616</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1671#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1671#C27616</guid><pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:55:59 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Breaking News: Jordan waves annulling the peace treaty with Israel</title><description><![CDATA[ yeah I heard the top UNRWA guy in Palestine (Sami Mshasha) earlier today say it&#39;s a violation of international law and I think he also said the Geneva convention, but these are things that neither Israel nor the US respect. Remember the US is one of the 7 countries (along with China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, and Yemen) that refused to join the treaty for the international criminal court whi ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#C27593</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#C27593</guid><pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:10:42 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Breaking News: Jordan waves annulling the peace treaty with Israel</title><description><![CDATA[ Just read the other comments. We are already gaining all the legitimacy with the UN the same legitimacy Israel lost when it heavily bombed UNRWA schools that were opened by the UN to receive refugees whose homes were demolished by Israeli bombing; killing nearly 50 people in a single day including as we all know a large number of women and children.This is even worse than d ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#C27591</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#C27591</guid><pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:19:21 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Stubbornness!</title><description><![CDATA[ Can&#39;t judge since I don&#39;t have (and wouldn&#39;t understand if I did) the details, but to me a good student is not one who takes every word their teacher says as gospel, but one that tries to think for themselves, particularly since you mentioned he had an idea for making it work right. Having said that there limits to how far a student should swim around their teacher&#39;s idea until the ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1668#C27587</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1668#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1668#C27587</guid><pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:32:26 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Breaking News: Jordan waves annulling the peace treaty with Israel</title><description><![CDATA[ With the current situation, I think annulling the treaty may be a good idea since even if only to apply meager diplomatic pressure.While I&#39;m against kicking the ambassador out because I think it is important to keep the lines of communication open especially with your worst enemies, I think what is very telling is that Venezuela kicked the Israeli ambassador when no Ara ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#C27586</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1669#C27586</guid><pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:27:57 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Breaking news: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard</title><description><![CDATA[ well, there are prototypes for the holographic screens so you can have a virtually screen&#45;less laptop. I don&#39;t think we&#39;re so far from the real keyboard&#45;less laptop. It&#39;s been decades since the US was trying to develop jet fighters that respond to telepathic commands. Why not plain old dumb PCs! ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1670#C27585</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1670#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1670#C27585</guid><pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:09:49 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Resistance dreams</title><description><![CDATA[ What bothers me is how the world media makes this sound as simple as:hamas fired rockets (which I think was a mistake) and Israel respondsIsn&#39;t the siege in itself, the forced starvation of millions a terrorist act.The UN figures say 85&#37; of Gazans now get all their food from the aid trucks which will stop during this incursion. ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1664#C27535</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1664#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1664#C27535</guid><pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:30:04 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on للموت طعم .. اسمه غزّة</title><description><![CDATA[ Israel has just started its ground offensive ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1663#C27529</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1663#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1663#C27529</guid><pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:13:32 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Amazing video, worldwide Air flights around the globe</title><description><![CDATA[ Wait til those personal flying cars become available, it&#39;ll get more hectic. Unfortunately once humans start moving to a new planet. it will be only the elite moving, and mankind will be divided into 2 groups a la HG Well&#39;s the time machine&#39;s morlock&#39;s and elois. By that time earth will be a radioactive war infested wasteland.or there&#39;s always a happier  ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1660#C27524</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1660#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1660#C27524</guid><pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:37:51 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Wishing 2009 to be even better than 2008</title><description><![CDATA[ you know what they say about the stock market, only people who plan to retire in the next 2&#45;3 years have lost a fortune, for everyone else, they should wait for the recovery in 5 years or so. Is that too optimistic? Let&#39;s hope not.We stayed at home for new years, my mom baked a wonderful cake, my sister got us some goodies, and it was the first new years with the wh ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1659#C27523</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1659#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1659#C27523</guid><pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:34:25 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Burn after marrying</title><description><![CDATA[ Now all that&#39;s left is getting a secret identity from the witness protection program, and you&#39;re about ready :P ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1661#C27522</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1661#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1661#C27522</guid><pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:26:56 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Simple men</title><description><![CDATA[ Why do you think people watch so many movies, and read so much fiction, or in older cultures just tell stories. The reality is so depressing and dull, they need illusion to keep their spirits up. Whether it&#39;s about the love of a woman, the existence of a god, or just a simple story. ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1658#C27493</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1658#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1658#C27493</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:01:41 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on Science proving miracles?</title><description><![CDATA[ I would love to see the videos too although where I went to school, they showed us this kind of film on a regular basisI agree with Maryam. I think each prayer can in fact be viewed as a request to change the rules, to intervene and change the outcome. The best example is Abraham&#39;s prayer which is documented in the Quran:&#34;رَّبَّنَا  ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1657#C27492</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1657#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1657#C27492</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:59:11 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on ما اشبه اليوم بالأمس</title><description><![CDATA[ Better that we just talk than start a war with Israel that we can&#39;t win.Yes it&#39;s not like the option is either all talk, or war, there are other things that can be done. Withdrawing ambassadors. I don&#39;t recommend that since it&#39;ll also only be symbolic and will do more harm than good. Keeping lines of communication open is one measure  ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1654#C27456</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1654#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1654#C27456</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:26:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hani Obaid on On their wedding night - حوارٌ بين زوجين ليلة زفافهما</title><description><![CDATA[ Funny. Although this one is probably setup, there&#39;s actually a nutjob doctor in Australia who claims that if you play people&#39;s speech in reverse, you will hear what they subliminally really meant to say. He actually gives people&#39;s therapy sessions with this technique, and as an example analyzes famous speeches, and sometimes rock songs (claiming the song in reverse praises satan and su ]]></description><link>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1653#C27452</link><comments>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1653#comments</comments><dc:creator>by Hani Obaid</dc:creator><guid>http://blog.sweetestmemories.com/default.asp?Display=1653#C27452</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:29:18 +0200</pubDate></item></channel></rss>