Jane Novak and the Democracy of Waq al-Waq
This article was written by someone inYemen who I didn’t know but who apparently knows me. It was translated from Arabic.
Update: So of course they are saying I orchestrated this article myself (from the comments): “May be Novak Asked him to write that to make her picture better in Yemen. It is the fact only.”
Jane Novak and the Democracy of Waq Al-Waq
By Mohammad Ezz Addeen
12 Dec, 2005There are many who interested on writing about the Yemeni affairs. But only few of them who put the hand on the defectiveness places to diagnosing the situation in the country. May be the American journalist and political analyst Jane Novak taking advanced position on the experts list of the Yemeni cases. However, she is new epoch in interesting the Yemeni Affaires.
There is no dubiety that the media campaign against Novak powered by the governmental and rule party media and others which orb in it’s falk supported it’s thesis. It was busy with attacking Novak and harassing her instead of explaining the wrong thing in which she was talking about. It was thinking that in this way they will kill her theses against the corruption in the state.
Novak experience appeared through what she effecting and thrilling the official speech, which became known for all people nearly three weeks ago on «from Washington» show on the channel of Aljazeera. It became known the level of the governmental speech in Yemen for all around the world. The women did not gave anything new. She talked about gross (overall) of reports, news, studies, and writing that she referred to, and reproduced it in organized way. However, many opposition politicals, journalists, and public had written and spoken about different subjects more explicit than her. She collect all at one and produce it all at once without any consideration of redlines or being afraid from the official investigation. Also I think the foreign kink [or gnarl] participating in raising her ideas for the authority and the opposition. Especially that no one spoke seriously in the same serious and focus way that she did in a small period.
The «accusations kitchen» is not incompetent to insulting her. As the treason, stooge, and separatist are formal accuses for the opposition political and journalists, when they are talking about the corruption and reform, particularly this days. Novak got accuses something different to be corresponding with her state. She is Zionist, Free Mason, jobless, or [the one who work for money], who the USA Newspaper did not digested her articles, but she found a free space to publish it in the Yemen’s democracy fame of 170 Newspaper and only one Channel which became feudalist only for the authority and the rule party, and did not open it’s doors to hosting (receiving) oppositional members.
The attacks against Novak gave many services for her. It make her sure that she is in the truth bath after she received thanks and supporting letters from whom become interested on her opinions and make her on the front because of the media campaign. However, she was trending to praise the president Saleh and gave soft criticize for some actions discordant to his ambition [some thing he want to do].
I am not hiding the fact that the governmental media kails my attention to this woman. It also encourage me to search about her articles about Yemen, Iraq, Palestine and the Arab countries to stricture the accuses and try to know more about her, with the help of my weak English supported by many dictionaries to translating the Article not published in Arabic in Yemen.
The Beginning
Novak started writing articles, and she became more interested on the Middle East affaires after the attacks of 11 sep. she found that most of the terrorists were from this region. Then she focus on Yemen synchronizing with the growing democracy conference held in Sana’a on January 2004.
She noted that the prohibiting of the journalists and Non gov Orgs to participate on the conference is disaccording with the democratic ethics that Yemen goes through. Yemen was the typical sample of the growing democracies on the region.
Novak quoted a phrase of the president speech in the opening session of the conference. In her articles after the conference, She was point that president Saleh said that the democracy is the rescue ship for the regimes, and it is the choice for all people. In addition, she was criticized softly the abuses that may happened in the democracies, even it disaccording with that she was thinking Saleh is supporting it.
The Ship Sinking
When Al-khaiwani went to the jail, Novak began writing about his case. She was representing the American view that the society health and avoid the terror is with the free speech.
So Al-khaiwani’s jailing disaccording with the democratic principles that the president is caring about.
In most her article about AL-khaiwani’s case, she was appealing Saleh to interference to release him. At that time, she was not know the unlimited authorities of the president, which include Justice, Army forces, media, and others that she talked about in the show. She was only appealing Saleh mindful of the ship to not be sinking in the typical democracy in the region.
May be the president media secretary still remember that his English paper (Yemen observer) published an article entitled (Yemen in the spring) for the (jobless, and [the one who work for money]). It talked about the terror and the possibility of transferring the terrorists to Yemen if there was real democracy in Iraq. She quoted that from Zarqawi statement when he said that if the Iraqi Gov take control allover Iraq, and the occupation left it. Then he’ll leave to another country. So Novak said that the other country may be Yemen, because it suffering for the freedom, jailing journalists, and narrowing of the press freedom, which make the state wild environment for the terror growing, where the terrorists are exploiting the lack of freedom and the hate for the regimes to achieve their goals. However, she did not forget to mentions the rescue ship that Saleh talked about.
For knowledge, Novak was getting up in different times from the midnight to Al-fajr [aurora time or daybreak] when it is the time of the day broken in Yemen. She could not wait to the New Jersey morning (afternoon in Yemen) to read what she was expecting that the news’ll say about the releasing of Al-khaiwani. So these times became a habit for her that she was getting up even after the releasing of Al-khaiwani by presidential feted. She talked about this point in her blog. So we should understand that the different between the time zone of Sana’a and New Jersey is means the different between the human and the one who works for money.
With continuing of the trail drolly of Al-khaiwani and attacking the lawyers and the journalist in the court, Jane released that the ship is sinking in the corruption which is the ruler, and no existence of some thing named law.
The democracy and the unicorn in Yemen, and the justice in Yemen, which published in Al-wasat News paper, in these articles she announces her actual oppose for the Yemeni regime representing by president Saleh .
Both articles were the beginning of Novak getting out all her hate against corruption and rights abuses and freedom theft in Yemen.
Novak and Sistani
When Al-khaiwani became outside the prison with synchronizing of the beginning of Sada’a events, Novak started writing about the afflictions that escort it. She was writing also from human view. She ignored the two parts in the war, even she look sympathetic something to Al-huthi’s group more than the government.
May be the Sistani’s situation, who is peaceful ally to the USA , was one of the impetuses which make Novak write about Sa’ada as a kind of accuses to the government to perpetrate copulative destroying War. She referred that to the Sistani statement which accused the Yemeni government by leading copulative destroying against the Shiite in Sa’ada in the war, where the other front was calling for Killing for the USA. However, now the prominent leaders of them trend to the Sistani behavior in dealing with America, leaving Hizbullah ideology. And they are spending their days transferring from Europe to USA complaining their government [Yemeni] , which the war against them for their enemies to USA and trilling the yelling against USA.
The journalism.. busy cares
Novak report about the journalism in Yemen, which came after the kidnapping event of Jamal Amer The editor of Al-wasat, which synchronizing with a hot week against the journalism freedom, which reach out to Al-Nneda newspaper, AP office, Khaled Al-hammadi the reporter of Alquds Al-Arabi, and the Panorama of Al-thawry trails in 13 cases. The report was bigot to the journalists tribe, it defense their rights of exposing the corruption, and doing their reports without any restrictions.
It was noticed that she assuring the journalists rights to publish the article they want in the same manner they hurt for. She reported many names that incuded in Al-wasat investigation. She also talked about the army forces that Al-hammadi kidnapped for publishing it’s news, as it took a forth of the state budget. She also indicate the last corruption report that Al-thawry stuff were in the court because of it.
That report was the beginning sign to the governmental and the rule party to start the front against her. Zionist and free mason was the way to attack the American journalist, who wrote the best analysis report about the journalism freedom in Yemen. It prove that the woman became expert of the nature of the existing regime, and that make the rule media angry[mad].
Al-wahda and Abu Gharib culture
It was more notable that the official Newspaper Al-wahda published snapshot in the last page entitled “Novak and Abu Gharib culture”. It said that Novak must writing about the crimes in Abu Gharib prison and Guantanamo and criticizing the Regime in the USA before she write about Yemen.
It is true, regarding this article writer, that what happened in Guantanamo and Abu Gharib prison are a crimes against humanity, but I think their crimes are less lurid than whom torture their own people to take an avowal of some conviction in the Yemeni prisons. However, the Americans dealing with the arrested persons as enemies. We did not hear that the any American security member torture American or foreign detainees in the local American prisons as the security members did with the youth person Sami Yassein Al-sharjabi in Taiz, or what the Political security members did with the detainees on the Sa’ada events.
There is no right for Novak to write about Yemen while there are American army members torture their enemies in Abu Gharib prison and others. But there are rights for Al-wahda Newspaper and the gov and rule media to ignore the court of the security members accused with the torturing Sami Al-sharjabi. They came to the court with their military clothes and aglets[like captain, lieutenant, or general on the military] with out any justice to reach them, even Sami still spastic on his bed since 2001.
For the knowledge, Novak wrote an article about Iraq on the last of 2003 entitled lets the Iraqi kids growing in a free country. She assure their rights of free life of both Saddam and the occupation. She did not wrote that in the part of defense her self from the Yemeni official accuses, but in believing of the right of the Iraqi nation of the freedom.
Also the «Zionist» wrote about Palestine in neutral way better than some of the nationalist claimants and the blesses protection. In one of her articles, she criticized the American website which show a pictures of kids with bumps and jeering of them saying«rescue the Palestinians kids». Her view is that those kids needs more care to be peaceful not jeering or displacing.
The Democracy of Waq Al-waq
The minister of the external (foreign affaires)Dr Abu Bakr Al-qerbi was true when he said that implementing the democracy in Yemen is not easy thing. Al-sanabani speech and the prohibiting Dr Mohammad Al-motawakil from participating on Al-jazeera show via the Yemeni Channel feudal prove that the democracy really is not easy thing. It is impossible to be achieved IN THE POWER OF THE DUET[the two] tribe and corruption.
Al-qirbi looks grimly after reviewing reports that did not talk about Yemen except when talking about corruption, terror, and rarely fighting the terror. He found him self plunging[it means must do something that not believable] on changing the reports that pointing to the corruption and the lack of transparency. He said that most of the reports was positive but the oppositions, may be include Aljazeera and Novak, did not point any positive thing, but all is negative with them. I do not know why the government and the rule party paper did not explaning the positive things in the repots. May be it did not have the time to do that. It is busy in promoting the swear and treason culture and attacking others. And if it promote it’s performance it will be into extolling the ruler[president] and speaking about the phantasmic achievements and establishments[projects] and it’s influence in the people life.
The democracy remains potential thing regarding the authority while it did not criticize any corruption, nepotism, ignore the thefting of the general budget , and commit the criticize in the manner that the authority put it. And the operations rooms for chastisement in the wait state for the accuses kitchen which produced by the government and rule party media. Then it will start it’s job of kidnapping, threatening, and theft, after the accuses go out.
The democracy still phantasm in the life of the people, whom hoping to back to the extensiveness era, which was better regarding them in their lived level. But according to the authority the democracy is a way to bring the gifts, loans, and cultivating the policy of corruption, theft, hungering , and Also it will throwing them to the woes of economic crisis, where the people won’t be the only damaged alone, in the long term at least.
The opposition still smaller than to talk about and it’s relations to the democracy in it’s current state. And I do not know when the democracy claimants will release that the democracy is compeer[analog] with the transparency and there is no corruption on the democracies.
I’m really very astounded by this article, and very honored, and furthermore it confirms nearly everything Im thinking about the true nature of the tyranical, corrupt Yemeni regime and the false nature of democracy in Yemen.
And everything he says is true: I did have insomnia when I was doing the petition for al-Khaiwani. I didnt understand yet about the regime when I wrote the al-Khaiwani articles and I thought Saleh must just be confused about the role of the free press in a democracy. The article he notes, Democracy and Unicorns in Yemen, is the exact moment I woke up: the first line is, if I recall correctly, “What a good con artist that President Saleh is. He had me fooled for a while.” And everything else is spot on as well.
