It was not total lights out in the major cities, but dimming/reducing lighting temporarily was at least helpful. Here are some pictures by the Discovery website here.
Category Archives: Around the World
Ramallah Road in Jacksonville Florida
Posted by za3tar on November 23, 2008
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I was surfing online aimlessly when i stumbled upon this:
Isn’t it awesome ?!!
I have seen towns in the USA called Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Lebanon, Palestine, Damascus, Tyre, and Alexandria .. but these are all old biblical names and/or their corresponding cities in the Middle East are very old (from the greeko-roman times) unlike Ramallah.
And for my Jordanian readers, wala eyhimkom .. here is Amman Road in Edison New Jersey:
Middle East Nuclear Weapon Free Zone [video+commentary]
Posted by za3tar on August 20, 2008
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As i am surfing YouTube for some videos, i come across the following entry discussing the behavior of US media when former US president Carter said that Israel has nuclear weapons (Fox News’ reaction made me laugh 
). The commentator in this video is a very calm Indian journalist; While discussing the history of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, he mentions that there have been many proposals that were pushed to the UN Security Council to make the Middle East a zone free of nuclear weapons (in ’74 by Iran, ’85 by Egypt, ’89 by Syria, and ’03 by Syria).
This is weird. If the United States and other nations are worried about the volatility of the region, why don’t they approve such proposals ? After all, the US and other nations can come to the rescue if any country breaks that agreement. Well, i am not that naive, i know the reason. But, how can people in the US or UK live with such contradiction ? If their countries are truly committed to stabilizing that region, why don’t they push for such resolutions ?
Anyway, here is an article about an even more recent push for such treaty.
It is perplexing to me that the US and other countries can continuously claim rightousness and moral superiority publicly then do a ton of dirty work under the hood without the majority of the public turning against them.
