You tried to kill the truth and left a body which rises through newsprint to spread its wings and cast a shadow over your world of explanation Do you think you can tear down a world with four bullets? Even so,your face,tied to thetrajectoryof her downfall watches the poison in your water that you wash Lady Macbethhands with Truth lies in astairwell and in acoroner's report and the words you tried to bury with her have escaped into us will speak louder than your defence and silence
Προσπάθησες να σκοτώσεις την αλήθεια και άφησες πίσω σου ένα πτώμα,που ανασταίνεται μέσα απ' το χαρτί των ειδήσεων για να απλώσει τα φτερά του και να ρίξει τη σκιά του πάνω στον δικό σου κόσμο εξηγήσεων.Νομίζεις πως μπορείς να σκίσεις ένα κόσμο με τέσσερις σφαίρες;;Είναι όμως το πρόσωπο σου δεμένο με την τροχιά της δικής της πτώσης.Βλέπει το δηλητήριο στο νερό,που πλένεις τα χέρια σου σαν Λαίδη Μακβεθ. Η Αλήθεια κείτεται σε ενα πηγαδόσκαλο και σε μια αναφορά ιατροδικαστή και τις λέξεις που προσπάθησες να θάψεις μαζί της,έχουν αποδράσει σε μας θα μιλήσουν πιο δυνατά απο την υπεράσπιση και τη σιωπή σου
Istanbul was Constantinople-Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople-Been a long time gone, Constantinople-Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night-Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople-So if you've a date in Constantinople.She'll be waiting in Istanbul-Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.Why they changed it I can't say-People just liked it better that way-So take me back to Constantinople-No, you can't go back to Constantinople-Been a long time gone, Constantinople.Why did Constantinople get the works?-That's nobody's business but the Turks...Even old New York was once New Amsterdam-Why they changed it I can't say.People just liked it better that way-Istanbul was Constantinople.Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople-Been a long time gone, Constantinople.Why did Constantinople get the works?-That's nobody's business but the Turks.So take me back to Constantinople-No, you can't go back to Constantinople.Been a long time gone, Constantinople-Why did Constantinople get the works?That's nobody's business but the Turks.
In the 13th century Arabs used the appellation Istinpolin, a “name” they heard Byzantines use—eis ten polin—which, in reality, was a Greek phrase that meant “in the city.” Through a series of speech permutations over a span of centuries, this name became Istanbul. Until the Turkish Post Office officially changed the name in 1930.Similar examples of modern Turkish placenames derived from Greek in this fashion areİzmit, earlier İznikmit, from Greek Nicomedia, İznikfrom GreekNicaea ([iz nikea]and İstanköy for the Greek islandKos(from is tin Ko)
Nova Roma (New Rome) c. May 11, AD 330. That particular name enjoyed little common use, and it was as the 'City of Constantine' (Constantinopolis) that it lived through the subsequent centuries.
Constantinople,AD 330 to March 28, 1930.Constantinople was highly significant as the successor to ancientRomeand the largest and wealthiest city in Europe throughout the Middle Ages, known as the "Queen of Cities".
It also had names and nicknames such as: Islambol(plenty of Islam),Astana,Pah-i-Taht,'Dersaadet' , 'Deraliye',Gosdantnubolis (a variang of Armenian), Tsargrad, Rumiyya al-kubra(New Rome), New Jerusalem, the Eye of the World, the Refuge of the Universe, the Gate of Happiness.Jews often called it "Costa".
Historical background concerning Manuel II Palaeologus
In his conference inRegensburgUniversity, Pope Benedict XVIquoted a statement of a Dialogue of Byzantine EmperorManuel II Palaeologus with a Muslim, and this statement is in the focus of a polemics. The Pope said that he did not adopt the statement he quoted, therefore everybody agrees now in rejecting that the Pope who has responsibility for this this "medieval text of a by-gone age." Now, it is Manuel II who appears as the "naughty boy" of the story.
I am puzzled that in a controversy which concerns a Byzantine Emperor, nobody asked the advice of byzantinists. I happen to know about Manuel II and to have studied this text. For that reason, I believe it is my duty to bring some details to the attention of the public, because in the media, everyone has said just about anything about this text and about Manuel II. For example, somebody said, on the France Culture, channel that he used to burst the eyes of his prisoners. In fact, seven centuries separate Manuel II andBasil II, the emperor who, indeed, burst the eyes of his prisoners.
Context of the quotation The controversial statement ("Show me that Mohammed brought anything new: you will find nothing, but bad and inhuman, for instance what he states by ordering his faith to be imposed by sword") is taken from the 7th chapter of a book which is composed of 26 chapters.
This 7th book was edited in 1966 by Th. Khoury in Sources Chretiennes 115, and, it seems, it is from this edition that Pope took this statement, since he quotes Th. Khoury. The entire Greek text was edited by E. Trapp in 1966 in the Wiener Byzantinische Studien. A revised edition is being done by K. Forstel in the le Corpus islamo-christianum, series graeca. A German translation of chapters 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7 has been published by R. Senoner in 2003 in Wien.
Context of the discussion
According to a treaty between his fatherJohn V Paleologusand theSultan Bayezid, who had helped himagainst his rebel grandson, Manuel II has to serve as avassalin the army of Bayezid. During a campaign in Asia Minor against the Mongols (1391), he held a discussion, as sharp as peaceful, with an ulema of Ankara, with whom he is staying. Some years after, while Bayezid was besieging Constantinople, Manuel wrote this discussion. The title was : "Dialogue of Emperor Manuel with a Persian" ("Persian", in the Byzantine language of this time, meant Turk, to remind people of the ancient conflict between Greeks and Persians).
Contrary to many treatises of anti-Muslim polemics, which we find in Western Christendom as well as in the Byzantine Empire, this text is the written record of a discussion that really took place. Manuel presents his Muslim partner in a positive way, as an host respectful and curious to know the religion of his host. The discussion is as cordial as frank, since neither of the two hesitates to expose what he doesn't like in the religion of the other. The relations between both men are not altered by it. This text is one of the first interreligious dialogues, where each people displays his own truth and looks for dialogue without disavowing anything of what he believes.
The editor, Th. Khoury, writes in his introduction: "The immoderate expressions, relatively rare, which we can read in the text come mostly from the liberties that Manuel took when finally writing his text". The fact that Bayezid was besieging Constantinople when Manuel was writing can explain the hardening of his language.
Violence and Faith
Returning to the quotation, and the issue of violence and faith. Benedict XVI quotes a statement of the 7th Controversy, which concerns Jihad. It is a classical theme of the polemics between Byzantines and muslims. We find it from the first centuries of the arab conquest.
This theme gained importance after the Crusades. At the time of Manuel, when Byzantines objected to the idea of a holy war, they have as a line of sight, in the same time,Muslim Jihadand western crusade. It is an aspect of Byantine mentality that we should never forget, especially at the end of the Empire. By opposing Islam on that point, a Byzantine has always in his mind the trauma of4th Crusadeand all theexpeditions when they saw Christian soldiers with a cross on their dresses and handling a sword on the name of Christ.
We see that this statement, when put into its context, gains a meaning different from the one the media give it. Byzantiniste Marie Helene Congourdeau
The film presents a terrifying picture of Turkish networks’ activities inglobal nuclear black-market, narcotics and illegal arms trafficking activities(Turkish deepState gate) in the United States, and examines the extraordinary efforts of officials within the US Government to insure that the secrecy surrounding Edmonds’ case be maintained at any cost – from Edmonds’ termination from the FBI, to invoking the State Secrets Privilege, togaggingthe US Congress. "
Also, Sibel's case takes place in the context of geopolitics dating back to the 1980’s and the Afghan jihad against the Soviets and the U.S military and political support of Pakistan to help the Afghan mujahideens. At the time Pakistan, an Islamic country, wanted to have the ultimate weapon - the nuclear bomb. ThankstoDavid Albright's expertise, we also show that the Turks have been helping the Pakistani nuclear program since the very beginning. AQ Khan’s efforts were made possible because of the U.S, but also because of Turkey. At the time Israel also willing to help Pakistan, not for its nuclear program but for in terms of supplying weapons to the anti-Soviet jihad. That’s when the Triangle U.S-Turkey-Israel started taking off the ground.
.. Tyranny comes in the form of the state secrets privilege, a foolproof mechanism of the federal government to hide executive branch corruption, incompetence, and illegal activity. This is a practice more at home with Czars and nabobs, and should have no place in the United States. But Edmonds gave the government something it never expected – a no holds barred battle. She hoisted the black flag and went on the attack by forming the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, an organization dedicated to changing the law, exposing government misdeeds, and giving hell to those who richly deserve it. This film will forever change the way you view the United States government and will give you an insight into what True Patriotism, not Wal-Martpatriotism, looks like.” "...
...In other words, as long as someone wants to buy weapons, the neocons are happy to sell. The more the merrier. If you happen to get in the way of this lucrative business like Valerie Plame,Sibel Edmonds, orRichard Barlow(and probablymany others) then you'll be silenced, or worse....
...To make matters worse, when they impose arms embargoes, such as the embargo on Pakistan, they create an opportunity to make even more money - because a) they can charge even higher prices to deliver the product illegally, and b) when the embargo is lifted, the embargoed country has to play catch-up and spend even more money on buying military equipment....
...Oh, and for good measure, it appears that they also place spies/molesin the FBI and nuclear labs and visa-giving-embassies and so on to lubricate the system. Money makes the world go round, and illegal weapons sales has a nice profit margin - as high as drug trafficking. Nice work, if you can get it. If you can sleep at night....
