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Ishtar Kurdish meeting!!! Assyrian were asked to leave when they spoke out against humilation

Posted By: simon malek (cache-rtc-aa09.proxy.aol.com)
Date: Sunday, 19 February 2006, at 7:53 p.m.

From Simon Malek,
Hamilton, Ontario -Canada
tel. 905- 318-8283

Draft news - For Public and media
Big arguments at session when they insulted Assyrian in various ways. Assyrian stood up and spoke, and when they spoke, they were kicked out, told them to leave, and they left the hall meeting. George Mansour replied, if you don’t like what you see, and hear in Ishtar TV, do not watch it.

Here is a draft news written few minutes ago
He spoke with high contrasting words, if not well prepared lies, ranging from fanatical aspect, to ownership and his biggest lie that the TV is for our people. He became very uncomfortable with numerous questions ask, and the session drove Majid Aziz to ask Assyrian whom started objecting to humilation of Assyrian by calling ##### the Assyrian homeland, by labeling religious identity #####/Assyrian/Suryani, by allowing other people in audience to insult Assyrian. Simon Malek, who spoke in Assyrian, and later in English and Arabic was the first to be asked to leave. He objected to call Assyria homeland "#####", and to insult Assyrian. Simon Malek left the session, accompanied by few other Assyrian.

People whom are from Ishtar supporters were sitting and speaking among each other, said this man is not an Iraqi why he is complaining , referring to Simon Malek’s criticize, whom is an Assyrian from Lebanon.

The start of the session
The Kurdish propaganda media, under deceiving (cheating) Assyrian name "Ishtar TV" lunched out advertisment in akkad newspaper, as well as in Internet and by other means to invite people to a session that allows George Mansour to speak about Ishtar TV and take questions.

The today session that took place in north of Toronto, at Grand Palace, 5111 Steeles Avenue West, Toronto- M9L 1S7 ( http://www.mapquest.com) started after 4pm.

At the beginning, attendance were around fourty people, and it reached less than eighty people (80). Majority of attending this session seems people to be working in media, such as Mr. Husam Alsaafar from website www.assaha.ca, from other Arab media, Kurdish and concerned Assyrian.
People whom placed Ishtar logo tag on their chest were around six people, some of them were Kurdish, such as a Kurdish ethinic lady whom said that she is currently working for Ishtar TV as a journalist, her name is "Chro Zend" and her history in work coperation with Geoge Mansour goes years before, as she wrote in his newspaper Al-MarIat (the Mirror), where George said, was a manager.

There is no doubt that this session seemed to be a big propaganda to advance propaganda image in Canada at expense of Assyrian national rights. Even so, it is predicted that George Mansour, objective in coming to Canada, which in past used a name "YoukhanNah"( in the early days when he came to Canada), are the following:

1- To do his income personal tax papers (file them as other Canadian do)
2- To see his wife and children
3- To promote Ishtar
4- To enjoy being presented as an important person, as such thing does greatly pleases him

Introduction
Majid Aziz, manager of Akkad newspaper (www.akkad1.com) presented George Mansour with all positive and noble words, that Assyrian people totally disagree with George Mansour’s ethics, some of words said about George:
George Mansour from Ishtar Iraqi TV, General Manager
Hold a Master degree from Russia in industrial media and philosophy
Worked for Iraqi media network, and various newspapers such as Al-Sabbah newspaper
Speaks many languages: English, Russian, French, Kurdish, Turkman, Athoury
He came here so we can be knowledgeable, and he brings with him his salutations from Ishtar TV

After all such introduction
Goerge Mansour spoke
(Background information)
He said, that the idea of Ishtar Iraqi TV is an Iraqi independent TV
He said: since I was General Manager in Iraqi TV before Ishtar, he did not see greater exposure of media
George said, that today newspaper does not have much effects as well as radio, but TV does brings powerful results
He said, he worked with BBC media, to bring Iraqi media and such idea of Ishar TV came to his mind.
He said, he gained Canadian license on April 5
He said, Ishtar Iraqi TV is an independent, and it cares about Assyrian/Chaldean/Suryani, and for that people they do have deep heritage and as you know, the politics in Iraq back then did not allow them to speak.
He said: The picture and quality that you see in Ishar TV is excellent, using Camera XD, and training technicians to do the job.
He said, they have news studio and they are studying in having studio for programs.
He said, that Ishar gained offices in Seeden, Canada, USA, London and soon in Australia, so they can put us in touch with our people.

Financial Aspects
George Mansour, at the beginning said that Ishtar TV was financial by few of our people and do not want to mention their name, but later in future he will. However, later on, he said that he (George Mansour) is soul owner, Ishar Broadcasting Co-operation. This came after numerous questioning fiancial aspects of TV Ishtar.

One arabic person asked, who owns it and what is the capital?
He said, it is mine, and refused to disclose the capital that put forward to establish Ishtar TV
George spoke and said, that financial aspects for Ishtar comes from few of our people, and they don’t have any connection with political parties. He can not disclose their names, but may be in future.

One person asked him, if it is his, referring to Ishtar TV, and where did he get the money? He said, he worked hard, plus people in Ankawah donated money.
One person ask if he can buy shares? George Mansour, laugh and said in future, as a joke.

One person asked: Are you are taken from Center Iraqi government and from Qurdaish ?
Geroge replyed, they he can take, but don’t want because of conditions imposed.

Logo
One person ask, about the logo Ishtar. George said, that the star is "Star of The East"
He did not say that is an Assyrian flag, but said its color before Christ, Red is war, white is peace, blue is water.
George failed to say the true meaning of Assyrian flag, such as: River of Friad and Dajlah,
George failed to say that The Assyrian flag was made by Assyrian Universal Alliance, we did not have flag, so this his log is not before Christ.
Historical Assyrian symbol do present symbol of Ishtar but with no color.
George seems that he don’t know what he is taking, in one hand he recognized #####, and not Assyria, and his mistakes clearly shows his discription of his logo. He said, Symbol was before Christ, that means, he indirectly saying that it is Assyrian Empire.

He said, logo design belong to no one and he consulted with the three Church Bishops, Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean church and Suryain Orthodox church. This is not true, as many Assyrian business do have that symbole such as Ishtar Resturan owned by Youkanna Mammo, tel. 416-748-5883

George said, this TV is for Iraqi, if you don’t like it do not watch it. It is for all Iraqis.

George said, as soon as Saddam Hussine lost power, he went and took over the Iraqi Media.

George Mansour said, that Ishtar TV is for our people "#####/Assyrian/Suryani". He spoke highly about the Kurdish people struggle for years, and how they struggled to gain their homeland #####. He mentioned the word ##### several times.

He said, that Ishtar is media and not a political party, for that we don’t employ a word "terrorist" in our program, because we don’t talk politics.

He said, we want to open offices to gain advertisements, as you see that Ishtar do present business advertisement.

George said, it is shameful to speak about political parties, that they call themselves "Parties" lie day and night.
George Mansour said, that political parties do not have history, here he is referring to Assyrian indirectly. He said, there is greater distance in USA, Canada, and we present things that people see it useful.

Many Assyrian stood up objecting George and his smear propaganda campaign in using ##### word for our Assyria homeland, as well as using "#####/Assyrian"Suryani".

At the end of the session, people placed flyers "##### against Genocide", and inviting people for their meetings with mentioned date. Flyer will be send to proper Assyrian media.
Also people gave magazine called "Lakkom" in English translation is "For You", produced by Majid Aziz

Majid Aziz said, he went one day to an Assyrian Church of the East, but apologized as he can not speak Assyrian, However, he said, we are Assyrian ( and did not say in Assyrian church of the East, we are #####/assyrian/suryani as this term is used by him).

Conclusion:

Being George Mansour as an Owner is truly seems hard to believe, for a person whom seemed well known to people that he collect welfare, a communist, worked as worker in carpenter business, and volunteer free time to work in Arabic newspapers, such as "Al-MarIat, in English meaning Mirro.