You Have to be Joking

'The UN estimates that since the 1967 Middle East war, over 700,000 Palestinians have gone through detention in Israeli jails. There are currently about 4,500 Palestinians in Israeli prisons.' This has to be joke - because if it is not then seriously shame on the planet

A Message to the Meat Packing Glitterati

"The attack on a school bus crossed the line... Whoever tries to hurt and murder children, his blood will be on his own head," Mr Netanyahu said.

In 2004 eight Israeli children and 179 Palestinian children were killed.

(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3833.shtml)

Networks reported on Israeli children's deaths at rates up to 13 times greater than Palestinian children's deaths. In reality, 22 times more Palestinian children were being killed than Israeli children.

"pervasive patterns of distortion" in which Israeli deaths were emphasized and Palestinian deaths largely unreported.

New evidence of Gaza child deaths -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7843307.stm

Careful what you wish for Mr Netanyahu – it seems to me that you and your military are the major culprits in the child killing department. One reaps what one sows. When are you going to grow up and get real - killing begets killing. Please Mr genocidal moron - seek help. It seems all to real the notion that the children of the abused become the abusers.

A spot of Wisdom

zakplata wrote:May 20, 2009 22:40

As I said before, everybody in Colombia knows that there is a well-paid campaing against Uribe financed by European NGOs, the colombian communist party, the leftist PDA party and FARC. There is a "cartel" dedicated to write comments against Uribe in newspapers and magazines around the world. But unfortunatelly for them, eveything he has been accused of has been proven as mere lies, (and believe me, with the Supreme Court against him that only means that there was nothing). Bottom line, 85% of colombians are not stupid, we support him because we know what he has done for our country's democracy,economy, prosperity and security.

May 20, 2009 22:40 Economist

""I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.""
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline


Well Celine was on to something

The Abused become the Abusers

"Once you extend the definition of combatant in the way that IDF is apparently doing, you begin to associate individuals who are only indirectly or peripherally involved… it becomes an open-ended definition, which undermines the very object and purpose of the rules that are intended to be applied."
Philippe Sands, Professor of International Law at University College London, says he is not aware of any Western democracy having taken so broad a definition.
The International Committee of the Red Cross - guardian of the Geneva Conventions on which international humanitarian law is based - defines a combatant as a person "directly engaged in hostilities".
But Israeli Defence Forces spokesman Benjamin Rutland told the BBC: "Our definition is that anyone who is involved with terrorism within Hamas is a valid target. This ranges from the strictly military institutions and includes the political institutions that provide the logistical funding and human resources for the terrorist arm."

"The difference in numbers in the Gaza war is stark - Palestinians say more than 500 Gazans have died in eight days, compared with 18 Israelis from rocket fire since 2001."

B’Tselem's Ms Montell (Israeli human rights group) describes the rocket fire as a "blatant war crime", she adds: "I certainly would not expect my government to act according to the standard Hamas has set for itself - we demand a higher standard."

bbc news12:29 GMT, Monday, 5 January 2009

Well - Just who is the criminal - does one really have to ask

Have the abused become the abusers ?

And again

"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished,"

Mr Olmert is quoted saying in Haaretz newspaper.

Can it be spelt out any more clearly. So much for toleration and equality.

Is This What we really want to deal with ?

If ever the face of racism reared its ugly head so spectacularly.


Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, warned this week that it was unlikely that there could be a better Palestinian leadership -
Israel needed to take advantage of the opportunity to create a Palestinian state in order to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel and "avoid ending up like South Africa", he told the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee.

Israel and Abbas agree to peace talks
Ian Black in Jerusalem
Saturday November 17, 2007
The Guardian

'Ending up like South Africa'

Perhaps he should have said how the natural order of things should be.

Dear Mr Olmert, you are an embarrassment to the word 'Just', you have shown yourself to be nothing but a raciest and bigot. You have been elected to your post and thus your electorate must either remove you or share in the poo you let loose. People suffered and fought for freedom from oppression to gain the chance to live in a country that was their birth right. You now deny and shame the very selfsame principals that your forefathers fought and suffered for themselves, Freedom.

Are you all not brothers under Heaven?
Your us vs them mentality will only serve to heap more blood upon more blood
Demographics change, the world is in a constant state of flux, and that is its beauty, You and the people who think like you make it an ugly place to live.

Forward to Redemption

Head of the CIA Gen Hayden said programmes such as extraordinary rendition produced what he said was irreplaceable intelligence.

Under the programme, terror suspects are transported to secret prisons in countries with less stringent interrogation rules.

Mr Hayden, speaking in Chicago, said the leads gained justified rendition.

"The irreplaceable nature of that intelligence is the sole reason why we have what I admit freely is a very controversial programme."

BBC News 31/10/07

Onwards and forwards that is the way to stop this maddness, teach by example
and so the world turns

Smellinghill

Out of the frying pan into the fire, waiting for a bed.
This is Englandia. The cost of the developed world.
I suppose that complaints are part of the countryside now.
No worries I can muck in with the best of them.
One small step, one giant leap for a future that is
as undefined now as it was many moons ago when I set out on this cross country malarky.
As to whether I have stopped, No would have to be the response.
One only lays ones hat when one is at home, and that I fear is South of the equator.
The North is played out, north west that is at least.

Ascot

Up and running, nothing like hanging out in poncelandia

Back in Blighty

Back in Blighty, Turklandia now a memory
but not forgotten.

Then Again

If this is the Future of Europe perhaps I have it all wrong and Kebablandia here I stay

"Every person has a right to life and deserves respect and help, including one who - lost and scarred - has given into homosexual tendencies.
"The solution is to help those who suffer and to provide them with the cure that they expect us to deliver."

Polish MEP Witold Tomczak

A Democracy Called Turklandia

Here in the land of endless Kebabs, and rivers of Humus, things seem to have moved into the land of farce, one side vs the other. All claiming some sort of Democratic high ground. Of course the reality is not one of the sides has a fucken clue about the first thing about democracy, that is unless democracy is all about shutting the opposing view up. Funny I always thought that each and everyone had a 'democratic right' to slag whoever they wanted to off, and that we the recipient's of this bile had to just roll with it and await our turn to likewise vomit our views on those who disagreed. But then this is Turkey and the army is close at hand to deal a swift blow to the chops of anyone attempting to exercise his or her, secular democratic rights. Of course the response to this from many of my hosts would be 'You just do not understand' and perhaps they are right, but something tells me that I likewise never want to understand.

Tea Anyone

Das Capital

Ankara the capital, center of Turklandia, on the hill over looking the city is the greatest of all architectural feats, The Mausoleum, the spiritual gravitational center of Turklandia'a existence.
Here I am to pay homage to attempt to seek the center, to look into the eye.
Bums this is the point I turn my head and look over my shoulder to look at who is watching me write. In this place one has to be on ones guard. The silly becomes the serious and the serious becomes really silly.

Back to Kebabs

Back to Kebabs and Youtube, Turkey rejoins the world

Yep

Yep, it has been high time to spout a little of the bile that whelms up within me every now and again. My sight on Tonguewag seems to have fallen into the black pit of cyberspace thus a new soap box needs to be carved.

The Perils of Turklandia

What can one say, one minute Turklandia is rushing towards the future arms outstretched the next, Youtube finds itself blocked and I might as well be living in China.