Some people’s kids:Doing the folks proud
April 11, 2010
Guess what I did today mom…
Kick em when they’re down…kick em when they’re old…kick em when they’re defenseless…kick em off they’re land…hell, kick em all a-round… That’s how ya do it, in Israel.
One of those “other” white/European settler state’s…
The Archipelago of Eastern Palestine
May 30, 2009
60 years of Israeli occupation and settlement construction(in violation of International law) has resulted in the total fragmentation of Palestinian lands. Indeed Israel’s appetite for Arab land will not be sated any time soon.
As Israeli greed gobbles up more and more land the chances of a two state solution,i.e an economically viable and contiguous Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state,becomes less and less likely if at all even possible anymore.
The only humane, just and durable solution for this sixty-year old conflict is to re-create Palestine once more as one, integrated state, whose citizens irrespective of their religious or racial origin can enjoy equal rights before the law….@
Welcome to the Archipelago of Eastern Palestine…
A land of broken communities,fragmented bantustan’s separated by roadblocks,internal passports,a total lack of free movement,military zones,segregated water supplies (80 percent of West Bank water flows directly to Israel),strips of Jewish only settlements connected by Jewish only roads.
Least we forget Gaza,a prison totally disconnected & isolated from the West Bank & Jerusalem, where the people are not even allowed to rebuild their homes after Israel subjected the people to collective punishment in the form of wholesale slaughter and destruction.
Want to know what full spectrum domination & humiliation looks like…view @ Strange Maps
Two for one
March 22, 2009
And we’re not talking pizza’s here.
Sniper’s love to brag about their prowess at shooting unsuspecting victims from a far,the ultimate wet dream of sniper’s,”one shot two kills” .
Israeli snipers thought,are in a league all their own,being “the most moral army” in the world and all.
Step 1. Locate a suitably pregnant Palestinian women.
Step 2. Shoot said pregnant Palestinian in the belly,presto one shoot,two kills.
Step 3.Print up a batch of tee-shirts and hand em out to kith & kin.
Step 4. Resign from the human race.
Speaking of Anti-Semitism
January 28, 2009
The latest Israeli/Jewish soccer fan chant,goes something like this…
“Why have the schools in Gaza been shut down?” sang the crowd.
“Because all the children were gunned down!” came the answer
Now imagine if that chant was shouted out in Arab stadiums,and referred to Jewish children being gunned down by Arabs.
And the “winners” are hypocrisy & hate.
H/T Stageleft
UPDATE from Amnesty International,Israeli Soldiers leave Gaza homes in devastated condition.And lest Palestinians forget a little graffiti to remind em what it was all about …
we came to annihilate you
Sid Ryan,Academics,Freedom of Speech,Hypocricy & Israel
January 25, 2009
Watching Terry Glavin , Andrew Potter and Warren Kinsella brandishing the blunt instrument of anti-semitism is truly entertaining to witness.
Their phony self righteous indignation and ham fisted ridiculing of Sid Ryan is akin to the, mean spirited he said she said gossip,one normally associates with the right-wing radio talk show circus.
Having followed and read many interesting articles & books by all three of these guys,I for one find their views on this “issue” perplexing & simplistic. Indeed totally out of character with what I have come to expect & appreciate in their books & writings.This particularly applies to Terry Glavin who’s many books I have not only enjoyed,but found value in.
For sure some of what Sid Ryan had to say was not only ill conceived , but dumb,in fact many on the “left” have spoken out against Sid Ryan’s absurd statement,including this blogger.
But that said he sure as hell should not be labeled anti-semitic ,nor should he have to fear losing his job due to the pressure from the self righteous peanut gallery.Particular for something as trivial,as thinking out loud.
Where is the outrage over the brutal killings,of hundreds upon hundreds of Palestinian civilians 1/3 of whom were children, by Israel ?… i.e,the events that led Sid Ryan to express outrage against Israel’s actions,in the form of a CUPE resolution(words).
Anyway one cuts it,Sid Ryan’s call for a “boycott of Israeli academic’s” which was to be included in a CUPE resolution ,was not motivated by intolerance or “anti-semitism”.Rather it was more a lapse in judgment,to much tongue wagging and not enough thinking.
Where is the outrage and indignation from Terry Glavin,Andrew Potter or the academic “community” in general in response to Israeli actions,i.e the banning of authors & academics and by extension freedom of expression.For example Norman Finkelstein…
Just one of many academics & scholars,who are banned & harassed in Israel .
What of the Israeli actions that prevent Palestinian students,writers and academics from attending Universities outside of the occupied territories ? Or of fulfilling scholarship possibilities etc etc ?
Where is the outrage over Israeli actions,i.e the bombing of Palestinian and U.N,schools and universities ?
Their silence on these real issues, as compared to their shrillness on faux issues,is not only deafening but casts a long shadow of doubt on their ideas of intellectual fairness & honesty.
Israel unilaterally declares cease fire
January 17, 2009
Having yet to talk to Hamas,the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people.
Rather, the Israeli’s negotiated this so called “truce” with the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak .
A dictator alienated from his own people.Indeed a thug with no legitimate right to represent his own people never mind negotiate on behalf of Hamas and the Palestinian people.
To top it all off Israeli soldiers will be staying.
Daring Hamas to continue resisting,first the Israeli invasion,which led to 1200+ dead(1/3rd+children) & now the subsequent Israeli occupation. Should Hamas resist Israel will then point their self-righteous finger , claiming Hamas violated the “truce”.
This is no truce this is a slap to the face. This is Israel telling the Palestinian people we can do anything we damn well please.And if you dare object we will resume our slaughter.
This is a “truce” guaranteed to fail,one that ignores the reality on the ground and the underlying roots of the problem,i.e…
ISRAEL IS OCCUPYING ANOTHER PEOPLE’S LAND,ISRAEL REFUSES TO LET THE PEOPLE OF GAZA MANAGE THEIR BORDERS,AIRSPACE,SEAFRONT,ECONOMY,TAX REVENUES etc etc.
Also it should not be forgotten that the people of Gaza are not even from Gaza. Rather they are from Ashkelon and the fields around it,where they had lived for centuries …
How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.
That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They – or their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren – are among the one and a half million Palestinian refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 per cent of whose families once lived in what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: most of the people of Gaza don’t come from Gaza. [@]
Whatever the outcome one thing is clear, Hamas has survived and will continue to.
Indeed Hamas’s support seems to be gaining strengthen, unlike that of the Palestinian Authority,led by Abbas & Fatah which continue to reek of corruption & irrelevancy.
Without a doubt Israel will have to talk with Hamas one day,whether it wishes to or not.Sticking one’s head in the stand will not change the reality that Hamas is a major player. Again, the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people.
It’s quite ironic,that the so called terrorists, Hamas have killed more Israeli soldiers(ten) as opposed to civilians(3) while the “good guys” Israel have killed more civilians than so called “fighters” & “militants”…
Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry said some 5,300 wounded had been treated, many at sanctions-hit and chaotic hospitals. It put the death toll to Saturday at 1,206, including 410 children.
A near re-play of the Israeli invasion & bombardment of Lebanon.There to,Israeli’s killed predominantly civilians,hundreds in fact,while the so called “terrorists” Hezbollah killed mostly Israeli soldiers.
UPDATE; Israel admits there were no Hamas attacks against Israel during the cease fire, contradicting their earlier claims & justifications that the Gaza incursion invasion was in response to Hama’s supposed violation of the cease fire.
Israeli Soldiers Refuse to serve in Gaza
January 16, 2009
Social TV ,an Israeli social media organization,interviews Israeli soldiers refusing to serve in Gaza.
I refuse to be inducted into the army
Because I refuse to serve the occupation in any way
We must say we do not agree to commit these crimes
Not in our name
We will not commit war crimes
We will not bomb children,and drive people out of their houses
Background info & Perspectives on Hamas
via Eric Margolis and The Real News Network; Who & what is Hamas , Hamas & the Arab World , Obama & Gaza
A Jewish Canadian’s Perspective on Gaza & Israel
via CBC’s Citizen Bytes; Am I really a bad Jew ?
Over the past nine days I have been watching and listening to others support or oppose the current goings on in the Gaza strip. Like any conflict and especially the Israeli-Palestinian one, there are two sides to every story, except it seems, among Jews.
Here are my views on the situation.
I do not support the offensive in Gaza.
I do believe in Israel’s right to exist.
Everyone just keeps “picking” on lil,ol Israel/Jews
January 14, 2009
Rather than sympathizing with Israeli’s/Jews there is widespread sympathy for Palestinians, how can this be ?
National Jewish organizations sounded alarm bells this week about what they consider hateful or discriminatory action carried out in Canada by those sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.[@]
Palestinians are “terrorist” after all ? Sure Israeli may have killed a thousand+ mostly innocent civilians over the past 2 weeks. But they had no choice,as the “Palestinians/death cultists/terrorists” are bent on driving Israeli’s/Jews into the sea.
How dare people get angry and emotional,how dare they express their outrage ? Indeed there were two or three signs,in a sea of thousands,stating how Jews should be killed. No Israeli/Jew would ever express,such evil thoughts. That said before anyone gets their panties in a bunch I am not excusing such behavior.
The inhumanity of it all,next thing ya know Jews will be rounded up & imprisoned… “just for being Jewish“. Will Israeli’s & Jews ever be left in peace ? Particularly when Israeli’s & Jews just want to live in peace,hold hands ,and sing Kum By Ya ?
The fact that they are on occupied land,well that’s besides the point ? And this 40+ year reality,bizarrely,has no bearing on the situation ?
Red alert,red alert calling the “thought police” emotions have been expressed,words have been spoken,bad emotions & words at that.
Gee how “discriminatory & hateful” ,oop’s almost forget “anti-Semitic”,of me.
And so it goes yawn…
