tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87606012024-03-13T03:41:03.489+00:00deficient brainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-7667511089706849142014-10-04T00:22:00.000+01:002014-10-04T00:36:38.080+01:00What could be more barbaric than ISIL killing Alan Henning?Yes, they killed poor Mr Henning. Thanks Dave for reminding us of the perpetrators' brutality and barbarism. Is it time for a ground war yet? No not yet. I didn't notice Dave twitting on the subject of 30 - 50 (depending on source) Syrian children being slaughtered in Ekrima neighbourhood, Homs on Thursday last. Yes, the murder of Henning did - as Dave says - show how barbaric Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-20709785135303248102014-09-26T16:53:00.000+01:002014-09-26T22:33:03.725+01:00Iraq War: Galloway disrupts consensus (video)George Galloway delivers savage wake-up call to MP's sleepwalking towards the Iraq quagmire. Makes appropriate reference to the 'head choppers' in Saudi Arabia - 'the nest from which the ISIL vipers and others have come' - our brothers in arms apparently.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-1105767786147025542014-09-26T11:22:00.003+01:002014-09-26T15:53:31.720+01:00Iraq: Is UK strategy any more coherent than in 2003?The House of Commons is currently debating another British intervention in Iraq. The links below may help those in need of a sanity check.
On the eve of yet another war in Iraq, is the UK’s strategy any more coherent than in 2003?
Syria air strikes: For all Isis’s undoubted evil, I say No to UK air strikes
Britain’s involvement in the new Iraq war is a doomed and dangerous gesture
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-65392728970152052852014-09-13T20:09:00.003+01:002014-09-13T20:12:05.350+01:00Scotland - New evidence supporting YES vote
Former prime minister Tony Blair has urged voters in Scotland to opt for staying in the UK.
To "rip up the alliance" between Scotland and the rest of the
UK would not be sensible "politically, economically or even
emotionally". LinkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-86517424144791152662014-08-24T11:40:00.002+01:002014-08-24T23:50:49.385+01:00Patrick Cockburn: An obvious first step – close the jihadis' highway
Over the past year, Turkey has done something, but not nearly enough to
close the border to jihadis. The problem is that the US, Britain,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and others have pretended that they are backing a
powerful non-jihadi opposition movement capable of displacing Assad.
This was the justification for keeping the border at least partly open.
But the rebels are dominated by Isis, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-40928323999064455182014-08-09T20:44:00.001+01:002014-08-10T17:56:05.579+01:00Patrick Cockburn: ISIS consolidates Over 3,000 words from Patrick Cockburn. A small investment of time required and well worth the effort. Don't be put off by the somewhat dry headline.
[...] For America, Britain and the Western powers, the rise of Isis and the
Caliphate is the ultimate disaster. Whatever they intended by their
invasion of Iraq in 2003 and their efforts to get rid of Assad in Syria
since 2011, it was notUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-30772645333330718482014-08-07T20:44:00.001+01:002014-08-07T20:44:34.525+01:00'You can shoot' - was Gaza killing a war crime?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-27954952154841218162014-08-06T20:45:00.001+01:002014-08-06T20:49:03.697+01:00How to Fix It - by Jimmy Carter, Mary RobinsonForeign Policy: Israelis and
Palestinians are still burying their loved ones as Gaza's third war in six
years continues. Since July 8, when this war began, more than 1,600 Palestinian
and 65 Israeli lives have been sacrificed. Many in the world are heartbroken in
the powerless certainty that more will die, that more are being killed every
hour.
This tragedy
results from the deliberate Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-46659033924053624252014-08-03T20:39:00.003+01:002014-08-03T20:55:10.495+01:00When dead children have no names: Israel's terrifying descent into numbnessHaaretz: Nearly a month into Operation Protective Edge, Israeli ground troops have begun withdrawing from Gaza.
While it remains to be seen if the operation makes Israelis any safer,
we can already discern one legacy. It seems to have brought Israel one
step closer to an emotional numbness that blocks out [discounts] any
suffering but our own, as attested by a new, violent voice in the publicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-32181995023429708912014-08-02T10:57:00.002+01:002014-08-02T10:57:39.592+01:00Obama heartbroken. Restocks Israel with ammunition. 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner US President Obama has described the massacre of 1500 civilians in Gaza as 'heartbreaking', whilst US Rear Admiral John Kirby has confirmed the restocking of Israel's supplies of ammunition "The United States is committed to the security of Israel and it is
vital to US national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a
strong and ready self-defenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-26338204918487074782014-08-01T21:14:00.003+01:002014-08-01T21:15:15.296+01:00Just 140 Gazans permitted accross Rafah border
As the death toll in Gaza
passes 1,400, Egyptian hospitals have treated more than a hundred
casualties of an Israeli military campaign drawing an otherwise muted
response from Egypt, as its political establishment weighs humanitarian responsibilities against domestic politics.
Egypt's
Rafah border crossing – Gaza's only exit route not controlled by Israel
– has opened sporadically since Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-74333386204866708622014-08-01T20:21:00.000+01:002014-08-02T11:03:09.312+01:00Anti-Semitism on the rise? Genocide?If anti-Semitism is 'on the rise' in the UK I saw no evidence of it at the recent demonstration in London on July 19th. Surprisingly, given its incendiary nature, neither the JPEG below nor the text, contains much information that would enable one to verify its authenticity. Anything helpful has been cropped. Who the hell is holding the offending A2 page? How many people are on the march - where Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-10867821458679225162014-07-31T16:49:00.000+01:002014-07-31T16:49:03.979+01:00The Thrasybulus Syndrome: Israel’s War on Gaza
“One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this.” Machiavelli
Francesco Guicciardini, the Florentine historian and diplomat, was the
contemporary and friend of Niccolò Machiavelli. The latter now enjoys an
everlasting fame (or infamy, as you please), having gotten an adjective
named after him, but his friend Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-88594253039443814982014-07-31T16:21:00.001+01:002014-07-31T16:21:58.632+01:00Gaza: Inside Mark Regev's Skull (video)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-26865478137503634262014-07-31T16:09:00.003+01:002014-07-31T16:10:50.844+01:00Gaza’s bomb-hit bakers struggle to feed starving refugees Under an unbearable sun, with drones and F16s hovering menacingly overhead, young men, women and small boys wait in a seemingly never-ending line at the two Tal Al Hawa Bakeries, in West Gaza City. Some men use pizza cartons to protect their heads from the sun.
“I have been waiting here half a day to get just one sack of bread,” says 26-year-old Mohammed Abu Shammalah.
He doesn’t only have to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-42603130731857453762014-07-29T18:01:00.000+01:002014-07-29T18:01:21.806+01:00N.Finkelstein: Method in Israel's Gaza Madness (video)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-55355490292705996102014-07-29T00:22:00.004+01:002014-07-29T17:48:04.594+01:00Shifa and Beach Camp Attacks, My Evidence - Paul MasonBefore it gets lost in claim and counterclaim I will just write down what I saw of the attacks on the Beach Camp and Shifa Hospital. 28 July 2014
I was on the phone starting at 1651 local looking out of a hotel balcony over the beach. I was facing the sea (west) and I had a phone to my right ear.
During the call I heard a loud boom, coming from the sea just to my left - at maybe 10 oclock, fromUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-30792800126664029062014-07-27T20:31:00.001+01:002014-07-27T20:31:09.781+01:00Shock-and-awe unlikely to work on Hamas, GazansThe purpose of the “humanitarian cease-fire,” as Saturday’s lull in the fighting was euphemistically called, was to show the inhabitants of Gaza, and especially the Hamas leadership, the scope of the devastation that the Israeli army’s attacks had caused. The assumption was that if the leadership could only see for themselves what had happened in Gaza, it would soften and agree right away to the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-89108254058654839192014-07-26T20:26:00.001+01:002014-07-26T20:28:52.929+01:00Gaza: Shuja'iyya before and afterمقارنة بين حي الشجاعية قبل القصف و بعد القصف! لك ان تتخيل كم شهيد وطفل ارتقى هنا فقط ! pic.twitter.com/LLJYjy2ALK— Ashraf Mansour (@A_Maansour) July 26, 2014
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-12018228075333651422014-07-26T19:47:00.002+01:002014-07-26T19:47:42.106+01:00Jon Snow: 'The Children of Gaza' - C4NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-74153186241674153062014-07-26T17:30:00.004+01:002014-07-26T17:35:02.756+01:00Gaza: Beit Hanoun destruction
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-6293523349441743532014-07-26T17:03:00.001+01:002014-07-26T17:05:07.709+01:00#ICC4Israel trending #1 worldwide
#ICC4Israel has been trending #1 worldwide for an hour and thirty minutes so far. All eyes on the Israeli criminals. pic.twitter.com/Wx5TXrv8wa
— Palestine Campaigns (@PaliCampaigns) July 26, 2014
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-68077799729597826242014-07-25T19:29:00.001+01:002014-07-25T19:29:12.333+01:00Israel rejects Gaza ceasefireIsrael's cabinet has unanimously rejected a US-backed proposal for a week-long "humanitarian pause" in the offensive on Gaza after 18 days of fighting that has claimed more than 800 Palestinian lives. LinkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-65240757166279312502014-07-25T00:14:00.001+01:002014-07-25T00:20:34.739+01:00West Bank: Israel kills 3 Palestinians, injures dozensRAMALLAH, West Bank, July 24 (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinian protesters and wounded about 100 on Thursday in confrontations with several thousand people demonstrating in the occupied West Bank against a 17-day-old Israeli offensive in Gaza, Palestinian medical officials said.
The Israeli military confirmed troops had used "riot dispersal means" against protesters Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760601.post-3903073340303184732014-07-24T20:34:00.001+01:002014-07-24T20:36:04.143+01:00Gaza: Refief workers under fire - videoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com