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		<title>Emily Henochowicz &#8211; blinded by hatred: June 2nd 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The savagery continues, a 21 year old American Emily Henochowicz was, according to witness, deliberately shot at with tear gas cannisters during a protest in Israel. She was hit in the face and her injuries were so bad that her left eye has been removed. This makes me sick.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The savagery continues, a 21 year old American Emily Henochowicz was, according to witness, deliberately shot at with tear gas cannisters during a protest in Israel. She was hit in the face and her injuries were so bad that her left eye has been removed. This makes me sick.<br />
<a href="http://salem-news.com/articles/may312010/israel-girl-shot.php">Israeli Soldier Shoots American Art Student in Face</a><div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://salem-news.com/articles/may312010/israel-girl-shot.php"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://salem-news.com/gphotos/1275368617.jpg" title="Emily - blinded by an Isreali soldier" width="400" height="265" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text"><strong>Emily Henochowicz - blinded by Israeli hatred</strong></p></div></p>
<p>Also not in the news, at least not mentioned in the UK, is an analysis by American political scientist <a href="http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/">Dr Norman Finkelstein</a> in which he asserts &#8211; in slow and measured tones &#8211; that Israel  is a nuclear-armed <strong>&#8220;lunatic state&#8221;</strong>.</p>
<p>You may want to read that again slowly &#8211; <em>nuclear armed lunatic state</em>, no idle insult and of deadly seriousness to the people in the region despised by this Zionist fanatical state. Make no mistake, this nuclear-armed, religious fanatic state has extended its regime of terror and indiscriminate killing to international waters. Peace protestors were always fair target inside Israel (witness poor Emily today, a life of semi-blindness follows) but the slaughter in open waters takes Israeli madness to a new level of savagery and danger to the world. </p>
<p>If you think this won&#8217;t affect you &#8211; nuclear war in the Middle East &#8211; think again. This is what the Evangelical Christians want. This is where we are heading. Now. This is the simple consequence of religious delusion. if you&#8217;re not &#8220;<em>God&#8217;s chosen people</em>&#8221; then you can die. This is Zionism. </p>
<p>Oh for a world full of Carl Sagans, who leave behind their imprinted religious identify to be free human beings, what a world that would be. </p>
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		<title>Nobel-winning Elders deplore Gaza flotilla attack: June 2nd 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter have in common? They&#8217;re all members of the Council of Elders and they describe the murderous Israeli attack on a humanitarian convoy as &#8220;completely inexcusable&#8220;. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter have in common? They&#8217;re all members of the Council of Elders and they describe the murderous Israeli attack on a humanitarian convoy as &#8220;<em>completely inexcusable</em>&#8220;. </p>
<p>Once upon a time, when I was young, we used to have great respect for Nelson Mandela and little Desmond Tutu &#8211; yes he&#8217;s Christian (an archbishop!), but a funny little guy who you can&#8217;t help but like. South Africans are experts on what apartheid means, so it&#8217;s little surprise that condemnation of Israel from such heros of the anti-apartheid movement are everywhere in the world news. Er, not. Late night radio is where I heard it, never on the television, <em>media control</em> &#8211; back to Mr Chomsky  &#8211; I suggest you read the short book he authoried on this very subject if this is news to you.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The Elders includes six Nobel peace prize winners — former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, former US president Jimmy Carter, detained Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Mr. Mandela and Tutu</em>&#8221; &#8211; excerpt from <a href="http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article442925.ece">external full article &#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Mavi Marmara &#8211; Remember that name: May 31st 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Under darkness of night, Israeli commandoes dropped from a helicopter onto the Turkish passenger ship, Mavi Marmara, and began to shoot the moment their feet hit the deck. They fired directly into the crowd of civilians asleep.&#8221; &#8211; Free Gaza Movement

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<em><strong>Under darkness of night, Israeli commandoes dropped from a helicopter onto the Turkish passenger ship, Mavi Marmara, and began to shoot the moment their feet hit the deck. They fired directly into the crowd of civilians asleep.</strong></em>&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/press-releases/1191-civilians-under-attack-by-israel">Free Gaza Movement</a><br />
<a target="_" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/freegaza/4629290743/"><img border="0" alt="Mavi Marmara" src="http://www.duncansapien.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/mavia_marmara-300x201.jpg" alt="" title="mavia_marmara" width="300" height="201" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-152" /></a><br />
Where will it end? Israeli forces launch a deadly attack on a humanitarian aid convey to Gaza in International waters with at least 10 people dead. This was a peace convoy of six ships carrying 10,000 tonnes of aid with 700 people from 50 countries on board. That it was boarded by armed Israeli forces in international waters is itself a crime of piracy, that 10 unarmed protestors were murdered by Israeli state forces shocked even me. </p>
<p>I am almost lost for words in rage at this criminal act of savagery and assault on free speech and non-violent protest.</p>
<p>That a <em>Freedom Convoy</em> with passengers including a 93 year old holocaust survivor, an Irish Nobel Laureate and 35 parliamentarians &#8211; including Israelis &#8211; is called &#8220;<em>anything but a humanitarian mission</em>&#8221; by Israel&#8217;s deputy UN ambassador Daniel Carmon shows delusional thinking on a State scale. Paranoid schizophrenics frequently share such perceptions of innocent passers by before murdering them in <em>self-defence</em>. A nuclear armed, religious fanatic state manifesting clear, state-wide symptoms of schizophrenia &#8230; think about it.</p>
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<h2>Their Cargo</h2>
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<strong>Wheelchairs</strong>
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<strong>Medicine</strong>
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<strong>Cargo and conditions aboard the convoy, before the assault.</strong>
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&#8216;<strong>Spirit of Humanity</strong>&#8216; &#8211; one of the aid ships which received the &#8217;spirit of Israel&#8217; in return.
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<p>What <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/201053133047995359.html">Al Jazeria</a> reports and what the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10195838.stm">BBC</a> report.</p>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/freegaza/3227178150/"><img border="0" alt="'Home' for families in Jabalia, Gaza" src="http://www.duncansapien.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gaza_kids.jpg" alt="" title="'Home' for families in Jabalia, Gaza" width="180" height="240" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-156" /></a><br />
&#8216;Home&#8217; for families in Jabalia, Gaza
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&#8220;<em>People certainly have the right to resist if they&#8217;re being attacked. We taught our Free Gaza Movement people to be non-violent, and the Turks did the same, but if anyone resisted, it was in response to soldiers opening fire on them when they hit the deck</em>&#8221;<br />
- <a href="http://www.freegaza.org/">Greta Berlin, Free Gaza Movement</a></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>It is vital that there is a full investigation to determine exactly how this bloodshed took place. I believe Israel must urgently provide a full explanation</em>&#8221;<br />
- <a href="http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/05/31/aftermath-israels-attack-gaza-flotilla">Ban Ki-Moon</a></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>&#8230; the majority of the people on board the ships were Turkish. The passengers also include people from Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Kuwait, Malaysia, Norway, Palestine, Serbia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States</em>&#8221;<br />
- <a href="http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/05/31/aftermath-israels-attack-gaza-flotilla">Israel attacks Gaza Flotilla</a>
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<strong>Slaughtering peace protesters on an unarmed humanitarian aid convoy  &#8211; in international waters</strong> </p>
<p>Such is not the action of rational people.<br />
Such is not the action of sane government.<br />
Such is not defence.<br />
Such is state-sanctioned murder. </p>
<p><strong>And just why were they delivering aid to Gaza?</strong>
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<h2>Don&#8217;t look away. Can you imagine if this were <em>your</em> child?</h2>
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Gaza-  &#8216;He was running, causing fear to Israeli people&#8217;
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Gaza
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Gaza: &#8220;Cry for your children&#8221;
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Gaza: &#8216;Some children will never be able to terrify Israel again&#8217;
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This is the attacked aid convoy ship <strong>MV-Rachel Corrie</strong>, but who was Rachel? Rachel was a peace activist in Gaza who &#8220;<em>was dragged four meters by the 56-tonne D9 Caterpillar bulldozer moving forward at a “fast pace.” She disappeared under the rubble and lethal blades of Caterpillar and then the bulldozer reversed, trampling Rachel, or what remained of her, once again</em>.&#8221; &#8211; all <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/03/17/15838231.php">recorded </a> on camera.</p>
<p>Please read about <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=a-prayer-for-rachel-corrie-2010-03-19">Rachel Corrie</a>, a young woman, she was only 23 years old when she was murdered by Israel in Gaza, occupied Palestine, simply trying to do what&#8217;s right. That Israeli armed forces storm a ship bearing this name brings stinking shame upon the name <em>Israel</em> for a century.</p>
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<strong>Rachel Corrie. April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003</strong>
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<p>UK television is full of documentaries on the evil of the Nazis which helps in comparison of their modern day counterparts with the original jackboot thugs. This is no idle comparison, rather one made after the highest investogations into Israeli attrocities:</p>
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&#8220;<em>&#8230;it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as ‘holocaust.’ </em>&#8221;<br />
- <a href="http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html">Richard Falk, Slouching Towards a Palestinian Holocaust</a> (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights).
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<p><strong>Gaza &#8211; the miserable facts</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/Gaza_Strip/20100531_The_Siege_on_Gaza.asp">&#8220;The siege on the Gaza Strip: 1.5 million people imprisoned&#8221;</a> &#8211; by Israeli human rights group <a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/">B&#8217;Tselem</a>,  a group of people who deserve utmost respect for their bravery and outspoken criticism of crimes against humanity.</p>
<h1>Mavi Marmura &#8211; May 31st 2010<br />The ship where humanitarian aid activists were gunned down.</h1>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel &#8211; a State where Child Abuse and Torture are Routine
If you haven&#8217;t heard of what&#8217;s going on in Palestine, you&#8217;re going to be shocked. Western media is all too complicit in the conspiracy of silence.
&#8220;The Palestine Chapter of Defence for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affidavits this year of Palestinian children, under [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Israel &#8211; a State where Child Abuse and Torture are Routine</strong><br />
If you haven&#8217;t heard of what&#8217;s going on in Palestine, you&#8217;re going to be shocked. Western media is all too complicit in the conspiracy of silence.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The Palestine Chapter of Defence for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affidavits this year of Palestinian children, under the age of 18, who said they were mistreated by their Israeli interrogators. Fourteen of them say they were either sexually abused or threatened with sexual assault, including rape, if they didn&#8217;t confess to what their interrogators accused them of</em>&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/05/30/children-behind-israeli-bars">Children behind Israeli bars</a></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The Geneva-based Defence for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affadavits from Palestinian children who said they were mistreated by their Israeli captors</em>&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/201053082239109343.html">Israel faces child-abuse claims</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/05/30/children-behind-israeli-bars"><img alt="children-behind-israeli-bars" border="0" src="http://www.kawther.info/wpr/wp-content/uploads/Dicc05.jpg" alt="Israel - friend of the children" /></a></p>
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Should we be surprised at this from the state which shoots 10 year old children?<br />
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/20100525.asp">Border police officer who shot a Palestinian boy charged with negligent manslaughter </a>
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<a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/20100525.asp"><br />
<img border="0" alt="Ahmed Musa, 10 years old" title="Ahmed Musa, 10 years old" src="http://www.btselem.org/Shared/Images/Photos/Portraits/080730_Nilin_Iyad%20Hadad10036_Ahmad_Musa.JPG"></a>
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<p>What&#8217;s <em>surprising</em> here is that an Israeli was actually charged, something virtually unheard of!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subserviance. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s at heart. 
Reading up on conflict resolution, people management and assertiveness one finds immediately that the natural state of most people is one of passivity, as opposed to confrontational, hence the problems many people have with being assertive &#8211; it&#8217;s literally not in our nature. As a whole, the majority of people [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Subserviance. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s at heart. </p>
<p>Reading up on conflict resolution, people management and assertiveness one finds immediately that the natural state of most people is one of passivity, as opposed to confrontational, hence the problems many people have with being assertive &#8211; it&#8217;s literally not in our nature. As a whole, the majority of people are by nature passive rather than assertive, else how would human society function if we all asserted ourselves constantly? It could never have evolved in the first place were that to happen, so as a generalisation this is true.</p>
<p>Musing why this arises takes me to what was an epifany in my life, which was the realisation that all human behaviour is simply primate behaviour. Yes, really obvious, almost a stupid thing to say, but all evidence suggests that the vast majority of people &#8211; humans &#8211; neither realise this nor accept it once they hear it. However that&#8217;s a side story, so let me continue.</p>
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<p>In a primate group all members require to show subservience to the leader, I think that&#8217;s a valid statement which anyone who&#8217;s watched David Attenborough won&#8217;t find fault with. Younger males challenge the leader for his role but the majority are subserviant, non-challenging, accepting of their role as followers. In order for such a group dynamic to be sustainable, I would argue that the majority then have to be happy in their subservience and this is the key point: most primates in a group are actually <em>happy </em> to be subservient under a leader.</p>
<p>Judaism, Christianity and Islam have always struck me as a projections of childhood subservience to a father figure, with Christianity even making special emphasis on &#8216;the Father&#8217; thus giving away the underlying psychology in bags full! These religions also incorporates a large element of subservience (&#8216;it is God&#8217;s will&#8217; being a prevalent theme in the Middle Eastern trio) and until recently the underlying psychological basis for such delusions hadn&#8217;t been something I&#8217;d dwelt on.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s now clear to me that the happiness of Christians, the Born Again&#8217;s especially &#8211; not the utterly miserable Free Church of Scotland for whom the word &#8216;happy&#8217; equates to a darkest state of sin &#8211; stems from their return to a passive, subservient position under a primate group alpha male (their imagined God). And such happiness appears genuine, for people &#8216;under the influence&#8217; have returned to their natural state in a primate group and have  accepted total domination (albeit by an imaginary bearded old man dressed in a white robe with an address in the clouds). Logic is irrelevant, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether &#8216;God exists&#8217; or not, for example, that&#8217;s not relevant to their feeling of being in harmony with this (projected) alpha male. People in this state of delusion appear to have tapped into a deep sense of wellbeing that stems from our primate group past. </p>
<p>So there we have it, the appeal of the child-religions is simply primate group happiness through subservience to a projected alpha male. Simple really <img src='http://www.duncansapien.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>When looking up the <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/subservience">definition of subservience</a>, I was amused &#8211; but not totally unsurprised &#8211; to find an ad for &#8220;Free Bible Study CD&#8221;. Ooh, gimme gimme gimme.</p>
<p><strong>Update &#8211; hysteria</strong>: Since writing this I&#8217;ve encountered the limits of my generalisation on non-assertiveness in the form of a particularly woman at work who uses hysteria to get her wish for the most trivial of things &#8211; definately not a passive type. Again, though, I&#8217;m reminded of chimps hooting and shrieking and primate behaviour. People are uncomfortable with someone building to hysteria, but why exactly? </p>
<p>I suspect we fear both attack from the individual but also the surrounding group, since hysteria is designed to gain attention from the group, being an advert for &#8216;<em>I&#8217;m in trouble, help me, I&#8217;m under attack!</em>&#8216;. Thus the group are expected to rush in and defend the poor hysterical individual from the nasty rational person, thus getting her way.  </p>
<p>(In this case, the female primate from another troupe was emotionally upset that a Start Menu icon on a Windows desktop was nominated, by a group of four Windows admins, to have the name &#8216;Help&#8217; as opposed to &#8216;Quick Links&#8217;. Despite being in the minority, and this being a matter of such complete and utter triviality that it defies comprehension, she nonetheless chose to try hysterical approach to get her way. The monkeys in my team, however, all watch Attenborough and the baboon skulked off to lick her wounds, announcing she was &#8216;upset&#8217;. There there, dear, just accept your subservience and have a banana, it&#8217;ll be alright).</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A science teacher beat a pupil around the head with a dumbbell while shouting &#8220;die, die, die&#8221;, a court heard&#8221; &#8211; more&#8230;
Is it just me, but when I read the line
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<em><strong>A science teacher beat a pupil around the head with a dumbbell while shouting &#8220;die, die, die&#8221;, a court heard</strong></em>&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/8643553.stm">more&#8230;</a></p>
<p>Is it just me, but when I read the line<br />
&#8220;<em><strong>No-one can say for one moment what happened to this boy was deserved or justified</strong></em>&#8221;<br />
&#8230; er, sorry? This teacher was reportedly &#8220;<a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100429/tuk-dumb-bell-attack-teacher-was-extraor-45dbed5.html">extraordinary</a>&#8220;, so what drove him to attack a pupil in this way? <em>Pupil </em> &#8211; there&#8217;s a word which conveys an image of order, of classrooms, blackboards and orderly children sitting respectfully listening to their teacher. But this <em>pupil</em>, was he like that? It appears, oddly enough, that he wasn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>What is it about Britain that makes people so want to leave? Could it be that years of pampering to the underclass of subhumans creates classrooms where mob-rule is the norm? This was a science class, and while we have free speech in the UK (sorry, yes me me laugh as I wrote that) then that teacher is a hero. I have no sympathy for yobs who are destroying the UK as a decent place to live. </p>
<p>Anyone reading a local newspaper, even in Cambridge, will find it a catalogue of horrorific attacks and senseless crimes. And yes, my car&#8217;s windows have just been smashed (in Scunthorpe) and a solid, beautiful car which I maintained for many years is now going to be scrapped as the windows cost more than it&#8217;s worth.  The Banshees and the howlers rule. And it starts in the schools, where teachers have neither respect nor control. So, Teacher tried to kill pupil? Better luck next time &#8211; and a million politically correct drones can shout &#8216;good grief&#8217; and find a nice bridge to jump from, they&#8217;re the ones who got us into this mess. Pass me my dumbells, anyone?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Plans to have the Pope arrested when he visits the UK will succeed because he is not a head of state, a solicitor has said&#8221; &#8211; more &#8230;
A superb article which also highlights Gordon Brown&#8217;s allegience to protect war criminals &#8211; sniveling Fife git.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<em><strong>Plans to have the Pope arrested when he visits the UK will succeed because he is not a head of state, a solicitor has said</strong></em>&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/12/pope-trial-law-equality-leaders">more &#8230;</a></p>
<p>A superb article which also highlights Gordon Brown&#8217;s allegience to protect war criminals &#8211; sniveling Fife git.</p>
<p>(Thanks to <em>The Wrecker</em> for reviving the link above which mysteriously got dropped by Yahoo &#8230; funny how that happens, eh?)</p>
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<p>Now that&#8217;s <a href="http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/blog/article/11851/">small-print</a> for you!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lib Dem frontbencher Jenny Tonge sacked over call for Israeli soldier inquiry&#8221; &#8211; there&#8217;s something fishy here. For entertainment, just have a quick read of the article and see if you can infer how Jenny Tonge&#8217;s words can be interpreted as &#8220;wrong, distasteful and provocative&#8221;.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/13/jenny-tonge-sacked-israel-comments">Lib Dem frontbencher Jenny Tonge sacked over call for Israeli soldier inquiry</a>&#8221; &#8211; there&#8217;s something fishy here. For entertainment, just have a quick read of the article and see if you can infer how Jenny Tonge&#8217;s words can be interpreted as &#8220;wrong, distasteful and provocative&#8221;.</p>
<p>Nick Clegg has, just a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/07/nick-clegg-israel-gaza-war">year ago</a>, called for an embargo on British arms exports to Israel &#8230; but recently seems to have developed a new found love of the country. I wonder why? </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The blade of the rear propeller cleaved Mr Morse&#8217;s head from top to bottom. Mercifully death was instantaneous.&#8221;  (BBC)
DARWIN AWARD TIME!!
What can I say, this upsets me deeply &#8230; the &#8220;instantaneous&#8221; part, that is. I guess to the list of typical huntsman attributes &#8211; arrogance, self-righteousness, revelling in terrorising small furry critters simply for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<em>The blade of the rear propeller cleaved Mr Morse&#8217;s head from top to bottom. Mercifully death was instantaneous</em>.&#8221;  (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/8546071.stm">BBC</a>)</p>
<p><strong>DARWIN AWARD TIME!!</strong><br />
What can I say, this upsets me deeply &#8230; the <em>&#8220;instantaneous&#8221;</em> part, that is. I guess to the list of typical huntsman attributes &#8211; arrogance, self-righteousness, revelling in terrorising small furry critters simply for being small furry critters and such &#8211; one can add &#8220;and unquestionably stupid&#8221;, namely to stand in the path of a gyrocopter on takeoff. Maybe he was ordinarily a  sensible huntsman, but for whatever reason that day he simply &#8230; lost his head.</p>
<p>Addendum March 17th 2010<br />
 &#8220;<em><strong>Gyrocopter pilot cleared over huntsman death</em></strong>&#8221; (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/8571913.stm">BBC</a>) &#8211; wonder if Asda do that cheap fizzy stuff, one feels in need of a sparkly drinky or two. </p>
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&#8220;UN Fact Finding Mission finds strong evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Gaza conflict&#8221;
Once we hunted Nazis for decades for their crimes, now we watch phosphorous shells burn hospital warehouses down and incinerate people in the Mediterranean and change channel. We read of old women forced out of their houses, [...]]]></description>
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&#8220;UN Fact Finding Mission finds strong evidence of <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/9B63490FFCBE44E5C1257632004EA67B?opendocument"><font color="red">war crimes and crimes against humanity</font></a> committed during the Gaza conflict&#8221;</p>
<p>Once we hunted Nazis for decades for their crimes, now we watch phosphorous shells burn hospital warehouses down and incinerate people in the Mediterranean and change channel. We read of old women forced out of their houses, terrified, at gunpoint whilst holding tattered white rags with their children by their side only to be murdered by watching Israeli troops. And such is not an isolated occurence.
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<p>Paul Simon sings on his beautiful sound of silence, and we change the channel, ashamed.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the horror of the Gaza Massacre, which continues and shall never be forgotten, a moment of &#8216;worth living&#8217;-ness.
Some good chap in Denmark has re-visited the sites where the 1953  film &#8220;Roman Holiday&#8221; was shot and taken a series of now-and-then photos which you can see at http://www.cori.dk/roman_holiday.htm 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amidst the horror of the Gaza Massacre, which continues and shall never be forgotten, a moment of &#8216;worth living&#8217;-ness.<br />
Some good chap in Denmark has re-visited the sites where the 1953  film &#8220;Roman Holiday&#8221; was shot and taken a series of now-and-then photos which you can see at <a href="http://www.cori.dk/roman_holiday.htm">http://www.cori.dk/roman_holiday.htm</a> </p>
<p>I like to believe that &#8211; were they free of murderous oppression, tyranny and M16&#8217;s in the hands of delusional Zionist youths, whose minds were twisted to hatred long ago by their parents &#8211; the people of Gaza would adore a beautiful love story as much as any.</p>
<p>I wonder, too,  whether the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-i-watched-an-israeli-soldier-shoot-dead-my-two-little-girls-1452294.html">young IDF man</a> with the M16 rifle who cut the family to pieces as the grandmother emerged, white-flag in hand,  have done any different had he seen them as human beings? </p>
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<p>&#8220;&#8221;He did it very slowly,&#8221; Ahmed said. &#8220;He took careful aim at the little girls, and shot <a target="_" href="http://www.uruknet.info/pic.php?f=000-amal.jpg">Amal </a> [aged 2] and Souad three times. Sammer started running back up the steps toward the house and he shot her also.&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/01/23/1232471596621.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a></p>
<p>&#8220;When she was shot, Amal was carrying her favourite toy, a brown bear, which still lay in the ruins yesterday.&#8221; &#8211; (<a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m51207&#038;hd=&#038;size=1&#038;l=e">more&#8230;</a>)
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Had he seen them with tears of happiness in their eyes after seeing a beautiful 1950&#8217;s romance, would their father then be walking with a blood-stained teddy bear that his daughter clutched as her blameless body was ripped to pieces? </p>
<p>Religeous hatred. I&#8217;d truly believe in fairy tales if I thought that could be overcome so easily. I&#8217;ll leave such people in their ugly, delusional world and include a few beautiful fairy tales in mine.
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&#8220;I had just left the room, carrying my youngest son on my shoulders. Then a shell came through the wall.
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&#8220;My daughters were just sitting quietly talking in their bedroom at home,&#8221; Dr Izeldeen Abuelaish told me on the phone between sobs.</p>
<p>&#8220;I had just left the room, carrying my youngest son on my shoulders. Then a shell came through the wall.</p>
<p>&#8220;I rushed back to find their dead bodies &#8211; or rather parts of their bodies &#8211; strewn all over the room. One was still sitting in a chair but she had no legs.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tell me why did they have to die? Who gave the order to fire on my house?&#8221;
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First we hear that the Israeli government is keen to investigate any allegation of war crimes in Gaza. Come again? Did [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How amazing is language, that most wonderous achievement of the upright-walking ape. Of all the utterances the ludicrous man-ape has made recently, two of them illustrate just how clever it has become at linguistic manipulation.</p>
<p>First we hear that the Israeli government is keen to investigate any allegation of war crimes in Gaza. Come again? Did I hear that correctly? Had the Nazi occupation of Europe succeeded, I wonder if they would have established an investigation into war crimes in, say, Poland? I&#8217;m quite sure they would have set such a thing up and, naturally, that a thorough investigation would have turned up squeaky clean SS guards. Attrocities?  War crimes? Surely you jest. Is it just me, or does the establishment of a legal defence team specifically to defend the Israeli military of such charges look a bit, well, <em>telling</em>?<br />
(I use the term &#8216;Israeli government&#8217; here because the criminals don&#8217;t speak for all Israelis, but we haven&#8217;t seen those Israeli <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/war_on_gaza/2009/01/20091109519821785.html">demonstrations </a> in the UK &#8211; not on the BBC, at least.)</p>
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Second, we hear that in the UK the BBC &#8211; hey I was just talking about them &#8211; will not broadcast a joint humanitarian aid appeal for Gaza&#8217;s people by the Red Cross, Oxfam, Save the Children and 10 other charities (Disasters Emergency Committee &#8211; <a href="http://www.dec.org.uk/item/200">DEC</a>), for fear of sounding &#8211; and I quote &#8211; &#8220;biased&#8221;. This from a media organisation that repeatedly used the term &#8216;unilateral&#8217; (ceasefire) to describe an end to three murderous weeks of heavy bombing and close-range <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-i-watched-an-israeli-soldier-shoot-dead-my-two-little-girls-1452294.html">executions of children</a> (eye witness testimony) by one of the best equipped armies in the modern world against a besieged, illegally occupied population. I guess the Nazis unilaterally decided to close Auschwitz, come to think on it. Manipulation of language in the media is key to successful manipulation of the population it is broadcast to, this is old hat (thanks to Mr Chomsky &#8211;  &#8216;Media Control&#8217; anyone?).
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<p>So here we have it &#8211; take a charge against you and simply turn it around. How wonderfully simple! It can&#8217;t have escaped the attention of anyone with an IQ above toad level that the BBC management used this same tactic just days after the Israeli government? (BBC reporters on the ground have tried, as best they can, to tell the truth in this conflict. BBC management, however, betray their integrity).</p>
<p>And if I hear talk of &#8216;alleged&#8217; war crimes much more, I&#8217;ll go mad. They are as &#8216;alleged&#8217; as global warming is &#8216;alleged&#8217; and how the word &#8216;controversial&#8217; is creeping into the BBC reporting. Say something is controversial and immediately doubt is thrown at the subject, a popular tactic of those with no defence other than primitive psycho-linguistic trickery. Allegedly, dinosaurs once walked the Earth, but I doubt it personally. </p>
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<LI>&#8220;<em>White phosphorus is a weapon intended to provide a smokescreen for troop movements on the battlefield. It is highly incendiary, air burst and its spread effect is such that it should never be used on civilian areas.</em>&#8221; &#8211; Chris Cobb-Smith, British weapons expert, working in Gaza for Amnesty International (<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200912064121600602.html">source</a>).</li>
<li>Amnesty International accuse Israel of war crimes &#8211; including use of truly vile weapons called flechettes<br />
&#8220;<em>The use of flechettes against civilians is illegal.</em>&#8221; (Amnesty International &#8211; <a href="http://livewire.amnesty.org/2009/01/24/weapons-devastating-effect-people-gaza/">Weapons and their devastating effects on the people in Gaza</a>)</p>
<li>Eight Israeli-based human rights organisations have accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza (Al Jazerra).</li>
<p><LI>&#8220;I don’t know why the helicopters fired at us &#8230; only my friends and I were in the street at the time&#8221; &#8211; Lu’ai Osama Rajab Subuh, 10 years old, blinded by Israeli troops. Source <a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/Testimonies/20090107_Luaay_Subuh_blinded_by_bombing.asp">B&#8217;Tselem</a>, Israeli Human Rights organisation.</li>
<li>Human Rights Watch accuse Israel of using white phosphorous in civilian areas</li>
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