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I'd be interested to know if any "gentiles" were considered for this position or does one have to be Jewish to prosletyse against anti-Semitism. Furthermore, one has to wonder if this envoy will attempt to pressure the rabid anti-Semites that rule many of the GCC countries into making anti-Semitism a "hate crime"? Or, as a Zionist will he pander to the Israeli government and stick to condemning countries that oppose the racist policies of the Israeli government?
When the Zionist entity disappears from the pages of history, the only people responsible will be the Zionist. What a bunch of morons.
At this stage of his hunger strike, pizza would most likely kill him. I don't know if there is anything sinister behind this but anyone who has read their Holocaust history would know that when the allies first entered the concentration camps, the liberators' natural response was to feed the inmates but this was disastrous as it often killed the inmates who had survived imprisonment.
As I keep saying it's the Zionists who are doing the most to delegitimize Israel so delegitimizing the delegitimizers is compounding the effort and I hope they keep it up.
FWIW, Denis MacShane is a former MP because he resigned when he was suspended by the Labour party after the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee found that he had submitted 19 false invoices "plainly intended to deceive" the parliamentary expenses authority.
Soft-serve ice cream - as an industrial chemist she was involved in the development of the chemical used to entrain 50% air in ice cream so that it was "soft-serve". Actually, quite a good metaphor for her political attainments which have been grossly over inflated.
Forget about Gellar, she is is just a bigot. Where are all the scum who demand "balance" when a pro-Palestine speaker presents. They appear to be doing nothing to demand balance to the rabid racism of Pamela Gellar which means they support her views and are no better than her. If anything they are actually worse than her because she at least is honest about her bigotry.
Since when has a "community" consisted of one person? Has he no friends who would support his campaign?
seafoid - thanks for reminding me what a shitty little country Israel is. Why were those Israelis there? It couldn't have been because they were Mossad and were training the SAVAK in torture rechniques? A "diplomat" helping criminals to escape - way to go.
I quite agree. Israel has a consistent record of disregarding the freedoms of its own (non-Jewish) people and has a lousy record of upholding peace with its neighbours. Perhaps it's the Palestinians who don't have a "partner for peace" and the Israelis who shouldn't be allowed a country.
I do hope that Alan Dershowitz has demanded that Columbia Law School invite a representative of the Palestinian people to ensure that the attendees receive a balanced view of the situation, Anything less would imply that Alan Dershowitz is a hypocritical toad!
Annie - the paper is called The Sunday Times because it is a separate newspaper with a separate editor and largely separate staff rather than the Sunday edition of The Times. This is a common feature of British newspapers, for instance, The Guardian and The Observer, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday all have separate editors and largely separate staff***. Gerald Scarfe's work appears in The Sunday Times, while The Times has Peter Brookes and Morten Morland as political cartoonists. So Sunday was the only day that Gerald Scarfe's cartoon could be published (first Sunday after the Israeli elections) without losing its freshness. That Sunday was also the UKs ' Holocaust Memorial Day is irrelevant since the cartoon is so patently not anti-Semitic.
And you are right, these baseless complaints have meant that far more people have seen the cartoon than would have otherwise, since it was behind The Sunday Times' pay wall which is far less porous than Haaretz's.
BTW, I apologize to wh^&es everywhere for comparing them to Tony Blair as they invariably have more heart than Tony Blair ever could.
*** - The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror currently share an editor but this has only been so since 2012, before that they had separate editors but editors did move from one paper to the other though never working on both at the same time.
It was the newspaper that decided to run it on that day not the artist, but even then there were no grounds for an apology. The name of the newspaper gives a clue!
Haaretz published a piece explaining why it wasn't anti-Semitic. As it is behind their pay hedge (leaky pay wall), the main points:
1. It is not directed at Jews.
2. It does not use Holocaust imagery.
3. There was no discrimination.
4. This is not what a blood libel looks like.
When the Israeli ambassador turned up at the Foreign Office, I hope the Foreign Secretary provided a low stool for him to sit on
BTW, Tony Blair is a c^&tish wh^%e and no one should give toss about what he thinks.
Why the fuss? He's only doing what the Democratic Unionist Party does.
Prior to partition in 1920, Ireland was always a single major territorial unit within the United Kingdom and before that it was a single major entity, the Kingdom of Ireland. Northern Ireland simply did not exist as a separate entity. With Home Rule almost certain to be supported by the Irish population, the British government gerrymandered a territorial unit with a Unionist/Protestant majority to allow the United Kingdom to maintain control of part of Ireland. And please don't go on about how Ulster was a province of Ireland which became Northern Ireland, because the province of Ulster consisted of nine counties (including Counties Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan which are now part of the Irish republic) rather than the six it does now as within the borders of the real province of Ulster, the Unionists/Protestants were a minority anyway. BTW, as part of the 1998 Belfast Agreement which brought the troubles to an end, all parties agreed that if a majority of the population of Northern Ireland supported the re-unification of Ireland then it would happen. So just like the modern Israel, Northern Ireland is an artificial construct of the British Empire that will most likely disappear from the pages of history.
The only newspaper I believe to be more honest than The Onion is Pravda!
His views seem eminently sensible to me which suggests that his opponents are raving loonies.
BTW, some one should start a campaign to allow unlimited immigration from Israel to the EU. After a few years, Israel as we know it (although not the Jewish people) may disappear from the pages of history.
Perhaps ADL = All Damned Liars
If the pay wall kicks in, search for the page using the headline on Google and use the link there. It works most times for me but it might be like the NY Times pay wall and allow only a limited number of visits from Google per day but there's never much I want to read there.
Read "Another Jew describes his journey away from Zionism", then explain to me why making aliyah under current circumstances is not overtly racist.
Making aliyah is, under current circumstances, an overtly racist act and you seem to be quite proud that you have made aliyah..............
Interesting slip of the keyboard there - so you are not commited to the I/P issue otherwise you would consider yourself "brittle, narcissistic and unwilling to carry on a dialogue". Suggests you are either a self-hating Zionist or you are a racist as you believe there should be no Palestine alongside Israel. Either way, there would be little of interest to any rational person in having a dialogue with you since you are the one who is brittle, narcissistic and unwilling to carry on a dialogue.
ps. I know my logic is probably missing something but I can't be bothered to work out what it is as I have better things to do like needlessly go and polish my trainers.
Obsidian - having read your past comments, I would guess that you are a Zionist or at least a pro-Zionist. My total experience with Zionists and pro-Zionists is that their grasp of reality is somewhat lacking and that there is, as a result, little point in debating anything about Zionism with them just as there is little point in discussing the Earth's shape with a Flat Earther only it's worse since being a Flat Earther does not necessarily include being a racist while being a Zionist or pro-Zionist always does. Now you could argue that everybody is a racist to some degree and I wouldn't disagree with you, but Zionists and pro-Zionists of all descriptions are openly racist and seem to be proud of it.
For a start, just accept that all politicians are at the very least sociopaths. It is very liberating.
However, it is the psychopaths we have to be worried about, not that I am suggesting that Netanyahu is a psychopath.
From wikipedia:
I'm surprised Obama took the call.
Why is there nobody claiming that Sandy was divine punishment for the United States for supporting Israel? It seems to me that the United States spends far more time, money, and effort supporting Israel than it does applying pressure to Israel. There must be some Neturei Karta rabbis who would offer quotes on this. At the very least, it would piss off Abe Foxman.
The Zionists are losing supporters across the board - British Zionist, Denis Macshane MP, known for defining expressing opposition to Israel's policies as anti-Semitism, has been forced to resign following corruption charges.
link to guardian.co.uk
So the Chicago Jewish Star would accept the Nazis sticking it to the Jews could be explained by the Nazis' "superior culture". Zionist de-legitimizing Israel yet again.
Maybe she will do a programme on how the Stern Gang were peace-loving hippies, the Irgun sat around camp fires singing Kumbaya and roasting marshmallows and Menachem Begin only wanted to be Father Christmas.
What is wrong with anti-Zionist activities - given the racist nature of zionism as has been practiced pretty much since its creation, being pro-zionist should be grounds for condemnation.
Why do I get the feeling that this stupid woman Rice believes that Hezbollah is some alien force that has invaded Lebanon and imposed itself against the free will of the Lebanese people?
No wonder the Zionists want to do away with the Palestinians right of return.
Could someone please enlighten me. Is there any difference between Jeffrey Goldberg and Julius Streicher except perhaps one of degree?
Josh Block is spouting a load of bollocks - in 1939, Nazi Germany had almost certainly the most potent military of any single country in the World. The event up until the middle of 1942 support this.
When it comes to the present day, I can think of about twenty countries with a more potent military than Iran and we mustn't forget that the United States alone spends (according to SIPRI) almost one hundred times what Iran spends. Israel spends twice as much on "defence" as Iran does on defence, while even shitty little impoverished Greece spends more than Iran according to SIPRI.
Gil Troy and other Zionists don't seem to understand that it is their actions and their actions alone which de-legitimize the Zionist entity. If Israel was a real democracy with the rule of law and true equality for all its citizens and subjects(including all the displaced subjects) then nobody could successfully argue that Israel was illegitimate.
Hasn't anyone told that stupid woman, Geller, that once the EDL have "dealt" with the Muslims it will return to attacking the Jews. They attack the Muslims only because the hate them more than the Jews.
It appears the Daily Currant article is satire.
Stay off the falafel as Michelle Bachmann now reckons they are a "jihadi" dish. That means that Shin Beth will now have to arrest, torture and indefinitely detain just about the entire population of Israel. With this and the antics of Daystar and TBN, the Zionists really are up the creek!
link to dailycurrant.com
link to latimes.com
Great minds think alike!
You take a comment that references ICP and misspells Harper's given name seriously seriously?
Unless he is planning on returning to Israel with official visits to Palikir (Federated States of Micronesia), Melekeok (Republic of Palau) and Majuro (Republic of the Marshall Islands), probably not.
That's a bit unfair to Canadians - they aren't all clowns though quite a few in the government are, principally Steven Harper. And don't say that Canadians are all clowns for electing a clown as prime minister, after all the United States re-elected the greatest living clown (outside of Insane Clown Posse).
Perhaps because ALL the Jews settled in the West Bank are implicated in war crimes. And if you want to argue that Jews and their descendants who lived in the West Bank prior to 1948 should be allowed to return then you would also have to accept that all Palestinians and their descendants should be allowed to return to what was Palestine. Ooops, that would end the Zionist experiment.
As for the Palestinians sharing, one can hardly blame them for being reluctant to do so when the Jews demonstrated and continue to demonstrate an unwillingness to share by expelling and ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
Somebody told him Deolali was a "fun" holiday destination.
Kate Middleton was never a Sloane Ranger - not nearly posh enough - her parents were bloody trade! (go read Jane Austen to understand how derogatory this epithet is)
Spain gave Israel the boot last night, but what I really want know is how can you have a "World Baseball Classic" without a Cuban national team?
Don't be too hard on American intelligence officials - if they want to keep their jobs (who can blame them in the current economic situation), they have to keep their political masters as happy as possible and given the way that both Democratic and Republican politicians kiss Tel Aviv's arse, that means that those officials have to accept whatever bullshit Mossad dreams up as having certain similarities to the truth.
Nobody has yet made a convincing case that the Israelis blew up anything in the Syrian desert and nobody has made a convincing case that the structure alleged to have been blown was a nuclear reactor.
You lost me right there. There is no "Iranian nuclear crisis", because what the Iranians are doing is fully within their rights under the NPT.
However, there is an Iranian regime change crisis originating in Washington and a "we might not be free to blow up shit in the Middle East in the future crisis" originating in Tel Aviv.
Stop kissing Saudi arses! When it suited America (during the Cold War), America was fully willing to support political Islamists as a counterweight to socialists and nationalists (not national socialists because they had already been co-opted by Washington) in the Middle East.
And who is responsible? America of course. They pimped Islam to counter the threat of socialism during the Cold War. And who funded this, the Saudis. Doesn't Washington ever learn.
Gregory really is a tosser - doesn't he understand that the leader of a republic with a parliament is the president rather than the prime minister. All the prime minister can depend on is that at any particular moment, he enjoys the support of a majority in that parliament. If he loses it, he is history.
I doubt even the US Navy on its own could secure the Straits of Hormuz - it would most likely require an invasion of Iran and occupation in considerable depth to guarantee that the straits could be kept open. Once parts of Iran are occupied, regime change would follow and the United States will be occupying Iran for the next twenty years. I doubt the American public will forgive Israel for initiating an elective war that sucks in the United States.
"a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies"
An impartial fellow? I doubt it when he works where he does. So why should anybody pay any attention to this?
Why aren't Predator drones flying over Kiryat Arba?
And pigs might fly - I'm sure the Israeli police are shocked, shocked. I tell you, to find that such things happen in the only democratic state in the world.
You do realize that Pamela Geller blogs (if you can call her racist crap that) as Atlas Shrugs.
Because they hate Muslims more than they hate Jews - solve the "Muslim" problem and they will go straight back to hating Jews.
Perhaps someone should pay for ads supporting Hamas or Hezbollah.
Eitan.
Israel has done just about everything it can to "prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". Why should Israel benefit from a treaty it has so wilfully breeched. So please STFU about San Remo!
The Arabists at the UK Border Agency seem to disagree with you that Palestine is not a country - look under P!.
(I came across this via the Angry Arab but I'm not sure he understood how subversive this might be.)
FIFA are a bunch of geriatric tossers who should tell Americans to take football as it is or leave it. I would guess that most football supporters would agree with this.
BTW, there was probably no way that Italy could come back from 2-0 down against a team with such form as Spain even with a full squad. That they only conceded another two goals while down to ten men is to their credit but a really good defensive team could have held it to 2-0. I suppose what I really object to about American or their brown-nosers trying to change football is that they seem incapable of understanding that a draw does not mean that the game was boring and that a great defensive side can be as good to watch as a great attacking side.
As for unlimited substitution it is like the American love of war of attrition, give me a war of manoeuvre or asymmetric warfare any day. At the end of some of the greatest games I have ever seen half of each team (slight exaggeration) have been flat on their backs on the pitch immobilized with cramp because they have played their hearts out.
Would Americans please stop trying to change the way the "beautiful game" is played - the rest of the world is quite happy with it as it is!
William Hague must be really gutted - he can't brown nose Washington or Tel Aviv over Shamir's death 'cos there are many in Britain who would object to any eulogy for such a terrorist. But then who really gives a toss what William Hague thinks.
BTW, anybody who does eulogize Shamir should think carefully about visiting the United Kingdom as there might be some who make a complaint to the Police under the Terrorism Act 2006 against them.
Why not sue the Israeli Navy for the cost of it! Then perhaps they will think twice about doing the same in future.
With the fascist settlers having already taken over the IDF, that they might have now trained their sights on taking over the US Army along with the Christian Zionists controlling the USAF does give cause for concern! Especially since the US Congress does nothing but kiss Israel's arse!
I think we should all thank Philip for cheering us all up - Michael Oren's whining prognostications such as these are so now ridiculous that they are allow me a good laugh. Perhaps the funniest thing is that I am hard put to think of any occasion when the real al Qaeda has actually attacked Israel because they seem to spend most of their time killing Shiites. Perhaps this has something to do with Israel being so close to al Qaeda's anti-Semitic financiers in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.
It's largely thanks to the Muslims that there are still people of the Jewish faith. With Israel continuing down the path it's chosen and the possibility of the Christian Zionists demanding their pound of flesh will Muslims be as supporting of Judaism in the future?
I hope that Kirk will demonstrate that he is not racist bigot by demanding that the Israeli government end the so-called "right of return" for Jews as all the Jews who were alleged to have been expelled by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple are long since dead and their descendants many generations later should not be defined as refugees if the children of Palestinian refugees are to be reclassified.
When first posted, Phil's name was attached to this. Then it was corrected.
Cornish pasty - the best advert for vegetarianism I've ever known. Have you ever really looked at the meat or at least what is alleged to be meat in one!
BTW, you should try a butter pie from up North - Pebby's in Great Ecc do one with a truly sublime filling although their pastry could do with some lard in it! Now a hot butter pie with a piece of Cream Lancashire cheese melted on top is a national dish to be proud of and I'm a bloody Yorkshireman by parentage.
BTW, that is the real shame about Israel - the Zionists kissed the British arse while the Palestinians tried to rebel against the British back in 1936ish. If the Zionists had fought alongside the Palestinians against the British imperialist.......................
While you're in London, take a trip to Beigal Bake (that is the correct spelling!!!!!) at the top end of Brick Lane. Try either one of their filled beigals (yes, that is the correct spelling) or one of their salt beef (corned beef to you) sandwiches on rye with hot English mustard (a truly life-changing experience but I'm not paying your cardiologist's bill) It says a lot about London, although I haven't worked quite what yet.
ps It's not kosher.
So were they arguing that once purchased by a Jew, that land is owned in perpetuity by all Jews? BTW, perhaps they could show us the deeds that Abraham bought just to show they still have title in law rather than from the barrel of a gun! Perhaps they could also show us the entries in the land registers for Palestine for this purchase.
They should have used a dog and pony instead!
Give the guy a break - after all he is the only Jewish House Republican - having to put up with all those rabidly anti-Semitic Zionists would make any Jew paranoid, I guess.
And now you have rabbis and Danny Dayan lining up to condemn the action - not of the IDF soldier but the behaviour of government officials for suspending the soldier.
"But instead you chose to protest against Israel, the Middle East's sole democracy, where women are equal, the press criticizes the government, human rights organizations can operate freely, religious freedom is protected for all and minorities do not live in fear"
Phil - I think this is a parody piece - no-one, not even the Israeli government or its leaders, can seriously believe any of the above claims except perhaps for Pamela Geller.
Mossad are stupid! One time they were capable but now, I don'think so. One of the dangers of hubris. After all the police in Dubai managed to identify 26 (I believe) Mossad operatives after the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh and the police in Lebanon have managed to capture a large number of Mossad operatives spying on Hezbollah.
Let's not forget the lovable cheeky-chapie little rogues who came up with these.
Who is the more evil of Bales and Merah? Compare and contrast, including all the media coverage.
BTW, the Afghan authorities have stated that this Mohamed Merah is not the one who escaped from a prison in Afghanistan although he does appear to have been arrested by Afghan police and handed over to US authorities who returned him to France.
Perhaps Mr Burston would like to answer this question:
Does he believe the the British and Americans should have foregone the strategic bombing campaign against Germany in World War 2? After all, bombing at that time was as about as accurate as the rocket fire from Gaza is today and was, regardless of claims by its proponents, squarely aimed at killing and terrorizing the civilian population of Germany. The "throw weight" of the RAF and USAAF could be measured in thousands of tons rather than the few kilograms that the Gazans can deliver.
Since he is concerned about the accuracy of the rockets from Gaza perhaps he would like to demand that Gaza be supplied with more accurate rockets so that the world can clearly see how the Gazans are attacking civilian populations. Perhaps 30-40 batteries of M240 MRLS with XM30 missiles would do. After all these are accurate to within feet. Or if the United States won't supply the Gazans, how about allowing the Russians to supply several hundred Iskanders (accuracy about 5m) . Until he agrees to this, his argument is meaningless.