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  • Establishing the timeline on 'Cast Lead II'
    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 6:30 pm

      It was quashed.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 5:58 pm

      annie, as freud said while coughing over his cigar, sometimes a choke is just a choke.

      I was not being serious about that.forgive the dark humor.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 5:57 pm

      they weren't citizens, Chaos. you should have learned at least that much.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 5:25 pm with 8 replies

      ---Good thing? Justifiable?----

      perhaps understandable if it was an ultra-Orthodox woman who couldn't take any more ill-treatment, but not really good or justified.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 5:23 pm with 9 replies

      it was a little better when the Gazans were working in Israel. might have been hardly more than half of them being fed by the US and Britain and the smaller donors to the UN. but that was then and the population of Gaza keeps growing despite all the lousy conditions, leaving more kids living on charity and with little hope for better.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 4:38 pm

      lli, Hamas has no superhuman abilities and does not have perfect control of Gaza. there are folks running around there without any commitment to the people of Gaza and far more intent on immediate trouble than Hamas.

      in January, Yuval Diskin said that there were a few in AQ supporters in Gaza and that they were attacking the border despite Hamas' order for quiet.

  • Libya's resistance and civilians under fire by Qadhafi forces
    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 7:18 pm

      SYRIA

      The attack on the Omari mosque intensifies.

      link to egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com

      ------According to tweets coming for Syria right the Omari mosque in Daraa is allegedly under the attack. Tweeps are reporting that they are hearing screams and explosion through telephone lines from the mosque. The tweeps are saying that thousands are currently protesting in the streets of Daraa to save the mosque and there is a heavy gunfire along with sounds of explosions. The Mosque is asking for help by the tabkbeer “Allah Akbar”.
      The ancient Omari mosque was turned in to a field hospital in the past few days where the protesters found a shelter and hospital.-----

  • Is another ‘Cast Lead’ in the offing?
    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 6:23 pm

      thanks, seafoid, I was worried about the spread of Mooserism but hadn't realized it was already causing difficulties.

      link to us.123rf.com

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 3:28 pm

      thats a comfort to me, Mooser. I had the strange idea that the comment might be promoting the Chinese as fair and good trading partners in Africa instead of just more of the usual.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 1:55 pm with 6 replies

      you would do well not to believe in the good intentions and actions of the Chinese. they operate no more benevolently than anybody else and they often operate with even less regard to worker safety and other good stuff.

  • Apartheid comes at midnight
    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 4:24 pm

      eljay, I can 't tell how the law won't be used or how it will.

      it's not something that I like but I'm not going to going to be more than suspicious until stuff happens.

      read this and get back to me, tell me how you think the Israeli bill compares.

      link to huffingtonpost.com

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 2:29 pm

      I greatly appreciate that, Walid.

      but please, in future, extend me the courtesy of not thinking that there are "2 of you" when it comes to myself.

      I'm screwy enough by myself and don't think that I represent anyone but myself.

      But again, thank you.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 1:45 pm with 9 replies

      no, Walid, the second half of the sentence is far from redundant. It's entirely central to the law's stated intent and is the definition of the actions necessary to the transgression of the law and to warrant the financial penalty that the law provides.

      As far as the what is quoted in the link, the law doesn't penalize mentioning or teaching about the Nabka, it provides financial penalties only for things beyond that.

      Walid, if you can back up that untruth about my joining in mocking the death of Rachel Corrie, I would be much surprised. I think that you can not because you're either mistaken or lying.

      Please DO print something from me mocking Rachel Corrie or print a retraction.

      I have great respect for that poor dead woman and her family and do not appreciate your slur.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 1:36 pm

      annie,
      The Ynet article doesn’t say

      —-holding events marking Israeli Independence Day as the “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) or for supporting armed resistance or racism against Israel.—–

      OR FOR annie it says celebrating BY supporting armed resistance.

      not either separate thing, but celebrating by linking the catastrophe to armed resistance etc.

      annie, you might read up on the law in this country...

      historically, there's been legal disapproval of those advocating the armed overthrow of our government.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 12:15 pm with 20 replies

      According to the link to Ynet in Weiss' post THIS is what the bill says.......

      +++++++The "Nakba bill", proposed by Yisrael Beiteinu, requires the state to fine local authorities and other state-funded bodies for holding events marking the Palestinian Nakba Day BY SUPPORTING ARMED RESISTANCE OR RACISM AGAINST ISRAEL, OR DESECRATING THE STATE FLAG OF OTHER SYMBOLS.++++++

      That reads a lot differently than a ban on commemorating the Nabka and I would ask Weiss why he only ran the first half of the sentence?
      Why not quote the full sentence?
      Why not?

  • On NPR, Marc Lynch raises a central Arab concern: 'What about no-fly-zone for Gaza?'
    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm

      eee, Kathleen isn't REALLY a fan of the funked-up Iranian government. She's mostly really worried that Iran is going to be attacked and innocent people in Iran are going to suffer.

      It's not like Kathleen thought that the Iranians were being true and just when they threw Roxana Saberi in jail as a spy or that Kathleen thinks that the Iranian elections wasn't rigged.

      She just doesn't want an invasion and more suffering.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 1:05 pm with 3 replies

      Les, that's a rather dubious contention based on an imaginary premise.

      Finklestein is "in the media" often.

      Falk has been in the news for decades. Back in 1979 Falk wrote an extensive piece, published in the New York Times, denouncing President Carter for thinking that Khomeini was not a real nice person!!!

      link to online.wsj.com

      Falk remains famous and influential and well-publisized to this day.

      So what's the problem?

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

      Thanks for the link, Pots. I got a hint that Hass thinks that Hamas might want a round of bombings now to spike the unity demos in Gaza and to plow under any discontent with Hamas' regime by stoking up rage against Israel.

  • Bill Maher asks Michael Oren whether 'being an Occupier has changed the Jewish people,' but
    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 5:28 pm with 1 replies

      well, yes you can. Israel is not going away any time soon.

      the 'later" part of your sooner or later isn't going to come up while anybody here is still walking around.

  • 'Addicted to empire... potential quagmire' -- Walt
    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm

      It ain't overwhelming, but a consideration of the what the future might hold sans intervention is not a waste of time. it's rather a usual practice.

  • Jon Stewart strikes again
  • Preliminary remarks in support of the Libyan intervention
    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 6:02 pm

      Nothing stopped the Arab League from rescuing those Libyans instead of asking the US and the Europeans to do the job.

      If you don't want any of the mice to be saved, you can count on the Arab League to not save them.

      jeepers, but your comment is not well thought-out.

  • Israel lobby figure opposes 'two-state solution' in Libya
    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 10:10 pm with 1 replies

      ---probably a few of us who turned into one staters after arguing w/pompous ethnic cleansing supporting jerkoff zionists for a few years.----

      if that's your reason for changing, you need to re-think.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 9:10 pm with 1 replies

      yes, I understood that Slater has been mentioned here, but was pretty sure that the piece to which I linked would not be.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 3:20 pm with 9 replies

      Here's something arguing for two-state. Not the sort of person that would get published here by Weiss, I suppose.

      link to jeromeslater.com

      ---------"We live in an imperfect world, full of injustices, tragic dilemmas, and circumstances we can’t control. There is no perfectly just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even in principle, let alone in practice. If those who rightly abhor Israeli policies give up on a two-state settlement, however dim its current prospects, in favor of a quixotic venture to create a fantasy–a stable democratic state in which Israelis and Palestinians live in peace, harmony, and equality–they will make it even more likely that the Palestinians will receive no justice at all, and will be condemned to live indefinitely under Israeli occupation and repression."------------

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 1:17 pm with 1 replies

      1) failed? naaw. can't understand why it failed.

      2) could be that the extremism was fostered not by the partition but by the warfare and terrorism.

  • Born in Jerusalem, a Palestinian bookstore owner is stripped of his 'residency' and may soon be deported
    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 7:59 pm with 2 replies

      the last time that the US conquered land, it wasn't from Mexico, Woody and what the US elected to do is not relevant.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 4:33 pm

      eee, the taking of the water is general and overseen by the administration. generalization is fitting.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 4:11 pm with 1 replies

      Moose, I don't own an Israel, but if I did there would be plenty of room for you and Rocky.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 3:49 pm

      eee, this wasn't a tactic of a war. it wasn't a part of anything.
      of course, it's not unique and yes, there have been worse things done, but it was gratuitous cruelty and unvarnished ugliness.
      the people who did it should be paid in their own coin.

      the child and his horse posed no threat to anyone and the fu@kin settlers never stop stealing the water.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 2:15 pm

      annie, I started out calling it........
      " immoral and violative and ugly."

      it may well in some sense be legal, but I don't really give a crap if it is.

      the design is to insure that Jerusalem will be populated (more than 2/3s) with citizens of Israel.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 1:29 pm

      annie, I think that the discrimination against, and expulsion o,f the Arab non-citizens from Jerusalem has been a matter of long standing and that they fully know that leaving town means that they may not be allowed back in.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 1:14 pm

      Chaos, you would love those camps. you would be very popular and fit right in.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 1:13 pm

      eee, it may be a bad choice, but it's theirs to make. those that refuse to be citizens are screwed over and driven out of the place where they were born. it's immoral and violative and ugly.

  • Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and more
    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 5:42 pm

      Seham, I read that Bahrain is recruiting 1,000 Pakistanis, NOT that they were yet in Bahrain.

      according to your link to DAWN

      -------They said that interviews and tests of thousands of candidates had been conducted by a team comprising Bahraini officials and an American instructor and the recruits are likely to leave the country in a month or so.------

      seems that they aren't in Bahrain yet, eh?

      and that beating Pakistanis and folks from around Pakistan can't even be shrugged off as a reaction to anything.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 4:46 pm with 5 replies

      Seham, do you read this as, in significant part, a Sunni/Shia dispute?

      1) I read that Bahrain is recruiting Pakistanis, but hadn't read that they were in place and doing any of the slaughtering.

      2) I fully believe that the Bahrain gov is up to dirty tricks, but I'm not sure that I believe that the protesters aren't doing some of the thuggery.

      I appreciate your report and hope to read more from Bahrain, and, hopefully, it'll be reports of less thuggery all around.

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 12:31 am

      From Lebanon's Daily Star, an AFP report

      =====DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: The Turkish authorities have seized rifles on a Syria-bound Iranian plane, grounded since the weekend, and questioned its seven-man crew, police and judicial sources said Tuesday.

      The cargo plane, a civilian Ilyushin, was ordered to land in Diyarbakir, in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, Saturday night on suspicion that it had military or illicit cargo on board.

      The plane had declared a cargo of spare car parts, but the inspection resulted also in the discovery of a box containing automatic rifles, a police source told AFP, without providing further details on the guns.====

      Read more: link to dailystar.com.lb
      (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

    • fuster March 23, 2011 at 12:17 am

      The Pakistani paper, Dawn, is also running stories about the Bahraini protesters beating Pakistanis.

      link to blog.dawn.com

      However, hate crimes against Pakistanis living in Bahrain are not just limited to this hospital but are being indulged in with complete impunity all over the country. It is not uncommon for people to have their IDs checked and if found to be a Pakistan, they are literally beaten to death by the protestors. When I contacted a Bahraini resident to check whether the anonymous email was true, Ms Reem Al Zain, a local, gave the following account of what she has witnessed so far:

      “For the past few weeks we have been hearing about, from particularly the West, the “human rights” of these protesters with no mention why innocent civilians have been tortured and killed by the same protestors. Expatriates, mainly of Asian origin, have been harmed both physically and mentally with threats from these protestors. Fatwas have been issued in Shi’ite villages to harm expatriates and this can be seen quite clearly on Facebook and Twitter.
      ----------------------------------

  • Here is Ayman. And here is his horse
    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 9:08 pm

      1787 is a good one.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 8:43 pm

      when Kahane was murdered, it didn't cause me any grief.

      but I'm not going to compare the OT with the Warsaw Ghetto,Cit, unless you mean conditions in the Ghetto long before the war.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 8:10 pm

      no, not really. wars invariably result in the death of innocent people. the IDF's primary responsibility isn't not to act unless it can act without killing innocent people.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 7:51 pm

      because they lost, you silly Cit.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 7:19 pm

      well, Citizen, that's not what it means.

      here's the real poop.

      link to ashahed.blogs.finalcall.com

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 5:37 pm

      there's an organization called Heifer International and several others such as that.

      link to heifer.org

      Worldvision

      link to worldvision.org

      one of them might do it.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 3:02 pm

      As long as you amuse yourself speculating about "Do all Jews carry this zio-endorphin" the hatred is pretty apparent.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 1:47 pm

      there's no defense for killing the horse and no defense for thinking that such actions are unique.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 1:22 pm with 7 replies

      naw, Chu, it's mostly Saudi-funded madrassahs that teach religious hatred. I'm not sure that it's an Arab failure, it's just some of them that are bigoted and gross. Probably not at all genetic.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 1:04 pm

      eee, sometimes it's best to understand things for what they are.

      It's Lawrence of Arabia! that's the movie I was trying to remember. somebody says the water is owned by his family and it's not to be shared by others. don't think it was the horse that got killed in the movie, but it's about the same thing.

      barbarism isn't that uncommon, but devolving into it renders people less than fully human.

    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 12:18 pm with 21 replies

      eee, there's no defense for killing that horse. it's an action that's classic villiany. it's like something from a movie, it's so lousy.

      it reminds me of a scene from a movie, but I can't remember which one.

  • Obama honors Arab uprisings for demanding 'universal values'
    • fuster March 22, 2011 at 12:22 pm

      “hundreds of prisoners of conscience” is what Obama said, Philip, not hundreds in jail in Iran.

      nice twist

  • 'Jewish and democratic' state intent on proving it is a democracy for Jews only

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