Didn't you see the massive damage in Israel? The apratment building they showed 10,000 times in a week, the parking lot, the car on fire, the grass in Moshe's front yard? Do you have no real sympathy for the Israeli children complaining about bugs in the shelters or the teeming multitudes in the refugee camp on the beach? That wasn't a party, mister. The balls were bulletproof, the radios for war updates and the coolers for makeshift chairs.
I don't get YOU PEOPLE. There's a guy in Haifa without transportation!
Indeed Mo.
The question is, will Israel learn from this?
I'm not too confidet, as much of the criticism currently raging in Israel is - we should have hit them harder, ie the war was a failure, not because of a mistaken conception, but because it was insufficiently aggresive.
I think it's so telling the way not a single journalist has been able to communicate the vast scale of the destruction without then having to some way "justify" the whole operation. We have now seen a few grieving families of fallen soldiers, and the pity is being once again squeezed out of every pore of our bodies. There is going to be an endless supply of it forever from us.
Just to let you know Michael,
there is a slew of good articles at the mo, over at MediaLens.org -
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/...rts/
archive.php
All the best!
PS
we'll all have to stop meeting like this !
I've been following the oil spill coverage, and to date the only mass media to report it are reuters, the BBC and MSNBC. But MSNBC made sure that the oil spill title didn't mention Israel, but the article below headlines that Hesbollah caused a forest fire.
Michael, may I send you rants or links from time to time? I deleted my blog. Too time consuming and upsetting. Crescent and Cross has a pic (under "Post-natal abortion, Israeli style) of a newborn baby with half a body, her mother's hand (without the arm) cradling him. That pic is an outrage and should be shoved in pro-lifers' faces and splashed across anti-war blogs!
Sure can Mo.
Have you ever noticed that all those
stereotypes about Muslims are reality in U.S. allied Muslim nations? I've been looking into those stereotypes and made these observations:
1) Honor killings are a cultural rather than religious phenomenon, and exteremly rare. Christians and Jews in Lebanon have also engaged in it.
2) The strict "Islamic" dress comes from pre-Islamic Turkey. The Kopran, as in the bible, commands modest dress.
3) Islamic nations aren't backward, they have been improving considerably in the human rights and education areas. They slide backwards after U.S. or Israeli attacks.
4) Stereotypes about Muslims are done this way: By taking the worst of one separate culture and applying it across the board.
Racism against Arabs has to be addressed through education.
Actually, as for the headscarf, I have found that it was basically a custom imported from Greece, as the nomadic people never used such a thing, but when the men went back to their tribes in the Arab peninsula, it was imposed upon the more well-to-do women, as a symbol of power, prestige and status. It then was diffused to more sedentary people in the Arab world. It was not invented there.
I didn't know that, cutter. It's a shame westerners have to learn about Islam through wars we wage on them. With all this attention it's a surprise the ignorance is spreading.
1) Honor killings are a cultural rather than religious phenomenon, and exteremly rare. Christians and Jews in Lebanon have also engaged in it.
Oh yeah?
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
#1 Security Chaos and Proliferation of Weapons
Extra-Judicial Killing for Family Honor
Field Update
23 August 2006
A Woman Killed in Nusairat Refugee Camp Allegedly for the
Protection Family Honor
On Tuesday noon, 22 August 2006, a woman was killed in the
central Gaza Strip allegedly to protect family honor.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at
approximately 13:00 on Tuesday, 22 August 2006, Faiza 'Eid
Abu Sawawin, 35, from al-Hasaina area in the west of
Nusairat refugee camp, was brought dead to the al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She was hit by several live bullets throughout the body.
According to sources of the Attorney-General office in the
central Gaza Strip, the victim's brother, who is a member of
the Palestinian Preventive Security Service and lives in the
southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, shot her dead allegedly
to protect his family honor.
It is worth noting that killings committed allegedly to
protect family honor have escalated in the past two months.
According to PCHR's documentation, on
9 August 200, the Palestinian police found the bodies of two
girls in al-Sawarha area, west of Nusairat refugee camp in
the central Gaza Strip.
The two victims' brother shot them dead allegedly to protect
his family honor. On 30 June 2006, the Palestinian police
took out the body of an 18-year-old girl from a cemetery in
Rafah.
PCHR strongly condemns such crimes, and stresses that:
1) Such crimes constitute an attack on the rule of
law;
2) They are a form of extra-judicial killing, and
constitute a
flagrant violation of human rights, especially the right to
life and the right not to be subject to cruel and inhumane
treatment; and
3) The Palestinian National Authority is required to
take necessary
steps to confront this phenomenon through pursuing the
perpetrators of these killings, and bringing them to
justice.
As you attack the bad aspects of Arab culture, you call me a "white supremacist" for attacking a religious culture.
You're a white supremist for your notions of supremacy of the 'white' race. It allows you to believe their is something special about you because of your skin. Just a myth, you're worthless and stupid.
You should quit reading their websites. It shows in most of your posts.
4) Stereotypes about Muslims are done this way: By taking the worst of one separate culture and applying it across the board.
Racism against Arabs has to be addressed through education.
MO | 08.21.06 - 11:00 pm | #
Here's some education:
As a result, more and more Iraqis are avoiding hospitals, making it even harder to preserve life in a city where death is seemingly everywhere. Gunshot victims are now being treated by nurses in makeshift emergency rooms set up in homes. Women giving birth are smuggled out of Baghdad and into clinics in safer provinces.
In most cases, family members and hospital workers said, the motive for the abductions appeared to be nothing more than religious affiliation. Because public hospitals are controlled by Shiites, the killings have raised questions about whether hospital staff have allowed Shiite death squads into their facilities to slaughter Sunni Arabs.
"We would prefer now to die instead of going to the hospitals," said Abu Nasr, 25, a Sunni cousin of Saud and former security guard from al-Madaan, a Baghdad suburb. "I will never go back to one. Never. The hospitals have become killing fields."
Three Health Ministry officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being killed for discussing such topics publicly, confirmed that Shiite militias have attacked Sunnis inside hospitals. Adel Muhsin Abdullah, the ministry's inspector general, said his investigations into complaints of hospital abductions have yielded no conclusive evidence. "But I don't deny that it may have happened," he said.
According to patients and families of victims, the primary group kidnapping Sunnis from hospitals is the Mahdi Army, a militia controlled by anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that has infiltrated the Iraqi security forces and several government ministries. The minister of health, Ali al-Shimari, is a member of al-Sadr's political movement. In Baghdad today, it is often impossible to tell whether someone is a government official, a militia member or, as is often the case, both.
"When their uniforms are off, they are Sadr people," said Abu Mahdi, another of Saud's cousins. "When their uniforms are on, they are Ministry of Interior or Ministry of Health people."
Whine whine whine. "I'm jewish, and I'm a racist asshole."
It took you 17 days to come up with that? You are a slow witted racist asshole, but I doubt that you are Jewish.
You are just another white supremist who is upset because God did not chose you.
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