"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." * Martin Luther King Jr. // * "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." * George Orwell // Want to contact the Stubble Jumping Redneck? Shoot her an email @ oldweesie@sasktel.net
Labels: al Sisi, Egypt, Israel, The Middle East, United Nations
posted by Louise at 3:48 pm
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Labels: Hamas, Israel, you can't make this shit up
posted by Louise at 8:48 pm
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Labels: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, democracy, Dippers, elections, Israel, NDP
posted by Louise at 11:20 am
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Labels: Israel, Netanyahu, Useless Nations
posted by Louise at 3:37 am
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"The release of the United Nations Palmer report into last year's flotilla incident aboard the Mavi Marmara has vindicated Israel by finding that its naval blockade of the Gaza strip is legal under international law. Moreover, Israel has the right to enforce that blockade - including in international waters. It has also rebutted many of the false claims and assumptions that have been made about the flotilla incident and about the broader situation in Gaza".Let the bells ring out and the banners fly!!!!!! Must be part of that sea change I've been talking about.
Labels: Gaza Strip, Israel, Useless Nations
posted by Louise at 2:34 am
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"We are often baffled that many otherwise sensible people seem to be totally off the mark in their analysis of the Israel / Arab conflict. They say nothing about all the Arab crimes committed against Israel or even against Palestinians, but they are always eager to call Israel a criminal state as soon as she takes any action to defend her security.[---]
Are these people unable to understand the history of the conflict? People who view the conflict in this way do not understand the Middle East. They still have the old colonialist mentality of Western nations occupying territory and “civilizing the savages”, and they feel guilty about it. They project those guilt feelings on Israel, repeating to themselves that the only reason that Israel settles land is to colonize the Arab world.
They are missing two important pieces in their reasoning: First, unlike old colonies of Europe, Israel is not the colony of any Western country; she is a nation that has existed for over three millennia, long before modern European countries. Second, Israel has never had any interest in settling lands that were not part of the traditional Land of Israel; Israel is not in any way interested in taking over the Arab world, and anyone who can read a map can see that Israel is a tiny dot surrounded by a giant Arab world. We support the concept of a two-state solution, and we do not support Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but that is not because we see them as a colonialist enterprise. It is simply because we see a two-state solution as the only viable answer to the conflict, and we see settlements as an excuse used very effectively by Palestinian leaders to refuse peace with Israel.
Those who view the conflict from a colonialist prism are hurting the Palestinians because they make them out to be helpless and uneducated savages who have no control over their future. The reality is that the reason the conflict has not been resolved is because too many Arabs and particularly Palestinians believe that Israel is a foreign entity that will inevitably disappear just as France left Lebanon and Syria, and just as Britain left Mandatory Palestine.
Because of the irrational and extremist approach taken by groups like Hamas, and often by Fatah, Israel feels no obligation to give up on what she sees as her historical right to the Land of Israel. After all, Israel left Gaza, and see what happened! The only way to reach an agreement with Israel that will achieve dignity and provide a state to the Palestinians is to use peaceful diplomacy and not violence, but because of guilt-ridden Westerners encouraging them, Palestinians do not feel the need to compromise. Hamas sees violence as achieving the destruction of Israel, and Fatah sees delays and deception as achieving the same goal."
"If Palestinian leaders were wise, they would tell those in “aid” ships headed to Gaza to turn around and go drink through their guilt somewhere else. They would also dismantle all terrorist organizations, and they would work for the goal of a Palestinian state using the only means that work: negotiation and diplomacy."
Labels: Arabs, conflict, Israel, sea change, The Middle East
posted by Louise at 10:07 am
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""The intent was without doubt to cause an explosion. It was a terrorist attack," President Francois Hollande said at a news conference in Belgium.
French Prosecutor Francois Molins said four suspects were in custody, including the suspected attacker, identified as Yassin Salih, 35, his wife, his sister and another person close to him.
"The slain victim's head was found yards away from the body, stuck on a perimeter fence, with Arabic writing on or near it. There were also flags or banners bearing Arabic writing found at the scene."
Labels: France, Hamas, Israel, terrorism, United Nations
posted by Louise at 5:54 pm
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Labels: BDS, boycotts, Israel, leftards, leftards and leftards
posted by Louise at 3:36 pm
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Labels: democracy, Egypt, Israel, Middle East
posted by Louise at 5:16 am
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Labels: Iran, Israel, Yasser Arafat, you can't make this shit up
posted by Louise at 7:27 pm
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"US-Israel relations are on a collision course because of [President Barack] Obama’s policy on Iran..."[---]
"“We cannot accept the American policy on Iran and sometimes small states have to oppose even superpowers’ policies.”"
Labels: Arabs, Barack Obama, Iran, Islamofascism, Israel, war
posted by Louise at 11:13 am
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Labels: 1960's, Israel, music, Rolling Stones
posted by Louise at 7:13 pm
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"Is promoting genocide a human-rights violation? You might think that's an easy question. But it isn't at Human Rights Watch, where a bitter debate is raging over how to describe Iran's calls for the destruction of Israel. The infighting reveals a peculiar standard regarding dictatorships and human rights and especially the Jewish state."(Emphasis mine)
Labels: genocide, human rights, Iran, Israel
posted by Louise at 10:23 pm
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"In a stunning five minute statement read on state television late Friday, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, leader of Israel’s oldest and most implacable foe, called the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza a “collective massacre” caused by Hamas.
It is just the latest signal in a tectonic shift in Middle East geopolitics that has been largely overlooked by Western media seemingly still committed to building upon its decades-old narrative that Israel remains the united enemy of the Arab world.
In the 75 year history of conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East, no state has been more consistently intransigent against the very notion of a sovereign Jewish presence in the region than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, founded by Abdullah’s grandfather, Ibn Saud, in 1923."
Labels: Islam, Israel, Middle East, Saudi Arabia
posted by Louise at 5:31 pm
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posted by Louise at 6:04 pm
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Labels: Barack Obama, Islamism, Israel, Middle East, war
posted by Louise at 7:26 am
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