Sunday, July 13, 2014

Oooookay

Why I'm on the brink of burning my Israeli passport
"I can no longer stand by while Israeli politicians like Ayelet Shaked condone the deaths of innocent Palestinian women and children"
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"I know what it is to have been helpless victims, living and dying under racist oppressors’ boots, and I know that today’s Israelis are no longer the victims but the perpetrators of the current crisis. Yes, Hamas are dreadful hate-filled killers and woe betide Israel had they had the wherewithal to carry out their intentions. But the fact remains that it is Israel which has the tanks, bombers, artillery, nuclear warheads and missile defences of Goliath, while ordinary Gazans had nothing a week ago and even less today, as even hospitals and schools were bombed.

Shaked got what she wanted: the death toll in Gaza is nearing 100, one in four being children. Hundreds more have serious injuries in a place where hospitals have also been bombed and medical essentials are running out."
Hospitals and schools, huh.

And just why is it that the Pals have nothing? Do you think it may be because the expend so many of their resources on rocket launchers and stuff? Could it be this? This? This? Or this?

And perhaps, just perhaps, hospitals and schools are targeted because that's where Hamas chooses to launch their rockets from. Dingbat.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

In Memory Of A Courageous Italian

While there's lots of ink and pixels being pored out over the Costa Concordia cruise ship fiasco, especially about the shameful behavior of her captain and crew, I have another image of Italians that will stick with me forever, long after this fiasco recedes onto the back pages, and from there into history's dustbin of forgotten incidents. And that image is of one Fabrizio Quattrocchi, who minutes before his head was filled with bullets by Islamists in Iraq, cried out "I'll show you how an Italian dies." That man was one courageous dude who will do Italians proud for a good long time.

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Thursday, May 05, 2011

"Imaging That Walking On Your Face."

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

More Razor Edged Clarity from Bill Whittle