tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post2962963366180503964..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Annexation of Palestine and the Expulsion of Its PeopleThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-56539462042381771462017-09-17T09:01:27.985-07:002017-09-17T09:01:27.985-07:00I'm loathe to use the Israeli-Nazi analogy bec...<br />I'm loathe to use the Israeli-Nazi analogy because it's unfair to the significant minority of Israelis who are as aghast at what's befallen their nation as anyone, even more so. One of the best things the Likkudniks have going for them is that their critics do include enough anti-Semites that it enables them to brand them all anti-Semitic. Harper certainly liked that world view and, to a lesser extent, it's found purchase within the Liberal ranks also. It has cowed the NDP and even Elizabeth May quakes in her boots even as her party's membership stands resolute.<br /><br />Alison at Creekside chronicles the voting record in the UN General Assembly on motions touching on the Israel-Palestine problem. It's invariably the "rest of the world" versus Israel, the US, Canada and a small clutch of "bought and paid for" island micro-states in the central Pacific. Sweep away the paid help and that leaves Canada and the United States, Ottawa and Washington, as Israel's only backers. In the face of this reality, our refusal to acknowledge the state of apartheid, our refusal to denounce the captivity of an entire people for more than half a century, our indifference to the succession of war crimes perpetrated at will by our "ally", we cannot deny our culpability in this. Without us it could not happen.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-83799204307664962362017-09-17T02:25:27.591-07:002017-09-17T02:25:27.591-07:00.. 'religion as smokescreen' - three words..... 'religion as smokescreen' - three words - hitting the nail on the headthe salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6111211851138472962017-09-16T20:51:49.893-07:002017-09-16T20:51:49.893-07:00Aung San Suu Kyi was once considered vision of enl...Aung San Suu Kyi was once considered vision of enlightenment.<br />We become enamored with causes and the individuals that lead them; we seem to need heros!<br />That the Jews were subject to genocide is unconscionable but using this fact to further a colonial cause is but a smoke screen.<br />We are in a day where religion is used as a smoke screen for discrimination and atrocity.<br /><br />TB<br />Trailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08065775238162848249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3633805728234614762017-09-16T19:52:50.602-07:002017-09-16T19:52:50.602-07:00.. there is no sense..
that Israel..
will regain i..... there is no sense..<br />that Israel..<br />will regain its senses..<br /><br />Its become very very dark.. there<br /><br />It does look like Israel has 'lost it'<br />The 'picture' .. the promise.. the reality<br />even the vague semblance of sanity..<br /><br />They appear to have instead opted for..<br />a twisted variation of TrumpWorld ..<br />settlerism.. they may call it..<br /><br />How will that unfold ?<br />Not well at all..<br />Insanity does not unfold well..<br />Oh not at all.. actually..<br /><br />the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-75546203610235659922017-09-16T16:53:00.258-07:002017-09-16T16:53:00.258-07:00https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/16/rabb...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/16/rabbis-block-marriages-israeljewish-identity-human-rights<br /><br />These people are no better than those they kill at will.<br /><br />They have become no better than the Nazis that tried to exterminate them.<br /><br />TBTrailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08065775238162848249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30300160021108661662017-09-16T16:39:06.627-07:002017-09-16T16:39:06.627-07:00They're not even pretending any more although ...They're not even pretending any more although we're pretending they still are.<br /><br />We, the West, pretend that there is no genocide anywhere there is no oil or a road to the rapture.<br />We then ridicule the Muslim 69 virgins or whatever!!<br /><br />It's old news but never ceases to upset .<br /><br />TBTrailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08065775238162848249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-40520992897374889162017-09-16T15:43:54.571-07:002017-09-16T15:43:54.571-07:00Extract from draft submitted for inclusion in miss...Extract from draft submitted for inclusion in mission statement of the Basel Program: <br /><br />"The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a home in EretzIsrael secured by law." <br /><br />Compromise expression said to have been proposed by Herzl himself: <br /><br />"Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in EretzIsrael secured under public law." <br /><br />Entry asserted to have been made in Herzl's diary:<br /><br /> “Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word - which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly - it would be this: At Basel I founded the Jewish State.” <br /><br />Start as you intend to continue. <br /><br />What's a hundred years? What's a thousand? <br /><br />Is this too tragic for a "yuk-yuk-yuk"?John B.noreply@blogger.com