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Ever since a group of ordinary people from more than 40 different countries came together and set sail for Gaza have we seen various world leaders scramble to persuade Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza. Why? To honour the memory of those martyred by Israeli soldiers who shot nine unarmed peace activists at virtually point-blank range? Hell no!
They realize that people power has achieved more in that one heroic action, than any of them have achieved for the people of Palestine. And, despite that brutal episode, they know that more flotillas and convoys are being planned because people power is achieving more than anything else has over the past 60 years for the people of Palestine.
Continue Reading July 8th, 2010
YOU’VE got to hand it to the Israeli public relations flacks: only they could convince you that killing children was an act of self-defence.
Continue Reading January 12th, 2009
Because umpires are human there will always be mistakes. Mistakes are unfortunate. Many respond by saying that bad umpiring “happens both ways” and “you win some you lose some” and that “it all evens out in the long run”. These words may be true to some extent but one key point that is almost always ignored is that an incorrect umpiring decision almost always costs the underdog the most because the underdog has to work harder to take wickets, score runs and win matches.
Continue Reading January 8th, 2008
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating telling it like it is..
Continue Reading November 22nd, 2007
These Bush supporters have morphed the Republican Party into the Brownshirt Party. They cannot wait to attack Iran, preferably with nuclear weapons. Impatient for Armageddon, some are so full of hubris and self-righteousness that they actually believe that their support for evil means they will be “wafted up to heaven.”
Continue Reading August 26th, 2007
“The Ottoman empire fashioned itself as the inheritor of the first caliphates centered in Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo until Turkey’s
secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk formally ended the office in 1924, in what Muslims have often viewed as a British imperial plot.”
Continue Reading December 15th, 2006
‘Domination’ over Palestinians ‘atrocious,’ ex-prez tells ‘Good Morning America’
“Carter said there was “no doubt now that a minority of Israelis are perpetuating apartheid on the people in Palestine, the Palestinian people.”
Continue Reading November 29th, 2006
The bad guy is Jewish so that makes the film, director and crew all anti-semites does It???
Continue Reading November 29th, 2006
” Israel is a nation in serious decline. Its President may face indictment on charges of rape, the “peace movement” is virtually non-existent, corruption is rampant (a 2005 World Bank report found that the Jewish state’s economic corruption was one of the worst in the developed world) and the military establishment is addicted to military solutions that have failed…”
Continue Reading November 13th, 2006
“…Yet being “offensive” appears to be a new type of calamity or crime in Australia, and the problem is that you can commit it without having any intention of doing so. Somebody, anybody, can find you guilty and that’s it - an open-and-shut-up case - all because you spoke your peculiar, passionate mind. People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it’s almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.”
Continue Reading November 13th, 2006
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