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Friday, December 16, 2005

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- An update on the current situation in Nepal. Is the King serious about peace and democracy? Don't count on it.

- In violation of international law and the so-called "Road Map", Israel announces construction of yet more houses in West Bank settlements and Hamas wins big in local Palestinian elections.

- Israel's former top general claims that Saddam moved his WMD to Syria before the 2003 invasion. This story has circulated for years, despite no evidence, but the mainstream media keeps printing it.

- The Iraqi elections saw a large turn-out and a likely win for religious parties closely aligned with Iran. Many Iraqis want an end to the US occupation, though this election will not lead to a full US withdrawal. That will not happen for years, if ever. If the US wanted to create a Western-friendly state in the Middle East, they will be sorely disappointed. So much for building "democracy" in the region. There have been so many "milestones" since 2003, it is difficult to believe this election will bring any relief from the insurgency, Shiite backed militias, a largely unreported air war and privatisation of the country's oil.

- Australia is not a racist country but the greatest place on Earth, says John Howard. And the fairy godmother is Jewish.

- Bush says the Iraq war is good for Israel, but many American Jews aren't so sure. An Islamic state aligned with Iran. Yep, score one for the Zionists.

5 Comments:

Blogger Ibrahamav said...

Anthony,

Arab violation of the Road map is not under discussion here! When will you ever learn that this isn't about truth or justice or freedom?

Saturday, December 17, 2005 2:43:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The interesting thing about the Israeli interest in the rape of Iraq is the confirming fact. Removing Hussein was a much-touted goal spoiled for over years, and it meant the crushing of Israel's greatest regional threat. As is their wont, a lot of American Jews refuse to comprehend the preceding sentence and on hearing it start shrieking about conspiracy. (It always bothered us how pleased some pedants are to confuse presense and effectiveness regarding a certain Czarist hate tract, and how often that same concern is used to stamp out dissent as hateful.) But beyond the obviousness of the desire of a prowling power to do without a rival, an incomprehensible koan that could be twisted to imply that Iraqi hostilities toward Israel were not motivated simply out of European bigotry, there is a punchline that confirms this bit of suspicion. The usual arguments against an Israeli interest in a shattered Iraq have to do with aftermath.
SINCE WHEN WERE ZIONISTS PHYSICALLY CAPABLE OF THINKING AS FAR AS STEP TWO?
These are the people who (except for sensible fascists like Jabotinsky, who called such stupidity what it was) thought they would take another's land and everything would be fine. These are the people who are daily going on hunting expeditions in their settlements, provoking the Palestinian youths, dumping sewage on their "partners" and indulging every petty little abusive urge.
The enormous consequences of the Iraq war are too close to the enormous consequences of the Zionist enterprise for protests from Tel Aviv or New York about innocently trying to hold Bush back to make any sense. Canadian conspiracy theorist the diaphanous Xymphora goes further, pointing out previous cooperation between Iran and Israel (it's more than just Iran-Contra, which is already plenty), the fact that both are non-Sunni non-Arab states who both perceive themselves as oppressed minorities and share mostly the same pallette of enemies or rivals. Israel could be tickled pink that their former Baathist Sunni enemies are now on the run, underground or being tortured by an ascendant Shi'ite ally. Meanwhile John "The Mustache" Bolton, who recently received enthusiastic applause from a Zionist organization for no reason whatsoever exceprt courtesy (Zionists are always very courteous!), is leading the charge against Iraq's Sunni Baathist little sister, Syria. This is not to say that Israel would not attack Iran, especially if they thought Iran was too close to nukes (although Iran has put its nukes in bunkers Israel can't get to, which is part of why this is taking so long), but we fear bigger things than singular bombing missions out west.

Saturday, December 17, 2005 10:27:00 am  
Blogger Ibrahamav said...

Only an antisemite would consider kei's post to be interesting and not unadulterated claptrap.

Addamo - you've outed yourself again.

Sunday, December 18, 2005 1:00:00 am  
Blogger Ibrahamav said...

Despise freedom of expression? I applaud it. Just as I applaud your skill at goose stepping while you yet deny the ability.

Sunday, December 18, 2005 9:10:00 am  
Blogger Ibrahamav said...

Your partiality to antisemitic ideas is appalling. Nothing amusing about it.

Sunday, December 18, 2005 1:46:00 pm  

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