Netanyahu's Offer

Netanyahu has just told the 'Washington Post' that he thinks the Palestinians should be allowed to govern their lives providing they don't threaten Israeli lives.(1) Jolly decent of him and where will the Palestinians be "governing" their lives? Well, with the Zionist stooge,Mahmoud Abbas, declaring on Saturday that any unity government with Hamas would have to agree to a two-state solution with Israel,(2) Bibi, in his own wee world, might actually feel secure enough to believe that this nonsense makes sense; the "wonderful" two "state" solution with Palestinians living on bits and pieces of what was Palestine, "governing" their own lives and just letting the Israelis get on with theirs on land that they, the Palestinians, have a legal right to. "........ the Palestinians should be allowed to govern their lives providing they don't threaten Israeli lives." Perhaps, if those Israelis were to move off of the land that they have stolen then they would not feel threatened anymore and I am sure that the Palestinians would then be quite happy to let Israelis get on with the business of running their own lives. "Generousity" of the sort being displayed by Netanyahu has its historical parallels and I am reminded of the "self governing" Warsaw ghetto.
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067520.html
2 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067528.html

Obama declares the end for Iraq war

According to Chomsky the term, "military-industrial complex" is a misnomer because the phenomenon in question "is not specifically military." He claims, "There is no military-industrial complex: it's just the industrial system operating under one or another pretext (defence was a pretext for a long time)."(1) Whatever, whatever, and one thing is for sure, whatever and whoever the "hope and change" man is serving, whichever interests he represents, it is not the interests of those who saw him as a vehicle for genuine change. The troops will be leaving Iraq by August 2010 but they won't all be leaving until the end of 2011 and forgive me for being skeptical but let us wait and see and when they leave they might find themselves going east rather than west and ending up in Kabul and Khandhar rather than Kansas and Kentucky. Let us please get a couple of things clear, for the powers that control the President of the United States, it is much of a muchness where the jarheads are, moreover, the pentagon buys and the war industry sells, and whether the dead are on the outskirts of Bagram or Bagdhad, in Basra or Beruit, it is business as usual and the only thing that will come out of Washington is not hope but a different version of the hype.
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

Uri Dromi

In today's 'Guardian' we had another twat of a Zionist apologist traipsing out the usual Zionist drivel and telling us that, "No other army in the world goes to such lengths to try not to hurt civilians. Yet once a military operation is launched, and especially in a heavily populated area such as Gaza, things happen. Was there a disproportionate use of force? The IDF is checking it. Was there misuse of white phosphorous or flechettes? Again, Israel, as a vibrant democracy, is investigating the matter thoroughly".(1) Why does the press print their garbage? Well, it prints their garbage because if it is not "their" press, it appears to be at least obliging to "them". Here is a man who served for twenty five years in the Israeli Air Force, who is a staunch Zionist, who is a member of various dubious Zionist organisations and who regularly writes the absurdest of drivel and who gets the kind of publicity that we quite rightly normally deny to fools, liars and hypocrites of his ilk. That is, of course, unless. they happen to be from the absurdly oxymoronic "Jewish Democracy" and here we are giving a platform to Mr Dromi and the rest of that merry myriad of Zionist nutters who deny the evidence of their crimes at every turn. These people are nothing but lying, murdering, thieves and it is surely time to expose them as such.
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/23/israel-palestinian-territories

Zany Zionists, Space Cadets and Neo-Nazis

Now, the lesson of the holocaust, of the Armenian genocide, of the killing fields of Cambodia, of East Timor, of Srebenica, of the madness in Africa, of all the crimes against humanity, has to be a common one and a lesson for us all, and that message has to be, even if the numbers actually murdered might become the subject of dispute, human beings cannot tolerate such horrors being perpetrated on their fellows. Nevertheless, when the Zionist controlled media starts their little witch hunt on the "holocaust deniers" it is neither out of an altruistic concern for Jews living in what our zany Zionists would term the diaspora, nor is it out of some respect for the millions who were murdered at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sachsenhausen and elsewhere. No, it is because of that Machiavellianism that is "a priori" the Jewish state's raison d'etre; a Machiavellianism founded on the uniqueness of the holocaust and an absurd biblical claim to the land of Israel. Take away, that "crime beyond comparison", and the house of Zion is beginning to look more like a house of cards and who knows the idea of an all inclusive democratic society in the region might gain ground.
Of course, the David Irvings and Richard Williamsons of this world are, at least, as important to the Zionists as Netanyahu, Livni, Peres, Olmert, Barak and the rest of the "hard done by", whiners. There is Irving with his talking tours that take him all over, and over, and over, little halls in Central Europe; little halls full of raving neo-nazis and invariably outside the main urban centres. Then, there is Williamson a full space cadet in the Society of St Pius X, or SSPX, the ultra-conservative breakaway Catholic faction founded by Lefebvre in 1970 to counter the liberalism of the second Vatican council. Yes, you read correctly, "to counter the "liberalism" of the second Vatican council." The mind really does boggle. Can Irving and Williamson be taken seriously? That is just it, they cannot and so it is with anyone who challenges the zany Zionists and their raison d'etre. They really have got it sussed, haven't they? Indeed, it is something of a surprise that Messrs Khalidi, Chomsky, Finkelstein and Pappe are still being heard in real academic institutions. In the meantime, down Palestine way, the Zionists have built themselves a "nice" little fascist state and elsewhere too the rouble is rolling for them in, what Dr Finkelstein terms, "the holocaust industry". Quite a little business they have and if anyone upsets it, in any way, they are going to be pushed into a little corner along with the Williamsons and Irving, but only if we let them.

Jack

Jack Straw has used a clause in the freedom of information act to block minutes from the cabinet meeting where the British government made the decision to drag the British people into its illegal war. Our Jack does not feel that publishing those details will be in the interests of the British Public. Our Jack is very concerned for things British and with the British resident, Binyam Mohamed, returning to the United Kingdom from Guantanamo after seven years in captivity, accusing British intelligence, MI5, of complicity in his torture, we have the tip of an iceberg, and enough information for us to put two and two together and deduce that the one thing that the very British Jack is not too bothered about, is British democracy. Up yours Jack!

Indian Space Programme

China's century? Maybe, but it is still a country where more than 60% of the population are effectively, "excluded" and India? Today, the 'Guardian' is carrying a story about how The Indian Space Research Organisation has a launched a 1.7 billion pounds sterling programme to catch up with China in what is, perhaps, a new Asian space race. Moreover, it would appear that they are not going to be on their own, with Iran recently announcing that it will attempt to launch a manned space flight by 2021. Now the sum of money mentioned above is not, I suppose, that astronomical - forgive the pun - but one really would expect that China, India and Iran would have other, more important things, to spend their money on. Yes, the next few years might see us confronted with two or three new global powers, but the evidence would already seem to suggest that these new players have got their priorities just about as screwed up as "Uncle Sam", with his Afghan adventures and the British and French with their absurd war games and absolutely useless "nuclear deterrents". The world really is quite a little mad house, isn't it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/23/india-space-astronauts

Bibi talks to Tzipi

Well it would appear that Netanyahu has managed to get Livni into talks after all, although we are assured that the 'Kadima' Chairwoman won't compromise her "peace path".(1) Tzipi about a month ago was on the "peace path" in Gaza. The newspeak grows absurder by the day and we might after all be in for a little bit more of the usual Zionist whining drivel of ..... "we offered them a hole in the ground on the outskirts of Jenin, but they wouldn't take it', "we wanted peace, really, really we did, but they asked us to obey international law." Bellicose Bibi might just be going into a coalition with the "lady of peace", the murderer of children, Tzipi Livni. Anyway, here are the statistics; 'Kadima' have 28 of the 120 seats and 'Likud' 27. Oh right, I hear you asking; how can they form a coalition? Well they then get the little parties to join in, Zionists to a man, and woman, all of them, of course, and is anyone asking about the Palestinian 20% of the population that has been effectively disenfranchised? "Democracy" and the band did, indeed, play, "believe it if you like."
1 http://www.haaretz.com/
The wee picture shows Bibi and Tzipi and the odds of them forming the next fascist government in the Jewish state have just increased.

Robert Fisk in today's 'Independent'

Robert Fisk appears to be picking up on my theme from yesterday when he writes, "But those Palestinians who believe that Lieberman should be in a Netanyahu administration – on the grounds that the “true” face of Israel would then be clear to all Americans – are being a little premature. Obama is not going to change the US relationship with Israel. American foreign policy – like that of most states – is based not on justice but on power."(1) My respect for Mr Fisk as a journalist is based not only on his objectivity but also on his humanity. Nevertheless, while I agree with what he is saying with respect to the "hype" man, I would argue that that is not the point and that there is a reality beyond not only Israel but also beyond the United States. Of course, we are treading on dangerous ground if we think the United States can be ignored, it is far too important for that and, yes, we would be strangely delusional to think that the United States of America, whatever the government in Israel, is going to stop supporting the Zionist cause. Yes, Robert Fisk is right, Obama is not going to change the US relationship with Israel. However, I still think that a Netanyahu-Lieberman coalition will at least reveal to a lot of people in the United States and elsewhere just what a farce all of this is and remember, more settlements were built when Ehud Barak' was the Prime Minister than under the last Netanyahu administration and these settlements were built when the world wasn't looking. With Bibi at the helm it will be very difficult for the world not to be aware of what is really happening. Moreover, while power does dictate American politics, there are two things worthy of consideration. Firstly, there is public opinion in the United States and, with American tax dollars being openly spent to build illegal settlements on someone else's land, that public opinion might begin to put pressure on the halls of power in Washington. Moreover, that power might be on the wane and if the day of reckoning is just around the corner, at least, with Bibi and the sphinx of Minx, we won't have to be confronted with the whining turdid drivel ..... "we only wanted to live in peace with our neighbours", "Israel is a very small country, surrounded by enemies", "we had to defend ourselves." Bibi will not do anything that any of the other Zionists haven't been doing but our Bibi is such an farcical arrogant lump that he will not even try to disguise what he is doing. That can only be a good thing!
1 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-obama-was-unconvinced-by-bibi8217s-desire-for-peace-1628256.html

Netanyahu to be the next Israeli Prime Minister

Apparently the President picks the Prime Minister to form the government in Israel and the little farce of a man, Shimon Peres, has offered the job to Netanyahu. Can anything good to come out of this? Well, Tzipi Livni has already rejected Bibi's offer of a broad coalition and her possibly becoming the Foreign Minister and it looks like the new Prime Minister might have to look at offering the very "loopy" 'Yisrael Beiteinu' Chairman, Avigdor Lieberman, the sphinx from Minsk, a top job in his cabinent. Oh, and what is good about that? Well, if nothing else, it would appear that our zany Zionists will find it a little bit more difficult over the next couple of years to hide their true intentions; the continued ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the creation of a "Palestinian national state" on the West Bank ........ of the Ganges.

17,000 more Americans go to Afghanistan

Well the "hype and change", man has committed another 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan and "Uncle Sam" is running around asking other Nato member states to commit more soldiers. Now, it is not that they have just to commit more soldiers but they "hope, hype" man wants them in those parts of the country where they can kill and be killed and we are being told that they are desperately needed "to turn the fight around against the insurgency."(1) They are, of course, irresponsible nutters the lot of them and with the Kyrgyztan parliament today voting by 78 votes to one to close the American base at Manas,(2) how, Mr. "Hype" are you going to supply the soldiers that are already there? Europeans steer clear of this man .... oops too late they have already been stung.
1 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/02/2009219145057278830.html
2 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/19/kyrgyzstan-obama-russia-us-airbase

Gilad again and again and again

The news from 'Haaretz' today is that the Gaza border crossing won't be re-opened until 'Hamas' have released Gilad Shalit.(1) Now let me get this right; innocent men, women and children are being deprived of the bare necessities until 'Hamas' release "their" Gilad? This is not only absurd, it is also disgustingly criminal and hasn't "little" Gilad become a "cause celebre" for "our" zany Zionists who run around the illegally occupied territories kidnapping men, women and children with impunity.
In Damascus, in the meantime, 'Hamas' leader Khaled Mashaal has been saying that Schalit's release will not be linked to any cease-fire deal.(2) No, it might just be that Israel will have to free a number of illegally interned Palestinians, to see their "prodigal son" return home and I am left wondering not how quickly we will see the new celebrity, Gilad, in the 'Big Brother' house on Israeli television but rather how soon it will be before the hard-done by son of Zion, dons his IDF uniform again and goes off in search of "terrorists" in the occupied territories.
1 http://www.haaretz.com/
2 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304816185&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Kaing Guek Eav on Trial

On reading that, the born again Christian, Kaing Guek Eav, 66, better known as Duch, has finally ended up in front of a UN backed genocide trial, a little smile came across my face and my mind started drifting back to some nine years ago and to the day I visited the security prison 21 (S-21) in Pnom Pen. Not the place here to get into the gruesome details of a building that surely bears witness to some of the worst excesses of man's inhumanity to man. The chief of the prison was Kaing Guek Eav and here we have his lawyers claiming that it is inhuman that their client has been imprisoned for nine years without going to trial and we have Kaing himself weeping after being taken to the scene of his alleged crimes and asking some of his former victims for forgiveness.(1) Born again Christian, spent nine years in prison before going to trial, begged for forgiveness; he might even get away with it! Of course, should that travesty of justice actually come about, it will be no more of a disgrace than the fact that no American will ever be held responsible for facilitating the 'Khmer Rouge's' rise to power and for continuing to support them after they had been ousted by the Vietnamese in 1979(2) and, while there will be a certain satisfaction today for Duc's victims and while his trial does bring a smile to my face, it is surely more important for all of us to start focusing on the cynicism and hyporcrisy of the United States. Perhaps, if we were to start to do this, we would begin to understand the world as it is and not as "Uncle Sam" and his lackies would like us to believe it is and maybe, just maybe, we might see, at least, a few more of the criminals end up in court. Of course, Ronald Reagan and Duch's boss, Pol Pot, will never be brought to justice but we still have Kissenger, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair, Olmert, Livni, Barak and quite a few others out there on the loose and all of them are right up there with Duch, Kony, Nkunda, Khieu Samphan, and the other "maddies". Today, I allowed myself a little smile but the day I see George W and his cronies, along with our zany Zionists, in the dock, will be the day I laugh my head off, fly to Munich, Glasgow or Shanghai and get absolutely plastered.
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/17/war-crimes-tribunal-cambodia
2 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/US_PolPot.html
The pictures shows Security Prison 21 (S-21), at the former Tuol Svay Prey High School. It was here that some 17,000 people were tortured to death; only 12 survived. The picture was taken during my visit to, what is now known as, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in 2001.

British and French Nuclear Submarines Collide

Not really finding much time to keep up with any sort of news at the moment but with the story coming out of the British submarine, HMS Vanguard, and the French submarine, 'Le Triomphant' crashing in the Atlantic this month, I did allow myself a little gasp. Both submarines were carrying nuclear ballistic warheads and we are informed that the crash was unavoidable because both were “running silently” to avoid detection by sonar.(1)
Those of us who still possess a modicum of sanity in this mad, mad, world, might come to the conclusion that it is more than a trifle absurd in this day and age for the British and French to have nuclear submarines and that it is almost just as absurd that they deem it necessary to "run silently" to avoid detection by sonar; who do they intend using the submarines against and do they really think that they are going to be attacked by someone? After all, to the best of my knowledge, the zany Zionists are busy elsewhere!
Of course, we don't have to have the deductive skills of a mathematical genius to come to a sound conclusion of what, in all probability, happened and methinks that the silly buggers were actually following each other. Mad as hatters all of them and I suggest that the EU has a wee look into this.
1 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5746690.ece
The picture shows HMS Vanguard, which is probably worth about one hundred medium sized hospitals.

A British Squaddie has a lesson for Gilad Shalid

When I was a young man, I took the "Queen's shilling", donned the khaki and there was me, "Nelly the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus, off she went, trumpty, trump .... The head of the herd was calling far, far away .... They met one night by the silver light on the road to Mandalay." Never quite made it to Mandalay but I did get myself to the BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) and that was, indeed, a bore. Of course, it was not long before I realised, in those days before PC, that this was just not politically correct. Escapism is fine and might be applauded if it had have meant me going down to Marrakesh with the warm wind blowing in my hair. However, here was me with almost no hair and carrying a 7.62 mm SLR, a lethal bloody weapon. No, I did the only thing a young man with any intelligence and morals can do; I got a "services no longer required'. In other words I worked hard at convincing the British Army that, come a crisis, I would be more of a threat to them than the enemy.
Now, that is why I have no sympathy for Gilad Shalid. This is a young guy who also has a French passport, who could have remained in France and have done what any other normal young Frenchman does. However, not our Gilad; Gilad, you see, is a Zionist and he wanted to fight the Zionist cause and so he donned the uniform of an army that has just killed innocents and believe me if Gilad had have been around to kill, he would have been killing too. Moreover, even if this was just some innocent nice young chap who had been kidnapped, I would still have to put it into some perspective. Of course, I would be upset for him, of course, I would hope that he would be released. Nevertheless, I would still be a little more concerned about the little children who are being slaughtered in Palestine, I would still be a little more concerned about the wholescale massacres that are an everyday occurance in Africa south of the Sahara and, indeed, elsewhere. Of course, Gilad, as I have already stated, is not some innocent who has been kidnapped and for me the only reason why he should be released is quite simple and it is stated in 'Haaretz" today, "....any deal would include the release of women and children, as well as a number of Palestinian lawmakers and ministers."(1) Now could anyone please tell me, why Palestinian women and children, lawmakers and ministers, are rotting in Israeli jails?
Perhaps, I can take this opportunity to thank those young Israelis who are worthy of my sympathy; namely those young Israeli Jews who refuse to fight for the Zionist war machine and Gilad, it will be nice to see you reunited with your family, because that will mean that hundreds of Palestinians will be reunited with theirs. Perhaps, when you get home, you will waken up the same way I did some thirty five years ago.
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1064285.html

Rwandan Army in DRC

There was a lot of scepticism when Nkunda was "arrested" in Rwanda. Where is he now? Wherever he is, I haven't heard that he is heading for the Hague and it could very well be that he is lying low and waiting to reappear should the situation ever warrant it. It doesn't for the time being and whatever the deal Kagame has cut with Kabila, one thing is for sure and that is they are right not to be too happy about Rwandan troops being allowed to enter the DRC. Kagame certainly has designs on the minerals in North Kivu.
With the DRC and Rwanda officially working together, former enemies have become friends and former friends have become enemies and we have a very strange twist in this bloody conflict. A conflict, which now sees Kabila invite the same Rwandan Army into his country that has invaded it twice before in its hunt to surpress the Hutu militias operating under the guise of the FDLR. On both occassions the invasions were disastrous for locals, with Rwandans accused of large-scale civilian massacres.(1) This time it will not be any different and we don't have to take Kinshasa's "end of February" deadline for the Rwandans to complete their operations too seriously. The evidence would appear to suggest that Rwanda has moved a step closer in taking over the control of the mineralrich North Kivu province and that can only be good news for Washington.
In the meantime, Joseph Kony is still here there and everywhere but not behind bars, Bosco Ntaganda is wearing a DRC army uniform, Nkunda is probably sitting in Kigali watching Manchester United on television, and there are only badies in this war a war, which the West can only profit from.
1 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008696689_congo02.html

Leadership

Based on documents supplied by Amnesty International, the 'Guardian" today is reporting a murder campaign by 'Hamas' with the aim of clamping down on any opposition to their "rule". The report is is almost certainly true and, the latest evidence corroborates witness accounts and an investigation by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.(1) Nevertheless, while it might sound strange, it is almost irrelevant and more relevant is what Mowaffaq Alami, 36, a Palestinian working for a civil society organisation, says, not when he is speaking about how he has been forced to leave Gaza because of intimidation and threats but when he gives almost unconscious reference to the state of Palestine and Palestinian resistence today. He said, "Politicians and the media think that there is a simple division between Gaza and the West Bank, between Hamas and Fatah ... The majority of the Palestinian people today are with none of them."(2) This, of course, is what the zionists want and it is the all part and parcel of a time immemorial policy of "divide and rule". The last thing Israel wants to see is a united strong Palestinian leadership.
Of course, Israel will deem all of the various fractions and parties, except the one that they can squeeze completely, irrelevant, terrorist, illegal, and, of course, a barrier to peace. They will then invite a few sycophants to a "peace conference" and then send them back to their "Bantustan", the borders of which Israel will decide, once it knows what to do with the one and a half million Palestinians who are a result of Ben Gurion's failure in 1948. The new "government" of "Palestine" will then park their mercedes s-class cars outside their offices, from where they will police "their state" to the satisfaction of the Israeli authorities.
Yes, the last thing the Zionists want is a strong united Palestinian leadership, one that also speaks for the Palestinians in the diaspora, one that would get back to resolutions 194 and 242 as the basis of any negotiation. The sad thing is that some Palestinians appear to be facilitating just what Israel wants and this at a time when it is all too obvious that Zionists have a common cause and a common goal. Still, has it ever been any different?
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/13/hamas-gaza-murders-abduction-torture
2 ibd

Lurch into Fascism

Al Abinimah's article on the Israeli elections does, as his articles invariably do, hit the nail on the head. However, the article along with the headline is something of an oxymoron; "Israel lurches into fascism" we are informed but then Al Abinimah goes on to summarise some of the events from today, back to "Oslo" through to 1948, to show that things were never very different, that more settlements were actually built during Barak's tenure in office than were built under the Likud-led government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.(1) Certainly "wolves in sheep's clothing" our zany zionists and the proverbial little Red Riding Hood's grandmother was a trifle more subtle in her disguise.
Nevertheless, what is new, and this is probably the point that Al Abinimah is making, is the all too obvious lurch into open fascism that even the most myopic cannot fail to recognise. With the "peace party" Kadima under its leader, the murderer, Tzipi Livni, willing to hold talks with Netanyahu, with Lieberman, with all and sundry, just to hold onto power, with Barak reported to have once derided Lieberman of never having shot anyone,(2) the wolf in sheeps clothing has finally abandoned its rather pathetic disguise. What we are dealing with is, as Al Abinimah rightly says, "open fascism" and the "democracy" in Zionistan has just about as much credance as the "democracy" in the so-called "Democratic Republic of Korea". It must, however, be pointed out that it has never been any different.
1 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10302.shtml
2 ibid

The Fascists arrive in Seville

The Thursday morning after and Seville has woken up to a not too serious hangover; the English were here for the football "friendly" against Spain, David Beckham got his 108th cap, England got beaten 2-0, the town was left more, or less, intact.
No big surprises then, that is if you did not see the scum yesterday that appears to accompany an English sports team on its travels. Now if Her Majesty's government were to make a certain mental maturity a criteria for getting a passport; well, they would not be allowed on the boat, would they? Still, one should not complain too much and as I said ,the town has been left, more or less, intact. Still I would like to finish this short piece by giving you a little example of what those morons are capable of.
For some weeks now, these massive posters of various "special" editions of the local newspaper throughout its history have been put into tasty class cases around the cathedral area and you have the locals standing there reading about Kennedy's assassination, Franco's death, Armstrong landing on the moon, the first elections after Franco's death, Seville FC winning the UEFA cup etc etc. The one that caught my eye was an edition where the German representative to Spain was obviously trying to induce the wily fascist Franco to join their not so wily enterprise in world domination. The historian in me, aroused, was induced to take a photo of it. Anyway, there was me yesterday having another look at it and, lo and behold, some scum from the island appears to have had his little moment of inspiration and hurled a brick through the casing.
The irony, of course, was not lost on me and here was a poster with a picture of the wily fascist Franco and the not so wily fascist Adolf being attacked by a third fascist and really what this third fascist made me realise was that when clowns like him get into power it really does become hell on earth for all and sundry.
Brute force, violence, disrespect for your fellows, not interested in discussing, intolerance, xenophobia, pig ignorance, it is all still there and it visited Seville yesterday. Thank God, it is on its way home.
The pictures show the poster before and after the English fans arrived in Seville.

The Elections in Absurdistan

The Zionists have had their little rigmarole with both Livni and Netanyahu claiming victory and the questions remain, will Likud form a government with the extreme right wing Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman or will she go into coalition with the extreme right wing Netanyahu, or will Netanyahu form a government with the no scruples, whinning, murderer of men, women and children, Livni or will he prefer a coalition with our fascist "friend", Lieberman, and will there be a place in all of this for the our little zionist nonentity, Barak? What a farce, what a farce!
Now, whatever happens down in "Absurdistan", "Zionistan", "Eretz Israel", call it what you like, one thing is for sure, they will all be doing their level best not to talk to 'Hamas". Do you remember 'Hamas'? Well, it was they who, back in January 2006, won 76 of the 132 seats in Palestinian elections and who, according to some weird zionist logic, have illegally seized power from the PA. Of course, the cynic in me might just suspect that they were voted into power by a Palestinian electorate, which might just have been exercising that real democratic choice, namely, choosing an alternative and in this case an alternative to a corrupt Fatah that had already sold its soul for Israeli gold and the illusion, that was "Oslo". Of course, apart from anything else, the last thing our zany zionists want is strange ideas, like real democracy, spreading. After all, they might all just wake up one morning and realise that their "Jewish state" is surplus to requirements.

Hu Jintao visits Africa

According to today's ' 'Süddeutsche Zeitung' the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, is in the process of visiting Africa for a week; it is his fourth visit to the continent since he took office in 2003. What is interesting is the fact that he will be visiting neither the Sudan, Chad, Angola or Nigeria, countries that are important to China because of their oil, nor those countries that are rich in raw materials, such as the DRC an Guinea, but rather he will be visiting Mali, Senegal Tansania and Mauritius. It is a visit to show that China is interested in more than just raw materials.(1)
Now, we might doubt the altruistic nature of China's motives in Africa. Nevertheless, we should not expect the Africans to be quite as sceptical of China as the mainstream media here would possibly like them to be. When compared to the rape and plunder perpetrate under the guise of "democracy" by the West and its minions, the Chinese record in Africa is astoundingly good, and for the time being at least, the countries south of the Sahara are being offered more than just the "better of two evils". However behind the scenes "Uncle Sam" and his cronies are, no doubt, already making every effort to ensure that they will not be given that choice.
1 'Süddeutsche Zeitung', p8, February 10, 2009

Vicente Díaz de Villegas

There is an interesting report coming out of the DRC on Vicente Díaz de Villegas, who was named Commander in Chief of the MONUC forces on October 4th, 2008 and who resigned only three weeks later, just a few days before the now "under arrest" Nkunda's CNDP moved towards Goma on October 29th.(1) Apparently his resignation, which appears to be detrimental to his career, was a principled one and interestingly enough he cites MONUC as being ineffective in protecting civilian lives much in the same way as the UN troops at Srebenica were.(2)
Nkunda is apparently out of the picture, the indicted war criminal, Bosco Ntaganda, is still at large, Rwandan troops are in the DRC, Joseph Kony is still on the rampage and the reality behind the rhetoric and the facade of an ineffectual UN intervention that helps "Uncle Sam" and the rest of the motley crew tell the world that they are doing something when what they in fact are doing, while facilitating the rape, murder and massacres, is continuing the real big "rape" of the area.
The principled Vicente Díaz de Villegas has lost one of the stars on his uniform and he has been transferred to the reserve for his stand. However, his message is, at least, trickling out. It is, of course, too much to expect the international community to pick up on it and in the meantime the civilian population of the area are left to the "crazies" who the West could all so easily stop, if the will were there. However, with the "crazies" also sitting in Paris, London and Washington that is hardly likely to happen.
1 http://stopthewarinnorthkivu.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/diaz-villegas-resigns/
2 ibid
The picture shows Diaz being welcomed in post by UN Sec Gen Ban Ki-Moon.

Israeli "Democracy"

Following the Israeli elections is a bit like following the American elections; the almost infantile assumption that there is an alternative, which the mainstream media tries to cultivate, could have you laughing your head off, if it were not so tragic and there is the 'Guardian' today, with a little video and report about the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and the Israeli politician, Avigador Lieberman, who wants to transfer all "Israeli Arabs" to a future Palestinian state. Mind you there was a nice little touch in it where a young politically minded Arab says, "Who is Lieberman to say to me that I should be part of the West Bank? I speak Hebrew better than he does. I know Jewish culture better than he does. I got the highest score in Jewish history when I matriculated. I doubt he even studied Jewish history. I work together with Jews in Tel Aviv. We are the ones who are building the state together not him. It is not for Lieberman to say, 'You are a bad Arab and you are a good Arab. Who should stay and who should go. He will not decide who I am," he insists. "I will decide who he is."(1) As I said I would laugh, applaud, praise the young Arab, if it were not so tragic.
The problem is not, of course, Avigador Lieberman, it is the Zionist state and, while a trend whereby Lieberman's views are becoming increasingly "salonfähig" in Zionists rags, such as 'Jerusalem Post ', is relatively new, those views only express what is "a priori" the "raison d'etre" of the Jewish state. Indeed, the so-called "left wing" historian, Benny Morris recently said that it was a mistake by Ben Gurion not to have completed the ethnic cleansing of the Arabs from Palestine in 1948.(2) Make no mistake about it in the Jewish state there is no "democracy" and no real choice.
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/08/gaza-israel-elections-far-right
2 http://thediplomatabroad.blogspot.com/2008/12/beyond-pale.html

Twenty Square Metres in Spain

Originally, I had the pseudonym, "the Traveler", for this blog; it appears to have got lost, disappeared, been changed somewhere along the road between the beginning of May 2008 until now. Well, no regrets there as it has become a sort of a conundrum, especially, during the last four weeks, which have seen me cooped up in 20 square metres in the centre of Seville. Anyway, no longer content with my "cafe con leche" in the little cafe in Alemeda, the little ten minute walk into town and the next 'cafe con leche', the watching the football in 'Flaherty's', the once a week film in English, no longer content with the daily routine and my twenty square metres of Spain that are my appartment, I hired a car yesterday and took myself off to have a look at not unfamiliar distant scenes and Jerez de la Fronterra looks much as it did six years ago and today Cordoba is a sort of a déjà vu even if it is not nearly as warm as it was then. Away from China, towns don't really change much. Oh, and in Spain they still puff their poison and in an almost pedantical manner they adopt an air polluting posture that seems to signify that smokers here still have the bragging rights.
WIFI has arrived though and that means, smokers or not, "Global Jimmy" finds himself spending hours in a Cafe when a few years back, he would have envisaged coming up for air as entailing doing something like looking at the "Mezquita". Well, I will have a glance at it on the way back to the car before I drive back to Seville. No, I won't stay overnight; what is the point? After all, my twenty square metre appartment has a wireless connection and there is nobody there who might just blow smoke in my face.
The picture shows a street in Cordoba, which I passed before getting into this cafe. Still to see the Mezquita.

Back to the Great Game

Only a couple of weeks ago the head of U.S. Central Command, General David Petraeus, appeared very sure that the U.S. air base at Manas in Kyrgyzstan, which has a vital logistical importance for the American and NATO forces in Aghanistan, would not be closed down.(1) However, it looks like the Krygyzstan government has long since decided to do just that(2) and it would appear that the "hope and change" man is not going to have it all his own way when he comes to upping the stakes in the Hindukush. With Russia and Tajikistan only offering airspace for the transport of non-military equipment to Afghanistan, with Uzbekistan having expelled U.S. troops from the base on its territory in 2005 in a dispute over human rights issues and with the Taliban attacks forcing Pakistan to close supply routes to U.S. and NATO forces one wonders how the "hope and change" man is going to do anything but maim and murder innocent Afghanis, while sacrificing young Americans. The portents are surely obvious for "Uncle Sam" and his cohorts, the Great Game cannot be won, but then it never could.
1http://wavy.com/dpp/news/military_ap_Kyrgyzstan_USGeneralBaseNotClose_20090119
2 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/20092673655553460.html

Bibi, Tzipi and Joe

The front page of the 'Süddutsche Zeitung' today has a picture showing election posters of Bibi and Tzipi, two of my "favourite" zany Zionists, being put up and the little caption beside the pictures discusses Israel's alternative as being between hard, harsh, uncompromising Bibi and a "want to continue the peace process" Tzipi and on the same front page we have a main article about the Vatican giving in to worldwide pressure, which came about because one of their clergy has denied the Holocaust. Most of page two carries on with this theme, page three is devoted to the Israeli elections and has a smaller article of the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier meeting another zany Zionist, Hillary Clinton, and the main editorial refers again to the Vatican and the Holocaust denier and the little bit of lecturing that the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has been indulging in vis-a-vis her compatriot the wonderfully weird, his, "Hamdillah" Holiness, Benidict XVI.(1)
Now, first things first, but do we really need to devote the kind of space toTzipi and Bibi that we failed to devote to the massacre of hundreds of innocents a few weeks ago and do we really need to do it in such a way as to even suggest that we are being offered a real alternative in anything but the tone of the rhetoric that will come out of "Zionistsan"? Secondly, I am hardly a fan of the Roman "God Squad" and yes, the Holocaust did happen, however, should a man who belongs to an organisation that believes in virgin births, people walking on water, angels flying in the sky and lots and lots of other crazy, crazy things, be taken at all seriously? And, if you do happen to be one of the non-certified mad believers, aren't there more important things to report than what one man thinks about a genocide that took place over sixty years ago? For instance the current genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the bombing of civilians in Afghanistan and, yes, the ethnic cleansing and massacre of Palestinians in their own country, which brings us back to Bibi and Tzipi and it looks as if the last thing we are going to get in our newspapers, is real news and wouldn't it be wonderful if we all just stopped reading the mainstream press until it started reporting things worth reporting and the evidence would seem to suggest that that happening is just about as likely as a virgin birth, angels flying in the sky, the one and only "son of God" doing a hop, skip and a jump across Loch Ness or our zany Zionists relinquishing their absurd biblical claim on a country that isn't theirs.
1 'Süddeutsche Zeitung', February 5th, 2009
The picture shows the man who represents "God's son" on earth, the man who has a direct line to the big man in the sky, his Holiness, the one and only, the great, marvelous, Benidict XVI, alias Joseph Ratzinger. Has anyone noticed the slight resemblance between him and Bibi?

Bibi "the honest" thief

The polls are indicating that Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party is leading the pack as we approach next week's parliamentary elections in Israel and Bibi, not one for any sort of compromise, is already howling, "no territorial concessions".(1) So, there we have it; no "territorial concessions" from a country that is illegally occupying someone's land and hasn't even defined its own borders. Apart from anything else this man is an insult to our intelligences.
Still, I hope Bibi gets elected; at least then there will be no purile, pathetic whitewashing of the truth such as that, which Barak, Livni and Olmert have been indulging in. Although the drivel, of course, will continue and there was Bibi today saying, that any land the Palestinians get would be grabbed by extremists. Bibi, Bibi, it is their land! Of course, what we need now, what we really need, are Palestinians who are not going to make any territorial concessions and it really is time to get back to Resolutions 194 and 242 and, Mr Netanyahu, we are talking about the law here, international law. Still, thanks for the honesty and your telling the world out straight that you have no intention of returning something that is not yours. Bibi "the honest" thief!
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/04/israelandthepalestinians-usa

Iceland’s New PM Becomes First Lesbian to Head a Nation

While western hypocrisy stinks to high heaven, I am, nevertheless, a big fan of those freedoms, which, when we keep the reactionaries at bay, are an integral part of our culture here in Europe. It was, therefore, with interest that I read today on 'Democracy Now', that "Iceland has a new prime minister a week after the Icelandic government collapsed following protests over the nation’s devastated economy. Johanna Sigurdardottir took power on Sunday. She is believed to be the first lesbian to ever head a nation."(1) Now, I am not familiar with the situation everywhere else in Europe but I can talk with some authority about the situation in Germany and with Guido Westerwelle, head of the liberal FDP, very possibly the next German Foreign Minister, having "come out" some time ago, and with, the ethnic Turk, Cem Özdemir from the Green Party also destined for high political office, it would appear that we live in quite inclusive societies. This is our reality and as Klaus Wowereit, the homosexual Lord Mayor of Berlin said when referring to his sexual preferences, "es ist gut so" (it is good that it is like that); "our reality" I mean, a reality where we live in societies where increasingly few people are excluded because of race, religion or sexual inclination.
Of course, we do have a small problem and it might just be that Johanna Sigurdardottir or Guido Westerwelle have to make an official visit to Saudi and on my last reading of the Saudi statute book, I do believe that they bury homosexuals alive in the desert kingdom. The evidence would indeed, seem to suggest that on this very small planet, we all inherit very different worlds and very different realities. However, when all is said and done Europe is a nice place to be at this point in history and it is nice to live in a place where real tolerance does, at times, shine through and does have a chance. Oh and apropos "tolerance"; I once heard that it was a bourgeoisie invention. Perhaps, perhaps, but I would have to say that it was one of the things, flawed and faulted as it is, they got, more or less, right.
1 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/3/headlines#16
The picture shows, the lesbian, Johanna Sigurdardotti.

Barak calls for a tunnel from Gaza to the West Bank

There is Barak proposing a 48 kilometre tunnel to connect the northern Gaza strip with the West Bank.(1) What a generous, generous man and it is difficult to believe that this is the same Ehud Barak who has just committed war crimes. They really don't get it, do they? This is not about building a tunnel from Gaza to some "Bantustan" in the West Bank and haven't they heard of Resolutions 194 and 242? Anyway, Ehud I am sure 'Hamas' will building a tunnel of their own to the West Bank in the not too distant future. Moreover, with your mob having just carried out a wholesale massacre on civilians, do you really think Ehud that any Palestinian would want to use your tunnel and we can just imagine the headline ten years down the road, "we are sorry we had to flood the tunnel with civilians in it but terrorists were using it."
Articles like this make you realise that the Zionists are running on empty and that the Israeli population live in a wee world all of their own. Now, Israel will build a tunnel from Gaza to the West Bank, which Israel will control and if the Palestinians don't except their status as second class citizens in their own country, it can easily be closed again or even bombed. Wakey, wakey, and you lot really do take the biscuit.
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060869.html

The Rain in Spain

The rain in Spain is unlike I have seen it here before and it is not, contrary to popular belief, lying mainly on the plain. Seville is soaked to the skin and so am I; well not anymore but there was me taking myself out of my some twenty square metres this morning in search of a good cup of coffee and one of those little surprises that life can still produce for a no longer young, not quite old, body like myself. The good coffee is always available here but the surprises remain few and far between. Today, I sort of got both and I also managed to do a bit of reminiscing.
The day took me back to a very wet day six months ago in Nanjing, which is, in my opinion, one of China's prettier cities. Not pretty that day though and I had the good sense to find a Starbucks with a wireless connection and spend almost the whole day there. Not so much good sense today though and there was me getting wet, wet, wet! That though, was probably due more to the little surprise on getting down to the cathedral area of the city and discovering a rather big demonstration in which the 'Partido Comunista de España' (Spanish Communist Party) appeared to be playing a very central role. Nice to see that there is still life in the old boy and in this day and age I am almost prepared to forgive him his little indiscretions, such as his wholesale murder of his POUM and Anarchist allies during the Spanish Civil War. Well, what else can you do, resistance is resistance and by golly we need resistance, don't we?
So there was "wet, wet, wet" me supping another 'cafe con leche' in 'Flaherty's' where Nadal beat Federer, no real surprises there and one of them had to win but, behind the stink of the incense, the ding, dong, dinging of their church bells, their shopping till their dropping, there is life in this city, and all of a sudden, with the rain in Spain a place that had appeared to have a political consciousness on a par with deepest Upper Bavaria doesn't seem half so bad anymore or can you imagine a mass demonstration of Communists through the streets of Munich?