Hamas recognises Israel?

Of course, one has to become repetitive because, after all, when it comes to Zionistan', it does get rather repetitive, and there is a headline in today's 'Haaretz' proclaiming that "Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshal says the Islamic militant group is ready to accept a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines, according to an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Friday."(1) Well, if it brings genuine peace to the Middle East and a life of dignity for the Palestinian people, why not? Compensation to those in the diaspora, those we left in 48 and a viablie Palestinian state with its headquarters in East Jerusalem, why not, why not, indeed? Does this mean that we are looking at an article in the Zionist media that might even suggest that Israel might be getting ready to talk to 'Hamas'? No, what the article is saying is that 'Hamas' recognises Israel's right to exist and this means that nobody is really left arguing about Israels right to exist, not even, 'Hamas', which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the West, has been shunned for its refusal to recognize Israel, abide by past agreements signed between the Palestinians and Israel, and renounce violence."(2) Next stop, the "official" partition of the West Bank and welcome to "Bantustan-Palestine", a "state", which Israel will have no difficulty in recognising.
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1104397.html
2 ibid

British Justice

There was an article in the 'Guardian' reporting that Hillary Clinton intervened in the British legal process to halt the courts producing proof that the CIA had tortured Binyam Mohamad, a British resident, in in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco and Guantánamo. Of course, it was necessary that the courts didn't proceed to disclose the evidence. After all, as the British foreign secretary, David Milliband, said, "the US would stop sharing intelligence with the UK if the CIA material was published." Apparently, the lawyers for Mr Mohamad and the judges have challenged this assertion. Nevertheless, a number of incidences, like Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's conviction for the Lockerbie bombing,(2) tell me that we shouldn't put too much faith in British justice; a justice, which is incredibly quick to react on other occasions as a mail from a friend to the BBC shows:“Perhaps the BBC should get its own journalism up to scratch, first? A simple paragraph in the report today on the sad murder of PC Beshenivsky should have presented a wealth of investigative opportunities, and responsibilites, to the journalists providing the content for the BBC news site: "Using a friend's passport, Jama fled to his native Somalia following the murder but was brought back to the UK in 2007 after being smuggled out of Africa in an undercover operation."Imagine the uproar in the UK if a foreign country's robbery investigation unit kidnapped a suspect in an undercover operation and smuggled that person out of the UK. It doesn't matter that Somalia may not have a functioning government at the moment. Democratic governments should not use such methods, full stop. So, BBC journalists - forget about asking the citizens to do the kind of work you are supposed to be trained for - fearless reporting. Get on the real story here, and set us an example first.”
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/29/binyam-mohamed-cia-torture
2 http://thediplomatabroad.blogspot.com/search?q=Abdelbaset+Ali+Mohmed+Al+Megrahi

Getting the picture

With "our" IDF bullies already playing their games on the Lebanese border and with Israel violating Lebanese air space time and time again, there is evidence to suggest that the next invasion of the Lebanon is on the agenda. However, even Nasrallah is not expecting any action before next spring.(1) Nevertheless, while the Hezbollah Secretary General's assessment might be a realistic one, it would appear that "our" Zionist "friends" are already paving the way with Israeli "defence" officials criticising the UNIFIL commander, Claudio Graziano, for talking to Amal and Hizbullah in the southern Lebanon this week.(2) Now, of course, they are criticising him, after all in talking to Amal and Hizbullah the UNIFIL commander is in the process of removing Israel's pretext for an attack.
Meanwhile, the farce continues with Israel showing its good intentions and dismanteling the settler outpost of Mitzpe Avihai (see picture). A nice parallel would be building a city of three million illegal intruders between Glasgow and Edinburgh, a city which strategically totally controlled both cities, and telling one little intruder who had got lost in the highlands that he had to come back to base.
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1103654.html
2 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1248277910791&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Planned terrorist attacks on Gaza and other nonsense

The ticker tape headline in today's 'Haaretz' informs us that the United States has arrested seven terrorist subjects who were planning attacks on Israel, Jordan and Gaza. "A terrorist attack on Gaza", well I can think of a lot more than "seven suspects" there and they did more than just plan the attacks, and with the same newspaper reporting a certain Rabbi Eliezer Waldman, who is the head of the Nir yeshiva in the settlement of Kiryat Arba saying that "Obama is a racist,"(1) the absurdity grows and grows; welcome to the "land of the marshmallow mountains", the "great gobblydegook"; stop the planet, I want to get off!
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1103224.html

Israel agrees to temporary settlement freeze

Well they cannot depopulate it of Palestinians and take over the whole of the West Bank, can they? Well they can but they don't want to. No, Bibi is willing to give them their "they can call it what they like" "state" and to have the "Bantustans" well we will need some "Bantus". It comes as no surprise, therefore, that "Israel will agree to temporarily freeze construction in settlements in the framework of new understandings that Jerusalem will reach with Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told European foreign ministers last week."(1) It comes as no surprise and this charade of a disagreement between "Uncle Sam" and his Zionist side kicks was always a farce and if you want proof of that then how about this, "The Americans are willing to allow most of the projects currently under construction to continue. A source close to Barak said that "if a moratorium is decided on, it will be in the framework of a more inclusive and wider deal."(2) That is right, while the little outposts of the Zionist 'God Squad', those that consist of a piece of tarpaulin, a couple of clothes poles and a few chairs, will not be expanded, the bigger projects are not going to be stopped and places like Maale Adumim, which houses over 40,000 people, will remain. Yes some half a million zany Zionists are in for the longer haul, on illegally occupied territory. What a farce and there never really was any disagreement between the "hype" man and Jerusalem, was there?

Euphemisms

Now we have "leading Holocaust scholars from around the world" praising Kampala for not allowing Omar al-Bashir to enter Uganda for a conference.(1) Among the scholars is a certain Gregory H. Stanton who is the president of an organisation called 'Genocide Watch'. Of course, the watching stops when it comes to monitoring not only the on-going ethnic cleansing of Palestine but also the human rights abuses in Uganda where one of "Uncle Sam's" men in Africa, Yoweri Museveni, "is responsible for orchestrating genocide in the north of the country, where nearly two million people were forced into concentration camps, , euphemistically known as “protected villages.”(2) Yes, Museveni with his little euphemisms really can learn a lot from the newspeak spouted out by the "Genocide Watchers" in Jerusalem.
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1102715.html
2 http://ugandagenocide.info/?p=192

The Gathering of the Clans

With them arriving in Edinburgh from here, there, and everywhere, for the greatest gathering of clan chiefs in Scotland since Culloden, I sort of thought about Gregor Gysi who, while conceding that he was German, placed that particular "priority" about number fifty in a scale of priorities that went from one to fifty. When it comes to my own "priorities" the scale would have to be extended to a hundred to accommodate my Scottishness. Anyway, there they are today, from here, there, and everywhere, running around in their kilts, toasting their "blood" and generally participating in rituals that would make us shudder with fear if they were Englishmen or Germans; I was going to say Americans but almost half of them are from the land of 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'. Indeed, I am inclined to believe that there are not going to be too many "progressives" among the clansmen. After all how can you be "progressive" running around in garb that was actually invented by the English and Lowland Scots in the 19th century? No, there won't be too many progressives among these "ewig gestrige" and when many of them get back to the land of "Yankie Doodle Dandy" you can be quite sure that they will be supporting the wiping out of their modern day forerunners the clansman of the Hindukush, while forgetting all too easily what happened to their own forefathers. Of course, that is only half as absurd as it seems and the reality there is that half of their forefathers, in fact, fought for the Duke of Cumberland and "German Georgie" at the battle of culloden.
In the picture the guy in the middle belongs to the MacWindsors - Clan Chief is a lady in London whose first name is Barbara - . The MacWindors are a sort of Dutch, German, Greek clan

David Aaronovitch

There are many, of course; there is Chomsky, there is Finkelstein, there is Illan Pappe, there is Naomi Klein, there is the writer Mike Marquesee and then there there are the "unknowns", thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions perhaps, of anti-Zionist Jews and then we have mediocrities like David Aaronovitch who believe that "anti-Zionists should grow up".(1) What an absurd, insignificant, little man, what an irrelevance and here he is telling grown men and women that their development is arrested just because they do not support a racist, neo-fascist ideology. David, the Zionist, supporter of the illegal war in Afghanistan, denier of the Palestinians right to return to the land that was stolen from them and my mind drifts off to that nice little novel from Gorky, 'the life of a useless man', David, "a columnist on the 'Jewish Chronicle", who in the years he has been writing, has never criticised or even analysed, the outrages that Israel commits in the name of all Jewish people,"(2) David, a very useless man.
1 http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/40721.html
2 http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2009/04/humiliation-of-david-aaronovitch.html

Ivan Lewis

According to a report in the 'Guardian' today the British foreign office minister, Ivan Lewis, told MPs. "Israel should freeze all settlement activity, including the natural growth of existing settlements, and dismantle all outposts erected since March 2001."(1) Now, we can expect a swift reply, overtly or covertly, from Jerusalem condeming this man as a "self-hating Jew", after all, with Bibi already condemning the likes of Emanual Rahm and David Axelrod as such, they should have no problem doing the same to the former Vice-Chair of 'Labour Friends of Israel', despite his being someone who was a strong supporter of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza in January and who defended defending the Israeli military's campaign in several speeches. With "enemies" like these the 'Zionists' really are in easy street.
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/21/israel-west-bank-settlements-evacuation

The Universal Soldier

The war in Afghanistan is providing the patriotic press in "Blighty" with some "wonderful" material and with the press concentrating wholly on the dead young British soldiers it is the bigger picture that the public in the UK might be losing sight of. Today there were two more British soldiers killed and that brings the total of dead to 20 this month alone. Nevertheless, with 'Democracy Now' reporting that "Four US troops died Monday in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan and at least thirty US soldiers have died so far this month, making it the deadliest month for US forces since the war began nearly eight years ago,"(1) there is a very real bigger picture. If we add to those Americans, the dead Canadians, Poles, Dutch, Germans etc. and, let's not forget, the thousands upon thousands of dead Afghani men, women and childre, then we can begin to fathom the very big bigger picture. This is a war that is causing thousands of deaths, that cannot be won and that is being fought for reasons very different from those that the young men from the United Kingdom, United States and elsewhere are supposedly dying for.
1 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/21/headlines#1

Vanity Fair

Gets quite personal this one and we have the very vain Neil Kinnock accusing the very vain Arthur Scargill of "suicidal vanity"(1) and the very vain Arthur saying that the very vain Neil betrayed the miners strike twenty five years ago. Yes, here we have Lord Kinnock still smarting from the fact that the Stalinist Scargill buggered up his chances of talking his place in the ranks of those mediocrities who have "led" "Blighty", while the banal bolshevik builds his castles in the sky and thinks of what might have been had he been allowed to take his place in history as the dictator of the proletariat. Christ, if it weren't for the mediocre Major and the sting of the spinner Blair that she ushered in, we might be tempted to be grateful for Maggie. Whatever, the real losers back in 1984 were always going to be the British great gullible British public. Nevertheless, was it ever any different. Ah, "1984", well, we should have known!
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/mar/16/miners-strike-1984-85-arthur-scargill
2 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/16/neil-kinnock-arthur-scargill-miners-strike

Time to ponder

Seventeen British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this month. However, accompanying this statistic is a stastic that goes almost unnoticed and that is the number of wounded, with the 'Guardian' reporting that in addition to those killed, "More than 157 soldiers were treated at the field hospital at Camp Bastion in Helmand province last week, according to army medics."(1) Now, while some of those injures might be of a less severe nature we would, of course, be right to assume that those who were treated were not treated for broken toes, cut fingers or sprained ankles. Moreover, although their is no detailed breakdown of just how serious the injuries are, the Ministry of Defence does say that "13 were "very seriously" or "seriously injured" last month" and those are descriptions which "include life-threatening injuries and amputations."(2) This is a real war that is being fought out there and it is surely time for the British public to ponder on the real reasons behind that war.
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/21/record-uk-casualties-helmand-taliban
2 ibid

Estemirova's death and Iran

With posters of his bearded face smiling down at all and sundry in Chechnya's bombed-out capital and with political opponents thin on the ground because of their mysteriously disappearing or, indeed, because of their being too terrified to express their opposition, it appears that Russia's man in Grozny, Ramyan Kadyrov, is not a very nice person. Academic caution, modal verbs, required here; might be wrong, might be wrong, but there are a lot of people who believe that this man is a bit of a nutter and that he is responsible for lots and lots of nasty things and lots and lots of deaths, including those of Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist, who was shot down in a Moscow lift back on 7 October 2006.(1) Well he has been denying his involvement in that one albeit not too convincingly and now he is equally convincing in his denial at having anything to do with the death of the human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova whose body was discovered near the village of Gazi-Yurt in neighbouring Ingushetia after she had been abducted from her home in Grozny on Wednesday morning. Now it is, of course, a bit difficult to pin this on Ramyan and he is hardly likely to have done the killing himself. More importantly, however, with Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, dismissing the theory that the Kremlin's man in Grosny is behind the killing as "primitive and unacceptable",(2) the West will have to handle this one with kid gloves. After all, with Obama and his Zionist friends looking for Russian backing for their Iran policy, there is much more at stake than a question of who killed two brave journalists and let us face it, when it comes to human rights, the West is capable of a type of hypocrisy that wouldn't be out of place when spouted by the "it wasn't me" omnipresent man who stares down at all and sundry in Grosny.
1 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ramzan-kadyrov-the-warrior-king-of-chechnya-430738.html
2 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/16/natalia-estemirova-killing-russia-chechnya

Used and Abused

On my way out of the British Army, "services no longer required", a sort of dishonourable discharge for refusing to obey orders, there was me being sent back to Catterick Garrison in the late summer of 1974; Terry Jacks was blasting out his, "we had fun, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun", the Scottish football team had arrived in Germany for the 1974 World Cup just as I was leaving, the I.R.A. were bombing mainland Britain and there was us, an odd assortment of odd fellows who Her Majesty's Services were glad to be seeing the back of, couldn't even trust us, but there they were giving us pickaxe handles and combat gear and telling us that we have to do guard duty, just a couple of days before they kicked us out of the army, because the I.R.A. were bombing the mainland. Christ, not me, but some of these chaps would have invited them in; "Want to bomb the place?" "No problem, 'Mick, be my guest." Not me, nevertheless, no sooner was the uniform on than it was discarded, back into "civvies", up the the Harewood Club for a pint, out of here in a couple of days. Ego had learned his lesson and only a genuine brainwashed, in some way educationally sub-normal, being would want to go to foreign fields, like over to West Belfast, to kill and be killed for Elizabeth's shilling.
Now, bearing the above in mind, it was a slightly "feeling sorry" for the young British lads who had laid down their lives for the great "hype" man and his cronies in Westminster. Nevertheless, it is an angry, very upset me who reads reports like the following;
"In Afghanistan, at least five civilians have been killed and another thirteen injured in a US air strike. The Pentagon says US forces had called for the strike after coming under fire. Most of the victims were members of the same family, and the dead included a four-year-old girl. Witnesses said US forces fired on the family members as they tried to flee their home." and: "Meanwhile, at least eleven civilians were killed earlier today in a roadside bombing in Kandahar province. The dead included five children."(1) Time to get out of there boys, back to Catterick, Aldershot, Deepcut, out of that bloodstained uniform and the wasters in Westminster and Washington were using us then and they are using you now.

1 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/17/headlines#2

One Wonders

One wonders; there is Norman Finkelstein discussing a proposed mass march, on January 1st 2010, to break the illegal, immoral, blockade of Gaza and, optimist as he is, arguing that, “If the likes of Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, Bishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela are at the head of the march; if behind them are students holding high signs of the schools from which they hail - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge; if behind them are the ill and the lame, the young and the innocent of Gaza; if behind them are hundreds of thousands of others, unarmed and unafraid, wanting only to enforce the law; if around the world hundreds of thousands are watching the internet to see what happens - Israel can’t shoot.”(1) One wonders!
1 http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/onward-to-victory/

More on Blair could become EU president

Even although the job doesn't even exist at the time of my writing this and won't come into existence if the Irish don't ratify the Lisbon Treaty, there are of course, already forces at play behind the scenes, working towards getting Tony the "two hundred grand a year plus perks" job as the EU president. After all Tony will be "Uncle Sam's" man and we could, indeed, in the not to distant future be witnessing the hypocritical Tony visiting the "hype man" in Washington in his role as the EU president, a Tony who will already be wheeling and dealing, scamming and scheming, while sending his opponents reeling as he accumulates that very particular aphrodisiac, that wonderful feeling, of power.
Still all is not lost; there will be resistance from the "Quai d' Orsay' and "das Auswärtige Amt" as they attempt to fend off this audacious attempt by the "hype man" and the hypocrite to bring German and French foreign policy under the sway of Anglo-Saxon "Realpolitik". Moreover, my knowledge of Germany, at least, where they actually care about and look after their individual citizens, suggests that this resistance might be successful, and the last thing they want are body bags pouring in from distant illegal wars or as they say in German; "nie wieder"!

Tony as EU President

In today's 'Guardian' the non-entity, Glenys Kinnock who, along with her non-entity husband, have picked up up to £8m of taxpayers’ money, is quoted as voicing her support for Tony Blair being the first president of the European Union.(1) Now, while I am sure that William Hague is more or less just another non-entity of a hanger on, I do, nevertheless, have to credit, albeit begrudgingly, that particular little man with a modicum of foresight when he says, "the creation of a new EU president "could be enormously damaging for Europe". "Any holder is likely to try to centralise power for themselves in Brussels and dominate national foreign policies," he said. "In the hands of an operator as ambitious as Tony Blair, that is a near certainty. He should be let nowhere near the job." No he most certainly shouldn't, our grinning, gawky, hypocritical Tony, who only a couple of days ago was down in Zionistan licking Bibi's arse. President of the European Union, indeed; the only European institution that should be paying host to Tony is the court in the Hague.
1 http://thediplomatabroad.blogspot.com/2009/06/brussels-or-benghazi.html

Dying on Afghanistan's plains

Dying on Afghanistan's plains, and the latest spate in deaths of young British soldiers has, at least, produced a lively debate even among the most brainwashed of the great British public at home. The newspapers have their usual "experts" discussing the situation but it was pleasant to see two of the five so-called "experts" who appeared in today's 'Guardian' making an effort to justify that label and hitting the nail, more or less, on the head, with one female member of the Afghani parliament saying that there should be an effort to erase poverty in her country, an effort to build the infrastructure and an effort to get democratic institutions working. It was, however, a professor from Harvard, a certain Rory Stewart, who caught my eye when he said that, "Afghanistan's political and strategic significance has been grossly exaggerated" and that those responsible for terrorists attacks in the west could "plan in Hamburg and train at flight schools in Florida; or meet in Bradford and build morale on an adventure training course in Wales?"(1) He is so right and have you ever heard of a Pashtu terrorist blowing himself up? Of course, no need to, when he can stay at home and kill those who are killing his people.
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/13/afghanistan-experts-views-defence-troops

Netanyahu says Palestinians should cooperate

And just when we thought the "chutzpah" couldn't get much worse; now we have 'Haaretz' reporting Netanyahu as saying that the Palestinians could achieve more if they cooperated. That is right, all they have to do is stop resisting the illegal occupation of their land, stop resisting the killing of their children, stop resisting the on-going ethnic cleansing, and they could achieve more. It cannot possibly get more impertinent, it cannot possibly get more ridiculous. "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the Quartet's Middle East envoy Tony Blair on Monday to discuss ways to improve the Palestinian economy. Netanyahu told Blair that the Palestinian residents of the West Bank could reach greater achievements if only they were to increase their cooperation with Israel."(1)
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1099873.html

Charades

My recently stated position on Netanyahu describing Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, Obama's senior aides, as "self hating Jews", where I suggested that a non-existent disbute is being manufactured by the media in order to facilitate a Zionist "Realpolitik"(1), was lent some substance by an article which I read today. In that article it stated that corporations unite to ensure that "the choices offered by 'representative democracy' all represent their greed for maximised profits. It then went on to contend that we do not, nevertheless, live in a totalitarian society and that we, at least, have the potential to interfere. This then means that "the goal is to persuade the public that corporate-sponsored political choice is meaningful, that it makes a difference. The task of politicians at all points of the supposed 'spectrum' is to appear passionately principled while participating in what is essentially a charade."(2) Of course, while it is not unique to Palestine, this charade is so blatantly obvious in a part of the world, where an on-going ethnic cleansing that began back in 1948 is sold as a struggle between two equal sides both with reasonable claims.
1 http://thediplomatabroad.blogspot.com/2009/07/netanyahu-accuses-rahm-emanuel-and.html
2 http://www.medialens.org/index_home.php

Obama has decided to end conflict in Africa

The 'Guardian' informs me that the United States plans a forceful policy to end conflicts in Africa.(1) Of course, this forceful policy has been in place at least since the founding of AFRICOM, one of six of the Defense Department's regional military headquarters, as a fully unified command on October 1, 2008.(2) No, what we are now about to see is a more open backing of those parties who are already in "Uncle Sam's" pocket; those forces who themselves are invariably responsible for the on going genocide in that unfortunate continent. Moreover, once Washington has "ended" all of those conflicts, which they started, China will be paying a "little" bit more for those raw materials that its growing economy needs. That is, of course, if they are "allowed" to extract them at all. Interesting times, indeed!
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/10/obama-africa-democracy-ghana
2 http://www.africom.mil/getArticle.asp?art=1644

Reference

Today eight British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, which brings the total number of British troops killed there to more than the total number of those killed in Iraq. This is the "hype" man's "new, old" war and the hype on the UK home front? There was some stupid general talking on television about a military and political solution being required and the sad thing is that Joe Soap's receptive skills are so honed that phrases like this get embedded in his mind only to reappear in the shape of his exophoric reference. Glasgow a pleasant enough city, however, not only has my own reference shifted, theirs has not even stagnated; in a world of cappucinnos and gobblydegook it has actually regressed. We used to talk "shite" here but we knew that we were talkng "shite" and we liked it.

New powers to prosecute war criminals living in Britain

Isn't it great? "New powers to prosecute war criminals living in Britain who have committed atrocities dating back to 1991 were unveiled today by the justice secretary, Jack Straw."(1) That is right the same Jack Straw who, as British Foreign Minister in 2003, supported the Iraq War. Yes, that very same war that has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents and was illegal in international law. Of course, the extent of the myopia, which Jack Straw, and people like him, suffer from is so severe that Jack probably doesn't realise that the new powers to prosecute war criminals would, in an ideal world, be envoked to send Jack, along with Tony, a few other Brits, and quite a few Americans, to jail.
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/07/war-crimes-legal-powers-straw

Netanyahu accuses Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod of being "self-hating Jews"

Their silly little mind games; and apparently Netanyahu has described Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, Obama's senior aides, as "self hating Jews".(1) Well, that is it then, in the name of Zionist "Realpolitik" even two extremely convincing Zionists can be turned into "self hating Jews". What hope is there for any non-Jew who happens to criticise the Israeli state and Zionism? At the very least we might expect a tirade of insults accusing us of being Nazis and wanting another holocaust. Still, that is not really what Bibi Netanyahu's dismissing Rahm and David is about. No, what we have here is a little smokescreen, where we are to get the impression that Netanyahu is having his arm twisted by an "unfair" White house, that he is beng forced to make unreasonable compromises, when in fact there is no arm twisting, no debate and most certainly no bias in Washington in favour of the Palestinians and a just settlement. On the contrary, they are all playing their role in this little farce, Rahm, David and yes, "our" one and only "hype"man. Isn't it enough to turn your stomach?
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098853.html

Obama warns Russia

Got this from today's 'Guardian'; "Obama delivered a tough, though implicit, critique of Kremlin foreign policy, rejecting the claim it has "privileged interests" in post-Soviet countries. He said the 19th-century doctrine of spheres of influence and "great powers forging competing blocs" was finished."(1) Now, I know that I can be a little bit repetitive but the hypocrisy that Washington spouts out time and time again is disgustingly offensive. Moreover, I am also aware that if someone repeats something often enough it can penetrate; indeed, that is how they get "their" drivel into our soaked, manipulated, brains. Therefore, here is me repeating myself once again; is anyone listening, anyone willing to think just a little bit?
1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/obama-russia-first-trip

Brainwashed

It goes without saying that Chinese oppression in Xinjiang is nothing short of imperialism, it also goes without saying that the Uighurs do not in any conceivable way belong to China. Unfortunately, most Chinese are brainwashed into seeing this as a question of territory and into viewing "Chinese territorial integrity" as sacrosanct. Nevertheless, while we might and should condemn China, we would do well to be aware of our own hypocritical "Weltanschauung"; a view of things that is the product of an all too subtle, beguiling, seductive manufacturing of consent that actually has us too stumbling through life totally ignorant of the crimes that are being committed in our names.

In Glasgow

There was a visit from an ex-colleague in China this weekend and Glasgow proved itself to be a pleasant enough place. However, there was also the discovery that those "take for granted things" elsewhere cost at least a pretty penny in this part of the world; there was a very normal pizza in a "nothing special" restaurant in Byers Road, washed down with a glass of coca cola and a cup of espresso and a very normal visit to the cinema with another glass of coca cola and just about the smallest small popcorn I have ever seen and it was goodbye to almost twenty five pounds. Yes that life that is available to, if not all and sundry then, at least, most people back in Munich is almost a wee bit exclusive here.
Other things; the walk in the park, Kelvingrove, the fun in the sun, the sitting outside and, oh, yes, the ride, on the subway, when the truth is told, I am going to be bold and say, a nicer city, sort of pretty, but their exaphoric reference, I am going to infer, would always deter. Yes, of a return I would never talk and my mind drifts back to yesterday where I just had to gawk at their 'Orange Walk' yes, those days are bygone and I have really moved on. Still, a decent enough place to spend the summer.

Are we moving closer to an Israeli airstrike on Iran?

One wonders, but surely they are not going to do it? Is an Israeli airstrike on Iran a very real possibility? Well, if we are to believe the Israeli press, the evidence would appear to suggest that it is with both 'Haaretz' and the 'Jerusalem Post' reporting American Vice President Joe Biden as saying that the "hype" man's administration won't try to stop Israel if it decides to take military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.(1) Moreover, it would appear that the IAF has already received permission from the Saudi government, a government with which Israel has no diplomatic ties, to fly over their Saudi Arabian airspace. Indeed, we have the arch-zionist, the former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, even proclaiming that it would be "entirely logical" for the Israelis to use Saudi airspace.(2) We can expect an Israeli airstrike on Iran in the not too distant future.
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097911.html
2 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443717447&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

African leaders support al Bashir

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is, I am sure, not a nice person and I am also quite sure that the accusations levied at him by the ICC are based on fact. Nevertheless, there are two things which have to be pointed out here. Firstly, "Uncle Sam's" double standards and machavellien "Realpolitik" are so obviously behind the ICC's indictment that the Hague's jurisdiction, which Washington doesn't recognise when it comes to Americans, is completely undermined. Secondly, the fact that Africa's leaders have united to defend the Sudanese president, denounced the ICC, and refused to extradite him, is indicative not only of those leaders recognising this hypocrisy but also of the fact that they, with very good reason, are more than a trifle concerned that, should the International Criminal Court, get their hands on al Bashir, their day in court might not be too far away. Yes, by all means indicte the Sudanese president but it is time for the ICC to extend its jurisdiction to include Washington and time for half of the world's leaders and ex-leaders, including George W Bush, Tony Blair, Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, to follow Omar al-Bashir to the Hague. Until that happens any trip by the Sudanese president to the Hague will only signal that "Uncle Sam" has moved a step closer to achieving those geopolitical goals that make a mockery of the human rights that Washington pretends to support.

Arriving in the UK

Alright they are friendly enough, but then they always were; British officials waiting at the UK border to usher you in, or preventing the "baddies" getting in, to good old "Blighty". The 'UK Border Police' they call themselves now and there will be no "Shengen Agreements" for the mother of the free, after all, just about every Tom, Dick and Harry, or should I say, Tamas, Dogan and Hamad, wants to get in here. Yes, here really is something special and I should be grateful for having been born here; when all is said and down that incident has given me the possibility to travel to practically every planet on the globe without any real restriction. No, the hassle is mainly confined to when I get back to the UK and on an internal European flight from Munich to Birmingham the first thing you are confronted with on getting off of the plane is the 'UK Border Police'. "Strange" visas in my passport he looks at me, I look at him and smile, thinking, "is he going to ask some silly question, indeed, is he going to let me in, doesn't he have to let me in?" Of course, he does, "thank you Sir", he says, right I am on my way into paradise, the land of milk and honey, midget gems and wine gums, caramel wafers and probably the most trashy press in Europe and really I am left wondering why Tamas, Dogan and Hamad would want to come there but then I shouldn't wonder too much. After all, having been to where Tamas, Dogan and Hamad are from I should know their hells, hells that invariably came about when the uninvited British left their countries not so long ago.

Adding Insult to Injury

Amnesty International has accused Israel of commiting war crimes in Gaza and the reaction in Israel is that, which we have come to expect from the Zionist state; the usual denial, the usual "nobody listens to Amnesty", the usual accusations of anti-semitism. Quite simply, the evidence does more than suggest that there were war crimes, the evidence is overpowering, it is captured on film, it is documented and it is available for all and sundry to see, furthermore, people do listen to Amnesty when it comes to human rights, Amnesty does not point the finger only at Israel, it points the finger at anyone, anywhere, who abuses human rights and, finally, Amnesty International has many Jewish members, it works for human rights, regardless of ethnicity. Nevertheless, what are we confronted with? Once again we are confronted with the usual drivel from Israel when they are accused by anyone, even by human rights organisations within Israel itself. Drivel, which ranges from, "the other side committed crimes too", to a disgusting denial of the crimes committed; a denial, which adds insult to injury, a denial that is an affront, an insult, to all of us but is a particular insult to those innocent men, women and children who were slaughtered. When will the world wake up?