Africans are not stupid. And organising a working state is difficult. Most of Africa has failed to do so, as has most of Europe at many points in its history. What we are seeing in Africa is not an inherent inferiority of the location or the people but the same dark ages that many other continents were confronted with at other times. I believe the best solution for Africa is to allow other countries to organise Africa's economy. But for this to work, those other countries must profit from ...
Christian Arab comic Ray Hanania (who is not the prime minister of Gaza) wrote this excellent article on ynet. Occasionally, when I am on the comedy stage, an American in the audience will stand up and blurt out, “Hey, camel jockey. How did the whole Arab-Israeli conflict start? What was the real cause?” ... http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3105616,00.html Ray Hanania is a Palestinian-American writer, peace activist and standup comedian w...
Take a look at the likely outcome according to current polls: http://www.n-tv.de/politik/politik_wahl_2009/wahl_statistik/ Black is a safe Christian Democrat win. Red is a safe Social Democrat win. Violet is a safe Socialist win. Green is a safe Green win. I already voted. In my district, the last place I lived in before I moved to Dublin, there were two candidates with chances to win: Klaus Uwe Benneter runs for for the Social Democrats and is famous for once having be...
Over 73 aid trucks and 440,000 liters of fuel and gas are scheduled to cross into Gaza today. We still haven’t quite mastered that whole genocide thing. -- Israellycool Dave
According to a (German) article on n-tv.de the German air force flew an attack on Taliban forces: Nach Bundeswehrangaben wurden bei dem vom deutschen ISAF-Kommandeur in Kundus angeforderten Angriff mehr als 50 Aufständische getötet. "Unbeteiligte sind nach derzeitigem Kenntnisstand nicht zu Schaden gekommen." Der Schutz von Zivilisten habe für die Bundeswehr bei Militäroperationen oberste Priorität. Berichte afghanischer Behörden über zivile Opfer kö...
A Christian was caught in a protest and is being interrogated by the secret police: "I have reports that you were in a church last Sunday and kissed the feet of Jesus at the cross. Is that right?" The Christian answers: "Yes. It is correct. I kissed my Lord's feet." The police man asks: "Would you kiss the feet of Ayataollah Khameini ?" And the Christian answers: "I would if he were to hang on a cross." Ahmadinejad walks into a forest with a rop...
A family own a home and squatters have lived in it without paying rent for years. The family sue, and the police evict the squatters. There is nothing wrong with the picture, except it happened in Jerusalem and the home owner was Jewish, which was enough for Reuters to side with the criminals, as this blog article shows: Nearly a month ago, Palestinian Arab squatters were evicted from a home in Jerusalem pursuant to an order from the Israel High Court. The squatters had failed to pay ren...
When Dan Rather and CBS tried to prevent George Bush's re-election in 2004 by making up a story about his time in the National Guard, they also "forgot" to mention this little fact, which they knew well: Bernard Goldberg points out a fact that many people missed in the controversy over the “Rathergate” fraudulent memos: Rather’s producer, Mary Mapes, knew all along that the premise of the report was false. ... Mapes had information prior to the airing of the ...
Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has been widely described in the western media as a racist or an ultra-right-wing politician, while at the same time Mr Lieberman's actual political positions are much more moderate than the average "moderate" Arab politicians'. Given that Lieberman's positions would be considered "modertate" if he were an Arab but "ultra-right-wing" or even "racist" when he is a Jew, I am wondering whether those who call him a racist truly understand what racism is....
This (German) video quickly summarises "anti-Israel" protests in Germany of the last two years. It was made as a submission to Youtube's current project "361° Toleranz" ("361 degrees of tolerance") which intends to display videos that promote tolerance and point the finger at racism. It has little chance to be accepted because it is about current anti-Semitism. (Anti-Semitism is only bad when it happened in the 1940s.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URMfLZGe8aw It starts with some...
The Israeli Declaration of Independence formulated the Zionist dreams for the country: The Land of Israel, Palestine, was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. ... WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neigh...
I know, I know. Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism and accusing Israel of something without evidence, however ridiculous the deed, is a service to mankind. And it is solely my fanaticism that makes me doubt the odd accusation and defend Israel, a country obviously guilty of the crime she has been accused of. As usual, the accusations come from an anonymous source. This time they were published in Sweden, a country which has apparently suffered from Zionism more than any other country an...
In the spirit of the equality of all peoples and having been told that liberals are not anti-Semites, I wonder about the following. If Israel (or some people in Israel) decided to fire rockets into Damascus on a daily basis, hitting the odd school or market place, and if Syria decided, after four or five years, to do something about it by firing back and killing 1000 Israelis including 600 of those who actually fired the daily rockets and some 400 human shields, would liberals and other peace...
Quoting rabbi Forman, whose sentiments I can fully understand (except in as much as he apparently decided to assign land that is still in dispute to Arabs without asking both sides): We hate the security barrier because it steals Palestinian lands, divides villages and separates families, but we sleep better knowing our children no longer play Russian roulette with their lives when they venture out in public. We deplore targeted assassinations, but when the IDF kills terrorists on their way...
Harry's Place about "Human Rights Watch": I really am at a loss for words. Assuming that this is all correct, hiring a very extreme Communist, with simply horrendous views about Israel/Palestine to produce a report of this sort is akin hiring a man who was formerly active in the KKK to write about black people and crime. Fundraising for this sort of work in Saudi Arabia is like taking cash for this enterprise from the old Apartheid South Africa. This is the anatomy of a lynchi...