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#FreedomFlotilla
Posted: 31 May 2010, 13:57
by biffvernon
Craig Murray wrote:May 31, 2010
Truly Disgusting
I have just spoken to the FCO press spokesman. The line on the legality of the Israeli attack is "We are not getting into that, especially when the details are unclear." They are waiting for "clarification from our Embassy in Tel Aviv".
That is a terrible reaction from the coailition government to its first test on human rights. The detail can make no difference to the fact that the Israelis attacked foreign flagged vessels in international waters. That is a priori illegal. Where the hell are FCO legal advisers? Is this government ignoring them just like New Labour?
UPDATE
Demonstration outside Downing St at 2pm. Doubtless it will be small, but I feel obliged to be there.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/ ... ustin.html
Norway's reaction is more robust
http://www.newsinenglish.no/2010/05/31/ ... ls-attack/
Posted: 31 May 2010, 14:14
by RogueMale
Posted: 31 May 2010, 14:45
by 2 As and a B
In international waters...
The world would be a much happier place if the bad smell that is the state of Israel could be wiped from the face of the Earth.
Posted: 31 May 2010, 15:10
by Quintus
foodimista wrote:The world would be a much happier place if the bad smell that is the state of Israel could be wiped from the face of the Earth.
Fair enough to put forward an argument criticising the existence of Israel (it's a mostly free cyberspace) but phrases like "bad smell" and "wiped from the face of the Earth" aren't helpful, IMHO.
Posted: 31 May 2010, 15:15
by Aurora
Quintus wrote:foodimista wrote:The world would be a much happier place if the bad smell that is the state of Israel could be wiped from the face of the Earth.
Fair enough to put forward an argument criticising the existence of Israel (it's a mostly free cyberspace) but phrases like "bad smell" and "wiped from the face of the Earth" aren't helpful, IMHO.
+1 ... 100%
Posted: 31 May 2010, 18:53
by 2 As and a B
Crikey, it's the
Labour Friends of Israel crew, the shabby cousins of
AIPAC.
Neither listed on this unbelievably short page.
Tip of the iceberg, and all that.
Posted: 31 May 2010, 19:19
by DominicJ
Yes, when stopped by the Coast Guard, its sensible to charge them with knives and stab half a dozen of them.
The Coast Guard are evil if they shoot you for trying to stab their mates to death.
Lets exterminate jews eh Foodimista?
Posted: 31 May 2010, 19:34
by 2 As and a B
Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!
That's how it goes
As usual, people here only hear what they want to hear.
Low intelligence, I reckon. And probably don't know that the state of Israel was run by
terrorists who had been killing British citizens. And Likud =
Irgun.
Posted: 31 May 2010, 20:25
by biffvernon
Oh come on, children, it's a no-brainer to see that Israel are out of order, whatever one's views of the Middle Eastern conflicts.
Nice to see that Caroline Lucas is amongst the top tweets on #FreedomFlotilla
rjarbou
"Israel, who has the 4th largest military in the wd, is threatened by boats carrying wheel chairs, canned food and toys.." #FreedomFlotilla
about 7 hours ago via web
Top Tweet 100+ Retweets
CarolineLucas
Strongly condemn Israeli attack & call on Government to do same & suspend EU-Israel trade agreement
http://bit.ly/bXHxgg #FreedomFlotilla
about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck
Top Tweet 100+ Retweets
noudie
This isn't about Moslem nor Jewish nor Christian! This is about humanity! #FreedomFlotilla
about 8 hours ago via web
Top Tweet 100+ Retweets
Posted: 31 May 2010, 20:36
by Aurora
biffvernon wrote:Oh come on, children, it's a no-brainer to see that Israel are out of order, whatever one's views of the Middle Eastern conflicts.
Again, +1 ... 100%
Posted: 31 May 2010, 21:01
by stumuzz
Freedom of speech is brilliant. Just allow people to say what they want, without advocating violence and their true identity will out.
Who would have thought we had an antisemite on the forum?
Posted: 31 May 2010, 21:32
by Vortex
Who would have thought we had an antisemite on the forum?
Disappointing.
I came here from peakoil.com to get away from their rabid anti-Semitism.
Oh well .....
Posted: 31 May 2010, 21:34
by Vortex
foodimista wrote:In international waters...
The world would be a much happier place if the bad smell that is the state of Israel could be wiped from the face of the Earth.
Posted: 31 May 2010, 21:45
by nexus
Aurora and Biff
Oh come on, children, it's a no-brainer to see that Israel are out of order, whatever one's views of the Middle Eastern conflicts.
Again, +1 ... 100%
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+ another 1
you can condemn this horrendous attack without being an anti-semite.
Posted: 31 May 2010, 22:38
by Vortex
you can condemn this horrendous attack
Just saw the video on the news.
The Israelis were set upon very nastily by the 'peace' activists.
Personally if I saw a colleague being beaten with metal bars I might also be tempted to fire to save him.