This afternoon, Thursday July 31, 2014, in the special Gaza Debate in the Irish Senate, the mask finally slipped with Senator Norris, who likes to pose as some harmless, eccentric clown
On his 70th birthday, and at precisely 15.07 PM, he said - and I quote his exact words, recorded by me at the time, as I sat right behind him -
*Tear the Holocaust rag from Israel*.
Shameful
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
ISIS massacre
The courageous and inspiring Anglican clergyman in Baghdad, Rev Canon Andrew White [ long noted for his inter-faith work and commitment ] has reported that ISIS murdered 1,500 people YESTERDAY.
Will even 1 Irish Senator mention that in their special recall debate on Gaza on Thursday afternoon ?
Will even 1 Irish Senator mention that in their special recall debate on Gaza on Thursday afternoon ?
Homes or Tunnels ?
I fully support the immediate De-Militarization of Gaza [as already exists in Sinai ] plus building HOMES, not Tunnels
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Trinity College, Dublin now the state-funded and advanced academic wing of *Palestine Resistance* ?
How are our precious and very scarce Irish tax dollars now being spent by Trinity College, Dublin ?
Would you believe in a PhD on -
*Womens Digital Resistance in the Occupation in Palestine* ?
This is the *intellectual* field where Elaine Bradley was listed for 2012 - she yesterday phoned RTE Radio 1 [ who also misleadingly introduced her as simply *an Irish aid worker* ] to complain that in the Gaza conflict, *the 2 sides are not equal*. So what ? War is not Cricket, where each team gets 11 players. What a totally mindless mantra.
Smaller now = right ?
The claim that *Might is Right* is a moral obscenity and absurdity - but equally so is the assumption that *Weaker is Right*. But that such guff is not only trotted out, even by hard-line agitators, but then not at once robustly challenged by any broadcasters, shows how any rationality, clarity and rigor, in both Ethics, and public debate, has now been radically eroded.
Is the [ implicit and unchallenged ] assumption that *Smaller is Right*, some quasi-marxist guff ?
But why be surprised when what was once arguably Ireland's leading and world-renowned [ as well as most ancient ] University, Trinity, can tolerate any topic like Bradley's as worthy of PhD [ or even first year ] *study* ?
Would you believe in a PhD on -
*Womens Digital Resistance in the Occupation in Palestine* ?
This is the *intellectual* field where Elaine Bradley was listed for 2012 - she yesterday phoned RTE Radio 1 [ who also misleadingly introduced her as simply *an Irish aid worker* ] to complain that in the Gaza conflict, *the 2 sides are not equal*. So what ? War is not Cricket, where each team gets 11 players. What a totally mindless mantra.
Smaller now = right ?
The claim that *Might is Right* is a moral obscenity and absurdity - but equally so is the assumption that *Weaker is Right*. But that such guff is not only trotted out, even by hard-line agitators, but then not at once robustly challenged by any broadcasters, shows how any rationality, clarity and rigor, in both Ethics, and public debate, has now been radically eroded.
Is the [ implicit and unchallenged ] assumption that *Smaller is Right*, some quasi-marxist guff ?
But why be surprised when what was once arguably Ireland's leading and world-renowned [ as well as most ancient ] University, Trinity, can tolerate any topic like Bradley's as worthy of PhD [ or even first year ] *study* ?
Monday, 28 July 2014
10 ways in which RTE reveals its totally slanted attitude regarding the Middle East
1. The vast amount of time given to Gaza - dominating bulletin after bulletin.
2. The priority given to Gaza as a lead story
3. Totally ignoring both Syria and ISIS - even Christians being crucified by ISIS
4. The selection of contributors [ like the notorious Norwegian Maoist Dr Mads Gilbert ]
5. Uncritically repeating everything, both words and pictures, from Gaza - as if it were not a totally Hamas-controlled zone, where Hamas controls media, access and hospitals
6. The attitude of RTE staff [ also evident in body-language and tone, as well as in what they say ]
7. Reporting as fact [ and without any reference to Hamas as source or censor ] of every claim from Gaza, but distancing RTE from Israel [ eg *Israel *SAID* ]
8. Never correcting outrageous lies - such as *Gaza has 2 M people* when CIA current estimate is 1.8 M, or *Gaza is the most densely populated area on earth* - total and manifest nonsense since its +12,000 people per Square Mile is only marginally above the current very low Dublin City Density
9. Never featuring critics of Hamas but regularly giving significant exposure to any critics of Israel, no matter how fringe or tendentious they are [ like Ilan Pappe ]
10. Never providing any balanced historical context or perspective, but readily and repeatedly using every possible emotive picture
2. The priority given to Gaza as a lead story
3. Totally ignoring both Syria and ISIS - even Christians being crucified by ISIS
4. The selection of contributors [ like the notorious Norwegian Maoist Dr Mads Gilbert ]
5. Uncritically repeating everything, both words and pictures, from Gaza - as if it were not a totally Hamas-controlled zone, where Hamas controls media, access and hospitals
6. The attitude of RTE staff [ also evident in body-language and tone, as well as in what they say ]
7. Reporting as fact [ and without any reference to Hamas as source or censor ] of every claim from Gaza, but distancing RTE from Israel [ eg *Israel *SAID* ]
8. Never correcting outrageous lies - such as *Gaza has 2 M people* when CIA current estimate is 1.8 M, or *Gaza is the most densely populated area on earth* - total and manifest nonsense since its +12,000 people per Square Mile is only marginally above the current very low Dublin City Density
9. Never featuring critics of Hamas but regularly giving significant exposure to any critics of Israel, no matter how fringe or tendentious they are [ like Ilan Pappe ]
10. Never providing any balanced historical context or perspective, but readily and repeatedly using every possible emotive picture
Yet more systematic RTE bias
This AM at 08.32, the Irish state-owned national *Public Service* broadcaster, RTE Radio 1 in *Morning Ireland* told us that over 1,000 palestinians *WERE* killed but that Israel *SAID* 40 soldiers were killed.
And not a word about how many of the palestinians were in fact terrorists in either Pal Islamic Jihad or Hamas
And not a word about how many of the palestinians were in fact terrorists in either Pal Islamic Jihad or Hamas
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Saturday, 26 July 2014
Friday, 25 July 2014
Who is this obscure Victoria White - the green Hamas-loving propagandist ?
VICTORIA WHITE, 52, a Dublin Protestant woman, seems to be a very minor and obscure fiction writer [ with only one work, a collection of short stories, published 24 years ago, back in 1990 ], and 20 years later, had her only non-fiction book published, on motherhood.
She is also since 1988 the wife of the Green Party Leader and former Irish Cabinet Minister, Eamon Ryan, who lost his Dail seat in 2011 and who also failed to take any of the 3 Dublin MEP seats this year. He was in the Cabinet which presided over the disastrous Housing Bubble, and then responded to the crash by taking full state responsibility for private [ banking ] borrowing, which as crippled the Irish Economy as well as gravely damaged society.
She portrays herself as a green activist and also as some form of feminist. Did she ever ask how women are treated in Gaza by Hamas ?
White [ for some obscure , if any, reason ] happens to have a weekly column in a daily paper, the Examiner and yesterday - with a prime slot, beside the Page 12 Editorial and taking up the rest [ 75% ] of the top half of that page - she produced a uniquely slanted, vicious and monumentally un-informed, indeed distorted attack on Israel, in which she declared that -
*Israel is not their "homeland". Europe is*.
Hamas or Al-Qaida could not do any worse.
Her grasp of history is laughable - she refers to Russian ethnic cleansing, and then adds - *The idea of the nation-state based on ethnicity was born*. That will certainly be news to every single serious historian on the planet - but then Whites' grasp of History is clearly as flaky as her grasp of the Middle East.
She totally ignores the context behind the flight of palestinians [and in fact not her inflated *800,000 but 711,000 ] in 1947-48, which was the invasion at birth of the newly-proclaimed, UN-mandated State of Israel, by 7 surrounding regular Arab Armies, plus an irregular pan-arab force which they had recruited. An invasion, decided by un-elected Arab tyrants, and explicitly designed to exterminate the new State, not defend local Arabs.
She similarly distorts the June 1967 war, totally ignoring the context which was a renewed Arab attempt to again destroy Israel.
Can such gross distortion be merely monumental ignorance ? Or could it reveal a deeply biased and hostile attitude - against one, but only one, nation and one nation-state on earth ?
This obscure, minor fiction writer who is a Dublin middle-class Protestant, also has a very weird take on Irish History - one owing more to *dissident* or Provo IRA views than to any serious analysis - not a whisper of how Peace was finally negotiated, with negotiations only happening on the basis of the explicit acceptance of the 6 Mitchel Principles, with *Parity of Esteem* and renouncing both the threat and use of force. Instead she trots out tired old *4 Green Fields* nonsense, a mantra she also spews out regarding the Middle East, tired but still toxic, and the kind of guff which still fuels both RIRA/CIRA ideology and violence, as well as the Hamas and other rejectionist gangs in the Arab world. How odd that a Dublin Protestant now aged 52, who therefore lived thru the long bloody decades from 1970 when Provo IRA and similar gangs waged their long campaign of tribal terror, due to defining Nationality in terms only of Land, not People and their Identity, Will and Rights, should have learnt or understood nothing. And odder that she cannot [or maybe simply will not ] see Israel except via such toxic and malign blinkers.
She quotes one, but only one, book - and does so repeatedly - but maybe she never read another on the Region ? Her lone source is no historian or expert of any kind, but an octogenarian travel-writer, and long notorious for her gross bias on the region, who also tried to sail on the pro-Hamas flotilla to Gaza, Dervla Murphy.
The Examiner can do much better - even a blank page would be more useful. And less toxic
She is also since 1988 the wife of the Green Party Leader and former Irish Cabinet Minister, Eamon Ryan, who lost his Dail seat in 2011 and who also failed to take any of the 3 Dublin MEP seats this year. He was in the Cabinet which presided over the disastrous Housing Bubble, and then responded to the crash by taking full state responsibility for private [ banking ] borrowing, which as crippled the Irish Economy as well as gravely damaged society.
She portrays herself as a green activist and also as some form of feminist. Did she ever ask how women are treated in Gaza by Hamas ?
White [ for some obscure , if any, reason ] happens to have a weekly column in a daily paper, the Examiner and yesterday - with a prime slot, beside the Page 12 Editorial and taking up the rest [ 75% ] of the top half of that page - she produced a uniquely slanted, vicious and monumentally un-informed, indeed distorted attack on Israel, in which she declared that -
*Israel is not their "homeland". Europe is*.
Hamas or Al-Qaida could not do any worse.
Her grasp of history is laughable - she refers to Russian ethnic cleansing, and then adds - *The idea of the nation-state based on ethnicity was born*. That will certainly be news to every single serious historian on the planet - but then Whites' grasp of History is clearly as flaky as her grasp of the Middle East.
She totally ignores the context behind the flight of palestinians [and in fact not her inflated *800,000 but 711,000 ] in 1947-48, which was the invasion at birth of the newly-proclaimed, UN-mandated State of Israel, by 7 surrounding regular Arab Armies, plus an irregular pan-arab force which they had recruited. An invasion, decided by un-elected Arab tyrants, and explicitly designed to exterminate the new State, not defend local Arabs.
She similarly distorts the June 1967 war, totally ignoring the context which was a renewed Arab attempt to again destroy Israel.
Can such gross distortion be merely monumental ignorance ? Or could it reveal a deeply biased and hostile attitude - against one, but only one, nation and one nation-state on earth ?
This obscure, minor fiction writer who is a Dublin middle-class Protestant, also has a very weird take on Irish History - one owing more to *dissident* or Provo IRA views than to any serious analysis - not a whisper of how Peace was finally negotiated, with negotiations only happening on the basis of the explicit acceptance of the 6 Mitchel Principles, with *Parity of Esteem* and renouncing both the threat and use of force. Instead she trots out tired old *4 Green Fields* nonsense, a mantra she also spews out regarding the Middle East, tired but still toxic, and the kind of guff which still fuels both RIRA/CIRA ideology and violence, as well as the Hamas and other rejectionist gangs in the Arab world. How odd that a Dublin Protestant now aged 52, who therefore lived thru the long bloody decades from 1970 when Provo IRA and similar gangs waged their long campaign of tribal terror, due to defining Nationality in terms only of Land, not People and their Identity, Will and Rights, should have learnt or understood nothing. And odder that she cannot [or maybe simply will not ] see Israel except via such toxic and malign blinkers.
She quotes one, but only one, book - and does so repeatedly - but maybe she never read another on the Region ? Her lone source is no historian or expert of any kind, but an octogenarian travel-writer, and long notorious for her gross bias on the region, who also tried to sail on the pro-Hamas flotilla to Gaza, Dervla Murphy.
The Examiner can do much better - even a blank page would be more useful. And less toxic
Can you ever negotiate with HAMAS ?
Read Art 13 of their 1988 Hamas Covenant
*Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions, and international conferences, are contrary to
the PRINCIPLES
of the Islamic Resistance Movement*
Could not be any clearer.
This is not mere policy but absolute principle, and is founded on their [ toxic ] VERSION of Islam.
*Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions, and international conferences, are contrary to
the PRINCIPLES
of the Islamic Resistance Movement*
Could not be any clearer.
This is not mere policy but absolute principle, and is founded on their [ toxic ] VERSION of Islam.
Could Hamas be really committed to killing JEWs ?
Art 7 of the 1988 Hamas Covenant is the one about KILLING -
but not killing IDF -
not killing Israelis -
but simply killing JEWs.
Yes, KILLING JEWS.
And as a binding absolute divine Islamic duty.
The Hamas recent murderers of 3 Jewish youths near Hebron were not violating Hamas duties, but simply observing them .
but not killing IDF -
not killing Israelis -
but simply killing JEWs.
Yes, KILLING JEWS.
And as a binding absolute divine Islamic duty.
The Hamas recent murderers of 3 Jewish youths near Hebron were not violating Hamas duties, but simply observing them .
What really drives HAMAS ? Find out - in their own words
Google *Avalon Project Hamas Covenant* for a reliable Yale trans of the Aug 18, 1988 Hamas Covenant which was never revoked or even amended.
Read Arts 7 and 13 in particular
Read Arts 7 and 13 in particular
Thursday, 24 July 2014
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Monday, 21 July 2014
Gaza, facts, and Urban Combat
In April 1916 Dublin City had over 400,000 people when Pearse, Connolly and 5 others in the IRB secret Mil Cte , choose to launch their Easter Rising. They rightly surrendered after 6 days of intense urban fighting, in order to avoid further carnage - by then the 254 civilian dead [ who were most of those killed ] had averaged 42 daily, or 10.5 per 100,000 daily. They surrendered un-conditionally.
Gaza has 4.5 times as many people. The UN now estimates that in 13 days of urban fighting, 508 have been killed, 72% of them civilian [ as in 1916 in Dublin, most of the dead are civilian ]. That is a civilian rate per 100,000 daily of 1.5 - so 1916 in Dublin was SEVEN times worse for civilians.
Since gunpowder was invented, no military commander or force has ever been able to avoid all civilian casualties in intense urban fighting. Not one. Not in Normandy in 1944. Not in Gaza in 2014. .Not in 1916 in Dublin. So to now demonize the Israelis, when 1916 in Dublin was SEVEN times worse, is not only totally unfounded, but sheer bias.
When Egypt proposed an immediate and un-conditional Ceasefire in Gaza, Israel complied - at once and in full. And un-conditionally. What did Hamas do ? They fired another 47 Rockets at civilians, at towns within Israel, in the following 6 hours, thus compelling Israel to resume operations to end that firing by Hamas.
Hamas now should follow the 1916 Irish example, and end at once further death, injury and destruction for their own people, by an immediate and un-conditional Ceasefire.
Gaza has 4.5 times as many people. The UN now estimates that in 13 days of urban fighting, 508 have been killed, 72% of them civilian [ as in 1916 in Dublin, most of the dead are civilian ]. That is a civilian rate per 100,000 daily of 1.5 - so 1916 in Dublin was SEVEN times worse for civilians.
Since gunpowder was invented, no military commander or force has ever been able to avoid all civilian casualties in intense urban fighting. Not one. Not in Normandy in 1944. Not in Gaza in 2014. .Not in 1916 in Dublin. So to now demonize the Israelis, when 1916 in Dublin was SEVEN times worse, is not only totally unfounded, but sheer bias.
When Egypt proposed an immediate and un-conditional Ceasefire in Gaza, Israel complied - at once and in full. And un-conditionally. What did Hamas do ? They fired another 47 Rockets at civilians, at towns within Israel, in the following 6 hours, thus compelling Israel to resume operations to end that firing by Hamas.
Hamas now should follow the 1916 Irish example, and end at once further death, injury and destruction for their own people, by an immediate and un-conditional Ceasefire.
Saturday, 19 July 2014
Hamas murder Arab and wound 4 more
Hamas have murdered an Arab, and wounded 4 more, in a rocket attack on Bedouins near Dimona in Southern Israel.
The Hamas rockets again missed the NUCLEAR Reactor at Dimona.
The Hamas rockets again missed the NUCLEAR Reactor at Dimona.
EU, UN and Irish Aid - to the people in Gaza - or for Hamas Tunnels ?
How much Aid does the EU supply to Gaza ? How much UN cash goes in ? How much also comes from Irish taxpayers - both in direct Irish Aid and via contributions to the massive EU and UN aid ?
How much did HAMAS spend on its vast network of Tunnels now discovered ?
*Millions* said France 24 TV this morning.
And how much of that vast Hamas Tunnel Budget was stolen from EU or UN or Irish Aid ?
How much Concrete for Tunnels was stolen by Hamas from supplies provided to build schools ?
How much has Hamas spent on the vast arsenal of Rockets from Iran with which it is now [ once again ] bombarding civilians in its neighbor, Israel ?
How much did HAMAS spend on its vast network of Tunnels now discovered ?
*Millions* said France 24 TV this morning.
And how much of that vast Hamas Tunnel Budget was stolen from EU or UN or Irish Aid ?
How much Concrete for Tunnels was stolen by Hamas from supplies provided to build schools ?
How much has Hamas spent on the vast arsenal of Rockets from Iran with which it is now [ once again ] bombarding civilians in its neighbor, Israel ?
Gaza Concrete
Gaza is small. Only 140 Square Miles. The tunnels already discovered by IDF are large, many and used a lot of concrete. So why did UNWRA never spot any tunnel-digging by Hamas - with all that *peaceful* imported concrete which we were assured was to build schools and homes ? Not Tunnels to infiltrate Jihadist gangs into Israel.
Friday, 18 July 2014
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