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Some interesting posts here already but Skull and Seafoid's in particular caught my attention.  I have been following the situation in the Middle East since 1975 when as  young lad I saw the start of the Lebanese civil war on the TV at  home.  Ever since I have tried to keep up to date with what has been going on and have met and discussed the situation with many arabs.  We get enough of the pro-fascist/zionist view in our "mainstream" media.
Ever since the fall of the Iron Curtain Israel has been forced more and more into the vanguard of American interests in the region.  In the 6-day war in 1967 Israel, acting on information supplied by the Yanks attacked Egypt, Syrian and Jordan pulverising their forces, especially the air forces.  the arab countries were stunned and dishevelled afterwards.  Sadat took over from Nasser and quietly started rebuilding with the help of the Soviets.  When the 1973 October war started, the arab coalition was on the point of defeating Israel that it took the intercession of Nixon and Brezhnev to call off Sadat's troops as they were afraid of the void that might be left.  Better the devil you know and all that there.
As the Cold War progressed it was in the US interests to keep Israel as their bulwark just as they did with Japan, and so it continues to today.  Israel acts with total disregard for what others say as it is the puppet and the US is the puppetmaster.  Don't fool yourselves into thinking this was a stand alone issue without any intervention on the part of the US.  They more than likely were aware of what was going to happen.  Think Google Earth!!! 
As I have stated before, it is my belief that the US is trying to suffocate the rising influence of the Rus Fed and the Chinese on the global energy market.  The US have dwindling resources and are in debt to the eyeballs to the Chinese which actually own America when you think about it.  One only has to look at a map and draw a line along all of Russia's and China's borders to notice that practically every country on the other side is an ally of the US...except ONE.  Iran, hence the alleged positioning of the nuclear sub near Iran.  The oil rich countries of central Russia want to get their oil out but how?  Through countries effectively controlled by the USA.  And in China's case, it is now well known that China is a major supplier of foreign aid to some of the most corrupt regimes in Africa...and who is supplying the arms to oppose such regimes???  And so the Status quo remains.

One final thought...those of you with Foxtel.  Consider how Murdoch is using your money.   He isn't supporting the Palestinians that's for sure.

Israel has been doing its own thing under US cover since 1967 but now is is danger of losing popular support in the US as the generation that produced Alan Dershowitz dies off and Israel's real face comes to be revealed to people who believe in the values of liberal democracy and don't buy the guff that Zionism is liberal, regardless of the Jerusalem gay pride parade.
The millitary industrial settler machine is unstoppable and is driving Israel into apartheid  . It's like the hydra and it is going to take down the Jewish state since the system becomes more grotesque and cruel by the year. Ultimately there aren't enough Jews who want to live in Israel or palestinians who want to leave  to make apartheid a success.

Moshe dayan said "treat them like dogs. those who want to can leave" and that is the policy Israel has been running since 1948. the palestinians were all supposed to have disappeared by now. They are now more numerous in I/P than Jews and the gap will only get wider. Israel is sponsored by the reducing secular Jewish population and they keep the whole show on the road. If those people decide to leave in large numbers a la the educated unionists in NI the game is up. There is no HM treasury to bankroll the country a la northern Ireland.  The future for Israel looks very grim.

It doesn't make sense what the Israelis did here.  They have an extremely well oiled propaganda machine and usually have a they started it argument before they go in all guns blazing, even if for all the thousands of rockets they claim are being fired at Israel none ever seem to hit a built up area (considering how much of Israel is a built up area).  Do the Israelis have a bigger strategy or are they just saying now 'F&*k you all we will do what we want and we don't care about PR exercises or how it looks anymore'.

Israel had to stop those ships from getting to Gaza and unloading their cargos. It is a ghetto that is being maintained by Israel and they want it kept that way. It is the beginning of the end for the Israeli occupation if those shops are allowed in, so they were stopped.

Israel has backed itself into a corner over Gaza. The siege punishes the people rather than Hamas and is a failure. Israel can't back down because it has no plan B. When the siege eventually collapses Hamas win a massive PR boost along the lines of what happened when Hezbollah kicked Israel out of Lebanon in 2000.  Ha'aretz wrote yesterday that the Israeli people support the punishment of the people of Gaza because of the hostage Shalit. It's like something out of WW2. Israel can only lose in this case.  Apartheid is going nowhere.

Interestingly, next year's Division 1 will have 4 Leinster teams in it (Kilkenny, Wexford, Dublin, Offaly) and Galway from the Leinster Championship. There will only be 3 Munster teams in it. 

Munster hurling is clearly in crisis, is a disgrace, is on its knees, needs outside coaches from Leinster, needs something drastic! 

Offaly and Wexford are going straight down again.  Offaly need Jose Mourinho and Wexford need a good strawberry season.

Babs out of order again but some home truths in there as well !!


Babs points finger at Tipp 'failures'


Tuesday June 01 2010

IN AN angry outburst, former manager Michael 'Babs' Keating has written off Tipperary's All-Ireland prospects

I love reading Babs interviews. He has no tact but is very entertaining.

Normally Israel has a keen sense of Realpolitik, this suggests that they have become complacent. They have been particular allies of Turkey, yet they are treating the people on this ship in the same way as Palestinians.

the foreign minister is to the right of Putin and it is the most extremist government in the last 10 years. Even under a lefty government they went to war in 2006 and 2009.

Someone said this is Israel's sharpeville. It will gain the attention of millions of people around the world. Things will never be the same again

I'd like to agree with you but I won't hold my breath. As for negative PR the Israelis couldn't give 2 F***s what the rest of the world thinks of them. I'm waiting to see what our esteemed TD Mr Shatter says about this.

Israel is like the moonies. It is a cult. Way out of line with what everyone else is thinking. It's getting worse with time. In the last 5 years there have been 2 wars, the 600 calorie a day Gaza diet, the Dubai assassination and now this.  Sanctions are only a matter of time. the generation who put the Holocaust above Arab human rights will soon be dead.  Israel is losing younger American Jews.  All it can rely on is the nutcase Christian right. I wouldn't put money on Israel making it to 100.

Sanctions against Israel will never happen.

Sanctions are inevitable. There will never be a Palestinian state. Israel has built to ensure there can't be.  Israel has a choice between giving the vote to the Palestinians or the alternative which is apartheid. Israel is now running a system of apartheid in the occupied territories. Liberal democracies won't touch it once the facade about peace runs out of road and the 2 state solution is seen for the dead letter it is.  Israel is no more rational than north Korea. Alan Shatter and Alan Dershowitz and the rest of that generation will stand up for Israel no matter what but once they die there will be nobody to replace them. the hypocrisy of the world's only Jewish democracy running a system of apartheid will turn off more and more people to the point where action will become inevitable.

Avigdor lieberman is just the start. In time Netanyahu will come to be seen as a moderate and Sahron as a visionary. That is how bad things will get for Israel.

the other thing is that nobody wants to emigrate to Israel any more. why not? It's not the kind of place you want to rear your children.
Put all of the trends into a formula and run them for 20 years. Israel is finished.   

Someone said this is Israel's sharpeville. It will gain the attention of millions of people around the world. Things will never be the same again

I'd like to agree with you but I won't hold my breath. As for negative PR the Israelis couldn't give 2 F***s what the rest of the world thinks of them. I'm waiting to see what our esteemed TD Mr Shatter says about this.

Israel is like the moonies. It is a cult. Way out of line with what everyone else is thinking. It's getting worse with time. In the last 5 years there have been 2 wars, the 600 calorie a day Gaza diet, the Dubai assassination and now this.  Sanctions are only a matter of time. the generation who put the Holocaust above Arab human rights will soon be dead.  Israel is losing younger American Jews.  All it can rely on is the nutcase Christian right. I wouldn't put money on Israel making it to 100.

it's a huge own goal for Israel. The PR was already bad after the attack on gaza in 2009.

There has been a serious drift to the right and with it a huge build up of hatred towards the Palestinians in Israel since the failure of the 2000 talks and it comes out in the open at times like this. The only answer is sanctions. 

Someone said this is Israel's sharpeville. It will gain the attention of millions of people around the world. Things will never be the same again.

Showing my age but there was a shower in my school that used to write the names of music bands/singers on their schoolbags.

There wasn't a canvas school bag in our school without the obligatory AC/DC, Iron Maiden or whoever painted and varnished over on the big flap lid.

Came in handy in the odd row as well as those metal buckle ends could do some damage.

where did all of those bikers go? What happened to all of those black leather jackets? 

Tipp. used to be the Chateau Petrus of hurling and now you can buy a bottle for €3.99 in Centra in Thurles

Hard to believe Galway have never beaten Wexford in the championship. 

I remember 2 Offaly-Antrim matches. 1989 when the young pups of the faithful county just weren't good enough and the unthinkable happened. 40 minutes later John Denton (spit) strode onto the pitch and the rest was history.

Then there was the match some years later when 3 Offaly players were dispatched to the treatment room by a very capable hatchet man in saffron. 

If the Offaly hurlers are as poor as the fuballers anything is possible.

Israel restricts Gazans to 600 calories per day. That's Zionism and very similar to another ism that flourished in the 1930s.


Israeli spin
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Behind+the+Headlines/Israeli_humanitarian_lifeline_Gaza_25-May-2010.htm

[So why is it a British jail?]

The prison in which Hannaway is held is on the island of Ireland. It is staffed, in the main, by men and women from the island of Ireland. It is controlled by a local administration of Irishmen and women, voted into office by Irish voters. The political prisoners held there are being held for offences committed against the people of Ireland.

So why is it a British jail?

Because the Brits are paying for it.

the Brits pay 20,000GBP per dyed green in the wool republican family in norn Irn including the most rabid Shinners and 32 county sovereign children but that does not make those people Brutush.

I don't think he had much chance of getting re-elected anyway. Better off with Fianna Fail - might have a future there but the Stoops are a beaten docket.

Both the stoops and the UUP had the extremist party on their side moving to the centre and taking all their good positions. The UUP is dead but the stoops managed 3 MPs. WTF is the point of voting SF for Westminster anyway ? They don't even vote.