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We will smoke them out.......pork ribs should do the job!!

streams of consciousness...
1.A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.
2.Psychology. The conscious experience of an individual regarded as a continuous, flowing series of images and ideas running through the mind.

absolutely!!

people who think they are something - particularly when they're living off someone else!!!!!!!!!
aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh!

Great post for 10349

Get a life

 Personally I think that the American " Intelligence" agencies wouldnt know .......they are a bunch of redneck dimf##Ks

8 + years and they are as close to getting him as Armagh are to winning Sam again

Get out of Afghanistan and Iraq now!!

WMD my ass!!

Lots of teams training away with renewed hope thanks to Ogs dethroning Cross.
Should make for an interesting championship this year, with Ogs out to retain, Cross to regain, and the likes of Dromintee, Clans, Harps and St. Pats all feeling they can win it.
I'll have a few pound on Dromintee

CAIRO: Egypt on Friday declared British lawmaker George Galloway persona non grata, accusing him of incitement after his harsh criticism of Cairo over delays in an aid convoy's entry into Gaza, the foreign ministry said Friday.

"George Galloway is considered persona non grata and will not be allowed to enter into Egypt again," a Foreign Ministry statement said. The activist left Egypt Friday morning from Cairo airport.

Earlier, British press reported Galloway had been deported from Egypt. They said he was taken by police from the Rafah crossing with Gaza to Cairo airport where was put on departing British Airways plane.

A police officer maintained security escorted him for his own protection.

"It was to protect him from the Egyptian people's anger," he said on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the media. "He was told that he is a trouble maker and his behavior is undermining Egyptian security." Galloway led more than 500 activists as part of an international aid convoy to Gaza. They entered late Gaza Wednesday from Egypt after a month traveling. Egypt gave them only 24 hours in the blockaded seaside Strip before it said it would re-close the crossing.

On Tuesday clashes erupted between members of the convoy and Egyptian riot police in the Mediterranean port city of El-Arish after the convoy was delayed due to some of the materials it was carrying, and dozens of protesters and police were injured. Seven convoy members were ordered arrested if they returned to Egypt.

A sympathy protest along the Gaza-side of the border Wednesday degenerated into stone-throwing scuffles and exchange of fire between Egyptian security and Palestinian gunmen, killing one Egyptian border guard. The convoy was organized by the Britain-based group Viva Palestina, which planned to deliver hundreds of tons of aid.

I wonder why Sinn Fein declined an interview with BBC news today.

Heard Adams on the wireless today, think it was rte.

And what did he have to say for himself?

Something about hypocrites and the policing board!!

Yeah, you are my hero!!

See pintsofguinness made the media today.....

What a HERO MEMBER!!!

He is a gobshite!!

45 posts and you feel entitled to indulge in childish name-calling??

Pints .....another alias!!




We can agree/disagree all we like with opinions, we can even disilike the board persona of individuals but people get carried way a bit - who cares who anyone is!

He is a gobshite!!

Good luck.

I need to lose a few stone myself, and getting started is the most difficult part.

Maybe they will have a better strike rate than our neighbours.....1 in 10

Here's hoping anyway, but if I was a gambler I'd back Dromintee.

ON the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip — in my view it was a demonstration of Israeli state terrorism at its most naked — it's not enough to say that the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in Israel's ongoing collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians, 53 percent of whom are children.

What is actually happening in the blockaded Gaza Strip, and less obviously on the occupied West Bank, is the continuation by stealth of Zionism's ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel's leading "revisionist" (meaning honest) historian and author of "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", would and has put it another way. What we are witnessing is, in his words, "genocide in slow motion." And that, really, is what the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in.

The question that provokes in my mind is: Why, really, are the major powers (and others) allowing it to happen?

The only answer that makes some sense to me is this. They have concluded, but cannot say, that nuclear-armed Israel, with the assistance of the Zionist lobby in all of its manifestations, is a monster beyond control.

In my analysis it's possible to identify the moment in history when the major powers abandoned any hope they might have had of containing Zionism's colonial ambitions. It came, the moment, in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 war.

Contrary to Zionism's version of the story, it was a war of Israeli aggression, not self-defense.  Israel's military and political leaders knew the Arabs were not intending to attack.

That being so, what the major powers ought to have said to Israel (in the diplomatic language of a Security Council resolution and more explicitly behind closed doors) is something like: "Aggression cannot be rewarded. Aggressors cannot keep territory conquered in war. You are now required to get the hell out of it without laying down conditions for your withdrawal."

To drive home the point, they could and should have reminded Israel of what President Eisenhower said to the people of America when he demanded Israel's unconditional withdrawal from Egyptian territory after its collusion with Britain and France in 1956. Eisenhower, the first and the last American president to contain Zionism, said this:

"If we agree that armed attack can properly achieve the purposes of the assailant, then I fear we will have turned back the clock of international order. We will have countenanced the use of force as a means of settling international differences and gaining national advantage... If the UN once admits that international disputes can be settled using force, then we will have destroyed the very foundation of the organization and our best hope for establishing a real world order."

As it happened, the major powers could not say that to Israel in 1967 because the Johnson administration had colluded with Israel to the extent of giving it the green light to smash Egypt's armed forces, in the hope that a humiliating defeat for them would lead to the overthrow of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. But also true is that Johnson sought and obtained an assurance that Israel would not take advantage of the war situation to grab Jordanian and Syrian territory. It was because some in the Johnson administration (probably Defense Secretary McNamara and the joint chiefs of staff) didn't trust Israel to keep its word that the US spy ship, the Liberty, was stationed off the Israel/Gaza coast to listen to IDF movement orders. And it was because Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan didn't want Johnson to know that he intended to take the West Bank and the Golan Heights that he, Dayan, ordered the attack on the Liberty. (The full story of that attack and Johnson's cover-up of it is also in my book, in a chapter headed The Liberty Affair — "Pure Murder" on a "Great Day").

Despite that, the major powers, including and led by America, could still have acted firmly to contain Zionism's colonial ambitions. They could have said to Israel something like: "We can just about live with the fact that you will retain the newly occupied Arab territories as a bargaining chip, to be exchanged for peace with your Arab neighbors, but we will not allow you to settle those territories. Not one building. If you defy us on this matter, the Security Council will authorize enforcement action as necessary to oblige you to comply with international law."

In what became Security Council Resolution 242, it was the failure of the major powers to read the riot act to Israel on the matter of not settling the newly occupied territories that marks the moment when they, the major powers, became resigned to the fact that the Zionist state, assisted by its awesomely powerful global lobby, was a monster they could not control. (They could slap it on the wrist from time to time but not control it).

The lesson of the cold-blooded attack on the Liberty was that there is nothing the Zionist state might not do, to its friends as well as its enemies, in order to get its own way.The real reason for Israel's decision to acquire a nuclear arsenal was to have the deterrent threat capability of saying to its friends, "Don't push us further than we are prepared to go or we'll use these things.") So in the full light of the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, it's not surprising that the major powers (and others) are today complicit, more by default than design I say, in Zionism's crimes.