Wednesday 14 March 2012

A letter of support

On 7 June 2011, Fiona Byrne, the Mayor of Marrickville, a suburb of Sydney in Australia, was presented with a letter of support from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

In this he wrote:
“I want to pay my respects to you and your fellow councillors in Marrickville FOR TAKING A STAND TO ISOLATE THE ISRAELI STATE. We in South Africa, who both suffered apartheid and defeated it, have the moral right and responsibility to name and shame INSTITUTIONALIZED SEPARATION, EXCLUSION AND DOMINATION BY ONE ETHNIC GROUP OVER OTHERS… I HAVE SEEN HOW THE PALESTINIANS ARE OPPRESSED, DISPOSSESSED AND EXILED.”
On 13 June 2011, Joshua Levi responded thus in The Australian Jewish News:
“Desmond Tutu may have helped South Africa bring about the end of apartheid, but his open support for Marrickville Council’s Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel has left the Jewish community cold...
Former South African apartheid activist and past president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, Robin Margo, said Tutu was wrong. ‘Archbishop Tutu was a hero in the struggle against apartheid. He gave courage to many people, including me, in dark times. But he is wrong about Israel,’ Margo, now the president of the New Israel Fund Australia, said. THERE IS DISCRIMINATION IN ISRAEL, AS THERE IS IN OUR DEMOCRACY, but it is a gross distortion to describe Israel as practicing apartheid’…

When Marrickville Council voted to impose a boycott against Israel last year, LEADERS FROM THE LIBERAL, LABOR AND EVEN FEDERAL GREENS PARTIES CAME OUT IN OPPOSITION TO THE POLICY and called on it to focus on local issues. NSW PREMIER BARRY O’FARRELL EVEN THREATENED TO SACK THE COUNCIL IF IT VOTED TO IMPOSE THE BDS POLICY.”
Robin Margo says it's ‘a gross distortion to describe Israel as practicing apartheid’. I don’t know about that. On 16 November 2009, David Goldberg, Rabbi Emeritus of England’s Liberal Jewish Synagogue, said this in the documentary, ‘Inside Britain's Israel Lobby:’
“IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE. There is no two ways about it. When settlers travel on one road and Palestinians have to use another road; WHEN SETTLERS ARE GOVERNED BY ISRAELI LAW AND PALESTINIANS ARE GOVERNED BY MILITARY LAW, YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT APARTHEID."
The trouble with bulls*** is this: when nobody believes it any more, you’re liable to look and sound pretty silly when you continue to spout it.

You listening, Robin?

5 comments:

  1. London Zoo practices apartheid too. The tigers are caged away from the antelope but I don't see many protest tents outside its gates. This week there were more than seven rock attacks on Israeli motorists traveling through Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank. The term Occupied Territories can now be dispensed with because after 1967 Israel managed to reclaim it from Jordans 1948 invasion and subsequent occupation.
    The separation barrier has been effective in stopping many terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, and separate roads have reduced the amount of attacks on vehicles by the Palestinian arabs. Last week an Israeli woman and her baby were showered with glass shards as arabs threw a fist sized rock through her windscreen while she was driving along a shared road. The only problem with separate roads is that if an Israeli takes a wrong turn down one, he runs the risk of entering an arab village, which is a life threatening situation, particularly if he is Jewish.
    RAMALLAH (Ma'an)
    Average daily wages for settlement workers were 150 shekels ($44) per day, compared to 76.9 ($22) in the PA West Bank and 46.2 ($13.50) in Gaza, the latest research showed.
    The point of this quote from an arab source, is not to show that arabs who work in settlements are paid higher than their counterparts in the PA controlled areas or Gaza. It is to help you realise that they are atually allowed in settlements at all. Where is the apartheid there?
    Gazan citizens overwhelmingly elected the Hamas to govern them, in their last, and since discontinued, free elections. The Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel. Despite calls to join the UN.
    Article 8 The Hamas Motto.
    Allah is its goal, the Prophet its model, the Qur’an its Constitution, Jihad its path and death for the case of Allah its most sublime belief
    Combined with Article 13, exerpt.
    [Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement
    and article 15,
    Jihad becomes a duty binding on all Muslims. In order to face the usurpation of Palestine by the Jews,
    For whatever the reason or your belief why the Jewish state was created it is of no consequence. It exists and in doing so, contributes to the support and wellbeing of Israeli arab and Jew alike. Any group which denies its right to exist and is actively hostile against its citizens cannot be tollerated. Only on rare accasions has Israel been forced into retaiatory action to stem the activities of this existencial threat.
    When arriving in England from overseas I pass through many security checks. These are in place to safeguard residents from any malevolent intention I may have. It is a neccessary evil of the modern world, unfortunately. Israel cannot be condemed for restricting certain materials and ordinance into the hostile, neighbouring Gaza or for implementing stricter security checks than we would expect at Heathrow. Ten thousand rockets raining down into Israel does not promote confidence in easing restrictions. Nor does it inspire any willingness on the part of Israel to concede land overlooking the heartland of Israel in any future peace negotiations. Israel is not an apartheid state in the least. It is aware that it is holding a tiger by the tail and untill that tiger loses its teeth and claws, she will hang on.
    At that point London Zoo may put the tiger in with the antelope but I doubt very much that it will.



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  2. Without the theft of the land the culture and the lives, I doubt there'd be any terrorism.

    Heard of Deir Yassin? USS Liberty? The US Jewish Neocons that were agitating for a second war in Iraq ever since the first one ended in 1991?

    And Lebanon 1982 and the Arab Spring. Everywhere in the Middle East is popping off right now, just as General Wesley Clark said it would:

    http://traitor666.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/no-place-in-modern-europe-for.html

    And then there's 9/11, the excuse for this latest bout of establishment terrorism:

    http://traitor666.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/director-of-studies-at-us-army-war.html

    And the things it say in The Talmud and the Race Laws in Britain and political correctness and control of the media and the Jewish lobby and the poodle politicians who bow and scrape and the vast over-representation in the financial world and the routine Wall-Street-Crash type fleecing of the flock that goes on every decade or so.

    Be a long time before most of us forget 2008.

    And the Russian Revolution and those in Hungary and Germany and Karl Marx and the almighty 'Holocaust' exaggeration and every last unsavoury pie you lot have ever had your fingers in.

    You've been rumbled, son. Biggest mistake you ever made was allowing the internet into our living rooms. Easy pickings, I guess. You just can't resist 'em.

    Anyway, the dumb herd is getting less and less dumb by the minute. They're finding out more and more of the stuff that's been hidden from them over the centuries.

    And you're being appraised without the PC blinkers on for the first time by huge numbers of newly enlightened folk.

    And they keep on coming these used-to-be sheeple, by God they do.

    Take my advice and play the I-was-only-following-orders card before it's too late. Score some Brownie points with the mob by pretending a little contrition and telling tales on some of the really bad guys.

    You never know, the odd gullible cluck might forgive you.

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  3. "Without the theft of the land the culture and the lives, I doubt there'd be any terrorism"
    That's statement shows your element of uncertainty and ignorance of historic facts.
    Which areas of Birmingham or London did Britain steal from the Islamic caliphate that resulted in the bombings that killed our innocent civilians? Was Madrid responsible for the terrorist attack that killed 191 people and wounded 1800 because of land theft? Was the World Trade Centre built on a site holy to the Moslem faith?
    I'm sure that you can prove that it was the Jews in all cases because you will easily find a website or blog that has a conspiracy theory explaining how they did it.
    Oh yes the net is a wonderful tool and everything contained on it is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It can give you access to information that you never had before. Unfortunately it cant give you intelligence or logic which would enable you to discern vexatious propaganda, bigotry, distortions and lies.
    Deir Yassin was one battle in a war waged on the Jewish right to existence. It was not the start of arab Jewish conflict it was initiated on intelligence received at the time without the availability of the www. Hindsight is 20/20 vision and it's easy to criticize the mistakes of other people. No doubt the Brit's will have their very own Deir Yassin within the next 20 years but it will carry the name of Bradford or Tower Hamlets. Will you be so wise then? or will you be glued to your laptops searching for a way to blame it all on the Jews.
    The term Arab Spring would make me laugh if it wasn't so tragic. It is a very bloody winter and will take the countries who partook in this self inflicted disaster decades to recover if they ever do. Primitive people NEED a dictator, a father figure. Our democracy was not thrust upon us as a finished product overnight. It started with the Magna Carta and has been a work in progress ever since. We developed checks and balances which allow us to live in peace side by side. We don't rebel because we have evolved alongside the democratic process and accept its shortcomings in exchange for stability. The problems that we see now emerging in Britain are because the balance of the symbiosis between the population and its system of government has been thrown off due to mass immigration of people who are unwilling or unable to adapt.
    Does subscribing to a Zionist plot explain our demise, or ease your feelings of failure? Does it allow you self forgiveness at your inability to have made a success of your life? Treat it like AIDS, keep it to yourself and don't inflict it on others.

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  4. I replied as you know, but you don't have the balls to post it and continue our discussion? you learned well from you Leftist puppet masters.

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  5. As far I'm aware, outside of a mental error, I've published everything commented upon at this blog that doesn't contain foul language.

    I must admit, I'm not up for much discussion. Particularly, when the oppo's submissions are rather tedious and and childishly partial.

    You see, I deal in facts, and those who would contend with fact, aren't ever going to be won over by the plain truth. Anyone who would dismiss what is and has been in favour of the establishment fictions is a company man, bought-and-paid-for, Big Brother's pet footsoldier.

    Why would I allow such folk to waste my time?

    Post away, Dave. You won't get much in the way of debate from me but you can have all the space to rant as one-sidedly as you wish.

    For those looking in who are of a mind to be taken in by Dave's silly recent comment, check things out. If there's something you can't quite believe, investigate it thoroughly. The facts are always much more convincing if you unearth them yourself.

    And, Dave, as regards the 'balls' and the 'puppet masters,' the former are big and the latter non-existent.

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