BBC meets its match. Liberal media my ass. Hey Tony, why not visit the CBC and kick some ass here, too?H/T: @EverettColdwell
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Art Threat: The art of ‘pakour’ in Gaza – Overcoming obstacles in Kan Younis refugee camp
‘Pakour’, or FreeRunning, is the acrobatic art of running through cities and overcoming obstacles on the fly — or like a fly, because sometimes it seems like traceurs (slang for those who practice pakour) can defy gravity. It is thrilling to watch, and no doubt even more thrilling to do. I just discovered this great […]
Continue readingArt Threat: The art of ‘pakour’ in Gaza – Overcoming obstacles in Kan Younis refugee camp
‘Pakour’, or FreeRunning, is the acrobatic art of running through cities and overcoming obstacles on the fly — or like a fly, because sometimes it seems like traceurs (slang for those who practice pakour) can defy gravity. It is thrilling to watch, and no doubt even more thrilling to do. I just discovered this great […]
Continue readingRedBedHead: "Anti-Semitism" Committee A Rearguard Defence Of Israel’s Crimes
It’s nothing new really – the right wing, who can barely make their lips form the words “anti-racism”, spend boatloads of cash to “take a stand” against anti-Semitism. Except that what they’re really defending are the odious actions and policies of the…
Continue readingWhat would questioning disguised pacifists accomplish anyway? The Gaza flotilla’s mission is a humanitarian mission first and foremost
Reading Christopher Hitchens’s article, titled “Some questions for the ‘activists’ aboard the Gaza flotilla”, in Tuesday’s edition of the National Post, almost got me to write a letter to Mr. Hitchens, the old fashioned way, to ask him the …
Continue readingArt Threat: Cancel your concerts in Israel – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Island
A musical parody drawing attention to Gaza, riffing on Gilligan’s Island.
Continue readingStephen Harper’s moral relativism
In Stephen Harper’s speech to the recent Conservative convention, referring to foreign policy, he announced that the Conservatives moral stance would be clear. “Moral ambiguity, moral equivalence are not options,” he stated, “they are dangerous illusio…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Israel Is No Different Than Syria
Israel likes to tout itself as the “plucky little democracy” in the Middle East, and as an island of European-style democracy besieged by a sea of dictatorships and dark, Arabic hordes. Besides the (fading) appeal to the oppressions Jews suffered in Eu…
Continue readingA. Picazo: The Crisis In Gaza — An International Tipping Point
If, and as long as between the Jordan and the sea, there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic… If the Palestinians vote in elections, it is a binational state, and if they don’t, it is an apartheid state. – Ehud
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Pixies pulling out of Israeli show = "cultural terrorism": promoter
Stuck here out of gasOut here on the Gaza StripFrom driving in too fast–The Pixies (River Euphrates)These are lines that will not be sung in Tel Aviv, now that the Pixies have decided to cancel playing what would have been their first-ever gig in Isra…
Continue readingbastard.logic: Two Minutes Hate for Turkey (Hiss! Spit!)
by matttbastard Via John Cole: The Murdoch Street Journal sounds the battle cry as Outer Wingnuttia declares war on the declining Turkish Republic (the biggest BFF breakup since Paris & Nicole deleted each other from their respective Sidekicks): Israeli special forces … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Israel & the Freedom Flotilla Assault: It’s All About the Gaza Blockade
by matttbastard Israel does it again. With one deadly commando raid of an aid flotilla bearing essential goods in violation of Israel’s (illegal) blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has reasserted its expressed right to, essentially, defend its borders by … Continue reading →
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Well Israel, you have really lost the PR war now
You have got yourselves perfectly embroiled in an international incident that is not going away until you learn that even you must eat crow sometimes. So far, it doesn’t appear to have sunk in. I notice it only took you a few hours to release some prop…
Continue readingJustifying Murder on the High Seas
Once again the ugly specter of Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians in the Gaza strip has been brought to the forefront of the world’s attention and, this time, it wasn’t just the actions of activists (who have largely been ignored) that has drawn the laser-like focus and condemnations of nations
Continue readingThe Roundhouse: Another avoidable tragedy for Gaza
The loss of life on the flotilla attempting to move from Cyprus to Gaza is tragic, but it was also completely avoidable. This is a topic certain to inflame passions, but there were a few points I felt I had to make. Gaza is under a declared blockade; o…
Continue readingThe Roundhouse: Another avoidable tragedy for Gaza
The loss of life on the flotilla attempting to move from Cyprus to Gaza is tragic, but it was also completely avoidable. This is a topic certain to inflame passions, but there were a few points I felt I had to make. Gaza is under a declared blockade; one declared
Continue readingThe Roundhouse: Another avoidable tragedy for Gaza
The loss of life on the flotilla attempting to move from Cyprus to Gaza is tragic, but it was also completely avoidable. This is a topic certain to inflame passions, but there were a few points I felt I had to make. Gaza is under a declared blockade; one declared
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