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Pcar
if you liked that - I suggest that if you do Twitter - you follow the Russian Embassy in London - they have a mischievous wag on the staff there ;-)
Twitter again - Merkel meets Macron....
tomo
@tomo
Re: Linda Sarsour - that is hilarious (karma) :)
Pcar
In other slightly related news Linda Sarsour receives a Twitter reply
tomo
stewgreen
The motivation for the USS Liberty attack is still afaics exceeding murky even 50 years later.
The US Navy told the ship (as in - ordered it) not to go closer than 100nm the day before - it was obviously a lot closer than that..... and ambling around in the middle of a shooting war. An administrative cock-up it might well have been....
tomo
BTW RT now has a prog about the 50th anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty
the line being that Israel attacked the ship deliberately killing 29
and claimed it was an accident.
stewgreen
stewgreen
Indeed - there are Christians and some oddball locals like Druze about the place and the demographics of the "Israelis" is quite jumbled and your point about proactive violence isn't lost on me.
I read this a few years back and largely agree with the Amazon reviews....
I've worked in Egypt / Sinai - but never visited Israel. Farouk's Egypt never really went away.... the rampant inequality has fed I think into a noticeable increase in overt fundamentalist Islam there in 2010+ that I simply didn't experience in the 1980/90s.
btw there were some truly vile comments below that RT article - many obviously from people with English as a first language...
tomo
@Tomo Palestinians are NOT Arabs, they are not even necessarily Muslim.
Israeli cultural attitude of I must hit you first, cos you may hit me ...is the source of many of their problems
Though I don't know the details of the school event.
stewgreen
stewgreen
I went and had a look at RT.
The Israelis have a poor record with provision of facilities for the Arabs - the article mentions "50 school demolition orders recently" - I really fail to see what the Israelis feel they might gain from this .... I also wonder why the funders didn't get involved in the trajectory of the project at an earlier stage and apply pressure to get the requisite permissions - they have representatives on the ground - W.T.F are the aid worker folk playing at?
There are some real rascals in receipt of EU largess in Israel / Palestine and it is abundantly clear that oversight and control is woefully lacking.
If the Israelis are misbehaving then let's hold their feet to the fire - if some of the the various Palestinian factions are likewise acting badly then likewise. I get the impression that EU funding isn't always ending up benefiting those in need and just maybe the administration of projects should rest (at least initially) with the funders and not just handing out money to anybody who asks for it....
I've seen "aid projects" that have sucked millions in funding with little to show for it on the proposed site.... in one case simply nothing on a project in Pakistan that purportedly sucked some tens of millions of dollars.
tomo
Welcome back golf charlie.
Blackberries (brambles) are a bumper crop this year in Cumbria too, after 2 or 3 poor years. We've been harvesting for weeks already, with the prospect of weeks more to go.
I have no idea if this is due to climate change, but if it is, it's some good news to balance the bad.
Mark Hodgson
Some news probably not on BBC TV, Radio or Website
1. Some sanity at last:
...NGOs Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) and SOS Mediterranee recently complained about the lack of migrants saying,”What we’re seeing at sea is that it seems fewer small boats are leaving Libya, and those that do leave are intercepted by the Libyan coastguards.”
"complained about the lack of migrants" - what? MSF and SOS Mediterranee should lose charitable status and be reclassified as terrorist organisations for promoting law breaking.
2. More or less republished:
In Houston after Hurricane Harvey, price-gougers have the moral high-ground by Tim Worstall | Aug 30, 2017, 11:42 AM
Congrats Tim & well done Washington Examiner
3. About time:
Bloomberg Jumps On The 'AntiFa'-Bashing Bandwagon "More In Common With Nazis Than American Ideals"
Ironically they were all chanting about NO hate.
Some had shields and gloves. Some had helmets. Some had gas masks...
...So that's four mainstream liberal media outlets decrying AntiFa... did they just admit - ever so sheepishly - that President Trump was right? There are 'bad people' on both sides?!