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Wednesday February 20,
2008
Chickens in the Yard
Scotland
Yard obstructs justice by deferring to Israel, Palestinians discuss
flying Israel's coop by declaring themselves a state, and Iran ruffles
US feathers with its oil bourse
Guardian:
Terror police feared gun battle with Israeli general
Scotland
Yard allowed a suspected war criminal to escape Britain because
officers feared an attempt to stop him would lead to a gun battle at
Heathrow airport, police documents seen by the Guardian reveal.
The police
stood back and allowed Doron Almog,
charged with war crimes against
Palestinians, to be warned not to disembark, and the plane took off
back to Israel.
Top
detectives were told that police routinely boarded flights, but were
not sure if they could do so without the permission of the airline.
Get
that? "Top" dicks weren't sure what to do! Maybe
they're just playing dumb. Ya think?
Then they claimed they didn't have time to get instructions - the plane
was there for two hours.
Then they claimed they were worried about public safety. The
biggest lie of all. Ever seen how they worry about public safety
when they do decide to chase something down? Even the Ottawa cops
running through a crowd chasing
guys with pieces of chalk in their hands didn't worry about
knocking over grannies - all for a chunk of chalk!
Who did the plainclothes British cops worry about when they chased
poor Jean Charles De Menezes through the Tube station until they
downed him and emptied a gun into his head? If he had been a
bomber he could have let go at any time during that race!
Then they claimed they were worried about officer safety. They
didn't want to send them in not knowing what they would confront.
Yet British inspectors board foreign ships every day without knowing
what kind of resistance they may encounter, and in fact impounded
99 of them in 2004.
Planes are impounded all over the world, and in Britain for the
smallest and largest of reasons:
Kyrgyz
plane impounded at Islamabad Airport
Hawaii:
Planes impounded for non-payment of landing fee
Ireland
impounds Turkish owned plane
Rwanda
impounds mysterious plane
Zimbabwe
impounds Boeing carrying alleged mercenaries
Jordan
impounds Iraqi plane during Gulf War 1990-91
Both Belgium and
Canada impound Ukraine planes
Air
Scandic plane impounded in England
Cabotage Regulations
(the right of a country to control aircraft within its territory).
But then, what do you know - we find that the
possible "reaction in the British Jewish Community" was a factor!
The Israeli attache was warned, and was allowed to board the plane to
warn Almog.
Oh, don't tell me! Are Zionists calling the shots in
England? Isn't that called obstruction of justice? I'll
answer that with another question: do foxes raid chicken coops?
Almog
said: "As a soldier and a general, I have never committed a crime. Many
times I have saved Palestinian lives by risking my life and the lives
of my soldiers."
It's more
likely that Almog saved Israel's international reputation occasionally
by restraining himself from larger ventures than unwarranted house
demolitions, and the overkill of dropping one ton bombs on
vehicles. But my reply to Almog would be, "Tell it to the
judge."
The
actions of the Israeli army in Gaza were to prevent terrorist attacks
against Israel, he said.
Nice system
Almog has going: First call all Palestinians
"terrorists" and then you kill as many as possible whether they've done
anything or not. Above all, ignore the concept of state terrorism.
Raji
Sourani, the director of the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, said: "Failure to respect the rule
of law and to pursue those responsible for attacking civilians will
undermine the respect for international law which we do badly need if
we are to have peace in our region. Until such time we will be faced
with the rule of the jungle."
Strangely,
the comments of the Palestinian human rights director give an insight
into suicide bombing. Justice is meted out to the perpetrator by
the act itself.
No, they don't do it so they can have sex with 72 heavenly
virgins. That's a fantasy western males like to jealously savour.
There are female suiciders too, and they aren't all gay. In most
cases it's done out of despondency over the loss of a close relative or
friend, over guilt about still being alive when people they love are
dead, and a frantic, but misplaced desire to stop the carnage.
Anyone who has seen the British TV series Britz
can better ascertain the motives of a suicider, although I don't
think
it explains the transit bombings.
Thanks to Ron Saba for
forwarding the Guardian link. Ron comments: Please note: this
wanted war criminal, Israeli Major General Doron Almog, is a member of
the Advisory Board of HESEG, a
registered "charity" in Canada.
HESEG is the reason for the Chapters/Indigo
boycotts.
Boycott Israeli
Apartheid
Other stuff:
Check out the Reader Comments.
Another victim of Stats Canada's home invasions writes about being
chosen for the Labour Force Survey's "supplemental" questions.
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The implications of the following article give me the shivers.
VOA: Senior
Palestinian Calls for Kosovo-Like Independence
Abed Rabbo says Israel is trying to buy time until the end of the year
by talking about procedural issues in peace talks and avoiding the real
issues. He says Palestinians should look to Kosovo as a model and
declare independence as an alternative to peace talks.
Don't get me wrong, I don't know why the Palestinians didn't just go
ahead and declare themselves a state a long time ago. Israel
did it in 1948, and the UN ratified that.
It's Israel's delaying by nitpicking over details that gives me the
willies. How far does it plan to go in its destruction
of Gaza? How little of the territories does it plan to leave
for the formation of a state? I suspect very little or none.
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Thanks to "Beesting" for this link, which makes clear what is the real
problem the US has with Iran:
IHT:
Iran launches oil products bourse with petrochemical deal
Iran has already registered for another oil bourse, in which it has
said it hopes to trade oil in Euros instead of dollars, to reduce any
American influence over the Islamic Republic's economy.
For the
zillionth time, it has nothing to do with anything Iran's eccentric
president has to say about Israel, or with his nuclear
aspirations. Those are just the excuses. The US knows it can't
get cannon fodder to fight for control of the world's markets
Here's an article that naively suggests the US is worried about Iran's
nuclear activities, but goes on to point out how easily all wars could
have and can be averted: Busines
24-7: Time to do business with Iran
...
the Iranian people have commercial and trading priorities high on their
agenda, and that these should be cultivated to bring Iran back to the
centre of the world economic system.
Trouble is,
the US (and therefore Canada and Britain, and now Mexico) doesn't want
anybody on any kind of an equal footing with itself.
yayacanada
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