Formersnag: << In fact i have come to the conclusion that all left wing politics is pure, stone, cold, evil, devil worship. >>

Thanks again for sharing some more of your "moderate and mainstream" political views.

runner: << Maybe you need a bit of religion to stop you from being so blind. >>

Religion doesn't seem to have done much for your vision, runner. Indeed, you seem distinctly one-eyed about most issues.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaz, your comment exposes both your ignorance and total lack of humanity. I bet you pull the wings off butterflies too.

Anyone who suggests that Israel has the right to torpedo unarmed aid ships in international waters needs to seek psychiatric help!

The Israelis go to any lengths to paint what they see as their opponents as terrorists. Even after the botched Israeli murderous move on a civilian humanitarian aid operation for Gaza.

Notwithstanding the propagandist spit and spin of this article, the world cannot afford to take anything the IDF or the Israeli government says about what happened on Monday at face value.

In a BBC report (see google) earlier this week, its stated that "Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak thanked the commandos involved in the raid when he visited them at their base in Atlit.

"We live in the Middle East, in a place where there is no mercy for the weak and there aren't second chances for those who don't defend themselves," he was quoted by Haaretz newspaper as saying."

I'd say that pretty much say's it all.

The only ones that can inflict any damage on Israel are the Iranians.

They have the capability to wipe Israel of the map of the world. Then they would target the Arab sunnis and the Islamists Turks. Fundamentalists Iranians believe that the Islamic messiah is coming back to rule the world under shariah.

Judging by what happened after the global financial crisis, it is Goldman Sachs and the rich Jews that rule the US. Obama is just a figure head in the pockets of these oligarchs. From day one, Obama was supported by them; that was why Obama could help pay off Hilary Clinton's $20 million debts.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/obama_to_help_clinton_pay_off_20m_in_campaign_debts/

David G, Your so right David, religion is very dangerous, this video will explain to you, how it is poisoning your mind. Basically it works like this, "Big Brother" Karl Marx, from "1984" says "religion is the opiate of the masses" "Christianity is crap" "All hale the new religion, Communism, Climate change, Fe"Man"Nazism, etc, etc, etc.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236#

There is no zealot more evangelical than an atheist, or loony, lefty like you. I bet you think the red/green/getup/labour coalition does not promote corporate paedophilia.

CJ Morgan, you appear to have the same problem as David G. Climate change may not be, "crap" but that does not automatically mean that Left wingers are not compulsive liars.

You know, as well as i do, that my "Views" are indeed moderate, mainstream stuff & held by 80% to 90% of the population. I will grant you that as wordsmith's go, i am not exactly backward, in coming forward, but what i do is exactly the same as what good comedians do, namely say what everybody is thinking & has been too afraid of the PC thought police to say publicly.

My maternal Grandparents were good conservative farming types like you claim to live &/or work with. They were polite, that is they would not insult you, in your shop even if they did think you were a lunatic. Next time you are socialising with some of them, try joking with them, about red/greens not being green like Kermit the frog, but like some of the watermelons they grow, green on the outside & all "Pinko Commie" on the inside. They will laugh with you on that one, every time. They would also agree if you suggested that Fe"Man"Nazism has done nothing other than abuse innocent children, men & women, as well.

rexw, could not have said it better myself, all supporters of the red/green/getup/labour coalition are compulsive liars, a cancer on our nation, a puss filled boil in need of lancing.

Well David G, it matters for nothing what you may think of my mentality
or what I may think of what the Israelis may or may not do.
My purpose was to point out that blockade running is a very dangerous sport.

Too many people are trying to make out that it is just like having a
march down the street in one of our cities.
It is not, it is a wartime activity and can have similar results to
the war at sea in the Atlantic, but of course on a smaller scale.
No one prosecuted the German U boat captains for war crimes for
sinking allied shipping.
The firing of rockets into Israel has the same hallmark as the V1
attacks on London, but again on a smaller scale.

It all looks like war to me.

There is the precedent.