//Poor little moppet. Great at dishing it out but can't cop it.//

Don't you get it, Dave? There is a vast difference between calling somebody a fool and falsely accusing them of anti-Semitism. Most of the people on this forum have called me a fool at one time another... that's fine. But accusing people of anti-Semitism for no reason whatsoever is beyond the pale. Do you really not understand the difference?

\\Don't answer my questions.\\

So be it, Dave. I shall endeavour to continue to be a thorn in your side until such time as you get it into your thick melon that accusing everybody and anybody of anti-Semitism just because you dislike them is not an acceptable behaviour in Australian society.

//Does the map appearing in my article accurately identify and label the countries that are shown on the map?//

Nope. Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey etc. - all unidentified and unlabelled. And that's just in Europe.

And some of those guys used to be Ottomans. What sort of rape legislation did the Ottomans have?

//An address supplied by #Toni could help clear up this query.//

Supply my address on a public website? Jesus, you are senile. You should look into one of those 'How To Stay Secure Online' courses for loony old geriatrics like yourself who don't really have a handle on how this newfangled technology works. Your local library might offer something like that... good place to start, anyway.

But for the time being, I think it's important for your own safety for you to realise that you shouldn't reveal anything on a public website that you wouldn't be happy writing on the back of a public toilet door.

Toni,

The map used by the ABC purported to represent the variations, by country, of laws (or lack of) regarding the backward practice of exonerating a rapist by forcing his victim to marry him, and thus keep the peace between feuding families, using the woman as a pawn. It is a map of countries in the Middle East. Israel is in the Middle East. And funnily, it's the only country in the Middle East which has never had such abhorrent laws. As a fair and balanced observer, I would have thought that that simple fact was worth displaying on the map.

Yes, the map could have shown another category for Saudi Arabia: countries which do not have penal codes and in which, therefore, the practice is permitted. Perhaps Saudi Arabia could have been coloured yellow, to show that this dreadful custom is, and always has been, legal in Saudi Arabia.

So I guess we should be complaining, not just about this map giving the impression that Israel does not exist in the eyes of the ABC, and that this vile law prevails there, in 'Palestine' - but also that the map gives the impression that Saudi Arabia (and Turkey too, probably, although Ataturk may have outlawed it ninety years ago) are enlightened countries, like Israel, which have never had this law, when they may not be all that enlightened.

As you say, " .... Most of the people on this forum have called me a fool at one time another .... " Is that like, sort of, a plebiscite ? And the vote is in ? Perhaps not just a fool, Toni: even a fool knows when to keep silent in order not to confirm the suspicions of others.

Joe

//As you say, " .... Most of the people on this forum have called me a fool at one time another .... " Is that like, sort of, a plebiscite ?//

No, it's a comment on what I regard as reasonable conduct in discussion. Calling your opponent a fool is entirely acceptable and everybody does it... you just did now. Using disgusting smears like calling people anti-Semitic - despite them not having offered an opinion anything to do with Jews - is not.

A good yardstick is 'Would this be OK in parliamentary question time?'. Those guys get stuck into each other, but if somebody went off the rails and started accusing all his opponents of anti-Semitism... without any basis for doing so... a lot of people would be pissed off.

Not least of all Jews, who might be a tad annoyed at somebody constantly calling 'wolf!' when there was no wolf, because that makes it less likely that people will care about the actual wolf... which sad to say, is still a serious problem in our society. Read some of Armchair's posts on the history of WW2 sometime, it's disturbing stuff.

Why are you white-knighting for Dave? He's just a senile old [deleted for abuse] who goes about accusing people of anti-Semitism, apparently at random (at least, I can't discern any rational basis for his claim... disliking one senile old [deleted for abuse] doth not an anti-Semite make). Determined to make a twat of yourself? That's not like you.

No
Geoff

Yes. Israel owns Palestine and probably all the surrounding bits.
The Law of forced seduction marriage is still on the books of Zionist
patriots of shotgun family values. Heads will roll at ABC colour warfare command and return of Israel to rightful owners is the least that David Slinger the lone sling-shot warrior can expect.

Toni,

"Why are you white-knighting for D ?"

Because he happens to be right: whoever drew up that map should have included Israel in the category of 'Practice Illegal in this Country" OR, better still, an extra category should have been included, with obviously another colour:

*. countries/states in which this vile practice has never been legal;

Of course, in the Middle East, that category, perhaps coloured bright red, would have included only one country:

*. Israel.

Isn't that so ? Dodge the issue all you like, Toni :).

Joe