What a mensch!

My dear deceased friend was a "Rat of Tobrook". He always said: "Never ever trust any Middle Eastern Country - and if any of them come on our shores - they will take over Australia".

Perhaps the author needs to experience the total rejection as experienced by Israel to fully understand their response to terrorist aggression.
His antipathy towards Israel leaves one breathless.

Strewth,

You will be pleased to know there have been a few protests:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jul2006/isra-j28.shtml

Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, and outside the Prime Minister’s house.

The first conscientious objector has refused to comply with an emergency order to report for reserve duty in the Palestinian territories.

For those who think the Israelis might have made a mistake bombing the UN post:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jul2006/libe-j27.shtml

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jul2006/bern-j29.shtml

I repeat – there is something seriously wrong with 2bob – there is nothing to find in this which is funny and his comments indicate how sick he really is.

Mr. Anderson is determined to see the conflict through the tired old lens of "another variation of the clash between a European colonial-settler movement, in this case Zionism, on the one hand, and an indigenous non-European people, the Palestinian Arabs, on the other." http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4116

Growing up surrounded by that ideology (inspired by the temperament that hates revealed religion, with Marxist intellectual support) I read from the same script for a long time, the one about Crusaders being merely booty seeking murderers, the Conquistors wiping out a whole continent of people with their lust for gold, the Judeo-Christian heritage of the West one big pile of mistakes of aggressive colonization.

If I'm wrong and Mr. Anderson really does care for the Palestinians then I'll find a significant proportion of his polemic will be directed against Jordan and King Hussein for its killing and expulsion of thousands of Palestinians ('Black September') after the explosion of terrorism by the PLO from their bases in refugee camps.

And against Iraqi Muslims who have expelled more than 4000 Palestinians from Baghdad.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/4

And against Mohammedanism itself with all its vicious open ended injunctions to kill Jews and unbelievers. He'd have to find some way of explaining away the effects of jihadis and muslim sympathy with them, because it is this that causes much of the misery in Palestine.

He'd start thinking about the strange association of Marxist tinged lefties and Islam (Judeo-Christianity is an annoying impediment to the dream of a socialist utopia and to Muslims and their pan Islamic state)
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/Ohmyrus41103.htm

The enemy of my enemy is my friend?

The lesson of Karl Radek and the Comintern would be a good one to learn before getting into bed with the latest totalitarianism – Islam.

Isn't it really the case Palestinian muslims are ashamed they can't form a state as quickly and orderly as the Israeli's did? Billions of dollars of aid, peace deal after peace deal. After fifty years isn't the victim mentality and Hamas all they have to show for it

wobbles,

Thank you for the link.

I agree with you that "nobody in our media seemed to notice that the new Ceyhan-Tblisi-Baku (BTC) oil pipeline opened just as the hostilities began - taking oil from the Caspian to the Mediterranean. There's a second pipe that will carry much-needed water to Israel from Turkey."

I knew nothing about it but then I am not surprised because I figure that our news is heavily edited.

I am not impressed with Aus troops being asked to go over as peacekeepers as our army is currently stretched to the limit.

I recomend that others check out the link provided by wobbles.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060726&articleId=2824