Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel and world peace

This weekend Netanyahu of Israel was in Toronto. He was met with cheers and jeers. Hundreds of demonstrators turned out to protest Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

He was also interviewed by Peter Mansbridge of CBC and asked if Israel has nuclear weapons. He was completely evasive and instead said that if there is going to be a Palestinian state it should be completely disarmed. Mansbridge repeated the question and he started talking about Iran and how dangerous it was becoming as it was trying to acquire nuclear weapons. His hypocrisy was blatantly incredulous – arm Israel to the teeth including its nuclear arsenal but disarm the rest of the Middle East including Iran. You can watch CBC video here.

Sure Benjamin Netanyahu, that will sure make the Middle East and the world peaceful. This man needs a psychiatrist and the world is badly in need of peace.

A survey was done by the European Commission of EU countries where 15 countries were surveyed asked the question of who was the biggest threat to world peace. 60% who surveyed said Israel was the biggest threat to world peace – bigger than Iran, North Korea and the USA.

“The European Commission survey asked the public in all 15 member states to look at a list of countries and say which they considered potential threats to peace. Israel was selected by a majority in almost all the EU member states, with 74% of Dutch citizens putting the country at the top of the list as a threat to peace and 69% of Austrian citizens.”



Here are the names of the countries surveyed:

Austria
Belgium
Britain
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania

Israel needs a sane leader.

More news from the Middle East as atrocities against Palestinians continue.
10 die in Israeli raid on aid flotilla; Commandos storm Gaza-bound ships in international waters. Click here to read the story.

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Gaza: The Killing field

From this link: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january052009/israel_attacks_1-5-09.php



I found some other links to songs by Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens). I will be posting a few. Above is one where he sings for Palestinian children (a very recent video) "mother don’t cry for me." He uses some of the same images that I used in my animated picture aggregates. These are images which some heartless, cold-blooded fanatics objected to and called pornographic. It breaks your heart to listen to this video. Mothers and fathers and fellow human beings out there, speak up for the children of Palestine. If you won’t then who will?

If this atrocity continues it could be my children and it could be your children. The only mistake these children made was that they were born in Palestine. Or would you call it a mistake?

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Gaza and Palestinian Land: A killing field for the last 60 years

I was going to do a funny picture today about Obama's first day in the Oval office. But then I started reading this story "The World Should Stop Israel's Killing Machine." A link was sent to me by a fellow Liberal Blogger. My humour disappeared and I could hardly eat my breakfast.

Dear friends, since this current slaughter began in Gaza and the fiasco at so-called Liblogs, I started reading more and more about the Israeli–Palestinian struggle. All these stories have touched me. As a matter of fact, I have been very selective in my readings. If the source was Arab or Palestinian, I worried about bias even though I had seriously started doubting our Western media. Now I have started believing Arab and Palestinian sources more. However, this story is not written by an Arab or Palestinian, but by a former US Marine. Here is his picture and brief bio below.

"Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor.

Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 in Afghanistan with Oregon troops. Tim recently returned from Iraq where he covered the war, embedded with an Oregon Guard aviation unit. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is one of the few truly independent high traffic news Website, affiliated with Google News and several other major search engines and news aggregators.

You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com"

This story is written by Mr. King the former US Marine. I will like you to watch this video before reading the whole story and links. The song is try-not-to-cry by Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) and the Outlandish:



Below is the link for the whole story and other links on the site.

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january052009/israel_attacks_1-5-09.php

Now I understand why that Bishop at the Vatican called Gaza "A Concentration Camp." Also, there was a Jewish MP from Britain , Sir Gerald Kaufman, who said that Israel was acting like Nazis.

I will request other bloggers to please post this story on their sites too.

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Gaza is Burning

The killing of innocent civilians is wrong no matter what their nationality is. While Gaza is burning, and hundreds of women and children are dying, George W. Bush is enjoying his holidays in Crawford, Texas. Does he care? It looks he does not. The man has absolutely no conscience. This is no time for blame game. This is the time to put an end to the violence because in the long run it will help no one and bring peace to no one. Bush's licence to kill, that Israel has the right to defend itself, is being used to the hilt. He's using this as a cop-out from displaying any real leadership. That will resolve nothing and only increase bitterness amongst all the parties involved.

As I said before, I do not believe in the killing of the civilians whether they are Israelis or Palestinians, but the violence on the Gaza Strip is excessive. As long as those injustices are there, there is going to be no peace and unfortunately an explosion of the region will take rest of the world with it. It must be stopped and stopped now. That explosion is just smouldering and can happen anytime. You have an unhappy Arab world, especially people of Iraq and other Arab countries. If there is a civilian revolt in these countries, this could either topple the governments and chaos may follow or these governments will feel obliged to take action against the current aggression. It would lead to nothing good.

George W. Bush wake up from the deep slumber and do something.

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