That was what I'm thinking, while it was an opinion piece rather than an editorial, it's interesting that it was run at all. Even more so given the NYTs piece as well. Perhaps the present offensive isn't going down too well back in the US. This may (hopefully) be significant given the reaction to the Highway 80 massacre in GW1. The public reaction against the images of the attacks precipitated the end of the conflict
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Given it's the WSJ, it could, however, be sound investment advice: "Don't take a punt on an IL company whose chief executive could be on trial in the Hague from 2011-2015 inclusive. It may, however, be worth taking an outside-odds punt on the NIS hitting 20 to the EUR around US inauguration day."
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Interesting article from Adi Ophir on ZNet.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It might also suggest that Zachor is a chickenshit chickenhawk.
Corax
Luke 5:16
More info on the present situation:
http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_humanitarian_situation_report_2009_01_12_english.pdf
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n05/mend01_.html
http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_humanitarian_situation_report_2009_01_12_english.pdf
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n05/mend01_.html
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
There is propaganda and there is also silencing other voices.
Interesting that the media building in Gaza which houses several media outlets including Reuters has been either shelled or bombed today according to the Canada News Wire:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2009/15/c7872.html
Interesting that the media building in Gaza which houses several media outlets including Reuters has been either shelled or bombed today according to the Canada News Wire:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2009/15/c7872.html
untethered
For industry & decency
Do you mean he had joint nationality or are you just referring to his descent?
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
It does seem like the US in their first year or two in Iraq and the Israelis today are working from very similar doctrines, particularly regarding the 'information war' doesn't it?
denniseagle
ding dong the witch is dead
Whilst the dumbass palestinian freedom fighters of whatever group or persuasion keep using violence it ALLOWS Israel to 'retaliate'.
Didn't a certain Indian GENTLEMAN ( and I use that word completly accurately in context to his actions) defeat the largest Empire ever seen?
And how did he do it???
BY NON VIOLENCE!!!
It is not rocket science , sorry for the analogy lol, but stop giving Israel any cause to retaliate and see what happens.
Perhaps if Hamas ,Hezbollah ,Iran et all, 'sat on their hands' for a change change might come about?
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Yeah, but Ghandi was able to do what he did precisely because the British govt of the time were (mostly) not a bunch of psychotic mass murdering bastards.
Both sides can suggest that THE OTHER side stop. It takes balls to be the first to stop as it does not always work.
denniseagle
ding dong the witch is dead
Sorry?? check up on your history sonshine.
In every conflict involving the Empire ovewhelming force was used against 'the enemy'
No i think you'll find there was a lot of violence and disorder in India.
The idea that Gandhi and non-violence were the reason the British left is a myth.
winjer
holocene death beat
No, he didn't.
Gandhi called off each of his campaigns of purely non-violent civil disobedience whenever he felt they were getting out of his control, or became violent, his last major one ended in 1931.
The 'Quit India' campaign in 1942 used the slogan 'do or die', and included attacks on anything seen as a symbol of British authority, such as courts, police stations (from which arms were looted), power lines, railway lines, post offices, telephone lines, revenue offices, were sabotaged, set on fire or occupied.
Over 250 railway stations, 500 post offices and 150 police stations were damaged or destroyed in the first week alone. There were also bombings in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bombay.
"I always thought that I would have to wait till the country was ready for a non-violent struggle. But my attitude has undergone a change. I feel that if I continue to wait I might have to wait till doomsday. [...] today we have to go a step further. We have to take the risk of violence to shake off the great calamity of slavery. [...] The people do not have my ahimsa. And therefore I have to take a risk, if I cannot curb their violence. I cannot remain inactive. I will certainly launch a non-violent movement. But if people do not understand it and there is violence, how can I stop it? I will prefer anarchy to the present system of administration because this ordered anarchy is worse than real anarchy. I am sure that the anarchy created by our efforts to mitigate this dangerous anarchy will be less dangerous. The violence exerted then would be just a trifle compared to the existing violence."
- Gandhi, 28th May 1942.
"Shut up and die" is not a reasonable position now, any more than it was when Gandhi said it about the Jews.
winjer
holocene death beat
Maybe they meant to say "own goal"?
I think it could be that they want to weaken the Hamas infrastructure to the point that even when this invasion is over Hamas won't be capable of upholding their end of the deal, without Fatah or some third agent. No idea if that's actually viable on the ground.
I think it could be that they want to weaken the Hamas infrastructure to the point that even when this invasion is over Hamas won't be capable of upholding their end of the deal, without Fatah or some third agent. No idea if that's actually viable on the ground.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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