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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=noam+chomsky+william+f+buckley&search_type=&aq=f
Chomsky and Zin remind me of those supposed dissidents of East Germany who all along were in the pay of the Stasis. We have a few of them in my country. Leftists suspiciously guarding the gate for our rightist masters.
Your earlier reference to Noam Chomsky set me on a long odyssey of Chomsky YouTube clips, not the least of which was his old debate with the late William F. Buckley. Much appreciated.
That can happen. It's happened to me for hours before. There's a really great interview with some pompous neocon interrogator from -- I think -- Canada that he just tore to shreds. It's always amazing to observe the huge gap between how he's depicted and how he really is.
Not only was he found not guilty but he received compensation and was promoted.
A Givati Brigade officer will receive NIS 80,000 in compensation from the state after he was cleared of all charges in relating to the death of 13-year-old Palestinian girl, Iman Al Hamas, in the much-publicized "confirmed kill" affair.Captain "R" will receive NIS 80,000 in compensation from the state in addition to reimbursement for NIS 2,000 of legal expenses, as part of an arrangement reached between his lawyers and the military prosecution.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/697464.html
From the radio communications that day...
Soldier on guard: “We have identified someone on two legs [code for human] 100 metres from the outpost.Soldier in lookout: “A girl about 10.” (By now, soldiers in the outpost are shooting at the girl.)
Soldier in lookout: “She is behind the trench, half a metre away, scared to death. The hits were right next to her, a centimetre away.”
Captain R’s signalman: “We shot at her, yes, she is apparently hit.”
Captain R: “Roger, affirmative. She has just fallen. I and a few other soldiers are moving forward to confirm the kill.”
Soldier at lookout: “Hold her down, hold her down. There’s no need to kill her.”
Captain R (later): “…We carried out the shooting and killed her… I confirmed the kill… [later]… Commanding officer here, anyone moving in the area, even a three-year-old kid, should be killed, over.“
http://fanonite.org/2007/03/11/eyeless-in-gaza/
"confirming the kill" is IDF speak for shooting into the body of a wounded enemy to ensure that they are in fact dead. After 17 rounds at close range by an assault rifle, 3 of them in the head, she was in fact, dead.
And they do this in whose name, based on what principle?
It's simple. They mean the right to exist on your land.
(2) reiterates that Hamas must ... renounce violence, ...
"... and until they do, we'll kill all their leaders and blow them to little pieces."
FWIW, I'd note that while Israel has made some agreements, they really haven't been forthcoming about abiding by them. Doesn't that deserve some mention?
Cheers,
Here's the one I was watching. It's the whole thing, in three parts (check the list on the right for the other parts).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmqRc80jJQ&feature=related
It's riveting.
Thanks to Chris S. for this info.
I am watching live news from Gaza on Livestation. TV from all over the world on my PC. It works on Mac and Windows and Linux. Hot damn.
http://livestation.com/ or click sig
Did I mention FREE?
(A U.S. drone, armed with Hellfires, apparently took out an Al-Qaeda-used building in Pakistan, killing several top Al-Qaeda leaders, per WaPo.)
It's amasing how many women and children have recently joined al Qaeda. Of course, recent events in the Middle East may explain a fair bit of the sudden influx.
Cheers,
The little shell game in which our oh-so self interested lawmakers are involved: $$ go to Israel as 'foreign aid', $$ go from Israel to aipac, and then $$ go to compliant lawmakers. Until campaign finance laws are changed to deny private assistance, these sleazy bastards will continue to line their pockets with $$ from the U.S. public laundered through the Phillistine killers. But since laws are written by congress, this will NEVER happen. The stench of 'freedom'.
Chomsky and Zin remind me of those supposed dissidents of East Germany who all along were in the pay of the Stasis. We have a few of them in my country. Leftists suspiciously guarding the gate for our rightist masters.
I must express my deep and sincere appreciation for displaying to me the first use of some form of the term "911 gatekeeper" that I have ever organically witnessed in an Internet forum.
Until today, I had only heard of such a thing, through the secondhand descriptions of other "truth gatekeepers" such as the insidiously cloaked, faux leftist/humorist Matt Taibbi.
I feel more intellectually complete now, like the young student who finally glimpses his first silverback in the wild.
It's always amazing to observe the huge gap between how [Noam Chomsky is] depicted and how he really is.
There's almost no purer example than him of a person being widely dismissed as shrill or ideologically insane purely by dint of a misconceived caricature of his or her views.
As for his debate with William F. Buckley, having seen another video example of Buckley threatening to punch his interlocutor in the face - in that case with Gore Vidal - I take his having done that to Chomsky as an indication of a perverse form of high praise.
a top Vatican official defended comments in which he compared Gaza to a concentration camp.
I was thinking just today about how similar Gaza is to a concentration camp. Not identical, but close enough to be disturbing.
I remember Sen. McCain, Gov. Palin, and the rest of the GOP trumpeting "never again will there be a second holocaust." Could Israel's treatment of Palestinians be considered a holocaust? What irony it would be if the people they seek to protect end up perpetrating similar crimes...
Nov 5 2008 Guardian
A four-month ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza was in jeopardy today after Israeli troops killed six Hamas gunmen in a raid into the territory.
more prosecution of the future:
"The Israeli military said the target of the raid was a tunnel that they said Hamas was planning to use to capture Israeli soldiers positioned on the border fence 250m away.
Israel sows dissent.
The attack comes shortly before a key meeting this Sunday in Cairo when Hamas and its political rival Fatah will hold talks on reconciling their differences and creating a single, unified government.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
