tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post4090729058453882710..comments2024-01-13T15:37:31.043+11:00Comments on THE BLANK PAGES OF THE AGE: THE WORDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-49751452828649269582008-03-03T20:14:00.001+11:002008-03-03T20:14:00.001+11:00Allow me to quote someone from Jihad Watch: 'Last ...Allow me to quote someone from Jihad Watch: <BR/><BR/><I>'Last I looked, the deliberate and very careful targetting of terrorists for assassination, and the effort intended, over the last few days, to do one thing -- stop those who keep raining down rockets on Israeli villages and cities -- was not quite equivalent to what we call The Holocaust. And it does not become "The Holocaust" even if, because of the way in which those who build and rain down those rockets live not on separate bases, but choose deliberately to fire from, and plot and plan and scheme and live within, civilian areas, precisely because they are aware that the Israelis exhibit such superhuman compunction about killing civilians (no other Western army -- and certainly, thank god, not the American army, would subject itself to the kind of hyper-moral principles that the Israelis insit, to their own great harm, in observing, and should long ago have reconsidered, and jettisoned). The deliberate targetting of civilians is one thing; the hitting of some civilians -- and just how "civilian" is that "civilian" population that appears to be foursquare behind the Lesser Jihad and all of its works and days, anyway? -- in an attempt to get at terrorist rocketeers is quite another. No sensible person regards this as equivalent -- in words or in life -- to the round-up, and mass-killing, with gas, prussic acid, bullets to the heart, hangings, being burned alive in synagogues, starved to death, subjected to medical "experiments," tortured in every conceivable way, six million inoffensive men, women, and children, which is what is meant by the phrase "The Holocaust"). But Reuters did, or tried to. The BBC, following Reuters, did, or tried to.' This 'immoral' equivalence is more than just reprehensible. It's evil.</I><BR/><BR/>The same applies to the Age. It's evil to the core. The headline to the obituary of Dan Shomron, an Entebbe hero was reprehensible and belonged in the same gutter that O'Loughlin occupies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-25987064354499459382008-03-03T20:14:00.000+11:002008-03-03T20:14:00.000+11:00Allow me to quote someone from Jihad Watch: 'Last ...Allow me to quote someone from Jihad Watch: <BR/><BR/><I>'Last I looked, the deliberate and very careful targetting of terrorists for assassination, and the effort intended, over the last few days, to do one thing -- stop those who keep raining down rockets on Israeli villages and cities -- was not quite equivalent to what we call The Holocaust. And it does not become "The Holocaust" even if, because of the way in which those who build and rain down those rockets live not on separate bases, but choose deliberately to fire from, and plot and plan and scheme and live within, civilian areas, precisely because they are aware that the Israelis exhibit such superhuman compunction about killing civilians (no other Western army -- and certainly, thank god, not the American army, would subject itself to the kind of hyper-moral principles that the Israelis insit, to their own great harm, in observing, and should long ago have reconsidered, and jettisoned). The deliberate targetting of civilians is one thing; the hitting of some civilians -- and just how "civilian" is that "civilian" population that appears to be foursquare behind the Lesser Jihad and all of its works and days, anyway? -- in an attempt to get at terrorist rocketeers is quite another. No sensible person regards this as equivalent -- in words or in life -- to the round-up, and mass-killing, with gas, prussic acid, bullets to the heart, hangings, being burned alive in synagogues, starved to death, subjected to medical "experiments," tortured in every conceivable way, six million inoffensive men, women, and children, which is what is meant by the phrase "The Holocaust"). But Reuters did, or tried to. The BBC, following Reuters, did, or tried to.' This 'immoral' equivalence is more than just reprehensible. It's evil.</I><BR/><BR/>The same applies to the Age. It's evil to the core. The headline to the obituary of Dan Shomron, an Entebbe hero was reprehensible and belonged in the same gutter that O'Loughlin occupies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-6905590098692261232008-03-03T07:37:00.000+11:002008-03-03T07:37:00.000+11:00Uncanny that Wilbur. O'Loughlin never mentioned a ...Uncanny that Wilbur. <BR/><BR/>O'Loughlin never mentioned a word about Ban's direct condemnation of the Hamas rocket fire and his description of it as terrorism. <BR/><BR/>You couldn't get a more blatant one sided report as the filth he wrote in today's Age.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-22750626957268636082008-03-02T19:21:00.000+11:002008-03-02T19:21:00.000+11:00Ed's report will probably be along the same lines ...Ed's report will probably be along the same lines as the ABC report below which is factual but it omits the important fact that in calling on both sides to end the violence Ban Ki-moon first condemned the Palestinian rocket attacks. Here is the text of his statement:-<BR/><BR/><I>The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:<BR/><BR/>"The Secretary-General is deeply concerned at the loss of civilian life in Southern Israel and Gaza, and at the escalation of violence that has taken place today.<BR/><BR/>"The Secretary-General condemns rocket fire against Israel by Hamas, which intensified today and killed an Israeli civilian in Sderot. He calls on Hamas and other militant groups to cease such acts of terrorism.<BR/><BR/>"The Secretary-General also condemns the killing of four Palestinian children, including an infant, in Gaza in IDF strikes. He calls on Israel to exercise maximum restraint and ensure respect for international humanitarian law so as not to endanger civilians.<BR/><BR/>"These events underscore the urgent need for a calming of violence, and must not be allowed to deter the continuation of the political process."</I><BR/><BR/>There's no mucking around a la Kofi Annan here. His words about the rocket fire against Israel are clear and concise as is his characterization of these attacks as "terrorism". So it's the terrorism that triggered off the violence. But not according to our ABC which even throws in comments from one of its apparatchiks John Ging who shilled for Hamas when it turned off Gaza's electricity in a broad daylight PR stunt, but it fails to inform readers that Ban clearly blames Palestinian terrorist for allow their own people to fall into their current plight:-<BR/><BR/>UN calls for end to Gaza violence<BR/>March 2, 2008 - 3:49PM<BR/>Source: ABC <BR/>http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20080302/2177461.asp<BR/><BR/>The United Nations Security Council has gone into emergency sessions following the bloodiest single day of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza for many months.<BR/><BR/>The session was requested by President Mahmoud Abbas after more than 50 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces overnight. <BR/><BR/>Many of the dead are militants but civilians, including children, have also died.<BR/><BR/>UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on both sides in the conflict in Gaza to scale back the violence of the past few days.<BR/><BR/>Speaking at an emergency session of the UN Security Council, Mr Ban condemned what he called Israel's "excessive" use of force and also called for an end to Palestinian rocket attacks.<BR/><BR/>The head of the UN relief agency, John Ging, has condemned the Israeli attacks.<BR/><BR/>"Let's unify around humanity and legality and lets put the people before the politics because the people of Gaza have suffered far too much," he said.<BR/><BR/>"It's inhuman, their suffering, and it has to end. They have to be given a chance to live a decent and civilised life."<BR/><BR/>But Israel's deputy ambassador to the United Nations Danny Carman says the government has a duty to protect its people from Hamas rocket attacks.<BR/><BR/>"I reiterate Israel's determination to protect its civilians and territory, cities, towns and villages," he said.<BR/><BR/>"It is what they expect from us and it is what we must do for them.<BR/><BR/>"Sitting on the sidelines will only embolden the extremists and convince them that they should not stop the violence."Wilbur Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536833829819929156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-4171284842789909572008-03-02T18:59:00.000+11:002008-03-02T18:59:00.000+11:00You're all wasting your time. Reuters has repeated...You're all wasting your time. Reuters has repeated the lie today and so has CNN. Tomorrow, Ed will follow suit and he will embellish it with stories of Palestinian deaths, the majority of which will be civilian and some of them will be children.<BR/><BR/>There will probably be a photo of a grieving Palestinian mother with arms outstretched in pain but nothing of the grieving families of the Israeli soldiers killed or of the student who was murdered by a kassam rocket last week.<BR/><BR/>There will definitely not be a photograph of a Palestinian terrorist in uniform. <BR/><BR/>Think about that ... <BR/><BR/>If the terrorists are not wearing uniforms to differentiate them from civilians then how can it be verified whether a casualty is civilian or not? Do we believe Hamas which lies through its backside? <BR/><BR/>I think the usual suspects from the Joe Goebells School of Reporting do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-46386486632039533402008-03-02T14:30:00.000+11:002008-03-02T14:30:00.000+11:00You're right Wilbur.On its own, "shoah" does NOT m...You're right Wilbur.<BR/><BR/>On its own, "shoah" does NOT mean "holocaust". It means "disaster". But of course, the professional Jew-haters don't speak Hebrew - and can't follow a simple argument. Or they refuse to, lest the outcome portray the Jews in a less mendaciously negative light.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-71987337647113982572008-03-02T13:22:00.000+11:002008-03-02T13:22:00.000+11:00Does anybody at the Age ever read their own opinio...Does anybody at the Age ever read their own opinion articles?<BR/><BR/>Holocaust survivors are not laughing<BR/><BR/>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/holocaust-survivors-are-not-laughing/2008/02/29/1204226990270.html<BR/><BR/>Shame Fairfax, shame!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-76275309312555190272008-03-02T11:29:00.000+11:002008-03-02T11:29:00.000+11:00We are indeed very fortunate that there is about t...We are indeed very fortunate that there is about to be a regime change at the Age and that the next Fairfax Middle East bureau person promises to be at least even handed in reporting the news. <BR/><BR/>This means that he might well be as tough on Israel as the incumbent but at least Fairfax readers will get to understand better why Israel does what it does and the role that the Arabs living around her have to play in those events.<BR/><BR/>We're going to learn that Israeli operations such as those that are taking place at the moment with tragic loss of life on both sides don't just happen like shit or biased so-called "journalists".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com