"Daughter of convicted IRA gunrunner who refuses to condemn murder of Irish police officer joins Irish peace convoy to Gaza." a headline made in heaven for the Israelis and their defenders.
Free publicity for Ferris - even if she susequently withdraws - but at the cost of unquantifiable collateral damage to the IPSC's image.
"I can guarantee that Aengus used all of the cartridges legitimately and correctly in the course of his political work." Mary Lou McSpinner
Looks like this has descended into another Shinner bashing thread.
atonements a bitchOriginally Posted by RepublicanSocialist1798
Que sera sera.
and thats supposed to mean what? SF have a lot to do to win the acceptance of the majority of people on both sides of the border, and yes, putting up with SF bashing is part of it.
There's a bloody reason for the bashing
I'll take a messageboard bashing over a Shinner punishment beating any night of the week. Much less painful.
"I can guarantee that Aengus used all of the cartridges legitimately and correctly in the course of his political work." Mary Lou McSpinner
Yeah but no offence to your ego and your worldview have you any evidence to suggest that Toireasa ever bet someone up?
I think you're confused, he was talking about shinners in general, not TF
Permission to Narrate: Settler Attacks on Wheels
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nXuMVOaoBU&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - ‫[/ame]Since then, there have been additional acts of arson, but vehicular attacks by settlers against Palestinian civilians are also not rare occurrences. In the 18 month period we analyzed, we coded 37 instances of vehicular assault - an average of approximately 2 per month.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxFlmXbzY3I&feature=player_embedded#]YouTube - israeli soldier catch arab terrorist(he dance on haer)funny[/ame]!
The Palestinian woman who was filmed, handcuffed and blindfolded as an Israeli soldier danced around her said Thursday that the video only showed the beginning of "a journey of torture and humiliation."
"They began beating me with rifle butts and legs. One of the soldiers hit my head against the metal of the military jeep until I fainted. Then I found myself in front of a female doctor wearing military uniform. After examining me they moved me to the interrogation center where my journey of torture and humiliation started.
"Soon after I came in they began insulting and cursing using words I do not want to say. One of the interrogators was pulling me from my hair. I was handcuffed the whole time. The interrogation lasted until 11 at night, then they transferred me to Hasharon prison where they accused me of trying to stab someone, and of affiliation with the Islamic Jihad. Lawyers from the prisoners' society defended me and I was sentenced to 22 months in prison. I was released on 6 September 2009."
(Abdallah Abu Rahmah keeps his daughter Luma out of harm's way)
Action Alert: We stand with Abdallah Abu Rahmah | International Solidarity MovementWhat would you do if soldiers came to take your land away? Would you be brave enough to stand up to them, with your family in harm's way? What if a soldier pointed a gun at your daughter? Would you be able to push it away, and not pick up a gun yourself?
We still stand with Abdallah Abu Rahmah | Jewish Voice for Peace
Perhaps if you had the courage of Abdallah Abu Rahmah. And yet, his courage is not unique. It is shared by the great majority of Palestinians, who commit larger and smaller actions of nonviolent resistance to the occupation with dignity and steadfast determination every day of their lives......
Army Uproots Farmlands, Prepares To Annex Them - International Middle East Media CenterSeized in the night. Tortured. Held without trial, then tried in a military court where you have no rights; convicted on the coerced confessions of minors, you are facing a sentence of years in prison. All for organizing peaceful protests against the theft of your land and asserting your democratic rights.
Most of us who believe in human rights and democracy can never imagine being treated in such a way. Yet that is exactly what befell Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a democracy advocate from Bil’in in the Occupied West Bank. His town is known around the world for the determination of its residents – joined by Israelis and internationals in solidarity – to protest weekly against the theft of their land by Israeli authorities.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli army bulldozers uprooted farmlands close to Tiqoua’ settlement, built on lands initially taken away from residents of the Tiqoua’ Palestinian village, south east of Bethlehem.
The bulldozers were uprooting the lands in order to build new homes for Jewish settlers in the area.
In related news. dozens of settlers also placed caravans in Palestinian-owned lands, in Al Mas’ha area, east of Bethlehem.
Hundreds of settlers in the West Bank “celebrated” the end of the temporary settlements freeze on September 30, while the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu declared that 2000 homes for Jewish settlers will be built soon in the West Bank.
Daily Kos: Being excluded and slated for transferThings have gotten even worse in Israel for people like me. Institutionally, life has for decades been unbearable for Israel's Arab citizens. For many years, and to this day, we are forbidden to marry other Palestinians, unless we are willing to move out of Israel and into the refugee camps infested by hunger and sealed by military occupation. Our people are not allowed, because of municipal decrees, to live in most Jewish neighborhoods and municipalities and must in large remain in our over crowded villages and towns.
But things have gotten worse. In most ways now we are second class citizens. Socially we are almost entirely excluded from the centers of commerce and culture. Racism against Arabs is uniform, apparent, and the experience is explicit. There is no shyness in the abusive treatment that an Arab Israeli receives at the hands of every-day people. For many decades it has been acceptable to openly worry about the population growth of our community. How many children were born to Arab women this year? Will the Galilee have a majority Arab population?
But now it has become acceptable to talk about transfer and stripping Arabs of their citizenship.
Things have gotten worse. Entering a train station the guard asks "Are you a Jew?" The interrogator at the airport is instructed to ask me a citizen with an Israeli passport "Are you a Jew?" At the pub the random drunk asks "Are you a Jew?" At a concert in Tel-Aviv the usher asks me, a citizen of Israel, "Are you a Jew?" I never in the first two decades of my life was asked that question. It would have been unacceptable. But now it seems to be on everyone's mind.
Just a small selection of the apartheid "Israel is facing".
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." - Chapman Cohen.
aH no I'm not confused. Your conjecture implied Toireasa Ferris as well.
I'll leave the jackels to have their piece of 10 year old rotting carrion.
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