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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (15216)	5/18/2007 7:59:58 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Crimson > Is it not obvious to anyone with an IQ over 100 that those who launch these rockets are almost certainly Zionist moles. They may not even come from Gaza. All that is really needed is a mortar attack from "somewhere" and a movie showing rockets being launched by Palestinians -- and we have a "rocket attack". The clever part is how they get Hamas to take responsibility for the attacks -- because the attacks certainly don't benefit them. worldnetdaily.com > These primitive rockets almost never inflict real damage or casualties but serve as an excuse for Israel to use its American supplied high tech weapons to slaughter Palestinians en masse. As you say.

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (15216)	5/18/2007 8:23:34 AM
From: atm_prophet	Respond to of 22250

Let rockets come crashing through your home in your neighborhood and kill your daughter or damage your home than you can pontificate about how it is "nothing". It is a terrorist tactic and it deserves a swift and hard response. Wake-up, get honest with yourself. If it was in your home or neighborhood and you lived under that threat, than you can dismiss it as nothing. Primitive weapons are still able to cause more terror than a nuclear bomb. Ever been beheaded with a primitive butchers knife? Pretty effective. It is terror tactics and Israel has every right to retaliate!

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (15216)	5/18/2007 2:16:27 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

Israeli, U.K. academics meet to discuss proposed academic boycott haaretz.com >>BRIGHTON, England - Two very different groups of academics met at the University of Brighton on Wednesday. On one side of the table were five local representatives of Britain's University and College Union, the sponsors of a resolution proposing an academic boycott of Israel. On the other were four Israeli academics who came to Britain to fight the proposal. They only managed to agree on one issue: Their argument should be conducted politely. "Israeli universities cooperate with the occupation, and therefore, all coopertion with them should be boycotted," declared Tom Hickey, one of the Britons. "Israel commits terrible, exceptional crimes in the occupied territories." However, he added that he would be willing to cooperate with any Israeli college that publicly denounced its government's activities. Dr. Jonathan Rynhold of Bar-Ilan University retorted angrily: "You are imposing standards on Israel, and Israeli academe, that you do not demand of any other country, not even British academe, of which you are a part. And you treat the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as if it were completely one-sided." "It is one-sided," responded Hickey. The UCU proposal is part of a growing wave of British initiatives to boycott Israel. These include decisions for an academic boycott approved by the AUT and NATFHE the two lecturers' unions that later merged to form the 120,000-strong UCU in 2005 and 2006, respectively; last month's decision by Britain's National Union of Journalists to boycott Israeli products; the Anglican Church's decision to divest from companies doing business with the Israel Defense Forces; a demand for Israel's expulsion from the World Medical Association by 130 British doctors; and boycott calls by leading British architects. Though both AUT and NATFHE approved academic boycotts, the decisions became void when the two merged last year. Therefore, Hickey has introduced a new boycott proposal at the UCU's annual conference, which takes place on May 30 and June 1. Among other things, the proposal demands that no more European Union funds reach Israeli universities. Worried by the growing trend, Israeli academe which largely ignored the early boycott proposals has geared up to fight this one. "In practice, our work has just begun," said Ofir Frankel, who coordinates the activities of Bar-Ilan's International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom. "If we manage to thwart the proposed boycott at the conference at the end of the month, that would be wonderful, but our goals are designed for the longer-term. We want to influence public opinion among British academics and provide them with a true picture of Israeli academe." "Over the last year, you can sense that Israeli academe has united behind our goal," she continued, adding that she plans to attend the conference with a group of Palestinian students who study at Israeli universities, and they will present their work at the same booth. At the Brighton meeting, Professor Zvi Hacohen of Ben-Gurion University, a senior official in Israel's lecturers' union, presented two arguments against the boycott: "First, there is widespread cooperation between our universities and Palestinian and Jordanian universities; the proposed boycott will damage this cooperation. Additionally, you must understand that Israeli institutions and universities are not political organizations, and they have no influence over the policies of the government or the parties." But the British academics were not impressed. "My belief that we need to work for a boycott was only strengthened," said one, Bob Brecher. "The very fact that this delegation came here shows that the academic establishment in Israel is central and influential."<<