Bubblehammerblog

Here's a video from MEMRI TV, the Israeli Intelligence funded website that monitors the media in the Middle East.

Now look at thisHa'aretz story about the work of Rabbis attatched to the Israeli Defence Forces. Here's a couple of extracts:

Rabbi Aviner... describes the appropriate code of conduct in the field: "When you show mercy to a cruel enemy, you are being cruel to pure and honest soldiers. This is terribly immoral. These are not games at the amusement park where sportsmanship teaches one to make concessions. This is a war on murderers."

"Is it possible to compare today's Palestinians to the Philistines of the past? And if so, is it possible to apply lessons today from the military tactics of Samson and David? A comparison is possible because the Philistines of the past were not natives and had invaded from a foreign land ... They invaded the Land of Israel, a land that did not belong to them and claimed political ownership over our country ... Today the problem is the same. The Palestinians claim they deserve a state here, when in reality there was never a Palestinian or Arab state within the borders of our country. Moreover, most of them are new and came here close to the time of the War of Independence."

In addition to the official publications, extreme right-wing groups managed to bring pamphlets with racist messages into IDF bases. One such flyer is attributed to "the pupils of Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg" - the former rabbi at Joseph's Tomb and author of the article "Baruch the Man," which praises Baruch Goldstein, who massacred unarmed Palestinians in Hebron. It calls on "soldiers of Israel to spare your lives and the lives of your friends and not to show concern for a population that surrounds us and harms us. We call on you ... to function according to the law 'kill the one who comes to kill you.' As for the population, it is not innocent ... We call on you to ignore any strange doctrines and orders that confuse the logical way of fighting the enemy."

When some European Jews considered the nightmare of becoming a defeated and persecuted people they dreamed up Zionism. Many Palestinians faced with the same dilemma turn to Political Islam.
..................

I doubt that many people need proof that it's barely possible to talk sense about drugs in the mainstream media.

The British govenment has just upgraded the classification of cannabis, making punishments for its sale or possession about three times as severe. This was done in the face of objections raised by the governments own 'drugs experts', (whoever they might be).

This legislation, of course, has nothing to do with cannabis, nor public views on its use, which remain for the most part either tolerant or indifferent, despite gutter press attempts to whip up a moral panic around the issue. The darker purpose of the legislation clearly forms part of the general assault on Civil Liberties, broadening the space where the state can police the private activities of citizens.

Recently the American TV network CNBC screened an anti-drugs documentary on the US marijuana industry, Marijuana Inc. One commentator described it as, 'An odd mix of anti-drug propaganda and weed-porn'.

Alongside the film CNBC ran an online poll soliciting viewers opinions of marijuana legalisation. Only 97% were in favor. They put this disclaimer on their comments section:

**As of this posting, CNBC has only received comments favoring decriminalization of marijuana.
...................

Last week the French showed the way they respond to the banksters bailout plans, coming out on strike and taking to the streets in their millions, closing industrial plants, universities, schools. So what gets British workers off their arses? Foreigners, of course. British Jobs for British Workers.

The British press likes to present this kind of thing as an amusing trait of the French. The BBC didn't even bother to explain in any detail why the French people had taken to the streets in such numbers. Generally speaking, the British press doesn't concern itself much at all with our closest neighbours. Odd.

|